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A remotely-exploitable overflow exists in oftpd, allowing an attacker to crash the oftpd daemon.
Mulitple overflows and vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal which may allow an attacker to crash the program or run arbitrary code.
Remote buffer overflow vulnerabilites have been found in Courier-IMAP and Courier MTA. These exploits may allow the execution of abritrary code, allowing unauthorized access to a vulnerable system. [More...]
A specially-crafted MIME file (.mim, .uue, .uu, .b64, .bhx, .hqx, and .xxe extensions) may cause UUDeview to crash or execute arbitrary code.
A specially-crafted MIME file (.mim, .uue, .uu, .b64, .bhx, .hqx, and .xxe extensions) may cause UUDeview to crash or execute arbitrary code.
A memory leak in mod_ssl allows a remote denial of service attack against an SSL-enabled server via plain HTTP requests. Another flaw was found when arbitrary client-supplied strings can be written to the error log, allowing the exploit of certain terminal emulators. A third [More...]
A critical security vulnerability has been found in recent Linux kernels by Paul Starzetz of iSEC Security Research which allows for local privilege escalations. [More...]
A buffer overflow has been discovered in libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.6 which may be exploited by an attacker allowing the execution of arbitrary code. [More...]
Oliver Eikemeier has reported a vulnerability in clamav, which can be exploited by a malformed uuencoded message causing a denial of service for programs that rely on the clamav daemon, such as SMTP daemons. [More...]
A vulnerability has been discovered by in the ptrace emulation code for AMD64 platforms when eflags are processed, allowing a local user to obtain elevated priveleges. [More...]
A vulnerability in phpMyAdmin which was not properly verifying user generated input could lead to a directory traversal attack. Description [More...]
The Gallery developers have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in Gallery 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4 and 1.4.1 which can a remote exploit of your webserver. [More...]
A bug in get_real_string() function allows for a Denial of Service attack to be launched against the webserver.
Exploitation of a buffer overflow in the XFree86 Project Inc.'s XFree86 X Window System allows local attackers to gain root privileges.
If the server configuration "php.ini" file has "register_globals = on" and a request is made to one virtual host (which has "php_admin_flag register_globals off") and the next request is sent to the another virtual host (which does not have the setting) through the same apache [More...]
Various overflows in the handling of AIM DirectIM packets was revealed in GAIM that could lead to a remote compromise of the IM client.
Apache's mod_python module could crash the httpd process if a specific, malformed query string was sent.
Identification of Honeyd installations allows an adversary to launch attacks specifically against Honeyd. No remote root exploit is currently known. [More...]
A critical security vulnerability has been found in recent Linux kernels which allows for local privilege escalation.
This release adds code to the CVS server to prevent it from continuing as root after a user login, as an extra failsafe against a compromise of the CVSROOT/passwd file.
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