Microsoft .NET Framework contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability

Overview The Microsoft .NET Framework contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability that may allow an attacker to read or modify data in web pages and cookies. Description The Microsoft .NET Framework is a managed code programming model for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Microsoft ASP.NET i...

SISCO OSI stack fails to properly validate packets

Overview A vulnerability exists in the SISCO OSI stack for Windows. If successfully exploited, an attacker could cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Inter-control Center Communications Protocol ICCP The Inter-control Center Communications Protocol ICCP is a protocol that is used to...

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...

BlackBerry Enterprise Server fails to properly handle Microsoft Word attachments

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability in BlackBerry Enterprise Server may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This vulnerability may allow a remote...

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 JavaScript security bypass vulnerability

Overview Mozilla products fail to properly enforce security restrictions in JavaScript. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description According to Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-28:The security check in jsValueToFunctionObject ca...

Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange() vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer IE fails to properly handle the createTextRange DHTML method, possibly allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description DHTML, TextRanges, and the createTextRange Method According to Microsoft:Dynamic HTML DHTML is built on an...

Microsoft PowerPoint may disclose information in the Temporary Internet Files Folder

Overview Microsoft PowerPoint contains an information disclosure vulnerability. As a result, sensitive information may be exposed to untrusted parties. Description Microsoft PowerPoint fails to properly restrict access to objects in the Temporary Internet Files Folder TIFF. This vulnerability is...

Ruby library contains vulnerable default value

Overview Ruby includes a vulnerable default value that may be used to bypass security restrictions and execute arbitrary code. Description Ruby is vulnerable to an attack on applications using the XML-RPC services via XMLRPC.iPIMethods, due to an insecure default value in utils.rb. Any program or...

Multiple X servers fail to properly allocate memory for large pixmaps

Overview Multiple X Window System servers contain a pixmap memory allocation flaw that may allow local users to execute code with elevated privileges. Description Multiple X Window System server applications share code that may contain a flaw in the memory allocation for large pixmaps. The affect...

Apple Safari fails to perform security checks on links in rich text content

Overview Apple Safari fails to perform security checks on hyperlinks in rich text content, which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system. Description Mac OS X includes the Safari web browser, which can display rich text RTF files directly. When Safari opens a ri...

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 ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Content Advisor contains a buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer Content Advisor may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Content Advisor is used to control what content is viewable in Internet Explorer. A buffer overflow exists in the routines that...

Cisco ACNS RealServer RealSubscruber vulnerable to DoS via malformed IP packets

Overview A vulnerability in Cisco ACNS RealServer RealSubscriber may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on an affected device via malformed IP packets. Description Cisco Application and Content Networking System ACNS is an integrated caching and content-delivery platform. ACNS 5...

nfs-utils vulnerable to buffer overflow in "getquotainfo()" in "rquota_server.c"

Overview A vulnerability in nfs-utils could permit an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service. Description The NFS protocol provides remote access to shared files accross networks. The nfs-utils package provides an NFS client and server for Linux systems...

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...

Microsoft Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) contains a buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow in the WINS service may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. Description The Microsoft WINS service maps IP addresses to NETBIOS computer names.The WINS protocol contains a vulnerability that may allow a remote attack...

Samba QFILEPATHINFO handling routine contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow

Overview Samba is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Description Samba is a widely used open-source implementation of Server Message Block SMB/Common Internet File System CIFS. A lack of bounds checking in the...

Apache HTTP Server contains a buffer overflow in the mod_proxy module

Overview Apache Web Server contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the modproxy module that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or launch a denial of service DoS attack. Description The Apache Server is an open-source web server offered by The Apache Software Foundation. The...

Gaim contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the gaim_quotedp_decode() function

Overview There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Gaim gaimquotedpdecode function, which could cause a pointer to reference memory beyond the terminating null byte. Description Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messenger available for a number of operating systems. It includes a feature tha...

Apple Mac OS X "cd9660.util" buffer overflow

Overview A component utility in Apple's Mac OS X operating system suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability in its handling of command-line arguments. This vulnerability could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the vulnerable system. Description Apple's Mac OS X operating...

Apple Mac OS X Point-to-Point Protocol daemon (pppd) contains format string vulnerability

Overview Apple Mac OS X Point-to-Point Protocol daemon contains a format string vulnerability in the handling of invalid command line arguments. Description The Point-to-Point Protocol PPP provides a method for transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links. There is a format string...

HTTP Parsing Vulnerabilities in Check Point Firewall-1

Overview Several versions of Check Point Firewall-1 contain a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. Description The HTTP Security Servers component of Check Point Firewall-1 contains an HTTP parsing vulnerability that is triggered by...

Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions contains denial of service vulnerability in the SmartHTML interpreter

Overview The Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions contains a vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to conduct denial of service attacks. Description Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions FPSE is an optional set of tools that adds functionality to a web site. This functionali...

Novell NetWare Enterprise Web Server /perl/ handler vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview Novell NetWare Enterprise Web Server contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be exploited via the /perl/ HTTP request handler. A remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the server process. Description Novell...

MIT Kerberos vulnerable to ticket splicing when using Kerberos4 triple DES service tickets

Overview Several cryptographic vulnerabilities exist in the basic Kerberos version 4 protocol that could allow an attacker to impersonate any user in a Kerberos realm and gain any privilege authorized through that Kerberos realm. Description The MIT Kerberos Development 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'...

Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) uses weak algorithm for encrypting packets

Overview Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol RDP uses a weak algorithm for encrypting packets. Description Microsoft describes RDP as follows.RDP is based on, and is an extension of, the T.120 protocol family standards. It is a multichannel-capable protocol that allows for separate virtual...

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...

Buffer overflow in Windows Multiple UNC Provider (MUP) service

Overview A buffer overflow in the Microsoft Windows Multiple UNC Provider MUP could allow a local user to execute code with system privileges. Description Microsoft Windows recognizes resources identified by the Uniform Naming Convention UNC. Requests for resources identified by UNC references ar...

Apache web servers fail to handle chunks with a negative size

Overview There is a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the way that Apache web servers or other web servers based on their source code handle data encoded in chunks. This vulnerability is present by default in configurations of Apache web server versions 1.2.2 and above, 1.3 through 1.3.24, an...

Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) contains remote buffer overflow in chunked encoding data transfer mechanism for HTR

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 HTR ISAPI extension. Description Chunked encoding is a means to transfer variable-sized units of data called chunks from a web client to a web...

Oracle9iAS Web Cache vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview A remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the Oracle9iAS Web Cache allows intruders to execute arbitrary code or cause the web cache process to hang or exit. Description Defcom Labs has discovered a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in the Oracle9iAS Web Cache on all...

Apache web server performs case sensitive filtering on Mac OS X HFS+ case insensitive filesystem

Overview The Apache 1.3.14 web server's file access protection scheme can be bypassed for the Mac OS X HFS+ filesystem. Description The Apache web server's file access protection scheme i.e., file request "filtering" assumes that the filesystem being protected is case sensitve. For example, in a...

Linux kernel contains race condition via ptrace/procfs/execve

Overview Unprivileged local users can use the ptrace function to take advantage of a privileged program, while that program is performing a privileged operation, to gain privileged access. Description Ptrace is a function, which is often used for debugging, that allows one process to attach to...

statd bounce vulnerability

Overview statd allows access to RPC services it shouldn't. Description Background rpc.statd and rpc.lockd are designed to work in conjunction with each other to manage NFS lock information in the event of a crash of an NFS client or server. The rpc service rpc.statd is a program designed to...

Howyar Reloader UEFI bootloader vulnerable to unsigned software execution

Overview The Howyar UEFI Application "Reloader" 32-bit and 64-bit, distributed as part of SysReturn prior to version 10.2.02320240919, is vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary software from a hard-coded path. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can bypass the UEFI Secure...

Insecure Platform Key (PK) used in UEFI system firmware signature

Overview A vulnerability in the user of hard-coded Platform Keys PK within the UEFI framework, known as PKfail, has been discovered. This flaw allows attackers to bypass critical UEFI security mechanisms like Secure Boot, compromising the trust between the platform owner and firmware and enabling...

Sungard eTRAKiT3 may be vulnerable to SQL injection

Overview According to the reporter, the Sungard eTRAKiT3 software version 3.2.1.17 may be vulnerable to SQL injection which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to run a subset of SQL commands against the back-end database. Description CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements us...

Flexera Software FlexNet Publisher lmgrd contains a buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview Flexera Software FlexNet Publisher, including all versions prior to 11.13.1.2, lmgrd and custom vendor daemon servers contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that may be leveraged to gain code execution. Description Flexera Software FlexNet Publisher is a software license manager that...

Retrospect Backup Client uses weak password hashing

Overview Retrospect Backup Client is a client to a network-based backup utility. This client stores passwords in a hashed format that is weak and susceptible to collision, allowing an attacker to generate a password hash collision and gain access to the target's backup files. Description CWE-916:...

Tianocore UEFI implementation reclaim function vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview The reclaim function in the Tianocore open source implementation of UEFI contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. Description The open source Tianocore project provides a reference implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI. Some commercial UEFI implementations...

AVG Safeguard and Secure Search ActiveX controls provides insecure methods

Overview The AVG Secure Search toolbar, also known as AVG Safeguard includes an ActiveX control that provides a number of unsafe methods, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. Description AVG Secure Search is a toolbar add-on...

SpamTitan contains a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Overview SpamTitan contains a reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability. Description CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting'SpamTitan contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the auth-settings-x.php page of the management...

Atmail Webmail Server version 7.1.3 contains cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities

Overview Atmail Webmail Server version 7.1.3 and possibly earlier versions contain stored cross-site scripting XSS CWE-79 and cross-site request forgery CSRF CWE-352 vulnerabilities. Description CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' -...

BigAnt IM Message server and components contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview BigAnt IM Message server and components contain multiple vulnerabilities which could allow an attacker to perform administrative functions on the the system Description CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command 'SQL Injection' - CVE-2012-6273During the SH...

Symantec Web Gateway contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview The Symantec Web Gateway management console is vulnerable to remote command execution, local file inclusion, arbitrary password changes, and SQL injection. Description The Symantec SYM12-011 advisory states:"Symantec's Web Gateway management console is susceptible to multiple security...

Power2Go buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview Power2Go 8 contains a buffer overflow in the handling of project .p2g files, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description According to CyberLink's website, "Power2Go 8 features all the tools you need to easily copy all...

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...