Debian

Untrusted search path vulnerability in libtunepimp-perl 0.4.2-1 in Debian GNU/Linux includes an RPATH value under the /tmp/buildd directory for the tunepimp.so module, which might allow local users to gain privileges by installing malicious libraries in that directory.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in libgpib-perl 3.2.06-2 in Debian GNU/Linux includes an RPATH value under the /tmp/buildd directory for the LinuxGpib.so module, which might allow local users to gain privileges by installing malicious libraries in that directory.

The installation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r1 from the network install CD creates /var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf with world writable permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption).

snmptrapfmt in Debian 3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary log file.

Unspecified vulnerability in certain versions of xpdf after 3.00, as used in various products including (a) pdfkit.framework, (b) gpdf, (c) pdftohtml, and (d) libextractor, has unknown impact and user-assisted attack vectors, possibly involving errors in (1) gmem.c, (2)…

Unspecified vulnerability in (1) apreq_parse_headers and (2) apreq_parse_urlencoded functions in Apache2::Request (Libapreq2) before 2.07 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unknown attack vectors that result in quadratic computational…

Untrusted search path vulnerability (RPATH) in amaya 9.2.1 on Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious Mesa library in the /home/anand directory.

The Linux 2.4 kernel patch in kernel-patch-vserver before 1.9.5.5 and 2.x before 2.3 for Debian GNU/Linux does not correctly set the "chroot barrier" with util-vserver, which allows attackers to access files on the host system that are outside of the vserver.

Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via streams that end prematurely, as demonstrated using the (1) CCITTFaxDecode and (2) DCTDecode streams, aka…

Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the [PID]-audit.log temporary file.

Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted FlateDecode stream that triggers a null dereference.

The CCITTFaxStream::CCITTFaxStream function in Stream.cc for xpdf, gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others allows attackers to corrupt the heap via negative or large integers in a CCITTFaxDecode stream, which lead to integer overflows and integer…

util-vserver before 0.30.208-1 with kernel-patch-vserver before 1.9.5.5 and 2.x before 2.3 for Debian GNU/Linux sets a default policy that trusts unknown capabilities, which could allow local users to conduct unauthorized activities.

Buffer overflow in Dropbear server before 0.47 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified inputs that cause insufficient memory to be allocated due to an incorrect expression that does not enforce the proper order of operations.

docutils in Zope 2.6, 2.7 before 2.7.8, and 2.8 before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to include arbitrary files via include directives in RestructuredText functionality.

The CGIwrap program before 3.9 on Debian GNU/Linux uses an incorrect minimum value of 100 for a UID to determine whether it can perform a seteuid operation, which could allow attackers to execute code as other system UIDs that are greater than the minimum value, which should be…

The (1) cgiwrap and (2) php-cgiwrap packages before 3.9 in Debian GNU/Linux provide access to debugging CGIs under the web document root, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via direct requests to those CGIs.

The audit system in Linux kernel 2.6.6, and other versions before 2.6.13.4, when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled, uses an incorrect function to free names_cache memory, which prevents the memory from being tracked by AUDITSYSCALL code and leads to a memory leak that allows…

cfengine 1.6.5 and 2.1.16 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by vicf.in, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3137.

The handler code for backupninja 0.8 and earlier creates temporary files with predictable filenames, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in view_all_set.php in Mantis 0.19.0a1 through 1.0.0a3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the dir parameter, as identified by bug#0005959, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3090.

Linux kernel 2.6.8 to 2.6.14-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) via a userspace process that issues a USB Request Block (URB) to a USB device and terminates before the URB is finished, which leads to a stale pointer reference.

Backup Manager (backup-manager) before 0.5.8 creates backup files with world-readable default permissions, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information.

The huft_build function in inflate.c in the zlib routines in the Linux kernel before 2.6.12.5 returns the wrong value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via a certain compressed file that leads to a null pointer dereference, a different…

Linux kernel 2.6.x does not properly restrict socket policy access to users with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability, which could allow local users to conduct unauthorized activities via (1) ipv4/ip_sockglue.c and (2) ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c.

Eval injection vulnerability in PHPXMLRPC 1.1.1 and earlier (PEAR XML-RPC for PHP), as used in multiple products including (1) Drupal, (2) phpAdsNew, (3) phpPgAds, and (4) phpgroupware, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via certain nested XML tags in a PHP…

Eval injection vulnerability in awstats.pl in AWStats 6.4 and earlier, when a URLPlugin is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code via the HTTP Referrer, which is used in a $url parameter that is inserted into an eval function call.

Unknown vulnerability in apt-cacher in Debian 3.1, related to "missing input sanitising," allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the caching server.

apt-setup in Debian GNU/Linux installs the apt.conf file with insecure permissions, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information such as passwords.

Format string vulnerability in the curses_msg function in the Ncurses interface (ec_curses.c) for Ettercap before 0.7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

popauth.c in qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly set the umask, which may cause qpopper to create files with group or world-writable permissions.

qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files, which allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files as root.

bzip2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hard drive consumption) via a crafted bzip2 file that causes an infinite loop (a.k.a "decompression bomb").

ppxp does not drop root privileges before opening log files, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands.

The confirm add-on in SmartList 3.15 and earlier allows attackers to subscribe arbitrary e-mail addresses by using a valid cookie that specifies an address other than the address for which the cookie was assigned.

The DBI library (libdbi-perl) for Perl allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary PID file.

Buffer overflow in queue.c in a support script for sympa 3.3.3, when running setuid, allows local users to execute arbitrary code.

Unknown vulnerability in the remoteping service in remstats 1.0.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands "due to missing input sanitising."

Multiple buffer overflows in the XView library 3.2 may allow local users to execute arbitrary code via setuid applications that use the library.

remstats 1.0.13 and earlier, when processing uptime data, allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

The f2 shell script in the f2c package 3.1 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Heap-based buffer overflow in psd.c for ImageMagick 6.1.0, 6.1.7, and possibly earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .PSD image file with a large number of layers.

The KDE screen saver in KDE before 3.0.5 does not properly check the return value from a certain function call, which allows attackers with physical access to cause a crash and access the desktop session.

The patch for integer overflow vulnerabilities in Xpdf 2.0 and 3.0 (CVE-2004-0888) is incomplete for 64-bit architectures on certain Linux distributions such as Red Hat, which could leave Xpdf users exposed to the original vulnerabilities.

CVS 1.12 and earlier on Debian GNU/Linux, when using the repouid patch, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via the pserver access method.

The tpkg-* scripts in the toolchain-source 3.0.4 package on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in info2www before 1.2.2.9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the arguments to info2www.

Midnight commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via "use of already freed memory."

Buffer underflow in extfs.c in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Midnight commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by causing mc to free unallocated memory.