IBM AIX line printer daemon contains a buffer overflow in kill_print()

Overview The Line Printer daemon lpd shipped with AIX systems contains a buffer overflow in killprint that potentially allow a malicious remote user to gain root privileges. Description A buffer overflow exists in the killprint function of the line printer daemon lpd on AIX systems. An intruder...

Various shells create temporary files insecurely when using << operator

Overview sh uses /tmp files of a predictable name in creating files for input redirection using the operator. Description When performing the "" redirection, /bin/sh creates a temporary file in /tmp with a name based on the process id, writes subsequent input out to that file, and then closes the...

Due to insecure creation of configuration files via KApplication-class, local users can create arbitrary files when running setuid root KDE programs

Overview KApplication-class, a class used to create KDE applications, creates configuration files without checking for proper ownership or prior existence. Description KApplication-class, a class used to create KDE applications, creates configuration files. These files are created in a local...

Cisco IOS vulnerable to DoS via unrecognized transitive attribute in BGP UPDATE

Overview There is a denial-of-service vulnerability in several specific but common configurations of Cisco IOS. Description There is a problem involving BGP updates on Cisco routers with BGP4 Prefix Filtering and Inbound Route Maps enabled. A route update with an unrecognized transitive attribute...

ISC BIND 4 contains buffer overflow in nslookupComplain()

Overview The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS by the Internet Software Consortium ISC. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in BIND 4.9.x, which may allow remote intruders to gain access to systems running BIND. Although BIND 4.9.x is no...

telnet and rlogin URLs disclose sensitive information, including Environment variables

Overview Some telnet clients may disclose sensitive information in environment variables Description Web browsers can be configured to respond to certian protocol types through the use of a helper application. In this case, web browsers can respond to telnet: URLs with the use of a helper...

Retraction of "Calix GS7 XGS GS5239XG residential router contains missing authentication vulnerability"

Overview The Calix GS7 XGS GS5239XG router running firmware EXOS/6.6.47 contains a missing authentication vulnerability that exposes its UPnP Universal Plug and Play WANIPConnection service on the public WAN interface After further analysis of the case alongside the Calix security team, we have...

R Programming Language implementations are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution during deserialization of .rds and .rdx files

Overview A vulnerability in the R language that allows for arbitrary code to be executed directly after the deserialization of untrusted data has been discovered. This vulnerability can be exploited through RDS R Data Serialization format files and .rdx files. An attacker can create malicious RDS...

GPU kernel implementations susceptible to memory leak

Overview General-purpose graphics processing unit GPGPU platforms from AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm fail to adequately isolate process memory, thereby enabling a local attacker to read memory from other processes. An attacker with access to GPU capabilities using a vulnerable GPU's programmable...

Authentication Bypass in Tenda N300 Wireless N VDSL2 Modem Router

Overview An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the N300 Wireless N VDSL2 Modem Router manufactured by Tenda. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated user to access sensitive information. Description CVE-2023-4498 is an authentication bypass vulnerability that enables an...

Portrait Displays SDK applications are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation

Overview Applications developed using the Portrait Display SDK, versions 2.30 through 2.34, default to insecure configurations which allow arbitrary code execution. Description CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions - CVE-2017-3210A number of applications developed using the Portrait Displays SDK...

Chef Manage deserializes cookie data insecurely

Overview Chef Manage add-on, version 1.11.4 and earlier, deserializes cookie data insecurely, which may be leveraged to gain unauthenticated remote code execution. Description CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data - CVE-2016-4326Chef with the Chef Manage previously known as 'opscode-manage'...

QNAP Signage Station and iArtist Lite contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview The QNAP Signage Station prior to version 2.0.1 and the accompanying iArtist Lite application contain multiple vulnerabilities. Description CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type - CVE-2015-6022An authenticated attacker without administrative permissions may upload a...

Hirschmann "Classic Platform" switches reveal administrator password in SNMP community string by default

Overview Hirschmann "Classic Platform" switches contain a password sync feature that syncs the switch administrator password with the SNMP community password, exposing the administrator password to attackers on the local network. Description CWE-257: Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format For...

Medicomp MEDCIN Engine contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Medicomp's MEDCIN Engine provide electronic health records EHR tools and information to medical professionals. MEDCIN Engine versions before version 2.22.20153.226 are vulnerable to several buffer overflows. Description Medicomp MEDCIN Engine prior to version 2.22.20153.226 is vulnerable...

NSIS Inetc plug-in fails to validate SSL certificates

Overview The Intetc plugin for the NSIS installer fails to validate SSL certificates, which makes affected installers vulnerable to HTTPS spoofing. Description Inetc is a plugin for the NSIS installer software that provides the ability to download files from the internet. Although Inetc supports...

Intel BIOS locking mechanism contains race condition that enables write protection bypass

Overview A race condition exists in Intel chipsets that rely solely on the BIOSCNTL.BIOSWE and BIOSCNTL.BLE bits as a BIOS write locking mechanism. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in a bypass of this locking mechanism. Description CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Share...

Zenoss Core contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview The Zenoss Core application, server, and network management platform software contains multiple vulnerabilities, the most severe of which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description The Zenoss Core application, server, and network management platform software...

Cryoserver Security Appliance vulnerable to privilege escalation

Overview Cryoserver Security Appliance 7.3.x vulnerable to privilege escalation Description CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls Cryoserver Security Appliance 7.3.x does not properly assign permission to the /etc/init.d/cryoserver shell script and allows the default support accou...

Cobham Aviator satellite terminals contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Cobham Aviator 700D and 700E satellite terminals contain multiple vulnerabilities. Description Cobham Aviator 700D and 700E satellite communication terminals contain the following vulnerabilities:CWE-327:Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm - CVE-2014-2942 Please note that th...

Belkin Wemo Home Automation devices contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Belkin Wemo Home Automation devices contain multiple vulnerabilities. Description CWE-321: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key -CVE-2013-6952 Belkin Wemo Home Automation firmware contains a hard-coded cryptographic key and password. An attacker may be able to extract the key and password...

BlogEngine.net information disclosure vulnerability

Overview BlogEngine.net 2.8.0.0 and earlier versions contain an information disclosure vulnerability which could allow an attacker to gain access to credentials. Description CWE-200: Information ExposureBlogEngine.net 2.8.0.0 and earlier contain an information disclosure vulnerability which could...

Openbravo ERP contains an information disclosure vulnerability

Overview Openbravo ERP 2.5, 3, and possibly earlier versions contain an information disclosure vulnerability CWE-200. Description CWE-200: Information Exposure Openbravo ERP version 2.5 and version 3 contain an information disclosure vulnerability. This is due to the expanded use of XML External...

Joomla! Media Manager allows arbitrary file upload and execution

Overview An authenticated attacker may be able to upload active content to websites running older versions of Joomla. Description CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type A vulnerability has been discovered in older versions of the Joomla! content management software that allow an...

Amazon Kindle Touch libkindleplugin scriptable browser plugin vulnerability

Overview Kindle Touch 5.1.0 contains a scriptable browser plugin which can be invoked by accessing a malicious web page. Description It has been reported that Kindle Touch 5.1.0 has introduced a NPAPI plugin /usr/lib/libkindleplugin.so symlinked to /usrl/lib/browser/plugins/libkindleplugin.so tha...

dotCMS template permissions allow arbitrary code execution

Overview The dotCMS content management system version 1.9 and possibly earlier versions, contains a vulnerability that allows users with the appropriate permissions to create a malicious template with arbitrary code. Description An authenticated dotCMS user with the permissions required to author...

Microsoft Internet Explorer iepeers.dll use-after-free vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the iepeers.dll file, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Internet Explorer provides support for Web Folders and printing through the use of the...

ISC DHCP dhclient stack buffer overflow

Overview The ISC DHCP dhclient application contains a stack buffer overflow, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Description As described in RFC 2131, "The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP provides a framework for passing...

Adobe Reader and Acrobat customDictionaryOpen() and getAnnots() JavaScript vulnerabilities

Overview Adobe Reader and Acrobat contain vulnerabilities in the customDictionaryOpen and getAnnots JavaScript methods. Description Adobe Reader and the Adobe Acrobat family of software is designed to create, view, and edit Portable Document Format PDF files. Adobe Reader is widely deployed, and...

Apache mod_proxy_ftp XSS vulnerability

Overview The Apache web server modproxyftp module contains a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability. Description The Apache modproxyftp module allows the Apache web server to act as a proxy for FTP sites. Filename globbing is the process of using wildcards to match filenames. The modproxyftp modu...

Mozilla browsers fail to properly handle images

Overview A vulnerability exists in Mozilla products that may allow a remote attacker to view browser history or cause a denial of service. Description Mozilla products contain a vulnerability in the browser engine that may result in information disclosure or a denial of service when handling...

Liferay Portal Admin portlet Shutdown message XSS

Overview Liferay Portal Admin portlet fails to properly validate input to the shutdown message, which can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to inject script into the message displayed to all users when the server is being shut down. Description Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution...

MIT Kerberos kadmind RPC library gssrpc__svcauth_unix() integer conversion error

Overview The MIT Kerberos administration daemon kadmind contains an integer conversion error vulnerability, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description The gssrpcsvcauthunix function used by the Kerberos administration...

Apple Mac OS X ImageIO memory corruption vulnerability

Overview Apple's ImageIO framework contains an memory corruption vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. Description The RAW Image file format is a popular image format supported by many Apple Mac OS X applications. The ImageIO framework allows application...

Microsoft MFC component vulnerable to remote code execution via malformed embedded OLE object

Overview A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the MFC component that is provided with Microsoft Windows and Visual Studio Description The Microsoft Foundation Class Library MFC, is a Microsoft library that wraps parts of the Windows API in C++ classes. MFC is included in Microsoft Visual...

Citrix Access Gateway LDAP authentication bypass

Overview An error with LDAP authentication in Citrix Access Gateway appliances may allow an attacker to successfully authenticate without providing correct login credentials. Description Citrix Access Gateway appliances use SSL VPN technology to give remote users secure access shared resources...

Cisco IOS fails to properly handle summary packets in the VLAN Trunking Protocol

Overview Cisco IOS fails to properly handle summary packets in the VLAN Trunking Protocol. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Cisco's VLAN Trunking Protocol VTP provides the ability to manage the addition, deletion,...

Microsoft Office fails to properly handle malformed strings

Overview Microsoft Office fails to properly handle specially crafted strings. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Office applications fail to properly validate strings. When an Office document containing malformed string is opened with...

Sendmail fails to handle malformed multipart MIME messages

Overview Sendmail does not properly handle malformed multipart MIME messages. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Sendmail Sendmail is a widely used mail transfer agent MTA. Mail Transfer Agents MTA MTAs are responsib...

Microsoft Windows privilege escalation vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Windows access controls may be improperly configured potentially allowing a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Windows provides numerous, fine grained permissions and privileges to control access to Windows components, such ...

Apple Mac OS X ImageIO fails to properly handle corrupt GIF files

Overview The Apple Mac OS X ImageIO framework contains a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Apple ImageIO is an image processing framework that was introduced in OS X 10.4 Tiger. ImageIO is used by several applications, including WebCore and...

Microsoft Windows Kernel Vulnerability

Overview A privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows' kernel processes certain access requests. This vulnerability could allow a logged on user to take complete control of the system. Description A locally authenticated user could potentially exploit a vulnerability in...

Konqueror fails to restrict access to Java classes

Overview The Konqueror web browser may allow Java applets and JavaScripts to bypass the Java security settings and access restricted Java classes. Exploitation may allow a remote attacker to read and write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. Description Konqueror is a web browser and file...

GdkPixbuf XPM parser contains a heap overflow vulnerability

Overview A heap overflow vulnerability exists in the XPM handling of GdkPixbuf. This vulnerability can lead to a denial-of-service condition or execution of arbitrary code. Description GdkPixbuf is a library used by GTK+ 2 for loading and rendering images. GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for...

MIT Kerberos 5 ASN.1 decoding function asn1buf_skiptail() does not properly terminate loop

Overview The asn1bufskiptail function in the MIT Kerberos 5 library does not properly terminate a loop, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service in a Kerberos Distribution Center KDC, application server, or Kerberos client. Description As described on the MIT...

Microsoft Windows contains a buffer overflow in the POSIX subsystem

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX POSIX subsystem for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. This vulnerability may be exploited by a local authenticated user to gain full system privileges. Description Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000...

OpenSSL does not adequately validate length of Kerberos ticket during SSL/TLS handshake

Overview OpenSSL contains a vulnerability in code that processes SSL/TLS handshakes when configured to use the Kerberos cipher suites. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause OpenSSL to crash. Description OpenSSL implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL and Transport Layer Securi...

Libxml2 URI parsing errors in nanohttp and nanoftp

Overview Libxml is the XML parser for Gnome, a desktop suite and development platform for Linux systems. Libxml2, the latest version of the library as of this writing, has a buffer overflow vulnerability which may allow execution of arbitrary code. Description Gnome, a desktop suite and developme...

metamail contains multiple format string vulnerabilities

Overview Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the metamail package could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. An attacker may be able to exploit these vulnerabilities via a specially-crafted email message. Description The metamail package is one of the...

Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions contains buffer overflow in remote debugging functionality

Overview Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions contains a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with local system privileges. Description Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions FPSE is an optional set of tools that adds functionality to a web site. This functionality...