Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Opera: Vitaly McLain reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing host names in file:// URLs CVE-2008-5178. Alexios Fakos reported a vulnerability in the HTML...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0519-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0519-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Specially crafted JPEG images can be used to execute arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories

Specially crafted JPEG images can be used to execute arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | February 25, 2009 Severity Extremely Severe Problem Description Specially crafted JPEG images can cause Opera to corrupt memory and crash. Successful exploitation can lead to execution of...

GLSA-200902-03 : Valgrind: Untrusted search path

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200902-03 Valgrind: Untrusted search path Tavis Ormandy reported that Valgrind loads a .valgrindrc file in the current working directory, executing commands specified there. Impact : A local attacker could prepare a specially...

USN-624-1: PCRE vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the PCRE library did not correctly handle certain in-pattern options. An attacker could cause applications linked against pcre3 to crash, leading to a denial of service...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1602-1] New pcre3 packages fix arbitrary code execution

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1602-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer July 05, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : unzip (RHSA-2008:0196)

Updated unzip packages that fix a security issue are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. An invalid pointer flaw was found in unzip. If a...

CentOS 3 : unzip (CESA-2008:0196)

Updated unzip packages that fix a security issue are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. An invalid pointer flaw was found in unzip. If a...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1231-1 (gnupg)

The remote host is missing an update to gnupg announced via advisory DSA 1231-1. Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNU privacy, a free PGP replacement, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : pcre3 vulnerabilities (USN-547-1)

Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered multiple flaws in the regular expression handling of PCRE. By tricking a user or service into running specially crafted expressions via applications linked against libpcre3, a remote attacker could crash the application, monopolize CPU resources, or possib...

GLSA-200711-30 : PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200711-30 PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities Tavis Ormandy Google Security discovered multiple vulnerabilities in PCRE. He reported an error when processing '\Q\E' sequences with unmatched '\E' codes that can lead to the compiled...

GLSA-200711-21 : Bochs: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200711-21 Bochs: Multiple vulnerabilities Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a heap-based overflow vulnerability in the NE2000 driver CVE-2007-2893. He also discovered a divide-by-zero error in the emulated flopp...

PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PCRE is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions. Description Tavis Ormandy Google Security discovered multiple vulnerabilities in PCRE. He reported an error when processing "\Q\E" sequences with unmatched "\E" codes that can lead to the compiled bytecode...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : libpng vulnerability (USN-383-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that libpng did not correctly calculate the size of sPLT structures when reading an image. By tricking a user or an automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG file, an attacker could exploit this weakness to crash the application using the library. Note that...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : imagemagick vulnerabilities (USN-340-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered several buffer overflows in imagemagick's Sun Raster and XCF Gimp image decoders. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the users' privileges. Note that Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 6.10 : gnupg2 vulnerabilities (USN-393-2)

USN-389-1 and USN-393-1 fixed vulnerabilities in gnupg. This update provides the corresponding updates for gnupg2. A buffer overflow was discovered in GnuPG. By tricking a user into running gpg interactively on a specially crafted message, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : tiff vulnerabilities (USN-330-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the TIFF library did not sufficiently check handled images for validity. By tricking an user or an automated system into processing a specially crafted TIFF image, an attacker could exploit these weaknesses to execute arbitrary code with the target application's...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gzip vulnerabilities (USN-349-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that gzip did not sufficiently verify the validity of gzip or compress archives while unpacking. By tricking an user or automated system into unpacking a specially crafted compressed file, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : openssh vulnerabilities (USN-355-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the SSH daemon did not properly handle authentication packets with duplicated blocks. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to cause the ssh daemon to drain all available CPU resources until the login grace time expired...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pcre (MDKSA-2007:212)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered by Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry in the way that pcre handled certain malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against pcre, such as Konqueror, parses a malicious regular expression, it could lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the us...