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-077-1 : squid - remote DoS

Vladimir Ivaschenko found a problem in squid a popular proxy cache. He discovered that there was a flaw in the code to handle FTP PUT commands: when a mkdir-only request was done squid would detect an internal error and exit. Since squid is configured to restart itself on problems this is not a b...

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-548-2 : imlib - unsanitised input

Marcus Meissner discovered a heap overflow error in imlib, an imaging library for X and X11, that could be abused by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine. The updated packages we have provided in DSA 548-1 did not seem to be sufficient, which should be fixed by this updat...

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-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-351-1 : php4 - XSS

The transparent session ID feature in the php4 package does not properly escape user-supplied input before inserting it into the generated HTML page. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute embedded scripts within the context of the generated page. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Networ...