RealPlayer, Helix Player: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Helix Player is the Open Source version of RealPlayer. Description Piotr Bania has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in RealPlayer and Helix Player when processing malicious RAM files. Impa...

Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Firefox: Vladimir V...

CVS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background CVS Concurrent Versions System is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server. Description Alen Zukich has discovered several serious security issues in CVS, including at least one buffer overflow CAN-2005-0753, memory leaks...

OpenOffice.Org: DOC document Heap Overflow

Background OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description AD-LAB has discovered a heap overflow in the "StgCompObjStream::Load" function when processing D...

rsnapshot: Local privilege escalation

Background rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync, allowing local and remote systems backups. Description The copysymlink subroutine in rsnapshot follows symlinks when changing file ownership, instead of changing the ownership of the symlink itself. Impact Under certain...

mit-krb5: Multiple buffer overflows in telnet client

Background The MIT Kerberos 5 implementation provides a command line telnet client which is used for remote login via the telnet protocol. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the envoptadd function, where a response requiring excessive escaping can cause a heap-based buffer...

Dnsmasq: Poisoning and Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description Dnsmasq does not properly detect that DNS replies received do not correspond to any DNS query that was sent. Rob Holland of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit team also discovered two off-by-one...

telnet-bsd: Multiple buffer overflows

Background telnet-bsd provides a command line telnet client which is used for remote login using the telnet protocol. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the envoptadd function of telnet-bsd, where a response requiring excessive escaping can cause a heap-based buffer overflow...

netkit-telnetd: Buffer overflow

Background netkit-telnetd provides standard Linux telnet client and server. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the slcaddreply function of netkit-telnetd client, where a large number of SLC commands can overflow a fixed size buffer. Impact Successful explotation would require a...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape extension 2...

GnuPG: OpenPGP protocol attack

Background GnuPG is complete and free replacement for PGP, a tool for secure communication and data storage. Description A flaw has been identified in an integrity checking mechanism of the OpenPGP protocol. Impact An automated system using GnuPG that allows an attacker to repeatedly discover the...

Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow

Background Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed. Description Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle non-ASCII characters in email headers when composing reply messages. Impact An attacker can send an email...