Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > May 19 to 25, 2003

Overview

10 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 4 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 9 products from 8 vendors including Wsmp3, Selom Ofori, Qualcomm, HP, and Slackware. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as .

  • 6 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 10 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Wsmp3 has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 2 reported vulnerabilities.

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CRITICAL RISK
VULNERABILITIES
HIGH RISK
VULNERABILITIES
MEDIUM RISK
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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:

0 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

4 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2003-05-22 CVE-2003-0339 Wsmp3 Remote Security vulnerability in Wsmp3 Daemon and Wsmp3 web Server

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in WsMp3 daemon (WsMp3d) 0.0.10 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long HTTP requests.

7.5
2003-05-22 CVE-2003-0335 Slackware Remote Security vulnerability in Slackware Linux 9.0

rc.M in Slackware 9.0 calls quotacheck with the -M option, which causes the filesystem to be remounted and possibly reset security-relevant mount flags such as nosuid, nodev, and noexec.

7.5
2003-05-21 CVE-2003-0340 Demarc Security Remote Security vulnerability in Demarc Security Puresecure 1.6

Demarc Puresecure 1.6 stores authentication information for the logging server in plaintext, which allows attackers to steal login names and passwords to gain privileges.

7.5
2003-05-19 CVE-2003-0333 HP Privilege Escalation vulnerability in HP-UX Kermit

Multiple buffer overflows in kermit in HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 (C-Kermit 6.0.192 and possibly other versions before 8.0) allow local users to gain privileges via long arguments to (1) ask, (2) askq, (3) define, (4) assign, and (5) getc, some of which may share the same underlying function "doask," a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-0085.

7.2

6 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2003-05-21 CVE-2003-0341 OWL Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in OWL Intranet Engine 0.7/0.71

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Owl Intranet Engine 0.71 and earlier allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary script via the Search field.

6.8
2003-05-22 CVE-2003-0336 Qualcomm Remote Security vulnerability in Qualcomm Eudora 5.2.1

Qualcomm Eudora 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an email message with a carriage return (CR) character in a spoofed "Attachment Converted:" string, which is not properly handled by Eudora.

5.0
2003-05-21 CVE-2003-0338 Wsmp3 Directory Traversal vulnerability in Wsmp3 Daemon and Wsmp3 web Server

Directory traversal vulnerability in WsMp3 daemon (WsMp3d) 0.0.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to read and execute arbitrary files via ..

5.0
2003-05-22 CVE-2003-0337 Platform Local Security vulnerability in Platform Lsadmin 5.1

The ckconfig command in lsadmin for Load Sharing Facility (LSF) 5.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the LSF_ENVDIR environment variable to reference an alternate lsf.conf file, then modifying LSF_SERVERDIR to point to a malicious lim program, which lsadmin then executes.

4.6
2003-05-21 CVE-2003-0343 Selom Ofori Local Security vulnerability in Selom Ofori Blackmoon FTP Server 2.6

BlackMoon FTP Server 2.6 Free Edition, and possibly other distributions and versions, generates an "Account does not exist" error message when an invalid username is entered, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct brute force attacks.

4.6
2003-05-20 CVE-2003-0342 Selom Ofori Local Security vulnerability in Selom Ofori Blackmoon FTP Server 2.6

BlackMoon FTP Server 2.6 Free Edition, and possibly other distributions and versions, stores user names and passwords in plaintext in the blackmoon.mdb file, which can allow local users to gain privileges.

4.6

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS