Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3550 openssh – security update

Shayan Sadigh discovered a vulnerability in OpenSSH: If PAM support is
enabled and the sshd PAM configuration is configured to read userspecified
environment variables and the UseLogin option is enabled, a
local user may escalate her privileges to root.

DSA-3547 imagemagick – security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Imagemagick, a program suite for
image manipulation. This update fixes a large number of potential security
problems such as null-pointer access and buffer-overflows that might lead
to memory leaks or denial of service. None of these security problems have
a CVE number assigned.

DSA-3545 cgit – security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cgit, a fast web frontend for
git repositories written in C. A remote attacker can take advantage of
these flaws to perform cross-site scripting, header injection or denial
of service attacks.