Debian DSA-694-1 : xloadimage - missing input sanitising, integer overflow

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in xloadimage, an image viewer for X11. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-0638 Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported a flaw in the handling of compressed images,...

Debian DSA-695-1 : xli - buffer overflow, input sanitising, integer overflow

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in xli, an image viewer for X11. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2001-0775 A buffer overflow in the decoder for FACES format images could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code...

LHa: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LHa is a console-based program for packing and unpacking LHarc archives. Description The command line argument as well as the archive parsing code of LHa lack sufficient bounds checking. Furthermore, a shell meta character command execution vulnerability exists in LHa, since it does no...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: lha security update

An updated lha package that fixes a buffer overflow is now available. LHA is an archiving and compression utility for LHarc format archives. Lukasz Wojtow discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in all versions of lha up to and including version 1.14. A carefully created archive could allow an...

lha -- numerous vulnerabilities when extracting archives

Source code reviews of lha by Lukasz Wojtow, Thomas Biege, and others uncovered a number of vulnerabilities affecting lha: Buffer overflows when handling archives and filenames. CVE-2004-0694 Possible command execution via shell meta-characters when built with NOMKDIR. CVE-2004-0745 Buffer overfl...

RedHat 6.2/7.0 Tmpwatch - Arbitrary Command Execution

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1785/info A vulnerability exists in tmpwatch, a utility which automates the removal of temporary files in unix-like systems. An optional component of tmpwatch, fuser, improperly handles arguments to system library calls. If an attacker creates a file...