iDefense Security Advisory 12.11.07: Microsoft Internet Explorer JavaScript setExpression Heap Corruption Vulnerability

iDefense Security Advisory 12.11.07 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Dec 11, 2007 I. BACKGROUND Internet Explorer is a graphical web browser developed by Microsoft Corp. and included as part of Microsoft Windows since 1995. The setExpression method is commonly used to assign...

KLA10186 Multiple vulnerabilities in HP Quick Launch Button

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in HP Quick Launch Button. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to read and write arbitrary registry entries or execute arbitrary programs Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities 1. Vectors related to GetRegValue and SetRegValue ca...

CVE-2007-6329: Undefined Security Weakness

Microsoft Office 2007 12.0.6015.5000 and MSO 12.0.6017.5000 do not sign the metadata of Office Open XML OOXML documents, which makes it easier for remote attackers to modify Dublin Core metadata fields, as demonstrated by the 1 LastModifiedBy and 2 creator fields in docProps/core.xml in the OOXML...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gpg (ZYPP Patch Number 2994)

When printing a text stream with a GPG signature it was possible for an attacker to create a stream with 'unsigned text, signed text' where both unsigned and signed text would be shown without distinction which one was signed and which part wasn't. This is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2007-126...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ethereal (ZYPP Patch Number 3888)

Various security problems were fixed in the wireshark 0.99.6 release, which were backported to ethereal predecessor of wireshark : - Wireshark allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted chunked encoding in an HTTP response, possibly related to a zero-length payload...

SuSE 10 Security Update : vim and gvim (ZYPP Patch Number 4095)

This update of Vim addresses a format-string bug in 'helptags'. This bug can be exploited to execute code with the privileges of the user running Vim. CVE-2007-2953 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Qt3 (ZYPP Patch Number 3052)

qt wrongly accepts overly long UTF-8 sequences due to a bug in the UTF-8 decoder. This may lead to security problems unter certain circumstances. The bug for example allows for script tag injection in konqueror. CVE-2007-0242 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text descripti...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xpdf (ZYPP Patch Number 4644)

A buffer overflow in xpdf could be exploited by attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-4352 / CVE-2007-5392 / CVE-2007-5393 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : fetchmail (ZYPP Patch Number 4462)

This update fixes a remote denial-of-service attack. CVE-2007-4565 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid29426; scriptversion"1.16";...

SuSE 10 Security Update : poppler,poppler-devel (ZYPP Patch Number 3992)

A buffer overflow in the xpdf code contained in poppler could be exploited by attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-3387 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenSSH (ZYPP Patch Number 4580)

This update fixes a bug in ssh's cookie handling code. It does not properly handle the situation when an untrusted cookie cannot be created and uses a trusted X11 cookie instead. This allows attackers to violate the intended policy and gain privileges by causing an X client to be treated as...

SuSE 10 Security Update : poppler (ZYPP Patch Number 4630)

A buffer overflow in the xpdf code contained in poppler could be exploited by attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-4352 / CVE-2007-5392 / CVE-2007-5393 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : htdig (ZYPP Patch Number 4761)

A flaw in the htsearch Program could be exploited by attackers to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks. CVE-2007-6110 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if descriptio...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : seamonkey (seamonkey-4794)

This update brings Mozilla SeaMonkey to security update version 1.1.7 Following security problems were fixed: MFSA 2007-37 / CVE-2007-5947: The jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox retrieves the inner URL regardless of its MIME type, and considers HTML documents within a jar archive to have th...

SuSE 10 Security Update : pcre (ZYPP Patch Number 4689)

Specially crafted regular expressions could lead to a buffer overflow in the pcre library. Applications using pcre to process regular expressions from untrusted sources could therefore potentially be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2006-7224 / CVE-2006-7225 / CVE-2006-7226 /...

SuSE 10 Security Update : flash-player (ZYPP Patch Number 3890)

The Adobe Flash Player was updated to version 7.0.70.0 for Novell Linux Desktop 9 and to version 9.0.48.0 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 to fix several security problems : - An input validation error has been identified in Flash Player 9.0.45.0 and earlier versions that could lead to the...

SuSE 10 Security Update : inkscape (ZYPP Patch Number 3061)

Several format string problems where fixed in inkscape. - A format string vulnerability in Inkscape allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a URI, which is not properly handled by certain dialogs. CVE-2007-1463 - Format string vulnerability ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xpdf (ZYPP Patch Number 3969)

A buffer overflow in xpdf could be exploited by attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-3387 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Samba (ZYPP Patch Number 4719)

This update fixes two buffer overflows in nmbd CVE-2007-4572 / CVE-2007-5398. Remote attackers could potentially exploit them to execute arbitrary code. The updated packages additionally contain fixes for numerous other defects. Please refer to the package changelog for details. %NASLMINLEVEL 703...

SuSE 10 Security Update : PHP5 (ZYPP Patch Number 3754)

The following issues have been fixed : - missing openbasedir and safemode restriction. CVE-2007-3007 - chunksplit integer overflow. CVE-2007-2872 - DoS condition in libgd's image processing. CVE-2007-2756 - possible super-global overwrite inside importrequestvariables. CVE-2007-1396 - buffer...