CentOS 3 : unzip (CESA-2008:0196)

Updated unzip packages that fix a security issue are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. An invalid pointer flaw was found in unzip. If a...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1231-1 (gnupg)

The remote host is missing an update to gnupg announced via advisory DSA 1231-1. Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNU privacy, a free PGP replacement, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : pcre3 vulnerabilities (USN-547-1)

Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered multiple flaws in the regular expression handling of PCRE. By tricking a user or service into running specially crafted expressions via applications linked against libpcre3, a remote attacker could crash the application, monopolize CPU resources, or possib...

GLSA-200711-30 : PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200711-30 PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities Tavis Ormandy Google Security discovered multiple vulnerabilities in PCRE. He reported an error when processing '\Q\E' sequences with unmatched '\E' codes that can lead to the compiled...

PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PCRE is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions. Description Tavis Ormandy Google Security discovered multiple vulnerabilities in PCRE. He reported an error when processing "\Q\E" sequences with unmatched "\E" codes that can lead to the compiled bytecode...

GLSA-200711-21 : Bochs: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200711-21 Bochs: Multiple vulnerabilities Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a heap-based overflow vulnerability in the NE2000 driver CVE-2007-2893. He also discovered a divide-by-zero error in the emulated flopp...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : libpng vulnerability (USN-383-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that libpng did not correctly calculate the size of sPLT structures when reading an image. By tricking a user or an automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG file, an attacker could exploit this weakness to crash the application using the library. Note that...

Ubuntu 6.10 : gnupg2 vulnerabilities (USN-393-2)

USN-389-1 and USN-393-1 fixed vulnerabilities in gnupg. This update provides the corresponding updates for gnupg2. A buffer overflow was discovered in GnuPG. By tricking a user into running gpg interactively on a specially crafted message, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : imagemagick vulnerabilities (USN-340-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered several buffer overflows in imagemagick's Sun Raster and XCF Gimp image decoders. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the users' privileges. Note that Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : openssh vulnerabilities (USN-355-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the SSH daemon did not properly handle authentication packets with duplicated blocks. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to cause the ssh daemon to drain all available CPU resources until the login grace time expired...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gzip vulnerabilities (USN-349-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that gzip did not sufficiently verify the validity of gzip or compress archives while unpacking. By tricking an user or automated system into unpacking a specially crafted compressed file, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : tiff vulnerabilities (USN-330-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the TIFF library did not sufficiently check handled images for validity. By tricking an user or an automated system into processing a specially crafted TIFF image, an attacker could exploit these weaknesses to execute arbitrary code with the target application's...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pcre (MDKSA-2007:212)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered by Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry in the way that pcre handled certain malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against pcre, such as Konqueror, parses a malicious regular expression, it could lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the us...

RHEL 5 : pcre (RHSA-2007:0967)

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way...

RHEL 4 : pcre (RHSA-2007:0968)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2007:0968 advisory. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way pcre handles certain malformed regular expressions. If an...

RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : perl (RHSA-2007:0966)

Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration...

pcre security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0968 Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix security issues for Red Hat Application Stack v1.2 are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities an...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: pcre security update

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way...