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Secunia Advisories
August 15, 2005

From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

Below are the Secunia Security Advisories rated as Highly Critical (or higher) from August 15, 2005.

  • Secunia Advisory 16429
    PEAR XML_RPC Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in PEAR XML-RPC, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

      Certain XML tags that are nested in parsed documents are not properly sanitised before being used in an "eval()" call. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code on a vulnerable system.

    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16429/

  • Secunia Advisory 16431
    XML-RPC for PHP Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in XML-RPC, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

      Certain XML tags that are nested in parsed documents are not properly sanitised before being used in an "eval()" call. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code on a vulnerable system.

    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16431/

  • Secunia Advisory 16432
    Drupal XML-RPC PHP Code Execution Vulnerability
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16432/

  • Secunia Advisory 16436
    Gentoo update for gaim
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: Gentoo has issued an update for gaim. This fixes a vulnerability and a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a user's system.
    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16436/

  • Secunia Advisory 16437
    SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: SGI has issued a patch for SGI Advanced Linux Environment, which fixes multiple vulnerabilities in various packages.
    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16437/

  • Secunia Advisory 16441
    phpMyFAQ XML-RPC Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: A vulnerability has been reported in phpMyFAQ, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16441/
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