glibc: incorrect use of extend_alloca() in formatted printing can lead to FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection bypass

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library aka glibc 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFYSOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service segmentati...

glibc: FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection bypass via "nargs" integer overflow

Integer overflow in the vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in glibc 2.14 and other versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFYSOURCE protection mechanism, conduct format string attacks, and write to arbitrary memory via a large number of arguments...

Microsoft Pushes Out Two New Security Tools

In parallel with its release of 17 bulletins on Patch Tuesday this month, Microsoft also unveiled two new tools that are meant to help make a couple of common exploitation scenarios more difficult for attackers. The company released a tool called Office File Validation for some older versions of...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 055-1 (gftp)

The remote host is missing an update to gftp announced via advisory DSA 055-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb0551.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 055-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2027

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the addfilenametostring function in intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c for Elinks 0.11.1 allows local users to cause Elinks to use an untrusted gettext message catalog .po file in a "../po" directory, which can be leveraged to conduct format string attacks...

Debian DSA-066-1 : cfingerd - remote exploit

Steven van Acker reported on bugtraq that the version of cfingerd a configurable finger daemon as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from two problems : - The code that reads configuration files files in which $ commands are expanded copied its input to a buffer without checking for a...

proftp advisory

http://lamagra.seKure.de: advisory 1 Advisory: misc. bugs Programname: proftpd Versions: 1.2.0 = pre10 Vendor: proftpd.net Severity: high root shell and low Contact: [email protected] Bug1: void setproctitlechar fmt,... in src/main.c snippet memsetstatbuf, 0, sizeofstatbuf; vsnprintfstatbuf,...