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Security
Victory against spam?
The August 20 edition of The Economist includes an
article (restricted to Economist subscribers as of this writing) makes
an interesting claim:
But "spam", unsolicited e-mail, seems to be in retreat. The
amount of spam that swishes through the internet is holding steady
or declining, according to most studies. And of the stuff that
still exists, the vast majority is blocked by filters before it
gets to an inbox.
The core of the article is based on a
MessageLabs report stating that spam, which constituted 83% of all
email traffic in January, fell to "only" 67% in June. 67% remains a
horrifying number, but it also clearly is a step in the right direction.
Interestingly, your editor's personal spam indicator, currently running at
about 4,000/day, does not show any decline at all. Some people, it seems,
are just lucky.
The Economist credits a number of factors in the decline. Filters are one
of those, though the article only mentions proprietary offerings. (Said
proprietary filters are credited with 95% effectiveness, incidentally; your
editor can attest that a well-trained SpamAssassin can do much better than
that). Smarter recipients are another; evidently most Internet users have
already enlarged whatever parts of their anatomy they felt were too small,
or figured out that it wasn't going to happen for them. High-profile legal
setbacks for selected spammers have provided a small disincentive. And
phishing attacks, which are very much on the increase, have convinced many
users that spam can be dangerous and is best avoided.
Phishing is where the action is now - especially in South
America, it would seem, where a strong interest in postcard sites makes
attacks relatively easy. Since there is money in phishing, this problem is
likely to grow, at least until enough people get burned that a general
awareness sets in. It is a somewhat ironic outcome, meanwhile, that the
phishers may be helping to take the profits out of spam, and thus reducing
the problem.
Declaring victory on spam seems somewhat premature, however. The costs of
carrying that much garbage through the email system, filtering, and
shoveling out mailboxes remain high. But wouldn't it be interesting if the
arms race between spammers and their opponents turned out to be winnable -
by the good guys - after all?
Comments (10 posted)
New vulnerabilities
cvs: insecure temp file
| Package(s): | cvs |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2693
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| Created: | August 23, 2005 |
Updated: | September 9, 2005 |
| Description: |
Insecure temporary file usage was found in the cvsbug program. It is possible that a malicious user could use this to execute arbitrary
instructions as the user running cvsbug. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
elm: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | elm |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2665
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| Created: | August 23, 2005 |
Updated: | November 10, 2005 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow flaw in Elm was
discovered that was triggered by viewing a mailbox containing a message
with a carefully crafted 'Expires' header. An attacker could create a
malicious message that would execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the user who received it. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
kernel: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2098
CAN-2005-2099
CAN-2005-2456
CAN-2005-2457
CAN-2005-2458
CAN-2005-2459
CAN-2005-2548
CAN-2005-2555
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| Created: | August 19, 2005 |
Updated: | September 19, 2005 |
| Description: |
David Howells discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in
the key session joining function. Under certain user-triggerable
conditions, a semaphore was not released properly, which caused
processes which also attempted to join a key session to hang forever.
(CAN-2005-2098)
David Howells discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in
the keyring allocator. A local attacker could exploit this to crash
the kernel by attempting to add a specially crafted invalid keyring.
(CAN-2005-2099)
Balazs Scheidler discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in
the xfrm_compile_policy() function. By calling setsockopt() with an
invalid xfrm_user policy message, a local attacker could cause the
kernel to write to an array beyond its boundaries, thus causing a
kernel crash. (CAN-2005-2456)
Tim Yamin discovered that the driver for compressed ISO file systems
did not sufficiently validate the input data. By tricking an user into
mounting a malicious CD-ROM with a specially crafted compressed ISO
file system, he could cause a kernel crash. (CAN-2005-2457)
It was discovered that the kernel's embedded zlib compression library
was still vulnerable to two old vulnerabilities of the standalone zlib
library. This library is used by various drivers and can also be used
by third party modules, so the impact varies. (CAN-2005-2458,
CAN-2005-2459)
Peter Sandstrom discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in
the SNMP handler. Certain UDP packages lead to a function call with
the wrong argument, which resulted in a crash of the network stack.
(CAN-2005-2548)
Herbert Xu discovered that the setsockopt() function was not
restricted to privileged users. This allowed a local attacker to
bypass intended IPSec policies, set invalid policies to exploit flaws
like CAN-2005-2456, or cause a Denial of Service by adding policies
until kernel memory is exhausted. Now the call is restricted to
processes with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. (CAN-2005-2555) |
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Comments (3 posted)
Kismet: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | kismet |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2626
CAN-2005-2627
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| Created: | August 19, 2005 |
Updated: | August 29, 2005 |
| Description: |
Kismet is vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling pcap captures and
to an integer underflow in the CDP protocol dissector. With a specially
crafted packet an attacker could cause Kismet to execute arbitrary code
with the rights of the user running the program. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
lm-sensors: insecure temp files
| Package(s): | lm-sensors |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2672
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| Created: | August 23, 2005 |
Updated: | November 10, 2005 |
| Description: |
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the pwmconfig script created
temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to
create or overwrite arbitrary files with full root privileges since
pwmconfig is usually executed by root. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
mantis: missing input sanitizing
| Package(s): | mantis |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2556
CAN-2005-2557
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| Created: | August 19, 2005 |
Updated: | September 26, 2005 |
| Description: |
Two security related problems have been discovered in Mantis, a
web-based bug tracking system. A remote attacker could insert arbitrary
SQL code into SQL statements and a remote attacker was able to insert
arbitrary HTML code bug reports, hence, cross site scripting. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
openvpn: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | openvpn |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2531
CAN-2005-2532
CAN-2005-2533
CAN-2005-2534
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| Created: | August 23, 2005 |
Updated: | October 10, 2005 |
| Description: |
A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenVPN that were fixed in
the 2.0.1 release:
A DoS attack against the server when run with "verb 0" and without
"tls-auth" when a client connection to the server fails certificate
verification, the OpenSSL error queue is not properly flushed. This could
result in another unrelated client instance on the server seeing the error
and responding to it, resulting in a disconnection of the unrelated client.
A DoS attack against the server by an authenticated client that sends a
packet which fails to decrypt on the server, the OpenSSL error queue was
not properly flushed. This could result in another unrelated client
instance on the server seeing the error and responding to it, resulting in
a disconnection of the unrelated client.
A DoS attack against the server by an authenticated client is possible in
"dev tap" ethernet bridging mode where a malicious client could
theoretically flood the server with packets appearing to come from hundreds
of thousands of different MAC addresses, resulting in the OpenVPN process
exhausting system virtual memory.
If two or more client machines tried to connect to the server at the same
time via TCP, using the same client certificate, a race condition could
crash the server if --duplicate-cn is not enabled on the server. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
pcre3: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | pcre3 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2491
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| Created: | August 23, 2005 |
Updated: | March 10, 2006 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the PCRE, a widely used library
that provides Perl compatible regular expressions. Specially crafted
regular expressions triggered a buffer overflow. On systems that accept
arbitrary regular expressions from untrusted users, this could be exploited
to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application using the
library. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
php: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | php |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2498
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| Created: | August 19, 2005 |
Updated: | October 4, 2005 |
| Description: |
A bug was discovered in the PEAR XML-RPC Server package included in PHP. If
a PHP script is used which implements an XML-RPC Server using the PEAR
XML-RPC package, then it is possible for a remote attacker to construct an
XML-RPC request which can cause PHP to execute arbitrary PHP commands as
the 'apache' user. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
slocate: long path bug
| Package(s): | slocate |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2499
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| Created: | August 22, 2005 |
Updated: | October 5, 2005 |
| Description: |
A bug was found in the way slocate processes very long paths. A local user
could create a carefully crafted directory structure that would prevent
updatedb from completing its file system scan, resulting in an incomplete
slocate database. |
| Alerts: |
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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. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Adobe Acrobat Reader: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | Adobe Acrobat Reader |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2470
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| Created: | August 16, 2005 |
Updated: | August 22, 2005 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow bug has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader. It is
possible to execute arbitrary code on a victim's machine if the victim
opens a malicious PDF file. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
affix: two remote vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | affix |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2250
CAN-2005-2277
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
amd64: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | amd64 |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | August 11, 2005 |
Updated: | August 17, 2005 |
| Description: |
The Debian amd64 distribution contains a long list of
security vulnerabilities, this update fixes them. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
httpd: off-by-one overflow and cross-site scripting
| Package(s): | apache httpd |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1268
CAN-2005-2088
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
awstats: command injection vulnerability
| Package(s): | awstats |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1527
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| Created: | August 11, 2005 |
Updated: | November 10, 2005 |
| Description: |
AWStats has a command injection vulnerability that can
be exploited by specially crafting referrer URLs that
contain Perl code. The code can then be executed with the
privileges of the web server. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (2 posted)
bluez: command execution
| Package(s): | bluez-utils |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2547
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| Created: | August 17, 2005 |
Updated: | August 26, 2005 |
| Description: |
The bluez-utils package (through version 2.19) fails to properly validate device names. As a result, pairing the system with a device containing a maliciously-crafted name could result in the execution of arbitrary commands as root.
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| Alerts: |
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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. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (2 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. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
CUPS: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | CUPS |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-2154
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| 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: |
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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 9, 2006 |
| Description: |
Cyrus-imapd, prior to version 2.2.12, contains several buffer overflows which could be exploited by an (authenticated) attacker to run code on the server system. |
| Alerts: |
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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)
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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| 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)
epiphany: Mozilla regression vulnerability
| Package(s): | epiphany |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | July 28, 2005 |
Updated: | August 29, 2005 |
| Description: |
The epiphany web browser had a vulnerability regression that was
caused by fixes to the Mozilla suite. This is specific to
Ubuntu Linux, the Mozilla fix was: USN-155-1. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
ethereal: dissector vulnerabilities
Comments (none posted)
evolution: format string issues
Comments (2 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)
gaim: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | gaim |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2103
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| Created: | August 10, 2005 |
Updated: | February 27, 2006 |
| Description: |
Gaim suffers from a heap-based buffer overflow which can be exploited via a hostile "away message" to execute arbitrary code. |
| 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)
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)
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." |
| Alerts: |
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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: | September 16, 2005 |
| 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)
gzip: arbitrary command execution
| Package(s): | gzip |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0758
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| Created: | August 1, 2005 |
Updated: | January 9, 2007 |
| Description: |
zgrep in gzip before 1.3.5 does not handle shell metacharacters like '|'
and '&' properly when they occurred in input file names. This could be
exploited to execute arbitrary commands with user privileges if zgrep is
run in an untrusted directory with specially crafted file names. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (2 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)
imap: buffer overflow in c-client
| Package(s): | imap |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0297
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| Created: | February 18, 2005 |
Updated: | April 9, 2006 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the c-client IMAP client. An attacker
could create a malicious IMAP server that if connected to by a victim could
execute arbitrary code on the client machine. |
| Alerts: |
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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)
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)
kdeedu: tempfile handling vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | kdeedu |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2101
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| Created: | August 15, 2005 |
Updated: | September 22, 2005 |
| Description: |
Ben Burton notified the KDE security team about several tempfile
handling related vulnerabilities in langen2kvtml, a conversion
script for kvoctrain. The script must be manually invoked. The
script uses known filenames in /tmp which allow an local
attacker to overwrite files writeable by the user invoking the
conversion script. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
kdelibs: kate backup file permission leak
| Package(s): | kdelibs kate kwrite |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1920
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| Created: | July 19, 2005 |
Updated: | November 27, 2006 |
| 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: |
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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)
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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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Comments (none posted)
libgadu: memory alignment bug
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