Debian DSA-1115-1 : gnupg2 - integer overflow

Evgeny Legerov discovered that gnupg, the GNU privacy guard, a free PGP replacement contains an integer overflow that can cause a segmentation fault and possibly overwrite memory via a large user ID string. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

Debian DSA-1187-1 : migrationtools - insecure temporary files

Jason Hoover discovered that migrationtools, a collection of scripts to migrate user data to LDAP creates several temporary files insecurely, which might lead to denial of service through a symlink attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package check...

Debian DSA-1188-1 : mailman - format string

Several security related problems have been discovered in mailman, the web-based GNU mailing list manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-3636 Moritz Naumann discovered several cross-site scripting problems that could allow remote...

Debian DSA-1168-1 : imagemagick - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Imagemagick, a collection of image manipulation tools, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-2440 Eero Hakkinen discovered that the...

Debian DSA-1009-1 : crossfire - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the crossfire game which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1009. The text itself i...

Debian DSA-1177-1 : usermin - programming error

Hendrik Weimer discovered that it is possible for a normal user to disable the login shell of the root account via usermin, a web-based administration tool. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

Debian DSA-1128-1 : heartbeat - permission error

Yan Rong Ge discovered that wrong permissions on a shared memory page in heartbeat, the subsystem for High-Availability Linux could be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of service. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-968-1 : noweb - insecure temporary file

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that a script in noweb, a web like literate-programming tool, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Debian DSA-1027-1 : mailman - programming error

A potential denial of service problem has been discovered in mailman, the web-based GNU mailing list manager. The failing parsing of messages with malformed mime multiparts sometimes caused the whole mailing list to become inoperative. The old stable distribution woody is not vulnerable to this...

Debian DSA-922-1 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities

Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2004-2302 A race condition in the sysfs filesystem...

Debian DSA-954-1 : wine - design flaw

H D Moore has discovered that Wine, a free implementation of the Microsoft Windows APIs, inherits a design flaw from the Windows GDI API, which may lead to the execution of code through GDI escape functions in WMF files. The old stable distribution woody does not seem to be affected by this...

Debian DSA-931-1 : xpdf - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, that can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-929-1 : petris - buffer overflow

Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered a buffer overflow in petris, a clone of the Tetris game, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code with group games privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-951-2 : trac - missing input sanitising

This update corrects the search feature in trac, an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects, which broke with the last security update. For completeness please find below the original advisory text : Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in trac, an enhanc...

Debian DSA-887-1 : clamav - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Clam AntiVirus, the antivirus scanner for Unix, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-3239 The OLE2 unpacker allows...

Debian DSA-1147-1 : drupal - missing input sanitising

Ayman Hourieh discovered that Drupal, a dynamic website platform, performs insufficient input sanitising in the user module, which might lead to cross-site scripting. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Debian DSA-1025-1 : dia - programming error

'infamous41md' discovered three buffer overflow errors in the xfig import code of dia, a diagram editor, that 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 from Debian Securit...

Debian DSA-1000-2 : libapreq2-perl - design error

Gunnar Wolf noticed that the correction for the following problem was not complete and requires an update. For completeness we're providing the original problem description : An algorithm weakness has been discovered in Apache2::Request, the generic request library for Apache2 which can be...

Debian DSA-1138-1 : cfs - integer overflow

Carlo Contavalli discovered an integer overflow in CFS, a cryptographic filesystem, which allows local users to crash the encryption daemon. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory...

Debian DSA-1104-2 : openoffice.org - several vulnerabilities

Loading malformed XML documents can cause buffer overflows in OpenOffice.org, a free office suite, and cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. It turned out that the correction in DSA 1104-1 was not sufficient, hence, another update. For completeness please find the original advisory...