mpg123: Heap overflow

Background mpg123 is a real time audio player designed for the MPEG format. Description In httpdget.c, a variable is assigned to the heap, and is supposed to receive a smaller allocation. As this variable was not terminated properly, strncpy will overwrite the data assigned next in memory. Impact...

Horde Web Application Framework: XSS vulnerability

Background The Horde Web Application Framework is a general-purpose web application framework written in PHP, providing classes for handling preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME, and more. Description Michael Marek discovered that the Horde Web Application...

Tikiwiki: SQL injection and multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Background Tikiwiki is a web-based groupware and content management system CMS, using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. Description Tikiwiki fails to properly sanitize user input before processing it, including in SQL statements. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary SQL statements on the underlying...

KDM: Symlink vulnerability

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. KDM is the KDE Display Manager and is part of the kdebase package. Description Ludwig Nussel discovered that KDM could be tricked into allowing users to read files that would otherwise not be...

Quake 3 engine based games: Buffer Overflow

Background Quake 3 is a multiplayer first person shooter. Description landser discovered a vulnerability within the "remapShader" command. Due to a boundary handling error in "remapShader", there is a possibility of a buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could set up a malicious game server and...

libapreq2: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background libapreq is a shared library with associated modules for manipulating client request data via the Apache API. Description A vulnerability has been reported in the apreqparseheaders and apreqparseurlencoded functions of Apache2::Request. Impact A remote attacker could possibly exploit t...

GLSA-200603-24 : RealPlayer: Buffer overflow vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200603-24 RealPlayer: Buffer overflow vulnerability RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing malicious SWF files. Impact : By enticing a user to open a specially crafted SWF file an attacker could execute...

OpenOffice.org: Heap overflow in included libcurl

Background OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, data charting, formula editing and file conversion facilities. libcurl, which is included in OpenOffice.org, is a free and easy-to-use client-side library for transferring files with U...

KPdf: Heap based overflow

Background KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. Description KPdf includes Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Dirk Mueller discovered that the Xpdf code is vulnerable a heap based overflow in the splash rasterizer engine. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a...

GStreamer FFmpeg plugin: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin uses code from the FFmpeg library to provide fast colorspace conversion and multimedia decoders to the GStreamer open source media framework. Description The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin contains derived code from the FFmpeg library, which is vulnerable to a heap...

MyDNS: Denial of service

Background MyDNS is a DNS server using a MySQL database as a backend. It is designed to allow for fast updates and small resource usage. Description MyDNS contains an unspecified flaw that may allow a remote Denial of Service. Impact An attacker could cause a Denial of Service by sending malforme...

KDE kjs: URI heap overflow vulnerability

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kjs is the javascript interpreter used in Konqueror and other parts of KDE. Description Maksim Orlovich discovered an incorrect bounds check in kjs when handling URIs. Impact By enticing a us...

Wine: Windows Metafile SETABORTPROC vulnerability

Background Wine is a free implementation of Windows APIs for Unix-like systems. Description H D Moore discovered that Wine implements the insecure-by-design SETABORTPROC GDI Escape function for Windows Metafile WMF files. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Windows...

VMware Workstation: Vulnerability in NAT networking

Background VMware Workstation is a powerful virtual machine for developers and system administrators. Description Tim Shelton discovered that vmnet-natd, the host module providing NAT-style networking for VMware guest operating systems, is unable to process incorrect 'EPRT' and 'PORT' FTP request...

Xmail: Privilege escalation through sendmail

Background Xmail is an Internet and intranet mail server. Description iDEFENSE reported that the AddressFromAtPtr function in the sendmail program fails to check bounds on arguments passed from other functions, and as a result an exploitable stack overflow condition occurs when specifying the "-t...

GLSA-200511-19 : eix: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200511-19 eix: Insecure temporary file creation Eric Romang discovered that eix creates a temporary file with a predictable name. eix creates a temporary file in /tmp/eix..sync where is the process ID of the shell running eix...

Horde Application Framework: XSS vulnerability

Background The Horde Application Framework is a general-purpose web application framework written in PHP, providing classes for handling preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME, and more. Description The Horde Team reported a potential XSS vulnerability. Horde fails...

Scorched 3D: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Scorched 3D is a clone of the classic "Scorched Earth" DOS game, adding features like a 3D island environment and Internet multiplayer capabilities. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered multiple flaws in the Scorched 3D game server, including a format string vulnerability and several...

RAR: Format string and buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Background RAR is a powerful archive manager that can decompress RAR, ZIP and other files, and can create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. Description Tan Chew Keong reported about two vulnerabilities found in RAR: A format string error exists when displaying a diagnostic error message th...

GNUMP3d: Directory traversal and XSS vulnerabilities

Background GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats. Description Steve Kemp reported about two cross-site scripting attacks that are related to the handling of files CVE-2005-3424, CVE-2005-3425. Also reported is a directory traversal vulnerability...