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Security
The good news is that the U.S. Congress is turning its attention to identity
theft. The bad news is that Congress is unlikely to produce truly effective
legislation. The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2005 is one bill
that attempts to address ID theft and misuse of personal information. It
was introduced at the end of June by
Senators Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy. Text of the bill is available
from thomas.loc.gov.
The bill's summary sounds good:
To prevent and mitigate identity theft; to ensure privacy; and to enhance
criminal penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other protections
against security breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse of personally
identifiable information.
The bill does have some sensible provisions. It would specifically prevent
companies from selling social security numbers, for example, without explicit
consent of the individual. The bill would also require notification to
individuals that their personal information had been compromised, and would
require "data collectors" to disclose information being collected upon
request. The bill would also beef up penalties for identity theft, and for
concealing security breaches.
While there is a lot to like about the bill, it has more than its share of
flaws. Section 422 of the act requires "any business entity or agency
engaged in interstate commerce that involves collecting, accessing, using,
transmitting, storing, or disposing of personally identifiable
information" to provide written notification of an information
compromise or, if the address is
unknown, notification by phone. The problem with requiring a written notice
or phone call is that many sites that would be required to comply with the
law do not necessarily collect addresses or phone numbers. Forcing them to
start gathering that information would be burdensome, intrusive on the
privacy of the people who are allegedly being protected, and
would add to the amount of
data that can be stolen in the event of a successful attack.
The act also provides for a posting on the affected site, if more than
1,000 residents of the U.S. have been affected, and notice to "major
media outlets serving that State or jurisdiction" if more than 5,000
residents of a state or jurisdiction are affected. However, these seem
to be aggregate requirements -- so if a company has been affected, it seems
to require that they notify all individuals by phone or mail, and
post a notice, and send notice to "major media outlets."
There are a few flaws of omission in the bill as well. For example, as Jon Oltsik points
out, there's no provision for monitoring compliance with the bill. While
the bill prescribes heavy penalties for failing to comply, the only way
that non-compliance will come to light, in the bill's present form, is once
it's too late and a breach has occurred. This is of little comfort to those
who have already had their information stolen and misused. Penalties for
misuse and theft of data are fine, but prevention would be much better.
While the bill requires data collectors to disclose information upon
request, it does not require any notification of collection. It's unlikely
that the average person even knows what organizations are collecting data
in the first place. To really "ensure privacy" the bill should prevent
unauthorized data collection altogether.
Also, the bill protects social security numbers, which in and of itself is
a good thing, but too specific. To be truly effective, now and in the
future, the bill should cover any government-issued IDs. For example, it
would be prudent to include IDs that fall under the Real
ID Act.
It would be nice to see a national data security law that would provide
notifications to individuals in the event that their information has been
stolen, and give additional control to individuals over the aggregation and
dissemination of personal data such as social security numbers. The
proposed Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2005 takes some
tentative steps in the right direction; hopefully its weaker points will be
addressed as the bill moves forward.
Comments (6 posted)
New vulnerabilities
acroread: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | acroread |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1625
CAN-2005-1841
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| Created: | July 8, 2005 |
Updated: | July 14, 2005 |
| Description: |
Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) has a
buffer overflow vulnerability. If a user is tricked into opening
a specially crafted PDF file, arbitrary code can be executed. |
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Comments (none posted)
centericq: temporary file vulnerability
| Package(s): | centericq |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1914
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| Created: | July 13, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The centericq messaging client suffers from a classic temporary file vulnerability which could, conceivably, be exploited by a local user to overwrite files. |
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Comments (none posted)
dhcpcd: denial of service
| Package(s): | dhcpcd |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1848
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| Created: | July 13, 2005 |
Updated: | September 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The dhcpcd DHCP client can be tricked into reading past the end of a buffer, causing it to crash.
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Comments (none posted)
FUSE: information disclosure
| Package(s): | fuse |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1858
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| Created: | July 13, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The filesystems in user space (FUSE) subsystem (not yet part of the mainline kernel) has an information disclosure vulnerability exploitable by local users. |
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Comments (none posted)
ht: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | ht |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1545
CAN-2005-1546
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| Created: | July 8, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The utility ht, an executable file viewer, editor and
analyzer, has buffer and integer overflows that can be
exploited for the purpose of executing arbitrary code. |
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Comments (none posted)
krb5: double-free flaw
| Package(s): | krb5 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0175
CAN-2005-0488
CAN-2005-1175
CAN-2005-1689
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| Created: | July 12, 2005 |
Updated: | December 6, 2005 |
| Description: |
The krb5 authentication has a double-free flaw which may be
initiated by a remote unauthenticated attacker.
Also, a single byte heap overflow in the krb5_unparse_name() function
can lead to a denial of service and an information disclosure may
be caused by a malicious telnet server. See
This report for more
information. |
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Comments (none posted)
leafnode: fetchnews vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | leafnode |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-2068
CAN-2005-1453
CAN-2005-1911
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| Created: | July 12, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The fetchnews program from the leafnode NNTP server has a number
of vulnerabilities involving corruption of data from the upstream
server. The system can hang indefinitely or crash. |
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Comments (none posted)
sharutils: temporary file vulnerability
| Package(s): | sharutils |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0990
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| Created: | July 13, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
Sharutils (and unshar in particular) creates temporary files in an unsafe way, making local file overwrite attacks possible. |
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Comments (none posted)
Updated vulnerabilities
a2ps: input validation error
| Package(s): | a2ps |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-1170
CAN-2004-1377
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| 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. |
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Comments (none posted)
bzip2: race condition and infinite loop
| Package(s): | bzip2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0953
CAN-2005-1260
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| Created: | May 17, 2005 |
Updated: | January 10, 2007 |
| Description: |
A race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 and earlier allows local users to modify
permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is
being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by bzip2 after the
decompression is complete. Also specially crafted bzip2 archives may cause
an infinite loop in the decompressor. |
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Comments (2 posted)
cacti: SQL injection and PHP file inclusion
| Package(s): | cacti |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | June 22, 2005 |
Updated: | July 21, 2005 |
| Description: |
Cacti (prior to version 0.8.6e) suffers from vulnerabilities which can lead to SQL injection and (on some systems) execution of arbitrary PHP files. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
ClamAV: denial of service
| Package(s): | clamav |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2056
CAN-2005-2070
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| Created: | June 27, 2005 |
Updated: | July 12, 2005 |
| Description: |
Andrew Toller and Stefan Kanthak discovered that a flaw in libmspack's
Quantum archive decompressor renders Clam AntiVirus vulnerable to a
Denial of Service attack. A remote attacker could exploit this
vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service by sending a specially crafted
Quantum archive to the server. |
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Comments (none posted)
cpio - file permissions error
| Package(s): | cpio |
CVE #(s): | CAN-1999-1572
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| 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. |
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Comments (none posted)
cpio: directory traversal
| Package(s): | cpio |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1111
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| Created: | June 20, 2005 |
Updated: | December 26, 2005 |
| Description: |
There is a vulnerability in
cpio (2.6 and previous) that allows a malicious cpio file to
extract to an arbitrary directory of the attackers choice. cpio will
extract to the path specified in the cpio file, this path can be absolute. |
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Comments (1 posted)
crip: insecure temporary files
| Package(s): | crip |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0393
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| Created: | June 30, 2005 |
Updated: | July 6, 2005 |
| Description: |
Justin Rye discovered that crip, a terminal-based ripper, encoder and
tagger tool, utilizes temporary files in an insecure fashion in its
helper scripts. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
cURL: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | curl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0490
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| 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. |
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Comments (none posted)
cvs: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | cvs |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0753
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| Created: | April 18, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
CVS (in version prior to 1.11.20) has one or more buffer overflow vulnerabilities, memory leaks, and a NULL pointer dereferencing error.
These can be used to launch a remote denial of service or to remotely
execute arbitrary code. |
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Comments (none posted)
cyrus-imapd: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | cyrus-imapd |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0546
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| Created: | February 23, 2005 |
Updated: | April 10, 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
dbus: information disclosure
| Package(s): | dbus |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0201
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| Created: | June 8, 2005 |
Updated: | August 30, 2005 |
| Description: |
From the Red Hat alert: "Dan Reed discovered that a user can send and listen to messages on another
user's per-user session bus if they know the address of the socket." At current usage levels, this vulnerability is not particularly threatening. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
dhcp: format string vulnerability
| Package(s): | dhcp |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-1006
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
Dnsmasq: poisoning and DoS
| Package(s): | dnsmasq |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | April 4, 2005 |
Updated: | July 21, 2005 |
| Description: |
Dnsmasq does not properly detect that DNS replies received do not
correspond to any DNS query that was sent. Rob Holland of the Gentoo Linux
Security Audit team also discovered two off-by-one buffer overflows that
could crash DHCP lease files parsing. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
emacs21: format string vulnerability in "movemail"
| Package(s): | emacs21 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0100
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
enscript: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | enscript |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-1184
CAN-2004-1185
CAN-2004-1186
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
ettercap: format string vulnerability
| Package(s): | ettercap |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1796
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| Created: | June 13, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The Ettercap suite of networking tools has a
format string vulnerability that can be exploited by a
remote attacker for the execution of arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
evolution: message crash vulnerability
| Package(s): | evolution |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0806
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| Created: | March 17, 2005 |
Updated: | August 11, 2005 |
| Description: |
The Evolution mail client can be crashed when reading
certain types of messages. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Foomatic: Arbitrary command execution in foomatic-rip
| Package(s): | foomatic |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0801
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
gdb: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | gdb |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1704
CAN-2005-1705
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| Created: | May 20, 2005 |
Updated: | August 11, 2006 |
| Description: |
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered an integer
overflow in the BFD library, resulting in a heap overflow. A review also
showed that by default, gdb insecurely sources initialization files from
the working directory. Successful exploitation would result in the
execution of arbitrary code on loading a specially crafted object file or
the execution of arbitrary commands. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (5 posted)
gtk-pixbuf, gtk2: denial of service
| Package(s): | gdk-pixbuf gtk2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0891
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| Created: | March 30, 2005 |
Updated: | December 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
The BMP image processing code in gdk-pixbuf and gtk2 contains a denial of service vulnerability exploitable via a specially crafted image file.
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| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
gedit: format string vulnerability
| Package(s): | gedit |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1686
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| Created: | June 9, 2005 |
Updated: | February 5, 2009 |
| Description: |
A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit. Calling
the program with specially crafted file names caused a buffer
overflow, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the gedit user. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
gettext: Insecure temporary file handling
| Package(s): | gettext |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0966
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| 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: |
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Comments (1 posted)
gftp: missing input sanitizing
| Package(s): | gftp |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0372
CAN-2004-1376
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| 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.
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| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
ghostscript: symlink vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | ghostscript |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0967
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
glibc: tempfile vulnerability in catchsegv script
| Package(s): | glibc |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0968
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
gnupg: information leak
| Package(s): | gnupg |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0366
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| Created: | March 16, 2005 |
Updated: | August 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
GnuPG (and other PGP-like systems) suffers from an information leak which could, in some situations, be used by an attacker to obtain plain text from an encrypted message. See this message for a detailed explanation of the problem. "We know of no real-world application that is affected by this type of attack. It is an attack that requires the active participation of someone who holds the actual key required to decrypt a message. Thus, it is not something you are likely to see." |
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Comments (none posted)
grip: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | grip |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0706
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| Created: | March 10, 2005 |
Updated: | November 19, 2008 |
| Description: |
Grip, a CD ripper, has a buffer overflow vulnerability that can
occur when the CDDB server returns more than 16 matches. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
groff: insecure temporary directory
| Package(s): | groff |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0969
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
gxine: format string vulnerability
| Package(s): | gxine |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1692
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| Created: | May 26, 2005 |
Updated: | July 23, 2005 |
| Description: |
The gxine media player has a format string vulnerability in the
hostname decoding function. A specially crafted file can be used
to cause a user to execute arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
gzip: race condition and directory traversal
| Package(s): | gzip |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0988
CAN-2005-1228
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| Created: | May 4, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
gzip suffers from a race condition which could allow a fast-fingered attacker to change the permissions on files owned by others. There is also a directory traversal vulnerability associated with the -N option.
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| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Heimdal: buffer overflow vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | heimdal |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2040
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| Created: | June 29, 2005 |
Updated: | July 18, 2005 |
| Description: |
It has been reported that the "getterminaltype" function of Heimdal's
(before 0.6.5) telnetd server is vulnerable to buffer overflows. An
attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with
the permission of the telnetd server program. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
htdig: cross site scripting
| Package(s): | htdig |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0085
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
ImageMagick: xwd coder denial of service
| Package(s): | ImageMagick |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1739
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| Created: | May 26, 2005 |
Updated: | July 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
The xwd coder in ImageMagick has a vulnerability that
can be accessed by working on a maliciously created image.
A denial of service can result. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
imap: buffer overflow in c-client
| Package(s): | imap |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0297
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| Created: | February 18, 2005 |
Updated: | April 10, 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
imlib2: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | imlib2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0802
CAN-2004-0817
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| Created: | September 8, 2004 |
Updated: | October 26, 2005 |
| Description: |
The imlib2 library contains buffer overflows in the BMP handling code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
infozip: privilege escalation, directory-traversal
| Package(s): | infozip |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0282
CAN-2004-1010
CAN-2005-0602
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| Created: | May 2, 2005 |
Updated: | August 1, 2005 |
| Description: |
InfoZip reports that Zip 2.3 and
(presumably) all previous versions have a buffer-overrun vulnerability
relating to deep directory paths that could potentially lead to local
privilege escalation (e.g., in the case of automated, Zip-based backups).
All versions of UnZip through 5.50 have a number of directory-traversal
vulnerabilities. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
junkbuster: heap corruption and settings modification
| Package(s): | junkbuster |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-1108
CVE-2005-1109
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| Created: | April 13, 2005 |
Updated: | November 5, 2005 |
| Description: |
JunkBuster through version 2.02-r2 contains two vulnerabilities: a heap corruption bug and a possible privacy violation. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
kdelibs: unsanitzied input
| Package(s): | kdelibs |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-1165
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
kernel: ELF loader core dump vulnerability
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1263
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| Created: | May 11, 2005 |
Updated: | August 25, 2005 |
| Description: |
Paul Starzetz has posted an
advisory for yet another kernel vulnerability.
In this case, by using a specially manipulated ELF binary, a local attacker
can compromise the system (via the core dump code) and obtain root access.
This vulnerability affects all kernels from 2.2 through 2.6.12-rc4. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
kernel: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1913
CAN-2005-1761
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| Created: | July 1, 2005 |
Updated: | September 9, 2005 |
| Description: |
Several vulnerabilities in the 2.6 kernel have been
fixed, including a subthread exec problem (CAN-2005-1913)
and a ia64 ptrace + sigrestore_context problem (CAN-2005-1761). |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
kernel: multiple vulnerabilities
Comments (none posted)
kimgio input validation errors
| Package(s): | kimgio |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1046
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| Created: | April 22, 2005 |
Updated: | July 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
KDE has issued a security advisory for
kimgio. This is found in kdelibs as shipped with KDE 3.2 up to including
KDE 3.4. kimgio contains a PCX image file format reader that does not
properly perform input validation. A source code audit performed by the KDE
security team discovered several vulnerabilities in the PCX and other image
file format readers, some of them exploitable to execute arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
libconvert-uulib-perl: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | libconvert-uulib-perl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1349
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| Created: | May 20, 2005 |
Updated: | January 27, 2006 |
| Description: |
Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis discovered a buffer overflow in
Convert::UUlib (before 1.051), a Perl interface to the uulib library, which
may result in the execution of arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
libdbi-perl: insecure temporary file
| Package(s): | libdbi-perl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0077
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
libgd2: buffer overflows in PNG handling
| Package(s): | libgd2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0990
CAN-2004-0941
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| 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. |
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Comments (none posted)
libnet-ssleay-perl: weakened cryptographic operations
| Package(s): | libnet-ssleay-perl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0106
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| Created: | May 3, 2005 |
Updated: | January 27, 2006 |
| Description: |
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that this library used the
file /tmp/entropy as a fallback entropy source if a proper source was
not set in the environment variable EGD_PATH. This can potentially
lead to weakened cryptographic operations if an attacker provides a
/tmp/entropy file with known content. |
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Comments (none posted)
libTIFF: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | libtiff |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1544
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| Created: | May 10, 2005 |
Updated: | February 18, 2006 |
| Description: |
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a
stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF
image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag. Successful exploitation would
require the victim to open a specially crafted TIFF image, resulting in the
execution of arbitrary code. |
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Comments (1 posted)
libxml2 - arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | libxml2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0110
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| Created: | February 26, 2004 |
Updated: | August 19, 2009 |
| Description: |
Yuuichi Teranishi discovered a flaw in libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.6.
When fetching a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, libxml2 uses special
parsing routines. These routines can overflow a buffer if passed a very
long URL. If an attacker is able to find an application using libxml2 that
parses remote resources and allows them to influence the URL, then this
flaw could be used to execute arbitrary code. |
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Comments (none posted)
libxml2: multiple buffer overflows
| Package(s): | libxml2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0989
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| Created: | October 28, 2004 |
Updated: | August 19, 2009 |
| 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. |
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Comments (none posted)
libXpm: new buffer overflows
| Package(s): | libXpm |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0605
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| Created: | March 4, 2005 |
Updated: | March 8, 2006 |
| Description: |
A new vulnerability has been discovered in libXpm, which is included in
OpenMotif and LessTif, that can potentially lead to remote code
execution. |
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Comments (none posted)
lvm10: creates insecure temporary directory
| Package(s): | lvm10 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0972
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| 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. |
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Comments (none posted)
mailman: path traversal
| Package(s): | mailman |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0202
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
mc: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | mc |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0763
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| Created: | March 29, 2005 |
Updated: | August 11, 2005 |
| Description: |
An unfixed buffer overflow has been discovered by Andrew V. Samoilov
in mc, the midnight commander, a file browser and manager. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
mod_python: remote access vulnerability
| Package(s): | mod_python |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0088
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| Created: | February 10, 2005 |
Updated: | April 10, 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Suite: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | mozilla |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0989
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| Created: | April 19, 2005 |
Updated: | July 18, 2005 |
| Description: |
The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite
and Mozilla Firefox:
- Vladimir V. Perepelitsa reported a memory disclosure bug in
JavaScript's regular expression string replacement when using an
anonymous function as the replacement argument (CAN-2005-0989).
- moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that Chrome UI code was overly trusting DOM
nodes from the content window, allowing privilege escalation via DOM
property overrides.
- Michael Krax reported a possibility to run JavaScript code with
elevated privileges through the use of javascript: favicons.
- Michael Krax also discovered that malicious Search plugins could
run JavaScript in the context of the displayed page or stealthily
replace existing search plugins.
- shutdown discovered a technique to pollute the global scope of a
window in a way that persists from page to page.
- Doron Rosenberg discovered a possibility to run JavaScript with
elevated privileges when the user asks to "Show" a blocked popup that
contains a JavaScript URL.
- Finally, Georgi Guninski reported missing Install object instance
checks in the native implementations of XPInstall-related JavaScript
objects.
The following Firefox-specific vulnerabilities have also been
discovered:
- Kohei Yoshino discovered a new way to abuse the sidebar panel to
execute JavaScript with elevated privileges.
- Omar Khan reported that the Plugin Finder Service can be tricked to
open javascript: URLs with elevated privileges.
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Comments (none posted)
mozilla firefox: javascript vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | mozilla firefox |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1531
CAN-2005-1532
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| Created: | June 9, 2005 |
Updated: | July 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
Firefox before 1.0.4 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.8 does not properly
implement certain security checks for script injection, which allows remote
attackers to execute script via "Wrapped" javascript.
Firefox before 1.0.4 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.8 does not properly limit
privileges of Javascript eval and Script objects in the calling context,
which allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities via
"non-DOM property overrides," a variant of CAN-2005-1160. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
MPlayer: heap overflows
| Package(s): | mplayer |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | April 20, 2005 |
Updated: | July 12, 2005 |
| Description: |
Heap overflows have been found in the code handling RealMedia RTSP and
Microsoft Media Services streams over TCP (MMST). By setting up a
malicious server and enticing a user to use its streaming data, a remote
attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code on the client computer with
the permissions of the user running MPlayer. |
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Comments (none posted)
MySQL: input validation and temporary file vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | mysql |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0709
CAN-2005-0710
CAN-2005-0711
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| Created: | March 16, 2005 |
Updated: | July 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
MySQL (prior to version 4.0.24) suffers from two input validation errors and a temporary file vulnerability.
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Comments (none posted)
ncpfs: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | ncpfs |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0013
CAN-2005-0014
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| Created: | January 31, 2005 |
Updated: | May 15, 2006 |
| Description: |
Erik Sjolund discovered two vulnerabilities in the programs bundled
with ncpfs: there is a potentially exploitable buffer overflow in
ncplogin (CAN-2005-0014), and due to a flaw in nwclient.c, utilities
using the NetWare client functions insecurely access files with
elevated privileges (CAN-2005-0013). |
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Comments (none posted)
Net-SNMP: fixproc insecure temporary file creation
| Package(s): | net-snmp |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1740
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| Created: | May 23, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The fixproc application of Net-SNMP creates temporary files with
predictable filenames. |
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Comments (1 posted)
nfs-utils: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | nfs-utils |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0946
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| Created: | January 11, 2005 |
Updated: | February 27, 2006 |
| Description: |
Arjan van de Ven discovered a buffer overflow in rquotad on 64bit
architectures; an improper integer conversion could lead to a buffer
overflow. An attacker with access to an NFS share could send a specially
crafted request which could then lead to the execution of arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
openssh: directory traversal
| Package(s): | openssh |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0175
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| Created: | May 18, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The OpenSSH scp client can, when connected to a hostile server, be instructed to overwrite arbitrary files.
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Comments (1 posted)
openssl: der_chop script temp file vulnerability
| Package(s): | openssl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0975
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| Created: | November 11, 2004 |
Updated: | July 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
The der_chop script in openssl has a temp file vulnerability that may allow
an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions that
the script is running under. |
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Comments (1 posted)
OpenSSL: information leak
| Package(s): | openssl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0109
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| Created: | May 23, 2005 |
Updated: | October 11, 2005 |
| Description: |
Hyper-Threading technology, as used in FreeBSD other operating systems and
implemented on Intel Pentium and other processors, allows local users to
use a malicious thread to create covert channels, monitor the execution of
other threads, and obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys,
via a timing attack on memory cache misses. See this LWN article for more information. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
OpenSSL: denial of service vulnerabilities
Comments (1 posted)
perl: setuid vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | perl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0155
CAN-2005-0156
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| Created: | February 2, 2005 |
Updated: | August 11, 2006 |
| Description: |
There are two vulnerabilities with perl when it is used in a setuid mode. The PERLIO_DEBUG environment variable can be used to overwrite arbitrary files; there is also an associated buffer overflow which can be exploited to gain root access. |
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Comments (none posted)
perl: symlink vulnerability
| Package(s): | perl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0448
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| Created: | March 9, 2005 |
Updated: | January 30, 2006 |
| Description: |
The rmtree() function in the File:Path.pm module has a symlink vulnerability which could be exploited to create setuid binaries. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
php4: integer overflow and denial of service
| Package(s): | php4 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1042
CAN-2005-1043
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| Created: | April 14, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The php4 EXIF module has two vulnerabilities. An
integer overflow in the exif_process_IFD_TAG() function
can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow for the
purpose of arbitrary code execution.
EXIF headers with a large IFD nesting level can be used
to cause a denial of service. Remote exploits are possible. |
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Comments (none posted)
phpbb: arbitrary command execution
| Package(s): | phpbb |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | July 4, 2005 |
Updated: | July 6, 2005 |
| Description: |
Ron van Daal discovered a vulnerability in the PhpBB
highlighting code that can allow an attacker to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the web server. |
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Comments (none posted)
php-pear: remote code execution
| Package(s): | php-pear |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1921
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| Created: | July 1, 2005 |
Updated: | July 29, 2005 |
| Description: |
The PEAR XMLRPC implementation has a vulnerability that can
be exploited for remote code execution. See this report from GulfTech Security Research. This vulnerability affects a large number of PHP web applications.
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Comments (none posted)
phpsysinfo: cross-site-scripting
| Package(s): | phpsysinfo |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0870
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| Created: | May 18, 2005 |
Updated: | November 15, 2005 |
| Description: |
The phpsysinfo program contains several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. |
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Comments (none posted)
postgresql: EXECUTE privilege vulnerability
| Package(s): | postgresql |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0244
CAN-2005-0245
CAN-2005-0246
CAN-2005-0247
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| Created: | February 10, 2005 |
Updated: | July 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
postgresql has a vulnerability in which the EXECUTE privilege may
not be checked on custom functions. This may allow any database user to
circumvent the EXECUTE restriction on functions. |
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Comments (none posted)
postgresql: database initialization errors
| Package(s): | postgresql |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1409
CAN-2005-1410
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| Created: | May 4, 2005 |
Updated: | February 28, 2006 |
| Description: |
PostgreSQL suffers from two vulnerabilities in how databases are set up by default; they allow a local attacker (one with access to the database) to crash the back end and, perhaps, execute code with the privileges of the server process. See this advisory for details and workarounds.
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Comments (none posted)
Pound: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | pound |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-1391
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| Created: | May 2, 2005 |
Updated: | January 10, 2006 |
| Description: |
Steven Van Acker has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the
"add_port()" function in Pound 1.8.2+. A remote attacker could send a
request for an overly long hostname parameter, which could lead to the
remote execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the Pound daemon
process. |
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Comments (none posted)
razor-agents: denial of service
| Package(s): | razor-agents |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | June 23, 2005 |
Updated: | July 6, 2005 |
| Description: |
The Vipuls Razor spam detection framework has multiple
vulnerabilities. Processing of malformed messages can lead to
a remote denial of service by causing the software to execute
infinite loops. |
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Comments (none posted)
RealPlayer HelixPlayer arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | RealPlayer HelixPlayer |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1766
CAN-2005-1277
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| Created: | June 27, 2005 |
Updated: | July 6, 2005 |
| Description: |
RealNetworks, Inc. has
addressed security vulnerabilities that offered the potential for an
attacker to run arbitrary or malicious code on a customer's
machine. RealNetworks has received no reports of machines compromised as a
result of the now-remedied vulnerabilities. RealNetworks takes all security
vulnerabilities very seriously. |
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Comments (none posted)
rp-pppoe, pppoe: missing privilege dropping
| Package(s): | rp-pppoe, pppoe |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0564
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| Created: | October 4, 2004 |
Updated: | November 15, 2005 |
| Description: |
Max Vozeler discovered a vulnerability in pppoe, the PPP over Ethernet
driver from Roaring Penguin. When the program is running setuid root
(which is not the case in a default Debian installation), an attacker
could overwrite any file on the file system. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
ruby: arbitrary command execution
| Package(s): | ruby |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1992
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| Created: | June 21, 2005 |
Updated: | October 6, 2005 |
| Description: |
Ruby (versions < 1.8.2) is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution on
XMLRPC servers. |
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Comments (none posted)
samba: integer overflow vulnerability
| Package(s): | samba |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-1154
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| Created: | December 16, 2004 |
Updated: | July 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
Samba has an integer overflow vulnerability
that may allow an authenticated remote user to
execute arbitrary code on the Samba server. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
SpamAssassin: Denial of Service vulnerability
| Package(s): | spamassassin |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0796
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| Created: | August 9, 2004 |
Updated: | August 11, 2005 |
| Description: |
SpamAssassin contains an unspecified Denial of Service vulnerability. By
sending a specially crafted message an attacker could cause a Denial of
Service attack against the SpamAssassin service. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
SpamAssassin: denial of service
| Package(s): | spamassassin |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1266
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| Created: | June 17, 2005 |
Updated: | July 28, 2005 |
| Description: |
SpamAssassin 3.0.4 was released
to fix a denial of service vulnerability in versions 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and
3.0.3. The vulnerability allows certain mis-formatted long message headers
to cause spam checking to take a very long time. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
squid: DNS spoofing
| Package(s): | squid |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1519
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| Created: | May 18, 2005 |
Updated: | July 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The squid proxy server performs DNS lookups in a way which is susceptible to answers injected by a hostile user, and, thus, DNS spoofing attacks. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
SquirrelMail: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | squirrelmail |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0075
CAN-2005-0103
CAN-2005-0104
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| Created: | January 28, 2005 |
Updated: | July 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
SquirrelMail 1.4.4 has been
released, fixing a number of security issues that have been resolved
since 1.4.3a. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
SquirrelMail: several XSS vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | squirrelmail |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1769
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| Created: | June 21, 2005 |
Updated: | September 16, 2005 |
| Description: |
Several cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities have been
discovered in SquirrelMail versions 1.4.0 - 1.4.4. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
sudo: race condition
| Package(s): | sudo |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1993
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| Created: | June 21, 2005 |
Updated: | February 24, 2006 |
| Description: |
Charles Morris discovered a race condition in sudo which could lead to
privilege escalation. If /etc/sudoers allowed a user the execution of
selected programs, and this was followed by another line containing
the pseudo-command "ALL", that user could execute arbitrary commands
with sudo by creating symbolic links at a certain time. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
File overwrite vulnerability in tar and unzip
| Package(s): | tar unzip |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2001-1267
CAN-2001-1268
CAN-2001-1269
CAN-2002-0399
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| Created: | October 1, 2002 |
Updated: | April 10, 2006 |
| Description: |
The tar utility does not properly filter file names containing
"../", meaning that a hostile archive can, if unpacked by an
unsuspecting user, overwrite any file that is writable by that user. GNU
tar versions 1.13.19 and earlier are vulnerable; unzip through version 5.42
has the same vulnerability. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
tcpdump: denial of service
| Package(s): | tcpdump |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1267
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| Created: | June 9, 2005 |
Updated: | October 10, 2005 |
| Description: |
Several tcpdump protocol decoders contain programming errors which can
cause them to go into infinite loops. |
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Comments (none posted)
tcpdump: multiple DoS issues
| Package(s): | tcpdump |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1280
CAN-2005-1279
CAN-2005-1278
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| Created: | May 2, 2005 |
Updated: | April 10, 2006 |
| Description: |
The rsvp_print function in tcpdump 3.9.1 and earlier allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted RSVP
packet of length 4. (CAN-2005-1280)
tcpdump 3.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (infinite loop) via a crafted BGP packet, which is not properly
handled by RT_ROUTING_INFO, or LDP packet, which is not properly
handled by the ldp_print function. (CAN-2005-1279)
The isis_print function, as called by isoclns_print, in tcpdump 3.9.1 and
earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite
loop) via a zero length, as demonstrated using a GRE packet.
(CAN-2005-1278) |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
telnet: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | telnet |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0468
CAN-2005-0469
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| Created: | March 28, 2005 |
Updated: | August 1, 2005 |
| Description: |
Two buffer overflow flaws were discovered in the way the telnet client
handles messages from a server. An attacker may be able to execute
arbitrary code on a victim's machine if the victim can be tricked into
connecting to a malicious telnet server. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Tor: information disclosure
| Package(s): | tor |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | June 21, 2005 |
Updated: | August 25, 2005 |
| Description: |
A bug in Tor allows attackers to view arbitrary memory contents from an
exit server's process space. A remote attacker could exploit the memory
disclosure to gain sensitive information and possibly even private keys. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
trac: file upload vulnerability
| Package(s): | trac |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | June 22, 2005 |
Updated: | July 6, 2005 |
| Description: |
Versions of trac prior to 0.8.4 suffer from an input validation error which can lead to the uploading of files to undesired locations on the host system. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
vixie-cron: crontab allows any user to read another users crontabs
| Package(s): | vixie-cron |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1038
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| Created: | April 15, 2005 |
Updated: | March 15, 2006 |
| Description: |
crontab in Vixie cron 4.1, when running with the -e option, allows local
users to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being
edited to a symlink. NOTE: there is insufficient information to know
whether this is a duplicate of CVE-2001-0235. See also this Security Focus
report. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
wget: file overwrites and arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | wget |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-1487
CAN-2004-1488
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| Created: | June 9, 2005 |
Updated: | September 27, 2005 |
| Description: |
wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x allows a remote malicious web server to overwrite
certain files via a redirection URL containing a ".." that resolves to the
IP address of the malicious server, which bypasses wget's filtering for
".." sequences.
wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x does not filter or quote control characters when
displaying HTTP responses to the terminal, which may allow remote malicious
web servers to inject terminal escape sequences and execute arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
XChat 2.0.x SOCKS5 Vulnerability
| Package(s): | xchat |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0409
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| Created: | April 19, 2004 |
Updated: | November 15, 2005 |
| Description: |
XChat is vulnerable to a stack overflow that may allow a remote attacker to
run arbitrary code. The SOCKS 5 proxy code in XChat is vulnerable to a
remote exploit. Users would have to be using XChat through a SOCKS 5
server, enable SOCKS 5 traversal which is disabled by default and also
connect to an attacker's custom proxy server. This vulnerability may allow
an attacker to run arbitrary code within the context of the user ID of the
XChat client. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
xine-lib: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | xine-lib |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-1379
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| Created: | September 22, 2004 |
Updated: | April 10, 2006 |
| Description: |
xine-lib (through version 1_rc6) contains buffer overflows in the subtitle parsing and DVD sub-picture decoder code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
xine-ui - insecure temporary file creation
| Package(s): | xine-ui |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0372
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| Created: | April 6, 2004 |
Updated: | April 27, 2006 |
| Description: |
Shaun Colley discovered a problem in xine-ui, the xine video player
user interface. A script contained in the package to possibly remedy
a problem or report a bug does not create temporary files in a secure
fashion. This could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with
the privileges of the user invoking xine. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
xorg-x11: integer overflows
| Package(s): | xorg-x11 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0914
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| Created: | November 18, 2004 |
Updated: | September 12, 2005 |
| Description: |
The X.Org libXpm library has several integer overflow vulnerabilities
An attacker can modify XPM images to execute malicious code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
xpdf: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | xpdf |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0064
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| Created: | January 19, 2005 |
Updated: | March 15, 2007 |
| Description: |
iDEFENSE has found yet another xpdf buffer overflow; see this advisory for details. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
XV: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | xv |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | April 19, 2005 |
Updated: | July 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
Greg Roelofs has reported multiple input validation errors in XV image
decoders. Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has
reported insufficient validation in the PDS (Planetary Data System)
image decoder, format string vulnerabilities in the TIFF and PDS
decoders, and insufficient protection from shell meta-characters in
malformed filenames. Successful exploitation would require a victim to
view a specially created image file using XV, potentially resulting in the
execution of arbitrary code. |
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zlib: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | zlib |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2096
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| Created: | July 6, 2005 |
Updated: | October 27, 2005 |
| Description: |
zlib has a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be exploited
by inflation of corrupted files, this can be used to crash zlib
or possibly remotely execute code. |
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