Security

From the CVE:

Integer overflow in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.92.1, as used in clamd, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Petite packed PE file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Luigi Auriemma discovered multiple buffer overflows in the D_NetPlayerEvent() function, the Msg_Write() function and the NetSv_ReadCommands() function. He also discovered errors when handling chat messages that are not NULL-terminated (CVE-2007-4642) or contain a short data length, triggering an integer underflow (CVE-2007-4643). Furthermore a format string vulnerability was discovered in the Cl_GetPackets() function when processing PSV_CONSOLE_TEXT messages (CVE-2007-4644).

This vulnerability can be used for the execution of arbitrary code or to create a denial of service.

From the CVE:

The FTP backend for Duplicity sends the password as a command line argument when calling ncftp, which might allow local users to read the password by listing the process and its arguments.

From the Fedora advisory:

PCRE 7.6 fixed following bug: A character class containing a very large number of characters with codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode, of course) caused a buffer overflow. The GLib release 2.14.6 updates the included copy of PCRE to version 7.6.

From the CVE:

The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XLS file containing XLS HLINK opcodes, possibly because of an integer signedness error that leads to an integer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

From the Debian advisory:

The vmsplice system call did not properly verify address arguments passed by user space processes, which allowed local attackers to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, gaining root privileges (CVE-2008-0010, CVE-2008-0600).

From the Debian advisory:

In the vserver-enabled kernels, a missing access check on certain symlinks in /proc enabled local attackers to access resources in other vservers (CVE-2008-0163).

From the Red Hat bugzilla entry:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mailman before 2.1.10b1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to (1) editing templates and (2) the list's "info attribute" in the web administrator interface, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3636.

From the Fedora advisory:

It was discovered that moin allowed to overwrite arbitrary files writable by the user running moin using a crafted cookie with certain user IDs via a directory traversal flaw. This updated package fixes this issue.

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog:
+--------------------------+
patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.12-i686-1.tgz:
  Upgraded to firefox-2.0.0.12.
  This upgrade fixes some more security bugs.
  For more information, see:
    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabil...
  (* Security fix *)
patches/packages/seamonkey-1.1.8-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz:
  Upgraded to seamonkey-1.1.8.
  This upgrade fixes some more security bugs.
  For more information, see:
    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabil...
  (* Security fix *)
+--------------------------+

From the Debian advisory:

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in the MPlayer movie player, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2008-0485: Felipe Manzano and Anibal Sacco discovered a buffer overflow in the demuxer for MOV files.

CVE-2008-0486: Reimar Doeffinger discovered a buffer overflow in the FLAC header parsing.

CVE-2008-0629: Adam Bozanich discovered a buffer overflow in the CDDB access code.

CVE-2008-0630: Adam Bozanich discovered a buffer overflow in URL parsing.

From the rPath advisory:

Previous versions of the openldap package are vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack in which authenticated users can crash the slapd server.

From the Debian advisory:

CVE-2008-0471: Private messaging allowed cross site request forgery, making it possible to delete all private messages of a user by sending them to a crafted web page.

CVE-2006-6841 / CVE-2006-6508: Cross site request forgery enabled an attacker to perform various actions on behalf of a logged in user. (Applies to sarge only)

CVE-2006-6840: A negative start parameter could allow an attacker to create invalid output. (Applies to sarge only)

CVE-2006-6839: Redirection targets were not fully checked, leaving room for unauthorised external redirections via a phpBB forum. (Applies to sarge only)

CVE-2006-4758: An authenticated forum administrator may upload files of any type by using specially crafted filenames. (Applies to sarge only)

From the Debian advisory:

Frank Lichtenheld and Nico Golde discovered that WML, an off-line HTML generation toolkit, creates insecure temporary files in the eperl and ipp backends and in the wmg.cgi script, which could lead to local denial of service by overwriting files.

From the CVE:

The XML-RPC implementation (xmlrpc.php) in WordPress before 2.3.3, when registration is enabled, allows remote attackers to edit posts of other blog users via unknown vectors.