Mambo Open Source Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Description Mambo open source is reportedly affected by multiple input validation vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly validate user-supplied URI parameters. An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary server-side script code on an...

Microsoft IIS 4 Redirect Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Description Microsoft IIS 4.0 is reported prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when handling redirects. It is reported that an attacker may exploit this vulnerability by issuing a large request to an affected IIS Web server. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the...

Microsoft Windows Help And Support Center URI Validation Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft has reported a vulnerability in the Help and Support Center that is related to how HCP URIs are validated. This issue could reportedly be exploited via a malicious web page or HTML e-mail to execute arbitrary code on a client system. The issue may permit an attacker to injec...

Microsoft MDAC Function Broadcast Response Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

Description Microsoft has released an advisory reporting a buffer overrun vulnerability in an MDAC function. This issue is exposed when an application makes a broadcast request to query for SQL Servers on the network and malformed data is returned in the broadcast response. Successful exploitatio...

Microsoft Internet Explorer XML Object Zone Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

Description Microsoft has announced that a vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer when handling malicious XML objects. The problem is said to occur due to Internet Explorer failing to validate a supplied path when binding local data to the XML document. As a result, a malicious HTML containing...

Microsoft Excel XLM Macro Security Level Bypass Vulnerability

Description A vulnerability has been reported to affect Microsoft Excel that could be exploited by an attacker to execute an XLM macro regardless of the macro security level. The issue has been reported to present itself due to a failure by Excel to sufficiently scan a malicious spreadsheet file...

Multiple Sun Database Functions Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Description Sun dbmopen, ndbm, dbm and dbminit library functions have been reported prone to buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Each of these issues likely present themselves due to a lack of sufficient bounds checking performed when copying externally supplied data into an internal memory buffer...

FastTrack P2P Supernode Packet Handler Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Description FastTrack P2P Supernode Packet Handler has been reported prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The issue presents itself in the FastTrack Supernode packet handler. The handler does not perform sufficient bounds checking on supernode entries received before they are copied into a...

Apache Mod_Auth_Any Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the modauthany Apache module. The problem occurs due to insufficient sanitiziation of user-supplied arguments. As a result, it may be possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands, by placing shell metacharacters within an argument. All...

Sendmail Trojan Horse Vulnerability

Description Reportedly, the server hosting sendmail, ftp.sendmail.org, was compromised recently. It has been reported that the intruder made modifications to the source code of sendmail to include Trojan Horse code. Downloads of the sendmail source code from ftp.sendmail.org between September 28,...

Sun Solaris 7.0 - procfs Denial of Service

Sun Solaris 7.0 - procfs Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/448/info A nonpriviliged user can crash any 32 or 64 bit non-intel machine running Solaris 7 by executing the following: more /proc/self/psinfo This is due to a bug in the Solaris 7 procfs. %more /proc/self/psinf...

Sun Solaris 7.0 - 'procfs' Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/448/info A nonpriviliged user can crash any 32 or 64 bit non-intel machine running Solaris 7 by executing the following: more /proc/self/psinfo This is due to a bug in the Solaris 7 procfs. %more /proc/self/psinfo crash...

Linux Kernel 2.02.12.2 - autofs Denial of Service

Linux Kernel 2.02.12.2 - autofs Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/312/info The autofs module provides support for the automount filesystem, as well as the interface between the kernel and the automountd daemon, which is responsible for the actual mounting. Calls such as...

Linux Kernel 2.0/2.1/2.2 - 'autofs' Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/312/info The autofs module provides support for the automount filesystem, as well as the interface between the kernel and the automountd daemon, which is responsible for the actual mounting. Calls such as chdir executed in the automount directory are...