WordPress 'wp-login.php' HTTP Response Splitting

According to its banner, the remote version of WordPress is vulnerable to an HTTP-splitting attack wherein an attacker can insert CR LF characters and then entice an unsuspecting user into accessing the URL. The client will parse and possibly act on the secondary header which was supplied by the...

NetworkActiv Web Server Encoded URL Request Remote DoS

The remote host is running NetworkActive Web Server - an alternative web server. There is a vulnerability in the remote version of this software that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service against the remote server by sending an HTTP GET request containing a '%25' character...

Debian DSA-170-1 : tomcat4 - source code disclosure

A security vulnerability has been found in all Tomcat 4.x releases. This problem allows an attacker to use a specially crafted URL to return the unprocessed source code of a JSP page, or, under special circumstances, a static resource which would otherwise have been protected by security...

Debian DSA-174-1 : heartbeat - buffer overflow

Nathan Wallwork discovered a buffer overflow in heartbeat, a subsystem for High-Availability Linux. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted UDP packet that overflows a buffer, leaving heartbeat to execute arbitrary code as root. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-253-1 : openssl - information leak

A vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Socket Layer SSL implementation. In an upcoming paper, Brice Canvel EPFL, Alain Hiltgen UBS, Serge Vaudenay EPFL, and Martin Vuagnoux EPFL, Ilion describe and demonstrate a timing-based attack on CBC cipher suites used in SSL and TLS. OpenS...

Debian DSA-357-1 : wu-ftpd - remote root exploit

iSEC Security Research reports that wu-ftpd contains an off-by-one bug in the fbrealpath function which could be exploited by a logged-in user local or anonymous to gain root privileges. A demonstration exploit is reportedly available. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-211-1 : micq - denial of service

Rudiger Kuhlmann, upstream developer of mICQ, a text based ICQ client, discovered a problem in mICQ. Receiving certain ICQ message types that do not contain the required 0xFE separator causes all versions to crash. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-433-1 : kernel-patch-2.4.17-mips - integer overflow

Red Hat and SuSE kernel and security teams revealed an integer overflow in the dobrk function of the Linux kernel allows local users to gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

Debian DSA-126-1 : imp - XSS

A cross-site scripting CSS problem was discovered in Horde and IMP a web-based IMAP mail package. This was fixed upstream in Horde version 1.2.8 and IMP version 2.2.8. The relevant patches have been back-ported to version 1.2.6-0.potato.5 of the horde package and version 2.2.6-0.potato.5 of the i...

Debian DSA-050-1 : sendfile - broken privileges dropping, broken tempfile

Colin Phipps and Daniel Kobras discovered and fixed several serious bugs in the saft daemon sendfiled' which caused it to drop privileges incorrectly. Exploiting this a local user can easily make it execute arbitrary code under root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Debian DSA-505-1 : cvs - heap overflow

Stefan Esser discovered a heap overflow in the CVS server, which serves the popular Concurrent Versions System. Malformed 'Entry' Lines in combination with Is-modified and Unchanged can be used to overflow malloced memory. This was proven to be exploitable. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-223-1 : geneweb - information exposure

A security issue has been discovered by Daniel de Rauglaudre, upstream author of geneweb, a genealogical software with web interface. It runs as a daemon on port 2317 by default. Paths are not properly sanitized, so a carefully crafted URL lead geneweb to read and display arbitrary files of the...

Debian DSA-108-1 : wmtv - symlink vulnerability

Nicolas Boullis found some security problems in the wmtv package a dockable video4linux TV player for windowmaker which is distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. With the current version of wmtv, the configuration file is written back as the superuser, and without any further checks. A malicious us...

Debian DSA-200-1 : samba - remote exploit

Steve Langasek found an exploitable bug in the password handling code in samba: when converting from DOS code-page to little endian UCS2 unicode a buffer length was not checked and a buffer could be overflowed. There is no known exploit for this, but an upgrade is strongly recommended...

Debian DSA-516-1 : postgresql - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the ODBC driver of PostgreSQL, an object-relational SQL database, descended from POSTGRES. It is possible to exploit this problem and crash the surrounding application. Hence, a PHP script using php4-odbc can be utilised to crash the surrounding Apache...

Debian DSA-544-1 : webmin - insecure temporary directory

Ludwig Nussel discovered a problem in webmin, a web-based administration toolkit. A temporary directory was used but without checking for the previous owner. This could allow an attacker to create the directory and place dangerous symbolic links inside. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-139-1 : super - format string vulnerability

GOBBLES found an insecure use of format strings in the super package. The included program super is intended to provide access to certain system users for particular users and programs, similar to the program sudo. Exploiting this format string vulnerability a local user can gain unauthorized roo...

Debian DSA-286-1 : gs-common - insecure temporary file

Paul Szabo discovered insecure creation of a temporary file in ps2epsi, a script that is distributed as part of gs-common which contains common files for different Ghostscript releases. ps2epsi uses a temporary file in the process of invoking ghostscript. This file was created in an insecure...

Serendipity < 0.7.0beta3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote version of Serendipity is vulnerable to SQL injection issues due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user- supplied input. An attacker may exploit this flaw to issue arbitrary statements in the remote database, and therefore, bypass authorization or even overwrite...

aspWebAlbum album.asp SQL Injection

The remote host appears to be running aspWebAlbum, an ASP script designed to faciliate the integration of multiple photo albums in a web-based application. There is a flaw in the remote software that could allow anyone to inject arbitrary SQL commands, which may in turn be used to gain...