DVL 1.5 now in planning status
DVL 1.5 has now the status "planning". Beside this we work on the concept for 2008. More information, more training and better videos (those which are 100% related to DVL). Stay tuned!
 
DVL 1.4 released!
DVL 1.4 released! First mirror is online! IF YOU CAN PROVIDE A MIRROR, PLEASE SEND A MAIL TO info (att) DamnVulnerableLinux.org.
 
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Vulnerabilities

Kernel - [IEEE80211]: avoid integer underflow for runt rx frames
Reported by Chris Evans < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it >: The summary is that an evil 80211 frame can crash out a victim's achine. It only applies to drivers using the 80211 wireless code, and nly then to certain drivers (and even then depends on a card's irmware not dropping a dubious packet). I must confess I'...
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Mozilla Firefox jar URI cross-site scripting vulnerability (VU#715737)
Mozilla Firefox contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute code, or conduct cross-site scripting attacks. The jar protocol is designed to extract content from compressed files. Mozilla based browsers include support for jar: URIs that are of the form jar:[url]![filename path]
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DVL included XPDF vulnerability (CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392, CVE-2007-5393)
Secunia Research has discovered some vulnerabilities in Xpdf, which can e exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1) An array indexing error within the DCTStream::readProgressiveDataUnit()" method in xpdf/Stream.cc can be xploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted PDF file. 2) An integer overflow error within the "DCTStream::reset()" method in pdf/Stream.cc can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted PDF file. ...
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DVL included Mplayer Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2007-2948 and SAID 24302)

A stack overflow was found and reported by Stefan Cornelius of Secunia Research in the code used to handle cddb queries. Two other similar issues were found by Reimar Döffinger while fixing the issue. The vulnerability is identified with CVE-2007-2948 and SAID 24302. When copying the album title and category, no checking was performed on the size of the strings before storing them in a fixed-size array. A malicious entry in the database could trigger a stack overflow in the program, lead...
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DVL includes CVE-2007-4131 tar directory traversal vulnerability
Directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in GNU tar. Vulnerability can be exploited by specially crafted tar archive to overwrite arbitrary file writable by user running tar. Problem occurs in contains_dot_dot function, which does not properly check names of directory symlinks.

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DVL included Vulnerability in Tor Installation!
Tor below 0.1.2.16 has a critical security vulnerability that allows a emote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc onfiguration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles, orK, etc. Or worse...

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QT Vulnerability - Free provided with DVL Strychnine+E605

Trolltech, producers of the Qt library, have released a source code patch for Qt3, which fixes a security vulnerability. Bugs may lead to execution of arbitrary code during processing of crafted strings by applications which use the cross-platform C++ framework. QTextEdit element contain format string vulnerabilities and integer overflows. These can be triggered when an application linked to Qt issues an error message which incorporates text provided by the user. The bugs affect versio...
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References

  • IITAC - International Institute (Certification and Training)
  • Leibnitz University of Hannover, Germany (Secure Software Development Lecture)
  • University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, Germany (Secure Software Development Lecture)
  • East Tennessee State University, U.S (Ethical Hacking Class)
  • University of the Basque Country, Spain (Computer Security Class)
  • University of Florida, U.S. (Student Infosec Team)
  • Institute Superieur Maritim, Algeria

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