Debian DSA-022-1 : exmh - local insecure tempfile creation

Former versions of the exmh program used /tmp for storing temporary files. No checks were made to ensure that nobody placed a symlink with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to a symlink attack. This could lead to a malicious local user being able to overwrite any file...

Debian DSA-548-2 : imlib - unsanitised input

Marcus Meissner discovered a heap overflow error in imlib, an imaging library for X and X11, that could be abused by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine. The updated packages we have provided in DSA 548-1 did not seem to be sufficient, which should be fixed by this updat...

Debian DSA-054-1 : cron - local root exploit

A recent fall 2000 security fix to cron introduced an error in giving up privileges before invoking the editor. This was discovered by Sebastian Krahmer from SuSE. A malicious user could easily gain root access. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-110-1 : cups - buffer overflow

The authors of CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, have found a potential buffer overflow bug in the code of the CUPS daemon where it reads the names of attributes. This affects all versions of CUPS. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

Debian DSA-413-2 : linux-kernel-2.4.18 - missing boundary check

Paul Starzetz discovered a flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel present in version 2.4.x and 2.6.x which may allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. Version 2.2 is not affected by this bug, since it doesn't support the MREMAPFIXED flag as clarified later. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-118-1 : xsane - insecure temporary files

Tim Waugh found several insecure uses of temporary files in the xsane program, which is used for scanning. This was fixed for Debian/stable by moving those files into a securely created directory within the /tmp directory. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Debian DSA-219-1 : dhcpcd - remote command execution

Simon Kelly discovered a vulnerability in dhcpcd, an RFC2131 and RFC1541 compliant DHCP client daemon, that runs with root privileges on client machines. A malicious administrator of the regular or an untrusted DHCP server may execute any command with root privileges on the DHCP client machine by...

Debian DSA-102-2 : at - daemon exploit

zen-parse found a bug in the current implementation of at which leads into a heap corruption vulnerability which in turn could potentially lead into an exploit of the daemon user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-539-1 : kdelibs - temporary directory vulnerability

The SUSE security team was alerted that in some cases the integrity of symlinks used by KDE are not ensured and that these symlinks can be pointing to stale locations. This can be abused by a local attacker to create or truncate arbitrary files or to prevent KDE applications from functioning...

[slackware-security] GTK+ image loading flaws

New GTK+ version 2 packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current to fix issues in the image loader routines that can crash applications. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.0 ChangeLog: l/gtk+2-2.4.10-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gtk+-2.4.10. This fixes security issues in the image...

[slackware-security] CUPS DoS

New CUPS packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix a denial of service issue where a malformed packet can crash the CUPS server. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

[SECURITY] [DSA 547-1] New Imagemagic packages fix buffer overflows

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 547-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 16th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-547-1 imagemagick - buffer overflows

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[SECURITY] [DSA 545-1] New cupsys packages fix denial of service

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 545-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 15th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[slackware-security] samba DoS

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current. These fix two denial of service vulnerabilities reported by iDEFENSE. Slackware -current has been upgraded to samba-3.0.7, while the samba-3.0.5 included with Slackware 10.0 has been patched to fix these issues. Sites running Samba...

[SECURITY] [DSA 543-1] New krb5 packages fix several vulnerabilities

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 543-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 31st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mutt (MDKSA-2002:002-1)

Joost Pol reported a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the mutt email client. It is recommended that all mutt users upgrade their packages immediately. Update : The previous packages released for 8.x were unable to recall postponed messages due to an incorrect patch. These new packages also...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : gdk-pixbuf (RHSA-2004:103)

Updated gdk-pixbuf packages that fix a crash are now available. The gdk-pixbuf package contains an image loading library used with the GNOME GUI desktop environment. Thomas Kristensen discovered a bitmap file that would cause versions of gdk-pixbuf prior to 0.20 to crash. To exploit this flaw, an...

RHEL 2.1 : xinetd (RHSA-2003:161)

Updated xinetd packages fix a security vulnerability and other bugs. Xinetd is a master server that is used to to accept service connection requests and start the appropriate servers. Because of a programming error, memory was allocated and never freed if a connection was refused for any reason. ...

RHEL 2.1 : wu-ftpd (RHSA-2004:096)

An updated wu-ftpd package that fixes two security issues is now available. The wu-ftpd package contains the Washington University FTP File Transfer Protocol server daemon. FTP is a method of transferring files between machines. Glenn Stewart discovered a flaw in wu-ftpd. When configured with...