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The LD_DEBUG environment variable is one of those obscure, useful features found in glibc. By setting LD_DEBUG to one of a few specific values (use help to get the full list), you can get a great deal of information on just how the dynamic library loader is resolving symbols and performing relocation. This information can be most useful for tracking down certain kinds of obscure shareable library problems.

LD_DEBUG can be verbose; it can also provide information about security-critical programs - especially those running setuid - which perhaps should not be made available to just anybody. The large amount of output created by LD_DEBUG can also be used as a sort of poor-man's single-stepping mechanism. If you can control when the standard output will block, you can stop a setuid program at almost any library call. This capability can be most useful if you are trying to exploit a difficult race condition, such as a temporary file vulnerability. The ability to stop a program at an arbitrary point can turn a small, difficult window into a wide-open one which can be exploited at leisure.

Thus, it would make sense to disallow LD_DEBUG for setuid binaries. Unfortunately, this didn't occur to the glibc implementors, who did not add any checks for setuid operation in the LD_DEBUG code. Gentoo has recently issued an update fixing the problem; no other distributors have followed suit as of this writing.

As it turns out, some distributors do not need to. OpenWall fixed this problem over three years ago; ALT Linux also patched glibc in its distribution. Somehow, however, the fixes applied by these distributors never got into wider distribution.

This is not the first time that somebody has discovered a security problem for which a fix had been available for years. These incidents are, at best, a missed opportunity: known holes with available fixes remain unpatched for long periods of time. A less pleasant possibility is that crackers can look at the patches applied by security-conscious distributions (such as OpenWall) in search of holes which have not been fixed elsewhere. Security fixes are best applied universally.

The obvious way to ensure widespread diffusion of security fixes is to submit them back to the package's maintainer. Such patches should almost always be accepted - or the maintainer should come up with a better way to fix the problem. If the maintainer refuses to fix the problem, there is always the time-honored technique of posting an advisory to Bugtraq. What should not be an option is keeping security fixes to ones self.

Comments (16 posted)

New vulnerabilities

Cacti: SQL injection vulnerability

Package(s):cacti CVE #(s):
Created:August 23, 2004 Updated:August 25, 2004
Description: Cacti is vulnerable to a SQL injection attack where an attacker may inject SQL into the Username field. An attacker could use these vulnerabilities to compromise the Cacti service and potentially execute programs with the permissions of the user running Cacti.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200408-21-err 2004-08-23
Gentoo 200408-21 2004-08-23

Comments (none posted)

courier-imap: Remote Format String Vulnerability

Package(s):courier-imap CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0777
Created:August 20, 2004 Updated:August 26, 2004
Description: There is a format string vulnerability in the auth_debug() function which can be exploited remotely, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution as the user running the IMAP daemon (which is often root). A remote attacker may send username or password information containing printf() format tokens (such as "%s"), which will crash the server or cause it to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can only be exploited if DEBUG_LOGIN is set to something other than 0 in the imapd config file.

If DEBUG_LOGIN is enabled in the imapd configuration, a remote attacker may execute arbitrary code as the root user.

Alerts:
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0043 2004-08-26
Gentoo 200408-19 2004-08-19

Comments (none posted)

icecast-server: missing escape

Package(s):icecast-server CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0781
Created:August 24, 2004 Updated:August 25, 2004
Description: Markus Wörle discovered a cross site scripting problem in status-display (list.cgi) of the icecast internal webserver, an MPEG layer III streaming server. The UserAgent variable is not properly html_escaped so that an attacker could cause the client to execute arbitrary Java script commands.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-541-1 2004-08-24

Comments (none posted)

qt3: BMP image parser heap overflow

Package(s):qt3/qt3-non-mt/qt3-32bit/qt3-static CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0691 CAN-2004-0692 CAN-2004-0693
Created:August 19, 2004 Updated:May 15, 2005
Description: A heap overflow in the qt3 BMP image format parser in Qt versions prior to 3.3.3 may allow remote code execution.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152763 2005-05-12
Conectiva CLA-2004:866 2004-09-22
Whitebox WBSA-2004:414-01 2004-09-20
Debian DSA-542-1 2004-08-30
Fedora FEDORA-2004-271 2004-08-23
Fedora FEDORA-2004-270 2004-08-23
Gentoo 200408-20 2004-08-22
Red Hat RHSA-2004:414-01 2004-08-20
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:085 2004-08-18
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:027 2004-08-19

Comments (none posted)

roundup: remote file access vulnerability

Package(s):roundup CVE #(s):
Created:August 18, 2004 Updated:August 25, 2004
Description: The roundup issue tracker has a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to read files owned by the user that is running the application.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200408-09 2004-08-11

Comments (none posted)

zlib: denial of service

Package(s):zlib CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0797
Created:August 25, 2004 Updated:June 10, 2005
Description: Versions 1.2.x of the zlib library contain an error handling vulnerability which can enable denial of service attacks.
Alerts:
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.007 2005-06-10
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2043 2005-02-23
Conectiva CLA-2004:878 2004-10-25
Slackware SSA:2004-278-02 2004-10-04
Conectiva CLA-2004:865 2004-09-13
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:090 2004-09-07
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:029 2004-09-02
Gentoo 200408-26 2004-08-27
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.038 2004-08-25

Comments (none posted)

Updated vulnerabilities

acroread: UUDecode filename buffer overflow

Package(s):acroread CVE #(s):
Created:August 16, 2004 Updated:August 17, 2004
Description: acroread contains two errors in the handling of UUEncoded filenames. First, it fails to check the length of a filename before copying it into a fixed size buffer and, secondly, it fails to check for the backtick shell metacharacter in the filename before executing a command with a shell. By enticing a user to open a PDF with a specially crafted filename, an attacker could execute arbitrary code or programs with the permissions of the user running acroread.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200408-14 2004-08-15

Comments (none posted)

Apache mod_proxy: denial of service

Package(s):apache CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0492
Created:June 11, 2004 Updated:October 14, 2004
Description: A buffer overflow vulnerability in the apache mod_proxy module can be exploited to create a denial of service.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1737 2004-10-13
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:065 2004-06-29
Debian DSA-525-1 2004-06-24
Gentoo 200406-16 2004-06-21
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.029 2004-06-11

Comments (none posted)

apache2: stack-based buffer overflow in ssl_util.c

Package(s):apache2 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0488
Created:June 1, 2004 Updated:October 14, 2004
Description: A stack-based buffer overflow exists in the ssl_util_uuencode_binary function in ssl_util.c in Apache. When mod_ssl is configured to trust the issuing CA, a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code via a client certificate with a long subject DN.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1888 2004-10-13
Debian DSA-532-2 2004-07-27
Debian DSA-532-1 2004-07-22
Red Hat RHSA-2004:245-01 2004-06-14
Gentoo 200406-05 2004-06-09
Slackware SSA:2004-154-01 2004-06-02
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.026 2004-05-27
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0031 2004-06-02
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:054 2004-06-01
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:055 2004-06-01

Comments (none posted)

aspell: bounds checking problem

Package(s):aspell CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0548
Created:June 17, 2004 Updated:December 20, 2004
Description: Aspell's word-list-compress utility fails to properly check bounds when dealing with words that are more than 256 bytes long. This can lead to arbitrary code execution by an attacker.
Alerts:
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:153 2004-12-20
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.042 2004-09-15
Gentoo 200406-14 2004-06-17

Comments (none posted)

Ethereal: Multiple security problems

Package(s):ethereal CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0633 CAN-2004-0634 CAN-2004-0635
Created:July 9, 2004 Updated:August 19, 2004
Description: There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.5, including:
* In some cases the iSNS dissector could cause Ethereal to abort.
* If there was no policy name for a handle for SMB SID snooping it could cause a crash.
* A malformed or missing community string could cause the SNMP dissector to crash.
See this advisory for more information.
Alerts:
Whitebox WBSA-2004:378-01 2004-08-19
Red Hat RHSA-2004:378-01 2004-08-05
Netwosix NW-2004-0016 2004-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2004-234 2004-07-22
Debian DSA-528-1 2004-07-17
Fedora FEDORA-2004-220 2004-07-14
Fedora FEDORA-2004-219 2004-07-14
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:067 2004-07-09
Gentoo 200407-08 2004-07-09

Comments (none posted)

Filename disclosure vulnerability in fam

Package(s):fam CVE #(s):CAN-2002-0875
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.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:005-01 2005-01-05
Debian DSA-154-1 2002-08-15

Comments (none posted)

flim: insecure file creation

Package(s):flim CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0422
Created:May 5, 2004 Updated:December 16, 2004
Description: The emacs "flim" mode creates temporary files in an insecure fashion, possibly allowing a local attacker to overwrite files.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2004-546 2004-12-15
Red Hat RHSA-2004:344-01 2004-08-18
Debian DSA-500-1 2004-05-01

Comments (none posted)

Gaim: remote code execution vulnerability

Package(s):gaim CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0500
Created:August 12, 2004 Updated:October 18, 2004
Description: The Gaim IRC client (versions 0.81 and prior) has a remote code execution vulnerability in the MSN-protocol parsing functions.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1237 2004-10-16
Whitebox WBSA-2004:400-01 2004-09-20
Slackware SSA:2004-239-01 2004-08-26
Fedora FEDORA-2004-279 2004-08-26
Fedora FEDORA-2004-278 2004-08-26
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:081 2004-08-12
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:025 2004-08-12
Gentoo 200408-12 2004-08-12

Comments (none posted)

glibc: Information leak with LD_DEBUG

Package(s):glibc CVE #(s):CAN-2004-1453
Created:August 17, 2004 Updated:May 26, 2005
Description: Silvio Cesare discovered a potential information leak in glibc. It allows LD_DEBUG on SUID binaries where it should not be allowed. This has various security implications, which may be used to gain confidential information. An attacker can gain the list of symbols a SUID application uses and their locations and can then use a trojaned library taking precedence over those symbols to gain information or perform further exploitation.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:256-01 2005-05-18
Gentoo 200408-16 2004-08-16

Comments (1 posted)

gnome-vfs: backend script vulnerabilities

Package(s):gnome-vfs CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0494
Created:August 4, 2004 Updated:February 21, 2005
Description: Several scripts packaged with gnome-vfs, using its "extfs" capability, have security flaws. These scripts tend not to be used on many systems, but their presence can still be a threat.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1944 2005-02-20
Whitebox WBSA-2004:373-01 2004-08-19
Red Hat RHSA-2004:373-01 2004-08-04

Comments (none posted)

gtkhtml: malformed messages cause crash

Package(s):gtkhtml CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0133 CAN-2003-0541
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.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-710-1 2005-04-18
Mandrake MDKSA-2003:093 2003-09-18
Conectiva CLA-2003:737 2003-09-12
Red Hat RHSA-2003:264-01 2003-09-09
Mandrake MDKSA-2003:046 2003-04-15
Red Hat RHSA-2003:126-01 2003-04-14

Comments (none posted)

gv: unsafe sscanf () buffer overflow vulnerability

Package(s):gv CVE #(s):CAN-2002-0838
Created:August 12, 2004 Updated:August 19, 2004
Description: gv (prior to version 3.5.8-r4) has a buffer overflow vulnerability involving the sscanf() function. An attacker can execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running gv.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200408-10 2004-08-12

Comments (1 posted)

iproute: local denial of service

Package(s):iproute net-tools CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0856
Created:November 25, 2003 Updated:December 14, 2004
Description: The iproute utility is susceptible to spoofed netlink messages sent by local users, with the result that denial of service attacks are possible.
Alerts:
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:148 2004-12-13
Fedora FEDORA-2004-154 2004-06-03
Fedora FEDORA-2004-115 2004-05-11
Debian DSA-492-1 2004-04-18
Gentoo 200404-10 2004-04-09
Red Hat RHSA-2003:316-01 2003-11-24

Comments (none posted)

racoon: failure to verify signatures

Package(s):ipsec-tools racoon CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0155
Created:April 7, 2004 Updated:August 19, 2004
Description: Versions of ipsec-tools prior to 0.2.5 contain a vulnerability wherein the racoon utility fails to verify digital signatures on some packets. This hole can lead to unauthorized connections or man-in-the-middle attacks. See this advisory for details.
Alerts:
Whitebox WBSA-2004:308-01 2004-08-19
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:027 2004-04-08
Gentoo 200404-05 2004-04-07

Comments (none posted)

kdebase: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kdebase CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0689 CAN-2004-0690 CAN-2004-0721 CAN-2004-0746
Created:August 12, 2004 Updated:October 4, 2004
Description: Three separate vulnerabilities have been identified in the KDE 3.2 "kdebase" package; see this advisory for details. These problems include two temporary file vulnerabilities and a "frame injection" problem in konqueror which could help with phishing attacks. In a fourth vulnerability, described here, Konqueror allows websites to set cookies for certain country specific secondary top level domains.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2004:412-01 2004-10-04
Conectiva CLA-2004:864 2004-09-13
Fedora FEDORA-2004-293 2004-09-08
Fedora FEDORA-2004-292 2004-09-08
Fedora FEDORA-2004-291 2004-09-08
Fedora FEDORA-2004-290 2004-09-08
Slackware SSA:2004-247-01 2004-09-03
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:086 2004-08-20
Debian DSA-539-1 2004-08-17
Gentoo 200408-13 2004-08-12

Comments (none posted)

kdelibs: cookie disclosure

Package(s):kdelibs CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0592
Created:March 10, 2004 Updated:August 24, 2004
Description: kdelibs (and, thus, Konqueror) has a vulnerability where a hostile server can force the disclosure of cookies that should not be presented to it. KDE versions 3.1.3 and later contain a fix.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200408-23 2004-08-24
Red Hat RHSA-2004:074-01 2004-03-10
Red Hat RHSA-2004:075-01 2004-03-10
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:022 2004-03-10
Debian DSA-459-1 2004-03-10

Comments (none posted)

kernel allows unauthorized changes to the group ID

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0497
Created:July 2, 2004 Updated:September 27, 2004
Description: During an audit of the Linux kernel, SUSE discovered a flaw that allowed a user to make unauthorized changes to the group ID of files in certain circumstances - such as when the files are exported via NFS.
Alerts:
Conectiva CLA-2004:869 2004-09-27
Gentoo 200407-16 2004-07-22
Whitebox WBSA-2004:360-01 2004-07-07
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:066 2004-07-06
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:020 2004-07-02
Fedora FEDORA-2004-206 2004-07-02
Fedora FEDORA-2004-205 2004-07-02
Red Hat RHSA-2004:354-01 2004-07-02
Red Hat RHSA-2004:360-01 2004-07-02

Comments (none posted)

kernel information leak

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0415
Created:August 3, 2004 Updated:October 26, 2004
Description: Paul Starzetz discovered flaws in the Linux kernel when handling file offset pointers. These consist of invalid conversions of 64 to 32-bit file offset pointers and possible race conditions. A local unprivileged user could make use of these flaws to access large portions of kernel memory. Note that this vulnerability affects all 2.4 kernels through 2.4.26 and 2.6 kernels through 2.6.7.

A fix for this problem was added to the fifth 2.4.27 release candidate.

Alerts:
Conectiva CLA-2004:879 2004-10-26
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1804 2004-10-18
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:087 2004-08-26
Gentoo 200408-24 2004-08-25
Whitebox WBSA-2004:413-01 2004-08-19
Red Hat RHSA-2004:327-01 2004-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2004-251 2004-08-10
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0041 2004-08-09
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:024 2004-08-09
Red Hat RHSA-2004:413-01 2004-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2004:418-01 2004-08-03
Fedora FEDORA-2004-247 2004-08-03

Comments (none posted)

kernel-utils: setuid vulnerability

Package(s):kernel-utils CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0019
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

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2003:056-08 2003-02-07

Comments (none posted)

libpng: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):libpng CVE #(s):CAN-2002-1363 CAN-2004-0597 CAN-2004-0598 CAN-2004-0599
Created:August 4, 2004 Updated:February 10, 2005
Description: There is yet another set of holes in libpng, versions 1.2.5 and prior, which can be exploited by a malicious image file; see this advisory from Chris Evans or this CERT advisory for details.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1943 2005-02-08
Red Hat RHSA-2004:421-01 2004-08-04
Gentoo 200408-22 2004-08-23
Whitebox WBSA-2004:402-01 2004-08-19
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:082 2004-08-12
Slackware SSA:2004-223-01 2004-08-09
Slackware SSA:2004-223-02 2004-08-07
Slackware SSA:2004-222-01b 2004-08-10
Slackware SSA:2004-222-01 2004-08-07
Conectiva CLA-2004:856 2004-08-06
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0040 2004-08-05
Gentoo 200408-03 2004-08-05
Debian DSA-536-1 2004-08-04
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:079 2004-08-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:023 2004-08-04
Red Hat RHSA-2004:402-01 2004-08-04
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.035 2004-08-04

Comments (1 posted)

libxml2 - arbitrary code execution

Package(s):libxml2 CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0110
Created:February 26, 2004 Updated:August 19, 2009
Description: Yuuichi Teranishi discovered a flaw in libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.6. When fetching a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, libxml2 uses special parsing routines. These routines can overflow a buffer if passed a very long URL. If an attacker is able to find an application using libxml2 that parses remote resources and allows them to influence the URL, then this flaw could be used to execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8594 2009-08-15
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8582 2009-08-15
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1324 2004-07-19
Conectiva CLA-2004:836 2004-03-31
Gentoo 200403-01 2004-03-06
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0010 2004-03-05
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.003 2004-03-05
Netwosix NW-2004-0004 2004-03-04
Debian DSA-455-1 2004-03-03
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:018 2004-03-03
Red Hat RHSA-2004:091-02 2004-03-03
Whitebox WBSA-2004:090-01 2004-03-01
Red Hat RHSA-2004:090-01 2004-02-26
Fedora FEDORA-2004-087 2004-02-25
Red Hat RHSA-2004:091-01 2004-02-26

Comments (none posted)

logcheck: symlink vulnerability

Package(s):logcheck CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0404
Created:April 21, 2004 Updated:December 22, 2004
Description: The logcheck utility handles temporary files in an unsafe way, possibly allowing local attackers to overwrite files.
Alerts:
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:155 2004-12-22
Debian DSA-488-1 2004-04-16

Comments (none posted)

mikmod: buffer overflow

Package(s):mikmod CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0427
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.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2005-405 2005-06-16
Red Hat RHSA-2005:506-01 2005-06-13
Fedora FEDORA-2005-404 2005-06-09
Gentoo 200307-01 2003-07-02
Debian DSA-320-1 2003-06-13

Comments (none posted)

mod_python: denial of service vulnerability

Package(s):mod_python CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0973
Created:January 27, 2004 Updated:October 4, 2004
Description: Apache's mod_python module could crash the httpd process if a specific, malformed query string was sent.

The Apache Foundation has reported that mod_python may be prone to Denial of Service attacks when handling a malformed query. Mod_python 2.7.9 was released to fix the vulnerability, however, because the vulnerability has not been fully fixed, version 2.7.10 has been released.

Users of mod_python 3.0.4 are not affected by this vulnerability.

Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1325 2004-10-03
Conectiva CLA-2004:837 2004-04-12
Whitebox WBSA-2004:058-01 2004-03-01
Debian DSA-452-1 2004-02-29
Red Hat RHSA-2004:058-01 2004-02-26
Red Hat RHSA-2004:063-01 2004-02-26
Gentoo 200401-03 2004-01-27

Comments (none posted)

MoinMoin Group ACL Bypass

Package(s):moinmoin CVE #(s):
Created:July 12, 2004 Updated:August 26, 2004
Description: MoinMoin contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to gain access to unauthorized privileges. The issue is triggered when an attacker creates a user with the same name as an administrative group. This flaw may lead to a loss of integrity. See this osvdb entry for additional information.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200407-09 2004-07-11

Comments (none posted)

mozilla: multiple vulnerabilties

Package(s):mozilla CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0594 CAN-2003-0564
Created:March 10, 2004 Updated:August 19, 2004
Description: Mozilla 1.4 contains a few vulnerabilities, including disclosure of cookies to the wrong server, a scripting vulnerability which can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code, and an S/MIME vulnerability which can lead to remote denial of service or code execution attacks.
Alerts:
Whitebox WBSA-2004:421-01 2004-08-19
Whitebox WBSA-2004:110-01 2004-03-29
Red Hat RHSA-2004:112-01 2004-03-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:021 2004-03-10

Comments (none posted)

mpg321: format string vulnerability

Package(s):mpg321 CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0969
Created:January 6, 2004 Updated:March 28, 2005
Description: A vulnerability was discovered in mpg321, a command-line mp3 player, whereby user-supplied strings were passed to printf(3) unsafely. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to overwrite memory, and possibly execute arbitrary code. In order for this vulnerability to be exploited, mpg321 would need to play a malicious mp3 file (including via HTTP streaming).
Alerts:
Gentoo 200503-34 2005-03-28
Debian DSA-411-1 2004-01-05

Comments (none posted)

MySQL: temporary file vulnerabilities

Package(s):mysql CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0381 CAN-2004-0388
Created:April 14, 2004 Updated:August 18, 2004
Description: The mysqlbug and mysqld_multi scripts contain temporary file vulnerabilities which could be used by a local attacker to overwrite files on the system.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200405-20 2004-05-25
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:034 2004-04-19
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.014 2004-04-14
Debian DSA-483-1 2004-04-14

Comments (none posted)

MySQL: temporary file vulnerability

Package(s):mysql CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0457
Created:August 18, 2004 Updated:September 1, 2004
Description: The MySQL "mysqlhotcopy" script contains a temporary file vulnerability which could be used by an attacker to overwrite files.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200409-02 2004-09-01
Debian DSA-540-1 2004-08-18

Comments (none posted)

neon: buffer overflow

Package(s):neon CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0398
Created:May 19, 2004 Updated:September 30, 2004
Description: The neon library (through version 0.24.5) contains a buffer overflow in its date parsing code, allowing arbitrary code execution when connecting to a hostile server. See this advisory for details. This vulnerability also affects related applications (such as cadaver).
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1552 2004-09-29
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:078 2004-07-29
Gentoo 200406-03 2004-06-05
Gentoo 200405-25b 2004-06-02
Gentoo 200405-25 2004-05-30
Conectiva CLA-2004:841 2004-05-25
Gentoo 200405-15 2004-05-20
Gentoo 200405-13 2004-05-20
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.024 2004-05-19
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:049 2004-05-19
Fedora FEDORA-2004-130 2004-05-19
Fedora FEDORA-2004-129 2004-05-19
Red Hat RHSA-2004:191-01 2004-05-19
Debian DSA-507-1 2004-05-19
Debian DSA-506-1 2004-05-19

Comments (none posted)

nessus: adduser race condition vulnerability

Package(s):nessus CVE #(s):
Created:August 12, 2004 Updated:August 17, 2004
Description: The nessus security scanner has a temporary file vulnerability that allows a user to perform a privilege escalation attack by way of an adduser race condition.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200408-11 2004-08-12

Comments (none posted)

netpbm: insecure temporary files

Package(s):netpbm CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0924
Created:January 19, 2004 Updated:December 29, 2004
Description: netpbm is graphics conversion toolkit made up of a large number of single-purpose programs. Many of these programs were found to create temporary files in an insecure manner, which could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking a vulnerable netpbm tool.
Alerts:
Conectiva CLA-2004:909 2004-12-29
Gentoo 200410-02 2004-10-04
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:011-1 2004-09-27
Whitebox WBSA-2004:031-01 2004-02-12
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:011 2004-02-11
Red Hat RHSA-2004:030-01 2004-02-05
Fedora FEDORA-2004-068 2004-02-06
Red Hat RHSA-2004:031-01 2004-01-22
Debian DSA-426-1 2004-01-18

Comments (1 posted)

openssh: timing attack leads to information disclosure

Package(s):openssh CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0190
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."
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-34-1 2004-11-30
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2003.035 2003-08-06
Red Hat RHSA-2003:222-01 2003-07-29
Gentoo 200305-02 2003-05-13
Gentoo 200305-01 2002-03-05

Comments (1 posted)

OpenSSL: denial of service vulnerabilities

Package(s):OpenSSL CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0081 CAN-2003-0851
Created:March 17, 2004 Updated:November 2, 2005
Description: Versions 0.9.7a-c of the OpenSSL library suffer from two denial of service vulnerabilities; see the version 0.9.7d release announcement for details.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2005:830-00 2005-11-02
Red Hat RHSA-2005:829-00 2005-11-02
Fedora FEDORA-2005-1042 2005-10-31
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1395 2004-05-08
Conectiva CLA-2004:834 2004-03-31
Whitebox WBSA-2004:084-01 2004-03-23
Red Hat RHSA-2004:084-01 2004-03-23
Fedora FEDORA-2004-095 2004-03-19
Whitebox WBSA-2004:120-01 2004-03-22
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0012 2004-03-17
Slackware SSA:2004-077-01 2004-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2004:121-01 2004-03-17
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.007 2004-03-18
Gentoo 200403-03 2004-03-17
Debian DSA-465-1 2004-03-17
Netwosix NW-2004-0005 2004-03-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:023 2004-03-17
SuSE SuSE-SA:2004:007 2004-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2004:120-01 2004-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2004:119-01 2004-03-17
EnGarde ESA-20040317-003 2004-03-17

Comments (1 posted)

pavuk: buffer overflow

Package(s):pavuk CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0456
Created:June 30, 2004 Updated:November 11, 2004
Description: Versions of the pavuk web spider through 0.9.28-r1 contain a buffer overflow which could be exploited by a hostile server.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200411-19 2004-11-10
Debian DSA-527-1 2004-07-03
Gentoo 200406-22 2004-06-30

Comments (none posted)

php: remotely exploitable memory errors

Package(s):php CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0594
Created:July 14, 2004 Updated:February 7, 2005
Description: Stefan Esser has issued an advisory regarding a remotely exploitable hole in PHP (through version 4.3.7). If the memory_limit feature is in use (as it should be, to prevent denial of service attacks), allocation failures can be forced at highly inopportune times, and those failures can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. The exploit is described as "quite easy," and it can be done regardless of whether Apache1 or Apache2 is in use. Upgrading to PHP 4.3.8 fixes the problem; yesterday's PHP 5.0 release also contains the fix (but the final release candidate did not).
Alerts:
Debian DSA-669-1 2005-02-07
Whitebox WBSA-2004:392-01 2004-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2004-223 2004-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2004-222 2004-07-23
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.034 2004-07-22
Slackware SSA:2004-202-01 2004-07-20
Debian DSA-531-1 2004-07-20
Red Hat RHSA-2004:392-01 2004-07-19
Red Hat RHSA-2004:395-01 2004-07-19
Conectiva CLA-2004:847 2004-07-16
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:021 2004-07-16
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:068 2004-07-14
Gentoo 200407-13 2004-07-15
tinysofa TSSA-2004-013 2004-07-14

Comments (none posted)

PuTTY: pre-authentication arbitrary code execution problem

Package(s):putty CVE #(s):
Created:August 5, 2004 Updated:October 28, 2004
Description: PuTTY, a telnet and SSH client, contains a vulnerability that can allow an SSH server to execute arbitrary code on a connecting client.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200410-29 2004-10-27
Gentoo 200408-04 2004-08-05

Comments (none posted)

python: buffer overflow

Package(s):python CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0150
Created:March 10, 2004 Updated:October 11, 2004
Description: Python (versions 2.2 and 2.2.1 only) has a buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo() function which can be exploited by a malformed IPv6 address.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-458-3 2004-10-10
Gentoo 200409-03 2004-09-02
Debian DSA-458-2 2004-08-31
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:019 2004-03-09
Debian DSA-458-1 2004-03-09

Comments (none posted)

rsync: path-sanitizing bug

Package(s):rsync CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0792
Created:August 16, 2004 Updated:November 1, 2004
Description: This August 2004 rsync advisory reports that there is a path-sanitizing bug that affects daemon mode in all recent rsync versions (including 2.6.2) but only if chroot is disabled. It does NOT affect the normal send/receive filenames that specify what files should be transferred (this is because these names happen to get sanitized twice, and thus the second call removes any lingering leading slash(es) that the first call left behind). It does affect certain option paths that cause auxilliary files to be read or written.
Alerts:
Conectiva CLA-2004:881 2004-11-01
Slackware SSA:2004-285-01 2004-10-12
Whitebox WBSA-2004:436-01 2004-09-20
Red Hat RHSA-2004:436-01 2004-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2004-269 2004-08-19
Fedora FEDORA-2004-268 2004-08-19
Gentoo 200408-17 2004-08-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:083 2004-08-17
Netwosix NW-2004-0017 2004-08-17
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0042 2004-08-17
tinysofa TSSA-2004-020-ES 2004-08-16
Debian DSA-538-1 2004-08-17
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:026 2004-08-16
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.037 2004-08-15

Comments (none posted)

ruby: insecure file permissions

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0755
Created:August 16, 2004 Updated:October 14, 2004
Description: Andres Salomon noticed a problem in the CGI session management of Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language. CGI::Session's FileStore (and presumably PStore, but not in Debian woody) implementations store session information insecurely. They simply create files, ignoring permission issues. This can lead an attacker who has also shell access to the webserver to take over a session.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2004-264 2004-10-15
Red Hat RHSA-2004:441-01 2004-09-30
Gentoo 200409-08 2004-09-03
Debian DSA-537-1 2004-08-16

Comments (none posted)

samba: potential buffer overruns

Package(s):samba CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0600 CAN-2004-0686
Created:July 22, 2004 Updated:September 2, 2004
Description: According to this Samba advisory, Evgeny Demidov discovered that the Samba SMB/CIFS server has a buffer overflow bug in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) on decoding Base64 data during HTTP Basic Authentication. Samba versions between 3.0.2 through 3.0.4 are affected. (CAN-2004-0600)

Another buffer overflow bug has been located in the Samba code used to support the "mangling method = hash" functionality. The default setting for this parameter is "mangling method = hash2" and therefore Samba is not vulnerable by default. Samba versions between 2.2.0 through 2.2.9 and 3.0.0 through 3.0.4 are affected. (CAN-2004-0686)

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2004-285 2004-09-02
Fedora FEDORA-2004-284 2004-09-02
Whitebox WBSA-2004:259-01 2004-08-19
Conectiva CLA-2004:854 2004-07-30
Gentoo 200407-21 2004-07-29
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0039 2004-01-05
Red Hat RHSA-2004:404-01 2004-07-26
Slackware SSA:2004-207-01 2004-07-25
tinysofa TSSA-2004-014 2004-07-23
SuSE SUSE-SA:2004:022 2004-07-23
Netwosix NW-2004-0015 2004-07-23
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:071 2004-07-22
Conectiva CLA-2004:851 2004-07-22
Red Hat RHSA-2004:259-01 2004-07-22
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.033 2004-07-22

Comments (1 posted)

sox: buffer overflow

Package(s):sox CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0557
Created:July 28, 2004 Updated:February 21, 2005
Description: Sox suffers from buffer overflows in its WAV file handling; these overflows could conceivably be exploited by way of a malicious sound file.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1945 2005-02-20
Debian DSA-565-1 2004-10-13
Whitebox WBSA-2004:409-01 2004-08-19
Slackware SSA:2004-223-03 2004-08-07
Conectiva CLA-2004:855 2004-07-30
Gentoo 200407-23 2004-07-30
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:076 2004-07-28
Red Hat RHSA-2004:409-01 2004-07-29
Fedora FEDORA-2004-244 2004-07-28
Fedora FEDORA-2004-235 2004-07-28

Comments (none posted)

SpamAssassin: Denial of Service vulnerability

Package(s):spamassassin CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0796
Created:August 9, 2004 Updated:August 11, 2005
Description: SpamAssassin contains an unspecified Denial of Service vulnerability. By sending a specially crafted message an attacker could cause a Denial of Service attack against the SpamAssassin service.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:129284 2005-08-10
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:2268 2005-03-24
Red Hat RHSA-2004:451-01 2004-09-30
Conectiva CLA-2004:867 2004-09-22
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.041 2004-09-15
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:084 2004-08-18
Gentoo 200408-06 2004-08-09

Comments (none posted)

squid: buffer overflow

Package(s):squid CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0541
Created:June 9, 2004 Updated:September 30, 2004
Description: The NTLM authentication helper used by the squid proxy contains a buffer overflow vulnerability; an overly-long password may be used to run arbitrary code. Sites not using NTLM authentication are not vulnerable.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2004:462-01 2004-09-30
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:093 2004-09-15
Gentoo 200409-04 2004-09-02
Gentoo 200406-13 2004-06-17
Whitebox WBSA-2004:242-01 2004-06-10
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0033 2004-06-10
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:059 2004-06-09
SuSE SuSE-SA:2004:016 2004-06-09
Red Hat RHSA-2004:242-01 2004-06-09
Fedora FEDORA-2004-164 2004-06-09
Fedora FEDORA-2004-163 2004-06-09

Comments (none posted)

SquirrelMail cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Package(s):squirrelmail CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0519 CAN-2004-0520 CAN-2004-0521
Created:May 21, 2004 Updated:October 4, 2004
Description: Several unspecified cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and a well hidden SQL injection vulnerability were found in SquirrelMail versions 1.4.2 and lower. An XSS attack allows an attacker to insert malicious code into a web-based application. SquirrelMail does not check for code when parsing variables received via the URL query string.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1733 2004-10-02
Conectiva CLA-2004:858 2004-08-12
Whitebox WBSA-2004:240-01 2004-06-21
Gentoo 200406-08 2004-06-15
Red Hat RHSA-2004:240-01 2004-06-14
Fedora FEDORA-2004-160 2004-06-09
Fedora FEDORA-2004-159 2004-06-09
Gentoo 200405-16:02 2004-05-25
Gentoo 200405-16 2004-05-21

Comments (none posted)

Subversion: Remote heap overflow

Package(s):subversion CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0413
Created:June 11, 2004 Updated:March 7, 2005
Description: Subversion has a remote Denial of Service vulnerability that may allow a server that runs svnserve to execute arbitrary code. See this advisory for more information.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1748 2005-03-07
SuSE SuSE-SA:2004:018 2004-06-17
Fedora FEDORA-2004-166 2004-06-11
Fedora FEDORA-2004-165 2004-06-11
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.028 2004-06-11
Gentoo 200406-07 2004-06-10

Comments (none posted)

sysstat: temporary file vulnerability

Package(s):sysstat CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0107 CAN-2004-0108
Created:March 10, 2004 Updated:October 4, 2004
Description: The sysstat utility has a temporary file vulnerability which can be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite system files.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1372 2004-10-03
Gentoo 200404-04 2004-04-06
Debian DSA-460-2 2004-04-03
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0011 2004-03-16
Whitebox WBSA-2004:053-01 2004-03-10
Red Hat RHSA-2004:053-01 2004-03-10
Red Hat RHSA-2004:093-01 2004-03-10
Debian DSA-460-1 2004-03-10

Comments (none posted)

File overwrite vulnerability in tar and unzip

Package(s):tar unzip CVE #(s):CAN-2001-1267 CAN-2001-1268 CAN-2001-1269 CAN-2002-0399
Created:October 1, 2002 Updated:April 10, 2006
Description: The tar utility does not properly filter file names containing "../", meaning that a hostile archive can, if unpacked by an unsuspecting user, overwrite any file that is writable by that user. GNU tar versions 1.13.19 and earlier are vulnerable; unzip through version 5.42 has the same vulnerability.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:183571-1 2006-04-04
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0195-01 2006-02-21
Conectiva CLA-2002:538 2002-10-29
Mandrake MDKSA-2002:066 2002-10-10
Mandrake MDKSA-2002:065 2002-10-10
EnGarde ESA-20021003-022 2002-10-03
Gentoo unzip-20021001 2002-10-01
Gentoo tar-20021001 2002-10-01
Red Hat RHSA-2002:096-24 2002-09-18

Comments (1 posted)

tcpdump: ISAKMP payload handling denial-of-service vulnerabilities

Package(s):tcpdump CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0183 CAN-2004-0184
Created:March 30, 2004 Updated:September 30, 2004
Description: TCPDUMP v3.8.1 and earlier versions contain multiple flaws in the packet display functions for the ISAKMP protocol. Upon receiving specially crafted ISAKMP packets, TCPDUMP will try to read beyond the end of the packet capture buffer and crash. More information is available in this Rapid7 advisory.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1468 2004-09-29
Whitebox WBSA-2004:219-01 2004-06-10
Red Hat RHSA-2004:219-01 2004-05-26
Fedora FEDORA-2004-120 2004-05-13
Slackware SSA:2004-108-01 2004-04-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:030 2004-04-14
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.010 2004-04-07
Debian DSA-478-1 2004-04-06
Trustix TSLSA-2004-0015 2004-03-30

Comments (none posted)

Multiple vendor telnetd vulnerability

Package(s):telnet Telnet netkit-telnet-ssl kerberos telnetd netkit-telnet nkitb/nkitserv/telnetd krb5 CVE #(s):
Created:May 21, 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.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200410-03 2004-10-05
Yellow Dog YDU-20010810-2 2001-08-10
Yellow Dog YDU-20010810-1 2001-08-10
SuSE SuSE-SA:2001:029 2001-09-03
Slackware sl-997726350 2001-08-09
Red Hat RHSA-2001:100-02 2001-08-09
Red Hat RHSA-2001:099-09 2002-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2001:099-06 2001-08-09
Progeny PROGENY-SA-2001-27 2001-08-14
Mandrake MDKSA-2001:093 2001-12-17
Mandrake MDKSA-2001:068 2001-08-13
HP HPSBTL0202-023 2002-02-12
Debian DSA-075-2 2001-08-14
Debian DSA-075-1 2001-08-14
Conectiva CLA-2001:413 2001-08-24
SCO Group CSSA-2001-030.0 2001-08-10

Comments (none posted)

wv: buffer overflow

Package(s):wv CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0645
Created:July 14, 2004 Updated:February 10, 2005
Description: wv, a viewer for MS Word files, contains a buffer overflow which may be exploited by a suitably-crafted file. Version 1.0.0-r1 fixes the problem.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1906 2005-02-08
Conectiva CLA-2004:902 2004-12-01
Debian DSA-579-1 2004-11-01
Debian DSA-550-1 2004-09-20
Conectiva CLA-2004:863 2004-09-10
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:077 2004-07-29
Fedora FEDORA-2004-225 2004-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2004-224 2004-07-23
Gentoo 200407-11 2004-07-14

Comments (none posted)

XChat 2.0.x SOCKS5 Vulnerability

Package(s):xchat CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0409
Created:April 19, 2004 Updated:November 15, 2005
Description: XChat is vulnerable to a stack overflow that may allow a remote attacker to run arbitrary code. The SOCKS 5 proxy code in XChat is vulnerable to a remote exploit. Users would have to be using XChat through a SOCKS 5 server, enable SOCKS 5 traversal which is disabled by default and also connect to an attacker's custom proxy server. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code within the context of the user ID of the XChat client.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:123013 2005-11-14
Red Hat RHSA-2004:585-01 2004-10-27
Netwosix NW-2004-0014 2004-05-01
Red Hat RHSA-2004:177-01 2004-04-30
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:036 2004-04-21
Debian DSA-493-1 2004-04-21
Gentoo 200404-15 2004-04-19

Comments (none posted)

xine-lib: VCD MRL buffer overflow

Package(s):xine-lib CVE #(s):
Created:August 17, 2004 Updated:August 18, 2004
Description: xine-lib contains a bug where it is possible to overflow the vcd:// input source identifier management buffer through carefully crafted playlists. An attacker may construct a carefully-crafted playlist file which will cause xine-lib to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user. In order to conform with the generic naming standards of most Unix-like systems, playlists can have extensions other than .asx (the standard xine playlist format), and made to look like another file (MP3, AVI, or MPEG for example). If an attacker crafts a playlist with a valid header, they can insert a VCD playlist line that can cause a buffer overflow and possible shellcode execution.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200408-18 2004-08-17

Comments (1 posted)

xine-ui - insecure temporary file creation

Package(s):xine-ui CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0372
Created:April 6, 2004 Updated:April 27, 2006
Description: Shaun Colley discovered a problem in xine-ui, the xine video player user interface. A script contained in the package to possibly remedy a problem or report a bug does not create temporary files in a secure fashion. This could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking xine.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200404-20 2004-04-27
Slackware SSA:2004-111-01 2004-04-20
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:033 2004-04-19
Debian DSA-477-1 2004-04-06

Comments (none posted)

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