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...

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...

Microsoft Word contains a buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Word contains a vulnerability that may result in the execution of code on the system with the privileges of the current user. Description Microsoft Word contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may be exploited by opening a maliciously-crafted word document. Successful...

phpMyAdmin: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description Oriol Torrent Santiago has discovered that phpMyAdmin fails to validate input to the "convcharset" variable, rendering it vulnerable to cross-site scripting...

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...

Xzabite dyndnsupdate: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background dyndnsupdate is a dyndns.org data updater written by Fredrik "xzabite" Haglund. Description Toby Dickenson discovered that dyndnsupdate suffers from multiple overflows. Impact A remote attacker, posing as a dyndns.org server, could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user...

LTris: Buffer overflow

Background LTris is a Tetris clone. Description LTris is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when reading the global highscores file. Impact By modifying the global highscores file a malicious user could trick another user to execute arbitrary code. Workaround There is no known workaround at this tim...

security flaw

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...

USN-89-1: XML library vulnerabilities

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in libxml's FTP connection and DNS resolution functions. Supplying very long FTP URLs or IP addresses might result in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process using libxml. This does not affect the core XML parsing code, which is...

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...

iDEFENSE Security Advisory 02.28.05: KPPP Privileged File Descriptor Leak Vulnerability

KPPP Privileged File Descriptor Leak Vulnerability iDEFENSE Security Advisory 02.28.05 www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=208&type=vulnerabilities February 28, 2005 I. BACKGROUND KPPP is a dialer and front end for pppd. It allows for interactive script generation and network setup. More...

OpenMotif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm

Background OpenMotif provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows, out of bounds memory access or directory traversals, have been discovered in libXpm that is shipped as a part of the X Window System see...

FireHOL: Insecure temporary file creation

Background FireHOL is an iptables rules generator. Description FireHOL insecurely creates temporary files with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create malicious symbolic links to arbitrary system files. When FireHOL is executed, this could lead to these files being overwritten wit...

Gallery: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on other servers. Description Rafel Ivgi has discovered a cross-site scripting...

Perl: rmtree and DBI tmpfile vulnerabilities

Background Perl is a cross platform programming language. The DBI is the standard database interface module for Perl. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the DBI library creates temporary files in an insecure, predictable way CAN-2005-0077. Paul Szabo found out that...

Exim buffer overflows

Buffer overflows on SPA-authentications and IPv6 names resolution...

RHEL 3 : xpdf (RHSA-2005:018)

Updated Xpdf packages that fix several security issues are now available. Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Gfx::doImage function of Xpdf. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could caus...

Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird: Various vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla is a popular web browser that includes a mail and newsreader. Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are respectively the next-generation browser and mail client from the Mozilla project. Description Maurycy Prodeus from isec.pl found a potentially exploitable buffer overflow ...

Fcron: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Fcron is a command scheduler with extended capabilities over cron and anacron. Description Due to design errors in the fcronsighup program, Fcron may allow a local user to bypass access restrictions CAN-2004-1031, view the contents of root owned files CAN-2004-1030, remove arbitrary...

USN-10-1: XML library vulnerabilities

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in libxml2's FTP connection and DNS resolution functions. Supplying very long FTP URLs or IP addresses might result in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process using libxml2. Since libxml2 is used in packages like php4-imagick, t...