[BSA-014] New Tor packages fix potential code execution

Willem Pinckaers discovered that Tor, a tool to enable online anonymity, does not correctly handle all data read from the network. By supplying specially crafted packets a remote attacker can cause Tor to overflow its heap, crashing the process in turn. Arbitrary code execution has not been...

BSA-009 Security Update for nss

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl uploaded new packages for nss which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2010-3170 NSS recognizes a wildcard IP address in the subjects Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a...

BSA-009 Security Update for nss

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl uploaded new packages for nss which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2010-3170 NSS recognizes a wildcard IP address in the subjects Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a...

Subject: BSA-008 Security Update for pidgin

Jan Wagner uploaded new packages for pidgin which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2010-3711 Fixes multiple remotely-triggered DoSes https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2010-3711 For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in version 2.7.3-1bpo50+2. For the unstable sid...

Subject: BSA-007 Security Update for mailscanner

Jan Wagner uploaded new packages for mailscanner which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2010-3095 incomplete fix for CVE-2008-5313 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2010-3095 The original text of CVE-2008-5313: mailscanner 4.68.8 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to...

BSA-003 Security Update for samba

Christian Perrier uploaded new packages for samba which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2010-3069 A vulnerability has been discovered in samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. The sidparse function does not correctly check its input lengths when reading a binary...

Security update for openoffice.org

Rene Engelhard uploaded new packages for openoffice.org which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2010-2935 CVE-2010-2936: Charlie Miller has discovered two vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org Impress, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a users system and execute...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for iceweasel

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl uploaded new packages for iceweasel which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2010-1206: The startDocumentLoad function in browser/base/content/browser.js in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.11 and 3.6.x before 3.6.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.6, does not properly...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for drupal6

Luigi Gangitano uploaded new packages for drupal6 which fixed the following security problems: SA-CORE-2010-001 Multiple vulnerabilities and weaknesses were discovered in Drupal. Installation cross site scripting A user-supplied value is directly output during installation allowing a malicious us...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for dokuwiki

Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for dokuwiki which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2010-0287 It was discovered that an internal variable is not properly sanitized before being used to list directories. This can be exploited to list contents of arbitrary directories. CVE-2010-0288,...

[Backports-security-announce] Security update for transmission

Leo Costela and Josselin Mouette uploaded new packages for transmission which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2010-0012 DSA-1967-1 Dan Rosenberg discovered that Transmission, a lightweight client for the Bittorrent filesharing protocol performs insufficient sanitizing of file names...

[Backports-security-announce] Security update for dovecot

Jaldhar H. Vyas uploaded new packages which fix the following problem: DSA-1892-1 CVE-2009-2632, CVE-2009-3235 Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the Sieve plugin in Dovecot For the etch-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in version 1.0.15-2.3+lenny1bpo40+1 For the...

[Backports-security-announce] Security update for devscripts

Adam D. Barratt uploaded new packages for devscripts which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2009-2946: When parsing watch files, uscan applied "mangle rules" by evaluating them as Perl code without any sanitisation. This could have lead to the execution of arbitrary code by users or...

[Backports-security-announce] Security update for openoffice.org

Rene Engelhard uploaded new packages for openoffice.org which fixed the following security updates: CVE-2009-0200 Dyon Balding of Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability, which can be exploited by opening a specially crafted Microsoft Word document. When reading a Microsoft Word document,...

[Backports-security-announce] Security update for devscripts

Adam D. Barratt uploaded new packages for devscripts which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2009-2946: When parsing watch files, uscan applied "mangle rules" by evaluating them as Perl code without any sanitisation. This could have lead to the execution of arbitrary code by users or...

RHEL 5 : java-1.5.0-bea (RHSA-2008:0156)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2008:0156 advisory. - Security Vulnerability in Java Runtime Environment With Applet Caching CVE-2007-5232 - Untrusted Application or Applet May Move or Copy...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for mediawiki

Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for mediawiki which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2008-5249, Debian BTS 508868 Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki 1.13.0 through 1.13.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors...

[Backports-security-announce] Security update for drupal6

Ive uploaded a new packages for drupal6 which fixed the following security problems: SA-2008-073: The update system is vulnerable to Cross site request forgeries. Malicious users may cause the superuser user 1 to execute old updates that may damage the database. For the etch-backports distributio...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for clamav

Sebastian Harl uploaded new packages for clamav which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2008-5050, Debian BTS 505134 Moritz Jodeit discovered that ClamAV, an anti-virus solution, suffers from an off-by-one-error in its VBA project file processing, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for tor

Peter Palfrader uploaded new packages for tor which fixed the following security problem: Debian Bug 505178 tor didnt properly drop privileges when using the "User" and "Group" config options. For the etch-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in version 0.2.0.32-1bpo40+1. For the len...