Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cyrus-sasl (MDKSA-2004:106)

A vulnerability was discovered in the libsasl library of cyrus-sasl. libsasl honors the SASLPATH environment variable blindly, which could allow a local user to create a malicious 'library' that would get executed with the effective ID of SASL when anything calls libsasl. The provided packages ar...

[SA12728] Online-Bookmarks Security Bypass Vulnerability

TITLE: Online-Bookmarks Security Bypass Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA12728 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/12728/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Security Bypass WHERE: From remote SOFTWARE: Online-Bookmarks 0.x http://secunia.com/product/4005/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability...

RHEL 3 : squid (RHSA-2004:462)

An updated squid package that fixes a security vulnerability in the NTLM authentication helper is now available. Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache. An out of bounds memory read bug was found within the NTLM authentication helper routine. If Squid is configured to use the NTLM authenticatio...

Debian DSA-087-1 : wu-ftpd - remote root exploit

CORE ST reports that an exploit has been found for a bug in the wu-ftpd glob code this is the code that handles filename wildcard expansion. Any logged in user including anonymous FTP users can exploit the bug to gain root privileges on the server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

Debian DSA-160-1 : scrollkeeper - insecure temporary file creation

Spybreak discovered a problem in scrollkeeper, a free electronic cataloging system for documentation. The scrollkeeper-get-cl program creates temporary files in an insecure manner in /tmp using guessable filenames. Since scrollkeeper is called automatically when a user logs into a Gnome session, ...

Debian DSA-467-1 : ecartis - several vulnerabilities

Timo Sirainen discovered two vulnerabilities in ecartis, a mailing list manager. - CAN-2003-0781 Failure to validate user input could lead to disclosure of mailing list passwords - CAN-2003-0782 Multiple buffer overflows %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

Debian DSA-015-1 : sash - broken maintainer script

Versions of the sash package prior to 3.4-4 did not clone /etc/shadow properly, causing it to be made world-readable. This package only exists in stable, so if you are running unstable you won't see a bugfix unless you use the resources from the bottom of this message to the proper configuration...

Debian DSA-071-1 : fetchmail - memory corruption

Salvatore Sanfilippo found two remotely exploitable problems infetchmail while doing a security audit. In both the IMAP code and the POP3 code, the input isn't verified even though it's used to store a number in an array. Since no bounds checking is done this can be used by an attacker to write...

Debian DSA-166-1 : purity - buffer overflows

Two buffer overflows have been discovered in purity, a game for nerds and hackers, which is installed setgid games on a Debian system. This problem could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to the group games. A malicious user could alter the highscore of several games. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Debian DSA-116-1 : cfs - buffer overflow

Zorgon found several buffer overflows in cfsd, a daemon that pushes encryption services into the Unixtm file system. We are not yet sure if these overflows can successfully be exploited to gain root access to the machine running the CFS daemon. However, since cfsd can easily be forced to die, a...

Debian DSA-186-1 : log2mail - buffer overflow

Enrico Zini discovered a buffer overflow in log2mail, a daemon for watching logfiles and sending lines with matching patterns via mail. The log2mail daemon is started upon system boot and runs as root. A specially crafted remote log message could overflow a static buffer, potentially leaving...

Debian DSA-408-1 : screen - integer overflow

Timo Sirainen reported a vulnerability in screen, a terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation, that can lead an attacker to gain group utmp privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Debian DSA-435-1 : mpg123 - heap overflow

A vulnerability was discovered in mpg123, a command-line mp3 player, whereby a response from a remote HTTP server could overflow a buffer allocated on the heap, potentially permitting execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking mpg123. In order for this vulnerability to b...

Debian DSA-341-1 : liece - insecure temporary file

liece, an IRC client for Emacs, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. This bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and liece, potentially with contents supplied by the attacker...

TYPSoft FTP Server LIST Command Traversal Arbitrary Directory Listing

Using 'cd ...', it is possible to move from the FTP server root directory and access any file on the remote machine. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. References: From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: 18 Dec 2002 00:40:44 +0200 Subject: NT TYPSoft FTP Serve...

phpGroupWare Wiki Module XSS

The remote host seems to be running PhpGroupWare, a multi-user groupware suite written in PHP. This issue exists due to a lack of sanitization of user-supplied data. A malicious attacker can exploit a flaw to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Fedora Core 1 : cdrtools-2.01-0.a19.2.FC1.1 (2004-297)

Anyone who has manually suid /usr/bin/cdrecord should update to this version. https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2004-0806 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 ...

Fedora Core 1 : imlib-1.9.13-15.fc1 (2004-300)

Several heap overflow vulnerabilities have been found in the imlib BMP image handler. An attacker could create a carefully crafted BMP file in such a way that it would cause an application linked with imlib to execute arbitrary code when the file was opened by a victim. The Common Vulnerabilities...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cdrecord (MDKSA-2004:091)

Max Vozeler found that the cdrecord program, which is suid root, fails to drop euid=0 when it execs a program specified by the user through the $RSH environment variable. This can be abused by a local attacker to obtain root privileges. The updated packages are patched to fix the vulnerability...

Solaris 9 (sparc) : 117162-01

The remote host is missing Sun Security Patch number 117162-01 SunOS 5.9: patch usr/src/uts/common/sys/cpcimpl.h. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Mon Sep 27 02:48:32 MDT 2004 You should install this patch for your system to be up-to-date. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script ha...