[ GLSA 200904-19 ] LittleCMS: Multiple vulnerabilities

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GLSA-200804-09 : am-utils: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200804-09 am-utils: Insecure temporary file creation Tavis Ormandy discovered that, when creating temporary files, the 'expn' utility does not check whether the file already exists. Impact : A local attacker could exploit the...

GLSA-200712-07 : Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200712-07 Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation Tatsuya Kinoshita reported that the ndeb-binary function does not handle temporay files correctly. Impact : A local attacker could use a symlink attack to overwrite files with the...

GLSA-200708-14 : NVIDIA drivers: Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200708-14 NVIDIA drivers: Denial of Service Gregory Shikhman discovered that the default Gentoo setup of NVIDIA drivers creates the /dev/nvidia with insecure file permissions. Impact : A local attacker could send arbitrary values...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libpng (MDKSA-2006:209)

Buffer overflow in the pngdecompresschunk function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to 'chunk error processing,' possibly involving the 'chunkname'. CVE-2006-33...

OpenLDAP: Insecure usage of /tmp during installation

Background OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team has discovered that the file gencert.sh distributed with the Gentoo ebuild for OpenLDAP does not exit upon the existence of a...

GLSA-200611-17 : fvwm: fvwm-menu-directory fvwm command injection

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200611-17 fvwm: fvwm-menu-directory fvwm command injection Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that fvwm-menu-directory does not sufficiently sanitise directory names prior to generating menus. Impact ...

FreeBSD : libxine -- format string vulnerability (3bc5691e-38dd-11da-92f5-020039488e34)

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports : Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string bug in the routines handling CDDB server response contents. An attacker could submit malicious information about an audio CD to a public CDDB server or impersonate a public CDDB server. When the victim plays this C...

zlib: Buffer overflow

Background zlib is a widely used free and patent unencumbered data compression library. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a buffer overflow in zlib. A bounds checking operation failed to take invalid data into account, allowing a specifically malformed...

GLSA-200505-16 : ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick: Denial of Service vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200505-16 ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick: Denial of Service vulnerability Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the XWD decoder of ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick when...

gdb: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background gdb is the GNU project's debugger, facilitating the analysis and debugging of applications. The BFD library provides a uniform method of accessing a variety of object file formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered an integer overflow in the B...

libTIFF: Buffer overflow

Background libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF Tag Image File Format images. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag. Impac...

GLSA-200504-25 : Rootkit Hunter: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200504-25 Rootkit Hunter: Insecure temporary file creation Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen and Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team have reported that the checkupdate.sh script and the main rkhunter script insecurely creates...

GLSA-200504-14 : monkeyd: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200504-14 monkeyd: Multiple vulnerabilities Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a double expansion error in monkeyd, resulting in a format string vulnerability. Ciaran McCreesh of Gentoo Linux discover...

[SECURITY] [DSA 694-1] New xloadimage packages fix several vulnerabilities

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 694-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 21st, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian DSA-694-1 : xloadimage - missing input sanitising, integer overflow

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in xloadimage, an image viewer for X11. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-0638 Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported a flaw in the handling of compressed images,...

[Full-Disclosure] [ GLSA 200503-12 ] Hashcash: Format string vulnerability

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-12 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity:...

GLSA-200503-09 : xv: Filename handling vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-09 xv: Filename handling vulnerability Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the handling of image filenames by xv. Impact : Successful exploitation would require a victim to process a...

[Full-Disclosure] [ GLSA 200503-05 ] xli, xloadimage: Multiple vulnerabilities

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-05 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity:...

[Full-Disclosure] [ GLSA 200412-02 ] PDFlib: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-02 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity:...