[ GLSA 200510-14 ] Perl, Qt-UnixODBC, CMake: RUNPATH issues

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Qt: Buffer overflow in the included zlib library

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE. Description Qt links to a bundled vulnerable version of zlib when emerged with the zlib USE-flag disabled. This may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact By creating a specially crafted compressed data stream, attackers can overwrite data...

Zebedee: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Zebedee is an application that establishes an encrypted, compressed tunnel for TCP/IP or UDP data transfer between two systems. Description "Shiraishi.M" reported that Zebedee crashes when "0" is received as the port number in the protocol option header. Impact By performing malformed...

phpWebSite: Arbitrary command execution through XML-RPC and SQL injection

Background phpWebSite is a web site content management system. Description phpWebSite uses an XML-RPC library that improperly handles XML-RPC requests and responses with malformed nested tags. Furthermore, "matrixkiller" reported that phpWebSite is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack. Impact A...

Tor: Information disclosure

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description The Diffie-Hellman implementation of Tor fails to verify the cryptographic strength of keys which are used during handshakes. Impact By setting up a malicio...

Evolution: Format string vulnerabilities

Background Evolution is a GNOME groupware application. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered that Evolution is vulnerable to format string bugs when viewing attached vCards and when displaying contact information from remote LDAP servers or task list data from remote servers CAN-2005-2549. He als...

Kismet: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Kismet is an 802.11 Layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Description Kismet is vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling pcap captures and to an integer underflow in the CDP protocol dissector. Impact With a specially crafted packet an attacker...

bluez-utils: Bluetooth device name validation vulnerability

Background bluez-utils are the utilities for use with the BlueZ implementation of the Bluetooth wireless standards for Linux. Description The name of a Bluetooth device is improperly validated by the hcid utility when a remote device attempts to pair itself with a computer. Impact An attacker cou...

nbSMTP: Format string vulnerability

Background nbSMTP is an SMTP client suitable to run in chroot jails, in embedded systems, laptops and workstations. Description Niels Heinen discovered a format string vulnerability. Impact An attacker can setup a malicious SMTP server and exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with...

GLSA-200507-22 : sandbox: Insecure temporary file handling

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200507-22 sandbox: Insecure temporary file handling The Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the sandbox utility was vulnerable to multiple TOCTOU Time of Check, Time of Use file creation race conditions. Impact : Loca...

sandbox: Insecure temporary file handling

Background sandbox is a Gentoo Linux utility used by the Portage package management system. Description The Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the sandbox utility was vulnerable to multiple TOCTOU Time of Check, Time of Use file creation race conditions. Impact Local users may be ab...

fetchmail: Buffer Overflow

Background fetchmail is a utility that retrieves and forwards mail from remote systems using IMAP, POP, and other protocols. Description fetchmail does not properly validate UIDs coming from a POP3 mail server. The UID is placed in a fixed length buffer on the stack, which can be overflown. Impac...

MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia. Description MediaWiki fails to escape a parameter in the page move template correctly. Impact By enticing a user to visit a specially crafted URL, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...

phpGroupWare, eGroupWare: PHP script injection vulnerability

Background phpGroupWare and eGroupWare are web based collaboration software suites. Description The XML-RPC implementations of phpGroupWare and eGroupWare fail to sanitize input sent to the XML-RPC server using the "POST" method. Impact A remote attacker could exploit the XML-RPC vulnerability to...

zlib: Buffer overflow

Background zlib is a widely used free and patent unencumbered data compression library. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a buffer overflow in zlib. A bounds checking operation failed to take invalid data into account, allowing a specifically malformed...

TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution through XML-RPC

Background TikiWiki is a web-based groupware and content management system CMS, using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. TikiWiki includes vulnerable PHP XML-RPC code. Description TikiWiki is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution as described in GLSA 200507-01. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this...

Heimdal: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5 that includes a telnetd server. Description It has been reported that the "getterminaltype" function of Heimdal's telnetd server is vulnerable to buffer overflows. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary co...

sudo: Arbitrary command execution

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description The sudoers file is used to define the actions sudo users are permitted to perform. Charles Morris discovered that a specific layout of the sudoers file could cause the results of a...

Mailutils: SQL Injection

Background GNU Mailutils is a collection of mail-related utilities. Description When GNU Mailutils is built with the "mysql" or "postgres" USE flag, the sqlescapestring function of the authentication module fails to properly escape the "" character, rendering it vulnerable to a SQL command...

Qpopper: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Qpopper is a widely used server for the POP3 protocol. Description Jens Steube discovered that Qpopper doesn't drop privileges to process local files from normal users CAN-2005-1151. The upstream developers discovered that Qpopper can be forced to create group or world writeable files...