Debian DSA-1938-1 : php-mail - programming error

It was discovered that php-mail, a PHP PEAR module for sending email, has insufficient input sanitising, which might be used to obtain sensitive data from the system that uses php-mail. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin wer...

Debian DSA-1842-1 : openexr - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenEXR image library, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1720 Drew Yao discovered integer overflows in the preview and compression...

Debian DSA-1918-1 : phpmyadmin - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool to administer MySQL over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-3696 Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web...

Debian DSA-1898-1 : openswan - denial of service

It was discovered that the pluto daemon in openswan, an implementation of IPSEC and IKE, could crash when processing a crafted X.509 certificate. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisor...

Debian DSA-1939-1 : libvorbis - several vulnerabilities

Lucas Adamski, Matthew Gregan, David Keeler, and Dan Kaminsky discovered that libvorbis, a library for the Vorbis general-purpose compressed audio codec, did not correctly handle certain malformed ogg files. An attacker could cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or...

Debian DSA-1947-1 : shibboleth-sp, shibboleth-sp2, opensaml2 - missing input sanitising

Matt Elder discovered that Shibboleth, a federated web single sign-on system is vulnerable to script injection through redirection URLs. More details can be found in the Shibboleth advisory at http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/secadv/secadv20091104.txt. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Securit...

Debian DSA-1949-1 : php-net-ping - programming error

It was discovered that php-net-ping, a PHP PEAR module to execute ping independently of the Operating System, performs insufficient input sanitising, which might be used to inject arguments no CVE yet or execute arbitrary commands CVE-2009-4024 on a system that uses php-net-ping. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-1921-1 : expat - denial of service

Peter Valchev discovered an error in expat, an XML parsing C library, when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which can be exploited to crash an application using the library. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Debian DSA-1897-1 : horde3 - insufficient input sanitization

Stefan Esser discovered that Horde, a web application framework providing classes for dealing with preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME, and more, is insufficiently validating and escaping user provided input. The HordeFormTypeimage form element allows to reuse a...

Debian DSA-1991-1 : squid/squid3 - denial of service

Two denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in squid and squid3, a web proxy. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2855 Bastian Blank discovered that it is possible to cause a denial of service via a crafted auth header wit...

Debian DSA-1826-1 : eggdrop - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in eggdrop, an advanced IRC robot. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2007-2807 It was discovered that eggdrop is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, which could result in a remote user executing...

Debian DSA-1910-1 : mysql-ocaml - missing escape function

It was discovered that mysql-ocaml, OCaml bindings for MySql, was missing a function to call mysqlrealescapestring. This is needed, because mysqlrealescapestring honours the charset of the connection and prevents insufficient escaping, when certain multibyte character encodings are used. The adde...

Debian DSA-1858-1 : imagemagick - multiple vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the imagemagick image manipulation programs which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code, exposure of sensitive information or cause DoS. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2007-1667...

Debian DSA-1995-1 : openoffice.org - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org office suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2010-0136 It was discovered that macro security settings were insufficiently enforced for VBA macros. - CVE-2009-0217 It was...

Debian DSA-1881-1 : cyrus-imapd-2.2 - buffer overflow

It was discovered that the SIEVE component of cyrus-imapd, a highly scalable enterprise mail system, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing SIEVE scripts. Due to incorrect use of the sizeof operator an attacker is able to pass a negative length to snprintf calls resulting in large...

Debian DSA-1896-1 : opensaml, shibboleth-sp - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the opensaml and shibboleth-sp packages, as used by Shibboleth 1.x : - Chris Ries discovered that decoding a crafted URL leads to a crash and potentially, arbitrary code execution. - Ian Young discovered that embedded NUL characters in certificate...

Debian DSA-1872-1 : linux-2.6 - denial of service/privilege escalation/information leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to denial of service, privilege escalation or a leak of sensitive memory. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2698 Herbert Xu discovered an issue in the way U...

Debian DSA-1960-1 : acpid - programming error

It was discovered that acpid, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon, on the oldstable distribution etch creates its log file with weak permissions, which might expose sensitive information or might be abused by a local user to consume all free disk space on the same partitio...

Debian DSA-1978-1 : phpgroupware - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpgroupware, a Web-based groupware system written in PHP. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-4414 A SQL injection vulnerability was found in the authentication module. -...

Debian DSA-1830-1 : icedove - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-0040 The execution of arbitrary code might be possible via a crafted...