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-974-1 : gpdf - buffer overflows

SuSE researchers discovered heap overflow errors in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which is also present in gpdf, the GNOME version of the Portable Document Format viewer, and which can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly execute...

Debian DSA-1046-1 : mozilla - several vulnerabilities

Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-2353 The 'run-mozilla.sh' script allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files when debugging is enabled via a...

Debian DSA-958-1 : drupal - several vulnerabilities

Several security related problems have been discovered in drupal, a fully-featured content management/discussion engine. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-3973 Several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities allow remote attackers ...

Debian DSA-934-1 : pound - several vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pound, a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-1391 : Overly long HTTP Host: headers may trigger a buffer overflow in the addport function, which may lea...

Debian DSA-979-1 : pdfkit.framework - several vulnerabilities

Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which are also present in pdfkit.framework, the GNUstep framework for rendering PDF content. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

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-1106-1 : ppp - programming error

Marcus Meissner discovered that the winbind plugin in pppd does not check whether a setuid call has been successful 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...

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-1143-1 : dhcp - programming error

Justin Winschief and Andrew Steets discovered a bug in dhcp, the DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment, which causes the server to unexpectedly exit. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

Debian DSA-1006-1 : wzdftpd - missing input sanitising

'kcope' discovered that the wzdftpd FTP server lacks input sanitising for the SITE command, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security...

Debian DSA-1077-1 : lynx-ssl - programming error

Michal Zalewski discovered that lynx, the popular text-mode WWW Browser, is not able to grok invalid HTML including a TEXTAREA tag with a large COLS value and a large tag name in an element that is not terminated, and loops forever trying to render the broken HTML. The same code is present in...

Debian DSA-1144-1 : chmlib - missing input sanitising

It was discovered that one of the utilities shipped with chmlib, a library for dealing with Microsoft CHM files, performs insufficient sanitising of filenames, which might lead to directory traversal. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-1145-1 : freeradius - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in freeradius, a high-performance RADIUS server, which may lead to SQL injection or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-4745 A SQL injection vulnerability has been...

Debian DSA-1013-1 : snmptrapfmt - insecure temporary file

Will Aoki discovered that snmptrapfmt, a configurable snmp trap handler daemon for snmpd, does not prevent overwriting existing files when writing to a temporary log file. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fr...

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-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-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-1047-1 : resmgr - programming error

A problem has been discovered in resmgr, a resource manager library daemon and PAM module, that allows local users to bypass access control rules and open any USB device when access to one device was granted. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

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...