Debian DSA-1890-1 : wxwindows2.4 wxwidgets2.6 wxwidgets2.8 - integer overflow

Tielei Wang has discovered an integer overflow in wxWidgets, the wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit, which allows the execution of arbitrary code via a crafted JPEG file. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extract...

Debian DSA-1906-1 : clamav - End-of-life announcement for clamav in stable and oldstable

Security support for clamav, an anti-virus utility for Unix, has been discontinued for the stable distribution lenny and the oldstable distribution etch. Clamav Upstream has stopped supporting the releases in etch and lenny. Also, it is not easily possible to receive signature updates for the vir...

Debian DSA-1945-1 : gforge - symlink attack

Sylvain Beucler discovered that gforge, a collaborative development tool, is prone to a symlink attack, which allows local users to perform a denial of service attack by overwriting arbitrary files. The oldstable distribution etch, this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-22etch13...

Debian DSA-1930-1 : drupal6 - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been found in drupal6, a fully-featured content management framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2372 Gerhard Killesreiter discovered a flaw in the way user signatures are handled. It is possible for...

Debian DSA-1900-1 : postgresql-7.4, postgresql-8.1, postgresql-8.3, postgresql-8.4 - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL, a SQL database system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-3229 Authenticated users can shut down the backend server by re-LOAD-ing libraries in $libdir/plugins, if any librarie...

Debian DSA-1835-1 : tiff - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the library for the Tag Image File Format TIFF. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2285 It was discovered that malformed TIFF images can lead to a crash in the decompression code, resultin...

Debian DSA-1966-1 : horde3 - insufficient input sanitising

Several vulnerabilities have been found in horde3, the horde web application framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-3237 It has been discovered that horde3 is prone to cross-site scripting attacks via crafted number preferences o...

Debian DSA-1957-1 : aria2 - buffer overflow

It was discovered that aria2, a high speed download utility, is prone to a buffer overflow in the DHT routing code, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The oldstable distribution etch is not affected by this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-1988-1 : qt4-x11 - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in qt4-x11, a cross-platform C++ application framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-0945 Array index error in the insertItemBefore method in WebKit, as used in qt4-x11, allows remote...

Debian DSA-1867-1 : kdelibs - several vulnerabilities

Several security issues have been discovered in kdelibs, core libraries from the official KDE release. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1690 It was discovered that there is a use-after-free flaw in handling certain DOM event handlers...

Debian DSA-1876-1 : dnsmasq - buffer overflow

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the TFTP component of dnsmasq. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2957 A buffer overflow in TFTP processing may enable arbitrary code execution to attackers which are permitted to u...

Debian DSA-1904-1 : wget - insufficient input validation

Daniel Stenberg discovered that wget, a network utility to retrieve files from the Web using HTTPS and FTP, is vulnerable to the 'Null Prefix Attacks Against SSL/TLS Certificates' published at the Blackhat conference some time ago. This allows an attacker to perform undetected man-in-the-middle...

Debian DSA-1874-1 : nss - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Network Security Service libraries. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2404 Moxie Marlinspike discovered that a buffer overflow in the regular expression parser could lead to the...

Debian DSA-1850-1 : libmodplug - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libmodplug, the shared libraries for mod music based on ModPlug. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1438 It was discovered that libmodplug is prone to an integer overflow when processing a...

Debian DSA-1832-1 : camlimages - integer overflow

Tielei Wang discovered that CamlImages, an open source image processing library, suffers from several integer overflows which may lead to a potentially exploitable heap overflow and result in arbitrary code execution. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-1894-1 : newt - buffer overflow

Miroslav Lichvar discovered that newt, a windowing toolkit, is prone to a buffer overflow in the content processing code, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Debian DSA-1909-1 : postgresql-ocaml - missing escape function

It was discovered that postgresql-ocaml, OCaml bindings to PostgreSQL's libpq, was missing a function to call PQescapeStringConn. This is needed, because PQescapeStringConn honours the charset of the connection and prevents insufficient escaping, when certain multibyte character encodings are use...

Debian DSA-1924-1 : mahara - several vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-3298 Ruslan Kabalin discovered a issue with resetting passwords, which could lead to a privilege...

Debian DSA-1920-1 : nginx - denial of service

A denial of service vulnerability has been found in nginx, a small and efficient web server. Jasson Bell discovered that a remote attacker could cause a denial of service segmentation fault by sending a crafted request. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-1946-1 : belpic - cryptographic weakness

It was discovered that belpic, the belgian eID PKCS11 library, does not properly check the result of an OpenSSL function for verifying cryptographic signatures, which could be used to bypass the certificate validation. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...