Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > October 17 to 23, 2005

Overview

2 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 1 critical vulnerabilities and 0 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 3 products from 3 vendors including Debian, Linux, and Invisible Island. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "NULL Pointer Dereference", and "Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size".

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

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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
2005-10-17 CVE-2005-3120 Invisible Island
Debian 		Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size vulnerability in multiple products

Stack-based buffer overflow in the HTrjis function in Lynx 2.8.6 and earlier allows remote NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via certain article headers containing Asian characters that cause Lynx to add extra escape (ESC) characters.
9.8

0 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

1 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2005-10-21 CVE-2005-3274 Linux
Debian 		NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products

Race condition in ip_vs_conn_flush in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.13 and 2.4 before 2.4.32-pre2, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (null dereference) by causing a connection timer to expire while the connection table is being flushed before the appropriate lock is acquired.
4.7

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS