Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > December 13 to 19, 2010

Overview

2 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 1 critical vulnerabilities and 1 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 4 products from 4 vendors including Debian, Opensuse, Canonical, and Exim. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as and "Out-of-bounds Write".

  • 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.

TOTAL
VULNERABILITIES
CRITICAL RISK
VULNERABILITIES
HIGH RISK
VULNERABILITIES
MEDIUM RISK
VULNERABILITIES
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:

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1 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2010-12-14 CVE-2010-4344 Exim
Opensuse
Debian
Canonical 		Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products

Heap-based buffer overflow in the string_vformat function in string.c in Exim before 4.70 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an SMTP session that includes two MAIL commands in conjunction with a large message containing crafted headers, leading to improper rejection logging.
9.8

1 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2010-12-14 CVE-2010-4345 Exim
Opensuse
Debian
Canonical 		Exim 4.72 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the ability of the exim user account to specify an alternate configuration file with a directive that contains arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by the spool_directory directive.
7.8

0 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS