PowerDNS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture. Description Daniel Drown reported an error when receiving a HINFO CH query CVE-2008-5277. Brian J. Dowling of Simplicity Communications discovered a previously unknown security...

During the Olympics hung it to focus on means-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In recent times,know the security emergency response team to capture some of the use of a similar domain name,input the wrong domain name to hang horse behavior. Such the object of attack is generally not input the Internet of peoplethey will easily enter the domain name,the careless oneI is also...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-076 – Important Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution (959807)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-076 – Important Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution 959807 Published: December 9, 2008 Version: 1.0 General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the followin...

[security bulletin] HPSBMA02388 SSRT080059 rev.1 - HP OpenView Network Node Manager (OV NNM), Remote Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c01607570 Version: 1 HPSBMA02388 SSRT080059 rev.1 - HP OpenView Network Node Manager OV NNM, Remote Cross Site Scripting XSS NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon ...

Writeup by Amit Klein (Trusteer): Address Bar Spoofing for IE6

Address Bar Spoofing Attacks against Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Amit Klein, Trusteer Summary ======= IE6 is the second most popular web browser after IE7, with market share of around 25 according to recent surveys e.g. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2. This write-up presents...

Linux kernel local filesystem DoS

The 1 reallookup and 2 lookuphash functions in fs/namei.c in the vfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25.15 do not prevent creation of a child dentry for a deleted aka SDEAD directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service "overflow" of the UBIFS orphan area via a...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200801-16 (maradns)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200801-16. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200604-05 (doomsday)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200604-05. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200801-16 (maradns)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200801-16. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

BitlBee: Security bypass

Background BitlBee is an IRC to IM gateway that support multiple IM protocols. Description Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities were reported, including a NULL pointer dereference. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to overwrite existing IM accounts. Workaround There is ...

MySQL: Privilege bypass

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description Sergei Golubchik reported that MySQL imposes no restrictions on the specification of "DATA DIRECTORY" or "INDEX DIRECTORY" in SQL "CREATE TABLE" statements. Impact An authenticated remote attacker could create MyISAM...

yelp: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background yelp is the default help browser for GNOME. Description Aaron Grattafiori reported a format string vulnerability in the windowerror function in yelp-window.c. Impact A remote attacker can entice a user to open specially crafted "man:" or "ghelp:" URIs in yelp, or an application using...

dnsmasq: Denial of Service and DNS spoofing

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description Dan Kaminsky of IOActive reported that dnsmasq does not randomize UDP source ports when forwarding DNS queries to a recursing DNS server CVE-2008-1447. Carlos Carvalho reported that dnsmasq in t...

kernel: infinite loop in highres timers (kernel hang)

Integer overflow in the hrtimerforward function hrtimer.c in Linux kernel 2.6.21-rc4, when running on 64-bit systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a timer with a large expiry value, which causes the timer to always be expired...

Postfix: Local privilege escalation vulnerability

Background Postfix is Wietse Venema's mailer that attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Description Sebastian Krahmer of SuSE has found that Postfix allows to deliver mail to root-owned symlinks in an insecure manner under...

Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB951596)

A security vulnerability exists in the Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Microsoft Office System that could allow arbitrary code to run when you open a maliciously modified file. This update resolves that vulnerability...

Bacula: Information disclosure

Background Bacula is a network based backup suite. Description Matthijs Kooijman reported that the "makecatalogbackup" script uses the MySQL password as a command line argument when invoking other programs. Impact A local attacker could list the processes on the local machine when the script is...

kernel: infinite loop in highres timers (kernel hang)

Integer overflow in the hrtimerforward function hrtimer.c in Linux kernel 2.6.21-rc4, when running on 64-bit systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a timer with a large expiry value, which causes the timer to always be expired...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2008:0275)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

Multiple X11 terminals: Local privilege escalation

Background Aterm, Eterm, Mrxvt, multi-aterm, RXVT, rxvt-unicode, and wterm are X11 terminal emulators. Description Bernhard R. Link discovered that RXVT opens a terminal on :0 if the "-display" option is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set. Further research by the Gentoo...