Vulnerabilities > Gentoo > Medium

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2006-03-25 CVE-2006-1390 Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Gentoo Nethack And Variants
The configuration of NetHack 3.4.3-r1 and earlier, Falcon's Eye 1.9.4a and earlier, and Slash'EM 0.0.760 and earlier on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the games group to modify saved games files to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflows and overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks.
local
low complexity
gentoo
4.6
2006-01-04 CVE-2006-0071 Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Gentoo Pinentry
The ebuild for pinentry before 0.7.2-r2 on Gentoo Linux sets setgid bits for pinentry programs, which allows local users to read or overwrite arbitrary files as gid 0.
local
low complexity
gentoo
6.6
2005-12-31 CVE-2005-3626 Resource Management Errors vulnerability in multiple products
Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted FlateDecode stream that triggers a null dereference.
5.0
2005-12-31 CVE-2005-3624 Numeric Errors vulnerability in multiple products
The CCITTFaxStream::CCITTFaxStream function in Stream.cc for xpdf, gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others allows attackers to corrupt the heap via negative or large integers in a CCITTFaxDecode stream, which lead to integer overflows and integer underflows.
5.0
2005-11-23 CVE-2005-3785 Unspecified vulnerability in Gentoo Linux EIX 0.3
Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.
network
low complexity
gentoo
5.0
2005-09-28 CVE-2005-2557 Input Validation vulnerability in Mantis
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in view_all_set.php in Mantis 0.19.0a1 through 1.0.0a3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the dir parameter, as identified by bug#0005959, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3090.
network
mantis debian gentoo
4.3
2005-06-10 CVE-2005-1267 Denial Of Service vulnerability in tcpdump BGP Decoding Routines
The bgp_update_print function in tcpdump 3.x does not properly handle a -1 return value from the decode_prefix4 function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted BGP packet.
network
low complexity
lbl gentoo mandrakesoft redhat trustix
5.0
2005-05-24 CVE-2005-1707 Unspecified vulnerability in Gentoo Linux Webapp-Config 1.10
The fn_show_postinst function in Gentoo webapp-config before 1.10-r14 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the postinst.txt temporary file.
local
low complexity
gentoo
4.6
2005-05-02 CVE-2005-1121 Remote Format String vulnerability in Oops! Proxy Server Auth
Format string vulnerability in the my_xlog function in lib.c for Oops! Proxy Server 1.5.23 and earlier, as called by the auth functions in the passwd_mysql and passwd_pgsql modules, may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a URL.
network
low complexity
igor-khasilev gentoo
5.0
2005-05-02 CVE-2005-0427 Remote Security vulnerability in webmin-1.140.ebuild
The ebuild of Webmin before 1.170-r3 on Gentoo Linux includes the encrypted root password in the miniserv.users file when building a tbz2 of the webmin package, which allows remote attackers to obtain and possibly crack the encrypted password.
network
low complexity
gentoo
5.0