Debian DSA-1114-1 : hashcash - buffer overflow

Andreas Seltenreich discovered a buffer overflow in hashcash, a postage payment scheme for email that is based on hash calculations, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted entries. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-1170-1 : gcc-3.4 - missing sanity check

Jurgen Weigert discovered that upon unpacking JAR archives fastjar from the GNU Compiler Collection does not check the path for included files and allows to create or overwrite files in upper directories. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks...

Debian DSA-886-1 : chmlib - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in chmlib, a library for dealing with CHM format files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-2659 Palasik Sandor discovered a buffer overflow in the LZX decompression method. - CVE-2005-2930 A...

Debian DSA-1030-1 : moodle - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libphp-adodb, the 'adodb' database abstraction layer for PHP, which is embedded in moodle, a course management system for online learning. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-0146 Andreas...

Debian DSA-880-1 : phpmyadmin - several vulnerabilities

Several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpmyadmin, a set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the WWW. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-2869 Andreas Kerber and Michal Cihar discovered several...

Debian DSA-1012-1 : unzip - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow in the command line argument parsing has been discovered in unzip, the de-archiver for ZIP files, that could 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 DSA-948-1 : kdelibs - buffer overflow

Maksim Orlovich discovered that the kjs JavaScript interpreter, used in the Konqueror web browser and in other parts of KDE, performs insufficient bounds checking when parsing UTF-8 encoded Uniform Resource Identifiers, which may lead to a heap based buffer overflow and the execution of arbitrary...

Debian DSA-965-1 : ipsec-tools - null dereference

The Internet Key Exchange version 1 IKEv1 implementation in racoon from ipsec-tools, IPsec tools for Linux, try to dereference a NULL pointer under certain conditions which allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Debian DSA-1034-1 : horde2 - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Horde web application framework, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary web script code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-1260 Null characters in the URL parameter bypas...

Debian DSA-1132-1 : apache2 - buffer overflow

Mark Dowd discovered a buffer overflow in the modrewrite component of apache, a versatile high-performance HTTP server. In some situations a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

Debian DSA-890-1 : libungif4 - several vulnerabilities

Chris Evans discovered several security related problems in libungif4, a shared library for GIF images. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-2974 NULL pointer dereference, that could cause a denial of service. - CVE-2005-3350 Out o...

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-1139-1 : ruby1.6 - missing privilege checks

It was discovered that the interpreter for the Ruby language does not properly maintain 'safe levels' for aliasing, directory accesses and regular expressions, which might lead to a bypass of security restrictions. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-975-1 : nfs-user-server - buffer overflow

Marcus Meissner discovered that attackers can trigger a buffer overflow in the path handling code by creating or abusing existing symlinks, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. This vulnerability isn't present in the kernel NFS server. This update includes a bugfix for attribute...

Debian DSA-870-1 : sudo - missing input sanitising

Tavis Ormandy noticed that sudo, a program that provides limited super user privileges to specific users, does not clean the environment sufficiently. The SHELLOPTS and PS4 variables are dangerous and are still passed through to the program running as privileged user. This can result in the...

Debian DSA-1184-2 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities

This advisory covers the S/390 components of the recent security update for the Linux 2.6.8 kernel that were missing due to technical problems. For reference, please see the text of the original advisory. Several security related problems have been discovered in the Linux kernel which may lead to...

Debian DSA-901-1 : gnump3d - programming error

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in gnump3d, a streaming server for MP3 and OGG files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-3349 Ludwig Nussel discovered several temporary files that are created with predictable filenames in a...

Debian DSA-961-1 : pdfkit.framework - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf which are also present in pdfkit.framework, the GNUstep framework for rendering PDF content, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code...

Debian DSA-932-1 : kdegraphics - 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. The same code is present in kpdf which is part of the...

Debian DSA-1053-1 : mozilla - programming error

Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott described crashes of Mozilla due to the use of a deleted controller context. In theory this could be abused to execute malicious code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debi...