MIME-tools: Virus detection evasion

Background MIME-tools is a Perl module containing functions to handle MIME attachments. Description MIME-tools doesn't correctly parse attachment boundaries with an empty name boundary="". Impact An attacker could send a carefully crafted email and evade detection on some email virus-scanning...

PuTTY: Pre-authentication buffer overflow

Background PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. Description PuTTY fails to do proper bounds checking on SSH2MSGDEBUG packets. The "stringlen" parameter value is incorrectly checked due to signedness issues. Note that...

rssh: Format string vulnerability

Background rssh is a restricted shell, allowing only a few commands like scp or sftp. It is often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide limited access to users. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in rssh syslogging of...

Netatalk: Insecure tempfile handling in etc2ps.sh

Background Netatalk is a kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, which allows Unix hosts to act as file, print, and time servers for Apple computers. It includes several script utilities, including etc2ps.sh. Description The etc2ps.sh script creates temporary files in...

Bugzilla < 2.16.7 / 2.18.0rc3 Multiple Information Disclosures

The remote Bugzilla bug tracking system, according to its version number, is vulnerable to various flaws that may let an attacker bypass authentication or get access to private bug reports. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc';...

Xpdf, CUPS: Multiple integer overflows

Background Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler that includes some Xpdf code. Description Chris Evans discovered multiple integer overflow issues in Xpdf. Impact An attacker could entice an use...

Apache 2, mod_ssl: Bypass of SSLCipherSuite directive

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the internet. modssl provides SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1 support for Apache 1.3 and is also included in Apache 2. Description A flaw has been found in modssl where the "SSLCipherSuite" directive could be bypassed in certain...

Coppermine Photo Gallery Voting Restriction Bypass

The remote host is running Coppermine Gallery - a set of PHP scripts designed to handle galleries of pictures. This product has a vulnerability which allows a remote attacker with cookies disabled to cast multiple votes for a picture. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Open WebMail userstat.pl Arbitrary Command Execution

The target is running at least one instance of Open WebMail in which the userstat.pl component fails to sufficiently validate user input. This failure enables remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs on the target using the privileges under which the web server operates. For further...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: ImageMagick security update

Updated ImageMagick packages that fix a BMP loader vulnerability are now available. ImageMagickTM is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. A heap overflow flaw has been discovered in the ImageMagick image handler. An attacker could create a carefully crafted BMP file in...

BNC: Input validation flaw

Background BNC is an IRC proxying server Description A flaw exists in the input parsing of BNC where part of the sbufgetmsg function handles the backspace character incorrectly. Impact A remote user could issue commands using fake authentication credentials and possibly gain access to scripts...

tiff: Buffer overflows in image decoding

Background The tiff library contains encoding and decoding routines for the Tag Image File Format. It is called by numerous programs, including GNOME and KDE, to help in displaying TIFF images. xv is a multi-format image manipulation utility that is statically linked to the tiff library...

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-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...

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-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-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-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-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...