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-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-1179-1 : alsaplayer - programming error

Luigi Auriemma discovered several buffer overflows in alsaplayer, a PCM player designed for ALSA, that can lead to a crash of the application and maybe worse outcome. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

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-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-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-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-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-1146-1 : krb5 - programming error

In certain application programs packaged in the MIT Kerberos 5 source distribution, calls to setuid and seteuid are not always checked for success and may fail with some PAM configurations. A local user could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to result in privilege escalation. No exploit code ...

Debian DSA-1040-1 : gdm - programming error

A vulnerability has been identified in gdm, a display manager for X, that could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by exploiting a race condition in the handling of the .ICEauthority file. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks...

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-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-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-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-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-1176-1 : zope2.7 - programming error

It was discovered that the Zope web application server does not disable the csvtable directive in web pages containing ReST markup, allowing the exposure of files readable by the Zope server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

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-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-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...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1180-1] New bomberclone packages fix several vulnerabilities

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1180-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 19th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...