Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > April 30 to May 6, 2001

Overview

82 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 22 critical vulnerabilities and 23 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 78 products from 61 vendors including Microsoft, SUN, Debian, HP, and Francisco Burzi. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Code Injection", and "Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer".

  • 65 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 1 reported vulnerabilities have public exploit available.
  • 82 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Microsoft has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 7 reported vulnerabilities.
  • SUN has the most reported critical vulnerabilities, with 2 reported vulnerabilities.

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Vulnerability Details

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

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22 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0320 Francisco Burzi Remote Security vulnerability in PHP-Nuke 4.0.4/4.4

bb_smilies.php and bbcode_ref.php in PHP-Nuke 4.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and gain PHP administrator privileges by inserting a null character and ..

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0301 Stephen Turner Unspecified vulnerability in Stephen Turner Analog

Buffer overflow in Analog before 4.16 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by using the ALIAS command to construct large strings.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0296 Texas Imperial Software Remote Security vulnerability in Texas Imperial Software Wftpd PRO 3.00

Buffer overflow in WFTPD Pro 3.00 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long CWD command.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0291 Buffer overflow in post-query sample CGI program allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an HTTP POST request that contains at least 10001 parameters.
10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0285 A1Webserver Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in A1Webserver Http Server 1.0

Buffer overflow in A1 HTTP server 1.0a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long HTTP request.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0284 Openbsd Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in OpenBSD

Buffer overflow in IPSEC authentication mechanism for OpenBSD 2.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a malformed Authentication header (AH) IPv4 option.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0282 Guido Frassetto Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Guido Frassetto Sedum 2.1

SEDUM 2.1 HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long HTTP request.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0280 Atrium Software Unspecified vulnerability in Atrium Software Mercur

Buffer overflow in MERCUR SMTP server 3.30 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long EXPN command.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0277 Working Resources INC Unspecified vulnerability in Working Resources Inc. Badblue 1.2.7

Buffer overflow in ext.dll in BadBlue 1.02.07 Personal Edition allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long HTTP GET request.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0271 Mailnews CGI Unspecified vulnerability in Mailnews.Cgi

mailnews.cgi 1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a user name that contains shell metacharacters.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0269 SUN Security Bypass vulnerability in SUN Sunos 5.8

pam_ldap authentication module in Solaris 8 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a NULL password.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0236 SUN Buffer Overflow vulnerability in SUN Solaris and Sunos

Buffer overflow in Solaris snmpXdmid SNMP to DMI mapper daemon allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long "indication" event.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0218 Martin Stover Unspecified vulnerability in Martin Stover Mars NWE 0.99Pl19

Format string vulnerability in mars_nwe 0.99.pl19 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0213 Planet Intra Remote Security vulnerability in Planet Intra Planet Intra 2.5

Buffer overflow in pi program in PlanetIntra 2.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0194 Easy Software Products Remote Security vulnerability in CUPS

Buffer overflow in httpGets function in CUPS 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long input line.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0192 Davide Libenzi Remote Security vulnerability in XMail

Buffer overflows in CTRLServer in XMail allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the cfgfileget or domaindel functions.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0191 Andy Norman Unspecified vulnerability in Andy Norman Gnuserv

gnuserv before 3.12, as shipped with XEmacs, does not properly check the specified length of an X Windows MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE cookie, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a buffer overflow, or brute force authentication by using a short cookie length.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0180 Lars Ellingsen Remote Security vulnerability in Guestserver

Lars Ellingsen guestserver.cgi allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the "email" parameter.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0173 Nobreak Technologies
Qdecoder
Remote Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qDecoder

Buffer overflow in qDecoder library 5.08 and earlier, as used in CrazyWWWBoard, CrazySearch, and other CGI programs, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long MIME Content-Type header.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0171 Whitsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Whitsoft Slimserve 1.0

Buffer overflow in SlimServe HTTPd 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long GET request.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0168 ATT Buffer Overflow vulnerability in AT&T; WinVNC Server

Buffer overflow in AT&T WinVNC (Virtual Network Computing) server 3.3.3r7 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long HTTP GET request when the DebugLevel registry key is greater than 0.

10.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0147 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000

Buffer overflow in Windows 2000 event viewer snap-in allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed field that is improperly handled during the detailed view of event records.

10.0

23 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0198 Apple Remote Overflow vulnerability in Apple Quicktime 4.1.2

Buffer overflow in QuickTime Player plugin 4.1.2 (Japanese) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long HREF parameter in an EMBED tag.

7.6
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0174 Trend Micro Unspecified vulnerability in Trend Micro Virus Buster 2001

Buffer overflow in Trend Micro Virus Buster 2001 8.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a large "To" address.

7.6
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0167 ATT Buffer Overflow vulnerability in AT&T; WinVNC Client

Buffer overflow in AT&T WinVNC (Virtual Network Computing) client 3.3.3r7 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long rfbConnFailed packet with a long reason string.

7.6
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0326 Oracle Remote Security vulnerability in Oracle Application Server and Oracle8I

Oracle Java Virtual Machine (JVM ) for Oracle 8.1.7 and Oracle Application Server 9iAS Release 1.0.2.0.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the .jsp and .sqljsp file extensions when the server is configured to use the <<ALL FILES>> FilePermission.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0325 QNX Buffer Overflow vulnerability in QNX RTP 5.60

Buffer overflow in QNX RTP 5.60 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments to the stat command.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0319 IBM Unspecified vulnerability in IBM products

orderdspc.d2w macro in IBM Net.Commerce 3.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries by inserting them into the order_rn option of the report capability.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0308 Bajie Code Injection vulnerability in Bajie Java Http Server

UploadServlet in Bajie HTTP JServer 0.78, and possibly other versions before 0.80, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by calling the servlet to upload a program, then using a ...

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0307 Bajie Code Injection vulnerability in Bajie Java Http Server

Bajie HTTP JServer 0.78, and other versions before 0.80, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an HTTP request for a CGI program that does not exist.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0292 Francisco Burzi Remote Security vulnerability in Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 4.4.1A

PHP-Nuke 4.4.1a allows remote attackers to modify a user's email address and obtain the password by guessing the user id (UID) and calling user.php with the saveuser operator.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0288 Cisco Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco IOS

Cisco switches and routers running IOS 12.1 and earlier produce predictable TCP Initial Sequence Numbers (ISNs), which allows remote attackers to spoof or hijack TCP connections.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0274 Kicq Unspecified vulnerability in Kicq 1.0.0

kicq IRC client 1.0.0, and possibly later versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0234 Sourceforge SQL-Injection vulnerability in Sourceforge Newsdaemon 0.21B

NewsDaemon before 0.21b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries and gain privileges via a malformed user_username parameter.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0154 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer

HTML e-mail feature in Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier allows attackers to execute attachments by setting an unusual MIME type for the attachment, which Internet Explorer does not process correctly.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0153 Microsoft Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual Studio

Buffer overflow in VB-TSQL debugger object (vbsdicli.exe) in Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0145 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express

Buffer overflow in VCard handler in Outlook 2000 and 98, and Outlook Express 5.x, allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed vCard birthday field.

7.5
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0281 Microsoft Local Security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows NT

Format string vulnerability in DbgPrint function, used in debug messages for some Windows NT drivers (possibly when called through DebugMessage), may allow local users to gain privileges.

7.2
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0279 Debian
Mandrakesoft
Buffer overflow in sudo earlier than 1.6.3p6 allows local users to gain root privileges.
7.2
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0268 Netbsd
Openbsd
The i386_set_ldt system call in NetBSD 1.5 and earlier, and OpenBSD 2.8 and earlier, when the USER_LDT kernel option is enabled, does not validate a call gate target, which allows local users to gain root privileges by creating a segment call gate in the Local Descriptor Table (LDT) with a target that specifies an arbitrary kernel address.
7.2
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0267 HP Local Security vulnerability in HP MPE IX 5.5

NM debug in HP MPE/iX 6.5 and earlier does not properly handle breakpoints, which allows local users to gain privileges.

7.2
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0266 HP Local Security vulnerability in HP-UX

Vulnerability in Software Distributor SD-UX in HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges.

7.2
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0229 SUN Local Security vulnerability in SUN Chilisoft 3.5.2

Chili!Soft ASP for Linux before 3.6 does not properly set group privileges when running in inherited mode, which could allow attackers to gain privileges via malicious scripts.

7.2
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0193 Debian
Suse
Format string vulnerability in man in some Linux distributions allows local users to gain privileges via a malformed -l parameter.
7.2
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0165 SUN Unspecified vulnerability in SUN Solaris and Sunos

Buffer overflow in ximp40 shared library in Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 allows local users to gain privileges via a long "arg0" (process name) argument.

7.2

30 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0283 SUN Directory Traversal vulnerability in SUN FTP Build9

Directory traversal vulnerability in SunFTP build 9 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..

6.4
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0276 Working Resources INC Unspecified vulnerability in Working Resources Inc. Badblue 1.2.7

ext.dll in BadBlue 1.02.07 Personal Edition web server allows remote attackers to determine the physical path of the server by directly calling ext.dll without any arguments, which produces an error message that contains the path.

6.4
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0321 Francisco Burzi Remote Security vulnerability in Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 8.0Final

opendir.php script in PHP-Nuke allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by specifying the filename as an argument to the requesturl parameter.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0306 Itafrica Directory Traversal vulnerability in Itafrica Webactive 1.0

Directory traversal vulnerability in ITAfrica WEBactive HTTP Server 1.00 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0305 Thinking Arts Directory Traversal vulnerability in Thinking Arts Es.One 1.0

Directory traversal vulnerability in store.cgi in Thinking Arts ES.One package allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0304 Caucho Technology Directory Traversal vulnerability in Caucho Technology Resin 1.2.2

Directory traversal vulnerability in Caucho Resin 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a "\.." (dot dot) in a URL request.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0303 PI3 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in PI3 Pi3Web 1.0.1

tstisapi.dll in Pi3Web 1.0.1 web server allows remote attackers to determine the physical path of the server via a URL that requests a non-existent file.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0302 PI3 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in PI3 Pi3Web 1.0.1

Buffer overflow in tstisapi.dll in Pi3Web 1.0.1 web server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long URL.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0298 Sapio Design LTD Denial Of Service vulnerability in Sapio Design LTD Webreflex 1.55

Buffer overflow in WebReflex 1.55 HTTPd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long HTTP GET request.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0297 Dattaraj RAO Directory Traversal vulnerability in Dattaraj RAO Simple Server 1.0

Directory traversal vulnerability in Simple Server HTTPd 1.0 (originally Free Java Server) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0295 Jarle Aase Unspecified vulnerability in Jarle Aase WAR Ftpd 1.67B04

Directory traversal vulnerability in War FTP 1.67.04 allows remote attackers to list directory contents and possibly read files via a "dir *./../.." command.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0294 Typsoft Directory Traversal vulnerability in Typsoft FTP Server 0.85

Directory traversal vulnerability in TYPSoft FTP Server 0.85 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via (1) a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0293 Datawizard Directory Traversal vulnerability in Datawizard Ftpxq 2.0.93

Directory traversal vulnerability in FtpXQ FTP server 2.0.93 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0286 A1Webserver Unspecified vulnerability in A1Webserver Http Server 1.0

Directory traversal vulnerability in A1 HTTP server 1.0a allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0272 W3 ORG Directory Traversal vulnerability in Sendtemp.Pl

Directory traversal vulnerability in sendtemp.pl in W3.org Anaya Web development server allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0270 Marconi Denial Of Service vulnerability in Marconi Asx-1000 and Forethought

Marconi ASX-1000 ASX switches allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the telnet and web management interfaces via a malformed packet with the SYN-FIN and More Fragments attributes set.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0228 Goahead Software Directory Traversal vulnerability in GoAhead WebServer

Directory traversal vulnerability in GoAhead web server 2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0227 Biblioscape Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Biblioscape Biblioweb Server 2.0

Buffer overflow in BiblioWeb web server 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long HTTP GET request.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0226 Biblioscape Directory Traversal vulnerability in Biblioscape Biblioweb Server 2.0

Directory traversal vulnerability in BiblioWeb web server 2.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0205 AOL Directory Traversal vulnerability in AOL Server 3.2

Directory traversal vulnerability in AOLserver 3.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by inserting "..." into the requested pathname, a modified ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0202 Informs Directory Traversal vulnerability in Informs Picserver 1.0

Picserver web server allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0200 Heat ON Software Path Disclosure vulnerability in Heat-On Software Hsweb 2.0

HSWeb 2.0 HTTP server allows remote attackers to obtain the physical path of the server via a request to the /cgi/ directory, which will list the path if directory browsing is enabled.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0199 Guido Frassetto Directory Traversal vulnerability in Guido Frassetto Sedum 2.0

Directory traversal vulnerability in SEDUM HTTP Server 2.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0196 Freebsd Unspecified vulnerability in Freebsd

inetd ident server in FreeBSD 4.x and earlier does not properly set group permissions, which allows remote attackers to read the first 16 bytes of files that are accessible by the wheel group.

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0186 Free Java WEB Server Directory Traversal vulnerability in Free Java web Server Free Java web Server 1.0

Directory traversal vulnerability in Free Java Web Server 1.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0179 Macromedia Unspecified vulnerability in Macromedia Jrun 3.0

Allaire JRun 3.0 allows remote attackers to list contents of the WEB-INF directory, and the web.xml file in the WEB-INF directory, via a malformed URL that contains a "."

5.0
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0316 Linux Unspecified vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.2.0/2.4.0

Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.2 allows local users to read kernel memory and possibly gain privileges via a negative argument to the sysctl call.

4.6
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0290 GNU Local Security vulnerability in Mailman

Vulnerability in Mailman 2.0.1 and earlier allows list administrators to obtain user passwords.

4.6
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0289 Joseph Allen Unspecified vulnerability in Joseph Allen JOE 2.8

Joe text editor 2.8 searches the current working directory (CWD) for the .joerc configuration file, which could allow local users to gain privileges of other users by placing a Trojan Horse .joerc file into a directory, then waiting for users to execute joe from that directory.

4.6
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0278 HP Local Security vulnerability in MPE/iX

Vulnerability in linkeditor in HP MPE/iX 6.5 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges.

4.6

7 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0317 Linux Unspecified vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.2.0/2.4.0

Race condition in ptrace in Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.2 allows local users to gain privileges by using ptrace to track and modify a running setuid process.

3.7
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0324 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 98

Windows 98 and Windows 2000 Java clients allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a Java applet that opens a large number of UDP sockets, which prevents the host from establishing any additional UDP connections, and possibly causes a crash.

2.6
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0273 Holger Lamm Unspecified vulnerability in Holger Lamm Pgp4Pine 1.75.6

pgp4pine Pine/PGP interface version 1.75-6 does not properly check to see if a public key has expired when obtaining the keys via Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG), which causes the message to be sent in cleartext.

2.6
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0287 Symantec Veritas Unspecified vulnerability in Symantec Veritas Cluster Server 1.3.0

VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS) 1.3.0 on Solaris allows local users to cause a denial of service (system panic) via the -L option to the lltstat command.

2.1
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0275 Moby Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Moby Netsuite web Server 1.02

Moby Netsuite Web Server 1.02 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long HTTP request.

2.1
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-0152 Microsoft Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Plus

The password protection option for the Compressed Folders feature in Plus! for Windows 98 and Windows Me writes password information to a file, which allows local users to recover the passwords and read the compressed folders.

2.1
2001-05-03 CVE-2001-1331 Debian
Progeny
mandb in the man-db package before 2.3.16-3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via the command line options (1) -u or (2) -c, which do not drop privileges and follow symlinks.
1.2