Debian DSA-1087-1 : postgresql - programming error

Several encoding problems have been discovered in PostgreSQL, a popular SQL database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-2313 Akio Ishida and Yasuo Ohgaki discovered a weakness in the handling of invalidly-encoded multibyte text data...

Debian DSA-895-1 : uim - programming error

Masanari Yamamoto discovered incorrect use of environment variables in uim, a flexible input method collection and library, that could lead to escalated privileges in setuid/setgid applications linked to libuim. Affected in Debian is at least mlterm. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security...

Debian DSA-1163-1 : gtetrinet - programming error

Michael Gehring discovered several potential out-of-bounds index accesses in gtetrinet, a multiplayer Tetris-like game, which may allow a remote server to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

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-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-1015-1 : sendmail - programming error

Mark Dowd discovered a flaw in the handling of asynchronous signals in sendmail, a powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent. This allows a remote attacker to exploit a race condition to execute arbitrary code as root. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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-918-1 : osh - programming error

Several security related problems have been discovered in osh, the operator's shell for executing defined programs in a privileged environment. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-3346 Charles Stevenson discovered a bug in the...

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-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-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-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-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-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-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-1092-1 : mysql-dfsg-4.1 - programming error

Josh Berkus and Tom Lane discovered that MySQL 4.1, a popular SQL database, incorrectly parses a string escaped with mysqlrealescape which could lead to SQL injection. This problem does only exist in versions 4.1 and 5.0. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text a...

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...