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The apache evasive maneuvers module
Jonathan Zdziarski announced the release of
mod_dosevasive 1.8 at the beginning of September. mod_dosevasive is an
apache module, licensed under the GPL, which enables a web server to detect
certain kinds of denial-of-service attack and take appropriate action.
The core of mod_dosevasive is a set of hash tables keeping track of recent
page requests. If a particular system (as identified by its IP address)
starts requesting too many pages at once, or it requests the same page
repeatedly too often, the module decides an attack is underway. The next
request from that source will get back a 403 error response, and the site
goes into the blacklist. The default blacklist period is ten seconds; each
request received while the offending system is blacklisted extends its time
there.
mod_dosevasive can also send notification email when it detects an attack,
or execute an arbitrary command. The command capability is intended to
make the module work with firewalls; rather than continually failing
requests with 403 errors, an administrator can set up the firewall to
simply block traffic from the attacking system altogether. That approach,
clearly, will be more effective against large-scale distributed attacks
where the real purpose is to consume bandwidth.
The mod_dosevasive
web page has more information.
Comments (3 posted)
September CERT Summary
The September quarterly CERT Summary is out, discussing the security issues
which are currently worth noting. Most notable this time around is
the fact that Linux and free software do not figure into any of the
problems covered. According to this summary, all of the serious security
issues of the last three months affect only proprietary software. Enjoy it
while it lasts.
Full Story (comments: none)
New vulnerabilities
exim: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | exim exim-tls |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0743
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| Created: | September 4, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow exists in exim, which is the standard mail transport
agent in Debian. By supplying a specially crafted HELO or EHLO
command, an attacker could cause a constant string to be written past
the end of a buffer allocated on the heap. This vulnerability is not
believed at this time to be exploitable to execute arbitrary code.
CAN-2003-0743 |
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Comments (none posted)
inetd: DoS attack
| Package(s): | inetd |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | September 8, 2003 |
Updated: | September 10, 2003 |
| Description: |
inetd has a hard-coded limit of 256 connections-per-minute, after which the
given service is disabled for ten minutes. An attacker could use a quick
burst of connections every ten minutes to effectively disable a service.
Once upon a time, this was an intentional feature of inetd, but in
today's world it has become a bug. Even having inetd look at the
source IP and try to limit only the source of the attack would be
problematic since TCP source addresses are so easily faked. |
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Comments (3 posted)
mah-jong: buffer overflows, denial of service
| Package(s): | mah-jong |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0705
CAN-2003-0706
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| Created: | September 8, 2003 |
Updated: | September 10, 2003 |
| Description: |
Nicolas Boullis discovered two vulnerabilities in mah-jong, a
network-enabled game.
CAN-2003-0705 (buffer overflow): This vulnerability could be exploited
by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running the mah-jong server.
CAN-2003-0706 (denial of service): This vulnerability could be
exploited by a remote attacker to cause the mah-jong server to enter a
tight loop and stop responding to commands. |
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Comments (none posted)
wu-ftpd: insecure program execution
| Package(s): | wu-ftpd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-1999-0997
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| Created: | September 5, 2003 |
Updated: | September 24, 2003 |
| Description: |
wu-ftpd, an FTP server, implements a feature whereby multiple files
can be fetched in the form of a dynamically constructed archive file,
such as a tar archive. The names of the files to be included are
passed as command line arguments to tar, without protection against
them being interpreted as command-line options. GNU tar supports
several command line options which can be abused, by means of this
vulnerability, to execute arbitrary programs with the privileges of
the wu-ftpd process. |
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Comments (1 posted)
Updated vulnerabilities
2.4 kernel - several vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | 2.4 kernel |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0461
CAN-2003-0462
CAN-2003-0464
CAN-2003-0476
CAN-2003-0501
CAN-2003-0550
CAN-2003-0551
CAN-2003-0552
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| Created: | July 21, 2003 |
Updated: | December 23, 2003 |
| Description: |
Several security issues have been discovered affecting the Linux kernel:
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CAN-2003-0461: /proc/tty/driver/serial reveals the exact character
counts for serial links. This could be used by a local attacker to infer
password lengths and inter-keystroke timings during password entry.
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CAN-2003-0462: Paul Starzetz discovered a file read race condition
existing in the execve() system call, which could cause a local crash.
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CAN-2003-0464: A recent change in the RPC code set the reuse flag on
newly-created sockets. Olaf Kirch noticed that his could allow normal
users to bind to UDP ports used for services such as nfsd.
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CAN-2003-0476: The execve system call in Linux 2.4.x records the file
descriptor of the executable process in the file table of the calling
process, allowing local users to gain read access to restricted file
descriptors.
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CAN-2003-0501: The /proc filesystem in Linux allows local users to
obtain sensitive information by opening various entries in /proc/self
before executing a setuid program. This causes the program to fail to
change the ownership and permissions of already opened entries.
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CAN-2003-0550: The STP protocol is known to have no security, which
could allow attackers to alter the bridge topology. STP is now turned
off by default.
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CAN-2003-0551: STP input processing was lax in its length checking,
which could lead to a denial of service.
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CAN-2003-0552: Jerry Kreuscher discovered that the Forwarding table
could be spoofed by sending forged packets with bogus source addresses
the same as the local host.
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Comments (none posted)
apache: multiple vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP server
| Package(s): | apache |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0192
CAN-2003-0253
CAN-2003-0254
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| Created: | July 11, 2003 |
Updated: | September 22, 2003 |
| Description: |
The Apache Software Foundation and
the Apache HTTP Server Project have announced
the release of the Apache HTTP Server 2.0.47. This release fixes four
security vulnerabilities:
- Certain sequences of per-directory renegotiations and the
SSLCipherSuite directive being used to upgrade from a weak ciphersuite to
a strong one could result in the weak ciphersuite being used in place of
the strong one. [CAN-2003-0192]
- Certain errors returned by accept() on rarely accessed ports could
cause temporal denial of service, due to a bug in the prefork MPM. [CAN-2003-0253]
- Denial of service was caused when target host is IPv6 but ftp proxy
server can't create IPv6 socket. [CAN-2003-0254]
- The server would crash when going into an infinite loop due to too
many subsequent internal redirects and nested subrequests. [VU#379828]
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Comments (none posted)
autorespond: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | autorespond |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0654
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| Created: | August 18, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
Christian Jaeger discovered a buffer overflow in autorespond, an email
autoresponder used with qmail. This vulnerability could potentially
be exploited by a remote attacker to gain the privileges of a user who
has configured qmail to forward messages to autorespond. This
vulnerability is currently not believed to be exploitable due to
incidental limits on the length of the problematic input, but there
may be situations in which these limits do not apply.
CAN-2003-0654 |
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Comments (none posted)
bind buffer overflow vulnerability in DNS resolver libraries
| Package(s): | bind glibc |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-0651
CAN-2002-0684
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| Created: | July 8, 2002 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
The BIND 4.9.8-OW2 patch and BIND 4.9.9 release (and thus 4.9.9-OW1)
include fixes for a libc related vulnerability which does not
affect Linux. Updates from
the Internet Software Consortium (ISC)
are available from here.
No release or branch of Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl) is known to be
affected, due to Olaf Kirch's fixes for this problem getting into the
GNU C library more than two years ago.
Unfortunatly that does not mean that Linux systems are not vulnerable.
Similar code, without Olaf Firch's fixes,
is in the glibc getnetbyXXX functions.
These functions are described in the SuSE alert as
"
used by very few applications only, such as ifconfig and ifuser,
which makes exploits less likely."
CERT Advisory: CA-2002-19
Buffer Overflow in Multiple DNS Resolver Libraries
CAN-2002-0651
CAN-2002-0684 |
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Comments (1 posted)
Canna server: exploitable buffer overrun
| Package(s): | canna |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1158
CAN-2002-1159
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| Created: | December 10, 2002 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
Canna is a kana-kanji conversion server which is necessary for Japanese
language character input.
A buffer overflow bug in the Canna server up to and including version 3.5b2
allows a local user to gain the privileges of the user 'bin' which could
lead to further exploits. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2002-1158 to this issue.
A lack of validation of requests has been found that affects Canna version
3.6 and earlier. A malicious remote user could exploit this vulnerability
to leak information, or cause a denial of service attack. (CAN-2002-1159)
See also
http://canna.sourceforge.jp/sec/Canna-2002-01.txt
CAN-2002-1158
CAN-2002-1159 |
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Comments (none posted)
eroaster: insecure temporary file
| Package(s): | eroaster |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0656
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| Created: | August 19, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
A vulnerability was discovered in eroaster where it does not take any
security precautions when creating a temporary file for the lockfile. This
vulnerability could be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user running eroaster.
CAN-2003-0656 |
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Comments (none posted)
ethereal: security problems in Ethereal 0.9.12
| Package(s): | ethereal |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0428
CAN-2003-0429
CAN-2003-0431
CAN-2003-0432
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| Created: | June 23, 2003 |
Updated: | November 10, 2003 |
| Description: |
Several security problems have been found in Ethereal
0.9.12. "It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run
arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire,
or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file." |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Filename disclosure vulnerability in fam
| Package(s): | fam |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-0875
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| Created: | August 19, 2002 |
Updated: | January 5, 2005 |
| Description: |
"fam" (file alteration monitor) watches files and directories for changes and lets interested applications know when something happens. This package has a flaw in its group handling that blocks some legitimate operations while, at the same time, exposing the names of files that should otherwise be invisible. |
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Comments (none posted)
fdclone: insecure temporary directory
| Package(s): | fdclone |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0596
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| Created: | July 23, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
fdclone creates a temporary directory in /tmp as a workspace.
However, if this directory already exists, the existing directory is
used instead, regardless of its ownership or permissions. This would
allow an attacker to gain access to fdclone's temporary files and
their contents, or replace them with other files under the attacker's
control.
CAN-2003-0596 |
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Comments (none posted)
fetchmail: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | fetchmail |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1365
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| Created: | December 17, 2002 |
Updated: | October 20, 2003 |
| Description: |
Versions of fetchmail prior to 6.2.0 have (yet another) buffer overflow vulnerability which can be exploited remotely via a suitably crafted message. See this advisory for details. |
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Comments (3 posted)
gkrellm: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | gkrellm |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | August 29, 2003 |
Updated: | September 3, 2003 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow was discovered in gkrellmd, the server component of the
gkrellm monitor package, in versions of gkrellm 2.1.x prior to 2.1.14.
This buffer overflow occurs while reading data from connected gkrellm
clients and can lead to possible arbitrary code execution as the user
running the gkrellmd server. |
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Comments (none posted)
glibc: DNS stub resolvers contain buffer overflow vulnerability
| Package(s): | glibc |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1146
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| Created: | November 7, 2002 |
Updated: | February 5, 2004 |
| Description: |
DNS stub resolvers from multiple vendors contain a buffer overflow
vulnerability. The impact of this vulnerability appears to be limited to
denial of service. (See CERT Vulnerability Note
VU#738331)
The BIND 4 and BIND 8.2.x stub resolver libraries, and other libraries such
as glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, libc, and libresolv, uses the maximum buffer
size instead of the actual size when processing a DNS response, which
causes the stub resolvers to read past the actual boundary ("read buffer
overflow"), allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash).
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Comments (none posted)
gnupg: key validation
| Package(s): | gnupg |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0255
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| Created: | May 15, 2003 |
Updated: | November 17, 2003 |
| Description: |
A key validation bug was discovered in the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) which
would cause keys with more then one user ID to trust all user ID's with the
amount of trust given to the most-valid user ID. |
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Comments (none posted)
gtkhtml: malformed messages cause crash
| Package(s): | gtkhtml |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0133
CAN-2003-0541
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| Created: | April 14, 2003 |
Updated: | April 18, 2005 |
| Description: |
GtkHTML is the HTML rendering widget used by the Evolution mail reader.
GtkHTML supplied with versions of Evolution prior to 1.2.4 contain a bug
when handling HTML messages. Alan Cox discovered that certain malformed
messages could cause the Evolution mail component to crash. |
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Comments (none posted)
horde: session hijacking
| Package(s): | horde |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | September 1, 2003 |
Updated: | September 3, 2003 |
| Description: |
According to this
advisory an attacker could send an email to a victim who used HORDE
MTA, to get the victim to visit a website, which then logs all available
information about the victim's system. |
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Comments (none posted)
kernel-utils: setuid vulnerability
| Package(s): | kernel-utils |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0019
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| Created: | February 7, 2003 |
Updated: | January 21, 2005 |
| Description: |
The kernel-utils package contains several utilities that can be used to
control the kernel or machine hardware. In Red Hat Linux 8.0 this package
contains user mode linux (UML) utilities.
The uml_net utility in kernel-utils packages with Red Hat Linux 8.0 was
incorrectly shipped setuid root. This could allow local users to control
certain network interfaces, add and remove arp entries and routes, and put
interfaces in and out of promiscuous mode.
All users of the kernel-utils package should update to these packages that
contain a version of uml_net that is not setuid root.
Alternatively, as a work-around to this vulnerability issue the following
command as root:
chmod -s /usr/bin/uml_net |
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Comments (none posted)
libpam-smb: exploitable buffer overflow
| Package(s): | libpam-smb, pam-smb |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0686
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| Created: | August 26, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
libpam-smb is a PAM authentication module which makes it possible to
authenticate users against a password database managed by Samba or a
Microsoft Windows server. If a long password is supplied, this can cause a
buffer overflow which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process which invokes PAM services. See this advisory for more information.
CAN-2003-0686 |
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Comments (1 posted)
libpng, libpng3: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | libpng, libpng3 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1363
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| Created: | December 19, 2002 |
Updated: | July 14, 2004 |
| Description: |
Glenn Randers-Pehrson discovered a problem in connection with 16-bit
samples from libpng, an interface for reading and writing PNG
(Portable Network Graphics) format files. The starting offsets for
the loops are calculated incorrectly which causes a buffer overrun
beyond the beginning of the row buffer. |
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Comments (none posted)
lynx: CRLF injection vulnerability
| Package(s): | lynx |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1405
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| Created: | November 19, 2002 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
If lynx is given a url with some special characters on the command line, it
will include faked headers in the HTTP query. This feature can be used to
force scripts (that use Lynx for downloading files) to access the wrong
site on a web server with multiple virtual hosts.
CAN-2002-1405 |
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Comments (none posted)
perl-MailTools: remote command execution
| Package(s): | MailTools |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1271
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| Created: | November 5, 2002 |
Updated: | September 19, 2003 |
| Description: |
The SuSE Security Team reviewed critical Perl modules, including the
Mail::Mailer package. This package contains a security hole which allows
remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain circumstances.
This is due to the usage of mailx as default mailer which allows commands
to be embedded in the mail body.
Note that mail processing programs which use this package can be affected by this vulnerability; in particular, SpamAssassin is vulnerable if you use the -r or -w flags.
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Comments (none posted)
mikmod: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | mikmod |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0427
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| Created: | June 16, 2003 |
Updated: | June 16, 2005 |
| Description: |
Ingo Saitz discovered a bug in mikmod whereby a long filename inside
an archive file can overflow a buffer when the archive is being read
by mikmod. |
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Comments (none posted)
mindi: insecure file creations
| Package(s): | mindi |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0617
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| Created: | September 2, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
Mindi versions prior to 0.86 creates files in /tmp which could allow local
user to overwrite arbitrary files.
CAN-2003-0617 |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
mpg123 - buffer overflow
| Package(s): | mpg123 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0577
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| Created: | July 16, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
The mpg123 utility contains a buffer overflow vulnerability which can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by way of a malicious MP3 file. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Nessus NASL scripting engine security issues
| Package(s): | nessus |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | May 27, 2003 |
Updated: | August 12, 2004 |
| Description: |
Some some vulnerabilities exsist in the Nessus NASL scripting engine. To
exploit these flaws, an attacker would need to have a valid Nessus account
as well as the ability to upload arbitrary Nessus plugins in the Nessus
server (this option is disabled by default) or he/she would need to trick a
user somehow into running a specially crafted nasl script. Read the full
advisory for additional information. |
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Comments (none posted)
netris: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | netris |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0685
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| Created: | August 18, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
Shaun Colley discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in netris, a
network version of a popular puzzle game. A netris client connecting
to an untrusted netris server could be sent an unusually long data
packet, which would be copied into a fixed-length buffer without
bounds checking. This vulnerability could be exploited to gain the
priviliges of the user running netris in client mode, if they connect
to a hostile netris server.
CAN-2003-0685 |
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Comments (none posted)
net-snmp: denial of service vulnerability
| Package(s): | net-snmp |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1170
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| Created: | December 17, 2002 |
Updated: | November 7, 2003 |
| Description: |
The SNMP daemon included in the Net-SNMP package versions 5.0.1 through
5.0.4 can be caused to crash if it is sent a specially crafted packet. |
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Comments (none posted)
nfs-utils xlog() off-by-one bug
| Package(s): | nfs-utils |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0252
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| Created: | July 14, 2003 |
Updated: | March 8, 2004 |
| Description: |
Linux NFS utils package contains remotely exploitable off-by-one bug.
A local or remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending
specially crafted request to rpc.mountd daemon. See this BugTraq post for more details. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
node: buffer overflow, format string
| Package(s): | node |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | September 1, 2003 |
Updated: | September 3, 2003 |
| Description: |
Morgan alias SM6TKY discovered and fixed several security related
problems in LinuxNode, an Amateur Packet Radio Node program. The
buffer overflow he discovered can be used to gain unauthorised root
access and can be remotely triggered. |
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Comments (none posted)
openssh: timing attack leads to information disclosure
| Package(s): | openssh |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0190
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| Created: | May 2, 2003 |
Updated: | November 30, 2004 |
| Description: |
From the advisory:
"During a pen-test we stumbled across a nasty bug in OpenSSH-portable
with PAM support enabled (via the --with-pam configure script switch). This
bug allows a remote attacker to identify valid users on vulnerable systems,
through a simple timing attack. The vulnerability is easy to exploit and
may have high severity, if combined with poor password policies and other
security problems that allow local privilege escalation." |
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Comments (1 posted)
pam_ldap: non-functioning host restrictions
| Package(s): | pam_ldap |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | September 3, 2003 |
Updated: | September 3, 2003 |
| Description: |
pam_ldap 161 contains a bug in the pam_filter module which prevents host-based restrictions from working as advertised; version 1.62 fixes the problem. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
pam-pgsql: format string vulnerability
| Package(s): | pam-pgsql |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0672
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| Created: | August 11, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
Florian Zumbiehl reported a vulnerability in pam-pgsql whereby the
username to be used for authentication is used as a format string when
writing a log message. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the program requesting
PAM authentication.
CAN-2003-0672 |
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Comments (none posted)
perl: cross site scripting vulnerability in CGI.pm module
| Package(s): | perl |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0615
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| Created: | July 29, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
obscure@eyeonsecurity.org reported a
cross site scripting vulnerability in the CGI.pm perl module. This module
is used to facilitate the creation of web forms and is part of the
perl-modules RPM package.
CAN-2003-0615 |
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Comments (none posted)
PHP: vulnerability in mail function
| Package(s): | php |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-0985
CAN-2002-0986
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| Created: | November 13, 2002 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
Two vulnerabilities exists in the mail() PHP function. The first one allows
the execution of any program/script bypassing safe_mode restriction, the
second one may give an open-relay script if the mail() function is not
carefully used in PHP scripts. See this Bugtraq
report for more details. Note that this is a different vulnerability than the previous PHP mail() problem, which affected versions through 4.1.0.
CAN-2002-0985
CAN-2002-0986 |
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Comments (none posted)
phpgroupware - cross-site scripting and other exploits
| Package(s): | phpgroupware |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0504
CAN-2003-0582
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| Created: | July 16, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in all versions of phpgroupware
prior to 0.9.14.006. This latest version fixes an exploitable condition in
all versions that can be exploited remotely without authentication and can
lead to arbitrary code execution on the web server. This vulnerability is
being actively exploited.
Version 0.9.14.005 fixed several other vulnerabilities including cross-site
scripting issues that can be exploited to obtain sensitive information such
as authentication cookies.
See this
Security Corportation report for more information.
CAN-2003-0504
CAN-2003-0582 |
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Comments (none posted)
phpwebsite: SQL Injection, DoS and XSS Vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | phpwebsite |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | September 2, 2003 |
Updated: | September 3, 2003 |
| Description: |
phpwebsite contains an sql injection vulnerability in the calendar
module which allows the attacker to execute sql queries. In addition
phpwebsite is also vulnerable to XSS. More information can be found in the
full
advisory. |
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Comments (none posted)
postfix: denial of service vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | postfix |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0468
CAN-2003-0540
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| Created: | August 5, 2003 |
Updated: | May 27, 2004 |
| Description: |
The postfix MTA, versions through 1.1.12 (but not 2.0) is subject to two remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerabilities; see this advisory from Michal Zalewski for details. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
PostgreSQL - more buffer overflows
| Package(s): | postgresql |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | February 12, 2003 |
Updated: | November 7, 2003 |
| Description: |
A new set of buffer overflows has been discovered in PostgreSQL 7.2.2; they affect the circle_poly(), path_encode(), and path_addr() functions. Exploiting these overflows requires that the attacker first obtain a connection to the PostgreSQL server. |
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Comments (1 posted)
Local arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Python
| Package(s): | python |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1119
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| Created: | August 28, 2002 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
Zack Weinberg discovered that
os._execvpe from os.py uses a predictable name which could lead
to execution of arbitrary code. According to the Debian
advisory, the problem
was present in Python versions 1.5, 2.1 and 2.2.
CAN-2002-1119 |
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Multiple-use vulnerability in Safe.pm
| Package(s): | Safe.pm |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1323
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| Created: | October 9, 2002 |
Updated: | February 20, 2004 |
| Description: |
usePerl has a
description of a vulnerability in the Safe.pm Perl module. It seems
that if a Safe compartment is used more than once, it ceases to be safe.
The problem is fixed in Safe 2.08. |
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semi: insecure temporary file
| Package(s): | semi, wemi |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0440
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| Created: | July 7, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
semi, a MIME library for GNU Emacs, does not take appropriate
security precautions when creating temporary files. This bug could
potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user running Emacs and semi, potentially with
contents supplied by the attacker.
wemi is a fork of semi, and contains the same bug.
CAN-2003-0440 |
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sendmail: bad DNS reply causes crash
| Package(s): | sendmail |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0688
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| Created: | August 26, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
There is a potential problem in sendmail 8.12.8 and earlier sendmail 8.12.x
versions with respect to DNS maps. The bug did not exist in versions before
8.12 as the DNS map type is new to 8.12. The bug was fixed in 8.12.9,
released March 29, 2003. See this advisory for more
information.
CAN-2003-0688 |
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stunnel: signal handler reentrancy DoS
| Package(s): | stunnel |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1563
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| Created: | July 25, 2003 |
Updated: | November 25, 2003 |
| Description: |
Stunnel is a wrapper for network connections. It can be used to tunnel an
unencrypted network connection over a secure connection (encrypted using
SSL or TLS) or to provide a secure means of connecting to services that do
not natively support encryption.
When configured to listen for incoming connections (instead of being
invoked by xinetd), stunnel can be configured to either start a thread or a
child process to handle each new connection. If Stunnel is configured to
start a new child process to handle each connection, it will receive a
SIGCHLD signal when that child exits.
Stunnel versions prior to 4.04 would perform tasks in the SIGCHLD signal
handler which, if interrupted by another SIGCHLD signal, could be unsafe.
This could lead to a denial of service. |
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sup: insecure temporary file
| Package(s): | sup |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0606
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| Created: | July 29, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
sup, a package used to maintain collections of files in identical
versions across machines, fails to take appropriate security
precautions when creating temporary files. A local attacker could
exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user running sup.
CAN-2003-0606 |
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File overwrite vulnerability in tar and unzip
| Package(s): | tar unzip |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2001-1267
CAN-2001-1268
CAN-2001-1269
CAN-2002-0399
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| Created: | October 1, 2002 |
Updated: | April 9, 2006 |
| Description: |
The tar utility does not properly filter file names containing
"../", meaning that a hostile archive can, if unpacked by an
unsuspecting user, overwrite any file that is writable by that user. GNU
tar versions 1.13.19 and earlier are vulnerable; unzip through version 5.42
has the same vulnerability. |
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Comments (1 posted)
teapop: SQL injection
| Package(s): | teapop |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0515
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| Created: | July 9, 2003 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
teapop, a POP-3 server, includes modules for authenticating users
against a PostgreSQL or MySQL database. These modules do not properly
escape user-supplied strings before using them in SQL queries. This
vulnerability could be exploited to execute arbitrary SQL under the
privileges of the database user as which teapop has authenticated.
CAN-2003-0515 |
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Multiple vendor telnetd vulnerability
| Package(s): | telnet Telnet netkit-telnet-ssl kerberos telnetd netkit-telnet nkitb/nkitserv/telnetd krb5 |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | May 20, 2002 |
Updated: | October 5, 2004 |
| Description: |
This vulnerability,
originally thought to be confined to BSD-derived systems, was first covered
in the July 26th Security
Summary. It is now known that Linux telnet daemons are vulnerable as
well.
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unzip: directory traversal vulnerability
| Package(s): | unzip |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0282
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| Created: | July 1, 2003 |
Updated: | November 13, 2003 |
| Description: |
A vulnerabilitiy in unzip version 5.50 and earlier allows attackers to
overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction by placing invalid
(non-printable) characters between two "." characters. These non-printable
characters are filtered, resulting in a ".." sequence. See the full
advisory for further information. |
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vim - modeline vulnerability
| Package(s): | vim |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1377
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| Created: | January 16, 2003 |
Updated: | February 10, 2004 |
| Description: |
VIM allows a user to set the modeline differently for each edited text file
by placing special comments in the files. Georgi Guninski found that these
comments can be carefully crafted in order to call external programs. This
could allow an attacker to create a text file such that when it is opened
arbitrary commands are executed. |
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Comments (4 posted)
vixie-cron: Local vulnerability
| Package(s): | vixie-cron |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2001-0559
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| Created: | April 17, 2003 |
Updated: | October 3, 2003 |
| Description: |
From the ISS
advisory:
"Vixie Cron is a scheduling daemon that ships with several Linux
distributions. Vixie Cron version 3.0pl1 could allow a local attacker to
gain root privileges. Crontab fails to properly drop privileges in certain
cases after a crontab modification operation. A local attacker could
exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the system since
crontab is installed setuid root."
Note: this vulnerability is dated May 07 2001, and was first mentioned in
LWN on the May 10,
2001 security page. |
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webmin: session ID spoofing
| Package(s): | webmin |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-0101
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| Created: | June 13, 2003 |
Updated: | November 18, 2003 |
| Description: |
miniserv.pl in the webmin package does not properly handle
metacharacters, such as line feeds and carriage returns, in
Base64-encoded strings used in Basic authentication. This
vulnerability allows remote attackers to spoof a session ID, and
thereby gain root privileges. |
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Comments (none posted)
wget:directory traversal bug
| Package(s): | wget |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2002-1344
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| Created: | December 10, 2002 |
Updated: | September 30, 2003 |
| Description: |
Versions of wget prior to 1.8.2-4 contain a bug that permits a malicious
FTP server to create or overwrite files anywhere on the local file system.
FTP clients must check to see if an FTP server's response to the NLST
command includes any directory information along with the list of filenames
required by the FTP protocol (RFC 959, section 4.1.3).
If the FTP client fails to do so, a malicious FTP server can send filenames
beginning with '/' or containing '/../' which can be used to direct a
vulnerable FTP client to write files (such as .forward, .rhosts, .shosts,
etc.) that can then be used for later attacks against the client machine.
See also
this Bugtraq article from 1997.
CAN-2002-1344 |
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wget: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | wget |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2003-1565
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| Created: | August 5, 2003 |
Updated: | |
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