CGI Generic Format String

The remote web server hosts CGI scripts that fail to adequately sanitize request strings. They seem to be vulnerable to a 'format string' attack. By leveraging this issue, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on the remote host subject to the privileges under which the web server...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : libmysqlclient-devel (libmysqlclient-devel-6360)

the COMCREATEDB and COMDROPDB suffered from format string vulnerabilities CVE-2009-2446 - the command line client was prone to cross-site scripting XSS attacks CVE-2008-4456 - fix slave reconnect %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : silc-toolkit (silc-toolkit-6479)

This update of slic-toolkit fixes stack-based overflow while encoding a ASN.1 OID CVE-2008-7159 and several format string bugs CVE-2009-3051, CVE-2008-7160. The probability to exploit this issues to execute arbitrary code is high. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...

Apple Mac OS X iChat AIM URL Format String (CVE-2007-0021)

Apple Computer Mac OS X is the operating system shipped with Apple Macintosh computers. The product bundles numerous Internet applications such as web browser, email client, instant messenger, etc. Apple iChat is a multi-protocol instant messaging application that supports AIM and Jabber services...

Apple Mac OS X Installer Package Filename Format String (CVE-2007-0465)

Apple Computer Mac OS X is the operating system shipped with Apple Macintosh computers. The Installer component is an application included in Mac OS X systems which extracts and installs applications from installation packages. The installer provides features which allow developers to customize...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : samba vulnerabilities (USN-839-1)

J. David Hester discovered that Samba incorrectly handled users that lack home directories when the automated homes share is enabled. An authenticated user could connect to that share name and gain access to the whole filesystem. CVE-2009-2813 Tim Prouty discovered that the smbd daemon in Samba...

elinks tries to load .po files from a non-absolute path

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...

WarFTPD Multiple Format String Vulnerabilities

WarFTPd is prone to multiple remote format-string vulnerabilities because the application fails to sanitize user-supplied input before passing it to a formatted-output function. An attacker can exploit these issues to crash the server and possibly to execute arbitrary code within the context of t...

WarFTPD Multiple Format String Vulnerabilities

WarFTPd is prone to multiple remote format-string vulnerabilities because the application fails to sanitize user-supplied input before passing it to a formatted-output function. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are...

SILC Client Channel Name Format String Vulnerability

This host has SILC Client installed and is prone to Format String vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodsilcprdtschannelnameformatstringvuln.nasl 5122 2017-01-27 12:16:00Z teissa $ SILC Client & Toolkit Channel Name Format String Vulnerability Authors: Nikita MR Copyright: Copyrigh...

SILC Client Nickname Field Format String Vulnerability

This host has SILC Client/Toolkit installed, and is prone to Format String vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodsilcprdtsnicknameformatstringvuln.nasl 5122 2017-01-27 12:16:00Z teissa $ SILC Client Nickname Field Format String Vulnerability Authors: Nikita MR Copyright: Copyright ...

SILC Client Channel Name Format String Vulnerability

SILC Client is prone to a format string vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SILC Client < 1.1.8 Nickname Field Format String Vulnerability

SILC Client/Toolkit is prone to a format string vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SuSE 11 Security Update : silc-toolkit (SAT Patch Number 1282)

This update of slic-toolkit fixes stack-based overflow while encoding a ASN.1 OID CVE-2008-7159 and several format string bugs CVE-2009-3051 / CVE-2008-7160. The probability to exploit this issues to execute arbitrary code is high. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

SuSE 11 Security Update : MySQL (SAT Patch Number 1114)

the COMCREATEDB and COMDROPDB suffered from format string vulnerabilities. CVE-2009-2446 - the command line client was prone to cross-site scripting XSS attacks CVE-2008-4456 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Samba (SAT Patch Number 1053)

Fixed a format string vulnerability in smbclient CVE-2009-1886 and a ACL bypass vulnerability in samba. CVE-2009-1888 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is...

SuSE9 Security Update : mailman (YOU Patch Number 11243)

This update of mailman fixes the following security issues : - A malicious user could visit a specially crafted URI and inject an apparent log message into Mailman's error log which might induce an unsuspecting administrator to visit a phishing site. This has been blocked. Thanks to Moritz Nauman...

SuSE9 Security Update : perl-Net-Server (YOU Patch Number 10270)

A format string problem was found in the logging routines of the perl-Net-Server perl module collection. This could lead to a remote attacker being able to crash a server using the perl-Net-Server module. This is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2005-1127. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

SuSE9 Security Update : ethereal (YOU Patch Number 12424)

Version upgrade to Wireshark 1.0.7 to fix various vulnerabilities : - crash while loading a Tektronix .rf5 file. CVE-2009-1269 - crash in Check Point High-Availability Protocol CPHAP dissector. CVE-2009-1268 - LDAP dissector could crash on Windows. CVE-2009-1267 - PROFINET format string bug...

SuSE 10 Security Update : MySQL (ZYPP Patch Number 6446)

the COMCREATEDB and COMDROPDB suffered from format string vulnerabilities. CVE-2009-2446 - the command line client was prone to cross-site scripting XSS attacks. CVE-2008-4456 Additionally a problem that sometimes prevented slave hosts from reconnecting to the master server has been fixed...