Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3636 collectd – security update

Emilien Gaspar discovered that collectd, a statistics collection and
monitoring daemon, incorrectly processed incoming network
packets. This resulted in a heap overflow, allowing a remote attacker
to either cause a DoS via application crash, or potentially execute
arbitrary code.

DSA-3635 libdbd-mysql-perl – security update

Two use-after-free vulnerabilities were discovered in DBD::mysql, a Perl
DBI driver for the MySQL database server. A remote attacker can take
advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an
application using DBD::mysql (application crash), or potentially to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the
application.

DSA-3630 libgd2 – security update

Secunia Research at Flexera Software discovered an integer overflow
vulnerability within the _gdContributionsAlloc() function in libgd2, a
library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation. A remote
attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial-of-service
against an application using the libgd2 library.