Debian DSA-333-1 : acm - integer overflow

acm, a multi-player aerial combat simulation, uses a network protocol based on the same RPC implementation used in many C libraries. This implementation was found to contain an integer overflow vulnerability which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-088-1 : fml - improper character escaping

The fml a mailing list package as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from a cross-site scripting problem. When generating index pages for list archives the ' characters were not properly escaped for subjects. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

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-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-398-1 : conquest - buffer overflow

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in the environment variable handling of conquest, a curses based, real-time, multi-player space warfare game, which could lead a local attacker to gain unauthorised access to the group conquest. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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-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-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-138-1 : gallery - remote exploit

A problem was found in gallery a web-based photo album toolkit: it was possible to pass in the GALLERYBASEDIR variable remotely. This made it possible to execute commands under the uid of web-server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

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-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-102-2 : at - daemon exploit

zen-parse found a bug in the current implementation of at which leads into a heap corruption vulnerability which in turn could potentially lead into an exploit of the daemon user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-527-1 : pavuk - buffer overflow

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a vulnerability in pavuk, a file retrieval program, whereby an oversized HTTP 305 response sent by a malicious server could cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the pavuk process. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Debian DSA-418-1 : vbox3 - privilege leak

A bug was discovered in vbox3, a voice response system for isdn4linux, whereby root privileges were not properly relinquished before executing a user-supplied tcl script. By exploiting this vulnerability, a local user could gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Debian DSA-104-1 : cipe - DoS attack

Larry McVoy found a bug in the packet handling code for the CIPE VPN package: it did not check if a received packet was too short and could crash. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Adviso...

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-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-118-1 : xsane - insecure temporary files

Tim Waugh found several insecure uses of temporary files in the xsane program, which is used for scanning. This was fixed for Debian/stable by moving those files into a securely created directory within the /tmp directory. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Debian DSA-227-1 : openldap2 - buffer overflows and other bugs

The SuSE Security Team reviewed critical parts of openldap2, an implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP version 2 and 3, and found several buffer overflows and other bugs remote attackers could exploit to gain access on systems running vulnerable LDAP servers. In addition...

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...