Debian DSA-774-1 : fetchmail - buffer overflow

Edward Shornock discovered a bug in the UIDL handling code of fetchmail, a common POP3, APOP and IMAP mail fetching utility. A malicious POP3 server could exploit this problem and inject arbitrary code that will be executed on the victim host. If fetchmail is running as root, this becomes a root...

Debian DSA-772-1 : apt-cacher - missing input sanitising

Eduard Bloch discovered a bug in apt-cacher, a caching system for Debian package and source files, that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the caching host as user www-data. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-771-1 : pdns - several vulnerabilities

Several problems have been discovered in pdns, a versatile nameserver that can lead to a denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-2301 Norbert Sendetzky and Jan de Groot discovered that the LDAP backend did not properly...

Debian DSA-770-1 : gopher - insecure tmpfile creating

John Goerzen discovered that gopher, a client for the Gopher Distributed Hypertext protocol, creates temporary files in an insecure fashion. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory...

Debian DSA-767-1 : ekg - integer overflows

Marcin Slusarz discovered two integer overflow vulnerabilities in libgadu, a library provided and used by ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client, an instant messaging program, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The library is also used by other packages such as kopete, which should be...

Debian DSA-765-1 : heimdal - buffer overflow

Gael Delalleau discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the LINEMODE suboptions in telnet clients. Heimdal, a free implementation of Kerberos 5, also contains such a client. This can lead to the execution of arbitrary code when connected to a malicious server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Debian DSA-763-1 : zlib - remote DoS

Markus Oberhumer discovered a flaw in the way zlib, a library used for file compression and decompression, handles invalid input. This flaw can cause programs which use zlib to crash when opening an invalid file. This problem does not affect the old stable distribution woody. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Debian DSA-760-1 : ekg - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client, an instant messaging program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CAN-2005-1850 Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered insecure temporary file creatio...

Debian DSA-762-1 : affix - several vulnerabilities

Kevin Finisterre discovered two problems in the Bluetooth FTP client from affix, user space utilities for the Affix Bluetooth protocol stack. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CAN-2005-2250 A buffer overflow allows remote attackers to...

Debian DSA-761-2 : heartbeat - insecure temporary files

The security update DSA 761-1 for heartbeat contained a bug which caused a regression. This problem is corrected with this advisory. For completeness below please find the original advisory text : Eric Romang discovered several insecure temporary file creations in heartbeat, the subsystem for...

Debian DSA-759-1 : phppgadmin - missing input sanitising

A vulnerability has been discovered in phppgadmin, a set of PHP scripts to administrate PostgreSQL over the WWW, that can lead to disclose sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires that 'magicquotesgpc' is disabled. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptiv...

Debian DSA-758-1 : heimdal - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the telnet server from Heimdal, a free implementation of Kerberos 5, 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...

Debian DSA-746-1 : phpgroupware - input validation error

A vulnerability had been identified in the xmlrpc library included with phpgroupware, a web-based application including email, calendar and other groupware functionality. This vulnerability could lead to the execution of arbitrary commands on the server running phpgroupware. The security team is...

Debian DSA-754-1 : centericq - insecure temporary file

Eric Romang discovered that centericq, a text-mode multi-protocol instant messenger client, creates some temporary files with predictable filenames and is hence vulnerable to symlink attacks by local attackers. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-755-1 : tiff - buffer overflow

Frank Warmerdam discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in libtiff, the Tag Image File Format library for processing TIFF graphics files that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code via malformed TIFF files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packag...

Debian DSA-752-1 : gzip - several vulnerabilities

Two problems have been discovered in gzip, the GNU compression utility. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems. - CAN-2005-0988 Imran Ghory discovered a race condition in the permissions setting code in gzip. When decompressing a file in a directory an...

Debian DSA-747-1 : egroupware - input validation error

A vulnerability has been identified in the xmlrpc library included in the egroupware package. This vulnerability could lead to the execution of arbitrary commands on the server running egroupware. The old stable distribution woody did not include egroupware. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-751-1 : squid - IP spoofing

The upstream developers have discovered a bug in the DNS lookup code of Squid, the popular WWW proxy cache. When the DNS client UDP port assigned by the operating system at startup is unfiltered and the network is not protected from IP spoofing, malicious users can spoof DNS lookups which could...

Debian DSA-748-1 : ruby1.8 - bad default value

A vulnerability has been discovered in ruby1.8 that could allow arbitrary command execution on a server running the ruby xmlrpc server. The old stable distribution woody did not include ruby1.8. This problem is fixed for the current stable distribution sarge in version 1.8.2-7sarge1. This problem...

Debian DSA-750-1 : dhcpcd - out-of-bound memory access

'infamous42md' discovered that dhcpcd, a DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking, can be tricked into reading past the end of the supplied DHCP buffer which could lead to the daemon crashing. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...