Ubuntu 5.04 : kdelibs vulnerability (USN-150-1)

Kate and Kwrite create a backup file before saving a modified file. These backup files were created with default permissions, even if the original file had more strict permissions set, so that other local users could possibly read the backup file even if they are not permitted to read the origina...

Ubuntu 4.10 : php4 vulnerabilities (USN-99-1)

Stefano Di Paola discovered integer overflows in PHP's pack and unpack functions. A malicious PHP script could exploit these to break out of safe mode and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the PHP interpreter. CAN-2004-1018 Note: The second part of CAN-2004-1018 buffer overflow in the...

Ubuntu 4.10 : imagemagick vulnerability (USN-62-1)

Andrei Nigmatulin discovered a potential buffer overflow in the PhotoShop Document image decoding function of ImageMagick. Decoding a malicious PSD image which specifies more than the allowed 24 channels might result in execution of arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Since ImageMagick can...

Ubuntu 4.10 : sharutils vulnerabilities (USN-102-1)

Shaun Colley discovered a buffer overflow in 'shar' that was triggered by output files specified with -o with names longer than 49 characters. This could be exploited to run arbitrary attacker specified code on systems that automatically process uploaded files with shar. Ulf Harnhammar discovered...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : netpbm-free vulnerability (USN-210-1)

A buffer overflow was found in the 'pnmtopng' conversion program. By tricking an user or automated system to process a specially crafted PNM image with pnmtopng, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pnmtopng. Note that Tenable Network Security...

Ubuntu 4.10 : xpdf, cupsys vulnerabilities (USN-64-1)

A buffer overflow has been found in the xpdf viewer. An insufficient input validation of the encryption key length could be exploited by an attacker providing a specially crafted PDF file which, when processed by xpdf, could result in abnormal program termination or the execution of attacker...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : squid vulnerability (USN-129-1)

It was discovered that Squid did not verify the validity of DNS server responses. When Squid is started, it opens a DNS client UDP port whose number is randomly assigned by the operating system. Unless your network firewall is configured to accept DNS responses only from known good nameservers,...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : php4, php4-universe fixed packages (USN-147-2)

USN-147-1 1 fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in the XMLRPC module of the PEAR library. Unfortunately the packages announced in USN-147-1 were faulty and shipped broken xmlrpc modules. The updated packages ship correct modules. We apologize for the inconvenience. 1...

Ubuntu 4.10 : tetex-bin vulnerability (USN-51-1)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena noticed that 'xdvizilla', an auxiliary script to integrate DVI file viewing in Mozilla-based browsers, created temporary files and directories in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges o...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : netpbm-free vulnerability (USN-164-1)

Max Vozeler discovered that the the 'pstopnm' conversion tool did not use the -dSAFER option when calling ghostscript. This option prohibits file operations and calling commands within PostScript code. This flaw could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code if he tricked an user or ...

Ubuntu 4.10 : cyrus21-imapd vulnerability (USN-87-1)

Sean Larsson discovered a buffer overflow in the IMAP 'annotate' extension. This possibly allowed an authenticated IMAP client to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Cyrus IMAP server. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : gnupg vulnerability (USN-170-1)

Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato discovered a weakness of the symmetrical encryption algorithm of gnupg. When decrypting a message, gnupg uses a feature called 'quick scan'; this can quickly check whether the key that is used for decryption is probably the right one, so that wrong keys can be...

Ubuntu 4.10 : sharutils vulnerability (USN-104-1)

Joey Hess discovered that 'unshar' created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

Ubuntu 4.10 : python2.2, python2.3 vulnerability (USN-73-1)

The Python developers discovered a flaw in the SimpleXMLRPCServer module. Python XML-RPC servers that used the registerinstance method to register an object, but do not have a dispatch method, allowed remote users to access or change function internals using the im and func attributes. Note that...

Ubuntu 5.04 : mozilla-firefox bug fix (USN-124-2)

USN-124-1 fixed several vulnerabilities of Firefox. After that update, several users experienced XML errors on various actions like adding bookmarks see https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/showbug.cgi?id=10643. After installing these new packages and restarting the browser, these problems should be fixed...

Ubuntu 4.10 : mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities (USN-186-2)

USN-186-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser for Ubuntu 5.04. This update provides fixed packages for Ubuntu 4.10, which was vulnerable to the same issues. The original advisory is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-186-1 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : bzip2 vulnerability (USN-161-1)

USN-158-1 fixed a command injection vulnerability in the 'zgrep' utility. It was determined that the 'bzgrep' counterpart in the bzip2 package is vulnerable to the same flaw. bzgrep did not handle shell metacharacters like '|' and '&' properly when they occurred in input file names. This could be...

Ubuntu 4.10 : squid vulnerabilities (USN-67-1)

infamous41md discovered several Denial of Service vulnerabilities in squid. A malicious Gopher server could crash squid by sending a line bigger than 4096 bytes. CAN-2005-0094 If squid is configured to send WCPP Web Cache Communication Protocol messages to a 'home router', an attacker who was abl...

Ubuntu 5.10 : inkscape vulnerability (USN-217-1)

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the SVG importer of Inkscape. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted SVG image this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Inkscape user. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 4.10 : libdbi-perl vulnerabilities (USN-70-1)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the module DBI::ProxyServer in Perl's DBI library created a PID file in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking...