Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > December 10 to 16, 2001

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Novell Groupwise 5.5 and 6.0 Servlet Gateway is installed with a default username and password for the servlet manager, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.

Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by modifying the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields in a way that causes Internet Explorer to believe that the file is safe to open without prompting the user, aka the "File Execution Vulnerability."

Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) Client for Windows 6.1 allows remote malicious web sites to execute arbitrary code via a .ICA file, which is downloaded and automatically executed by the client.

mailto.exe in Brian Dorricott MAILTO 1.0.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to send SPAM e-mail through remote servers by modifying the sendto, email, server, subject, and resulturl hidden form fields.

csvform.pl 0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via metacharacters in the file parameter.

RLPDaemon in HP-UX 10.20 and 11.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain privileges by specifying the target file in the -L option.

Some AIO operations in FreeBSD 4.4 may be delayed until after a call to execve, which could allow a local user to overwrite memory of the new process and gain privileges.

Zyxel Prestige 681 and 1600 SDSL Routers allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed packets with (1) an IP length less than actual packet size, or (2) fragmented packets whose size exceeds 64 kilobytes after reassembly.

Directory traversal vulnerability in EFTP 2.0.8.346 allows local users to read directories via a ...

Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allow remote attackers to read certain files via HTML that passes information from a frame in the client's domain to a frame in the web site's domain, a variant of the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability.

WebSeal in IBM Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director 3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a URL that ends in %2e.

Microsoft IIS 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an HTTP request with a content-length value that is larger than the size of the request, which prevents IIS from timing out the connection.

klprfax_filter in KDE2 KDEUtils allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the klprfax.filter temporary file.

IBM Websphere Application Server 3.5.3 and earlier stores a password in cleartext in the sas.server.props file, which allows local users to obtain the passwords via a JSP script.

The default PAM files included with passwd in Mandrake Linux 8.1 do not support MD5 passwords, which could result in a lower level of password security than intended.

Certain backend drivers in the SANE library 1.0.3 and earlier, as used in frontend software such as XSane, allows local users to modify files via a symlink attack on temporary files.