Debian DSA-459-1 : kdelibs - cookie path traversal

A vulnerability was discovered in KDE where the path restrictions on cookies could be bypassed using encoded relative path components e.g., '/../'. This means that a cookie which should only be sent by the browser to an application running at /app1, the browser could inadvertently include it with...

Debian DSA-305-1 : sendmail - insecure temporary files

Paul Szabo discovered bugs in three scripts included in the sendmail package where temporary files were created insecurely expn, checksendmail and doublebounce.pl. These bugs could allow an attacker to gain the privileges of a user invoking the script including root. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Debian DSA-529-1 : netkit-telnet-ssl - format string

'b0f' discovered a format string vulnerability in netkit-telnet-ssl which could potentially allow a remote attacker to cause the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the telnet daemon the 'telnetd' user by default. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Debian DSA-309-1 : eterm - buffer overflow

'bazarr' discovered that eterm is vulnerable to a buffer overflow of the ETERMPATH environment variable. This bug can be exploited to gain the privileges of the group 'utmp' on a system where eterm is installed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

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-084-1 : gftp - Information Retrieval

Stephane Gaudreault told us that version 2.0.6a of gftp displays the password in plain text on the screen within the log window when it is logging into an ftp server. A malicious colleague who is watching the screen could gain access to the users shell on the remote machine. This problem has been...

Debian DSA-424-1 : mc - buffer overflow

A vulnerability was discovered in Midnight Commander, a file manager, whereby a malicious archive such as a .tar file could cause arbitrary code to be executed if opened by Midnight Commander. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-076-1 : most - buffer overflow

Pavel Machek has found a buffer overflow in the most' pager program. The problem is part of most's tab expansion where the program would write beyond the bounds two array variables when viewing a malicious file. This could lead into other data structures being overwritten which in turn could enab...

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-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-471-1 : interchange - missing input sanitising

A vulnerability was discovered recently in Interchange, an e-commerce and general HTTP database display system. This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to expose the content of arbitrary variables. An attacker may learn SQL access information for your Interchange application and use th...

Debian DSA-357-1 : wu-ftpd - remote root exploit

iSEC Security Research reports that wu-ftpd contains an off-by-one bug in the fbrealpath function which could be exploited by a logged-in user local or anonymous to gain root privileges. A demonstration exploit is reportedly available. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-501-1 : exim - buffer overflow

Georgi Guninski discovered two stack-based buffer overflows. They can not be exploited with the default configuration from the Debian system, though. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems that are fixed with this update : - CAN-2004-0399 When...

Debian DSA-017-1 : jazip - buffer overflow

With older versions of jazip a user could gain root access for members of the floppy group to the local machine. The interface doesn't run as root anymore and this very exploit was prevented. The program now also truncates DISPLAY to 256 characters if it is bigger, which closes the buffer overflo...

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-417-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.18-powerpc+alpha - missing boundary check

Paul Starzetz discovered a flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel present in version 2.4.x and 2.6.x which may allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. Version 2.2 is not affected by this bug. Andrew Morton discovered a missing boundary check for the brk system call which ca...

Debian DSA-455-1 : libxml - buffer overflows

libxml2 is a library for manipulating XML files. Yuuichi Teranishi Si Xi Yu ? discovered a flaw in libxml, the GNOME XML library. When fetching a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, the library uses special parsing routines which can overflow a buffer if passed a very long URL. If an attacker is abl...

Debian DSA-258-1 : ethereal - format string vulnerability

Georgi Guninski discovered a problem in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. The program contains a format string vulnerability that could probably lead to execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin wer...

Debian DSA-021-1 : apache - insecure tempfile bug, broken mod_rewrite

WireX have found some occurrences of insecure opening of temporary files in htdigest and htpasswd. Both programs are not installed setuid or setgid and thus the impact should be minimal. The Apache group has released another security bugfix which fixes a vulnerability in modrewrite which may resu...

Debian DSA-090-1 : xtel - symlink attack

The xtel an X emulator for minitel package as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has two possible symlink attacks : - xteld creates a temporary file /tmp/.xtel- without checking for symlinks. - when printing a hardcopy xtel would create a temporary file without protecting itself against symlin...