CVS "history" command may disclose sensitive information

Overview A vulnerability exists in the history command of Concurrent Versions System CVS. If exploited, this vulnerability could disclose sensitive information about files and directories on an affected system to a remote, authenticated CVS user. Description Concurrent Versions System CVS is a...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : iproute (RHSA-2003:317)

Updated iproute packages that close a locally-exploitable denial of service vulnerability are now available. The iproute package contains advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools. Herbert Xu reported that iproute can accept spoofed messages sent on the kernel netlink interface b...

RHEL 2.1 : man (RHSA-2003:134)

Updated man packages fix a minor security vulnerability. The man package includes tools for finding information and documentation about commands on a system. Versions of man before 1.51 have a bug where a malformed man file can cause a program named 'unsafe' to be run. To exploit this vulnerabili...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : rsync (RHSA-2004:192)

An updated rsync package that fixes a directory traversal security flaw is now available. Rsync is a program for synchronizing files over a network. Rsync before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read/write daemon without using chroot. This could allow a remote attacker to wri...

CVS contains a heap overflow in the handling of flag insertion

Overview A heap overflow vulnerability in the Concurrent Versions System CVS could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description CVS is a source code maintenance system that is widely used by open-source software development projects. There is a heap memory...

BEA WebLogic Server stores administrator password in clear text in config.xml

Overview BEA WebLogic Server stores the administrator password used to boot the server in clear text within the config.xml file. Description BEA Systems describes WebLogic Server as "an industrial-strength application infrastructure for developing, integrating, securing, and managing distributed...

Linux kernel mremap(2) system call does not properly check return value from do_munmap() function

Overview A vulnerability in the Linux mremap2 system call could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Description The Linux kernel uses a linked list of vitrual memory area VMA descriptors to reference valid regions of the page table for a given...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel-2.4.21 does not perform adequate checking of eflags when in 32-bit ptrace emulation mode

Overview Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel prior to version 2.4.21 does not perform adequate checking of eflags when in 32-bit ptrace emulation mode. This could allow a local user to gain elevated or root privileges. Description The Linux kernel handles the basic functionality of the operating...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated lftp packages fix security vulnerability

Updated lftp packages are now available that fix a buffer overflow security vulnerability. lftp is a command-line file transfer program supporting FTP and HTTP protocols. Ulf Härnhammar discovered a buffer overflow bug in versions of lftp up to and including 2.6.9. An attacker could create a...

Multiple vulnerabilities in X.400 implementations

Overview Multiple vulnerabilities exist in different vendors' X.400 implementations. The impacts of these vulnerabilities are varied and range from denial of service to potential remote execution of arbitrary code. Description The U.K. National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Center NISCC h...

SGI IRIX name services daemon (nsd) and modules mishandle AUTH_UNIX gid list

Overview A remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discoved in the "nsd" service for SGI IRIX systems. A remote attacker may be able to gain root access to the vulnerable system. Description A remotely exploitable heap overflow vulnerability has been discovered in a function for the RPC...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: xpdf security update

Updated Xpdf packages are available that fix a vulnerability where a malicious PDF document could run arbitrary code. Updated 21 July 2003 Updated packages are now available, as the original errata packages did not fix all possible ways of exploiting this vulnerability. Xpdf is an X Window System...

Cisco Secure ACS for Windows CSAdmin vulnerable to buffer overflow via login requests

Overview Cisco Secure ACS for Windows contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that could permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description Cisco Secure ACS for Windows is an authentication, authorization, and accounting AAA server. From Cisco Security...

Samba contains multiple buffer overflows

Overview Samba contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilitites. At least one of these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description Samba is a widely used open-source implementation of Server Message Block...

DSA-248 hypermail - buffer overflows

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Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: krb5 security update

A remotely exploitable stack buffer overflow has been found in the Kerberos v4 compatibility administration daemon distributed with the Red Hat Linux Advanced Server krb5 packages. Updated 09 Jan 2003 Added fixed packages for the Itanium IA64 architecture. Kerberos is a network authentication...

Kerberos administration daemon vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview Multiple Kerberos distributions contain a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the Kerberos administration daemon. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on a vulnerable system. Description A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Kerber...

Multiple vendors' HTTP content/virus scanners do not check data tunneled via HTTP CONNECT method

Overview Multiple vendors' HTTP anti-virus and content filters do not inspect the contents of HTTP CONNECT method tunnels. As a result, viruses or other restricted HTTP content may not be blocked as specified by policy. Description Many anti-virus and content filter products that are designed to...

Input-validation vulnerability in PHP-Nuke allows arbitrary command execution via request for remote web site

Overview PHP-Nuke has an input-validation vulnerability that can lead to execution of arbitrary PHP code hosted on another web server. Description PHP-Nuke is a tool designed to ease web site creation and maintenance. PHP-Nuke includes a script named index.php, which uses PHP's include function t...

[SECURITY] [DSA 151-1] New xinetd packages fix local denial of service

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 151-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 13th, 2002 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : xinetd...