Mono: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications. Description Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team discovered that the System.CodeDom.Compiler classes of Mono create temporary files with insecure permissions. Impact A local attacker cou...

Ubuntu 4.10 : enscript vulnerabilities (USN-68-1)

Erik Sjolund discovered several vulnerabilities in enscript which could cause arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user calling enscript. Quotes and other shell escape characters in titles and file names were not handled in previous versions. CAN-2004-1184 Previous versions support...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : tiff vulnerability (USN-156-1)

Wouter Hanegraaff discovered that the TIFF library did not sufficiently validate the 'YCbCr subsampling' value in TIFF image headers. Decoding a malicious image with a zero value resulted in an arithmetic exception, which caused the program that uses the TIFF library to crash. This leads to a...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : python2.1, python2.2, python2.3, gnumeric vulnerabilities (USN-173-4)

USN-173-1 fixed a buffer overflow vulnerability in the PCRE library. However, it was found that the various python packages and gnumeric contain static copies of the library code, so these packages need to be updated as well. In gnumeric this bug could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with...

RHEL 2.1 : openssl (RHSA-2005:829)

Updated OpenSSL packages that fix a remote denial of service vulnerability are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The OpenSSL toolkit implements Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3,...

[USN-156-1] TIFF vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-156-1 July 29, 2005 tiff vulnerability https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/showbug.cgi?id=12008 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu...

NetSec Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities Resulting From Use Of Apple OSX HFS+

------------------------ NetSec Security Advisory ------------------------ VULNERABILITY DETAILS Name: Multiple Vulnerabilities Resulting From Use Of Apple OSX HFS+ Impact: HIGH Platform: Apple OS X Darwin = 10.2 Method: Possible unauthorized access to file system data Identifier: 07012005-01...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated OpenSSL packages fix vulnerabilities

Updated OpenSSL packages are available that fix a potential timing-based attack and a modified Bleichenbacher attack. OpenSSL is a commercial-grade, full-featured, and open source toolkit that implements Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols as well as a...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security update

Updated OpenSSL packages are available that fix a potential timing-based attack. Updated 12 March 2003 Added packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS OpenSSL is a commercial-grade, full-featured, open source toolkit which implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated OpenSSL packages fix timing attack

Updated OpenSSL packages are available that fix a potential timing-based attack. OpenSSL is a commercial-grade, full-featured, and open source toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose...