Debian DSA-938-1 : koffice - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which is also present in koffice, the KDE Office Suite, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary...

Debian DSA-945-1 : antiword - insecure temporary file

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that two scripts in antiword, utilities to convert Word files to text and Postscript, create a temporary file in an insecure fashion. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-874-1 : lynx - buffer overflow

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in lynx, a text-mode browser for the WWW that can be remotely exploited. During the handling of Asian characters when connecting to an NNTP server lynx can be tricked to write past the boundary of a buffer which can lead to the execution of arbitrary...

Debian DSA-878-1 : netpbm-free - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been identified in the pnmtopng component of the netpbm package, a set of graphics conversion tools. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a local user by providing a specially crafted PNM file. The old stable distribution woody it not...

Debian DSA-872-1 : koffice - buffer overflow

Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the RTF importer of kword, a word processor for the KDE Office Suite 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...

Debian DSA-1088-1 : centericq - buffer overflow

Mehdi Oudad and Kevin Fernandez discovered a buffer overflow in the ktools library which is used in centericq, a text-mode multi-protocol instant messenger client, which may lead local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-998-1 : libextractor - several vulnerabilities

Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf, which are also present in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

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-1066-1 : phpbb2 - missing input sanitising

It was discovered that phpbb2, a web-based bulletin board, does insufficiently sanitise values passed to the 'Font Colour 3' setting, which might lead to the execution of injected code by admin users. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-1065-1 : hostapd - missing input sanitising

Matteo Rosi and Leonardo Maccari discovered that hostapd, a wifi network authenticator daemon, performs insufficient boundary checks on a key length value, which might be exploited to crash the service. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

Debian DSA-971-1 : xpdf - buffer overflow

SuSE researchers discovered heap overflow errors in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, that can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-1154-1 : squirrelmail - variable overwriting

James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research discovered a vulnerability in SquirrelMail where an authenticated user could overwrite random variables in the compose script. This might be exploited to read or write the preferences or attachment files of other users. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Debian DSA-888-1 : openssl - cryptographic weakness

Yutaka Oiwa discovered a vulnerability in the Open Secure Socket Layer OpenSSL library that can allow an attacker to perform active protocol-version rollback attacks that could lead to the use of the weaker SSL 2.0 protocol even though both ends support SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0. The following matrix...

Debian DSA-1024-1 : clamav - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit, which may lead to denial of service and potentially to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-1614 Damian Put discovered ...

Debian DSA-1089-1 : freeradius - several vulnerabilities

Several problems have been discovered in freeradius, a high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-4744 SuSE researchers have discovered several off-by-one errors may allow remote attackers...

Debian DSA-1156-1 : kdebase - programming error

Ludwig Nussel discovered that kdm, the X display manager for KDE, handles access to the session type configuration file insecurely, which may lead to the disclosure of arbitrary files through a symlink attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-1176-1 : zope2.7 - programming error

It was discovered that the Zope web application server does not disable the csvtable directive in web pages containing ReST markup, allowing the exposure of files readable by the Zope server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Debian DSA-924-1 : nbd - buffer overflow

Kurt Fitzner discovered a buffer overflow in nbd, the network block device client and server that could potentially allow arbitrary code on the NBD server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Securi...

Debian DSA-1100-1 : wv2 - integer overflow

A boundary checking error has been discovered in wv2, a library for accessing Microsoft Word documents, which can lead to an integer overflow induced by processing word files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracte...

Debian DSA-1179-1 : alsaplayer - programming error

Luigi Auriemma discovered several buffer overflows in alsaplayer, a PCM player designed for ALSA, that can lead to a crash of the application and maybe worse outcome. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...