Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : tiff vulnerability (USN-1120-1)

It was discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly handled certain JPEG data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges, or crash the application, leading to a denial of service. Not...

Ubuntu 10.10 : language-selector vulnerability (USN-1115-1)

Romain Perier discovered that the language-selector D-Bus backend did not correctly check for Policy Kit authorizations. A local attacker could exploit this to inject shell commands into the system-wide locale configuration file, leading to root privilege escalation. Note that Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : rdesktop vulnerability (USN-1136-1)

It was discovered that rdesktop incorrectly handled specially crafted paths when using disk redirection. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could access arbitrary files on the user's filesystem. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Fedora 13 : cyrus-imapd-2.3.16-5.fc13 (2011-7193)

Wed May 18 2011 Michal Hlavinka - 2.3.16-5 - fix CVE-2011-1926: STARTTLS plaintext command injection vulnerability - Fri Jan 21 2011 Michal Hlavinka - 2.3.16-4 - don't force sync io for all filesystems - Tue Apr 20 2010 Michal Hlavinka - 2.3.16-3 - add support for QoS marked traffic 576652 Note...

Fedora 14 : kernel-2.6.35.13-92.fc14 (2011-7551)

Some small but critical bug fixes and one security fix. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fedora 15 : sudo-1.7.4p5-4.fc15 (2011-7867)

build with RELPRO Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Fedora 13 : rdesktop-1.6.0-10.fc13 (2011-7694)

This update fixes a security issue in rdesktop 1.6.0. A directory traversal flaw was found in the way rdesktop shared a local path with a remote server. If a user connects to a malicious server with rdesktop, the server could use this flaw to cause rdesktop to read and write to arbitrary, local...

Fedora 14 : mumble-1.2.3-2.fc14 (2011-7194)

Update to 1.2.3 addressing a security issue and fixing the codec issue Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Fedora 14 : tor-0.2.1.30-1400.fc14 (2011-7972)

Thu Mar 17 2011 Enrico Scholz - 0.2.1.30-1400 - updated to 0.2.1.30 - Mon Jan 17 2011 Enrico Scholz - 0.2.1.29-1400 - updated to 0.2.1.29 SECURITY - CVE-2011-0427: heap overflow bug, potential remote code execution - Tue Dec 21 2010 Luke Macken - 0.2.1.28-1400 - updated to 0.2.1.28 SECURITY:...

Fedora 13 : apr-1.4.5-1.fc13 (2011-7340)

Move to 1.4.x branch. Various bug fixes since 1.4.2. Security: CVE-2011-0419 Reimplement aprfnmatch from scratch using a non-recursive algorithm; now has improved compliance with the fnmatch spec. Note: 1.4.3 was never officially released. Fix CVE-2011-1928 introduced in 1.4.4. Note that Tenable...

Fedora 15 : rdesktop-1.6.0-12.fc15 (2011-7688)

This update fixes a security issue in rdesktop 1.6.0. A directory traversal flaw was found in the way rdesktop shared a local path with a remote server. If a user connects to a malicious server with rdesktop, the server could use this flaw to cause rdesktop to read and write to arbitrary, local...

Wing FTP Server Detection

The remote host has an installation of Wing FTP server, which offers file transfer functionality over FTP, FTPS, and SFTP. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid54955; scriptversion"1.10"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

ZDI-11-169: IBM Tivoli Endpoint lcfd.exe opts Argument Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-11-169: IBM Tivoli Endpoint lcfd.exe opts Argument Remote Code Execution Vulnerability http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-169 May 31, 2011 -- CVE ID: CVE-2011-1220 -- CVSS: 10, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C -- Affected Vendors: IBM -- Affected Products: IBM Tivoli Endpoint --...

Fedora 15 : systemtap-1.4-9.fc15 (2011-7314)

Two divide-by-zero flaws were found in the way systemtap interpreted certain corrupted DWARF expressions. A privileged user able to execute arbitrary systemtap scripts could be tricked into triggering this flaw to crash the target machine. An unprivileged user in the stapusr group may be able to...

Fedora 14 : systemtap-1.4-6.fc14 (2011-7302)

Two divide-by-zero flaws were found in the way systemtap interpreted certain corrupted DWARF expressions. A privileged user able to execute arbitrary systemtap scripts could be tricked into triggering this flaw to crash the target machine. An unprivileged user in the stapusr group may be able to...

Fedora 13 : systemtap-1.4-6.fc13 (2011-7289)

Two divide-by-zero flaws were found in the way systemtap interpreted certain corrupted DWARF expressions. A privileged user able to execute arbitrary systemtap scripts could be tricked into triggering this flaw to crash the target machine. An unprivileged user in the stapusr group may be able to...

AIX 610005 : U842529

The remote host is missing AIX PTF U842529 which is related to the security of the package devices.pci.1410bd02.diag.6.1 You should install this PTF for your system to be up-to-date. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if ! definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0;...

AIX 610005 : U841418

The remote host is missing AIX PTF U841418 which is related to the security of the package bos.rte.control.6.1 You should install this PTF for your system to be up-to-date. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if ! definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

WINS Server Detection

The remote service is a WINS Windows Internet Name Service server, which holds information about any NetBIOS-enabled hosts on the network. Note that the service may allow an arbitrary user to download the list, although some versions eg, in Windows 2008 require an IP address to be specifically...

Fedora 14 : mediawiki-1.16.5-59.fc14 (2011-6774)

MediaWiki 1.16.5 was released to correct two security flaws : The first issue is yet another recurrence of the Internet Explorer 6 XSS vulnerability that caused the release of 1.16.4. It was pointed out that there are dangerous extensions with more than four characters, so the regular expressions...