Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200806-08 (openssl)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200806-08. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200611-17 (fvwm)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200611-17. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200503-16 (ethereal)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200503-16. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200410-30 (GPdf)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200410-30. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

GLSA-200809-13 : R: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200809-13 R: Insecure temporary file creation Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the 'javareconf' script uses temporary files in an insecure manner. Impact : A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary...

Newsbeuter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. Description J.H.M. Dassen reported that the open-in-browser command does not properly escape shell metacharacters in the URL before passing it to system. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a feed with speciall...

RealPlayer: Buffer overflow

Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description Dyon Balding of Secunia Research reported an unspecified heap-based buffer overflow in the Shockwave Flash SWF frame handling. Impact By enticing a user to open a specially crafted SWF...

dnsmasq: Denial of Service and DNS spoofing

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description Dan Kaminsky of IOActive reported that dnsmasq does not randomize UDP source ports when forwarding DNS queries to a recursing DNS server CVE-2008-1447. Carlos Carvalho reported that dnsmasq in t...

OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Description Cameron Hotchkies discovered an error within the parsing of ASN.1 BER encoded packets in the "bergetnext" function in libraries/liblber/io.c. Impact A remote unauthenticated...

Linux Audit: Buffer overflow

Background Linux Audit is a set of userspace utilities for storing and processing auditing records. Description A stack-based buffer overflow has been reported in the auditlogusercommand function in the file lib/auditlogging.c when processing overly long arguments. Impact A local attacker could...

cbrPager: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background cbrPager is a comic book pager. Description Mamoru Tasaka discovered that filenames of the image archives are not properly sanitized before being passed to decompression utilities like unrar and unzip, which use the system libc library call. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user...

Perl: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. Description Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team have reported a double free vulnerability when processing a crafted regular expression containing UTF-8 characters. Impact A remote attacker could possibly explo...

PTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PTeX is a TeX distribution with Japanese support. It is used for creating and manipulating LaTeX documents. Description Multiple issues were found in the teTeX 2 codebase that PTeX builds upon GLSA 200709-17, GLSA 200711-26. PTeX also includes vulnerable code from the GD library GLSA...

Openfire: Denial of service

Background Openfire formerly Wildfire is a Java implementation of a complete Jabber server. Description Openfire's connection manager in the file ConnectionManagerImpl.java cannot handle clients that fail to read messages, and has no limit on their session's send buffer. Impact Remote authenticat...

GLSA-200804-19 : PHP Toolkit: Data disclosure and Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200804-19 PHP Toolkit: Data disclosure and Denial of Service Toni Arnold, David Sveningsson, Michal Bartoszkiewicz, and Joseph reported that php-select does not quote parameters passed to the 'tr' command, which could convert the...

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge. Description Michal Zalewski reported two vulnerabilities, memory corruption when adding news feed sources from a website CVE-2008-1761 as well as when processing HTML CANVAS elements to use scaled images CVE-2008-1762...

Tomcat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java Servlets and Java Server Pages. Description The following vulnerabilities were reported: Delian Krustev discovered that the JULI logging component does not properly enforce access restrictions, allowing web...

Ghostscript: Buffer overflow

Background Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for PostScript and PDF. Description Chris Evans Google Security discovered a stack-based buffer overflow within the zseticcspace function in the file zicc.c when processing a PostScript file containing a long "Range" array in a...

GLSA-200803-11 : Vobcopy: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200803-11 Vobcopy: Insecure temporary file creation Joey Hess reported that vobcopy appends data to the file '/tmp/vobcopy.bla' in an insecure manner. Impact : A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink...

Xdg-Utils: Arbitrary command execution

Background Xdg-Utils is a set of tools allowing all applications to easily integrate with the Free Desktop configuration. Description Miroslav Lichvar discovered that the "xdg-open" and "xdg-email" shell scripts do not properly sanitize their input before processing it. Impact A remote attacker...