Ruby: Denial of service

Background Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process...

IcedTea JDK: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background IcedTea is a distribution of the Java OpenJDK source code built with free build tools. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the IcedTea JDK. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary...

X.Org X Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org X Server. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary...

Active Record: SQL injection

Background Active Record is a Ruby gem that allows database entries to be manipulated as objects. Description An Active Record method parameter can mistakenly be used as a scope. Impact A remote attacker could use specially crafted input to execute arbitrary SQL statements. Workaround The...

Perl DBD-Pg Module: Arbitrary code execution

Background DBD-Pg is a PostgreSQL interface module for Perl. Description Format string vulnerabilities have been found in the the "pgwarn" and "dbdstprepare" functions in dbdimp.c. Impact A remote PostgreSQL server could send specially crafted database warnings or DBD statements, possibly resulti...

Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers and Adobe Security Advisories and Bulletins reference...

BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocol. Description Multiple cache poisoning vulnerabilities were discovered in BIND. For further information please consult the CVE entries and the ISC Security Bulletin referenced below. Note:...

VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description Tobias Klein reported the following vulnerabilities: A stack-based buffer overflow when processing CUE image files in modules/access/vcd/cdrom.c CVE-2008-5032. A stack-based buffer overflow when processing RealText...

Portage: Untrusted search path local root vulnerability

Background Portage is Gentoo's package manager which is responsible for installing, compiling and updating all packages on the system through the Gentoo rsync tree. Description The Gentoo Security Team discovered that several ebuilds, such as sys-apps/portage, net-mail/fetchmail or app-editors/le...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200606-08 (wordpress)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200606-08. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200610-04 (seamonkey)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200610-04. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Description Cameron Hotchkies discovered an error within the parsing of ASN.1 BER encoded packets in the "bergetnext" function in libraries/liblber/io.c. Impact A remote unauthenticated...

cbrPager: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background cbrPager is a comic book pager. Description Mamoru Tasaka discovered that filenames of the image archives are not properly sanitized before being passed to decompression utilities like unrar and unzip, which use the system libc library call. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user...

PTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PTeX is a TeX distribution with Japanese support. It is used for creating and manipulating LaTeX documents. Description Multiple issues were found in the teTeX 2 codebase that PTeX builds upon GLSA 200709-17, GLSA 200711-26. PTeX also includes vulnerable code from the GD library GLSA...

Openfire: Denial of service

Background Openfire formerly Wildfire is a Java implementation of a complete Jabber server. Description Openfire's connection manager in the file ConnectionManagerImpl.java cannot handle clients that fail to read messages, and has no limit on their session's send buffer. Impact Remote authenticat...

Tomcat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java Servlets and Java Server Pages. Description The following vulnerabilities were reported: Delian Krustev discovered that the JULI logging component does not properly enforce access restrictions, allowing web...

Balsa: Buffer overflow

Background Balsa is a highly configurable email client for GNOME. Description Evil Ninja Squirrel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the irfetchseq function when receiving a long response to a FETCH command CVE-2007-5007. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a...

X.Org X server: Composite local privilege escalation

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Aaron Plattner discovered a buffer overflow in the compNewPixmap function when copying data from a large pixel depth pixmap into a smaller pixel depth pixmap. Impact A local attacker could...

Fail2ban: Denial of service

Background Fail2ban is a tool for parsing log files and banning IP addresses which make too many password failures. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Fail2ban when parsing log files. Impact A remote attacker could send specially crafted SSH login banners to the vulnerable host,...

ELinks: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background ELinks is a text-mode web browser. Description Arnaud Giersch discovered that the "addfilenametostring" function in file intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c uses an untrusted relative path, allowing for a format string attack with a malicious .po file. Impact A local attacker could entice a user...