gforge -- XSS and email flood vulnerabilities

Jose Antonio Coret reports that GForge contains multiple Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities and an e-mail flood vulnerability: The login form is also vulnerable to XSS Cross Site Scripting attacks. This may be used to launch phising attacks by sending HTML e-mails i.e.: saying that you need to...

[Full-disclosure] [ZH2005-16SA] Insecure temporary file creation in Skype for Linux

ZH2005-16SA Insecure temporary file creation in Skype for Linux Application: Skype for Linux Version affected: = 1.1.0.20 Vendor website : http://www.skype.com Author: Giovanni Delvecchio e-mail: [email protected] About Skype ======== Skype is a free program that uses the latest P2P technolog...

SSA-18700 OpenSSH security problem fixed

New openssh packages are available to fix security problems. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Thu Mar 7 12:00:18 PST 2002 patches/packages/openssh.tgz: Upgraded to openssh-3.1p1. This fixes a security problem in the openssh package. All sites...

SSA-18705 sudo upgrade fixes a potential vulnerability

New sudo packages are available to fix a security problem which may allow users to become root, or to execute arbitrary code as root. Heres's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Thu Apr 25 12:00:50 PDT 2002 patches/packages/sudo.tgz: Upgraded to...

DSA-553-1 getmail - symlink vulnerability

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Weak SSH default ocnfiguration

TCP forwarding is allowed by default, it creates security problem for anonymous SSH access for example with CVS...

SUSE-SA:2004:026: rsync

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2004:026 rsync. The rsync-team released an advisory about a security problem in rsync. If rsync is running in daemon-mode and without a chroot environment it is possible for a remote attacker to trick rsyncd into creating an absolute...

Solaris 2.5.1 (x86) : 111518-01

SunOS 5.5.1x86: dmesg security problem. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jun/19/01 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/09/17. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !...

Solaris 2.6 (x86) : 112815-01

SunOS 5.6x86: in.talkd has a "user format" security problem. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : May/14/02 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/09/17. C Tenable Network Securit...

Extremail Security Problem

Extremail Security Problem Extremail 1.5.9 www.extremail.com MTA If account is created with only digit password or password begins with digit - login is processing with any digit password or without password. -------------------- Andrey Smirnov [email protected] Russia Moscow...

Updated KDE packages available

New KDE 3.1.1a packages are available for Slackware 9.0 which fix a security problem with the handling of PS and PDF documents. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Thu Apr 17 15:32:15 PDT 2003 patches/packages/kde/: Upgraded to KDE 3.1.1a. Also included in this directory are a...

[RHSA-2001:141-05] Updated webalizer packages available

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Updated webalizer packages available Advisory ID: RHSA-2001:141-05 Issue date: 2001-10-24 Updated on: 2001-10-30 Product: Red Hat Powertools Keywords: webalizer cross-site...

sendmail and procmail update

An input validation error in sendmail has been discovered by Cade Cairns of SecurityFocus. This problem can be exploited by local users to gain root access. It is not exploitable by remote attackers without shell access. New packages based on sendmail.8.11.6 have been prepared for Slackware 7.1 a...

[RHSA-2001:058-04] Updated mount package available

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Updated mount package available Advisory ID: RHSA-2001:058-04 Issue date: 2001-04-25 Updated on: 2001-05-02 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: mount swapon swap permissions Cross...

Ultimate Bulletin Board Version 5.47e

About: "Ultimate Bulletin Board Version 5.47e" by "www.infopop.com" on Cross-Platform tested on UNIX Subject: Another possibility to read in private forums Status: Vendors took aknoledgement; No reply of any solution yet; Details: As still known, there've been some security problem in UBB up to...

[RHSA-2001:008-02] Updated vim packages available

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Updated vim packages available Advisory ID: RHSA-2001:008-02 Issue date: 2001-01-29 Updated on: 2001-03-21 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: vim vim-enhanced stl status line Cros...

Potential Security Problem in bftpd-1.0.11

Subject : Potential security problem in bftpd Buffer Overflow Author : Christophe BAILLEUX [email protected] Plateforms : nix Test version : bftpd-1.0.11 I. Introduction bftpd is a Linux FTP server with chroot and setreuid. Not all FTP commands are included. It accesses either the user's home directo...

Apache 1.3.14 available

Several security problems have been found in the Apache web server software. It is recommended that all users of Apache upgrade to the latest stable release to fix these problems. Apache is included in our N software series in the apache.tgz package. A new apache.tgz package including Apache 1.3....

Apache Httpd < 1.3.14 : Mass virtual hosting can display CGI source

A security problem for users of the mass virtual hosting module, modvhostalias, causes the source to a CGI to be sent if the cgi-bin directory is under the document root. However, it is not normal to have your cgi-bin directory under a document root...

windows2k.iss

I found there is a security problem about shtml.exe that allows anyone to explore the local path of IIS web server. Tested on windows2000 server.shtml.exe is a program issued with Forntpage Extention server for viewing smart HTML file, If we install Frontpage on Windows2000 server, a directory...