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Debian: New opensc packages fix smart card vulnerability  04 August 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Chaskiel M Grundman discovered that opensc, a library and utilities to handle smart cards, would initialise smart cards with the Siemens CardOS M4 card operating system without proper access rights. This allowed everyone to change the card's PIN.
 
Debian: New httrack packages fix arbitrary code execution  01 August 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Joan Calvet discovered that httrack, a utility to create local copies of websites, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow potentially allowing to execute arbitrary code when passed excessively long URLs.
 
Debian: New cupsys packages fix arbitrary code execution  01 August 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Buffer overflows in the HP-GL input filter allowed to possibly run arbitrary code through crafted HP-GL files.
 
Debian: New libxslt packages fix arbitrary code execution  31 July 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Chris Evans discovered that a buffer overflow in the RC4 functions of libexslt may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
 
Debian: New dnsmasq packages fix cache poisoning  31 July 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
This update changes Debian's dnsmasq packages to implement the recommended countermeasure: UDP query source port randomization. This change increases the size of the space from which an attacker has to guess values in a backwards-compatible fashion and makes successful attacks significantly more difficult.
 
Debian: New newsx packages fix arbitrary code execution  31 July 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
It was discovered that newsx, an NNTP news exchange utility, was affected by a buffer overflow allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a news article containing a large number of lines starting with a period.
 
Debian: New icedove packages fix several vulnerabilities  27 July 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in MIME decoding can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
 
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