Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > August 27 to September 2, 2001

Overview

4 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 1 critical vulnerabilities and 1 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 6 products from 5 vendors including Qualcomm, Microsoft, Checkpoint, Arkeia, and Zonelabs. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Improper Locking", "Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort", and "Origin Validation Error".

  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Qualcomm has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.
  • Arkeia has the most reported critical vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

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EXPLOITABLE
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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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1 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-08-31 CVE-2001-0967 Arkeia Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in Arkeia 4.2/4.2.82

Knox Arkeia server 4.2, and possibly other versions, uses a constant salt when encrypting passwords using the crypt() function, which makes it easier for an attacker to conduct brute force password guessing.

9.8

1 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-08-31 CVE-2001-1452 Microsoft Origin Validation Error vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT

By default, DNS servers on Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server cache glue records received from non-delegated name servers, which allows remote attackers to poison the DNS cache via spoofed DNS responses.

7.5

2 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2001-08-31 CVE-2000-1198 Qualcomm Improper Locking vulnerability in Qualcomm Qpopper 2.53/3.0

qpopper POP server creates lock files with predictable names, which allows local users to cause a denial of service for other users (lack of mail access) by creating lock files for other mail boxes.

5.5
2001-08-29 CVE-2001-0682 Zonelabs
Checkpoint
Improper Locking vulnerability in multiple products

ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service by running a trojan to initialize a ZoneAlarm mutex object which prevents ZoneAlarm from starting.

5.5

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS