X.Org: Heap overflow in pixmap allocation

Background X.Org is X.Org Foundation's Public Implementation of the X Window System. Description X.Org is missing an integer overflow check during pixmap memory allocation. Impact An X.Org user could exploit this issue to make the X server execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Workarou...

MPlayer: Heap overflow in ad_pcm.c

Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description Sven Tantau discovered a heap overflow in the code handling the strf chunk of PCM audio streams. Impact An attacker could craft a malicious video or audio file which, when opened using MPlayer,...

lm_sensors: Insecure temporary file creation

Background lmsensors is a software package that provides drivers for monitoring the temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux systems with hardware monitoring devices. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena has discovered that lmsensors insecurely creates temporary files with predictable...

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...

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...

Xpdf, Kpdf, GPdf: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Xpdf, Kpdf and GPdf are PDF file viewers that run under the X Window System. Kpdf and GPdf both contain Xpdf code. Kpdf is also part of kdegraphics. Description Xpdf, Kpdf and GPdf do not handle a broken table of embedded TrueType fonts correctly. After detecting such a table, Xpdf, Kp...

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...

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: "mozbugra4" and "shutdown" discovered that Thunderbird was improperly cloning base objects MFSA 2005-56. "mozbugra4"...

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...

CVE-2002-1888

CommonName Toolbar 3.5.2.0 is affected. It sends unqualified domain name requests to the CommonName organization and potentially other web servers for name resolution, which can reveal internal server names to those organizations. This describes the root cause as unqualified DNS/name-resolution r...

Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a vulnerability in the Yahoo! file transfer code when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters CAN-2005-1269. Hugo de...

LutelWall: Insecure temporary file creation

Background LutelWall is a high-level Linux firewall configuration tool. Description Eric Romang has discovered that the newversioncheck function in LutelWall insecurely creates a temporary file when updating to a new version. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary fi...

Ettercap: Format string vulnerability

Background Ettercap is a suite of tools for content filtering, sniffing and man in the middle attacks on a LAN. Description The cursesmsg function of Ettercap's Ncurses-based user interface insecurely implements formatted printing. Impact A remote attacker could craft a malicious network flow tha...

Net-SNMP: fixproc insecure temporary file creation

Background Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement the Simple Network Management Protocol. Description The fixproc application of Net-SNMP creates temporary files with predictable filenames. Impact A malicious local attacker could exploit a race condition to change the content of th...

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...

Low: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Updated cdrtools packages

Updated cdrtools packages that fix a possible exploit are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Cdrecord is an application for recording audio and data CDs. Cdrecord works with many different brands of CD recorders, fully supports multi-sessions, and provides human-readable error messages...

libTIFF: Buffer overflow

Background libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF Tag Image File Format images. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag. Impac...

CVE-2005-0205

KPPP 2.1.2 in KDE 3.1.5 and earlier, when setuid root without certain wrappers, does not properly close a privileged file descriptor for a domain socket, which allows local users to read and write to /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and gain control over DNS name resolution by opening a number of...

CVE-2005-0205

KPPP 2.1.2 in KDE 3.1.5 and earlier, when setuid root without certain wrappers, does not properly close a privileged file descriptor for a domain socket, which allows local users to read and write to /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and gain control over DNS name resolution by opening a number of...

eGroupWare: XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities

Background eGroupWare is a suite of web-based group applications including calendar, address book, messenger and email. Description Multiple SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been found in several eGroupWare modules. Impact An attacker could possibly use the SQL injectio...