DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0426

sudo 1.6.x before 1.6.9p21 and 1.7.x before 1.7.2p4, when a pseudo-command is enabled, permits a match between the name of the pseudo-command and the name of an executable file in an arbitrary directory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted executable file, as demonstrated by...

sudo -- Privilege escalation with sudoedit

Todd Miller reports: When sudo performs its command matching, there is a special case for pseudo-commands in the sudoers file currently, the only pseudo-command is sudoedit. Unlike a regular command, pseudo-commands do not begin with a slash '/'. The flaw is that sudo's the matching code would on...

[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: stardict-3.0.1-20.fc12

StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in Gtk2. It has powerful features such as "Glob-style pattern matching," "Scan selection word," "Fuzzy query," etc...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: wget-1.12-2.fc11

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest wit...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: snort-2.8.5.1-1.fc11

Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules based logging and can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: snort-2.8.5.1-1.fc10

Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules based logging and can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows,...

*.com accepted as wildcard match in SSL/TLS name matching

Certificate authorities are expected to vet all certificate registrations, but may fail to prevent fraudulent or erroneous registrations. Certificates which use a wild card immediately before the top level domain, or nulls in the domain name, may pass validation checks in Opera. Sites using such...

http-enum NSE Script

Enumerates directories used by popular web applications and servers. This parses a fingerprint file that's similar in format to the Nikto Web application scanner. This script, however, takes it one step further by building in advanced pattern matching as well as having the ability to identify...

Authentication flaw

Plesk 8.6.0, when short mail login names SHORTNAMES are enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and send spam e-mail via a message with 1 a base64-encoded username that begins with a valid shortname, or 2 a username that matches a valid password, as demonstrated using a SMTP and...

Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-7435 (perl-IO-Socket-SSL)

The remote host is missing an update to perl-IO-Socket-SSL announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-7435. Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are...

metasploit vulnerability scanner-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

msf load dbsqlite3 Successfully loaded plugin: dbsqlite3 Next we will use the dbcreate command to initialize a new SQLite3 database and connect it to the Metasploit Framework instance: msf dbcreate The specified database already exists, connecting Successfully connected to the database File:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: mutt-1.5.19-5.fc11

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based MIME mail client. Mutt is highly configurable, and is well suited to the mail power user with advanced features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting group...

Mandriva Update for drakx-net MDKA-2007:091 (drakx-net)

Check for the Version of drakx-net OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for drakx-net MDKA-2007:091 drakx-net Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

sudo -- certain authorized users could run commands as any user

Todd Miller reports: A bug was introduced in Sudo's group matching code in version 1.6.9 when support for matching based on the supplemental group vector was added. This bug may allow certain users listed in the sudoers file to run a command as a different user than their access rule specifies...

CVE-2008-5558

Asterisk Open Source 1.2.26 through 1.2.30.3 and Business Edition B.2.3.5 through B.2.5.5, when realtime IAX2 users are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via authentication attempts involving 1 an unknown user or 2 a user using hostname matching...

CVE-2008-3972

pkcs15-tool in OpenSC before 0.11.6 does not apply security updates to a smart card unless the card's label matches the "OpenSC" string, which might allow physically proximate attackers to exploit vulnerabilities that the card owner expected were patched, as demonstrated by exploitation of...

vsftpd security and bug fix update

2.0.5-12 - fix CVE-2007-5962: vsftpd memory leak when denyfile option is set - Resolves: 423001 2.0.5-11 - add new option to log login failures based on user list - Resolves: 345791 - fix userconfigdir option - Resolves: 400921 - allow usernames starting with '' or '.' - Resolves: 386561 - fix th...

AST-2007-027 - Database matching order permits host-based authentication to be ignored

Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2007-027 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Product | Asterisk | |--------------------+---------------------------------------------------| | Summary | Database matching order permits host-based | | | authenticatio...

Net: HTTP insufficient verification of SSL certificate

The connect method in lib/net/http.rb in the 1 Net::HTTP and 2 Net::HTTPS libraries in Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 does not verify that the commonName CN field in a server certificate matches the domain name in an HTTPS request, which makes it easier for remote attackers to intercept SSL transmissions v...

tcp_wrappers: hosts_ctl() does not handle hostnames specified in /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} correctly

REJECTED CVE A flaw was found in the tcpwrappers related to the handling of hostnames specified in the host access rules in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. This issue affects applications like net-snmp snmpd and OpenLDAP daemons that uses the hostsctl tcpwrappers interface function. The fla...