Linux Kernel Exploits / ABFrag

2002-10-18 Thread daniel . roberts
Greetings. Today I had a rather strange experiance. At about 4:30 pm GMT my IDS began reporting strange TCP behaviour on my network segment. As I was unable to verify the cause of this behaviour I was forced to remove the Linux box that I use a border gateway and traffic monitor - at no small

Re: Linux Kernel Exploits / ABFrag

2002-10-18 Thread dr john halewood
On Thursday 17 October 2002 2:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. ABfrag - Linux Kernel ( = 2.4.20pre20 ) Remote Syncing exploit I think this is a bit of a giveaway: mentioning a kernel that doesn't exist suggests this program is not what it claims to be (Marcelo released

New buffer overflow in PlanetDNS

2002-10-18 Thread securma massine
hi planetdns ( http://www.planetdns.net)is commercial software package that allows to turn computer into an Internet server. and be able to create an Internet Name, connect to a web server, FTP, mail server, etc. running on computer. planetdns is vulnerable has a buffer overflow with a overwrite

Microsoft Windows Media Player for Sparc/Solaris vulnerability

2002-10-18 Thread Samuel Tardieu
[feel free to include in BugTraq, I haven't seen past reports for this one] Microsoft Windows Media Player v6.3 for Sparc/Solaris is available for download from http://download.microsoft.com. When you install it on Solaris (the program is distributed as an executable installer, which takes care

[SECURITY] [DSA 179-1] New gnome-gv packages fix buffer overflow

2002-10-18 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 179-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 18th, 2002

Re: PGP Corporation Beta License Agreement

2002-10-18 Thread Jon Callas
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can any one enlighten me on this statement in the PGP Corporation Beta License Agreement? YOU HEREBY EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO PGP'S PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA (WHICH MAY BE COLLECTED BY PGP OR ITS DISTRIBUTORS) ACCORDING TO PGP'S CURRENT PRIVACY

[Immunity, Inc.]Vulnerability: RPC Service DoS (port 135/tcp) onWindows 2000 SP3

2002-10-18 Thread Dave Aitel
Immunity Advisory to the General Public Vulnerability: RPC Service DoS (port 135/tcp) on Windows 2000 SP3 Author: Dave Aitel Date: October 18, 2002 Because the default SPIKE 2.7 run has been able to discover this vulnerability, and various people have contacted me regarding it, I offer this

KaZaA

2002-10-18 Thread David Krum
I'm concerned about all the applications which utilize ie browser controls. There are a lot of adware programs with little ads. Some of these ads have activex, java, flash, js. Any one of these capabilities in the wrong zone could be dangerous. My attention was first drawn to this when I

interSEC security advisory - Multiple bugs in Web602 web server

2002-10-18 Thread Jan Kachlik
===[ interSEC - Advisory ]=[ Adv. ID: 2002-10-001 ]== Advisory Information Name : Multiple bugs in Web602 web server Vendor Homepage: http://www.software602.cz Platforms : Windows Vulnerability Type :

Ambiguities in TCP/IP - firewall bypassing

2002-10-18 Thread Paul Starzetz
1. Abstract --- There are ambiguities in implementations of the TCP/IP suite for various operating systems. Even if this fact has been used since a long time in different software for OS fingerprinting, no real attempt has been made to identify the security impact of the differences in

New Vulnerability on YaBB 1.4.0 and YaBB 1.4.1 forums

2002-10-18 Thread Nir Adar
Two security vulnerabilities in YaBB allows stealing users cookies and hijacking users accounts. Tested on: YaBB 1.40 1.41 Summary : YaBB is a leading provider of free, downloadable php forums for webmasters. Two security vulnerabilities in the product allows a remote attacker to steal users

GLSA: tetex

2002-10-18 Thread Daniel Ahlberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-004 - - PACKAGE : tetex SUMMARY : Command execution vulnerability

vBulletin XSS Security Bug

2002-10-18 Thread Sp . IC
.:: vBulletin XSS Security Bug vBulletin is a powerful and widely used bulletin board system, based on PHP language and MySQL database. One of its features is the usage of templates to modify the boards look. I discovered lately a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that would attackers

Re: Ambiguities in TCP/IP - firewall bypassing

2002-10-18 Thread Alun Jones
At 03:55 PM 10/18/2002, Benjamin Krueger wrote: One could also make a case for continuing to abide by the cardinal rule Be permissive in what you accept, and strict in what you send. Tough call, but its difficult to justify describing stacks that are permissive as highly bogus or lazy given

SCAN Associates Advisory: madhater perlbot 1.0 beta - Remote Command Execution

2002-10-18 Thread guejez
perlbot 1.0 beta - Remote Command Execution Discovered By guejez of scan-associates.net About perlbot: -- [quote from perlbot website] [/quote from perlbot website] perlbot is avaliable at http://stigmata.gothcafe.com/~madhater Vulnerable (tested) Versions:

SCAN Associates Advisory: perlbot 1.9.2 - Remote Command Execution

2002-10-18 Thread guejez
perlbot 1.9.2 - Remote Command Execution Discovered By guejez of scan-associates.net About perlbot: -- [quote from freshmeat] Perlbot is an IRC bot written in Perl. It depends on Net::IRC and its goals are simplicity, a small footprint, and modularity. It's meant as a more

Chrooting Daemons and System Processes HOWTO

2002-10-18 Thread Jonathan A. Zdziarski
FYI the article Chrooting Daemons and System Processes HOWTO has been updated to include some fixes to the document, how to tell if you're operating in a chrooted environment, and links to other useful chroot documentation. The URL to this doc is http://www.networkdweebs.com/chroot.html

RE: KaZaA

2002-10-18 Thread Christopher Wagner
These ads are most likely safe as far as trojans go, depending on your definition of trojan. Most of them, however, use ad tracking and phone-home to the originating company. Many will install cookies and some will even install other pop-up software on your computer without your knowledge to

Re: KaZaA

2002-10-18 Thread Nicholas C. Weaver
David Krum wrote: My attention was first drawn to this when I noticed KaZaA launching popups sourced from the local hard disk. Surely these ads are running in the local zone. To use software that does this I have to trust them to audit the ads given to them? Then again, with KaZaA, you

[RHSA-2002:192-13] Updated Mozilla packages fix security vulnerabilities

2002-10-18 Thread bugzilla
- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Updated Mozilla packages fix security vulnerabilities Advisory ID: RHSA-2002:192-13 Issue date:2002-08-28 Updated on:2002-10-09

SCAN Associates Advisory: Molly 0.5 - Remote Command Execution

2002-10-18 Thread guejez
Molly 0.5 - Remote Command Execution Discovered By guejez of scan-associates.net About Molly: -- [quote from Molly homepage] Molly is a small, simple IRC bot that I use for intra-office communication. She will handle lunch menus, stock quotes, take polls and stuff like that.

Re: NFS Denial of Service advisory from Sun

2002-10-18 Thread Edsel Adap
I tested this on my Solaris NFS server and it didn't kill lockd. However there are many ways to DoS a Solaris NFS server. One of them is to put a RedHat 7.3 (original kernel) on the network as an NFS client then initiate a large read over NFS and watch the Solaris NFS server become unresponsive