Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > June 12 to 18, 2006

Overview

2 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 1 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 4 products from 2 vendors including Microsoft, and KDE. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Improper Locking", and "Improper Check for Dropped Privileges".

  • Microsoft has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

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Vulnerability Details

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

0 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

1 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2006-06-15 CVE-2006-2916 KDE Improper Check for Dropped Privileges vulnerability in KDE Arts 1.0/1.2

artswrapper in aRts, when running setuid root on Linux 2.6.0 or later versions, does not check the return value of the setuid function call, which allows local users to gain root privileges by causing setuid to fail, which prevents artsd from dropping privileges.

7.8

1 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2006-06-13 CVE-2006-2374 Microsoft Improper Locking vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP

The Server Message Block (SMB) driver (MRXSMB.SYS) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 SP1 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) by calling the MrxSmbCscIoctlCloseForCopyChunk with the file handle of the shadow device, which results in a deadlock, aka the "SMB Invalid Handle Vulnerability."

5.5

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS