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SQL injection attacks

March 24, 2006

This article was contributed by Jake Edge.

One of the more devastating attacks on a web application is also one of the most common: SQL injection. This technique allows an attacker to gain access to the database that underlies many web sites and read and potentially modify data that is not meant to be available to users of that site. This article provides an overview of how SQL injection works and what can be done to avoid it.

A classic example of SQL injection starts with a query that looks something like:

    SELECT id FROM users WHERE name='$name' AND pass='$pass';
This query might be used to authenticate users when they log in to a web site. If it returns a row, the user id returned is considered to be authenticated and the application proceeds to serve the correct page for that user. In this case, the $name and $pass variables would come from a login form that might look something like:
    <form method="post" action="login.php">
        <input type="text" name="name">
        <input type="password" name="pass">
        <input type="submit" value="login">
    </form>

If the login.php program in this example blindly sets the variables to the values that come from the user, a malicious user can bypass the authentication. Consider the following inputs:

    $user = "' OR 1=1 ";
    $pass = "' OR 1=1 LIMIT 1";
This results in a query that is completely different from what the web programmer expected:
    SELECT id FROM users WHERE name='' OR 1=1 AND pass='' OR 1=1 LIMIT 1;
This query will always return one row (unless the table is empty) and it is likely to be the first entry in the table. For many applications, that entry is the administrative login; the one with the most privileges.

This simple example barely scratches the surface of the kinds of attacks that can be made using SQL injection. Depending on the DBMS, it may be possible to do multiple queries via an injection by separating each with a semicolon:

    SELECT id FROM users WHERE name='' AND pass=''; DROP TABLE users;
which is, of course, a rather destructive injection. MySQL does not allow multiple queries in a statement, but PostgreSQL is susceptible to this technique.

Web site and/or database search functions are particularly dangerous because they display their output; if a malicious user can inject any query they choose, they can capture the entire contents of the database. The UNION keyword can turn a query such as:

    SELECT city, state FROM users WHERE name LIKE '%$search%';
into:
    SELECT city, state FROM users 
           WHERE name LIKE '%%' UNION 
                 SELECT name, pass FROM users 
			WHERE name LIKE '%%';
And instead of just printing the city and state of users that match the input string, we are also printing the username and password of every user in the system.

A certain amount of guessing column names and types is required if an attacker does not have access to the database schema, but they are often not very hard to guess given some understanding of the application. Some database systems, notably Microsoft SQL Server, seem to deliberately shoot themselves in the foot by providing the schema for all tables in a generally accessible database, thereby removing all the guesswork.

Injection also requires a certain amount of imagination to visualize the kinds of queries that might be going on behind the input boxes of a web form. It requires quite a bit of trial and error unless one has access to the source; this is why the majority of reported SQL injections are in free software or open source web applications.

Note that it is not only web forms using the POST method that are vulnerable, many web applications that use the GET method are vulnerable to injections via the URL:

    http://vulnerablewebapp.com/login.php?\
           name=%27%20OR%201%3D1%20&pass=%27%20OR%201%3D1%20LIMIT%201

Like many other web vulnerabilities, SQL injection stems from insufficient filtering of user input. Unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult to determine what kinds of input should be accepted (for example the password "' OR 1=1" would not necessarily seem illegal) and using various filtering functions provided by the language may not actually prevent injections. The PHP addslashes() function is often used to sanitize user input because it will put a backslash in front of single quotes which will stop the kinds of injections described above. Unfortunately, there are techniques to circumvent this particular 'fix' as well.

Probably the simplest way to protect queries from SQL injection is by using prepared statements with placeholders. Any reasonable database interface will provide a way to use this functionality and in many cases, it is fairly portable between languages and DBM systems.

Instead of directly interpolating string values into query strings, a query is prepared using '?' as a placeholder for the variables as shown in the following pseudocode:

    $sth = prepare("SELECT id FROM users WHERE name=? AND pass=?");
    execute($sth, $name, $pass);
This has a number of advantages: the DBMS library is responsible for properly quoting the values and because of the way the variables are bound to the query, they can never be treated as anything other than data for the particular place they have in the prepared statement. This effectively turns the injection attempt above into a query like:
    SELECT id FROM users WHERE name='\' OR 1=1 ' AND pass='\' OR 1=1 LIMIT 1';
which is unlikely to authenticate.

Another way to defend against injections is by ensuring that all user input is passed through a database specific quoting function before being used in a query:

    $name = db_quote($name);
    $pass = db_quote($pass);
    SELECT id FROM users WHERE name=$name AND pass=$pass;
Depending on the language and database API, this method may also be fairly portable.

The final recommended technique is also the most complicated; but it can provide an additional level of security if stored procedures are available for the DBMS. Stored procedures are queries (and more complicated functions) that are created by the database administrator and stored with the database. These procedures are then called by the application code to do any queries that they require. The equivalent of the prepare functionality is done on the procedures at the time they are stored and with proper coding, this will prevent injections. One of the main advantages is that these procedures run with the privileges of the user that stored them, instead of the user invoking them and this allows the application to have a much more limited set of privileges than it would normally require. The upshot is that it can protect the database from reading or writing even if the application is subverted in some way.

SQL injections are clearly a serious security problem, but one that can be thwarted relatively easily once one understands the problem and the ways to program around it.

Comments (23 posted)

New vulnerabilities

firebird2: buffer overflow

Package(s):firebird2 CVE #(s):CVE-2004-2043
Created:March 23, 2006 Updated:March 24, 2006
Description: The firebird2 database has a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by remote users to crash the application.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1014-1 2006-03-23

Comments (none posted)

freeradius: authentication bypass

Package(s):freeradius CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1354
Created:March 24, 2006 Updated:June 5, 2006
Description: An unspecified vulnerability in FreeRADIUS 1.0.0 up to 1.1.0 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication or cause a denial of service (server crash) via "Insufficient input validation" in the EAP-MSCHAPv2 state machine module.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1089-1 2006-06-03
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:066 2006-04-05
Gentoo 200604-03 2006-04-04
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0271-01 2006-04-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:019 2006-03-28
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:060 2006-03-23

Comments (none posted)

nethack: privilege escalation

Package(s):nethack CVE #(s):
Created:March 24, 2006 Updated:March 24, 2006
Description: The rogue-like games NetHack, Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye are vulnerable to local privilege escalation vulnerabilities that could potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code as other users.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200603-23 2006-03-23

Comments (none posted)

RealPlayer: buffer overflow

Package(s):RealPlayer CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0323
Created:March 23, 2006 Updated:March 27, 2006
Description: RealPlayer has a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Flash Media .swf file processing code. If a user is tricked into playing a maliciously formed Flash Media file, arbitrary code may be executed with the privileges of the user.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200603-24 2006-03-26
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:018 2006-03-23
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0257-01 2006-03-22

Comments (none posted)

Updated vulnerabilities

ADOdb: PostgresSQL command injection

Package(s):adodb CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0410
Created:February 6, 2006 Updated:April 17, 2006
Description: Andy Staudacher discovered that ADOdb does not properly sanitize all parameters. By sending specifically crafted requests to an application that uses ADOdb and a PostgreSQL backend, an attacker might exploit the flaw to execute arbitrary SQL queries on the host.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200604-07 2006-04-14
Debian DSA-1031-1 2006-04-08
Debian DSA-1030-1 2006-04-08
Debian DSA-1029-1 2006-04-08
Gentoo 200602-02 2006-02-06

Comments (none posted)

apache: cross-site scripting

Package(s):apache CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3352
Created:December 14, 2005 Updated:May 10, 2006
Description: Versions 1 and 2 of the apache web server suffer from a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the mod_imap module; see this bugzilla entry for details.
Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2006-129-01 2006-05-10
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:004 2006-02-24
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:175406 2006-02-18
Gentoo 200602-03 2006-02-06
Fedora FEDORA-2006-052 2006-01-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0158-01 2006-01-17
Ubuntu USN-241-1 2006-01-12
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0074 2005-12-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:007 2006-01-05
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0159-01 2006-01-05
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.029 2005-12-14

Comments (none posted)

beagle: untrusted search path vulnerability

Package(s):beagle CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1296
Created:March 21, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Beagle 0.2.2.1 might allow local users to gain privileges via a malicious beagle-info program in the current working directory, or possibly directories specified in the PATH.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2006-188 2006-03-21

Comments (none posted)

blender: integer overflow

Package(s):blender CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4470
Created:January 6, 2006 Updated:June 15, 2006
Description: Damian Put discovered that Blender did not properly validate a 'length' value in .blend files. Negative values led to an insufficiently sized memory allocation. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted .blend file, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Blender user.
Alerts:
Debian-Testing DTSA-29-1 2006-06-15
Debian DSA-1039-1 2006-04-24
Gentoo 200601-08 2006-01-13
Ubuntu USN-238-2 2006-01-06
Ubuntu USN-238-1 2006-01-06

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)

cairo: denial of service

Package(s):cairo CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0528
Created:March 21, 2006 Updated:March 31, 2006
Description: The cairo library (libcairo), as used in GNOME Evolution and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent client crash) via an attached text file that contains "Content-Disposition: inline" in the header, and a very long line in the body, which causes the client to repeatedly crash until the e-mail message is manually removed, possibly due to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using an XML attachment.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:007 2006-03-31
Ubuntu USN-265-1 2006-03-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:057 2006-03-20

Comments (none posted)

ktools: buffer overflow

Package(s):centericq CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3863
Created:December 7, 2005 Updated:August 29, 2006
Description: From the Debian-Testing alert: Mehdi Oudad "deepfear" and Kevin Fernandez "Siegfried" from the Zone-H Research Team discovered a buffer overflow in kkstrtext.h of the ktools library, which is included in (at least) centericq and motor.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200608-27 2006-08-29
Debian DSA-1088-1 2006-06-03
Debian DSA-1083-1 2006-05-31
Gentoo 200512-11 2005-12-20
Debian-Testing DTSA-23-1 2005-12-05

Comments (none posted)

cpio: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):cpio CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4268
Created:January 2, 2006 Updated:March 17, 2010
Description: Richard Harms discovered that cpio did not sufficiently validate file properties when creating archives. Files with e. g. a very large size caused a buffer overflow. By tricking a user or an automatic backup system into putting a specially crafted file into a cpio archive, a local attacker could probably exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the target user (which is likely root in an automatic backup system).
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2010:0145 2010-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0145-01 2010-03-15
rPath rPSA-2007-0094-1 2007-05-07
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0245-02 2007-05-01
Ubuntu USN-234-1 2006-01-02

Comments (none posted)

crossfire: buffer overflow

Package(s):crossfire CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1236
Created:March 20, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: A buffer overflow has been discovered in the crossfire game which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1009-1 2006-03-21

Comments (none posted)

crossfire: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):crossfire CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1010
Created:March 14, 2006 Updated:April 24, 2006
Description: It was discovered that Crossfire, a multiplayer adventure game, performs insufficient bounds checking on network packets when run in "oldsocketmode", which may possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200604-11 2006-04-22
Debian DSA-1001-1 2006-03-14

Comments (none posted)

curl: heap-based buffer overflow

Package(s):curl CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1061
Created:March 21, 2006 Updated:June 28, 2006
Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in cURL and libcURL 7.15.0 through 7.15.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a TFTP URL (tftp://) with a valid hostname and a long path.
Alerts:
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.012 2006-06-28
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0016 2006-03-24
Gentoo 200603-19 2006-03-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-189 2006-03-21

Comments (none posted)

curl: buffer overflow

Package(s):curl CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4077
Created:December 8, 2005 Updated:March 27, 2006
Description: The curl file transfer utility has a buffer overflow vulnerability in the URL authentication code. If an overly long URL is used, a buffer overflow can result, allowing for local unauthorized access.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200603-25 2006-03-27
Debian DSA-919-2 2006-03-10
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0072 2005-12-16
Red Hat RHSA-2005:875-01 2005-12-20
Gentoo 200512-09 2005-12-16
Ubuntu USN-228-1 2005-12-12
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1137 2005-12-12
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1136 2005-12-12
Debian DSA-919-1 2005-12-12
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.028 2005-12-10
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:224 2005-12-08
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1129 2005-12-08
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1130 2005-12-08

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)

dia: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):dia CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2966
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:
Debian DSA-1025-1 2006-04-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:187 2005-10-20
Gentoo 200510-06 2005-10-06
Debian DSA-847-1 2005-10-08
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:022 2005-10-07
Ubuntu USN-193-1 2005-10-04

Comments (none posted)

drupal: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):drupal CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1225 CVE-2006-1226 CVE-2006-1227 CVE-2006-1228
Created:March 17, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: The Drupal Security Team discovered several vulnerabilities in Drupal, a fully-featured content management and discussion engine.
  • Due to missing input sanitizing a remote attacker could inject headers of outgoing e-mail messages and use Drupal as a spam proxy. (CVE-2006-1225)
  • Missing input sanity checks allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. (CVE-2006-1226)
  • Menu items created with the menu.module lacked access control, which might allow remote attackers to access administrator pages. (CVE-2006-1227)
  • Markus Petrux discovered a bug in the session fixation which may allow remote attackers to gain Drupal user privileges. (CVE-2006-1228)
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1007-1 2006-03-17

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: format string issues

Package(s):evolution CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2549 CAN-2005-2550
Created:August 15, 2005 Updated:March 23, 2006
Description: Evolution has format string issues. SITIC advisory SA05-001 contains more information.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1016-1 2006-03-23
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:054 2005-09-16
Red Hat RHSA-2005:267-01 2005-08-29
Gentoo 200508-12 2005-08-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:141 2005-08-17
Fedora FEDORA-2005-742 2005-08-11
Fedora FEDORA-2005-743 2005-08-11

Comments (2 posted)

fetchmail: multidrop bug

Package(s):fetchmail CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4348
Created:December 20, 2005 Updated:May 27, 2006
Description: Fetchmail contains a bug which allows a malicious mail server to crash the client by sending a message without headers. This occurs when running in multidrop mode.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2006-0084-1 2006-05-26
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:164512 2006-05-12
Slackware SSA:2006-045-01 2006-02-15
Debian DSA-939-1 2006-01-13
Ubuntu USN-233-1 2006-01-02
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:236 2005-12-23
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1187 2005-12-20
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1186 2005-12-20

Comments (none posted)

flash-plugin: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):flash-plugin CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0024
Created:March 16, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: The Macromedia Flash Player plugin has an arbitrary code execution vulnerability that may be triggered by opening a maliciously created Macromedia Flash file.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200603-20 2006-03-21
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:015 2006-03-21
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0268-01 2006-03-15

Comments (none posted)

flex: buffer overflow

Package(s):flex CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0459
Created:March 7, 2006 Updated:March 28, 2006
Description: Chris Moore discovered a buffer overflow in a particular class of lexicographical scanners generated by flex. This could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by processing specially crafted user-defined input to an application that uses a flex scanner for parsing.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1020-1 2006-03-28
Gentoo 200603-07 2006-03-10
Ubuntu USN-260-1 2006-03-06

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)

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)

gnupg: incorrect signature verification

Package(s):gnupg CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0049
Created:March 13, 2006 Updated:May 15, 2006
Description: Another vulnerability has been found in GnuPG. "Signature verification of non-detached signatures may give a positive result but when extracting the signed data, this data may be prepended or appended with extra data not covered by the signature. Thus it is possible for an attacker to take any signed message and inject extra arbitrary data."
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:185355 2006-05-12
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0014 2006-03-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0266-01 2006-03-15
Slackware SSA:2006-072-02 2006-03-14
Fedora FEDORA-2006-147 2006-03-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:055 2006-03-13
Ubuntu USN-264-1 2006-03-13
Debian DSA-993-2 2006-03-13
Gentoo 200603-08 2006-03-10
Debian DSA-993-1 2006-03-10

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)

gzip: arbitrary command execution

Package(s):gzip CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0758
Created:August 1, 2005 Updated:January 10, 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:
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.002 2007-01-08
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:027 2006-01-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:026 2006-01-30
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:158801 2005-11-14
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:157696 2005-08-10
Ubuntu USN-161-1 2005-08-04
Ubuntu USN-158-1 2005-08-01

Comments (2 posted)

ilohamail: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):ilohamail CVE #(s):CVE-2005-1120
Created:March 20, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that ilohamail, a lightweight multilingual web-based IMAP/POP3 client, does not always sanitize input provided by users which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1010-1 2006-03-20

Comments (none posted)

imagemagick: arbitrary command execution

Package(s):imagemagick CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4601 CVE-2006-0082
Created:January 24, 2006 Updated:March 24, 2006
Description: Florian Weimer discovered that the delegate code did not correctly handle file names which embed shell commands (CVE-2005-4601). Daniel Kobras found a format string vulnerability in the SetImageInfo() function (CVE-2006-0082). By tricking a user into processing an image file with a specially crafted file name, these two vulnerabilities could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with the user's privileges. These vulnerability become particularly critical if malicious images are sent as email attachments and the email client uses imagemagick to convert/display the images (e. g. Thunderbird and Gnus).
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:006 2006-03-17
Gentoo 200602-13 2006-02-26
Slackware SSA:2006-045-03 2006-02-15
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0178-01 2006-02-14
Gentoo 200602-06 2006-02-13
Debian DSA-957-2 2006-01-31
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:024 2006-01-26
Debian DSA-957-1 2006-01-26
Ubuntu USN-246-1 2006-01-24

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)

ipsec-tools: denial of service

Package(s):ipsec-tools CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3732
Created:December 1, 2005 Updated:June 8, 2006
Description: ipsec-tools has a remote denial of service vulnerability in the racoon daemon. If racoon is running in aggressive mode, it fails to check all peer payloads during When the daemon the IKE negotiation phase, allowing a malicious peer to crash the daemon. One should always be careful around aggressive racoons.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:190941 2006-06-06
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0267-01 2006-04-25
Debian DSA-965-1 2006-02-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:020 2006-01-25
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:070 2005-12-20
Gentoo 200512-04 2005-12-12
Ubuntu USN-221-1 2005-12-01

Comments (none posted)

kdebase: local root vulnerability

Package(s):kdebase CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2494
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0582-01 2006-08-10
Debian DSA-815-1 2005-09-16
Slackware SSA:2005-251-01 2005-09-09
Ubuntu USN-176-1 2005-09-07
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:160 2005-09-06

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: 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)

kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0741 CVE-2006-0555
Created:March 2, 2006 Updated:March 23, 2006
Description: The Linux kernel has multiple vulnerabilities including a sanity check problem with sys_mbind that can lead to a local denial of service, an ELF vulnerability that can crash Intel EM64T systems and an NFS client panic problem that can be triggered by direct I/O from a local user.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:059 2006-03-22
Ubuntu USN-263-1 2006-03-13
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0012 2006-03-10
Fedora FEDORA-2006-131 2006-03-02

Comments (none posted)

kernel multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3527 CVE-2005-3783 CVE-2005-3784 CVE-2005-3805 CVE-2005-3806 CVE-2005-3808
Created:January 20, 2006 Updated:April 18, 2006
Description: Here's another set of vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel:
  • A race condition in the 2.6 kernel could allow a local user to cause a DoS by triggering a core dump in one thread while another thread has a pending SIGSTOP (CVE-2005-3527).
  • The ptrace functionality in 2.6 kernels prior to 2.6.14.2, using CLONE_THREAD, does not use the thread group ID to check whether it is attaching to itself, which could allow local users to cause a DoS (CVE-2005-3783).
  • The auto-reap child process in 2.6 kernels prior to 2.6.15 include processes with ptrace attached, which leads to a dangling ptrace reference and allows local users to cause a crash (CVE-2005-3784).
  • A locking problem in the POSIX timer cleanup handling on exit on kernels 2.6.10 to 2.6.14 when running on SMP systems, allows a local user to cause a deadlock involving process CPU timers (CVE-2005-3805).
  • The IPv6 flowlabel handling code in 2.4 and 2.6 kernels prior to 2.4.32 and 2.6.14 modifies the wrong variable in certain circumstances, which allows local users to corrupt kernel memory or cause a crash by triggering a free of non-allocated memory (CVE-2005-3806).
  • An integer overflow in 2.6.14 and earlier could allow a local user to cause a hang via 64-bit mmap calls that are not properly handled on a 32-bit system (CVE-2005-3808).
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:072 2006-04-17
Debian DSA-1018-2 2006-04-05
Debian DSA-1018-1 2006-03-26
Debian DSA-1017-1 2006-03-23
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:157459-2 2006-03-16
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:157459-1 2006-03-16
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:157459-4 2006-03-16
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:157459-3 2006-03-16
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:012 2006-02-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:044 2006-02-21
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0191-01 2006-02-01
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:018 2006-01-20

Comments (none posted)

kernel-patch-vserver: missing attribute support

Package(s):kernel-patch-vserver util-vserver CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4347 CVE-2005-4418
Created:March 21, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Debian vserver support for Linux. Bjørn Steinbrink discovered that the chroot barrier is not set correctly with util-vserver which may result in unauthorized escapes from a vserver to the host system. (CVE-2005-4347) The default policy of util-vserver is set to trust all unknown capabilities instead of considering them as insecure. (CVE-2005-4418)
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1011-1 2006-03-21

Comments (none posted)

libapreq2: algorithm weakness

Package(s):libapreq2-perl apache2 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0042
Created:March 14, 2006 Updated:April 18, 2006
Description: An algorithm weakness has been discovered in Apache2::Request, the generic request library for Apache2 which can be exploited remotely and cause a denial of service via CPU consumption.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200604-08 2006-04-17
Debian DSA-1000-2 2006-04-03
Debian DSA-1000-1 2006-03-14

Comments (5 posted)

libgadu: memory alignment bug

Package(s):libgadu CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2370
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.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-813-1 2005-09-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:627-01 2005-08-09
Debian DSA-769-1 2005-07-29

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)

libpam-ldap: authentication bypass

Package(s):libpam-ldap CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2641
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.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2006-0183-1 2006-10-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:190 2005-10-20
Gentoo 200508-22 2005-08-31
Debian DSA-785-1 2005-08-25

Comments (none posted)

libpng: heap based buffer overflow

Package(s):libpng CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0481
Created:February 13, 2006 Updated:December 15, 2008
Description: A heap based buffer overflow bug was found in the way libpng strips alpha channels from a PNG image. An attacker could create a carefully crafted PNG image file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with libpng to crash or execute arbitrary code when the file is opened by a victim.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200812-15 2008-12-14
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0205-01 2006-02-13

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)

lynx: arbitrary command execution

Package(s):lynx CVE #(s):CVE-2005-2929
Created:November 14, 2005 Updated:September 14, 2009
Description: An arbitrary command execute bug was found in the lynx "lynxcgi:" URI handler. An attacker could create a web page redirecting to a malicious URL which could execute arbitrary code as the user running lynx.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200909-15 2009-09-12
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152832 2005-12-17
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.026 2005-12-03
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1079 2005-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1078 2005-11-14
Gentoo 200511-09 2005-11-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:211 2005-11-12
Red Hat RHSA-2005:839-01 2005-11-11

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: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):mozilla CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4134 CVE-2006-0292 CVE-2006-0296
Created:February 2, 2006 Updated:May 4, 2006
Description: Mozilla has three new vulnerabilities. The Javascript interpreter has a problem with dereferencing objects. A user can visit a specially crafted web page which can crash the browser or cause it to execute arbitrary code.

The XULDocument.persist() function has a bug that can be triggered by viewing specially crafted web sites, RDF data can be injected into the localstore.rdf file, allowing arbitrary javascript code to be executed.

The Mozilla history saving mechanism is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, visiting sites with extra-long titles can cause a crash or very slow startup the next time the browser is run.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-275-1 2006-04-27
Debian DSA-1046-1 2006-04-27
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:180036 2006-02-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:037 2006-02-07
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:036 2006-02-07
Fedora FEDORA-2006-076 2006-02-02
Fedora FEDORA-2006-075 2006-02-02
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0200-01 2006-02-02
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0199-01 2006-02-02

Comments (none posted)

Mozilla Thunderbird: remote code execution and DoS

Package(s):mozilla-thunderbird CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0884
Created:March 3, 2006 Updated:May 4, 2006
Description: The WYSIWYG rendering engine in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 and earlier allows user-complicit attackers to bypass javascript security settings and obtain sensitive information or cause a crash via an e-mail containing a javascript URI in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME tag, which is executed when the user edits the e-mail.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1051-1 2006-05-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:052 2006-03-02

Comments (1 posted)

nbd: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):nbd CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3534
Created:January 6, 2006 Updated:March 7, 2011
Description: Kurt Fitzner discovered that the NBD (network block device) server did not correctly verify the maximum size of request packets. By sending specially crafted large request packets, a remote attacker who is allowed to access the server could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:001 2006-01-13
Ubuntu USN-237-1 2006-01-06

Comments (none 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)

ntp: uses wrong gid

Package(s):ntp CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2496
Created:August 26, 2005 Updated:August 11, 2006
Description: When starting xntpd with the -u option and specifying the group by using a string not a numeric gid the daemon uses the gid of the user not the group. This problem is now fixed by this update.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0393-01 2006-08-10
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:156 2005-09-06
Debian DSA-801-1 2005-09-05
Ubuntu USN-175-1 2005-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2005-812 2005-08-26

Comments (none posted)

openmotif: buffer overflows

Package(s):openmotif CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3964
Created:December 29, 2005 Updated:July 27, 2006
Description: The libUil component of the OpenMotif toolkit has a pair of buffer overflow vulnerabilities that can possibly be used for the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2006-854 2006-07-26
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0272-01 2006-04-04
Gentoo 200512-16 2005-12-28

Comments (none posted)

OpenSSH: double shell expansion

Package(s):openssh CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0225
Created:January 23, 2006 Updated:July 20, 2006
Description: OpenSSH has a double shell expansion vulnerability in local to local and remote to remote copy with scp.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0298-01 2006-07-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0044-01 2006-03-07
Ubuntu USN-255-1 2006-02-21
Gentoo 200602-11 2006-02-20
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:168935 2006-02-18
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.003 2006-02-18
Slackware SSA:2006-045-06 2006-02-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:008 2006-02-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:034 2006-02-06
Fedora FEDORA-2006-056 2006-01-23

Comments (none posted)

PEAR-Auth: potential authentication bypass

Package(s):pear-auth CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0868
Created:March 17, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: PEAR-Auth, versions 1.2.4 and before, did not correctly validate data passed to the DB and LDAP containers. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability to bypass the authentication mechanism by injecting specially crafted input to the underlying storage containers.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200603-13 2006-03-17

Comments (none posted)

PeerCast: buffer overflow

Package(s):peercast CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1148
Created:March 21, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the procConnectArgs function in servmgr.cpp in PeerCast before 0.1217 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP GET request with a long (1) parameter name or (2) value in a URL, which triggers the overflow in the nextCGIarg function in servhs.cpp.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200603-17 2006-03-21

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)

php: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):php CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0207 CVE-2006-0208
Created:February 2, 2006 Updated:March 23, 2006
Description: PHP has a response splitting vulnerability, remote attackers can inject arbitrary HTTP headers via an unknown method, possibly using a Set-Cookie header. Also, a number of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities can be used by remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts or html pages.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200603-22 2006-03-22
Ubuntu USN-261-1 2006-03-10
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:028 2006-02-01

Comments (none posted)

phpbb2: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):phpbb2 CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3310 CVE-2005-3415 CVE-2005-3416 CVE-2005-3417 CVE-2005-3418 CVE-2005-3419 CVE-2005-3420 CVE-2005-3536 CVE-2005-3537
Created:December 22, 2005 Updated:February 11, 2008
Description: The phpbb2 web forum has a number of vulnerabilities including: a web script injection problem, a protection mechanism bypass, a security check bypass, a remote global variable bypass, cross site scripting vulnerabilities, an SQL injection vulnerability, a remote regular expression modification problem, missing input sanitizing, and a missing request validation problem.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-925-1 2005-12-22

Comments (none posted)

phpMyAdmin: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):phpmyadmin CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4079 CVE-2005-3665
Created:December 12, 2005 Updated:November 20, 2006
Description: Stefan Esser reported multiple vulnerabilities found in phpMyAdmin. The $GLOBALS variable allows modifying the global variable import_blacklist to open phpMyAdmin to local and remote file inclusion, depending on your PHP version (CVE-2005-4079, PMASA-2005-9). Furthermore, it is also possible to conduct an XSS attack via the $HTTP_HOST variable and a local and remote file inclusion because the contents of the variable are under total control of the attacker (CVE-2005-3665, PMASA-2005-8).
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1207-2 2006-11-19
Debian DSA-1207-1 2006-11-09
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:004 2006-01-26
Gentoo 200512-03 2005-12-11

Comments (none posted)

pound: HTTP Request Smuggling Attack

Package(s):pound CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3751
Created:January 10, 2006 Updated:June 8, 2006
Description: HTTP requests with conflicting Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding headers could lead to HTTP Request Smuggling Attack, which can be exploited to bypass packet filters or poison web caches.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200606-05 2006-06-07
Debian DSA-934-1 2006-01-09

Comments (none posted)

pstotext: remote execution of arbitrary code

Package(s):pstotext netpbm CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2471
Created:August 1, 2005 Updated:March 28, 2006
Description: Max Vozeler reported that pstotext calls the GhostScript interpreter on untrusted PostScript files without specifying the -dSAFER option. An attacker could craft a malicious PostScript file and entice a user to run pstotext on it, resulting in the execution of arbitrary commands with the permissions of the user running pstotext. See this Secunia advisory for more information.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1021-1 2006-03-28
Debian DSA-792-1 2005-08-31
Red Hat RHSA-2005:743-01 2005-08-22
Fedora FEDORA-2005-728 2005-08-17
Fedora FEDORA-2005-727 2005-08-17
Ubuntu USN-164-1 2005-08-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:133 2005-08-09
Gentoo 200508-04 2005-08-05
Gentoo 200507-29 2005-07-31

Comments (2 posted)

Py2Play: remote execution of arbitrary Python code

Package(s):Py2Play CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2875
Created:September 19, 2005 Updated:September 6, 2006
Description: Py2Play uses Python pickles to send objects over a peer-to-peer game network, that clients accept without restriction the objects and code sent by peers. A remote attacker participating in a Py2Play-powered game can send malicious Python pickles, resulting in the execution of arbitrary Python code on the targeted game client.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200509-09:02 2005-09-17
Debian DSA-856-1 2005-10-10
Gentoo 200509-09 2005-09-17

Comments (none posted)

scorched3d: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):scorched3d CVE #(s):
Created:November 15, 2005 Updated:August 11, 2006
Description: Luigi Auriemma discovered multiple flaws in the Scorched 3D game server, including a format string vulnerability and several buffer overflows. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to crash a game server or execute arbitrary code with the rights of the game server user.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200511-12:03 2005-11-15
Gentoo 200511-12 2005-11-15

Comments (none posted)

sendmail: remotely exploitable race condition

Package(s):sendmail CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0058
Created:March 22, 2006 Updated:March 24, 2006
Description: Sendmail suffers from a race condition which may be exploitable by a remote attacker to run arbitrary code as root. Sendmail 8.13.6 contains a fix for the problem. See this CERT advisory for (a little) more information.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:186277 2006-03-23
Debian DSA-1015-1 2006-03-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:058 2006-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2006-194 2006-03-22
Fedora FEDORA-2006-193 2006-03-22
Slackware SSA:2006-081-01 2006-03-22
Gentoo 200603-21 2006-03-22
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.007 2006-03-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:017 2006-03-22
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0264-01 2006-03-22

Comments (none posted)

snmptrapfmt: temporary file vulnerability

Package(s):snmptrapfmt CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0050
Created:March 22, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: The snmptrapfmt utility contains a temporary file vulnerability which could be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite files.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1013-1 2006-03-22

Comments (none posted)

squirrelmail: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):squirrelmail CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0188 CVE-2006-0195 CVE-2006-0377
Created:February 28, 2006 Updated:June 8, 2006
Description: Webmail.php in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 to 1.4.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web pages into the right frame via a URL in the right_frame parameter. NOTE: this has been called a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue, but it is different than what is normally identified as XSS. (CVE-2006-0188)

Interpretation conflict in the MagicHTML filter in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 to 1.4.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via style sheet specifiers with invalid (1) "/*" and "*/" comments, or (2) a newline in a "url" specifier, which is processed by certain web browsers including Internet Explorer. (CVE-2006-0195)

CRLF injection vulnerability in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 to 1.4.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary IMAP commands via newline characters in the mailbox parameter of the sqimap_mailbox_select command, aka "IMAP injection." (CVE-2006-0377)

Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:190884 2006-06-06
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0283-01 2006-05-03
Gentoo 200603-09 2006-03-12
Debian DSA-988-1 2006-03-08
Fedora FEDORA-2006-133 2006-03-03
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:049 2006-02-27

Comments (none posted)

sudo: vulnerability via scripts

Package(s):sudo CVE #(s):CAN-2005-4158 CVE-2006-0151
Created:December 16, 2005 Updated:September 1, 2006
Description: Perl and Python scripts run via Sudo can be subverted.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:159 2006-08-31
Debian DSA-946-2 2006-04-08
Slackware SSA:2006-045-08 2006-02-15
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:002 2006-01-20
Debian DSA-946-1 2006-01-20
Ubuntu USN-235-2 2006-01-09
Ubuntu USN-235-1 2006-01-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:234 2005-12-20
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1147 2005-12-16

Comments (none posted)

tar: buffer overflow

Package(s):tar CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0300
Created:February 22, 2006 Updated:April 10, 2006
Description: A buffer overflow (exploitable via a carefully-crafted archive file) has been discovered in GNU tar, versions 1.14 and above.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:183571-2 2006-04-04
Gentoo 200603-06 2006-03-10
Debian DSA-987-1 2006-03-07
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.006 2006-03-05
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0232-01 2006-03-01
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0010 2006-02-24
Ubuntu USN-257-1 2006-02-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:046 2006-02-21

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: 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)

tetex: integer overflows

Package(s):tetex CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3191 CVE-2005-3192 CVE-2005-3193 CVE-2005-3624 CVE-2005-3625 CVE-2005-3626 CVE-2005-3627 CVE-2005-3628
Created:January 19, 2006 Updated:May 23, 2006
Description: The teTeX PDF parsing library has an integer overflow vulnerability. A carefully crafted PDF file can be used by an attacker to crash teTeX and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2006-142-01 2006-05-23
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152868 2006-05-12
Gentoo 200603-02 2006-03-04
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0160-01 2006-01-19

Comments (none posted)

texinfo: temporary file vulnerability

Package(s):texinfo CVE #(s):CAN-2005-3011
Created:October 5, 2005 Updated:November 9, 2006
Description: Texinfo prior to version 4.8-r1 suffers from a temporary file vulnerability.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-194-2 2006-01-09
Fedora FEDORA-2005-991 2005-10-14
Fedora FEDORA-2005-990 2005-10-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:175 2005-10-06
Ubuntu USN-194-1 2005-10-06
Gentoo 200510-04 2005-10-05

Comments (none posted)

tin: buffer overflow

Package(s):tin CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0804
Created:February 19, 2006 Updated:November 24, 2006
Description: An allocation off-by-one bug exists in the TIN news reader version 1.8.0 and earlier which can lead to a buffer overflow.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200611-18 2006-11-24
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.005 2006-02-19

Comments (none posted)

unzip: long file name buffer overflow

Package(s):unzip CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4667
Created:February 6, 2006 Updated:May 2, 2007
Description: A buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long filename command line argument. NOTE: since the overflow occurs in a non-setuid program, there are not many scenarios under which it poses a vulnerability, unless unzip is passed long arguments when it is invoked from other programs.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0203-02 2007-05-01
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:180159 2006-04-04
Debian DSA-1012-1 2006-03-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:050 2006-02-27
Ubuntu USN-248-2 2006-02-15
Ubuntu USN-248-1 2006-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2006-098 2006-02-06

Comments (1 posted)

uw-imap: buffer overflow

Package(s):uw-imap CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2933
Created:October 11, 2005 Updated:April 10, 2006
Description: "infamous41md" discovered a buffer overflow in uw-imap, the University of Washington's IMAP Server that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:184098 2006-04-04
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:170411 2006-04-04
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1112 2005-12-08
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1115 2005-12-08
Red Hat RHSA-2005:850-01 2005-12-06
Red Hat RHSA-2005:848-01 2005-12-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:194 2005-10-26
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0055 2005-10-07
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:189 2005-10-20
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:023 2005-10-14
Gentoo 200510-10 2005-10-11
Debian DSA-861-1 2005-10-11

Comments (none posted)

w3c-libwww: possible stack overflow

Package(s):w3c-libwww CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3183
Created:October 14, 2005 Updated:May 2, 2007
Description: xtensive testing of libwww's handling of multipart/byteranges content from HTTP/1.1 servers revealed multiple logical flaws and bugs in Library/src/HTBound.c
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0208-02 2007-05-01
Ubuntu USN-220-1 2005-12-01
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:210 2005-11-09
Fedora FEDORA-2005-953 2005-10-07
Fedora FEDORA-2005-952 2005-10-07

Comments (1 posted)

webcalendar: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):webcalendar CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3949 CVE-2005-3961 CVE-2005-3982
Created:March 15, 2006 Updated:May 15, 2006
Description: The PHP-based webcalendar package suffers from three vulnerabilities: a set of SQL injection problems (CVE-2005-3949), an input sanitizing failure allowing local files to be overwritten (CVE-2005-3961), and a response splitting vulnerability (CVE-2005-3982).
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1002-1 2006-03-15

Comments (none posted)

wzdftpd: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):wzdftpd CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3081
Created:March 17, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: "kcope" discovered that the wzdftpd FTP server lacks input sanitizing for the SITE command, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1006-1 2005-03-16

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)

xloadimage: buffer overflows

Package(s):xloadimage CVE #(s):CAN-2005-3178
Created:October 10, 2005 Updated:May 15, 2006
Description: Three buffer overflows were discovered in xloadimage when handling the image title name. A malicious user can construct a NIFF file that when viewed and processed (with either zoom, reduce or rotate) by xloadimage, will cause the program to overwrite the return address and execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152923 2006-05-12
Gentoo 200510-26 2005-10-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:192 2005-10-20
Red Hat RHSA-2005:802-01 2005-10-18
Debian DSA-859-1 2005-10-10
Debian DSA-858-1 2005-10-10
Fedora FEDORA-2005-981 2005-10-10

Comments (none posted)

xorg-x11-server: privilege escalation

Package(s):xorg-x11-server CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0745
Created:March 20, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: Coverity scanned the X.Org source code for problems and reported their findings to the X.Org development team. Upon analysis, Alan Coopersmith, a member of the X.Org development team, noticed a couple of serious security issues in the findings. In particular, the Xorg server can be exploited for root privilege escalation by passing a path to malicious modules using the -modulepath command line argument. Also, the Xorg server can be exploited to overwrite any root writable file on the filesystem with the -logfile command line argument. See this bulletin for more details.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:016 2006-03-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:056 2006-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2006-172 2006-03-20

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

Comments (1 posted)

xpdf: potential vulnerabilities

Package(s):xpdf gpdf CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1244
Created:February 27, 2006 Updated:April 13, 2006
Description: Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf, which are also present in gpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer with Gtk bindings.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-270-1 2006-04-13
Debian DSA-1019-1 2006-03-24
Debian DSA-998-1 2006-03-14
Debian DSA-984-1 2006-03-02
Debian DSA-983-1 2006-02-28
Debian DSA-982-1 2006-02-27

Comments (none posted)

xpdf: denial of service

Package(s):xpdf kpdf CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2097
Created:August 9, 2005 Updated:August 2, 2006
Description: A flaw was discovered in Xpdf in that could allow an attacker to construct a carefully crafted PDF file that would cause Xpdf to consume all available disk space in /tmp when opened.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1136-1 2006-08-02
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:138-1 2005-09-19
Debian DSA-780-1 2005-08-22
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:019 2005-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2005-732 2005-08-17
Fedora FEDORA-2005-733 2005-08-17
Gentoo 200508-08 2005-08-16
Fedora FEDORA-2005-730 2005-08-15
Fedora FEDORA-2005-729 2005-08-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:136 2005-08-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:135 2005-08-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:134 2005-08-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:138 2005-08-11
Red Hat RHSA-2005:708-01 2005-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2005:706-01 2005-08-09
Red Hat RHSA-2005:671-01 2005-08-09
Red Hat RHSA-2005:670-01 2005-08-09
Ubuntu USN-163-1 2005-08-09

Comments (none posted)

xpdf: integer overflows

Package(s):xpdf, poppler, cupsys, tetex-bin CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3624 CVE-2005-3625 CVE-2005-3626 CVE-2005-3627
Created:January 5, 2006 Updated:November 30, 2006
Description: xpdf has a number of integer overflows. A remote attacker can trick a user into opening a maliciously crafted pdf file, allowing the attacker to execute code with the privileges of the local user. This also affects the Poppler library, cupsys and tetex-bin.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1220 2006-11-30
Debian DSA-932-1 2006-01-09
Debian DSA-931-1 2006-01-09
Ubuntu USN-236-2 2006-01-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:008 2006-01-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:006 2006-01-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:005 2006-01-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:004 2006-01-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:003 2006-01-05
Ubuntu USN-236-1 2006-01-05

Comments (none posted)

xpvm: insecure temp file

Package(s):xpvm CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2240
Created:March 16, 2006 Updated:March 22, 2006
Description: The xpvm graphical console and monitor for PVM has an insecure temporary file vulnerability. Local attackers can create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privilege of the user who is running xpvm.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1003-1 2006-03-16

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)

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