Debian DSA-997-1 : bomberclone - buffer overflows

Stefan Cornelius of Gentoo Security discovered that bomberclone, a free Bomberman-like game, crashes when receiving overly long error packets, which may also allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-1157-1 : ruby1.8 - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the Ruby language, which may lead to the bypass of security restrictions or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-1931 It was discovered that the use of...

Debian DSA-1042-1 : cyrus-sasl2 - programming error

The Mu Security research team discovered a denial of service condition in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer authentication library SASL during DIGEST-MD5 negotiation. This potentially affects multiple products that use SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication including OpenLDAP, Sendmail, Postfi...

Debian DSA-876-1 : lynx-ssl - 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-1090-1 : spamassassin - programming error

A vulnerability has been discovered in SpamAssassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis, that can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This problem only affects systems where spamd is reachable via the internet and used with vpopmail virtual users, via the '-v' /...

Debian DSA-1063-1 : phpgroupware - missing input sanitising

It was discovered that the Avatar upload feature of FUD Forum, a component of the web-based groupware system phpgroupware, does not sufficiently validate uploaded files, which might lead to the execution of injected web script code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-1150-1 : shadow - programming error

A bug has been discovered in several packages that execute the setuid system call without checking for success when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Debian DSA-913-1 : gdk-pixbuf - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been found in gdk-pixbuf, the Gtk+ GdkPixBuf XPM image rendering library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-2975 Ludwig Nussel discovered an infinite loop when processing XPM images that allows an attacker ...

Debian DSA-1151-1 : heartbeat - out-of-bounds read

Yan Rong Ge discovered out-of-boundary memory access in heartbeat, the subsystem for High-Availability Linux. This could be used by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-905-1 : mantis - several vulnerabilities

Several security related problems have been discovered in Mantis, a web-based bug tracking system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-3091 A cross-site scripting vulnerability allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. -...

Debian DSA-875-1 : openssl094 - 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-1158-1 : streamripper - buffer overflow

Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that streamripper, a utility to record online radio-streams, performs insufficient sanitising of data received from the streaming server, which might lead to buffer overflows and the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Debian DSA-1022-1 : storebackup - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the backup utility storebackup. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-3146 Storebackup creates a temporary file predictably, which can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files on the system...

Debian DSA-1091-1 : tiff - buffer overflows

Several problems have been discovered in the TIFF library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues : - CVE-2006-2193 SuSE discovered a buffer overflow in the conversion of TIFF files into PDF documents which could be exploited when tiff2pdf is used e.g. in...

Debian DSA-1189-1 : openssh-krb5 - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSH, a free implementation of the Secure Shell protocol, which may lead to denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : -...

Debian DSA-1010-1 : ilohamail - missing input sanitising

Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that ilohamail, a lightweight multilingual web-based IMAP/POP3 client, does not always sanitise input provided by users which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-956-1 : lsh-server - filedescriptor leak

Stefan Pfetzing discovered that lshd, a Secure Shell v2 SSH2 protocol server, leaks a couple of file descriptors, related to the randomness generator, to user shells which are started by lshd. A local attacker can truncate the server's seed file, which may prevent the server from starting, and wi...

Debian DSA-1083-1 : motor - buffer overflow

Mehdi Oudad and Kevin Fernandez discovered a buffer overflow in the ktools library which is used in motor, an integrated development environment for C, C++ and Java, which may lead local attackers to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Debian DSA-877-1 : gnump3d - XSS, directory traversal

Steve Kemp discovered two vulnerabilities in gnump3d, a streaming server for MP3 and OGG files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-3122 The 404 error page does not strip malicious JavaScript content from the resulting page, which would ...

Debian DSA-1164-1 : sendmail - programming error

A programming error has been discovered in sendmail, an alternative mail transport agent for Debian, that could allow a remote attacker to crash the sendmail process by sending a specially crafted email message. Please note that in order to install this update you also need libsasl2 library from...