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Ubuntu Security Notice 930-2 - USN-930-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. This update provides updated packages for use with Firefox 3.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. If was discovered that Firefox could be made to access freed memory. A flaw was discovered in the way plugin instances interacted. An integer overflow was discovered in Firefox. Martin Barbella discovered an integer overflow in an XSLT node sorting routine. Michal Zalewski discovered that the focus behavior of Firefox could be subverted. Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the 'Content-Disposition: attachment' HTTP header was ignored when 'Content-Type: multipart' was also present.

Ubuntu Security Notice 927-5 - USN-927-4 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS. This update provides the NSPR needed to use the new NSS. Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa discovered a flaw in the TLS and SSLv3 protocols. If an attacker could perform a man in the middle attack at the start of a TLS connection, the attacker could inject arbitrary content at the beginning of the user's session. This update adds support for the new new renegotiation extension and will use it when the server supports it.

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in TaskFreak, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the tznMessage parameter in logout.php is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. Version 0.6.3 is affected.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2065-1 - Two security issues have been discovered in the DCC protocol support code of kvirc, a KDE-based next generation IRC client, which allow the overwriting of local files through directory traversal and the execution of arbitrary code through a format string attack.

Omnipage 16 Professional comes with multiple vulnerable libraries.

Zero Day Initiative Advisory 10-115 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe Flash Player. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the AVM bytecode verifier. Specifically, the newFrameState method performs arithmetic when calculating the size of a stack frame. It implicitly trusts the max_scope and max_stack variables as obtained from the bytecode. By crafting specific values, the integer indicating the size of the frame can be made to overflow. This value is later used during memory copy operations which an attacker can influence to gain arbitrary code execution under the context of the user running the browser.

VMware Security Advisory - Multiple security vulnerabilities have been addressed in the ESX 3.5 third party update for Service Console kernel.

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-124 - The pa_make_secure_dir function in core-util.c in PulseAudio 0.9.10 and 0.9.19 allows local users to change the ownership and permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.esd-##### temporary file. This update fixes this issue.

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-123 - This update fixes a reported buffer overflow found with ntlm authentication.

Microsoft Help Files (.CHM) suffer from a locked file bypass.

The Skype client for Mac Chat suffers from a unicode related denial of service vulnerability.

Ubuntu Security Notice 955-1 - Maksymilian Arciemowicz and Adam Zabrocki discovered that OPIE incorrectly handled long usernames. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted username and make applications linked against libopie crash, leading to a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 953-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that fastjar incorrectly handled file paths containing .. when unpacking archives. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted jar file, arbitrary files could be overwritten with user privileges.

Zero Day Initiative Advisory 10-112 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to upload arbitrary files on vulnerable installations of Novell Access Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the PortalModuleInstallManager component of the Novell Management Console which exists within the servlet located within nps.jar. Due to a failure to sanitize '../' directory traversal modifiers from a parameter an attacker can specify any filename to upload arbitrary contents into. Successful exploitation can result in code execution under the context of the service.

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-120 - A vulnerability was reported in the SquirrelMail Mail Fetch plugin, wherein (when the plugin is activated by the administrator) a user is allowed to specify (without restriction) any port number for their external POP account settings. While the intention is to allow users to access POP3 servers using non-standard ports, this also allows malicious users to effectively port-scan any server through their SquirrelMail service (especially note that when a SquirrelMail server resides on a network behind a firewall, it may allow the user to explore the network topography (DNS scan) and services available (port scan) on the inside of (behind) that firewall. As this vulnerability is only exploitable post-authentication, and better more specific port scanning tools are freely available, we consider this vulnerability to be of very low severity. It has been fixed by restricting the allowable POP port numbers. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

The ArNoText third-party Active-X control suffers from a file overwrite vulnerability.

Spring Framework suffers from an arbitrary code execution vulnerability. Versions affected include 3.0.0 to 3.0.2, 2.5.0 to 2.5.6SEC01 (community releases) and 2.5.0 to 2.5.7 (subscription customers).

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-119 - Samba versions 3.0.x, 3.2.x and 3.3.x are affected by a memory corruption vulnerability. Code dealing with the chaining of SMB1 packets did not correctly validate an input field provided by the client, making it possible for a specially crafted packet to crash the server or potentially cause the server to execute arbitrary code. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Drupal FileField version 6.x-3.3 suffers from an arbitrary script injection vulnerability.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2062-1 - Anders Kaseorg and Evan Broder discovered a vulnerability in sudo, a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users, that allows a user with sudo permissions on certain programs to use those programs with an untrusted value of PATH. This could possibly lead to certain intended restrictions being bypassed, such as the secure_path setting.

HP Security Bulletin - Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified with HP SSL for OpenVMS. The vulnerabilities could be remotely exploited resulting in unauthorized data injection or a Denial of Service (DoS).

Zero Day Initiative Advisory 10-110 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe Flash Player. User interaction is required in that a target must visit a malicious website. The specific flaw exists within the code for parsing embedded image data within SWF files. The DefineBits tag and several of its variations are prone to a parsing issue while handling JPEG data. Specifically, the vulnerability is due to decompression routines that do not validate image dimensions sufficiently before performing operations on heap memory. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the user running the browser.

Zero Day Initiative Advisory 10-108 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard OpenView Network Node Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the ovwebsnmpsrv.exe process which can be reached remotely through the jovgraph.exe CGI program. By supplying overly large values to variables passed through an HTTP request a strcpy call within the main() function can be made to overflow a static buffer. An attacker can leverage this to execute arbitrary code under the context of the user running the webserver.

Ubuntu Security Notice 951-1 - Jun Mao discovered that Samba did not correctly validate SMB1 packet contents. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted network traffic that could execute arbitrary code as the root user.

VUPEN Vulnerability Research Team discovered a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. This vulnerability is caused due to an invalid pointer when processing the newfunction operator (bytecode 0x44), which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2054-2 - This update restores the PID file location for bind to the location before the last security update. Several cache-poisoning vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND. These vulnerabilities are apply only if DNSSEC validation is enabled and trust anchors have been installed, which is not the default.

Core Security Technologies Advisory - XnView is prone to a security vulnerability when processing MBM files. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target machine, by enticing the user of XnView to open a specially crafted file.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2060-1 - Stefan Esser discovered that cacti, a front-end to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services, is not properly validating input passed to the rra_id parameter of the graph.php script. Due to checking the input of $_REQUEST but using $_GET input in a query an unauthenticated attacker is able to perform SQL injections via a crafted rra_id $_GET value and an additional valid rra_id $_POST or $_COOKIE value.

It's been discovered that UnrealIRCd version 3.2.8.1 was backdoored.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2059-1 - It was discovered that PCSCD, a daemon to access smart cards, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing a local attacker to elevate his privileges to root.

iDefense Security Advisory 06.07.10 - Remote exploitation of a memory corruption vulnerability in WebKit, as included with multiple vendors' browsers, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user. Google Chrome browsers to parse and render web content. The vulnerability occurs when the a certain property of an HTML element with a caption is reset via JavaScript code. When this occurs, a C++ object is incorrectly accessed after it has been freed. This results in an attacker controlled value being used as a C++ VTABLE, which leads to the execution of arbitrary code.

This vulnerability allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code in kernel space on vulnerable installations of Sophos Anti-Virus. Local access to the system is required to leverage the vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the handling of the system call NtQueryAttributesFile by the filter driver savonaccessfilter.sys. Due to improper handling of parameters to the function pool corruption can occur in kernel space. A local attacker can leverage this to execute arbitrary code in ring 0.

Cisco Security Advisory - The Cisco Application Extension Platform contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the tech support diagnostic shell that may allow an authenticated user to obtain administrative access to a vulnerable Cisco Application Extension Platform module. Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability. There is no workaround for this vulnerability.