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Firefox 1.0.1 and automatic updates

The Firefox 1.0.1 release was announced on February 24. As expected, this release had a fix for the IDN spoofing vulnerability which did not actually disable international domain names; instead, such names are mangled into punycode and presented to the user in that form. Various other security-related problems were also fixed in 1.0.1.

One of Firefox's features is automatic updates: the browser can phone home to find out whether an updated version has been released and, if so, offer an upgrade to the user. Many people have been surprised that the automatic update mechanism apparently did not work with 1.0.1. Instead, they had to notice some other way that a new version was available and download it themselves. Not, perhaps, the best example of how Firefox can respond to security issues.

It turns out that a couple of problems were at work here. The first is that the Mozilla Project's infrastructure simply wasn't up to trying to update millions of users at once. So the project decided to spread things out. Automatic updates were disabled entirely for a while, then they were turned on for parts of the network at a time. According to Asa Dotzler's weblog, the folks in Argentina and Andorra were the first to get their updates, followed by Russia, then, eventually, the rest of the world.

Even then, however, it turns out that only Windows users were offered updates. A bug in the automatic updater rendered it unusable for versions of Firefox running on other operating systems, so it was disabled for non-Windows users. And that is why most readers of this page, likely as not, never saw an update notification.

Now was a good time for this sort of shakedown of the Firefox update system. There were real security problems to fix, but none of them were screamingly urgent. Sooner or later, there will be a vulnerability for which a rapid update is required. Hopefully, by then, the infrastructural issues and update system glitches will have been ironed out.

Comments (8 posted)

New vulnerabilities

bsmtpd: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):bsmtpd CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0107
Created:February 25, 2005 Updated:March 2, 2005
Description: Bastian Blank found a vulnerability in bsmtpd, a batched SMTP mailer for sendmail and postfix. Unsanitized addresses can cause the execution of arbitrary commands during alleged mail delivery.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-690-1 2005-02-25

Comments (none posted)

cmd5checkpw: local password leak

Package(s):cmd5checkpw CVE #(s):
Created:February 25, 2005 Updated:March 2, 2005
Description: Florian Westphal discovered that cmd5checkpw is installed setuid cmd5checkpw but does not drop privileges before calling execvp(), so the invoked program retains the cmd5checkpw euid. Local users that know at least one valid /etc/poppasswd user/password combination can read the /etc/poppasswd file.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200502-30 2005-02-25

Comments (none posted)

cURL: buffer overflow

Package(s):curl CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0490
Created:February 28, 2005 Updated:July 19, 2005
Description: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in libcURL and cURL 7.12.1, and possibly other versions, allow remote malicious web servers to execute arbitrary code via base64 encoded replies that exceed the intended buffer lengths when decoded.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152917 2005-07-15
Fedora FEDORA-2005-325 2005-04-20
Red Hat RHSA-2005:340-01 2005-04-05
Conectiva CLA-2005:940 2005-03-21
Gentoo 200503-20 2005-03-16
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:048 2005-03-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:011 2005-02-28
Ubuntu USN-86-1 2005-02-28

Comments (none posted)

gaim: DoS issue in parsing malformed HTML

Package(s):gaim CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0208
Created:February 25, 2005 Updated:March 14, 2005
Description: Gaim has a DoS issue in parsing malformed HTML, and a MSN related crash.
Alerts:
Conectiva CLA-2005:933 2005-03-14
Red Hat RHSA-2005:215-01 2005-03-10
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:049 2005-03-04
Gentoo 200503-03 2005-03-01
Fedora FEDORA-2005-172 2005-02-25
Fedora FEDORA-2005-171 2005-02-25

Comments (none posted)

MediaWiki: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):mediawiki CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0534 CAN-2005-0535 CAN-2005-0536
Created:February 28, 2005 Updated:June 13, 2005
Description: A security audit of the MediaWiki project discovered that MediaWiki is vulnerable to several cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks, and that the image deletion code does not sufficiently sanitize input parameters.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200506-12 2005-06-13
Gentoo 200502-33 2005-02-28

Comments (none posted)

Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox: out of memory heap corruption

Package(s):mozilla firefox CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0255
Created:March 1, 2005 Updated:March 16, 2005
Description: According to this iDEFENSE advisory, remote exploitation of a design error in Mozilla 1.7.3 and Firefox 1.0 may allow an attacker to cause heap corruption, resulting in execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:016 2005-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2005:277-01 2005-03-04
Gentoo 200503-10 2005-03-04
Red Hat RHSA-2005:176-01 2005-03-01
Fedora FEDORA-2005-182 2005-02-26

Comments (none posted)

phpBB: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):phpbb CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0258 CAN-2005-0259
Created:March 1, 2005 Updated:March 2, 2005
Description: It was discovered that phpBB contains a flaw in the session handling code and a path disclosure bug. AnthraX101 discovered that phpBB allows local users to read arbitrary files, if the "Enable remote avatars" and "Enable avatar uploading" options are set (CAN-2005-0259). He also found out that incorrect input validation in "usercp_avatar.php" and "usercp_register.php" makes phpBB vulnerable to directory traversal attacks, if the "Gallery avatars" setting is enabled (CAN-2005-0258).
Alerts:
Gentoo 200503-02 2005-03-01

Comments (none posted)

phpWebSite: arbitrary PHP execution and path disclosure

Package(s):phpwebsite CVE #(s):
Created:March 1, 2005 Updated:March 2, 2005
Description: NST discovered that, when submitting an announcement, uploaded files aren't correctly checked for malicious code. They also found out that phpWebSite is vulnerable to a path disclosure. A remote attacker can exploit this issue to upload files to a directory within the web root. By calling the uploaded script the attacker could then execute arbitrary PHP code with the rights of the web server. By passing specially crafted requests to the search module, remote attackers can also find out the full path of PHP scripts.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200503-04 2005-03-01

Comments (none posted)

Qt: untrusted library search path

Package(s):qt CVE #(s):
Created:March 1, 2005 Updated:March 2, 2005
Description: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that Qt searches for shared libraries in an untrusted, world-writable directory. A local attacker could create a malicious shared object that would be loaded by Qt, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the Qt application.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200503-01 2005-03-01

Comments (none posted)

reportbug: world readable files

Package(s):reportbug CVE #(s):
Created:February 28, 2005 Updated:March 2, 2005
Description: The per-user configuration file ~/.reportbugrc was created world-readable. If it contained email smarthost passwords, these were readable by any other user on the computer storing the home directory. If users have ~/.reportbugrc files with SMTP passwords, the permissions should be manually changed:   chmod 600 .reportbugrc
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-88-1 2005-02-28

Comments (none posted)

uim: local privilege escalation

Package(s):uim CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0503
Created:February 24, 2005 Updated:March 2, 2005
Description: uim has a problem in which environment variables can be used by a local attacker to elevate their privileges.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200502-31 2005-02-28
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:046 2005-02-24

Comments (none posted)

UnAce: buffer overflow and directory traversal

Package(s):unace CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0160 CAN-2005-0161
Created:February 28, 2005 Updated:June 17, 2005
Description: Ulf Harnhammar discovered that UnAce suffers from buffer overflows when testing, unpacking or listing specially crafted ACE archives (CAN-2005-0160). He also found out that UnAce is vulnerable to directory traversal attacks, if an archive contains "./.." sequences or absolute filenames (CAN-2005-0161).
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:016 2005-06-17
Gentoo 200502-32 2005-02-28

Comments (none posted)

xloadimage, xli: buffer overflows

Package(s):xli, xloadimage CVE #(s):CAN-2001-0775
Created:March 2, 2005 Updated:March 2, 2005
Description: The xloadimage and xli utilities contain a flaw in their compressed image handling which can lead to a buffer overflow and code execution.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200503-05 2005-03-02

Comments (none posted)

Updated vulnerabilities

a2ps: input validation error

Package(s):a2ps CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1170 CAN-2004-1377
Created:November 26, 2004 Updated:December 19, 2005
Description: The GNU a2ps utility fails to properly sanitize filenames, which can be abused by a malicious user to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable application. More information at Security Focus.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152870 2005-12-17
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:097 2005-06-07
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.003 2005-01-17
Gentoo 200501-02 2005-01-04
Debian DSA-612-1 2004-12-20
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:140 2004-11-25

Comments (none posted)

bidwatcher: format string vulnerability

Package(s):bidwatcher CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0158
Created:February 18, 2005 Updated:March 3, 2005
Description: Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in bidwatcher, a tool for watching and bidding on eBay auctions. This problem can be triggered remotely by a web server of eBay, or someone pretending to be eBay, sending certain data back. As of version 1.3.17 the program uses cURL and is not vulnerable anymore.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200503-06 2005-03-03
Debian DSA-687-1 2005-02-18

Comments (none posted)

ClamAV: multiple issues

Package(s):clamav CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0133
Created:January 31, 2005 Updated:March 3, 2005
Description: ClamAV fails to properly scan ZIP files with special headers and base64 encoded images in URLs.
Alerts:
Conectiva CLA-2005:928 2005-03-03
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:025 2005-01-31
Gentoo 200501-46 2005-01-31

Comments (none posted)

cpio - file permissions error

Package(s):cpio CVE #(s):CAN-1999-1572
Created:February 2, 2005 Updated:July 19, 2005
Description: Some versions of cpio contain an ancient vulnerability where files created by that utility have overly generous access permissions.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152891 2005-07-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:080-01 2005-02-18
Red Hat RHSA-2005:073-01 2005-02-15
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:032-1 2005-02-11
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:032 2005-02-10
Ubuntu USN-75-1 2005-02-04
Debian DSA-664-1 2005-02-02

Comments (none posted)

cyrus-imapd: buffer overflows

Package(s):cyrus-imapd CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0546
Created:February 23, 2005 Updated:April 9, 2006
Description: Cyrus-imapd, prior to version 2.2.12, contains several buffer overflows which could be exploited by an (authenticated) attacker to run code on the server system.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:156290 2006-04-04
Red Hat RHSA-2005:408-01 2005-05-17
Fedora FEDORA-2005-339 2005-04-27
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.005 2005-04-05
Conectiva CLA-2005:937 2005-03-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:051 2005-03-04
Ubuntu USN-87-1 2005-02-28
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:009 2005-02-24
Gentoo 200502-29 2005-02-23

Comments (none posted)

cyrus-sasl: remote buffer overflow

Package(s):cyrus-sasl CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0884
Created:October 7, 2004 Updated:March 16, 2005
Description: cyrus-sasl has a vulnerability involving a buffer overflow in the digestmda5.c file. A remote attacker may be able to compromise the system. Also, a local user may be able to exploit a vulnerability by using the SASL_PATH environment variable.
Alerts:
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:054 2005-03-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:013 2005-03-03
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2137 2005-02-17
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.004 2005-01-28
Conectiva CLA-2004:889 2004-11-11
Debian DSA-568-1 2004-10-16
Debian DSA-563-3 2004-10-14
Debian DSA-563-2 2004-10-12
Debian DSA-563-1 2004-10-12
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0053 2004-10-08
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:106 2004-10-07
Red Hat RHSA-2004:546-02 2004-10-07
Gentoo 200410-05 2004-10-07

Comments (none posted)

dhcp: format string vulnerability

Package(s):dhcp CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1006
Created:November 4, 2004 Updated:July 13, 2005
Description: Dhcp has a format string vulnerability in the log functions of dhcp 2.x that may be exploited via a malicious DNS server.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152835 2005-07-10
Red Hat RHSA-2005:212-01 2005-04-12
Debian DSA-584-1 2004-11-04

Comments (none posted)

emacs21: format string vulnerability in "movemail"

Package(s):emacs21 CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0100
Created:February 7, 2005 Updated:May 15, 2006
Description: Max Vozeler discovered a format string vulnerability in the "movemail" utility of Emacs. By sending specially crafted packets, a malicious POP3 server could cause a buffer overflow, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user and the "mail" group.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152898 2006-05-12
Debian DSA-685-1 2005-02-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:038 2005-02-15
Gentoo 200502-20 2005-02-15
Fedora FEDORA-2005-146 2005-02-14
Fedora FEDORA-2005-145 2005-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2005:133-01 2005-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:110-01 2005-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:134-01 2005-02-10
Red Hat RHSA-2005:112-01 2005-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-116 2005-02-08
Fedora FEDORA-2005-115 2005-02-08
Debian DSA-671-1 2005-02-08
Debian DSA-670-1 2005-02-08
Ubuntu USN-76-1 2005-02-07

Comments (none posted)

enscript: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):enscript CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1184 CAN-2004-1185 CAN-2004-1186
Created:January 21, 2005 Updated:May 27, 2006
Description: Erik Sjölund has discovered several security relevant problems in enscript, a program to convert ASCII text into Postscript and other formats. Unsanitized input can cause the execution of arbitrary commands via EPSF pipe support. Due to missing sanitizing of filenames it is possible that a specially crafted filename can cause arbitrary commands to be executed. Multiple buffer overflows can cause the program to crash.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2006-0083-1 2006-05-26
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152892 2005-12-17
Red Hat RHSA-2005:040-01 2005-02-15
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:033 2005-02-10
Gentoo 200502-03 2005-02-02
Red Hat RHSA-2005:039-01 2005-02-01
Fedora FEDORA-2005-096 2005-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2005-092 2005-01-28
Fedora FEDORA-2005-091 2005-01-28
Fedora FEDORA-2005-016 2005-01-26
Fedora FEDORA-2005-015 2005-01-26
Ubuntu USN-68-1 2005-01-24
Debian DSA-654-1 2005-01-21

Comments (none posted)

evolution: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):evolution CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0102
Created:January 24, 2005 Updated:May 19, 2005
Description: Max Vozeler discovered an integer overflow in camel-lock-helper. A user-supplied length value was not validated, so that a value of -1 caused a buffer allocation of 0 bytes; this buffer was then filled by an arbitrary amount of user-supplied data. A local attacker or a malicious POP3 server could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges (because camel-lock-helper is installed as setuid root).
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:238-01 2005-05-19
Conectiva CLA-2005:925 2005-02-16
Debian DSA-673-1 2005-02-10
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:024 2005-01-27
Gentoo 200501-35 2005-01-24
Ubuntu USN-69-1 2005-01-24

Comments (1 posted)

f2c: insecure temp files

Package(s):f2c CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0017 CAN-2005-0018
Created:January 27, 2005 Updated:April 20, 2005
Description: The f2c fortran to C translator has a vulnerability due to insecure opening of temporary files. A local attacker can use this to launch a symlink attack.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-661-2 2005-04-20
Gentoo 200501-43 2005-01-30
Debian DSA-661-1 2005-01-27

Comments (none posted)

Foomatic: Arbitrary command execution in foomatic-rip

Package(s):foomatic CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0801
Created:September 20, 2004 Updated:May 31, 2006
Description: There is a vulnerability in the foomatic-filters package. This vulnerability is due to insufficient checking of command-line parameters and environment variables in the foomatic-rip filter. This vulnerability may allow both local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the print server with the permissions of the spooler.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:026 2006-05-30
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2076 2004-11-05
Conectiva CLA-2004:880 2004-10-27
Fedora FEDORA-2004-303 2004-09-21
Gentoo 200409-24 2004-09-20

Comments (none posted)

gaim: client freezes

Package(s):gaim CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0472 CAN-2005-0473
Created:February 22, 2005 Updated:April 27, 2005
Description: The Gaim client freezes when receiving certain invalid messages and crashes when receiving specific malformed HTML. See this Secunia Advisory for additional information.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-716-1 2005-04-27
Ubuntu USN-85-1 2005-02-25
Fedora FEDORA-2005-160 2005-02-21
Fedora FEDORA-2005-159 2005-02-21

Comments (none posted)

gtk2, gdk-pixbuf: buffer overflows

Package(s):gdk-pixbuf gtk2 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0753 CAN-2004-0782 CAN-2004-0783 CAN-2004-0788
Created:September 15, 2004 Updated:February 25, 2005
Description: The gdk-pixbuf and gtk2 libraries contain vulnerabilities in their handling of BMP and XPM files which can lead to denial of service and, potentially, code execution attacks.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2005 2005-02-23
Conectiva CLA-2004:875 2004-10-18
Slackware SSA:2004-266-02 2004-09-22
Gentoo 200409-28 2004-09-21
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:095-1 2004-09-17
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:033 2004-09-17
Debian DSA-549-1 2004-09-17
Red Hat RHSA-2004:447-02 2004-09-15
Debian DSA-546-1 2004-09-16
Red Hat RHSA-2004:466-01 2004-09-15
Red Hat RHSA-2004:447-01 2004-09-15
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:095 2004-09-15
Fedora FEDORA-2004-289 2004-09-15
Fedora FEDORA-2004-288 2004-09-15
Fedora FEDORA-2004-287 2004-09-15
Fedora FEDORA-2004-286 2004-09-15

Comments (none posted)

gettext: Insecure temporary file handling

Package(s):gettext CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0966
Created:October 11, 2004 Updated:March 1, 2006
Description: gettext insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem. When gettext is called, this would result in file access with the rights of the user running the utility, which could be the root user.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:051 2006-02-28
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:136323 2006-01-09
Gentoo 200410-10:02 2004-10-10
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.055 2004-12-23
Ubuntu USN-5-1 2004-10-27
Gentoo 200410-10 2004-10-10

Comments (1 posted)

gftp: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):gftp CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0372 CAN-2004-1376
Created:February 17, 2005 Updated:July 13, 2005
Description: gftp has a directory traversal vulnerability. A remote server could use specially crafted filenames to overwrite local files.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152908 2005-07-10
Red Hat RHSA-2005:410-01 2005-06-13
Fedora FEDORA-2005-310 2005-04-07
Fedora FEDORA-2005-309 2005-04-07
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:050 2005-03-04
Gentoo 200502-27 2005-02-19
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:005 2005-02-18
Debian DSA-686-1 2005-02-17

Comments (none posted)

ghostscript: symlink vulnerabilities

Package(s):ghostscript CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0967
Created:October 20, 2004 Updated:September 28, 2005
Description: The ghostscript package (prior to version 7.07.1-r7) contains several scripts which are vulnerable to symlink attacks.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:081-01 2005-09-28
Ubuntu USN-3-1 2004-10-27
Gentoo 200410-18 2004-10-20

Comments (none posted)

glibc: Information leak with LD_DEBUG

Package(s):glibc CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1453
Created:August 17, 2004 Updated:May 26, 2005
Description: Silvio Cesare discovered a potential information leak in glibc. It allows LD_DEBUG on SUID binaries where it should not be allowed. This has various security implications, which may be used to gain confidential information. An attacker can gain the list of symbols a SUID application uses and their locations and can then use a trojaned library taking precedence over those symbols to gain information or perform further exploitation.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:256-01 2005-05-18
Gentoo 200408-16 2004-08-16

Comments (1 posted)

glibc: tempfile vulnerability in catchsegv script

Package(s):glibc CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0968
Created:October 21, 2004 Updated:November 14, 2005
Description: The catchsegv script in the glibc package has a symlink vulnerability that may allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the user that is running the script.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152848 2005-11-13
Red Hat RHSA-2005:261-01 2005-04-28
Debian DSA-636-1 2005-01-12
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:159 2004-12-29
Red Hat RHSA-2004:586-01 2004-12-20
Fedora FEDORA-2004-356 2004-11-11
Ubuntu USN-4-1 2004-10-27
Gentoo 200410-19 2004-10-21

Comments (none posted)

GProFTPD: gprostats format string vulnerability

Package(s):gproftpd CVE #(s):
Created:February 18, 2005 Updated:February 23, 2005
Description: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has identified a format string vulnerability in the gprostats utility. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by performing a specially crafted FTP transfer, the resulting ProFTPD transfer log could potentially trigger the execution of arbitrary code when parsed by GProFTPD.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200502-26 2005-02-18

Comments (none posted)

groff: insecure temporary directory

Package(s):groff CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0969
Created:November 1, 2004 Updated:February 9, 2006
Description: Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in the groff package. The utility "groffer" created a temporary directory in an insecure way, which allowed exploitation of a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:038 2006-02-08
Gentoo 200411-15 2004-11-08
Ubuntu USN-13-1 2004-11-01

Comments (none posted)

gtkhtml: malformed messages cause crash

Package(s):gtkhtml CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0133 CAN-2003-0541
Created:April 14, 2003 Updated:April 18, 2005
Description: GtkHTML is the HTML rendering widget used by the Evolution mail reader.

GtkHTML supplied with versions of Evolution prior to 1.2.4 contain a bug when handling HTML messages. Alan Cox discovered that certain malformed messages could cause the Evolution mail component to crash.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-710-1 2005-04-18
Mandrake MDKSA-2003:093 2003-09-18
Conectiva CLA-2003:737 2003-09-12
Red Hat RHSA-2003:264-01 2003-09-09
Mandrake MDKSA-2003:046 2003-04-15
Red Hat RHSA-2003:126-01 2003-04-14

Comments (none posted)

htdig: cross site scripting

Package(s):htdig CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0085
Created:February 14, 2005 Updated:January 10, 2006
Description: Michael Krax discovered that ht://Dig fails to validate the 'config' parameter before displaying an error message containing the parameter. This flaw could allow an attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152907 2006-01-09
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:063 2005-03-31
Red Hat RHSA-2005:090-01 2005-02-15
Debian DSA-680-1 2005-02-14
Gentoo 200502-16 2005-02-13

Comments (none posted)

imagemagick: .psd image file decode vulnerability

Package(s):imagemagick CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0005
Created:January 18, 2005 Updated:March 23, 2005
Description: According to this iDEFENSE advisory, ImageMagick is vulnerable to a heap overflow when decoding .psd image files. This could be remotely exploited allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:070-01 2005-03-23
Red Hat RHSA-2005:071-01 2005-02-15
Gentoo 200501-37 2005-01-26
Gentoo 200501-26 2005-01-20
Debian DSA-646-1 2005-01-19
Ubuntu USN-62-1 2005-01-18

Comments (1 posted)

imap: buffer overflow in c-client

Package(s):imap CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0297
Created:February 18, 2005 Updated:April 9, 2006
Description: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the c-client IMAP client. An attacker could create a malicious IMAP server that if connected to by a victim could execute arbitrary code on the client machine.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:184074 2006-04-04
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152912 2005-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2005:114-01 2005-02-18

Comments (none posted)

imlib2: buffer overflows

Package(s):imlib2 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0802 CAN-2004-0817
Created:September 8, 2004 Updated:October 26, 2005
Description: The imlib2 library contains buffer overflows in the BMP handling code.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-548-2 2005-10-26
Conectiva CLA-2004:870 2004-09-28
Debian DSA-552-1 2004-09-22
Debian DSA-548-1 2004-09-16
Red Hat RHSA-2004:465-01 2004-09-15
Gentoo 200409-12 2004-09-08
Fedora FEDORA-2004-301 2004-09-09
Fedora FEDORA-2004-300 2004-09-09
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:089 2004-09-07

Comments (none posted)

kdelibs: unsanitzied input

Package(s):kdelibs CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1165
Created:January 10, 2005 Updated:July 19, 2005
Description: Thiago Macieira discovered a vulnerability in the kioslave library, which is part of kdelibs, which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary FTP commands via an ftp:// URL that contains an URL-encoded newline before the FTP command.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152769 2005-07-15
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:045 2005-02-17
Red Hat RHSA-2005:065-01 2005-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:009-01 2005-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-064 2005-01-25
Fedora FEDORA-2005-063 2005-01-25
Gentoo 200501-18 2005-01-11
Debian DSA-631-1 2005-01-10

Comments (none posted)

kernel: i386 SMP page fault handler privilege escalation

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0001
Created:January 14, 2005 Updated:February 25, 2005
Description: Paul Starzetz found an exploitable hole in the x86 SMP page fault handler which could lead to privilege escalation. See the advisory for details.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2336 2005-02-24
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:010 2005-02-25
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:005 2005-02-04
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:022 2005-01-25
Red Hat RHSA-2005:017-01 2005-01-21
Red Hat RHSA-2005:016-01 2005-01-21
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:003 2005-01-21
Ubuntu USN-60-0 2005-01-14
Fedora FEDORA-2005-025 2005-01-13
Fedora FEDORA-2005-026 2005-01-13

Comments (none posted)

libdbi-perl: insecure temporary file

Package(s):libdbi-perl CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0077
Created:January 25, 2005 Updated:March 2, 2006
Description: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates a temporary PID file in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person executing the parts of the library.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:178989 2006-03-01
Gentoo 200501-38:03 2005-01-26
Red Hat RHSA-2005:072-01 2005-02-15
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:030 2005-02-08
Red Hat RHSA-2005:069-01 2005-02-01
Gentoo 200501-38 2005-01-26
Ubuntu USN-70-1 2005-01-25
Debian DSA-658-1 2005-01-25

Comments (none posted)

libgd2: buffer overflows in PNG handling

Package(s):libgd2 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0990 CAN-2004-0941
Created:October 29, 2004 Updated:June 28, 2006
Description: Several buffer overflows have been discovered in libgd's PNG handling functions.
If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious PNG image, they could leverage this into executing arbitrary code in the context of the user opening image. Most importantly, this library is commonly used in PHP. One possible target would be a PHP driven photo website that lets users upload images. Therefore this vulnerability might lead to privilege escalation to a web server's privileges.
Multiple buffer overflows in the gd graphics library (libgd) 2.0.21 and earlier may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed image files that trigger the overflows due to improper calls to the gdMalloc function.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:114 2006-06-27
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0194-01 2006-02-01
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152838 2005-07-15
Red Hat RHSA-2004:638-01 2004-12-17
Ubuntu USN-33-1 2004-11-29
Debian DSA-602-1 2004-11-29
Debian DSA-601-1 2004-11-29
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:132 2004-11-15
Ubuntu USN-25-1 2004-11-15
Fedora FEDORA-2004-412 2004-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2004-411 2004-11-11
Ubuntu USN-21-1 2004-11-09
Debian DSA-591-1 2004-11-09
Debian DSA-589-1 2004-11-09
Gentoo 200411-08 2004-11-03
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.049 2004-10-30
Ubuntu USN-11-1 2004-10-28

Comments (none posted)

libtiff: buffer overflow

Package(s):libtiff CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1308
Created:December 22, 2004 Updated:May 19, 2005
Description: The libtiff image manipulation library contains several exploitable buffer overflows.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152815 2005-05-18
Red Hat RHSA-2005:035-01 2005-02-15
Conectiva CLA-2005:920 2005-01-20
Red Hat RHSA-2005:019-01 2005-01-13
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:001 2005-01-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-598 2005-01-07
Fedora FEDORA-2005-597 2005-01-07
Ubuntu USN-54-1 2005-01-06
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:002 2005-01-06
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:001 2005-01-06
Gentoo 200501-06 2005-01-05
Debian DSA-626-1 2005-01-06
Debian DSA-617-1 2004-12-24
Fedora FEDORA-2004-577 2004-12-22
Fedora FEDORA-2004-576 2004-12-22
Ubuntu USN-46-1 2004-12-22

Comments (none posted)

libxml2: multiple buffer overflows

Package(s):libxml2 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0989
Created:October 28, 2004 Updated:February 28, 2005
Description: libxml2 prior to version 2.6.14 has multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities, if a local user passes a specially crafted FTP URL, arbitrary code may be executed.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-89-1 2005-02-28
Red Hat RHSA-2004:650-01 2004-12-16
Conectiva CLA-2004:890 2004-11-18
Red Hat RHSA-2004:615-01 2004-11-12
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:127 2004-11-04
Debian DSA-582-1 2004-11-02
Gentoo 200411-05 2004-11-02
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0055 2004-10-29
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.050 2004-10-31
Ubuntu USN-10-1 2004-10-28
Fedora FEDORA-2004-353 2004-10-28

Comments (none posted)

linux-source-2.6.8.1: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):linux-source-2.6.8.1 CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0176 CAN-2005-0177 CAN-2005-0178
Created:February 15, 2005 Updated:March 15, 2005
Description: Michael Kerrisk noticed an insufficient permission checking in the shmctl() function. Any process was permitted to lock/unlock any System V shared memory segment that fell within the the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit (that is the maximum size of shared memory that unprivileged users can acquire). This allowed am unprivileged user process to unlock locked memory of other processes, thereby allowing them to be swapped out. Usually locked shared memory is used to store passphrases and other sensitive content which must not be written to the swap space (where it could be read out even after a reboot). (CAN-2005-0176)

OGAWA Hirofumi noticed that the table sizes in nls_ascii.c were incorrectly set to 128 instead of 256. This caused a buffer overflow in some cases which could be exploited to crash the kernel. (CAN-2005-177)

A race condition was found in the terminal handling of the "setsid()" function, which is used to start new process sessions. (CAN-2005-178)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-95-1 2005-03-15
Conectiva CLA-2005:930 2005-03-07
Red Hat RHSA-2005:092-01 2005-02-18
Ubuntu USN-82-1 2005-02-15

Comments (none posted)

lvm10: creates insecure temporary directory

Package(s):lvm10 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0972
Created:November 1, 2004 Updated:July 25, 2005
Description: Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in a supplemental script of the lvm10 package. The program "lvmcreate_initrd" created a temporary directory in an insecure way, which could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152842 2005-07-24
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:144 2004-12-06
Gentoo 200411-22 2004-11-11
Debian DSA-583-1 2004-11-03
Ubuntu USN-15-1 2004-11-01

Comments (none posted)

mailman: cross-site scripting

Package(s):mailman CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1177
Created:January 10, 2005 Updated:March 22, 2005
Description: Florian Weimer discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in mailman's automatically generated error messages. An attacker could craft an URL containing JavaScript (or other content embedded into HTML) which triggered a mailman error page. When an unsuspecting user followed this URL, the malicious content was copied unmodified to the error page and executed in the context of this page.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2005-242 2005-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-241 2005-03-22
Red Hat RHSA-2005:235-01 2005-03-21
Debian DSA-674-1 2005-02-10
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:015 2005-01-24
Gentoo 200501-29 2005-01-22
Ubuntu USN-59-1 2005-01-10

Comments (none posted)

mailman: path traversal

Package(s):mailman CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0202
Created:February 9, 2005 Updated:July 13, 2005
Description: The "private" module in the mailman mailing list manager fails to sanitize path names adequately. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to retrieve private information, including passwords and private list archives.

This vulnerability was used to compromise the Full-Disclosure list.

Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152895 2005-07-10
Ubuntu USN-78-2 2005-02-17
Debian DSA-674-3 2005-02-21
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:037 2005-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2005:137-01 2005-02-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:007 2005-02-14
Debian DSA-674-2 2005-02-11
Red Hat RHSA-2005:136-01 2005-02-10
Gentoo 200502-11 2005-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-132 2005-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-131 2005-02-10
Ubuntu USN-78-1 2005-02-09

Comments (none posted)

mc: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):mc CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1004 CAN-2004-1005 CAN-2004-1092 CAN-2004-1176
Created:February 17, 2005 Updated:March 4, 2005
Description: Midnight commander has multiple vulnerabilities including format string vulnerabilities, buffer overflows, a buffer underflow, and a memory deallocation error. An attacker can use these to run arbitrary code with the permission of the user.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:217-01 2005-03-04
Gentoo 200502-24 2005-02-17

Comments (none posted)

mikmod: buffer overflow

Package(s):mikmod CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0427
Created:June 16, 2003 Updated:June 16, 2005
Description: Ingo Saitz discovered a bug in mikmod whereby a long filename inside an archive file can overflow a buffer when the archive is being read by mikmod.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2005-405 2005-06-16
Red Hat RHSA-2005:506-01 2005-06-13
Fedora FEDORA-2005-404 2005-06-09
Gentoo 200307-01 2003-07-02
Debian DSA-320-1 2003-06-13

Comments (none posted)

mod_python: remote access vulnerability

Package(s):mod_python CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0088
Created:February 10, 2005 Updated:April 9, 2006
Description: mod_python has a vulnerability in the publisher handler that may allow a remote user to use a specially crafted URL to allow access to objects that should be protected. An information leak can result.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152896 2006-04-04
Conectiva CLA-2005:926 2005-03-02
Debian DSA-689-1 2005-02-23
Red Hat RHSA-2005:100-01 2005-02-15
Gentoo 200502-14 2005-02-13
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0003 2005-02-11
Ubuntu USN-80-1 2005-02-11
Red Hat RHSA-2005:104-01 2005-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-140 2005-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-139 2005-02-10

Comments (none posted)

mpg321: format string vulnerability

Package(s):mpg321 CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0969
Created:January 6, 2004 Updated:March 28, 2005
Description: A vulnerability was discovered in mpg321, a command-line mp3 player, whereby user-supplied strings were passed to printf(3) unsafely. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to overwrite memory, and possibly execute arbitrary code. In order for this vulnerability to be exploited, mpg321 would need to play a malicious mp3 file (including via HTTP streaming).
Alerts:
Gentoo 200503-34 2005-03-28
Debian DSA-411-1 2004-01-05

Comments (none posted)

mysql: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):mysql CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0835 CAN-2004-0836 CAN-2004-0837
Created:October 11, 2004 Updated:April 6, 2005
Description: Several problems have been discovered in MySQL. Oleksandr Byelkin noticed that ALTER TABLE ... RENAME checks CREATE/INSERT rights of the old table instead of the new one. (CAN-2004-0835) Lukasz Wojtow noticed a buffer overrun in the mysql_real_connect function. (CAN-2004-0836) Dean Ellis noticed that multiple threads ALTERing the same (or different) MERGE tables to change the UNION can cause the server to crash or stall. (CAN-2004-0837)
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-109-1 2005-04-06
Fedora FEDORA-2004-530 2004-12-08
Ubuntu USN-32-1 2004-11-25
Conectiva CLA-2004:892 2004-11-18
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:119 2004-11-01
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.045 2004-10-30
Red Hat RHSA-2004:611-01 2004-10-27
Gentoo 200410-22 2004-10-24
Red Hat RHSA-2004:569-01 2004-10-20
Red Hat RHSA-2004:597-01 2004-10-20
Debian DSA-562-1 2004-10-11

Comments (none posted)

mysql-dfsg: insecure temporary files

Package(s):mysql-dfsg CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0004
Created:January 18, 2005 Updated:March 25, 2005
Description: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the "mysqlaccess" program 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.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2129 2005-03-24
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:036 2005-02-10
Gentoo 200501-33 2005-01-23
Debian DSA-647-1 2005-01-19
Ubuntu USN-63-1 2005-01-18

Comments (none posted)

nasm: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Package(s):nasm CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1287
Created:December 20, 2004 Updated:May 4, 2005
Description: Jonathan Rockway discovered that NASM-0.98.38 has an unprotected vsprintf() to an array in preproc.c. This code vulnerability may lead to a buffer overflow and potential execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:381-01 2005-05-04
Fedora FEDORA-2005-322 2005-04-18
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:004 2005-01-06
Debian DSA-623-1 2004-01-04