[SECURITY] New versions of cfingerd fixes root exploit

We have received a report that the all versions of cfingerd prior to 1.4.0 and 1.3.2-18.1 are vulnerable to a root exploit - as posted on bugtraq. We recommend you upgrade your cfingerd package immediately or disable ALLOWEXECUTION. The latter is turned off in the default Debian configuration. wg...

[SECURITY] New version of samba released

The version of samba as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a couple of security problems: a Denial-of-Service attack against nmbd was possible it was possible to exploit smbd if you had a message command defined which used the %f or %M formatter. smbmnts check to see if a user is allowed to...

Netscape Enterprise Server 3.513.6 - JHTML View Source

Netscape Enterprise Server 3.513.6 - JHTML View Source source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/559/info Netscape Enterprise Server 3.51 and above includes a search engine by default. The results it generates can be tailored using various configuration files, and one of the options is whether or...

Power On Software On Guard for MacOS 3.2 - Emergency Password

Power On Software On Guard for MacOS 3.2 - Emergency Password source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/553/info On Guard, a security program for MacOS, includes an emergency password feature in the event that the administrative password is lost or forgotten. If the user name 'emergency' is...

Microsoft IIS (Windows NT 4.0/SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4/SP5) - '.IDC' Path Mapping

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/299/info The full physical path name for the IIS web server root directory may be obtained by attempting to view a non-existent .IDC file. The web server will return an error message that lists the absolute pathname of the "missing" .IDC file...

BNC 2.2.42.4.62.4.8 - IRC Proxy Buffer Overflow (1)

BNC 2.2.42.4.62.4.8 - IRC Proxy Buffer Overflow 1 / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1927/info BNC's IRC Proxy is used as a gateway to an IRC server. A buffer stores a username which arguments the program's USER command. User-supplied input to this buffer is improperly checked for length...

Sambar Server 4.1 Beta - Admin Access

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2255/info 'dumpenv.pl' is a utility that will display environment information on which the server resides, this information could include the server software version being used, directory settings and path information. The default authentication credentia...