Updated fcgi packages fix CVE-2012-6687

Updated fcgi packages fix security vulnerability: FCGI does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FDSET macro. This FDSET macro could allow for more than 1024 total file descriptors to be monitored in the closing state. This may allow remote attackers to cause a denial o...

Stack overflow

nss-pam-ldapd before 0.7.18 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code by performing a name lookup on an application with a large number of open file descriptors, which triggers a stack-based buffer...

CVE-2011-0719

Samba 3.x before 3.3.15, 3.4.x before 3.4.12, and 3.5.x before 3.5.7 does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FDSET macro, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption, and infinite loop or daemon crash by opening a large number of...

Memory corruption

Samba 3.x before 3.3.15, 3.4.x before 3.4.12, and 3.5.x before 3.5.7 does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FDSET macro, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption, and infinite loop or daemon crash by opening a large number of...

Samba -- Denial of service - memory corruption

The Samba team reports: Samba is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption error related to missing range checks on file descriptors being used in the "FDSET" macro. By performing a select on a bad file descriptor set, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...