Debian DSA-1053-1 : mozilla - programming error

Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott described crashes of Mozilla due to the use of a deleted controller context. In theory this could be abused to execute malicious code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debi...

Debian DSA-1164-1 : sendmail - programming error

A programming error has been discovered in sendmail, an alternative mail transport agent for Debian, that could allow a remote attacker to crash the sendmail process by sending a specially crafted email message. Please note that in order to install this update you also need libsasl2 library from...

Debian DSA-889-1 : enigmail - programming error

Hadmut Danish discovered a bug in enigmail, GPG support for Mozilla MailNews and Mozilla Thunderbird, that can lead to the encryption of mail with the wrong public key, hence, potential disclosure of confidential data to others. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

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-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-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-939-1 : fetchmail - programming error

Daniel Drake discovered a problem in fetchmail, an SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder, that can cause a crash when the program is running in multidrop mode and receives messages without headers. The old stable distribution woody does not seem to be affected by this problem...

Debian DSA-1101-1 : courier - programming error

A bug has been discovered in the Courier Mail Server that can result in a number of processes to consume arbitrary amounts of CPU power. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-110...

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-978-1 : gnupg - programming error

Tavis Ormandy noticed that gnupg, the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement, verifies external signatures of files successfully even though they don't contain a signature at all. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-1177-1 : usermin - programming error

Hendrik Weimer discovered that it is possible for a normal user to disable the login shell of the root account via usermin, a web-based administration tool. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

Debian DSA-898-1 : phpgroupware - programming errors

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpsysinfo, a PHP based host information application that is included in phpgroupware. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-0870 Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered several cross site scripti...

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...

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-993-2 : gnupg - programming error

Tavis Ormandy noticed that gnupg, the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement, can be tricked to emit a 'good signature' status message when a valid signature is included which does not belong to the data packet. This update basically adds fixed packages for woody whose version turned out to b...

Debian DSA-1109-1 : rssh - programming error

Russ Allbery discovered that rssh, a restricted shell, performs insufficient checking of incoming commands, which might lead to a bypass of access restrictions. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

Debian DSA-917-1 : courier - programming error

Patrick Cheong Shu Yang discovered that courier-authdaemon, the authentication daemon of the Courier Mail Server, grants access to accounts that are already deactivated. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...