Debian DSA-1038-1 : xzgv - programming error

Andrea Barisani discovered that xzgv, a picture viewer for X with a thumbnail-based selector, attempts to decode JPEG images within the CMYK/YCCK colour space incorrectly, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive tex...

Debian DSA-879-1 : gallery - programming error

A bug in gallery has been discovered that grants all registrated postnuke users full access to the gallery. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-879. The text itself is copyrigh...

Debian DSA-990-1 : bluez-hcidump - programming error

A denial of service condition has been discovered in bluez-hcidump, a utility that analyses Bluetooth HCI packets, which can be triggered remotely. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security...

Debian DSA-900-3 : fetchmail - programming error

Due to restrictive dependency definition for fetchmail-ssl the updated fetchmailconf package couldn't be installed on the old stable distribution woody together with fetchmail-ssl. Hence, this update loosens it, so that the update can be pulled in. For completeness we're including the original...

Debian DSA-1060-1 : kernel-patch-vserver - programming error

Jan Rekorajski discovered that the kernel patch for virtual private servers does not limit context capabilities to the root user within the virtual server, which might lead to privilege escalation for some virtual server specific operations. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

Debian DSA-1042-1 : cyrus-sasl2 - programming error

The Mu Security research team discovered a denial of service condition in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer authentication library SASL during DIGEST-MD5 negotiation. This potentially affects multiple products that use SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication including OpenLDAP, Sendmail, Postfi...

Debian DSA-901-1 : gnump3d - programming error

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in gnump3d, a streaming server for MP3 and OGG files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-3349 Ludwig Nussel discovered several temporary files that are created with predictable filenames in a...

Debian DSA-1155-2 : sendmail - programming error

It turned out that the sendmail binary depends on libsasl2 = 2.1.19.dfsg1 which is neither available in the stable nor in the security archive. This version is scheduled for the inclusion in the next update of the stable release, though. You'll have to download the referenced file for your...

Debian DSA-1150-1 : shadow - programming error

A bug has been discovered in several packages that execute the setuid system call without checking for success when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Debian DSA-1090-1 : spamassassin - programming error

A vulnerability has been discovered in SpamAssassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis, that can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This problem only affects systems where spamd is reachable via the internet and used with vpopmail virtual users, via the '-v' /...

Debian DSA-1077-1 : lynx-ssl - programming error

Michal Zalewski discovered that lynx, the popular text-mode WWW Browser, is not able to grok invalid HTML including a TEXTAREA tag with a large COLS value and a large tag name in an element that is not terminated, and loops forever trying to render the broken HTML. The same code is present in...

Debian DSA-1037-1 : zgv - programming error

Andrea Barisani discovered that zgv, an svgalib graphics viewer, attempts to decode JPEG images within the CMYK/YCCK colour space incorrectly, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-1106-1 : ppp - programming error

Marcus Meissner discovered that the winbind plugin in pppd does not check whether a setuid call has been successful when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-1143-1 : dhcp - programming error

Justin Winschief and Andrew Steets discovered a bug in dhcp, the DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment, which causes the server to unexpectedly exit. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

Debian DSA-1027-1 : mailman - programming error

A potential denial of service problem has been discovered in mailman, the web-based GNU mailing list manager. The failing parsing of messages with malformed mime multiparts sometimes caused the whole mailing list to become inoperative. The old stable distribution woody is not vulnerable to this...

Debian DSA-996-1 : libcrypt-cbc-perl - programming error

Lincoln Stein discovered that the Perl Crypt::CBC module produces weak ciphertext when used with block encryption algorithms with blocksize 8 bytes. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security...

Debian DSA-1047-1 : resmgr - programming error

A problem has been discovered in resmgr, a resource manager library daemon and PAM module, that allows local users to bypass access control rules and open any USB device when access to one device was granted. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-873-1 : net-snmp - programming error

A security vulnerability has been found in Net-SNMP releases that could allow a denial of service attack against Net-SNMP agents that have opened a stream based protocol e.g. TCP but not UDP. By default, Net-SNMP does not open a TCP port. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-1032-1 : zope-cmfplone - programming error

It was discovered that the Plone content management system lacks security declarations for three internal classes. This allows manipulation of user portraits by unprivileged users. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-1075-1 : awstats - programming error

Hendrik Weimer discovered that awstats can execute arbitrary commands under the user id the web-server runs when users are allowed to supply arbitrary configuration files. Even though, this bug was referenced in DSA 1058 accidentally, it was not fixed yet. The new default behaviour is not to acce...