ThreatMetrix SDK for iOS fails to validate SSL certificates

Overview On the iOS platform, the ThreatMetrix SDK versions prior to 3.2 fail to validate SSL certificates provided by HTTPS connections, which may allow an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle MITM attack. Description ThreatMetrix is a security library for mobile applications, which aims to...

libarchive contains a heap-based buffer overflow due to improper input validation

Overview An attacker may be able to coerce a user into executing arbitrary code in the context of the current user by attempting to unzip a crafted zip file provided by the attacker. Description CWE-20: Improper Input Validation - CVE-2016-1541A crafted zip file can provide an incorrect compresse...

Samsung Galaxy S phones fail to properly validate SwiftKey language pack updates

Overview Samsung Galaxy S phones, including the S4 Mini, S4, S5, and S6, fail to properly validate Swiftkey language pack updates. Description CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity - CVE-2015-4640Samsung Galaxy S phones, including the S4 Mini, S4, S5, and S6, are pre-installed...

D-Link DCS-93xL model family allows unrestricted upload

Overview The D-Link DCS-93xL family of devices specifically the DCS-930L, DCS-931L, DCS-932L, and DCS-933L models allows an attacker to upload arbitrary files from the attackers system. Description CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type The D-Link DCS-93xL family of devices allo...

Enspire eClient SQL injection allows authentication bypass

Overview Enspire eClient contains a SQL injection vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and access the system with administrative privileges. Description The Enspire software suite includes an eClient web front-end which is susceptible to SQL injection attacks. This...

Multiple MIT KRB5 KDC daemon vulnerabilities

Overview MIT's KRB5 KDC version 1.8 and 1.9 contain multiple vulnerabilities. Description The MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2011-006 states:CVE-2011-1527: In releases krb5-1.9 and later, the KDC can crash due to a null pointer dereference if configured to use the LDAP back end. A trigger condition i...

Windows font library file buffer overflow

Overview Microsoft Windows contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of font library files, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Description Microsoft Windows supports a variety of font formats. One of which is the fon...

Ghostscript Heap Corruption in TrueType bytecode interpreter

Overview The TrueType bytecode interpreter which is a part of Ghostscript is prone to heap corruption. Description Ghostscript includes a TrueType bytecode interpreter which is prone to an off by one bug which causes heap corruption. Further details can be found in the Ghostscript Bug 691044,...

Xpdf and poppler contain multiple vulnerabilities in the processing of JBIG2 data

Overview Xpdf and poppler contain multiple vulnerabilities, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. Several PDF viewing applications and libraries, such a...

Microsoft SQL Server fails to properly validate parameters to the sp_replwritetovarbin extended stored procedure

Overview A vulnerability in the Microsoft SQL Server spreplwritetovarbin extended stored procedure could allow an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected server. Description Some versions of Microsoft SQL Server contain a vulnerability in the spreplwritetovarbin stored...

NetBSD malformed ICMPv6 MLD-QUERY denial of service

Overview NetBSD fails to properly handle ICMPv6 MLD query packets, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service. Description ICMPv6, which is defined in RFC 4443, is a version of the ICMP protocol for IPv6. Multicast Listener Discovery MLD for IPv6, which is...

Wonderware SuiteLink null pointer dereference

Overview A vulnerability in the way Wonderware SuiteLink handles malformed TCP packets could result in a denial of service. Description Wonderware SuiteLink is a protocol based on TCP/IP that runs as a service listening for connections on port 5413/tcp on Microsoft Windows operating systems. A...

Mortbay Jetty Dump Servlet vulnerable to cross-site scripting

Overview The Mortbay Jetty Dump Servlet contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Description Mortbay Jetty is a web server that is written in Java. The Dump Servlet that is included with Jetty is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Note that according to the vendor, the Dump Servlet is for...

Oracle JInitiator ActiveX control stack buffer overflows

Overview The Oracle JInitiator ActiveX control contains multiple stack buffer overflows, which could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Oracle JInitiator allows users to run Oracle Developer Server applications within a web...

MIT Kerberos kadmind RPC library gssrpc__svcauth_gssapi() uninitialized pointer free vulnerability

Overview The MIT Kerberos administration daemon kadmind can free an uninitialized pointer, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description The gssrpcsvcauthgssapi function used by the Kerberos administration daemon can free an...

Microsoft Office drawing object vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Office fails to properly handle malformed drawing objects. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Office fails to properly handle malformed drawing objects embedded within Office documents. By convincing ...

MIT Kerberos 5 telnet daemon allows login as arbitrary user

Overview A vulnerability exists in the version of the telnet daemon included with the MIT Kerberos 5 distribution that may allow a remote, unauthorized attacker to log on to the system with elevated privileges. Description A vulnerability exists version of the telnet daemon included with the MIT...

MIT Kerberos 5 administration daemon stack overflow in krb5_klog_syslog()

Overview The Kerberos administration daemon contains a buffer overflow that may allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description A vulnerability exists in the way the krb5klogsyslog function used by the Kerberos administration daemon handl...

Mozilla Firefox SVG viewer vulnerable to integer overflow

Overview The Mozilla SVG viewer contains an integer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, or create a denial-of-service condition. Description Scalable Vector Graphics SVG is an XML markup language for describing and displaying animated or...

Sun Java JRE vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via an unspecified error

Overview A vulnerability in the Sun Java Runtime Environment may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE allows users to run Java applications in a browser or as standalone programs. Sun has made the JRE available for...

gzip contains a .bss buffer overflow in its LZH handling

Overview The gzip program contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or create a denial-of-service condition. Description The gzip program is used to compress and decompress archived files. Some implementations of gzip include support for the LZH...

BIND vulnerable to an assertion failure when querying for SIG records

Overview A vulnerability in the BIND name server could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service against an affected system. Description The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is a popular Domain Name System DNS implementation from Internet Systems Consortium ISC. A flaw exists in the...

Barracuda Spam Firewall contains hardcoded default login credentials

Overview Barracuda Spam Firewalls from version 3.3.01.001 to 3.3.02.053 have default login credentials that can not be modified by an administrator. Description Barracuda Spam Firewall appliances provide ingress and egress spam filtering for local area networks. An administrator will typically lo...

Xsan Filesystem fails to properly process path names

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability in Apple's Xsan product may allow a local attacker to run arbitrary code with root privileges or create a denial-of-service condition. Description Xsan FilesystemXsan is a Storage Area Network SAN filesystem designed for use by Apple OS X and OS X Server...

Mozilla products VCard attachment buffer overflow

Overview Mozilla products fail to properly handle malformed VCard attachments, which allows a buffer overflow to occur. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description According to Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-49:A VCard...

OpenOffice.org may fail to recognize embedded Basic macros

Overview The OpenOffice.org team has reported a vulnerability in how the 1.1 and 2.0 versions of OpenOffice.org process basic macros. Description A vulnerability in OpenOffice.org may allow an attacker to inject basic code into documents such that the code will be executed when the document is...

Microsoft Server Service may disclose information used to store SMB traffic

Overview A vulnerability in the Microsoft Server service may allow an attacker to view fragments of memory used to store SMB traffic. Description Microsoft Server Service The Microsoft Server service supports file, print, and named-pipe sharing over the network. Server Message Block Server Messag...

Mozilla products vulnerable to memory corruption via large regular expression in JavaScript

Overview A vulnerability in the way the JavaScript engine of Mozilla products and derivative programs handles a large regular expression could allow a remote attacker to crash the application or execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description A regular expression is a special text stri...

RDS.Dataspace ActiveX control bypasses ActiveX security model

Overview The Microsoft RDS.Dataspace ActiveX control bypasses the ActiveX security model, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description ActiveX ActiveX is a technology that allows programmers to create reusable software components...

Microsoft Windows help viewer vulnerable to heap overflow

Overview A vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows help viewer application that could allow a remote attacker to execute code of their choosing on a vulnerable system. Description The Microsoft Windows help viewer winhlp32.exe provides application assistance to users through a special type ...

Mozilla Firefox fails to properly perform security checks on "_search" target

Overview A vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox may allow a remote attacker to install malicious code on or read protected information from a vulnerable system. Description The Firefox web browser features the ability to open a hyperlink in the "search" web panel. Firefox fails to perform adequate...

Multiple Telnet clients fail to properly handle the "LINEMODE" SLC suboption

Overview Multiple Telnet clients contain a data length validation flaw which may allow a server to induce arbitrary code execution on the client host. Description The Telnet network protocol is described in RFC854 and RFC855 as a general, bi-directional communications facility. The Telnet protoco...

Microsoft Windows kernel vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition via animated cursor (.ani) frame number

Overview A vulnerability exists in the way the Microsoft Window's kernel processes animated cursor .ani files with a frame number set to zero. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description A vulnerability exists in the way the...

BlackJumboDog contains buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview BlackJumboDog fails to verify the length of several FTP commands, creating a buffer overflow vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability may result in code execution on the target system with privileges of the FTP service. Description BlackJumboDog is a multi-function server for...

Internet Security Systems Protocol Analysis Module (PAM) does not properly handle ICQ server response messages

Overview The Protocol Analysis Module PAM used by Internet Security Systems ISS intrusion detection and prevention products does not properly handle ICQ server response messages. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted UDP packet. Descriptio...

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...

Cisco ACNS contains buffer overflow vulnerability in the authentication module when supplied an overly long password

Overview Cisco Application and Content Networking Software ACNS contains a buffer overflow that may enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected device. Description Cisco ACNS Software "...combines demand-pull caching and pre-positioning for accelerated delivery of web application...

Microsoft contains a buffer overflow in the Local Troubleshooter ActiveX control (Tshoot.ocx)

Overview Microsoft Windows ships with a troubleshooting application to assist users with problems. A vulnerability in this application may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user. Description Microsoft Windows 2000 ships with an ActiveX control...

Microsoft Windows kernel contains stack overflow

Overview A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows kernel. Description The kernel is the core or "heart" of any operating system and is responsible for a variety of things, such as managing memory and allocating hardware resources. Entercept's Ricochet Team has discovered a...

MySQL allows default user to be changed to root via custom "my.cnf" file

Overview MySQL reads configuration options from world-writeable files. This can lead to a remote user gaining elevated privileges. Description A message posted to the bugtraq mailing list details a vulnerability affecting versions of MySQL prior to 3.23.56. MySQL would permit users with 'FILE'...

Cached malformed SIG record buffer overflow

Overview A vulnerability in BIND allows remote attackers to execute code with the privileges of the process running named. This vulnerability is resolved in BIND versions 4.9.11, 8.2.7, 8.3.4, and BIND 9. Description A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in named. An attacker using...

Microsoft SQL Server contains buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple extended stored procedures

Overview Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 contain buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple extended stored procedures. A remote attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code or commands with the privileges of the SQL Server process, potentially gaining complete...

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contains stack buffer overflow in SQL Server Resolution Service

Overview Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contains a remotely exploitable stack buffer overflow that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the SQL server. Description The SQL Server Resolution Service SSRS was introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to provide referral...

Microsoft SQL Server contains buffer overflow in pwdencrypt() function

Overview The Microsoft SQL Server contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with system privileges. Description The Microsoft SQL Server provides multiple methods for users to authenticate to SQL databases. When SQL Server Authentication is...

Multiple vendors' Domain Name System (DNS) stub resolvers vulnerable to buffer overflows

Overview Buffer overflow vulnerabilities exists in the DNS stub resolver library used by BSD, ISC BIND, and GNU glibc. Other systems that use DNS resolver code derived from ISC BIND may also be affected. An attacker who is able to control DNS responses could exploit arbitrary code or cause a deni...

Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0 buffer overflow in chunked encoding transfer mechanism for ASP

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability in IIS 4.0 and 5.0 could allow an intruder to execute arbitrary code on an IIS server with the privileges of the ASP ISAPI extension. Description Chunked encoding is a means to transfer variable-sized units of data called chunks from a web client to a web...

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Windows Shell

Overview A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Microsoft Windows Shell. Description There is a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Windows Shell. The Shell provides the basic human-computer interface for Windows systems. Quoting from Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-014:The Windows...

HP-UX kernel specifies incorrect arguments for setrlimit()

Overview A problem exists in some versions of the HP-UX kernel allowing an intruder to cause kernel panics. Description Certain versions of HP-UX setrlimit system call contain a vulnerability that permits an intruder to cause kernel panics or compromise the system. Quoting from HP Security Bullet...

Multiple vendor telnet daemons vulnerable to buffer overflow via crafted protocol options

Overview The telnetd program is a server for the telnet remote virtual terminal protocol. There is a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in telnet daemons derived from BSD source code. This vulnerability can crash the server, or be leveraged to gain root access. Description There is a remotely...

The Oracle Internet Directory LDAP (oidldapd) contains buffer overflow

Overview Oracle Internet Directory version 2.0.6, which ships with Oracle version 8i for Linux 8.1.6, contains a program, oidldapd, that is an LDAP Daemon. There is a buffer overflow in the LDAP Daemon that allows a local user to obtain the euid of the oidldapd process, typically user oracle...