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Debian: 2477-1: sympa: authorization bypass  20 May 2012 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Sympa, a mailing list manager, that allow to skip the scenario-based authorization mechanisms. This vulnerability allows to display the archives management page, and download and delete the list archives by [More...]
 
Debian: 2476-1: pidgin-otr: format string vulnerability  19 May 2012 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
intrigeri discovered a format string error in pidgin-otr, an off-the-record messaging plugin for Pidgin. This could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause arbitrary code to [More...]
 
Debian: 2475-1: openssl: integer underflow  17 May 2012 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
It was discovered that openssl did not correctly handle explicit Initialization Vectors for CBC encryption modes, as used in TLS 1.1, 1.2, and DTLS. An incorrect calculation would lead to an integer underflow and incorrect memory access, causing denial of service [More...]
 
Debian: 2474-1: ikiwiki: cross-site scripting  17 May 2012 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Raśl Benencia discovered that ikiwiki, a wiki compiler, does not properly escape the author (and its URL) of certain metadata, such as comments. This might be used to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. [More...]
 
Debian: 2473-1: openoffice.org: buffer overflow  16 May 2012 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Tielei Wang discovered that OpenOffice.org does not allocate a large enough memory region when processing a specially crafted JPEG object, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow and potentially arbitrary code execution. [More...]
 
Debian: 2472-1: gridengine: privilege escalation  16 May 2012 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Dave Love discovered that users who are allowed to submit jobs to a Grid Engine installation can escalate their privileges to root because the environment is not properly sanitized before creating processes. [More...]
 
Debian: 2457-2: iceweasel / icedove: Multiple vulnerabilities  13 May 2012 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
The updates DSA-2457 and DSA-2458 for Iceweasel and Icedove introduced a regression, which could lead to crashes when interpreting some Javascript statements. [More...]
 
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