Debian DSA-658-1 : libdbi-perl - insecure temporary file

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates a temporary PID file in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person executing the parts o...

Debian DSA-647-1 : mysql - insecure temporary files

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlaccess script of MySQL that could allow an unprivileged user to let root overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and could also could unveil the contents of a tempora...

Debian DSA-632-1 : linpopup - buffer overflow

Stephen Dranger discovered a buffer overflow in linpopup, an X11 port of winpopup, running over Samba, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when displaying a maliciously crafted message. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-623-1 : nasm - buffer overflow

Jonathan Rockway discovered a buffer overflow in nasm, the general-purpose x86 assembler, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when compiling a maliciously crafted assembler source file. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-621-1 : cupsys - buffer overflow

An iDEFENSE security researcher discovered a buffer overflow in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite. Similar code is present in the PDF processing part of CUPS. A maliciously crafted PDF file could exploit this problem, leading to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Debian DSA-618-1 : imlib - buffer overflows, integer overflows

Pavel Kankovsky discovered that several overflows found in the libXpm library were also present in imlib, an imaging library for X and X11. An attacker could create a carefully crafted image file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with imlib to execute arbitrary code when the...

Debian DSA-613-1 : ethereal - infinite loop

Brian Caswell discovered that an improperly formatted SMB packet could make ethereal hang and eat CPU endlessly. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-613. The text itself is...

Debian DSA-597-1 : cyrus-imapd - buffer overflow

Stefan Esser discovered several security related problems in the Cyrus IMAP daemon. Due to a bug in the command parser it is possible to access memory beyond the allocated buffer in two places which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Debian DSA-595-1 : bnc - buffer overflow

Leon Juranic discovered that BNC, an IRC session bouncing proxy, does not always protect buffers from being overwritten. This could exploited by a malicious IRC server to overflow a buffer of limited size and execute arbitrary code on the client host. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Securit...

Debian DSA-593-1 : imagemagick - buffer overflow

A vulnerability has been reported for ImageMagick, a commonly used image manipulation library. Due to a boundary error within the EXIF parsing routine, a specially crafted graphic image could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-581-1 : xpdf - integer overflows

Chris Evans discovered several integer overflows in xpdf, a viewer for PDF files, which can be exploited remotely by a specially crafted PDF document and lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-588-1 : gzip - insecure temporary files

Trustix developers discovered insecure temporary file creation in supplemental scripts in the gzip package which may allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracte...

Debian DSA-556-2 : netkit-telnet - invalid free(3)

Michal Zalewski discovered a bug in the netkit-telnet server telnetd whereby a remote attacker could cause the telnetd process to free an invalid pointer. This causes the telnet server process to crash, leading to a straightforward denial of service inetd will disable the service if telnetd is...

Debian DSA-590-1 : gnats - format string vulnerability

Khan Shirani discovered a format string vulnerability in gnats, the GNU problem report management system. This problem may be exploited to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

Debian DSA-344-2 : unzip - directory traversal

A directory traversal vulnerability in UnZip 5.50 allows attackers to bypass a check for relative pathnames '../' by placing certain invalid characters between the two '.' characters. The fix which was implemented in DSA-344-1 may not have protected against all methods of exploiting this...

Debian DSA-301-1 : libgtop - buffer overflow

The gtop daemon, used for monitoring remote machines, contains a buffer overflow which could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the daemon process. If started as root, the daemon process drops root privileges, assuming uid and gid 99 by default. This bug was...

Debian DSA-110-1 : cups - buffer overflow

The authors of CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, have found a potential buffer overflow bug in the code of the CUPS daemon where it reads the names of attributes. This affects all versions of CUPS. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

Debian DSA-282-1 : glibc - integer overflow

eEye Digital Security discovered an integer overflow in the xdrmemgetbytes function which is also present in GNU libc. This function is part of the XDR external data representation encoder/decoder derived from Sun's RPC implementation. Depending upon the application, this vulnerability can cause...

Debian DSA-046-2 : exuberant-ctags

Colin Phipps discovered that the exuberant-ctags packages as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 creates temporary files insecurely. This has been fixed in version 1:3.2.4-0.1 of the Debian package, and upstream version 3.5. Note: DSA-046-1 included an incorrectly compiled sparc package, which...

Debian DSA-012-1 : micq - remote buffer overflow

PkC has reported that there is a buffer overflow in sprintf in micq versions 0.4.6 and previous, that allows to a remote attacker able to sniff packets to the ICQ server to execute arbitrary code on the victim system. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...