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-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-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-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-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-107-1 : jgroff - format print vulnerability

Basically, this is the same Security Advisory as DSA 072-1, but for jgroff instead of groff. The package jgroff contains a version derived from groff that has Japanese character sets enabled. This package is available only in the stable release of Debian, patches for Japanese support have been...

Debian DSA-444-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.17-ia64 - missing function return value check

Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap2 system call. Due to missing function return value check of internal functions a local attacker can gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Debian DSA-117-1 : cvs - improper variable initialization

Kim Nielsen recently found an internal problem with the CVS server and reported it to the vuln-dev mailing list. The problem is triggered by an improperly initialized global variable. A user exploiting this can crash the CVS server, which may be accessed through the pserver service and running...

Debian DSA-025-2 : openssh - Missing PAM support

A former security upload of OpenSSH lacked support for PAM which lead to people not being able to log onto their server. This wasonly a problem on the sparc architecture. We recommend you upgrade your ssh packages on sparc. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Debian DSA-354-1 : xconq - buffer overflows

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in xconq, in processing the USER environment variable. In the process of fixing this bug, a similar problem was discovered with the DISPLAY environment variable. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local attacker to gain gid 'games'. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-497-1 : mc - several vulnerabilities

Jacub Jelinek discovered several vulnerabilities in the Midnight Commander, a powerful file manager for GNU/Linux systems. The problems were classified as follows : CAN-2004-0226 Buffer overflows CAN-2004-0231 Insecure temporary file and directory creations CAN-2004-0232 Format string problems...

Debian DSA-400-1 : omega-rpg - buffer overflow

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in the commandline and environment variable handling of omega-rpg, a text-based rogue-style game of dungeon exploration, which could lead a local attacker to gain unauthorised access to the group games. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. T...