Debian DSA-1162-1 : libmusicbrainz-2.0 - buffer overflows

Luigi Auriemma discovered several buffer overflows in libmusicbrainz, a CD index library, that allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Debian DSA-1052-1 : cgiirc - buffer overflows

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in cgiirc, a web-based IRC client, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1052. T...

Debian DSA-908-1 : sylpheed-claws - buffer overflows

Colin Leroy discovered several buffer overflows in a number of importer routines in sylpheed-claws, an extended version of the Sylpheed mail client, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-932-1 : kdegraphics - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, that can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code. The same code is present in kpdf which is part of the...

Debian DSA-938-1 : koffice - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which is also present in koffice, the KDE Office Suite, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary...

Debian DSA-961-1 : pdfkit.framework - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf which are also present in pdfkit.framework, the GNUstep framework for rendering PDF content, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code...

Debian DSA-937-1 : tetex-bin - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which is also present in tetex-bin, the binary files of teTeX, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of...

Debian DSA-1159-2 : mozilla-thunderbird - several vulnerabilities

The latest security updates of Mozilla Thunderbird introduced a regression that led to a dysfunctional attachment panel which warrants a correction to fix this issue. For reference please find below the original advisory text : Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla and...

Debian DSA-936-1 : libextractor - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which is also present in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or...

Debian DSA-1186-1 : cscope - buffer overflows

Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered several buffer overflows in cscope, a source browsing tool, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debia...

Debian DSA-1064-1 : cscope - buffer overflows

Jason Duell discovered that cscope, a source code browsing tool, does not verify the length of file names sourced in include statements, which may potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted source code files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Debian DSA-940-1 : gpdf - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which is also present in gpdf, the GNOME version of the Portable Document Format viewer, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly...

Debian DSA-950-1 : cupsys - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf which are also present in CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenabl...

Debian DSA-962-1 : pdftohtml - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf which are also present in pdftohtml, a utility that translates PDF documents into HTML format, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code...

Debian DSA-947-2 : clamav - heap overflow

A heap overflow has been discovered in ClamAV, a virus scanner, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a carefully crafted UPX-encoded executable to a system running ClamAV. In addition, other potential overflows have been corrected. Packages for the ARM architecture...

Debian DSA-1136-1 : gpdf - wrong input sanitising

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which are also present in gpdf, the viewer with Gtk bindings, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of...

Debian DSA-894-1 : abiword - buffer overflows

Chris Evans discovered several buffer overflows in the RTF import mechanism of AbiWord, a WYSIWYG word processor based on GTK 2. Opening a specially crafted RTF file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packag...

Debian DSA-1179-1 : alsaplayer - programming error

Luigi Auriemma discovered several buffer overflows in alsaplayer, a PCM player designed for ALSA, that can lead to a crash of the application and maybe worse outcome. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Debian DSA-1137-1 : tiff - several vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several problems in the TIFF library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues : - CVE-2006-3459 Several stack-buffer overflows have been discovered. - CVE-2006-3460 A heap overflow vulnerability in the...

Debian DSA-904-1 : netpbm-free - buffer overflows

Greg Roelofs discovered and fixed several buffer overflows in pnmtopng which is also included in netpbm, a collection of graphic conversion utilities, that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code via a specially crafted PNM file. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...