Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: samba security update

Updated samba packages that fix a buffer overflow issue are now available. Samba provides file and printer sharing services to SMB/CIFS clients. The Samba team discovered a buffer overflow in the code used to support the 'mangling method = hash' smb.conf option. The Common Vulnerabilities and...

Microsoft Windows fails to properly process showHelp URLs

Overview A vulnerability in the showHelp Method may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description A cross domain vulnerability exists in the showHelp method that may permit a remote attacker to execute local commands on the system with the privileges of the current user...

RHEL 2.1 : unzip (RHSA-2003:200)

Updated unzip packages resolving a vulnerability allowing arbitrary files to be overwritten are now available. Updated 15 August 2003 Ben Laurie found that the original patch to fix this issue missed a case where the path component included a quoted slash. These updated packages contain a new pat...

RHEL 2.1 : openssl (RHSA-2003:063)

Updated OpenSSL packages are available that fix a potential timing-based attack. Updated 12 March 2003 Added packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS OpenSSL is a commercial-grade, full-featured, open source toolkit which implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/...

RHEL 3 : quagga (RHSA-2003:315)

Updated Quagga packages that close a locally-exploitable denial of service vulnerability are now available. Quagga is an open source implementation of TCP/IP routing software. Herbert Xu reported that Quagga can accept spoofed messages sent on the kernel netlink interface by other users on the...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: cvs security update

An updated cvs package that fixes several server vulnerabilities, which could be exploited by a malicious client, is now available. CVS is a version control system frequently used to manage source code repositories. While investigating a previously fixed vulnerability, Derek Price discovered a fl...

[security bulletin] SSRT4721 rev.0 HP-UX dtlogin unauthorized privileged access, DoS

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HP SECURITY BULLETIN HPSBUX01038 REVISION: 0 SSRT4721 rev.0 HP-UX dtlogin unauthorized privileged access, Denial of Service DoS ----------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: There are no restrictions for distribution of thi...

Photopost PHP Pro photo Parameter SQL Injection

The version of Photopost PHP Pro installed on the remote host fails to sanitize user-supplied input to the 'photo' parameter of the 'showphoto.php' script before using it in a database query. An unauthenticated attacker may be able to exploit this issue to uncover sensitive information, modify...

Local root exploit in SuSE Linux 7.3Pro

Affected: SuSE Linux 7.3Pro Not affected: SuSE Linux 8.2Pro, non-SuSE distributions Possibly affected: other SuSE distributions Vulnerable package: javarunt Impact: Local user can gain root privileges Exploit type: Symlink attack Release...

(RHSA-2003:293) openssl security update

OpenSSL is a commercial-grade, full-featured, and open source toolkit that implements Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. NISCC testing of implementations of the SSL protocol uncovered two bu...

[SECURITY] [DSA-389-1] New ipmasq packages fix insecure packet filtering rules

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 389-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman September 20th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: sendmail security update

Updated Sendmail packages that fix a potentially-exploitable vulnerability are now available. Sendmail is a widely used Mail Transport Agent MTA and is included in all Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions. There is a bug in the prescan function of Sendmail versions prior to and including 8.12.9...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kdebase security update

Updated KDE packages that resolve a local security issue with KDM PAM support and weak session cookie generation are now available. KDE is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. KDE between versions 2.2.0 and 3.1.3 inclusive contain a bug in the KDE Display Manager KDM when...

Polycom ViaVideo Web Server Incomplete HTTP Connection Saturation Remote DoS

The remote web server locks up when several incomplete web requests are sent and the connections are kept open. Some servers e.g. Polycom ViaVideo even run an endless loop, using much CPU on the machine. Nessus has no way to test this, but you'd better check your machine. C Tenable Network...

IRIX nsd server and modules mishandle AUTH_UNIX gid list

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- SGI Security Advisory Title : IRIX nsd server and modules mishandle AUTHUNIX gid list Number : 20030704-01-P Date : July 29, 2003 Reference : CVE CAN-2003-0575 Reference : SGI BUG 873591 Fixed in : IRIX 6.5.22 or patches 5189-5197 SGI provides this information...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: unzip security update

Updated unzip packages resolving a vulnerability allowing arbitrary files to be overwritten are now available. Updated 15 August 2003 Ben Laurie found that the original patch to fix this issue missed a case where the path component included a quoted slash. These updated packages contain a new pat...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: tcpdump security update

Updated tcpdump packages that fix an infinite loop vulnerability and drop privileges on startup are now available. Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. A vulnerability exists in tcpdump before 3.7.2 and is related to an inability to handle unknown RADIUS attributes...

HP-UX FTPD REST Command Remote Arbitrary Memory Disclosure

The remote FTP server seems to be vulnerable to an integer conversion bug when it receives a malformed argument to the 'REST' command. An attacker may exploit this flaw to force the remote FTP daemon to disclose portions of the memory of the remote host. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

ST FTP Service Arbitrary File/Directory Access

The remote FTP server is vulnerable to a flaw that allows users to access files that are outside the FTP server root. An attacker may break out of his FTP jail by issuing the command : CWD C: TRUSTED...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: sharutils security update

Updated packages for sharutils which fix potential privilege escalation using the uudecode utility are available. The sharutils package contains a set of tools for encoding and decoding packages of files in binary or text format. The uudecode utility creates an output file without checking to see...