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The Senate takes on spyware
While some states in the U.S. have enacted anti-spyware legislation,
nothing has yet happened at the federal level. That may soon change as a
result of Senate bill
687, which has recently passed its first test in the Commerce, Science,
and Transportation Committee. This bill, sponsored by Conrad Burns,
carries the somewhat awkward title of the "Software Principles Yielding
Better Levels of Consumer Knowledge Act," or "Spy block" for short.
There are several parts to the proposed law:
- Section 2 prevents "surreptitious installation" of software. Illegal
acts include installations which conceal the fact that software is
being installed, or which does not offer an opportunity to block the
installation. Fooling users into installing something other than what
they were expecting is also prohibited. This section makes sense as a
basic protection of a user's control over his or her own computer, but
it contains an important exception: "upgrades" to software which is
already installed. Something which can be called an "upgrade" can be
installed in a hidden manner with no required user consent.
- Section 3 is the spyware section: it disallows the installation of
surreptitious information collection software. Here, too, there is an
important exception: "This section shall not be interpreted to
prohibit a person from causing the installation of software that
collects and transmits only information that is reasonably needed to
determine whether or not the user of a protected computer is licensed
or authorized to use the software."
- Section 4 bans adware (it uses that term). The main activity
prohibited here is to install software which displays advertisements
without making the source of the ad clear.
- Section 5 addresses other ways of taking over control. The first part
blocks the sending of "unsolicited information or material" to other
computers - it essentially outlaws the creation of spammer botnets.
Hijacking web sessions is also disallowed, as is changing a user's
home page, web proxy, bookmarks, or firewall settings.
- Section 6 exempts ISPs for liability if all they did was carry some
malevolent bits from elsewhere. Various other sections describe how
the law would fit with other legislation and how it would be
enforced.
- Finally, section 11 is an umbrella for anti-spyware companies.
Essentially it says that you can't be sued for identifying and
removing software from a system if it (1) violates this law, and
(2) the user consents.
This law, as written, is a good statement of users' rights to control their
computers - as far as it goes. It is an interesting exercise to ponder
how this act would apply to the SonyBMG rootkit episode. The software was
not installed surreptitiously, and it's not clear that it engaged in the
collection of information. Simply phoning home is not addressed by this
bill, unfortunately. The law's exceptions also leave some large holes in
its protection. So, despite its good intentions, the "Spy block" act is
not likely to lead to much in the way of serious change.
Comments (22 posted)
Security news
Web Browser Developers Work Together on Security (KDE.News)
KDE.News reports on a recent
meeting of the security developers from the leading web browsers.
" Our initial and primary focus is, and continues to be, addressing
issues in PKI as implemented in our web browsers. This involves finding a
way to make the information presented to the user more meaningful, easier
to recognise, easier to understand, and perhaps most importantly, finding a
way to make a distinction for high-impact sites (banks, payment services,
auction sites, etc) while retaining the accessibility of SSL and identity
for smaller organisations."
Comments (1 posted)
New vulnerabilities
egroupware: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | egroupware |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-0870
CVE-2005-2600
CVE-2005-3347
CVE-2005-3348
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| Created: | November 17, 2005 |
Updated: | December 9, 2005 |
| Description: |
A number of vulnerabilities have been found in egroupware,
a web-based groupware suite.
Phpsysinfo has several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities,
The the tree view of FUD Forum Bulletin Board Software has
a cross-site scripting problem, phpsyinfo has a local variable
overwrite problem, and phpsyinfo has an input sanitizing
issue. |
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Comments (none posted)
FUSE: mtab corruption through fusermount
| Package(s): | fuse |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3531
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| Created: | November 22, 2005 |
Updated: | January 24, 2006 |
| Description: |
Thomas Biege discovered that fusermount fails to securely handle
special characters specified in mount points. A local attacker could corrupt the contents of the /etc/mtab file by mounting over a maliciously-named directory using fusermount, potentially allowing the attacker to set unauthorized mount options. |
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Comments (none posted)
gnump3d: insecure temp files, path traversal
| Package(s): | gnump3d |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3349
CVE-2005-3355
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| Created: | November 21, 2005 |
Updated: | November 22, 2005 |
| Description: |
Ludwig Nussel discovered several temporary files that are created with predictable filenames in an insecure fashion and allows local attackers to craft symlink attacks. Also the theme parameter to HTTP requests may be used for path traversal. |
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Comments (none posted)
inkscape: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | inkscape |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3737
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| Created: | November 21, 2005 |
Updated: | December 7, 2005 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the SVG importer of Inkscape.
By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted SVG image this
could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the Inkscape user. |
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Comments (none posted)
kernel: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-2709
CVE-2005-2973
CVE-2005-3055
CVE-2005-3180
CVE-2005-3271
CVE-2005-3272
CVE-2005-3273
CVE-2005-3274
CVE-2005-3275
CVE-2005-3276
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| Created: | November 22, 2005 |
Updated: | March 15, 2006 |
| Description: |
Al Viro discovered a race condition in the /proc file handler of
network devices. A local attacker could exploit this by opening any
file in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<interface>/ and waiting until that
interface was shut down. Under certain circumstances this could lead
to a kernel crash or even arbitrary code execution with full kernel
privileges. (CVE-2005-2709)
Tetsuo Handa discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the
udp_v6_get_port() function. On computers which use IPv6, a local
attacker could exploit this to trigger an infinite loop in the kernel.
(CVE-2005-2973)
Harald Welte discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the USB
devio driver. A local attacker could exploit this by sending an "USB
Request Block" (URB) and terminating the sending process before the
arrival of the answer, which left an invalid pointer and caused a
kernel crash. (CVE-2005-3055)
Pavel Roskin discovered an information leak in the Orinoco wireless
card driver. When increasing the buffer length for storing data, the
buffer was not padded with zeros, which exposed a random part of the
system memory to the user. (CVE-2005-3180)
A resource leak has been discovered in the handling of POSIX timers in
the exec() function. This could be exploited to a Denial of Service
attack by a group of local users. (CVE-2005-3271)
Stephen Hemminger discovered a weakness in the network bridge driver.
Packets which had already been dropped by the packet filter could
poison the forwarding table, which could be exploited to make the
bridge forward spoofed packages. (CVE-2005-3272)
David S. Miller discovered a buffer overflow in the rose_rt_ioctl()
function. By calling the function with a large "ngidis" argument, a
local attacker could cause a kernel crash. (CVE-2005-3273)
Neil Horman discovered a race condition in the connection timer
handling. This allowed a local attacker to set up an expiration
handler which modified the connection list while the list still being
traversed, which could result in a kernel crash. This vulnerability
only affects multiprocessor (SMP) systems. (CVE-2005-3274)
Patrick McHardy noticed a logic error in the network address
translation (NAT) connection tracker. A remote attacker could exploit
this by causing two packets for the same protocol to be NATed at the
same time, which resulted in a kernel crash. (CVE-2005-3275)
Paolo Giarrusso discovered an information leak in the
sys_get_thread_area(). The returned structure was not properly
cleared, which exposed a small amount of kernel memory to userspace
programs. This could possibly expose confidential data.
(CVE-2005-3276) |
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Comments (2 posted)
netpbm-free: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | netpbm-free |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3632
CVE-2005-3662
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| Created: | November 21, 2005 |
Updated: | December 20, 2005 |
| Description: |
Greg Roelofs discovered and fixed several buffer overflows in pnmtopng
which is also included in netpbm, a collection of graphic conversion
utilities, that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code via a
specially crafted PNM file. |
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Comments (1 posted)
openswan: Denial of Service
| Package(s): | openswan |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | November 21, 2005 |
Updated: | November 22, 2005 |
| Description: |
NISCC has reported two Denial of Service issues in Openswan. The first
involves a specially crafted 3DES packet with an invalid key length. These
have been fixed in Openswan 2.4.4. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
xmail: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | xmail |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-2943
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| Created: | November 21, 2005 |
Updated: | December 14, 2005 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the sendmail program of
xmail, an advanced, fast and reliable ESMTP/POP3 mail server that
could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with group mail
privileges. |
| 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. |
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Comments (none posted)
acidlab: SQL injection
| Package(s): | acidlab |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3325
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| Created: | November 14, 2005 |
Updated: | November 16, 2005 |
| Description: |
Remco Verhoef has discovered a vulnerability in acidlab, Analysis
Console for Intrusion Databases, and in acidbase, Basic Analysis and
Security Engine, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct
SQL injection attacks. |
| 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. |
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Comments (2 posted)
chmlib: several vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | chmlib |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-2659
CVE-2005-2930
CVE-2005-3318
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| Created: | November 7, 2005 |
Updated: | November 28, 2005 |
| Description: |
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in chmlib, a library for
dealing with CHM format files. |
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Comments (none posted)
common-lisp-controller: design error
| Package(s): | common-lisp-controller |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2657
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| Created: | September 14, 2005 |
Updated: | November 21, 2005 |
| Description: |
François-René Rideau discovered a bug in common-lisp-controller, a
Common Lisp source and compiler manager, that allows a local user to
compile malicious code into a cache directory which is executed by
another user if that user has not used Common Lisp before.
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Comments (none posted)
cpio: directory traversal
| Package(s): | cpio |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1111
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| Created: | June 20, 2005 |
Updated: | December 26, 2005 |
| Description: |
There is a vulnerability in
cpio (2.6 and previous) that allows a malicious cpio file to
extract to an arbitrary directory of the attackers choice. cpio will
extract to the path specified in the cpio file, this path can be absolute. |
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Comments (1 posted)
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. |
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Comments (none posted)
dia: missing input sanitizing
| Package(s): | dia |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2966
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| Created: | October 4, 2005 |
Updated: | April 6, 2006 |
| Description: |
Joxean Koret discovered that the SVG import plugin did not properly
sanitize data read from an SVG file. By tricking an user into opening
a specially crafted SVG file, an attacker could exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
emacs: lisp execution vulnerability
| Package(s): | emacs |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-1232
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| Created: | November 10, 2005 |
Updated: | November 16, 2005 |
| Description: |
Version 21.2 of the EMACS editor has a vulnerability in which
text files containing Lisp code can be executed without warning
the user. Attackers can cause users to execute arbitrary code. |
| 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. |
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Comments (none posted)
enigmail: information disclosure
| Package(s): | enigmail |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3256
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| Created: | October 20, 2005 |
Updated: | December 13, 2005 |
| Description: |
The key selection dialog from the Mozilla Thunderbird enigmail plugin
has an information disclosure vulnerability.
A key with an empty user id from a user's keyring will be used by
default, allowing a message to be decrypted. This can lead to an
unauthorized information disclosure. |
| 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)
ethereal: multiple vulnerabilities
Comments (none posted)
evolution: format string issues
Comments (2 posted)
fetchmailconf: insecure file creation
| Package(s): | fetchmail |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3088
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| Created: | October 26, 2005 |
Updated: | November 22, 2005 |
| Description: |
The fetchmailconf utility can create files which are world-readable for a brief period. These files may contain passwords, and thus should not be created in this manner.
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Comments (none posted)
firefox: multiple vulnerabilities
Comments (none posted)
flash-plugin: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | flash-plugin |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-2628
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| Created: | November 10, 2005 |
Updated: | November 25, 2005 |
| Description: |
The Mozilla browser Macromedia Flash Player plug-in has a
buffer overflow vulnerability. A user who opens a maliciously
created Macromedia Flash file may be tricked into executing
arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Foomatic: Arbitrary command execution in foomatic-rip
| Package(s): | foomatic |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0801
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| Created: | September 20, 2004 |
Updated: | May 31, 2006 |
| Description: |
There is a vulnerability in the foomatic-filters package. This
vulnerability is due to insufficient checking of command-line parameters
and environment variables in the foomatic-rip filter. This vulnerability
may allow both local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on
the print server with the permissions of the spooler. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
ftpd: remote buffer overflow
| Package(s): | ftpd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3524
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| Created: | November 14, 2005 |
Updated: | November 16, 2005 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in the linux-ftpd-ssl
package. A command that generates an excessively long response from the
server may overrun a stack buffer. An attacker that has permission to create directories that are accessible via the FTP server could exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation would execute arbitrary code on the local machine with root privileges. |
| 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. |
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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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Comments (none posted)
gdk-pixbuf: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | gdk-pixbuf gtk2 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3186
CVE-2005-2976
CVE-2005-2975
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| Created: | November 15, 2005 |
Updated: | March 20, 2006 |
| Description: |
The gdk-pixbuf package contains an image loading library used with the
GNOME GUI desktop environment. A bug was found in the way gdk-pixbuf
processes XPM images. An attacker could create a carefully crafted XPM file
in such a way that it could cause an application linked with gdk-pixbuf to
execute arbitrary code when the file was opened by a victim.
Ludwig Nussel discovered an integer overflow bug in the way gdk-pixbuf
processes XPM images. An attacker could create a carefully crafted XPM
file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with
gdk-pixbuf to execute arbitrary code or crash when the file was opened by a
victim.
Ludwig Nussel also discovered an infinite-loop denial of service bug in the
way gdk-pixbuf processes XPM images. An attacker could create a carefully
crafted XPM file in such a way that it could cause an application linked
with gdk-pixbuf to stop responding when the file was opened by a victim. |
| 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)
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)
kdebase: local root vulnerability
| Package(s): | kdebase |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2494
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| Created: | September 7, 2005 |
Updated: | August 11, 2006 |
| Description: |
The kdebase package (and kcheckpass in particular) found in KDE versions 3.2.0 through 3.4.2 suffers from a lock file handling error which can enable a local attacker to obtain root access. See this advisory for details. |
| 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. |
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Comments (none 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. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
libdbi-perl: insecure temporary file
| Package(s): | libdbi-perl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0077
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| Created: | January 25, 2005 |
Updated: | March 2, 2006 |
| Description: |
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project
discovered that the DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates
a temporary PID file in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by a
malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person
executing the parts of the library. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
libgadu: memory alignment bug
| Package(s): | libgadu |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2370
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| Created: | July 29, 2005 |
Updated: | June 25, 2007 |
| Description: |
Szymon Zygmunt and Michal Bartoszkiewicz discovered a memory alignment
error in libgadu (from ekg, console Gadu Gadu client, an instant
messaging program) which is included in gaim, a multi-protocol instant
messaging client, as well. This can not be exploited on the x86
architecture but on others, e.g. on Sparc and lead to a bus error,
in other words a denial of service.
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Comments (none posted)
libgd2: buffer overflows in PNG handling
| Package(s): | libgd2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0990
CAN-2004-0941
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| Created: | October 29, 2004 |
Updated: | June 28, 2006 |
| Description: |
Several buffer overflows have been discovered in libgd's PNG handling
functions.
If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious PNG image, they
could leverage this into executing arbitrary code in the context of
the user opening image. Most importantly, this library is commonly
used in PHP. One possible target would be a PHP driven photo website
that lets users upload images. Therefore this vulnerability might lead
to privilege escalation to a web server's privileges.
Multiple buffer overflows in the gd graphics library (libgd) 2.0.21 and
earlier may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed
image files that trigger the overflows due to improper calls to the
gdMalloc function. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
libgda2: format string vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | libgda2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2958
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| Created: | October 25, 2005 |
Updated: | November 18, 2005 |
| Description: |
Steve Kemp discovered two format string vulnerabilities in libgda2,
the GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2, which may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code in programs that use this library. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
libnet-ssleay-perl: weakened cryptographic operations
| Package(s): | libnet-ssleay-perl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0106
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| Created: | May 3, 2005 |
Updated: | January 27, 2006 |
| Description: |
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that this library used the
file /tmp/entropy as a fallback entropy source if a proper source was
not set in the environment variable EGD_PATH. This can potentially
lead to weakened cryptographic operations if an attacker provides a
/tmp/entropy file with known content. |
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Comments (none posted)
libpam-ldap: authentication bypass
| Package(s): | libpam-ldap |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2641
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| Created: | August 25, 2005 |
Updated: | October 6, 2006 |
| Description: |
libpam-ldap, the PAM LDAP interface, has a vulnerability in which
it fails to authenticate with an LDAP server which is not configured
properly, allowing an authentication bypass. |
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Comments (none posted)
libTIFF: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | libtiff |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1544
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| Created: | May 10, 2005 |
Updated: | February 17, 2006 |
| Description: |
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a
stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF
image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag. Successful exploitation would
require the victim to open a specially crafted TIFF image, resulting in the
execution of arbitrary code. |
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Comments (1 posted)
libungif: memory corruption
| Package(s): | libungif |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2974
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| Created: | November 3, 2005 |
Updated: | March 20, 2006 |
| Description: |
The libungif library has a vulnerability in the GIF file
colormap handling code. A maliciously crafted GIF file can
cause out of bounds memory writing and register corruption. |
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Comments (none posted)
libXpm: new buffer overflows
| Package(s): | libXpm |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0605
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| Created: | March 4, 2005 |
Updated: | March 8, 2006 |
| Description: |
A new vulnerability has been discovered in libXpm, which is included in
OpenMotif and LessTif, that can potentially lead to remote code
execution. |
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