Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > May 29 to June 4, 2000

Overview

24 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 5 critical vulnerabilities and 6 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 34 products from 28 vendors including Microsoft, IBM, Linux, Cisco, and Apple. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as .

  • 15 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 24 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Microsoft has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 5 reported vulnerabilities.
  • Linux has the most reported critical vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

TOTAL
VULNERABILITIES
CRITICAL RISK
VULNERABILITIES
HIGH RISK
VULNERABILITIES
MEDIUM RISK
VULNERABILITIES
LOW RISK
VULNERABILITIES
REMOTELY
EXPLOITABLE
LOCALLY
EXPLOITABLE
EXPLOIT
AVAILABLE
EXPLOITABLE
ANONYMOUSLY
AFFECTING
WEB APPLICATION

Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

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5 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2000-06-01 CVE-2000-0509 Sambar Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Sambar Server 4.3

Buffer overflows in the finger and whois demonstration scripts in Sambar Server 4.3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long hostname.

10.0
2000-06-01 CVE-2000-0493 Atrius Trivalie SN Unspecified vulnerability in Atrius Trivalie SN Time Sync 1.0.1

Buffer overflow in Simple Network Time Sync (SMTS) daemon allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long string.

10.0
2000-06-01 CVE-2000-0490 Netwin Unspecified vulnerability in Netwin Dmail

Buffer overflow in the NetWin DSMTP 2.7q in the NetWin dmail package allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long ETRN request.

10.0
2000-06-01 CVE-1999-0590 Microsoft
Linux
Apple
A system does not present an appropriate legal message or warning to a user who is accessing it.
10.0
2000-05-30 CVE-2000-0488 Ithouse Unspecified vulnerability in Ithouse Mail Server 1.0.4

Buffer overflow in ITHouse mail server 1.04 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long RCPT TO mail command.

10.0

6 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2000-06-01 CVE-2000-0474 Realnetworks Unspecified vulnerability in Realnetworks Realserver 7.0/7.0.1/8.0Beta

Real Networks RealServer 7.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed request for a page in the viewsource directory.

7.8
2000-06-04 CVE-2000-0536 Xinetd Unspecified vulnerability in Xinetd

xinetd 2.1.8.x does not properly restrict connections if hostnames are used for access control and the connecting host does not have a reverse DNS entry.

7.5
2000-06-01 CVE-2000-0470 Allegro Unspecified vulnerability in Allegro ROM Pager 2.10

Allegro RomPager HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed authentication request.

7.5
2000-06-01 CVE-2000-0467 SAM Lantinga Unspecified vulnerability in SAM Lantinga Splitvt 1.6.3

Buffer overflow in Linux splitvt 1.6.3 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long password in the screen locking function.

7.2
2000-05-31 CVE-2000-0530 Caldera
KDE
The KApplication class in the KDE 1.1.2 configuration file management capability allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.
7.2
2000-05-29 CVE-2000-0454 Mandrakesoft Unspecified vulnerability in Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux 7.0

Buffer overflow in Linux cdrecord allows local users to gain privileges via the dev parameter.

7.2

8 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2000-06-04 CVE-2000-0492 Passwd Unspecified vulnerability in Passwd 1.2

PassWD 1.2 uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) to store passwords, which allows an attacker who can read the password file to easliy decrypt the passwords.

5.0
2000-06-01 CVE-2000-0507 Concatus Unspecified vulnerability in Concatus Imate Webmail Server 2.5

Imate Webmail Server 2.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long HELO command.

5.0
2000-06-01 CVE-2000-0476 Michael Jennings
Putty
Rxvt
Xfree86 Project
Denial of Service vulnerability in Multiple Vendor xterm (and derivatives)

xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters which force the window to be resized.

5.0
2000-05-31 CVE-2000-0505 Apache
IBM
The Apache 1.3.x HTTP server for Windows platforms allows remote attackers to list directory contents by requesting a URL containing a large number of / characters.
5.0
2000-05-30 CVE-2000-0495 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Media Services 4.0/4.1

Microsoft Windows Media Encoder allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed request, aka the "Malformed Windows Media Encoder Request" vulnerability.

5.0
2000-05-30 CVE-2000-0486 Cisco Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco IOS and Tacacs+

Buffer overflow in Cisco TACACS+ tac_plus server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed packet with a long length field.

5.0
2000-05-29 CVE-2000-0564 Mirabilis Unspecified vulnerability in Mirabilis ICQ

The guestbook CGI program in ICQ Web Front service for ICQ 2000a, 99b, and others allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a URL with a long name parameter.

5.0
2000-06-02 CVE-2000-0468 HP Unspecified vulnerability in HP Hp-Ux 10.20/11.00

man in HP-UX 10.20 and 11 allows local attackers to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

4.6

5 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2000-06-01 CVE-2000-0487 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000

The Protected Store in Windows 2000 does not properly select the strongest encryption when available, which causes it to use a default of 40-bit encryption instead of 56-bit DES encryption, aka the "Protected Store Key Length" vulnerability.

3.6
2000-05-30 CVE-2000-0485 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 6.5/7.0

Microsoft SQL Server allows local users to obtain database passwords via the Data Transformation Service (DTS) package Properties dialog, aka the "DTS Password" vulnerability.

2.1
2000-05-30 CVE-2000-0402 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 7.0

The Mixed Mode authentication capability in Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 stores the System Administrator (sa) account in plaintext in a log file which is readable by any user, aka the "SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack Password" vulnerability.

2.1
2000-05-29 CVE-2000-0461 Freebsd
Netbsd
The undocumented semconfig system call in BSD freezes the state of semaphores, which allows local users to cause a denial of service of the semaphore system by using the semconfig call.
2.1
2000-05-29 CVE-2000-0455 David Bagley Unspecified vulnerability in David Bagley Xlock 4.16

Buffer overflow in xlockmore xlock program version 4.16 and earlier allows local users to read sensitive data from memory via a long -mode option.

2.1