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Who owns your domain?

January 31, 2007

This article was contributed by Jake Edge.

Using a domain registrar to reserve a domain seems a relatively straightforward transaction; one pays the registrar to ensure that the domain resolves to the addresses specified. The content at the domain would seem to be the responsibility of the registrant, leaving the registrar unconcerned with anything other than the technical DNS issues and making deposits. Unfortunately, that is not always the case as Fyodor (of Nmap fame) found out recently when GoDaddy effectively shut down his seclists.org site. With essentially no warning, GoDaddy stopped anyone from viewing the content of seclists (an excellent, comprehensive archive of security mailing lists) due to a complaint from MySpace.

Evidently concerned about MySpace username/password lists that were floating around the Internet and being posted to mailing lists, such as full-disclosure, MySpace went directly to the registrar of a site that archives the list. They made no attempt to contact Fyodor, whose email is prominently listed on the seclists contact page, to request that he remove the offending posts. When contacted, GoDaddy evidently deliberated for a minute or two before rerouting DNS requests for seclists.org to NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM.

One would like to think that a registrar might require a complaining party to take some steps to try and have the offending content removed. One would also hope that a registrar might check with their customer about the complaint before taking any action. Unfortunately, if one uses GoDaddy, neither of those is likely to be the case. GoDaddy was willing to completely block access to content, the vast majority of which is outside the scope of the complaint, based on a single request from a large company. It is also unclear what steps GoDaddy took to confirm the validity of the complaint before shutting down the site. One would hope that randomly calling GoDaddy and claiming to be from MySpace (or another large organization) would not be a route to shutting down sites.

In Fyodor's account of the incident, he had to make numerous attempts to contact someone at GoDaddy to even find out why the site had been blocked. GoDaddy did not even see fit to tell their paying customer why they blocked the site and provided no easy route for reinstatement. This kind of behavior is not likely to lead to customer satisfaction; unsurprisingly, Fyodor is currently looking for a new registrar. He has also started the NoDaddy site to document abuses by GoDaddy and to help find alternative providers that will not cave in to the slightest pressure.

After numerous phone calls and emails, Fyodor was finally able to get the site back up. He was quite willing to remove the content that so offended MySpace as he has in the past for content, mostly from the full-disclosure list, that has generated legitimate complaints. It should be noted, however, that removing the content from seclists.org did almost nothing to fix the problem; much like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube, reversing an information leak onto the Internet is well nigh impossible. Worse yet, the way they went about things caused enough of a stink that now even casual observers know how to track down this password list; the malicious folks, of course, already had it.

This story might have been less damaging to GoDaddy (and MySpace for that matter) had they admitted a mistake was made and that in the future they would make some efforts to work with their customer to resolve complaints. Instead, they did the opposite and went on the offensive claiming that giving any notice was "generous" while essentially admitting that the notice was on the order of one minute. They were also quick to play the "its for the children" card in defending their actions. Somehow the fact that the lists had been available for nine days and that MySpace did nothing at their end (such as suspending the accounts if there was a password match from the list) to alleviate the problem, went completely over the heads of the folks at GoDaddy.

It seems implausible that MySpace would put up with the same treatment. If one were to find a page at MySpace with a list of usernames and passwords for that site or some other site frequented by teenagers, does that mean you can have MySpace routed to spam-and-abuse.com with a simple phone call to their registrar? The whole idea of registrars participating in web censorship is a slippery slope and one that sensible registrars will avoid; do they want to be in the middle of these kinds of disputes? It probably seemed very easy to GoDaddy in this case, MySpace vs. a 'hacker', but where are they going to draw the line?

For domain owners, this situation should provide an opportunity to go back and review the Terms of Service at your registrar. A community effort, like the one at NoDaddy, can hopefully identify a number of registrars who are more interested in providing the service they are paid for to the people who pay them than they are in appeasing the MySpaces of the world.

Comments (20 posted)

New vulnerabilities

bind: denial of service

Package(s):bind CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0493 CVE-2007-0494
Created:January 26, 2007 Updated:March 14, 2007
Description: The bind package is vulnerable to two remote denial of service attacks in which attackers can cause the bind daemon to to crash or exit unexpectedly by providing malformed data to the daemon in a DNS request.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0057-02 2007-03-14
Gentoo 200702-06 2007-02-17
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0044-01 2007-02-06
Ubuntu USN-418-1 2007-02-05
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0005 2007-02-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:030 2006-01-30
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:014 2007-01-30
Fedora FEDORA-2007-147 2007-01-29
Debian DSA-1254-1 2007-01-27
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.007 2007-01-29
Slackware SSA:2007-026-01 2007-01-29
rPath rPSA-2007-0021-1 2007-01-25

Comments (none posted)

cvstrac: denial of service

Package(s):cvstrac CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0347
Created:January 29, 2007 Updated:January 31, 2007
Description: Ralf S. Engelschall from OpenPKG GmbH discovered a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the CVS/Subversion/Git Version Control System (VCS) frontend CVSTrac, version 2.0.0.
Alerts:
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.008 2007-01-29

Comments (none posted)

rmake: privilege escalation

Package(s):rmake CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0536 CVE-2007-0557
Created:January 26, 2007 Updated:January 31, 2007
Description: Rmake prior to version 1.0.3-2-0.1 does not drop supplemental users in the changeroot environment for builds. This provides malicious packages with excess permissions that are configuration-dependent, and may allow local users to run arbitrary code as the root user.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2007-0020-2 2007-01-25
rPath rPSA-2007-0020-1 2007-01-25

Comments (none posted)

ulogd: buffer overflow

Package(s):ulogd CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0460
Created:January 29, 2007 Updated:March 19, 2007
Description: A buffer overflow in ulogd has an unknown impact and attack vectors related to "improper string length calculations."
Alerts:
Gentoo 200703-17 2007-03-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:028 2007-01-26

Comments (none posted)

Updated vulnerabilities

acroread: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):acroread CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5857 CVE-2007-0045 CVE-2007-0046
Created:January 11, 2007 Updated:October 26, 2009
Description: Adobes acrobat reader has the following vulnerabilities:

The Adobe Reader Plugin has a cross site scripting vulnerability that can be triggered by processes malformed URLs. Arbitrary JavaScript can be served by a malicious web server, leading to a cross-site scripting attack.

Maliciously crafted PDF files can be used to trigger two vulnerabilities, if an attacker can trick a user into viewing the files, arbitrary code can be executed with the user's privileges.

Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:049 2009-10-26
Gentoo 200910-03 2009-10-25
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0021-01 2007-01-22
Gentoo 200701-16 2007-01-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:011 2007-01-22
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0017-01 2007-01-11

Comments (1 posted)

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)

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)

bluez-utils: hidd vulnerability

Package(s):bluez-utils CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6899
Created:January 16, 2007 Updated:May 14, 2007
Description: hidd in BlueZ (bluez-utils) before 2.25 allows remote attackers to obtain control of the Mouse and Keyboard Human Interface Device (HID) via a certain configuration of two HID (PSM) endpoints, operating as a server, aka HidAttack.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0065-01 2007-05-14
Ubuntu USN-413-1 2007-01-24
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:014 2006-01-15

Comments (none posted)

bugzilla: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):bugzilla CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5453 CVE-2006-5454 CVE-2006-5455
Created:November 10, 2006 Updated:August 28, 2007
Description: Bugzilla has the following vulnerabilities:

Input data passed to various fields is not properly sanitized before being passed back to users.

Users can gain unauthorized access to read attachment descriptions while using diff mode.

HTTP GET and HTTP POST requests can be used to perform unauthorized actions due to improper verification.

Input that is passed to showdependencygraph.cgi is not properly sanitized before being returned to users.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1208-1 2006-11-11
Gentoo 200611-04 2006-11-09

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)

cacti: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):cacti CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6799
Created:January 1, 2007 Updated:January 26, 2007
Description: The network monitoring and graphing frontend Cacti has three vulnerabilities. The cmd.php script allows command line usage and is also installed in a web-accessible location. The cmd.php input is insufficiently sanitized, a passed-in URL can be used to inject arbitrary SQL code. The cmd.php script can be used by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands via improperly sanitized results from SQL queries.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200701-23 2007-01-26
Debian DSA-1250-1 2007-01-17
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:015 2007-01-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:007 2007-01-12
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.001 2007-01-01

Comments (none posted)

centericq: buffer overflow

Package(s):centericq CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0160
Created:January 24, 2007 Updated:January 24, 2007
Description: The code in centericq which interfaces with the LiveJournal service suffers from a buffer overflow. This vulnerability is exploitable if a user can be convinced to connect to an unofficial LiveJournal server.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200701-20 2007-01-24

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)

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)

dbus: denial of service

Package(s):dbus CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6107
Created:December 15, 2006 Updated:February 12, 2007
Description: Unspecified vulnerability in the match_rule_equal function in bus/signals.c in D-Bus before 1.0.2 allows local applications to remove match rules for other applications and cause a denial of service (lost process messages).
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2006-0233-1 2007-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0008-01 2007-02-08
Ubuntu USN-401-1 2007-01-04
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.041 2006-12-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1475 2006-12-19
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:233 2006-12-18
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1464 2006-12-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1418-1 2012-10-31

Comments (none posted)

dovecot: index cache file handling error

Package(s):dovecot CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5973
Created:November 29, 2006 Updated:May 8, 2007
Description: The dovecot IMAP server has an error in its index cache file handling code which could be exploited by an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code. Only servers with the (non-default) mmap_disable=yes option setting are vulnerable.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1504 2006-12-27
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1396 2006-12-18
rPath rPSA-2006-0220-1 2006-11-30
Ubuntu USN-387-1 2006-11-28

Comments (none posted)

ed: symlink attack

Package(s):ed CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6939
Created:January 19, 2007 Updated:January 24, 2007
Description: GNU ed before 0.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, possibly in the open_sbuf function.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2007-0012-1 2007-01-23
Fedora FEDORA-2007-100 2007-01-18
Fedora FEDORA-2007-099 2007-01-18

Comments (none posted)

elinks: arbitrary file access

Package(s):elinks CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5925
Created:November 16, 2006 Updated:October 22, 2009
Description: The elinks text-mode browser has an arbitrary file access vulnerability in the Elinks SMB protocol handler. If a user can be tricked into visiting a specially crafted web page, arbitrary files may be read or written with the user's permissions.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-851-1 2009-10-21
Gentoo 200701-27 2007-01-30
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.043 2006-12-26
Debian DSA-1240-1 2006-12-21
Gentoo 200612-16 2006-12-14
Debian DSA-1228-1 2006-12-05
Debian DSA-1226-1 2006-12-03
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1278 2006-11-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1277 2006-11-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:216 2006-11-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0742-01 2006-11-15

Comments (none posted)

fetchmail: password disclosure and DOS

Package(s):fetchmail CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5867 CVE-2006-5974
Created:January 10, 2007 Updated:March 16, 2007
Description: Fetchmail suffers from a password disclosure vulnerability due to a failure to use secure protocols (advisory) and a denial of service vulnerability (advisory).
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:004 2007-03-16
Debian DSA-1259-1 2007-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0018-01 2007-01-31
Slackware SSA:2007-024-01 2007-01-25
Gentoo 200701-13 2007-01-22
Fedora FEDORA-2007-042 2007-01-16
Fedora FEDORA-2007-041 2007-01-16
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:016 2006-01-15
Ubuntu USN-405-1 2007-01-11
rPath rPSA-2007-0003-1 2007-01-09
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.004 2007-01-08

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)

Mozilla stuff: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox thunderbird seamonkey CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6497 CVE-2006-6498 CVE-2006-6501 CVE-2006-6502 CVE-2006-6503 CVE-2006-6504 CVE-2006-6505
Created:December 20, 2006 Updated:March 12, 2007
Description: The Mozilla Project has released new versions of firefox, thunderbird, and seamonkey to address the usual pile of security issues; see this announcement or this CERT advisory for details.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1265-1 2007-03-10
Debian DSA-1258-1 2007-02-07
Debian DSA-1253-1 2006-01-27
Ubuntu USN-398-4 2007-01-27
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:006 2007-01-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:011 2007-01-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:010 2007-01-11
Gentoo 200701-04 2007-01-10
Ubuntu USN-400-1 2007-01-04
Gentoo 200701-03 2007-01-04
Gentoo 200701-02 2007-01-04
Ubuntu USN-398-2 2007-01-03
Ubuntu USN-398-3 2007-01-04
Ubuntu USN-398-1 2007-01-02
Fedora FEDORA-2006-004 2007-01-02
rPath rPSA-2006-0234-2 2006-12-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:080 2006-12-29
Slackware SSA:2006-357-03 2006-12-25
Slackware SSA:2006-357-01 2006-12-25
Slackware SSA:2006-357-02 2006-12-25
rPath rPSA-2006-0234-1 2006-12-22
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1499 2006-12-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1491 2006-12-20
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1492 2006-12-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0759-01 2006-12-19
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0760-01 2006-12-19
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0758-01 2006-12-19

Comments (none 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)

ftpd: privilege escalation

Package(s):ftpd CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5778
Created:November 10, 2006 Updated:February 14, 2007
Description: Ftpd is vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack, an incorrect seteuid() call can be used by an FTP user to gain unauthorized access to files or directories.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200611-05:02 2006-11-10
Debian DSA-1217-1 2006-11-20
Gentoo 200611-05 2006-11-10

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)

geoip: path traversal

Package(s):geoip CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0159
Created:January 10, 2007 Updated:January 24, 2007
Description: Geoip fails to do sanity checking on returned filenames, opening up a path traversal vulnerability.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-412-1 2007-01-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:004 2007-01-08

Comments (none posted)

gnupg: stack overwrite

Package(s):gnupg CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6235
Created:December 12, 2006 Updated:March 13, 2007
Description: A "stack overwrite" vulnerability in GnuPG (gpg) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted OpenPGP packets that cause GnuPG to dereference a function pointer from deallocated stack memory.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-316 2007-03-12
Fedora FEDORA-2007-315 2007-03-12
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:075 2006-12-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:228 2006-12-11

Comments (3 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)

gtk2: denial of service

Package(s):gtk2 CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0010
Created:January 24, 2007 Updated:February 8, 2007
Description: From the Red Hat advisory: A bug was found in the way the gtk2 GdkPixbufLoader() function processed invalid input. Applications linked against gtk2 could crash if they loaded a malformed image file.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:039 2007-02-07
Ubuntu USN-415-1 2007-02-01
Debian DSA-1256-1 2007-01-31
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:002 2007-01-26
rPath rPSA-2007-0019-1 2007-01-25
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0019-02 2007-01-24

Comments (1 posted)

gv: stack-based buffer overflow

Package(s):gv CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5864
Created:November 20, 2006 Updated:April 9, 2007
Description: Stack-based buffer overflow in the ps_gettext function in ps.c for GNU gv 3.6.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PostScript (PS) file with certain headers that contain long comments, as demonstrated using the DocumentMedia header.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200704-06 2007-04-06
Gentoo 200703-24 2007-03-26
Debian DSA-1243-1 2006-12-28
Debian DSA-1214-2 2006-12-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:229 2006-12-13
rPath rPSA-2006-0230-1 2006-12-12
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1438 2006-12-11
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1437 2006-12-11
Ubuntu USN-390-3 2006-12-06
Ubuntu USN-390-2 2006-12-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:214-1 2006-12-04
Ubuntu USN-390-1 2006-11-30
Gentoo 200611-20 2006-11-24
Debian DSA-1214-1 2006-11-20
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:214 2006-11-17

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)

horde-kronolith: local file inclusion

Package(s):horde-kronolith CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6175
Created:January 17, 2007 Updated:March 7, 2008
Description: Kronolith contains a mistake in lib/FBView.php where a raw, unfiltered string is used instead of a sanitized string to view local files. An authenticated attacker could craft an HTTP GET request that uses directory traversal techniques to execute any file on the web server as PHP code, which could allow information disclosure or arbitrary code execution with the rights of the user running the PHP application (usually the webserver user).
Alerts:
Gentoo 200701-11 2007-01-16

Comments (none posted)

imagemagick: buffer overflows

Package(s):imagemagick CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5868
Created:November 28, 2006 Updated:February 16, 2007
Description: Daniel Kobras discovered multiple buffer overflows in ImageMagick's SGI file format decoder. By tricking a user or an automated system into processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0015-01 2007-02-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:223 2006-12-01
Ubuntu USN-386-1 2006-11-28

Comments (1 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)

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)

java: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):java CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4339 CVE-2006-4790 CVE-2006-6731 CVE-2006-6736 CVE-2006-6737 CVE-2006-6745
Created:January 18, 2007 Updated:June 4, 2010
Description: java has multiple vulnerabilities, these include: an RSA exponent padding attack vulnerability, two vulnerabilities which allow untrusted applets to access data in other applets, vulnerabilities that involve applets gaining privileges due to serialization bugs in the JRE and buffer overflows in the java image handling routines that can give attackers read/write/execute capabilities for local files.
Alerts:
Pardus 2010-67 2010-06-04
Gentoo 200705-20 2007-05-26
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0073-01 2007-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0072-01 2007-02-08
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0062-02 2007-02-07
Gentoo 200701-15 2007-01-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:010 2007-01-18

Comments (1 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)

kdenetwork: denial of service

Package(s):kdenetwork CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6811
Created:January 11, 2007 Updated:February 1, 2007
Description: The KsIRC 1.3.12 utility in kdenetwork is vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack that can be caused by a malicious IRC server sending a long PRIVMSG string. This causes an assertion failure and an associated NULL pointer dereference.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200701-26 2007-01-29
rPath rPSA-2007-0007-1 2007-01-15
Ubuntu USN-409-1 2007-01-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:009 2007-01-10

Comments (none 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-2006-5757
Created:November 13, 2006 Updated:November 14, 2007
Description: From the MOKB-05-11-2006 advisory: "The ISO9660 filesystem handling code of the Linux 2.6.x kernel fails to properly handle corrupted data structures, leading to an exploitable denial of service condition. This particular vulnerability seems to be caused by a race condition and a signedness issue. When performing a read operation on a corrupted ISO9660 fs stream, the isofs_get_blocks() function will enter an infinite loop when __find_get_block_slow() callback from sb_getblk() fails ("due to various races between file io on the block device and getblk")."
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1223 2006-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1221 2006-11-10

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)

kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5749 CVE-2006-4814 CVE-2006-6106
Created:January 5, 2007 Updated:January 8, 2009
Description: A security issue has been reported in Linux kernel due to an error in drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c as the "isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_alloc_state()" function never initializes an event timer before scheduling it with the "add_timer()" function.

The mincore function in the kernel does not properly lock access to user space, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors, possibly related to a deadlock.

Another vulnerability has been reported in Linux kernel caused by a boundary error within the handling of incoming CAPI messages in net/bluetooth/cmtp/capi.c. This can be exploited to overwrite certain Kernel data structures.

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0787-01 2009-01-05
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0001-01 2009-01-08
CentOS CESA-2008:0211 2008-05-07
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0211-01 2008-05-07
Debian DSA-1503 2008-02-22
Debian DSA-1503-2 2008-03-06
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12
Ubuntu USN-416-2 2007-03-01
Ubuntu USN-416-1 2007-02-01
rPath rPSA-2007-0031-1 2007-02-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:040 2007-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0014-01 2007-01-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:025 2007-01-23
Fedora FEDORA-2007-058 2007-01-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:012 2006-01-12
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0002 2007-01-05

Comments (none posted)

koffice: integer overflow

Package(s):koffice CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6120
Created:November 30, 2006 Updated:February 20, 2007
Description: The KOffice office suite has an integer overflow vulnerability. If an attacker can trick a user into opening a specially crafted PowerPoint (PPT) file, KOffice can be caused to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0010-01 2007-02-20
Slackware SSA:2006-357-04 2006-12-25
Gentoo 200612-05 2006-12-10
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:222 2006-12-01
Ubuntu USN-388-1 2006-11-29

Comments (none posted)

krb5: uninitialized pointers

Package(s):krb5 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6143 CVE-2006-3084
Created:January 10, 2007 Updated:July 7, 2010
Description: The kdamind daemon can, in some situations, perform operations on uninitialized pointers. This bug could conceivably open up the system to a code execution attack by an unauthenticated remote attacker, but it appears to be difficult to exploit. See this advisory for details.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:129 2010-07-07
Gentoo 200701-21 2007-01-24
Ubuntu USN-408-1 2007-01-15
rPath rPSA-2007-0006-1 2007-01-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:008 2006-01-10
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:004 2007-01-10
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.006 2007-01-10
Fedora FEDORA-2007-033 2007-01-09
Fedora FEDORA-2007-034 2007-01-09

Comments (1 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)

libgtop2: buffer overflow

Package(s):libgtop2 CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0235
Created:January 15, 2007 Updated:August 9, 2007
Description: The /proc parsing routines in libgtop are vulnerable to a buffer overflow. If an attacker can run a process in a specially crafted long path then trick a user into running gnome-system-monitor, arbitrary code can be executed with the user's privileges.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-657 2007-08-02
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0765-01 2007-08-07
Debian DSA-1255-1 2007-01-31
rPath rPSA-2007-0014-1 2007-01-23
Gentoo 200701-17 2007-01-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:023 2007-01-18
Ubuntu USN-407-1 2007-01-15

Comments (none posted)

libmodplug: boundary errors

Package(s):libmodplug CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4192
Created:December 11, 2006 Updated:May 4, 2011
Description: Luigi Auriemma has reported various boundary errors in load_it.cpp and a boundary error in the "CSoundFile::ReadSample()" function in sndfile.cpp. A remote attacker can entice a user to read crafted modules or ITP files, which may trigger a buffer overflow resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2011:0477 2011-05-04
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0477-01 2011-05-02
Ubuntu USN-521-1 2007-09-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:001 2007-01-02
Gentoo 200612-04 2006-12-10

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)

libsoup: denial of service

Package(s):libsoup CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5876
Created:January 13, 2007 Updated:January 29, 2007
Description: The libsoup HTTP library does not sanitize input sufficiently when parsing HTTP headers. This can be exploited to cause a denial of service.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-109 2007-01-29
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:029 2006-01-26
Ubuntu USN-411-1 2007-01-23
rPath rPSA-2007-0015-1 2007-01-23
Debian DSA-1248-1 2007-01-12

Comments (none 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)

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)

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)

netrik: insufficient escaping

Package(s):netrik CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6678
Created:January 22, 2007 Updated:January 24, 2007
Description: It has been discovered that netrik, a text mode WWW browser with vi like keybindings, doesn't properly sanitize temporary filenames when editing textareas which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1251-1 2007-01-21

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)

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: 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

poppler: denial of service

Package(s):poppler CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0104
Created:January 18, 2007 Updated:January 26, 2007
Description: Poppler, a PDF loader library does not limit the recursion depth of the page model tree. If an attacker can trick a user into opening a specially crafted PDF file, an infinite loop can be caused, leading to a crash of the calling application. This also affects kdegraphics and koffice.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-410-2 2007-01-25
rPath rPSA-2007-0013-1 2007-01-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:024 2007-01-22
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:022 2006-01-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:021 2007-01-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:020 2007-01-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:019 2006-01-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:018 2007-01-18
Ubuntu USN-410-1 2007-01-18

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)

proftpd: denial of service

Package(s):proftpd CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5815
Created:November 17, 2006 Updated:January 24, 2007
Description: A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the FTP server ProFTPD, up to and including version 1.3.0. The flaw is due to both a potential bus error and a definitive buffer overflow in the code which determines the FTP command buffer size limit. The vulnerability can be exploited only if the "CommandBufferSize" directive is explicitly used in the server configuration.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:217-2 2007-01-23
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0070 2006-12-08
Slackware SSA:2006-335-02 2006-12-04
Debian DSA-1222-2 2006-12-01
Gentoo 200611-26 2006-11-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:217-1 2006-11-30
Debian DSA-1222-1 2006-11-30
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0066 2006-11-28
Debian DSA-1218-1 2006-11-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:217 2006-11-20
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.035 2006-11-17

Comments (none posted)

proftpd: stack-based buffer overflow

Package(s):proftpd CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6563
Created:December 18, 2006 Updated:February 14, 2007
Description: A vulnerability exists in the FTP server ProFTPD, versions up to and including 1.3.0a. The vulnerability is caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in the "pr_ctrls_recv_request" function of the "Controls" feature. This is an optional feature of ProFTPD server which is by default disabled in OpenPKG and probably other distributions.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200702-02 2007-02-13
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0074 2006-12-22
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:232 2006-12-18
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.039 2006-12-18

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)

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)

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)

squid: denial of service

Package(s):squid CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0247
Created:January 18, 2007 Updated:January 26, 2007
Description: Squid, a web client proxy caching server, can be made to crash when receiving certain FTP listings, leading to a denial of service.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200701-22 2007-01-25
Ubuntu USN-414-1 2007-01-24
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:026 2006-01-23
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:012 2007-01-23
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0003 2007-01-19
Fedora FEDORA-2007-092 2007-01-17

Comments (1 posted)

squirrelmail: multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Package(s):squirrelmail CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6142
Created:December 11, 2006 Updated:January 31, 2007
Description: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the mailto parameter in webmail.php, the session and delete_draft parameters in compose.php, and unspecified vectors involving "a shortcoming in the magicHTML filter."
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0022-01 2007-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-089 2007-01-17
Fedora FEDORA-2007-088 2007-01-17
Debian DSA-1241-1 2006-12-25
rPath rPSA-2006-0231-1 2006-12-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:226 2006-12-11

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)

xine: format string vulnerabilities

Package(s):xine CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0017
Created:January 23, 2007 Updated:August 10, 2007
Description: Multiple format string vulnerabilities in (1) the cdio_log_handler function in modules/access/cdda/access.c in the CDDA (libcdda_plugin) plugin, and the (2) cdio_log_handler and (3) vcd_log_handler functions in modules/access/vcdx/access.c in the VCDX (libvcdx_plugin) plugin, in VideoLAN VLC 0.7.0 through 0.8.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an invalid URI, as demonstrated by a udp://-- URI in an M3U file.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:154 2007-08-09
Debian DSA-1252-1 2007-01-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:027 2007-01-26
Gentoo 200701-24 2007-01-26
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:013 2007-01-23

Comments (none posted)

xine-lib: buffer overflow

Package(s):xine-lib CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6172
Created:December 5, 2006 Updated:June 5, 2007
Description: A buffer overflow was discovered in the Real Media input plugin in xine-lib. If a user were tricked into loading a specially crafted stream from a malicious server, the attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:112 2007-06-04
Gentoo 200702-11 2007-02-27
Debian DSA-1244-1 2006-12-28
Gentoo 200612-02 2006-12-09
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:028 2006-12-08
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:224 2006-12-05
Ubuntu USN-392-1 2006-12-04

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: integer overflows

Package(s):xorg, xorg-server CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6101 CVE-2006-6102 CVE-2006-6103
Created:January 10, 2007 Updated:March 8, 2007
Description: A number of integer overflows have turned up in the X.org server. Some of these overflows involve calls to alloca(), and thus make corruption of the stack relatively easy. This vulnerability is exploitable by anybody who can make a connection to the server, meaning that it is a local root exploit in most settings. See this advisory for details.
Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2007-066-02 2007-03-08
Gentoo 200701-25 2007-01-27
Debian DSA-1249-1 2007-01-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:008 2007-01-12
rPath rPSA-2007-0005-1 2007-01-09
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0002-01 2007-01-10
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0003-01 2007-01-10
Mandriva MDKSA-2007-005 2007-01-09
Fedora FEDORA-2007-035 2007-01-09
Fedora FEDORA-2007-036 2007-01-09
Ubuntu USN-403-1 2007-01-09

Comments (none posted)

xpdf: buffer overflow

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

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xsupplicant: potential code execution

Package(s):xsupplicant CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5601
Created:January 19, 2007 Updated:January 24, 2007
Description: A post-authentication stack overflow in the EAP handling could be used by already authenticated attacker to overflow a stack buffer and so potentially execute code.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:001 2007-01-19

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