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Rainbow tables for password cracking

November 8, 2006

This article was contributed by Jake Edge.

An announcement about a new site offering free 'rainbow tables' on the bugtraq mailing list sparked our interest; what are these tables and what can they be used for? It turns out that rainbow tables are the result of pre-computing various one-way hash functions to facilitate decrypting them. In effect, the right set of tables makes a one-way hash function reversible for certain inputs and the inputs of interest are passwords.

Many applications use one-way hash functions (such as MD5 or SHA1) to store passwords because they hide the password value from prying eyes, but it is easy to compare hashed passwords when a user logs in. This relies on the fact that it is difficult to reverse the hash function and produce the original password, but the application can just apply the hash function to the password presented and compare the output to the stored hash. Operating systems, database management systems, web and other applications often use this method to store their users' passwords.

For those that might want to crack a password, a straightforward, but very time consuming method would be to brute force it. Generate the hashed values for each string in the password search space and compare it to the hashed value of interest; when they match, the password is cracked. If one needed to crack passwords regularly, it might make sense to store the password to hash mappings so that it would just take a lookup to find any previously cracked password. The storage requirements of that kind of table, for any plausible set of potential passwords (say 1-8 alphanumeric characters) are huge. Rainbow tables are a way to reduce the storage requirements substantially while still preserving much of the speed benefits of using a lookup table.

To create a rainbow table, you must first come up with a reduction function that takes a hash as input and maps it to a password in the search space. You then start with a password and repeatedly hash and reduce it several thousand times creating a chain of passwords. You discard all but the first and last password and store that pair. To reverse a particular hash value, you reduce the hash value and look for that password as the end of one of the chains. If you do not find it, then you hash and reduce again. Once you find a matching end of the chain, you use the first password to recreate the chain and the cracked password is the second to last in the chain.

This ingenious scheme comes from a paper presented at the CRYPTO 2003 conference. The paper is a bit dense if you are unfamiliar with the references cited, so the author has a simplified explanation as well.

Rainbow tables are specific to a particular hash algorithm and password search space and that is where the free rainbow tables site comes in handy. There are currently two tables available there, one for MD5 and one for the older Windows DES-based password algorithm. The MD5 version is 36Gb in size and will crack 99.9% of lowercase alphanumeric passwords that are eight characters or less in length. The site also has links to other sites with tables as well as to the Project RainbowCrack site which has source for various programs to generate and use the tables.

The best defense against rainbow tables is 'salt', which has been a part of UNIX passwords since near the beginning of time (UNIX epoch time anyway). Salt is a random string that is added to the password before hashing it and then stored with the password. Linux MD5 passwords store the salt between two dollar signs in the password field in /etc/shadow. This random string effectively multiplies the number of tables required to do a dictionary lookup by the number of individual salt values available. Even just eight bits of salt (and Linux uses much more than that) would require nine terabytes of rainbow table.

While this technique is not particularly effective at recovering OS passwords (at least on Linux), there are quite a number of web applications that store straight MD5 passwords without any salt (and some, sadly, store plaintext passwords). Other applications may do that as well. If the password hashes become exposed via a SQL injection or other flaw, rainbow tables could be just the ticket to breaking into those systems.

Comments (7 posted)

New vulnerabilities

imlib2: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):imlib2 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4806 CVE-2006-4807 CVE-2006-4808 CVE-2006-4809
Created:November 6, 2006 Updated:August 13, 2007
Description: M. Joonas Pihlaja discovered that imlib2 did not sufficiently verify the validity of ARGB, JPG, LBM, PNG, PNM, TGA, and TIFF images. If a user were tricked into viewing or processing a specially crafted image with an application that uses imlib2, the flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:156 2007-08-10
Gentoo 200612-20 2006-12-20
Fedora FEDORA-EXTRAS-2006-004 2006-11-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:198-1 2006-11-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:198 2006-11-06
Ubuntu USN-376-2 2006-11-06
Ubuntu USN-376-1 2006-11-03

Comments (none posted)

ingo1: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):ingo1 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5449
Created:November 3, 2006 Updated:November 27, 2006
Description: It was discovered that the Ingo email filter rules manager performs insufficient escaping of user-provided data in created procmail rules files, which allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200611-22 2006-11-27
Debian DSA-1204-1 2006-11-02

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4572 CVE-2006-4997
Created:November 6, 2006 Updated:January 17, 2007
Description: Some vulnerabilities were discovered in the Linux 2.6 kernel:

There are possibly exploitable bugs in the netfilter for IPv6 code. (CVE-2006-4572)

The ATM subsystem of the Linux kernel could allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (panic) via unknown vectors that cause the ATM subsystem to access the memory of socket buffers after they are freed. (CVE-2006-4997)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0013-01 2007-01-17
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0012-01 2007-01-17
Debian DSA-1237-1 2006-12-17
rPath rPSA-2006-0204-1 2006-11-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:197 2006-11-03

Comments (none posted)

libpam-ldap: insecure password control

Package(s):libpam-ldap CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5170
Created:November 3, 2006 Updated:December 21, 2006
Description: Steve Rigler discovered that the PAM module for authentication against LDAP servers processes PasswordPolicyReponse control messages incorrectly, which might lead to an attacker being able to login into a suspended system account.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200612-19 2006-12-20
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:027 2006-11-24
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0719-01 2006-11-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:201 2006-11-07
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0061 2006-11-03
Debian DSA-1203-1 2006-11-02

Comments (none posted)

libX11: file descriptor leak

Package(s):libX11 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5397
Created:November 7, 2006 Updated:November 8, 2006
Description: The Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:199 2006-11-06

Comments (1 posted)

Mozilla products: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):thunderbird firefox seamonkey CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5463 CVE-2006-5747 CVE-2006-5748 CVE-2006-5464
Created:November 8, 2006 Updated:December 11, 2006
Description: Numerous vulnerabilities have been found in the Mozilla JavaScript and HTML rendering code, leading to possible remote code execution attacks. This CERT advisory contains details.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200612-08 2006-12-10
Gentoo 200612-07 2006-12-10
Gentoo 200612-06 2006-12-10
Debian DSA-1227-1 2006-12-04
Debian DSA-1225-2 2006-12-03
Debian DSA-1225-1 2006-12-03
Debian DSA-1224-1 2006-12-03
Ubuntu USN-381-1 2006-11-16
Ubuntu USN-382-1 2006-11-16
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:068 2006-11-16
Slackware SSA:2006-313-01 2006-11-10
rPath rPSA-2006-0206-1 2006-11-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:206 2006-11-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:205 2006-11-09
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1199 2006-11-08
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0735-01 2006-11-08
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0734-01 2006-11-08
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0733-02 2006-11-08
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1194 2006-11-08
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1192 2006-11-08
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1191 2006-11-08
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1191 2006-11-08

Comments (none posted)

openssh: privilege separation issue

Package(s):openssh CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5794
Created:November 8, 2006 Updated:April 5, 2007
Description: From the OpenSSH 4.5 announcement: "Fix a bug in the sshd privilege separation monitor that weakened its verification of successful authentication. This bug is not known to be exploitable in the absence of additional vulnerabilities."
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-395 2007-04-03
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1215 2006-11-20
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1214 2006-11-20
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:026 2006-11-17
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0063 2006-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0738-01 2006-11-15
rPath rPSA-2006-0207-1 2006-11-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:204 2006-11-08
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.032 2006-11-08

Comments (none posted)

php: buffer overflows

Package(s):php CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5465
Created:November 3, 2006 Updated:January 18, 2010
Description: The Hardened-PHP Project discovered buffer overflows in htmlentities/htmlspecialchars internal routines to the PHP Project. Of course the whole purpose of these functions is to be filled with user input. (The overflow can only be when UTF-8 is used)
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:007 2010-01-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:067 2006-11-15
rPath rPSA-2006-0205-1 2006-11-09
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0731-01 2006-11-10
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0730-01 2006-11-06
Debian DSA-1206-1 2006-11-06
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1169 2006-11-06
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1168 2006-11-06
Slackware SSA:2006-307-01 2006-11-06
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.028 2006-11-06
Ubuntu USN-375-1 2006-11-02
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:196 2006-11-02

Comments (none posted)

postgresql: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):postgresql-8.1 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5540 CVE-2006-5541 CVE-2006-5542
Created:November 3, 2006 Updated:November 8, 2006
Description: Michael Fuhr discovered an incorrect type check when handling unknown literals. By attempting to coerce such a literal to the ANYARRAY type, a local authenticated attacker could cause a server crash. (CVE-2006-5541)

Josh Drake and Alvaro Herrera reported a crash when using aggregate functions in UPDATE statements. A local authenticated attacker could exploit this to crash the server backend. This update disables this construct, since it is not very well defined and forbidden by the SQL standard. (CVE-2006-5540)

Sergey Koposov discovered a flaw in the duration logging. This could cause a server crash under certain circumstances. (CVE-2006-5542)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-369-2 2006-11-01

Comments (none posted)

rpm: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):rpm CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5466
Created:November 6, 2006 Updated:August 28, 2007
Description: An error was found in the RPM library's handling of query reports. In some locales, certain RPM packages would cause the library to crash. If a user was tricked into querying a specially crafted RPM package, the flaw could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-668 2007-08-27
Gentoo 200611-08 2006-11-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:200 2006-11-07
Ubuntu USN-378-1 2006-11-04

Comments (none posted)

texinfo: buffer overflow

Package(s):texinfo CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4810
Created:November 8, 2006 Updated:November 27, 2006
Description: Texinfo contains a buffer overflow which could be exploited (via a specially-crafted info file) to run arbitrary code.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2006-0219-1 2006-11-27
Debian DSA-1219-1 2006-11-27
Gentoo 200611-16 2006-11-21
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.034 2006-11-15
Ubuntu USN-379-1 2006-11-09
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1203 2006-11-09
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1202 2006-11-09
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0727-01 2006-11-08
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:203 2006-11-08

Comments (none posted)

thttpd: insecure temporary files

Package(s):thttpd CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4248
Created:November 3, 2006 Updated:December 1, 2006
Description: Marco d'Itri discovered that thttpd, a small, fast and secure webserver, makes use of insecure temporary files when its logfiles are rotated, which might lead to a denial of service through a symlink attack.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1205-2 2006-12-01
Debian DSA-1205-1 2006-11-02

Comments (none posted)

wireshark: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):wireshark ethereal CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4574 CVE-2006-4805 CVE-2006-5468 CVE-2006-5469 CVE-2006-5740
Created:November 3, 2006 Updated:November 14, 2006
Description: There are multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal):
  • Off-by-one error in the MIME Multipart dissector in Wireshark 0.10.1 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain vectors that trigger an assertion error related to unexpected length values. CVE-2006-4574
  • epan/dissectors/packet-xot.c in the XOT dissector (dissect_xot_pdu) in Wireshark 0.9.8 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an encoded XOT packet that produces a zero length value when it is decoded. CVE-2006-4805
  • Unspecified vulnerability in the HTTP dissector in Wireshark 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors. CVE-2006-5468
  • Unspecified vulnerability in the WBXML dissector in Wireshark 0.10.11 through 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain vectors that trigger a null dereference. CVE-2006-5469
  • Unspecified vulnerability in the LDAP dissector in Wireshark 0.99.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted LDAP packet. CVE-2006-5740
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:065 2006-11-14
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0726-01 2006-11-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:195 2006-11-02
Debian DSA-1201-1 2006-10-31
rPath rPSA-2006-0202-1 2006-11-01
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1140 2006-11-01
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1141 2006-11-01

Comments (none posted)

wv: integer overflow

Package(s):wv CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4513
Created:November 2, 2006 Updated:December 7, 2006
Description: The wv library has an integer overflow vulnerability in the DOC file parser. If a user can be tricked into opening a maliciously crafted MSWord file, a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200612-01 2006-12-07
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:202 2006-11-07
Ubuntu USN-374-1 2006-11-01

Comments (none posted)

Updated vulnerabilities

apache: cross-site scripting

Package(s):apache CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3918
Created:August 9, 2006 Updated:April 4, 2008
Description: From the Red Hat advisory: "A bug was found in Apache where an invalid Expect header sent to the server was returned to the user in an unescaped error message. This could allow an attacker to perform a cross-site scripting attack if a victim was tricked into connecting to a site and sending a carefully crafted Expect header."
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:021 2008-04-04
Ubuntu USN-575-1 2008-02-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:051 2006-09-08
Debian DSA-1167-1 2005-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0619-01 2006-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0618-01 2006-08-08

Comments (none posted)

asterisk: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):asterisk CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5444
Created:October 19, 2006 Updated:December 6, 2006
Description: The Asterisk telephony PBX application has a heap overflow vulnerability in the skinny channel driver. A remote attacker can use this to arbitrarily execute code with the privileges of the Asterisk user. See this vulnerability report for more information.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1229-1 2006-12-06
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:069 2006-11-16
Gentoo 200610-15 2006-10-30
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.024 2006-10-19

Comments (none posted)

bind: denial of service

Package(s):bind CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4095 CVE-2006-4096
Created:September 7, 2006 Updated:February 1, 2007
Description: Bind has two denial of service vulnerabilities.

Recursive servers queries for SIG records will trigger an assertion failure if more than one RR set is returned.

An INSIST failure can be triggered by sending a large number of recursive queries.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-164 2007-01-31
Gentoo 200609-11 2006-09-15
Slackware SSA:2006-257-01 2006-09-15
Fedora FEDORA-2006-966 2006-09-11
Debian DSA-1172-1 2006-09-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:163 2006-09-08
rPath rPSA-2006-0166-1 2006-09-08
Ubuntu USN-343-1 2006-09-07
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.019 2006-09-07

Comments (none posted)

busybox: insecure password generation

Package(s):busybox CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1058
Created:May 5, 2006 Updated:May 2, 2007
Description: The BusyBox 1.1.1 passwd command does not use a proper salt when generating passwords. This would create an instance where a brute force attack could take very little time.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0244-02 2007-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2006-511 2006-05-04
Fedora FEDORA-2006-510 2006-05-04

Comments (2 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)

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)

vixie-cron: privilege escalation

Package(s):cron CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2607
Created:May 31, 2006 Updated:June 1, 2009
Description: The Vixie cron daemon does not check the return code from setuid(); if that call can be made to fail, a local attacker may be able to execute commands as root.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-778-1 2009-06-01
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0539-01 2006-07-12
Gentoo 200606-07 2006-06-09
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:027 2006-05-31
rPath rPSA-2006-0082-1 2006-05-25

Comments (1 posted)

cscope: buffer overflows

Package(s):cscope CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4262
Created:October 2, 2006 Updated:June 16, 2009
Description: Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered several buffer overflows in cscope, a source browsing tool, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2009:1101 2009-06-16
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1101-01 2009-06-15
Gentoo 200610-08 2006-10-20
Debian DSA-1186-1 2006-09-30

Comments (none posted)

cscope: buffer overflows

Package(s):cscope CVE #(s):CVE-2004-2541
Created:May 22, 2006 Updated:June 19, 2009
Description: A buffer overflow in Cscope 15.5, and possibly multiple overflows, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a C file with a long #include line that is later browsed by the target.
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2009:1102 2009-06-19
CentOS CESA-2009:1101 2009-06-16
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1102-01 2009-06-15
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1101-01 2009-06-15
Gentoo 200606-10 2006-06-11
Debian DSA-1064-1 2006-05-19

Comments (1 posted)

Cyrus-SASL: DIGEST-MD5 Pre-Authentication Denial of Service

Package(s):cyrus-sasl CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1721
Created:April 21, 2006 Updated:September 4, 2007
Description: Cyrus-SASL contains an unspecified vulnerability in the DIGEST-MD5 process that could lead to a Denial of Service. An attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted data stream to the Cyrus-SASL server, resulting in a Denial of Service even if the attacker is not able to authenticate.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0878-01 2007-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0795-01 2007-09-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:025 2006-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2006-515 2006-05-04
Debian DSA-1042-1 2006-04-25
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:073 2006-04-24
Ubuntu USN-272-1 2006-04-24
Gentoo 200604-09 2006-04-21

Comments (none posted)

ffmpeg: buffer overflows

Package(s):ffmpeg CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4799 CVE-2006-4800
Created:September 14, 2006 Updated:May 28, 2007
Description: the AVI processing code in FFmpeg has a number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities. If an attacker can trick a user into loading a specially crafted crafted AVI, arbitrary code can be executed with the user's privileges.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200609-09 2006-09-13

Comments (2 posted)

freeradius: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):freeradius CVE #(s):CVE-2005-4745 CVE-2005-4746
Created:August 8, 2006 Updated:April 24, 2007
Description: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in freeradius, a high-performance RADIUS server, which may lead to SQL injection or denial of service.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:092 2007-04-23
Debian DSA-1145-1 2006-08-08

Comments (none posted)

freetype: integer overflows

Package(s):freetype CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0747 CVE-2006-1861 CVE-2006-2493 CVE-2006-2661 CVE-2006-3467
Created:June 8, 2006 Updated:June 1, 2010
Description: The FreeType library has several integer overflow vulnerabilities. If a user can be tricked into installing a specially crafted font file, arbitrary code can be executed with the privilege of the user.
Alerts:
Gentoo 201006-01 2010-06-01
Fedora FEDORA-2009-5644 2009-05-28
Fedora FEDORA-2009-5558 2009-05-28
CentOS CESA-2009:0329 2009-05-22
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1062-01 2009-05-22
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0329-02 2009-05-22
Gentoo 200710-09 2007-10-09
Debian DSA-1178-1 2006-09-16
Ubuntu USN-341-1 2006-09-06
Gentoo 200609-04 2006-09-06
rPath rPSA-2006-0157-1 2006-08-25
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:148 2006-08-24
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0635-01 2006-08-21
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0634-01 2006-08-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-912 2006-08-14
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:045 2006-08-01
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.017 2006-07-28
Ubuntu USN-324-1 2006-07-27
Slackware SSA:2006-207-02 2006-07-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:129 2006-07-20
Gentoo 200607-02 2006-07-09
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:037 2006-06-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:099-1 2006-06-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:099 2006-06-12
rPath rPSA-2006-0100-1 2006-06-12
Debian DSA-1095-1 2006-06-10
Ubuntu USN-291-1 2006-06-08

Comments (none posted)

gcc: file overwrite vulnerability

Package(s):gcc CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3619
Created:September 6, 2006 Updated:March 14, 2008
Description: The fastjar utility found in the GNU compiler collection does not perform adequate file path checking, allowing the creation or overwriting of files outside of the current directory tree.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:066 2007-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0473-01 2007-06-11
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0220-02 2007-05-01
Debian DSA-1170-1 2006-09-06

Comments (none posted)

gdb: buffer overflow

Package(s):gdb CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4146
Created:September 15, 2006 Updated:June 12, 2007
Description: A buffer overflow in dwarfread.c and dwarf2read.c debugging code in GNU Debugger (GDB) 6.5 allows user-assisted attackers, or restricted users, to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file with a location block (DW_FORM_block) that contains a large number of operations.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0469-01 2007-06-11
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0229-02 2007-05-01
Ubuntu USN-356-1 2006-10-02
Fedora FEDORA-2006-975 2006-09-14

Comments (none posted)

gdm: improper file permissions

Package(s):gdm CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1057
Created:April 19, 2006 Updated:May 2, 2007
Description: The .ICEauthority file may be created with the wrong ownership and permissions; gdm 2.14.2 fixes the problem.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0286-02 2007-05-01
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:083 2006-05-09
Ubuntu USN-278-1 2006-05-03
Debian DSA-1040-1 2006-04-24
Fedora FEDORA-2006-338 2006-04-19

Comments (none posted)

gedit: format string vulnerability

Package(s):gedit CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1686
Created:June 9, 2005 Updated:February 5, 2009
Description: A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit. Calling the program with specially crafted file names caused a buffer overflow, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the gedit user.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-1189 2009-01-29
Fedora FEDORA-2009-1187 2009-01-29
Debian DSA-753-1 2005-07-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:102 2005-06-15
Red Hat RHSA-2005:499-01 2005-06-13
Gentoo 200506-09 2005-06-11
Ubuntu USN-138-1 2005-06-09

Comments (1 posted)

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: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):gzip CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4334 CVE-2006-4335 CVE-2006-4336 CVE-2006-4337 CVE-2006-4338
Created:September 19, 2006 Updated:January 20, 2010
Description: Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered two denial of service flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to hang or crash.

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several code execution flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to crash or execute arbitrary code.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1974-1 2010-01-20
Fedora FEDORA-2007-557 2007-05-31
Gentoo 200611-24 2006-11-28
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:211760 2006-11-13
Fedora FEDORA-2006-989 2006-10-10
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:056 2006-09-26
Gentoo 200609-13 2006-09-23
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0052 2006-09-22
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:167 2006-09-20
Slackware SSA:2006-262-01 2006-09-20
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.020 2006-09-20
Debian DSA-1181-1 2006-09-19
rPath rPSA-2006-0170-1 2006-09-19
Ubuntu USN-349-1 2006-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0667-01 2006-09-19

Comments (1 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)

ImageMagick: buffer overflows

Package(s):ImageMagick CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5456
Created:October 31, 2006 Updated:March 8, 2007
Description: Multiple buffer overflows in GraphicsMagick before 1.1.7 and ImageMagick 6.0.7 allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute execute arbitrary code via (1) a DCM image that is not properly handled by the ReadDCMImage function in coders/dcm.c, or (2) a PALM image that is not properly handled by the ReadPALMImage function in coders/palm.c.
Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2007-066-06 2007-03-08
rPath rPSA-2007-0029-1 2007-02-08
rPath rPSA-2006-0218-1 2006-11-27
Gentoo 200611-19 2006-11-24
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1285 2006-11-22
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1286 2006-11-22
Debian DSA-1213-1 2006-11-19
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:066 2006-11-14
Gentoo 200611-07 2006-11-13
Ubuntu USN-372-1 2006-11-01
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:193 2006-10-30

Comments (2 posted)

kdelibs: integer overflow

Package(s):kdelibs CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4811
Created:October 18, 2006 Updated:March 5, 2007
Description: The KDE khtml library can pass untrusted parameters into Qt, allowing a hostile user to trigger an integer overflow there and execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200703-06 2007-03-04
Gentoo 200611-02 2006-11-06
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0725-01 2006-11-01
Debian DSA-1200-1 2006-10-30
Slackware SSA:2006-298-01 2006-10-26
rPath rPSA-2006-0195-2 2006-10-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:186 2006-10-19
rPath rPSA-2006-0195-1 2006-10-18
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0720-01 2006-10-18

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: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4623
Created:October 18, 2006 Updated:November 14, 2007
Description: The kernel DVB layer can be caused to crash with maliciously-formatted unidirectional lightweight encapsulation (ULE) data.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-489-1 2007-07-19
rPath rPSA-2006-0194-1 2006-10-17

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4535 CVE-2006-4538
Created:September 18, 2006 Updated:January 5, 2009
Description: Sridhar Samudrala discovered a local denial of service vulnerability in the handling of SCTP sockets. By opening such a socket with a special SO_LINGER value, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4535)

Kirill Korotaev discovered that the ELF loader on the ia64 and sparc platforms did not sufficiently verify the memory layout. By attempting to execute a specially crafted executable, a local user could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4538)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0787-01 2009-01-05
Red Hat RHSA-2007:1049-01 2007-12-03
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:182 2006-10-11
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0689-01 2006-10-05
Debian DSA-1184-2 2006-09-26
Debian DSA-1184-1 2006-09-25
Debian DSA-1183-1 2006-09-25
Ubuntu USN-347-1 2006-09-18

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service by memory consumption

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2936
Created:July 17, 2006 Updated:November 14, 2007
Description: The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the driver can handle, which causes the data to be queued.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:151 2006-08-25
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:150 2006-08-25
Ubuntu USN-331-1 2006-08-03
rPath rPSA-2006-0130-1 2006-07-17

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2935 CVE-2006-4145 CVE-2006-3745
Created:September 1, 2006 Updated:July 30, 2008
Description: Previous versions of the kernel package are subject to several vulnerabilities. Certain malformed UDF filesystems can cause the system to crash (denial of service). Malformed CDROM firmware or USB storage devices (such as USB keys) could cause system crash (denial of service), and if they were intentionally malformed, can cause arbitrary code to run with elevated privileges. In addition, the SCTP protocol is subject to a remote system crash (denial of service) attack.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0665-01 2008-07-24
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:064 2006-11-10
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0710-01 2006-10-19
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:057 2006-09-28
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0051 2006-09-15
Ubuntu USN-346-2 2006-09-14
Ubuntu USN-346-1 2006-09-14
rPath rPSA-2006-0162-1 2006-08-31

Comments (none posted)

krb5: local privilege escalation

Package(s):krb5 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3083
Created:August 9, 2006 Updated:July 7, 2010
Description: Some kerberos applications fail to check the results of setuid() calls, with the result that, if that call fails, they could continue to execute as root after thinking they had switched to a nonprivileged user. A local attacker who can cause these calls to fail (through resource exhaustion, presumably) could exploit this bug to gain root privileges.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:129 2010-07-07
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:022 2006-09-08
Gentoo 200608-21 2006-08-23
Ubuntu USN-334-1 2006-08-16
Fedora FEDORA-2006-905 2006-08-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:139 2006-09-09
Gentoo 200608-15 2006-08-10
rPath rPSA-2006-0150-1 2006-08-09
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0612-01 2006-08-08
Debian DSA-1146-1 2006-08-09

Comments (none 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: denial of service

Package(s):libgd2 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2906
Created:June 14, 2006 Updated:January 16, 2007
Description: Certain GIF images can cause libgd2 to go into an infinite loop, adversely affecting the performance of image processing applications.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2007-0008-1 2007-01-15
Debian DSA-1117-1 2006-07-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:113 2006-06-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:112 2006-06-27
Ubuntu USN-298-1 2006-06-13

Comments (none posted)

libmms: buffer overflows

Package(s):libmms CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2200
Created:July 6, 2006 Updated:December 25, 2006
Description: Several buffer overflows were found in libmms. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted remote multimedia stream with an application using libmms, a remote attacker could overwrite an arbitrary memory portion with zeros, thereby crashing the program.
Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2006-357-05 2006-12-25
Gentoo 200607-07 2006-07-20
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:121 2006-07-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:117-1 2006-07-12
Ubuntu USN-315-1 2006-07-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:117 2006-07-06
Ubuntu USN-309-1 2006-07-05

Comments (none posted)

libpng: buffer overflow

Package(s):libpng CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3334
Created:July 19, 2006 Updated:December 15, 2008
Description: In pngrutil.c, the function png_decompress_chunk() allocates insufficient space for an error message, potentially overwriting stack data, leading to a buffer overflow.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200812-15 2008-12-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:213 2006-11-16
rPath rPSA-2006-0133-1 2006-07-19
Gentoo 200607-06 2006-07-19

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)

libtiff: buffer overflow

Package(s):libtiff CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2193
Created:June 15, 2006 Updated:September 1, 2008
Description: The t2p_write_pdf_string function in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. Attackers can use a TIFF file with UTF-8 characters in the DocumentName tag to overflow a buffer, causing a denial of service, and possibly the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2008:0848 2008-08-30
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0848-01 2008-08-28
Fedora FEDORA-2006-952 2006-09-05
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:044 2006-08-01
Gentoo 200607-03 2006-07-09
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:014 2006-06-20
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0036 2006-06-16
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:102 2006-06-14

Comments (none posted)

libvncserver: authentication bypass

Package(s):libvncserver CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2450
Created:August 4, 2006 Updated:March 19, 2007
Description: LibVNCServer fails to properly validate protocol types effectively letting users decide what protocol to use, such as "Type 1 - None". LibVNCServer will accept this security type, even if it is not offered by the server.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200703-19 2007-03-18
Gentoo 200608-12 2006-08-07
Gentoo 200608-05 2006-08-04

Comments (none posted)

libwmf: integer overflow

Package(s):libwmf CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3376
Created:July 13, 2006 Updated:November 6, 2006
Description: libwmf, a library that is used for processing Windows MetaFile vector graphics files, has an integer overflow vulnerability.
Alerts:
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.031 2006-11-06
Debian DSA-1194-1 2006-10-09
Gentoo 200608-17 2006-08-10
Ubuntu USN-333-1 2006-08-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:132 2006-07-28
Fedora FEDORA-2006-831 2006-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2006-832 2006-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2006-805 2006-07-12
Fedora FEDORA-2006-804 2006-07-12

Comments (none 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)

linux-restricted-modules: nVidia driver vulnerability

Package(s):linux-restricted-modules CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5379
Created:November 6, 2006 Updated:January 11, 2007
Description: Derek Abdine discovered that the NVIDIA Xorg driver did not correctly verify the size of buffers used to render text glyphs. When displaying very long strings of text, the Xorg server would crash. If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted series of glyphs, this flaw could be exploited to run arbitrary code with root privileges.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:007 2007-01-10
Gentoo 200611-03 2006-11-07
Ubuntu USN-377-1 2006-11-03

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)

mono: symlink vulnerability

Package(s):mono CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5072
Created:October 4, 2006 Updated:December 1, 2006
Description: The mono System.CodeDom.Compiler classes suffer from a temporary file symlink vulnerability which could be used to overwrite files, or, in this case, even inject arbitrary code into a running mono application.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:073 2006-12-01
Gentoo 200611-23 2006-11-28
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:188 2006-10-27
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1012 2006-10-06
Ubuntu USN-357-1 2006-10-04

Comments (none posted)

firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):mozilla firefox thunderbird CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4565 CVE-2006-4566 CVE-2006-4571 CVE-2006-4253 CVE-2006-4567 CVE-2006-4568 CVE-2006-4569
Created:September 15, 2006 Updated:November 14, 2006
Description: Two flaws were found in the way Firefox/Thunderbird processed certain regular expressions. A malicious web page/HTML email could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox/Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566)

A number of flaws were found in Firefox/Thunderbird. A malicious web page/HTML email could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox/Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-4571)

A flaw was found in the handling of JavaScript timed events. A malicious web page could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox/Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-4253)

A flaw was found in the Firefox/Thunderbird auto-update verification system. An attacker who has the ability to spoof a victim's DNS could get Firefox to download and install malicious code. In order to exploit this issue an attacker would also need to get a victim to previously accept an unverifiable certificate. (CVE-2006-4567)

Firefox did not properly prevent a frame in one domain from injecting content into a sub-frame that belongs to another domain, which facilitates website spoofing and other attacks (CVE-2006-4568)

Firefox did not load manually opened, blocked popups in the right domain context, which could lead to cross-site scripting attacks. In order to exploit this issue an attacker would need to find a site which would frame their malicious page and convince the user to manually open a blocked popup. (CVE-2006-4569)

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1210-1 2006-11-14
Gentoo 200610-04 2006-10-16
Ubuntu USN-361-1 2006-10-10
Debian DSA-1192-1 2006-10-06
Gentoo 200610-01 2006-10-04
Debian DSA-1191-1 2006-10-05
Ubuntu USN-354-1 2006-10-02
Gentoo 200609-19 2006-09-28
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:169 2006-09-22
Ubuntu USN-352-1 2006-09-25
Ubuntu USN-351-1 2006-09-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:054 2006-09-22
Ubuntu USN-350-1 2006-09-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:168 2006-09-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0677-01 2006-09-15
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0676-01 2006-09-15
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0675-01 2006-09-15
rPath rPSA-2006-0169-1 2006-09-15
Slackware SSA:2006-257-03 2006-09-15
Fedora FEDORA-2006-977 2006-09-14
Fedora FEDORA-2006-976 2006-09-14

Comments (none posted)

mutt: race conditions

Package(s):mutt CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5297 CVE-2006-5298
Created:October 30, 2006 Updated:November 1, 2006
Description: A race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems. (CVE-2006-5297)

The mutt_adv_mktemp function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier does not properly verify that temporary files have been created with restricted permissions, which might allow local users to create files with weak permissions via a race condition between the mktemp and safe_fopen function calls. (CVE-2006-5298)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-373-1 2006-11-01
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:190 2006-10-27

Comments (none posted)

mysql: format string bug

Package(s):mysql CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3469
Created:July 21, 2006 Updated:July 30, 2008
Description: Jean-David Maillefer discovered a format string bug in the date_format() function's error reporting. By calling the function with invalid arguments, an authenticated user could exploit this to crash the server.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0768-01 2008-07-24
Slackware SSA:2006-211-01 2006-07-31
Ubuntu USN-321-1 2006-07-21

Comments (none posted)

MySQL: privilege violations

Package(s):mysql CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4031 CVE-2006-4226
Created:August 25, 2006 Updated:July 30, 2008
Description: MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 5.0.24 allows a local user to access a table through a previously created MERGE table, even after the user's privileges are revoked for the original table, which might violate intended security policy (CVE-2006-4031).

MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21, 5.0 before 5.0.25, and 5.1 before 5.1.12, when run on case-sensitive filesystems, allows remote authenticated users to create or access a database when the database name differs only in case from a database for which they have permissions (CVE-2006-4226).

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0768-01 2008-07-24
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0364-01 2008-05-21
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0152-01 2007-04-03
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0083-01 2007-02-19
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1298 2006-11-27
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1297 2006-11-27
Ubuntu USN-338-1 2006-09-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:149 2006-08-24

Comments (none posted)

MySQL: logging bypass

Package(s):mysql CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0903
Created:April 4, 2006 Updated:May 21, 2008
Description: MySQL 5.0.18 and earlier allows local users to bypass logging mechanisms via SQL queries that contain the NULL character, which are not properly handled by the mysql_real_query function. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for the mysql_query function, but the vendor states that since mysql_query expects a null character, this is not an issue for mysql_query.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0364-01 2008-05-21
Ubuntu USN-274-2 2006-05-15
Ubuntu USN-274-1 2006-04-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:064 2006-04-03

Comments (2 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)

ncompress: buffer underflow

Package(s):ncompress CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1168
Created:August 10, 2006 Updated:February 21, 2012
Description: The ncompress compression utility has a missing boundary check. A local user can use a maliciously created file to cause a a .bss buffer underflow.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200610-03 2006-10-06
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0663-01 2006-09-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:140 2006-08-09
Debian DSA-1149-1 2006-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0308-03 2012-02-21
Scientific Linux SL-busy-20120321 2012-03-21
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0810-04 2012-06-20
Scientific Linux SL-busy-20120709 2012-07-09
Mageia MGASA-2012-0171 2012-07-19
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:129 2012-08-10
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:129-1 2012-08-10

Comments (none posted)

openldap: security bypass

Package(s):openldap CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4600
Created:September 29, 2006 Updated:June 12, 2007
Description: slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.25 allows remote authenticated users with selfwrite Access Control List (ACL) privileges to modify arbitrary Distinguished Names (DN).
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0430-01 2007-06-11
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0310-02 2007-05-01
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0055 2006-10-06
rPath rPSA-2006-0176-1 2006-09-29
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:171 2006-09-28

Comments (none posted)

openoffice.org: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):openoffice.org CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2198 CVE-2006-2199 CVE-2006-3117
Created:June 30, 2006 Updated:January 4, 2007
Description: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenOffice.org, a free office suite.
  • It turned out to be possible to embed arbitrary BASIC macros in documents in a way that OpenOffice.org does not see them but executes them anyway without any user interaction. (CVE-2006-2198)
  • It is possible to evade the Java sandbox with specially crafted Java applets. (CVE-2006-2199)
  • Loading malformed XML documents can cause buffer overflows and cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2006-3117)
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-005 2007-01-03
rPath rPSA-2006-0173-1 2006-09-26
Gentoo 200607-12 2006-07-28
Ubuntu USN-313-2 2006-07-19
Ubuntu USN-313-1 2006-07-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:118 2006-07-07
Debian DSA-1104-2 2006-07-06
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0573-01 2006-07-03
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:040 2006-07-03
Fedora FEDORA-2006-770 2006-07-03
Fedora FEDORA-2006-764 2006-06-30
Debian DSA-1104-1 2006-06-30

Comments (none posted)

OpenSSH: denial of service

Package(s):openssh CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4925 CVE-2006-5052
Created:October 6, 2006 Updated:November 15, 2007
Description: packet.c in ssh in OpenSSH allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an invalid protocol sequence with USERAUTH_SUCCESS before NEWKEYS, which causes newkeys[mode] to be NULL.

An unspecified vulnerability in portable OpenSSH before 4.4, when running on some platforms, allows remote attackers to determine the validity of usernames via unknown vectors involving a GSSAPI "authentication abort."

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0703-02 2007-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0540-04 2007-11-07
Fedora FEDORA-2007-394 2007-04-03
Gentoo 200611-06 2006-11-13
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:062 2006-10-20
rPath rPSA-2006-0185-1 2006-10-05

Comments (none posted)

openssh: remote denial of service

Package(s):openssh CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4924 CVE-2006-5051
Created:September 27, 2006 Updated:September 17, 2008
Description: Openssh 4.4 fixes some security issues, including a pre-authentication denial of service, an unsafe signal hander and on portable OpenSSH a GSSAPI authentication abort could be used to determine the validity of usernames on some platforms.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1638-1 2008-09-16
Debian DSA-1212-1 2006-11-15
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1011 2006-10-03
Debian DSA-1189-1 2006-10-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:179 2006-10-03
Ubuntu USN-355-1 2006-10-02
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.022 2006-10-01
Slackware SSA:2006-272-02 2006-09-29
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0698-01 2006-09-28
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0697-01 2006-09-28
Gentoo 200609-17:02 2006-09-27
rPath rPSA-2006-0174-1 2006-09-27
Gentoo 200609-17 2006-09-27

Comments (none posted)

openssl: insufficient signature checking

Package(s):openssl CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4339
Created:September 5, 2006 Updated:November 15, 2006
Description: Philip Mackenzie, Marius Schilder, Jason Waddle and Ben Laurie of Google Security discovered that the OpenSSL library did not sufficiently check the padding of PKCS #1 v1.5 signatures if the exponent of the public key is 3 (which is widely used for CAs). This could be exploited to forge signatures without the need of the secret key.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:207 2006-11-14
Slackware SSA:2006-310-01 2006-11-07
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.029 2006-11-06
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:061 2006-10-19
Slackware SSA:2006-257-02 2006-09-15
Gentoo 200609-05:02 2006-09-07
Debian DSA-1174-1 2006-09-11
Debian DSA-1173-1 2006-09-10
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0661-01 2006-09-06
Gentoo 200609-05 2006-09-07
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:161 2006-09-06
rPath rPSA-2006-0163-1 2006-09-05
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.018 2006-09-06
Fedora FEDORA-2006-953 2006-09-05
Ubuntu USN-339-1 2006-09-05

Comments (none posted)

openssl: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):openssl CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2937 CVE-2006-2940 CVE-2006-3780 CVE-2006-4343 CVE-2006-3738
Created:September 28, 2006 Updated:December 12, 2006
Description: OpenSSL has a number of denial of service vulnerabilities including: two vulnerabilities involving invalid ASN.1 structures, a buffer overflow in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers() function and an SSLv2 client crash that can be caused by a malicious server.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200612-11 2006-12-11
Gentoo 200610-11 2006-10-24
Debian DSA-1195-1 2006-10-10
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:024 2006-10-06
Ubuntu USN-353-2 2006-10-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:178 2006-10-02
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:177 2006-10-02
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:172-1 2006-10-02
Debian DSA-1185-2 2006-10-02
rPath rPSA-2006-0175-2 2006-09-28
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1004 2006-09-28
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0054 2006-09-29
Slackware SSA:2006-272-01 2006-09-29
rPath rPSA-2006-0175-1 2006-09-28
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0695-01 2006-09-28
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:172 2006-09-28
Debian DSA-1185-1 2006-09-28
Ubuntu USN-353-1 2006-09-28
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:058 2006-09-28
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.021 2006-09-28

Comments (none posted)

php: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):php CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4481 CVE-2006-4484 CVE-2006-4485
Created:September 8, 2006 Updated:June 13, 2008
Description: The file_exists and imap_reopen functions in PHP before 5.1.5 do not check for the safe_mode and open_basedir settings, which allows local users to bypass the settings (CVE-2006-4481).

A buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte function in ext/gd/libgd/gd_gif_in.c in the GD extension in PHP before 5.1.5 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a GIF file with input_code_size greater than MAX_LWZ_BITS, which triggers an overflow when initializing the table array (CVE-2006-4484).

The stripos function in PHP before 5.1.5 has unknown impact and attack vectors related to an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2006-4485).

Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:013 2008-06-13
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:077 2007-03-26
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:005 2008-03-06
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0146-01 2008-02-28
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1643 2008-02-13
Foresight FLEA-2008-0007-1 2008-02-11
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1122 2008-02-05
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1131 2008-02-05
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:003 2008-02-07
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:038 2007-02-07
rPath rPSA-2008-0046-1 2008-02-06
Gentoo 200802-01 2008-02-06
rPath rPSA-2006-0182-1 2006-10-05
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:052 2006-09-21
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0669-01 2006-09-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:162 2006-09-07

Comments (1 posted)

phpbb2: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):phpbb2 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1896
Created:May 22, 2006 Updated:February 11, 2008
Description: It was discovered that phpbb2, a web based bulletin board, insufficiently sanitizes values passed to the "Font Color 3" setting, which might lead to the execution of injected code by admin users.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1066-1 2006-05-20

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)

postgresql: SQL injection

Package(s):postgresql CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2313 CVE-2006-2314
Created:May 24, 2006 Updated:June 6, 2007
Description: The PostgreSQL team has put out a set of "urgent updates" (in the form of the 7.3.15, 7.4.13, 8.0.8, and 8.1.4 releases) closing a newly-discovered set of SQL injection issues. Details about the problem can be found on the technical information page; in short: multi-byte encodings can be used to defeat normal string sanitizing techniques. The update fixes one problem related to invalid multi-byte characters, but punts on another by simply disallowing the old, unsafe technique of escaping single quotes with a backslash.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0249 2007-06-06
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0059 2006-10-27
Gentoo 200607-04 2006-07-09
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:030 2006-06-09
Ubuntu USN-288-3 2006-06-09
Ubuntu USN-288-2 2006-06-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:098 2006-06-07
Debian DSA-1087-1 2006-06-03
Ubuntu USN-288-1 2006-05-29
rPath rPSA-2006-0080-1 2006-05-24
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0526-02 2006-05-23
Fedora FEDORA-2006-578 2006-05-23
Fedora FEDORA-2006-579 2006-05-23

Comments (1 posted)

python: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):python CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4980
Created:October 6, 2006 Updated:November 7, 2006
Description: Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler discovered that Python's repr() function did not properly handle UTF-32/UCS-4 strings. If an application uses repr() on arbitrary untrusted data, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the python application.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1049 2006-11-06
Gentoo 200610-07:02 2006-10-17
Gentoo 200610-07 2006-10-17
rPath rPSA-2006-0187-1 2006-10-10
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:181 2006-10-10
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0713-01 2006-10-09
Ubuntu USN-359-1 2006-10-06

Comments (1 posted)

quake: buffer overflow

Package(s):quake3-bin CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2236
Created:May 10, 2006 Updated:January 12, 2009
Description: Games based on the Quake 3 engine are vulnerable to a buffer overflow exploitable by a hostile game server.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200901-06 2009-01-11
Gentoo 200605-12 2006-05-10

Comments (none posted)

ruby: denial of service

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5467
Created:October 30, 2006 Updated:December 13, 2006
Description: The CGI library in Ruby 1.8 allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an HTTP request with a multipart MIME body that contained an invalid boundary specifier, which would result in an infinite loop and CPU consumption.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1235-1 2006-12-13
Debian DSA-1234-1 2006-12-13
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1441 2006-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1440 2006-12-11
Gentoo 200611-12 2006-11-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0729-01 2006-11-08
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.030 2006-11-06
Ubuntu USN-371-1 2006-10-31
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1110 2006-10-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:192 2006-10-27

Comments (none posted)

screen: denial of service

Package(s):screen CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4573
Created:October 26, 2006 Updated:November 6, 2006
Description: The screen virtual terminal application has a denial of service vulnerability related to the handling of UTF-8 combining characters. If an attacker can trick a user into displaying maliciously created output, a denial of service can result. The attacker may also be able to exploit the vulnerability in order to run arbitrary software with the privileges of the user.
Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2006-307-02 2006-11-06
Gentoo 200611-01 2006-11-03
Ubuntu USN-370-1 2006-10-31
Debian DSA-1202-1 2006-10-31
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:191 2006-10-27
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.026 2006-10-26
rPath rPSA-2006-0198-1 2006-10-26

Comments (none posted)

sendmail: denial of service

Package(s):sendmail CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1173
Created:June 15, 2006 Updated:November 1, 2006
Description: Sendmail has a vulnerability in the way it handles multi-part MIME messages. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted email message that can be used to crash the sendmail process, causing a denial of service.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:195418 2006-10-29
Debian DSA-1155-2 2006-08-24
Debian DSA-1155-1 2006-08-24
rPath rPSA-2006-0134-1 2006-07-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-837 2006-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2006-836 2006-07-18
Gentoo 200606-19 2006-06-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:032 2006-06-14
Slackware SSA:2006-166-01 2006-06-15
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0515-01 2006-06-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:104 2006-06-14

Comments (none posted)

shadow-utils: mailbox creation vulnerability

Package(s):shadow-utils CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1174
Created:May 25, 2006 Updated:June 12, 2007
Description: The useradd tool from the shadow-utils package has a potential security problem. When a new user's mailbox is created, the permissions are set to random garbage from the stack, potentially allowing the file to be read or written during the time before fchmod() is called.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0431-01 2007-06-11
rPath rPSA-2007-0096-1 2007-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0276-02 2007-05-01
Gentoo 200606-02 2006-06-07
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:090 2006-05-24

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)

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)

wireshark: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):wireshark CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4330 CVE-2006-4331 CVE-2006-4332 CVE-2006-4333
Created:August 25, 2006 Updated:November 2, 2006
Description: There are multiple problems in Wireshark, versions 0.7.9 to 0.99.2.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0658-01 2006-09-12
Debian DSA-1171-1 2006-09-07
Gentoo 200608-26 2006-08-29
Fedora FEDORA-2006-936 2006-08-25
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:152 2006-08-25
rPath rPSA-2006-0158-1 2006-08-25

Comments (none posted)

WordPress: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):wordpress CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5705
Created:October 30, 2006 Updated:November 17, 2006
Description: This vendor announcement identifies several vulnerabilities in WordPress versions prior to 2.0.5.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200611-10 2006-11-17
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.027 2006-10-30

Comments (2 posted)

xine-lib: code execution

Package(s):xine-lib CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4799
Created:October 4, 2006 Updated:November 21, 2006
Description: The xine-lib package does not properly validate AVI headers, enabling an attacker to run arbitrary code via a specially crafted AVI file.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1215-1 2006-11-20
Ubuntu USN-358-1 2006-10-04

Comments (none posted)

xine-lib: buffer overflow

Package(s):xine-lib CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1664
Created:April 27, 2006 Updated:February 27, 2008
Description: xine-lib does an improper input data boundary check on MPEG streams. A specially crafted MPEG file can be created that can cause arbitrary code execution when the file is accessed.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200802-12 2008-02-26
Gentoo 200604-16 2006-04-26

Comments (none posted)

xine-ui: format string vulnerabilities

Package(s):xine-ui CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2230
Created:June 9, 2006 Updated:January 24, 2007
Description: Several format string vulnerabilities have been discovered in xine-ui, the user interface of the xine video player, which may cause a denial of service.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200701-18 2007-01-23
Debian DSA-1093-1 2006-06-08

Comments (none posted)

xinit: race condition

Package(s):xinit CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5214
Created:October 17, 2006 Updated:August 9, 2007
Description: A race condition allows local users to see error messages generated during another user's X session. This could allow potentially sensitive information to be leaked.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-659 2007-08-08
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1409 2007-08-02
Ubuntu USN-364-1 2006-10-16

Comments (1 posted)

X.org: local privilege escalations

Package(s):xorg-x11 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4447
Created:August 28, 2006 Updated:April 30, 2007
Description: Several X.org libraries and X.org itself contain system calls to set*uid() functions, without checking their result. Local users could deliberately exceed their assigned resource limits and elevate their privileges after an unsuccessful set*uid() system call. This requires resource limits to be enabled on the machine.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200704-22 2007-04-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:160 2006-08-31
Gentoo 200608-25 2006-08-28

Comments (none posted)

X.Org: buffer overflow

Package(s):xorg-x11-server xorg-x11 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1526
Created:May 3, 2006 Updated:January 10, 2007
Description: There is a buffer overflow in the Xrender extension of the X.Org server; any process which is able to connect to the server may be able to exploit this overflow to run arbitrary code. Since the X server runs as root on most systems, this vulnerability could be exploited to gain root access. See the X.Org advisory for more information.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:190777 2006-06-06
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0024 2006-05-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:081-1 2006-05-04
Ubuntu USN-280-1 2006-05-04
Slackware SSA:2006-123-01 2006-05-04
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0451-01 2006-05-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:023 2006-05-03
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:081 2006-05-02
Gentoo 200605-02 2006-05-02

Comments (none posted)

xorg-x11: privilege escalation

Package(s):xorg-x11 xfree86 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3739 CVE-2006-3740
Created:September 12, 2006 Updated:December 14, 2006
Description: iDefense reported two integer overflow flaws in the way the X.org server processed CID font files. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the X.org server.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:164-2 2006-12-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:164-1 2006-11-17
Debian DSA-1193-1 2006-10-09
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:023 2006-09-27
Slackware SSA:2006-259-01 2006-09-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:164 2006-09-14
Gentoo 200609-07 2006-09-13
Ubuntu USN-344-1 2006-09-12
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0666-01 2006-09-12
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0665-01 2006-09-12
rPath rPSA-2006-0167-1 2006-09-12

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: 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

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xsupplicant: stack overflow

Package(s):xsupplicant CVE #(s):
Created:October 30, 2006 Updated:November 1, 2006
Description: Yannick Van Osselaer discovered a stack overflow in Xsupplicant, which could potentially be exploited by a remote, authenticated user to gain root privileges.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:189 2006-10-27

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