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Greasemonkey gets into trouble

July 27, 2005

This article was contributed by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier.

The ability to add extensions to Firefox has proven to be a popular feature. One of the most popular extensions for Firefox, inspiring countless user scripts, is the Greasemonkey extension, which allows users change the behavior of web sites.

A serious vulnerability was found in Greasemonkey last week by Mark Pilgrim, author of the upcoming book "Greasemonkey Hacks," and Dive Into Greasemonkey. Pilgrim discovered that a combination of two flaws in Greasemonkey could allow user data to be transmitted to virtually any site.

We spoke to Pilgrim about the vulnerabilities, and the security of Greasemonkey in general. According to Pilgrim, Greasemonkey's first flaw would allow a web page access to the APIs to call remote pages. A page with an exploit for this vulnerability would allow the exploit to call code from other sites without the user being aware of it. This could include posting data to another site.

The second exploit allowed pages to access file URLs, which could allow a remote site to browse the content of a user's hard drive. In conjunction with the first vulnerability, "remote pages could access any file on your system... [they could] recurse through the entire hard drive and post it anywhere in the world, really. And that's bad."

These vulnerabilities are fixed in the 3.5 version of Greasemonkey, though it is a "neutered" version that lacks the Greasemonkey APIs. Pilgrim said that a beta had been released that should retain functionality and clear up the security holes that he had found.

The new version disables file URLs altogether for that API function, so even user scripts are not allowed to do that anymore, and second of all, closes the hole that allows remote page you're browsing to trap the API call. The pages you browse now no longer have access to any of the Greasemonkey internals. User scripts can still use it... but the page you're browsing can't steal access to those pages.

Even though the vulnerability has been closed in the latest versions of Greasemonkey, Pilgrim said that users could still be vulnerable to malicious user scripts. "Greasemonkey is very powerful, and people need to be aware what they're installing." Indeed, there does seem to be a level of concern that the problems with Greasemonkey are in its features, not its vulnerabilities. The concept of allowing users to run scripts in the browser developed by third parties, who may not have the users' best interests in mind, opens up some scary possibilities.

Since Firefox and Greasemonkey are becoming increasingly popular with less technical users, we asked Pilgrim how those users could verify that the scripts they install were safe, and if there was any way for the Greasemonkey team to protect those users.

Basically, there's no technical solution to that, Greasemonkey allows you so much power, that you can't stop people from writing malicious scripts...without making Greasemonkey useless.

We also asked Chris Hofmann, director of engineering for Mozilla, about the Greasemonkey vulnerability and whether the Mozilla developers could do anything to make extensions safer for users. Hofmann also said that much of the responsibility lies with the user to verify the source and function of extensions. "Users should take caution for any extensions they download, and to authenticate the source of the extension." He also explained that the default operation of the browser was to warn users before installing any software, to prevent any extensions or scripts from being installed without the user's knowledge.

It's worth noting that Firefox is not unique in allowing extensions or add-ons like Greasemonkey. Pilgrim noted that Turnabout for Internet Explorer performed the same function for IE, by allowing users to run scripts to change the function of websites. Just as with Firefox, Turnabout users could easily run malicious scripts if they're not careful about where they acquire them.

There's really nothing unique about the Greasemonkey situation, though. Spyware and adware have propagated in large part because users have been willing to download and install software without questioning the source of the software or any possible side-effects. The best that the Greasemonkey team can do is ensure that their software is not subject to vulnerabilities like the two that Pilgrim discovered. Beyond that, the responsibility will remain with the user to verify that extensions, scripts and other software is suitable for use.

Comments (4 posted)

New vulnerabilities

ClamAntiVirus: integer overflows

Package(s):clamav CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2450
Created:July 26, 2005 Updated:August 16, 2005
Description: Clam AntiVirus versions < 0.86.2 is vulnerable to integer overflows when handling the TNEF, CHM and FSG file formats. By sending a specially-crafted file an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Clam AntiVirus.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-776-1 2005-08-16
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:125 2005-07-27
Gentoo 200507-25 2005-07-26

Comments (none posted)

fetchmail: buffer overflow

Package(s):fetchmail CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2335
Created:July 21, 2005 Updated:August 12, 2005
Description: The fetchmail POP3 client has an arbitrary code execution vulnerability that may be triggered by a malicious POP server. See this advisory for more information.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-774-1 2005-08-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:126 2005-07-28
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.016 2005-07-28
Ubuntu USN-153-1 2005-07-26
Gentoo 200507-21 2005-07-25
Red Hat RHSA-2005:640-01 2005-07-25
Slackware SSA:2005-203-05 2005-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2005-614 2005-07-21
Fedora FEDORA-2005-613 2005-07-21

Comments (none posted)

httpd: off-by-one overflow and cross-site scripting

Package(s):apache httpd CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1268 CAN-2005-2088
Created:July 25, 2005 Updated:November 7, 2005
Description: Watchfire reported a flaw that occurred when using the Apache server as an HTTP proxy. A remote attacker could send an HTTP request with both a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a "Content-Length" header. This caused Apache to incorrectly handle and forward the body of the request in a way that the receiving server processes it as a separate HTTP request. This could allow the bypass of Web application firewall protection or lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Marc Stern reported an off-by-one overflow in the mod_ssl CRL verification callback. In order to exploit this issue the Apache server would need to be configured to use a malicious certificate revocation list (CRL).

Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2005-310-04 2005-11-07
Debian DSA-803-1 2005-09-08
Ubuntu USN-160-2 2005-09-07
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:046 2005-08-16
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:157701 2005-08-10
Ubuntu USN-160-1 2005-08-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:130 2005-08-03
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:129 2005-08-03
Fedora FEDORA-2005-638 2005-08-02
Fedora FEDORA-2005-639 2005-08-02
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0038 2005-07-29
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:018 2005-07-28
Red Hat RHSA-2005:582-01 2005-07-25

Comments (none posted)

libgadu: integer overflows

Package(s):libgadu CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1852
Created:July 22, 2005 Updated:July 27, 2005
Description: libgadu, a library implementing the Gadu messaging protocol, suffers from a set of integer overflow vulnerabilities. This vulnerability affects a number of other packages; see, for example, this KDE advisory for kdenetwork and Kopete.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200507-26 2005-07-27
Debian DSA-767-1 2005-07-27
Gentoo 200507-23 2005-07-25
Slackware SSA:2005-203-02 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-623 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-624 2005-07-22
Red Hat RHSA-2005:639-01 2005-07-21

Comments (none posted)

movemail: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):movemail CVE #(s):
Created:July 21, 2005 Updated:July 27, 2005
Description: The emacs movemail POP utility has an arbitrary code execution vulnerability that can be activated by connecting to a malicious POP server.
Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2005-201-02 2005-07-21

Comments (none posted)

phpbb2: cross-site scripting

Package(s):phpbb2 CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2161
Created:July 27, 2005 Updated:July 27, 2005
Description: The phpbb2 package suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-768-1 2005-07-27

Comments (none posted)

sandbox: insecure temporary file handling

Package(s):sandbox CVE #(s):
Created:July 25, 2005 Updated:July 27, 2005
Description: The Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the sandbox utility was vulnerable to multiple TOCTOU (Time of Check, Time of Use) file creation race conditions. Local users may be able to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the root user.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200507-22 2005-07-25

Comments (none posted)

shorewall: rule bypass vulnerability

Package(s):shorewall CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2317
Created:July 21, 2005 Updated:October 10, 2005
Description: Shorewall has a vulnerability in which a client that is accepted by MAC address filtering can bypass other rules, allowing access to all open services on the firewall.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-197-1 2005-10-10
Debian DSA-849-1 2005-10-08
Gentoo 200507-20:02 2005-07-22
Gentoo 200507-20 2005-07-22
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:123 2005-07-20

Comments (none posted)

vim: arbitrary command execution

Package(s):vim CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2368
Created:July 26, 2005 Updated:August 23, 2005
Description: Georgi Guninski discovered that it was possible to construct Vim 6.3 modelines that execute arbitrary shell commands by wrapping them in glob() or expand() function calls. If an attacker tricked an user to open a file with a specially crafted modeline, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands with the user's privileges.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:148 2005-08-22
Red Hat RHSA-2005:745-01 2005-08-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-741 2005-08-15
Fedora FEDORA-2005-738 2005-08-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-737 2005-08-10
Ubuntu USN-154-1 2005-07-26

Comments (1 posted)

webcalendar: information disclosure

Package(s):webcalendar CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2320
Created:July 27, 2005 Updated:July 27, 2005
Description: The webcalendar utility suffers from an information disclosure vulnerability.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-766-1 2005-07-26

Comments (none posted)

zlib: buffer overflow

Package(s):zlib CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1849
Created:July 21, 2005 Updated:April 11, 2006
Description: zlib has a vulnerability that can cause code that executes it to crash if a corrupted file is opened.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:070 2006-04-10
Debian DSA-1026-1 2006-04-06
Gentoo 200603-18 2006-03-21
Ubuntu USN-151-4 2005-11-09
Ubuntu USN-151-3 2005-10-28
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:162680 2005-09-14
Debian DSA-797-1 2005-09-01
Gentoo 200508-01 2005-08-01
Gentoo 200507-28 2005-07-30
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:043 2005-07-28
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.014 2005-07-28
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:124 2005-07-22
Slackware SSA:2005-203-03 2005-07-23
Ubuntu USN-151-2 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-626 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-625 2005-07-22
Gentoo 200507-19 2005-07-22
Red Hat RHSA-2005:584-01 2005-07-21
Ubuntu USN-151-1 2005-07-21
Debian DSA-763-1 2005-07-20

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)

affix: two remote vulnerabilities

Package(s):affix CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2250 CAN-2005-2277
Created:July 19, 2005 Updated:September 2, 2005
Description: A buffer overflow in the Bluetooth FTP client (BTFTP) in Nokia Affix 2.1.2 and 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename in an OBEX file share. Also remote attackers may execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the filename argument of a PUT command.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-762-1 2005-07-19

Comments (none posted)

bzip2: race condition and infinite loop

Package(s):bzip2 CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0953 CAN-2005-1260
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.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2007-0004-1 2007-01-09
Debian DSA-741-1 2005-07-07
Red Hat RHSA-2005:474-01 2005-06-16
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.008 2005-06-10
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:015 2005-06-07
Debian DSA-730-1 2005-05-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:091 2005-05-18
Ubuntu USN-127-1 2005-05-17

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:
Debian DSA-764-1 2005-07-21
Gentoo GLSA 200506-20:02 2005-06-22
Gentoo GLSA 200506-20:02 2005-06-22
Gentoo 200506-20:02 2005-06-22
Gentoo 200506-20 2005-06-22

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)

cpio: directory traversal

Package(s):cpio CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1111
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.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:237 2005-12-23
Red Hat RHSA-2005:806-01 2005-11-10
Debian DSA-846-1 2005-10-07
Ubuntu USN-189-1 2005-09-29
Red Hat RHSA-2005:378-01 2005-07-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:116-1 2005-07-19
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:116 2005-07-11
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0030 2005-06-24
Gentoo 200506-16 2005-06-20

Comments (1 posted)

CUPS: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):CUPS CVE #(s):CAN-2004-2154
Created:July 14, 2005 Updated:September 20, 2005
Description: The CUPS printing system has a problem with queue name case-sensitivity matching that can cause a security policy override. An unauthorized user can use this to gain print to a protected queue.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:165 2005-09-15
Ubuntu USN-185-1 2005-09-20
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:163274 2005-09-14
Red Hat RHSA-2005:571-01 2005-07-14

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)

cyrus-imapd: buffer overflows

Package(s):cyrus-imapd CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0546
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:
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)

dbus: information disclosure

Package(s):dbus CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0201
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:
Fedora FEDORA-2005-822 2005-08-29
Ubuntu USN-144-1 2005-06-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:105 2005-06-24
Red Hat RHSA-2005:102-01 2005-06-08

Comments (none posted)

dhcpcd: denial of service

Package(s):dhcpcd CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1848
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.
Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2005-255-01 2005-09-13
Red Hat RHSA-2005:603-01 2005-07-27
Gentoo 200507-16 2005-07-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:117 2005-07-12
Debian DSA-750-1 2005-07-11

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:
Slackware SSA:2005-201-01 2005-07-21
Gentoo 200504-03 2005-04-04

Comments (none posted)

ekg: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):ekg CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1850 CAN-2005-1851 CAN-2005-1916
Created:July 18, 2005 Updated:August 8, 2005
Description: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ekg contributed scripts. These include an insecure temporary file creation problem, a potential shell command injection problem, and an arbitrary command execution problem.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-162-1 2005-08-08
Debian DSA-760-1 2005-07-18

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: message crash vulnerability

Package(s):evolution CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0806
Created:March 17, 2005 Updated:August 11, 2005
Description: The Evolution mail client can be crashed when reading certain types of messages.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-166-1 2005-08-11
Red Hat RHSA-2005:397-01 2005-05-04
Conectiva CLA-2005:950 2005-04-27
Fedora FEDORA-2005-338 2005-04-22
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:059 2005-03-16

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)

gdb: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):gdb CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1704 CAN-2005-1705
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0354-01 2006-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0368-01 2006-07-20
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:215 2005-11-23
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1033 2005-10-27
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1032 2005-10-27
Red Hat RHSA-2005:801-01 2005-10-18
Red Hat RHSA-2005:763-01 2005-10-11
Red Hat RHSA-2005:709-01 2005-10-05
Red Hat RHSA-2005:673-01 2005-10-05
Red Hat RHSA-2005:659-01 2005-09-28
Fedora FEDORA-2005-498 2005-06-29
Fedora FEDORA-2005-497 2005-06-29
Gentoo 200506-01 2005-06-01
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0025 2005-05-31
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:095 2005-05-30
Ubuntu USN-136-2 2005-05-27
Ubuntu USN-136-1 2005-05-27
Ubuntu USN-135-1 2005-05-27
Gentoo 200505-15 2005-05-20

Comments (5 posted)

gtk-pixbuf, gtk2: denial of service

Package(s):gdk-pixbuf gtk2 CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0891
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.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:155510 2005-12-17
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:154272 2005-07-15
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:010 2005-04-08
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:069 2005-04-07
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:068 2005-04-07
Ubuntu USN-108-1 2005-04-05
Red Hat RHSA-2005:343-01 2005-04-05
Red Hat RHSA-2005:344-01 2005-04-01
Fedora FEDORA-2005-268 2005-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2005-267 2005-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2005-266 2005-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2005-265 2005-03-30

Comments (none posted)

gedit: format string vulnerability

Package(s):gedit CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1686
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:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-1189 2009-01-29
Fedora FEDORA-2009-1187 2009-01-29
Debian DSA-753-1 2005-07-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:102 2005-06-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:499-01 2005-06-13
Gentoo 200506-09 2005-06-11
Ubuntu USN-138-1 2005-06-09

Comments (1 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)

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: 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)

gnupg: information leak

Package(s):gnupg CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0366
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."
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-170-1 2005-08-19
Gentoo 200503-29 2005-03-24
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:057 2005-03-15

Comments (none posted)

grip: buffer overflow

Package(s):grip CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0706
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:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-9604 2008-11-19
Fedora FEDORA-2008-9521 2008-11-19
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152919 2005-09-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:074 2005-04-20
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:075 2005-04-20
Gentoo 200504-07 2005-04-08
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:066 2005-04-01
Red Hat RHSA-2005:304-01 2005-03-28
Gentoo 200503-21 2005-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2005-203 2005-03-09
Fedora FEDORA-2005-202 2005-03-09

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)

gxine: format string vulnerability

Package(s):gxine CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1692
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:
Slackware SSA:2005-203-04 2005-07-23
Gentoo 200505-19 2005-05-26

Comments (none posted)

heartbeat: insecure temporary files

Package(s):heartbeat CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2231
Created:July 19, 2005 Updated:August 15, 2005
Description: Eric Romang discovered several insecure temporary file creations in the High Availability Linux Project Heartbeat 1.2.3.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-761-2 2005-08-15
Ubuntu USN-165-1 2005-08-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:132 2005-08-09
Gentoo 200508-05 2005-08-07
Debian DSA-761-1 2005-07-19

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)

imap: buffer overflow in c-client

Package(s):imap CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0297
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:
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)

infozip: privilege escalation, directory-traversal

Package(s):infozip CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0282 CAN-2004-1010 CAN-2005-0602
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:
Ubuntu USN-159-1 2005-08-01
Slackware SSA:2005-121-01 2005-05-02

Comments (1 posted)

junkbuster: heap corruption and settings modification

Package(s):junkbuster CVE #(s):CVE-2005-1108 CVE-2005-1109
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:
Debian DSA-713-1 2005-04-21
Gentoo 200504-11 2005-04-13

Comments (1 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)

kdelibs: kate backup file permission leak

Package(s):kdelibs kate kwrite CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1920
Created:July 19, 2005 Updated:September 21, 2010
Description: Kate / Kwrite, as shipped with KDE 3.2.x up to including 3.4.0, creates a file backup before saving a modified file. These backup files are created with default permissions, even if the original file had more strict permissions set. See this advisory for more information.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200611-21 2006-11-27
Debian DSA-804-2 2005-11-10
Debian DSA-804-1 2005-09-08
Red Hat RHSA-2005:612-01 2005-07-27
Ubuntu USN-150-1 2005-07-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:122 2005-07-20
Fedora FEDORA-2005-594 2005-07-19

Comments (1 posted)

kernel: ELF loader core dump vulnerability

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1263
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:529-01 2005-08-25
Red Hat RHSA-2005:420-01 2005-06-08
Red Hat RHSA-2005:472-01 2005-05-25
Fedora FEDORA-2005-392 2005-05-23
Ubuntu USN-131-1 2005-05-23
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0022 2005-05-13

Comments (none posted)

kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1913 CAN-2005-1761
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:
Ubuntu USN-178-1 2005-09-09
Red Hat RHSA-2005:551-01 2005-08-25
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:044 2005-08-04
Fedora FEDORA-2005-510 2005-07-01

Comments (1 posted)

kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0449 CAN-2005-0209 CAN-2005-0529 CAN-2005-0530 CAN-2005-0532 CAN-2005-0384 CAN-2005-0210 CAN-2005-0504 CAN-2005-0003
Created:March 24, 2005 Updated:May 31, 2006
Description: A number of vulnerabilities have been found in the Linux kernel, including a PPP-related denial of service problem, an integer overflow in the epoll() code, memory corruption in the ELF loader, and exploitable overflows in the ISO9660 code.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1082-1 2006-05-29
Debian DSA-1069-1 2006-05-20
Debian DSA-1070-1 2006-05-21
Debian DSA-1067-1 2006-05-20
Conectiva CLA-2005:945 2005-03-31
Fedora FEDORA-2005-262 2005-03-28
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:018 2005-03-24

Comments (none posted)

krb5: double-free flaw

Package(s):krb5 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0175 CAN-2005-0488 CAN-2005-1175 CAN-2005-1689
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.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-224-1 2005-12-06
Debian DSA-757-1 2005-07-17
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0036 2005-07-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:119 2005-07-13
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:017 2005-07-13
Gentoo 200507-11 2005-07-12
Fedora FEDORA-2005-553 2005-07-12
Red Hat RHSA-2005:562-01 2005-07-12
Fedora FEDORA-2005-552 2005-07-12
Red Hat RHSA-2005:567-02 2005-07-12

Comments (none posted)

libconvert-uulib-perl: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):libconvert-uulib-perl CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1349
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:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:022 2006-01-26
Debian DSA-727-1 2005-05-20

Comments (1 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)

libnet-ssleay-perl: weakened cryptographic operations

Package(s):libnet-ssleay-perl CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0106
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.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:023 2006-01-26
Ubuntu USN-113-1 2005-05-03

Comments (none posted)

libTIFF: buffer overflow

Package(s):libtiff CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1544
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.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:042 2006-02-17
Debian DSA-755-1 2005-07-13
Ubuntu USN-130-1 2005-05-19
Gentoo 200505-07 2005-05-10

Comments (1 posted)

libxml2 - arbitrary code execution

Package(s):libxml2 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0110
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.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8594 2009-08-15
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8582 2009-08-15
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1324 2004-07-19
Conectiva CLA-2004:836 2004-03-31
Gentoo 200403-01 2004-03-06
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0010 2004-03-05
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.003 2004-03-05
Netwosix NW-2004-0004 2004-03-04
Debian DSA-455-1 2004-03-03
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:018 2004-03-03
Red Hat RHSA-2004:091-02 2004-03-03
Whitebox WBSA-2004:090-01 2004-03-01
Red Hat RHSA-2004:090-01 2004-02-26
Fedora FEDORA-2004-087 2004-02-25
Red Hat RHSA-2004:091-01 2004-02-26

Comments (none posted)

libxml2: multiple buffer overflows

Package(s):libxml2 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0989
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.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8594 2009-08-15
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8582 2009-08-15
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)

libXpm: new buffer overflows

Package(s):libXpm CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0605
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.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:168264 2006-03-07
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152803 2006-01-09
Fedora FEDORA-2005-815 2005-08-26
Fedora FEDORA-2005-808 2005-08-25
Red Hat RHSA-2005:198-01 2005-06-08
Red Hat RHSA-2005:473-01 2005-05-24
Red Hat RHSA-2005:412-01 2005-05-11
Debian DSA-723-1 2005-05-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:081 2005-05-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:080 2005-04-28
Red Hat RHSA-2005:044-01 2005-04-06
Red Hat RHSA-2005:331-01 2005-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2005-273 2005-03-29
Fedora FEDORA-2005-272 2005-03-29
Ubuntu USN-97-1 2005-03-16
Gentoo 200503-15 2005-03-12
Ubuntu USN-92-1 2005-03-07
Gentoo 200503-08 2005-03-04

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)

mc: buffer overflow

Package(s):mc CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0763
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152889 2005-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2005:512-01 2005-06-16
Debian DSA-698-1 2005-03-29

Comments (none posted)

mediawiki: JavaScript code injection

Package(s):mediawiki CVE #(s):
Created:July 20, 2005 Updated:July 20, 2005
Description: MediaWiki has a vulnerability caused by failing to correctly escape a parameter in the page move template. Remote attackers can use this to inject and execute JavaScript code with the permission of the user's browser session.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200507-18 2005-07-20

Comments (none posted)

mod_python: remote access vulnerability

Package(s):mod_python CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0088
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:
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)

mozilla firefox: javascript vulnerabilities

Package(s):mozilla firefox CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1531 CAN-2005-1532
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:158149 2005-07-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:030 2005-06-09

Comments (1 posted)

mozilla-firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):mozilla-firefox CVE #(s):
Created:July 14, 2005 Updated:July 22, 2005
Description: A dozen security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in Firefox 1.0.5 and Mozilla 1.7.9 have been back-ported to older versions.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200507-14 2005-07-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:120 2005-07-13

Comments (none posted)

MySQL: input validation and temporary file vulnerabilities

Package(s):mysql CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0709 CAN-2005-0710 CAN-2005-0711
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.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152925 2005-07-15
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.006 2005-04-20
Debian DSA-707-1 2005-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2005-305 2005-04-05
Fedora FEDORA-2005-304 2005-04-05
Red Hat RHSA-2005:348-01 2005-04-05
Conectiva CLA-2005:946 2005-04-04
Red Hat RHSA-2005:334-01 2005-03-28
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:019 2005-03-24
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:060 2005-03-21
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0009 2005-03-21
Ubuntu USN-96-1 2005-03-16
Gentoo 200503-19 2005-03-16

Comments (none posted)

mysql: low-impact security fix

Package(s):mysql CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1636
Created:July 20, 2005 Updated:February 22, 2006
Description: An update to MySQL version 4.1.12 fixes a low-impact security problem (bz#158689).
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:045 2006-02-21
Red Hat RHSA-2005:685-01 2005-10-05
Debian DSA-783-1 2005-08-24
Fedora FEDORA-2005-557 2005-07-20

Comments (1 posted)

ncpfs: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):ncpfs CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0013 CAN-2005-0014
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).
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152904 2006-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2005-435 2005-08-16
Red Hat RHSA-2005:371-01 2005-05-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:028 2005-02-01
Gentoo 200501-44 2005-01-30

Comments (none posted)

nfs-utils: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):nfs-utils CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0946
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:138098 2006-02-25
Red Hat RHSA-2005:014-01 2005-01-12
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:005 2005-01-11

Comments (none posted)

openssl: der_chop script temp file vulnerability

Package(s):openssl CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0975
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.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152841 2005-07-15
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:147 2004-12-06
Debian DSA-603-1 2004-12-01
Ubuntu USN-24-1 2004-11-11

Comments (1 posted)

OpenSSL: information leak

Package(s):openssl CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0109
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:
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0028 2005-06-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:096 2005-06-06
Red Hat RHSA-2005:476-01 2005-06-01
Fedora FEDORA-2005-390 2005-05-23
Fedora FEDORA-2005-389 2005-05-23

Comments (none posted)

OpenSSL: denial of service vulnerabilities

Package(s):OpenSSL CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0081 CAN-2003-0851
Created:March 17, 2004 Updated:November 2, 2005
Description: Versions 0.9.7a-c of the OpenSSL library suffer from two denial of service vulnerabilities; see the version 0.9.7d release announcement for details.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:830-00 2005-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2005:829-00 2005-11-02
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1042 2005-10-31
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1395 2004-05-08
Conectiva CLA-2004:834 2004-03-31
Whitebox WBSA-2004:084-01 2004-03-23
Red Hat RHSA-2004:084-01 2004-03-23
Fedora FEDORA-2004-095 2004-03-19
Whitebox WBSA-2004:120-01 2004-03-22
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0012 2004-03-17
Slackware SSA:2004-077-01 2004-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2004:121-01 2004-03-17
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.007 2004-03-18
Gentoo 200403-03 2004-03-17
Debian DSA-465-1 2004-03-17
Netwosix NW-2004-0005 2004-03-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:023 2004-03-17
SuSE SuSE-SA:2004:007 2004-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2004:120-01 2004-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2004:119-01 2004-03-17
EnGarde ESA-20040317-003 2004-03-17

Comments (1 posted)

pam_ldap: plain text authentication leak

Package(s):pam_ldap CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2069
Created:July 14, 2005 Updated:October 17, 2005
Description: pam_ldap and nss_ldap ignore the "ssl start_tls" ldap.conf setting, allowing an attacker to sniff unencrypted passwords and other information.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:767-01 2005-10-17
Red Hat RHSA-2005:751-01 2005-10-17
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:020 2005-09-12
Ubuntu USN-152-1 2005-07-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:121 2005-07-18
Gentoo 200507-13 2005-07-14

Comments (none posted)

perl: setuid vulnerabilities

Package(s):perl CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0155 CAN-2005-0156
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.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0605-01 2006-08-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-353 2005-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2005:103-01 2005-02-15
Gentoo 200502-13 2005-02-11
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:004 2005-02-11
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:031 2005-02-08
Red Hat RHSA-2005:105-01 2005-02-07
Ubuntu USN-72-1 2005-02-02

Comments (none posted)

perl: symlink vulnerability

Package(s):perl CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0448
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152845 2006-01-24
Red Hat RHSA-2005:674-01 2005-10-05
Fedora FEDORA-2005-600 2005-07-22
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:079 2005-04-28
Debian DSA-696-1 2005-03-22
Ubuntu USN-94-1 2005-03-09

Comments (none posted)

php-pear: remote code execution

Package(s):php-pear CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1921
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.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:163559 2005-07-28
Conectiva CLA-2005:980 2005-07-14
Gentoo 200507-15 2005-07-15
Debian DSA-746-1 2005-07-13
Slackware SSA:2005-192-02 2005-07-12
Slackware SSA:2005-192-01 2005-07-12
Gentoo 200507-08 2005-07-10
Debian DSA-747-1 2005-07-10
Gentoo 200507-07 2005-07-10
Debian DSA-745-1 2005-07-10
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:041 2005-07-08
Red Hat RHSA-2005:564-01 2005-07-07
Gentoo 200507-06 2005-07-06
Ubuntu USN-147-2 2005-07-06
Ubuntu USN-147-1 2005-07-05
Fedora FEDORA-2005-518 2005-07-05
Fedora FEDORA-2005-517 2005-07-05
Gentoo 200507-01 2005-07-03
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:109 2005-06-30

Comments (none posted)

phpsysinfo: cross-site-scripting

Package(s):phpsysinfo CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0870
Created:May 18, 2005 Updated:November 15, 2005
Description: The phpsysinfo program contains several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-724-1 2005-05-18

Comments (none posted)

postgresql: EXECUTE privilege vulnerability

Package(s):postgresql CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0244 CAN-2005-0245 CAN-2005-0246 CAN-2005-0247
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.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152844 2005-07-16
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0015 2005-04-25
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:027 2005-04-20
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:008 2005-03-18
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:006 2005-02-25
Fedora FEDORA-2005-158 2005-02-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-157 2005-02-22
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:040 2005-02-17
Red Hat RHSA-2005:150-01 2005-02-16
Debian DSA-683-1 2005-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:138-01 2005-02-15
Gentoo 200502-19 2005-02-14
Ubuntu USN-79-1 2005-02-10

Comments (none posted)

postgresql: database initialization errors

Package(s):postgresql CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1409 CAN-2005-1410
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.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:157366 2006-02-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:093 2005-05-26
Red Hat RHSA-2005:433-01 2005-06-01
Gentoo 200505-12 2005-05-15
Fedora FEDORA-2005-368 2005-05-10
Ubuntu USN-118-1 2005-05-04

Comments (none posted)

Pound: buffer overflow

Package(s):pound CVE #(s):CVE-2005-1391
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.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200504-29 2005-04-30

Comments (none posted)

rp-pppoe, pppoe: missing privilege dropping

Package(s):rp-pppoe, pppoe CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0564
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152794 2005-11-14
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:145 2004-12-06
Debian DSA-557-1 2004-10-04

Comments (none posted)

ruby: arbitrary command execution

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1992
Created:June 21, 2005 Updated:October 6, 2005
Description: Ruby (versions < 1.8.2) is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution on XMLRPC servers.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200510-05 2005-10-06
Red Hat RHSA-2005:543-01 2005-08-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:118 2005-07-12
Gentoo 200507-10 2005-07-11
Debian DSA-748-1 2005-07-10
Ubuntu USN-146-1 2005-06-29
Fedora FEDORA-2005-475 2005-06-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-474 2005-06-22

Comments (none posted)

samba: integer overflow vulnerability

Package(s):samba CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1154
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152874 2005-07-15
Debian DSA-701-2 2005-04-21
Debian DSA-701-1 2005-03-31
Conectiva CLA-2005:913 2005-01-06
Red Hat RHSA-2005:020-01 2005-01-05
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:158 2004-12-27
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:045 2004-12-22
Red Hat RHSA-2004:681-01 2004-12-21
Fedora FEDORA-2004-562 2004-12-20
Fedora FEDORA-2004-561 2004-12-20
Gentoo 200412-13 2004-12-17
Ubuntu USN-41-1 2004-12-17
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.054 2004-12-17
Red Hat RHSA-2004:670-01 2004-12-16

Comments (none posted)

SpamAssassin: Denial of Service vulnerability

Package(s):spamassassin CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0796
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:129284 2005-08-10
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2268 2005-03-24
Red Hat RHSA-2004:451-01 2004-09-30
Conectiva CLA-2004:867 2004-09-22
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.041 2004-09-15
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:084 2004-08-18
Gentoo 200408-06 2004-08-09

Comments (none posted)

SpamAssassin: denial of service

Package(s):spamassassin CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1266
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:
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.015 2005-07-28
Debian DSA-736-2 2005-07-07
Gentoo 200506-17:02 2005-06-21
Debian DSA 736-1 2005-07-01
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:106 2005-06-28
Red Hat RHSA-2005:498-01 2005-06-23
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:033 2005-06-22
Gentoo 200506-17 2005-06-21
Fedora FEDORA-2005-428 2005-06-16
Fedora FEDORA-2005-427 2005-06-16

Comments (none posted)

SquirrelMail: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):squirrelmail CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0075 CAN-2005-0103 CAN-2005-0104
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152900 2005-07-16
Fedora FEDORA-2005-260 2005-03-28
Fedora FEDORA-2005-259 2005-03-28
Debian DSA-662-2 2005-03-14
Red Hat RHSA-2005:099-01 2005-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:135-01 2005-02-10
Debian DSA-662-1 2005-02-01
Gentoo 200501-39 2005-01-28

Comments (none posted)

SquirrelMail: several XSS vulnerabilities

Package(s):squirrelmail CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1769
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:163047 2005-09-14
Fedora FEDORA-2005-780 2005-08-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-779 2005-08-22
Red Hat RHSA-2005:595-02 2005-08-05
Red Hat RHSA-2005:595-01 2005-08-03
Debian DSA-756-1 2005-07-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:108 2005-06-30
Gentoo 200506-19 2005-06-21

Comments (none posted)

sudo: race condition

Package(s):sudo CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1993
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:162750 2006-02-23
Debian DSA-735-2 2005-07-07
Debian DSA 735-1 2005-07-01
Red Hat RHSA-2005:535-04 2005-06-29
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:036 2005-06-24
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.012 2005-06-23
Gentoo 200506-22 2005-06-23
Slackware SSA:2005-172-01 2005-06-22
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:103 2005-06-21
Fedora FEDORA-2005-473 2005-06-21
Fedora FEDORA-2005-472 2005-06-21
Ubuntu USN-142-1 2005-06-21

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
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:183571-1 2006-04-04
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0195-01 2006-02-21
Conectiva CLA-2002:538 2002-10-29
Mandrake MDKSA-2002:066 2002-10-10
Mandrake MDKSA-2002:065 2002-10-10
EnGarde ESA-20021003-022 2002-10-03
Gentoo unzip-20021001 2002-10-01
Gentoo tar-20021001 2002-10-01
Red Hat RHSA-2002:096-24 2002-09-18

Comments (1 posted)

tcpdump: denial of service

Package(s):tcpdump CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1267
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.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-854-1 2005-10-09
Slackware SSA:2005-195-10 2005-07-15
Ubuntu USN-141-1 2005-06-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:101 2005-06-15
Fedora FEDORA-2005-407 2005-06-16
Gentoo 200505-06:02 2005-05-09
Red Hat RHSA-2005:505-01 2005-06-13
Fedora FEDORA-2005-406 2005-06-09

Comments (none posted)

tcpdump: multiple DoS issues

Package(s):tcpdump CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1280 CAN-2005-1279 CAN-2005-1278
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:156139 2006-04-04
Debian DSA-850-1 2005-10-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:087 2005-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2005:417-02 2005-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2005:421-02 2005-05-11
Gentoo 200505-06 2005-05-09
Ubuntu USN-119-1 2005-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2005-351 2005-05-02

Comments (none posted)

telnet: buffer overflows

Package(s):telnet CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0468 CAN-2005-0469
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:
Slackware SSA:2005-210-01 2005-08-01
Debian DSA-765-1 2005-07-22
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:154276 2005-07-24
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152583 2005-07-11
Debian DSA-731-1 2005-06-02
Gentoo 200504-28 2005-04-28
Gentoo 200504-04 2005-04-06
Debian DSA-703-1 2005-04-01
Gentoo 200504-01 2005-04-01
Gentoo 200503-36 2005-03-31
Red Hat RHSA-2005:330-01 2005-03-30
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:061 2005-03-29
Fedora FEDORA-2005-274 2005-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2005-277 2005-03-30
Fedora FEDORA-2005-270 2005-03-29
Fedora FEDORA-2005-269 2005-03-29
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:009 2005-03-29
Debian DSA-699-1 2005-03-29
Debian DSA-697-1 2005-03-29
Red Hat RHSA-2005:327-01 2005-03-28

Comments (none posted)

thunderbird mozilla firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):thunderbird firefox mozilla CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0989 CAN-2005-1159 CAN-2005-1160 CAN-2005-1532 CAN-2005-2261 CAN-2005-2265 CAN-2005-2266 CAN-2005-2269 CAN-2005-2270
Created:July 20, 2005 Updated:September 1, 2005
Description: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, as well as the Mozilla Suite and Firefox and Mozilla based other browsers. Bugs include an anonymous function handling bug, a JavaScript validation problem, privileged UI code handling DOM nodes, a JavaScript privilege escalation, a problem with Javascript in XBL controls, improper handling of child frames, a DOM name code execution vulnerability, and a base object clone problem.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-779-2 2005-09-01
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:127-1 2005-08-26
Debian DSA-781-1 2005-08-23
Debian DSA-779-1 2005-08-20
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:045 2005-08-11
Ubuntu USN-157-2 2005-08-02
Ubuntu USN-157-1 2005-08-01
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:127 2005-07-28
Ubuntu USN-149-3 2005-07-28
Ubuntu USN-155-1 2005-07-26
Gentoo 200507-24 2005-07-26
Ubuntu USN-149-2 2005-07-25
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:120-1 2005-07-22
Slackware SSA:2005-203-01 2005-07-22
Red Hat RHSA-2005:587-01 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-622 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-621 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-618 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-620 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-617 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-619 2005-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-616 2005-07-22
Red Hat RHSA-2005:601-01 2005-07-21
Red Hat RHSA-2005:586-01 2005-07-21
Ubuntu USN-149-1 2005-07-21
Fedora FEDORA-2005-606 2005-07-20
Fedora FEDORA-2005-604 2005-07-20
Fedora FEDORA-2005-605 2005-07-20
Fedora FEDORA-2005-603 2005-07-20

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:
Gentoo 200508-16 2005-08-25
Gentoo 200506-18 2005-06-21

Comments (none posted)

vixie-cron: crontab allows any user to read another users crontabs

Package(s):vixie-cron CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1038
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0117-01 2006-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:361-01 2005-10-05
Fedora FEDORA-2005-320 2005-04-15

Comments (none posted)

wget: file overwrites and arbitrary code execution

Package(s):wget CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1487 CAN-2004-1488
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:771-01 2005-09-27
Ubuntu USN-145-2 2005-09-06
Ubuntu USN-145-1 2005-06-28
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:098 2005-06-09

Comments (none posted)

XChat 2.0.x SOCKS5 Vulnerability

Package(s):xchat CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0409
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:123013 2005-11-14
Red Hat RHSA-2004:585-01 2004-10-27
Netwosix NW-2004-0014 2004-05-01
Red Hat RHSA-2004:177-01 2004-04-30
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:036 2004-04-21
Debian DSA-493-1 2004-04-21
Gentoo 200404-15 2004-04-19

Comments (none posted)

xine-lib: buffer overflows

Package(s):xine-lib CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1379
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:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152873 2006-04-04
Debian DSA-657-1 2005-01-25
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:105 2004-10-06
Slackware SSA:2004-266-04 2004-09-22
Gentoo 200409-30 2004-09-22

Comments (none posted)

xine-ui - insecure temporary file creation

Package(s):xine-ui CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0372
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:
Gentoo 200404-20 2004-04-27
Slackware SSA:2004-111-01 2004-04-20
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:033 2004-04-19
Debian DSA-477-1 2004-04-06

Comments (none posted)

xorg-x11: integer overflows

Package(s):xorg-x11 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0914
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:
Ubuntu USN-83-2 2005-09-12
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152804 2005-05-12
Ubuntu USN-83-1 2005-02-16
Gentoo 200502-07 2005-02-07
Gentoo 200502-06 2005-02-06
Red Hat RHSA-2004:612-01 2004-12-20
Red Hat RHSA-2004:610-01 2004-12-20
Debian DSA-607-1 2004-12-10
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:137-1 2004-11-29
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:137 2004-11-22
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:138 2004-11-22
Gentoo 200411-28 2004-11-19
Fedora FEDORA-2004-434 2004-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2004-433 2004-11-17
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:041 2004-11-17

Comments (none posted)

xpdf: buffer overflow

Package(s):xpdf CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0064
Created:January 19, 2005 Updated:March 15, 2007
Description: iDEFENSE has found yet another xpdf buffer overflow; see this advisory for details.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1219 2007-03-14
Gentoo 200506-06 2005-06-09
Red Hat RHSA-2005:026-01 2005-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2005:066-01 2005-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:057-01 2005-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:053-01 2005-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:034-01 2005-02-15
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2353 2005-02-10
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2352 2005-02-10
Gentoo 200502-10 2005-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2005:049-01 2005-02-01
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:002 2005-01-26
Red Hat RHSA-2005:059-01 2005-01-26
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:020 2005-01-25
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:019 2005-01-25
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:016 2005-01-25
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:021 2005-01-25
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:018 2005-01-25
Mandrake MDKSA-2005:017 2005-01-25
Fedora FEDORA-2005-061 2005-01-25
Fedora FEDORA-2005-062 2005-01-25
Fedora FEDORA-2005-059 2005-01-25
Fedora FEDORA-2005-060 2005-01-25
Conectiva CLA-2005:921 2005-01-25
Fedora FEDORA-2004-049 2005-01-24
Fedora FEDORA-2004-048 2005-01-24
Gentoo 200501-32 2005-01-23
Gentoo 200501-31 2005-01-23
Gentoo 200501-30 2005-01-22
Gentoo 200501-28 2005-01-21
Fedora FEDORA-2005-052 2005-01-20
Fedora FEDORA-2005-051 2005-01-20
Ubuntu USN-64-1 2005-01-19
Debian DSA-645-1 2005-01-19
Debian DSA-648-1 2005-01-19

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zlib: buffer overflow

Package(s):zlib CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2096
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.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:196 2005-10-26
Debian DSA-797-2 2005-09-28
Fedora FEDORA-2005-565 2005-07-13
Slackware SSA:2005-189-01 2005-07-10
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0034 2005-07-08
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:112 2005-07-06
Fedora FEDORA-2005-523 2005-07-07
Fedora FEDORA-2005-524 2005-07-07
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.013 2005-07-07
Ubuntu USN-148-1 2005-07-06
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:039 2005-07-06
Red Hat RHSA-2005:569-01 2005-07-06
Gentoo 200507-05 2005-07-06
Debian DSA-740-1 2005-07-06

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