Erlang/OTP SSH library uses a weak random number generator

Overview The Erlang/OTP SSH library's random number generator is not cryptographically strong because it relies on predictable seed material. Description Geoff Cant's report states:The Erlang/OTP ssh library implements a number of cryptographic operations that depend on cryptographically strong...

Adobe Flash 10.1 ActionScript AVM1 ActionPush vulnerability

Overview Adobe Flash contains a vulnerability in the handling of the ActionScript, AVM1 ActionPush command, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Adobe Flash supports two main types of ActionScript, which is the scripting language for Flash...

HP Online Support Services ActiveX GetFileTime() buffer overflow

Overview HP Online Support Services contains the function GetFileTime, which can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description HP Services provides online product support services including ...

OpenSSL TLS handshake Denial of Service

Overview A vulnerability exists in OpenSSL that may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Description OpenSSL contains a vulnerability in the way specially crafted TLS handshake packets are handled that may result in a denial of service. According to OpenSSL Security Advisory...

Apple Safari fails to properly handle a file name

Overview A vulnerabilty in Apple Safari handles specially crafted file name may allow execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. Description According to Apple Safari 3.1.1:A memory corruption issue exists in Safari's file downloading. By enticing a user to download a file with a malicious...

MIT Kerberos contains array overrun in RPC library used by kadmind

Overview Vulnerabilities in the MIT Kerberos libgssrpc library may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. Description The MIT krb5 Kerberos implementation includes a GSS RPC library used in the Kerberos administration server kadmind. Two flaws exist ...

Microsoft Windows Vista Contacts Gadget vulnerability

Overview The Windows Vista Contacts gadget contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute code. Description From Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-048:Gadgets are mini-applications designed to provide the user with information or utilities. Windows Vista treats gadgets similar to t...

Microsoft XML Core Services XMLDOM substringData() buffer overflow

Overview Microsoft XML Core Services contains an unspecified memory corruption vulnerability, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft XML Core Services MSXML allow developers who use JScript, Visual Basic Scripting...

MIT Kerberos kadmind principal renaming stack buffer overflow

Overview The MIT Kerberos administration daemon kadmind contains a stack 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 principal renaming operation used by the Kerberos...

Sun Java System Web Proxy Server fails to properly process malformed packets

Overview A vulnerability in the way Sun Java System Web Proxy Server processes malformed packets may allow execution of arbitrary code. Description SOCKS is a network protocol that provides a framework that allows client-server applications to securely use network firewall services. A vulnerabili...

Akamai Download Manager ActiveX control buffer overflow

Overview The Akamai Download Manager ActiveX control contains a buffer overflow, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Akamai Download Manager is software designed to enhance the ability to download content. The Akamai...

NETxAutomation NETxEIB OPC Server fails to properly validate OPC server handles

Overview The NETxAutomation NETxEIB OPC Server contains a vulnerability that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitary code or cause a denial-of-service. Description OLE for Process Control OPC is a specification for a standard set of OLE COM objects for use in the process control and...

Apple QuickTime UDTA atom integer overflow

Overview Apple QuickTime contains an integer overflow in handling UDTA atoms, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Apple QuickTime User Data UDTA Atoms allow a user to "... define and store data associated with a QuickTim...

Microsoft HTML Help ActiveX control fails to properly validate input

Overview The Microsoft HTML Help ActiveX control fails to properly validate input, which could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The HTML Help Control HHCtrl Object is a Windows ActiveX control that provides the ability to view...

Apple Mac OS X ftpd may allow arbitrary users to determine account name validity

Overview Apple Mac OS X ftpd may allow arbitrary users to determine account name validity. This vulnerability may reveal protected information or allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description According to Apple Security Update 2006-007:When attempting to authenticate a val...

Microsoft Internet Explorer fails to properly interpret HTML with certain layout combinations

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer interprets malformed Web pages may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Internet Explorer contatins a vulnerabilty that could be exploited when Internet Explorer attempts to interpret specially crafted Web pages...

Microsoft Office fails to properly parse malformed strings

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office parses files with malformed strings may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Office contains a vulnerability that could be exploited when parsing specially crafted strings. According to Microsoft Security Bulletin...

Apple AirPort wireless drivers vulnerable to integer overflow

Overview An integer overflow exists in the Apple AirPort wireless drivers. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, or create a denial-of-service condition. Description According to Apple,An integer overflow exists in the AirPort wireless...

Microsoft Internet Explorer long URL buffer overflow

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing a long URL on a web site that uses HTTP 1.1 compression. This could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service...

Sun ONE and Sun Java System Applications vulnerable to cross-site scripting via default error page

Overview A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Sun ONE and Sun Java System Applications may allow an attacker to read or modify data in web pages and cookies. Description From Sun Alert Notification 102164: A Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in various releases of the Sun Java System Web...

Apple Mac OS X Bom vulnerable to memory corruption via specially crafted ZIP file

Overview A memory corruption vulnerability in the Mac OS X Bom could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description Apple's Bom is the archive file handler in the Mac OS X operating system. It features the ability to handle file archives in a number of...

Juniper Networks IVE client ActiveX control buffer overflow

Overview The ActiveX control used by Juniper IVE OS devices contains a buffer overflow, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable client. Description Juniper IVE OS is an operating system used by Juniper devices, such as the Juniper Networks Secu...

Apple Safari automatically executes arbitrary shell commands or code

Overview Apple Safari fails to properly determine file safety, allowing a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands or code. Description Safari Apple Safari is a web browser that comes with the Mac OS X operating system. Explicit binding Mac OS X supports a feature called...

Apple QuickTime fails to properly handle corrupt GIF images

Overview Apple's QuickTime is a player for files and streaming media in a variety of different formats. A flaw in QuickTime's handling of files in the Graphics Interchange Format GIF could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description A heap overflow exists...

Microsoft Word buffer overflow in font processing routine

Overview A buffer overflow in the font processing routine used by Microsoft Word may allow a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Word contains a buffer overflow in the routine that processes fonts. An remote attacker may be able to trigger the buffer...

Squid LDAP authentication routines fail to check for invalid input

Overview The Squid LDAP authentication routine squidldapauth fails to check for input characters, such as whitespace, that could be misused to possibly bypass access restrictions. Description Squid functions as a web proxy and cache application for a number of protocols, and includes support for...

Apple Mac OS X "at" utilities fail to drop privileges properly

Overview Apple's Mac OS X operating system may allow local privilege escalation in family of "at" commands. Description Mac OS X includes the "at" family of commands in order to schedule tasks. However, a flaw in these commands results in the commands not dropping privileges correctly. This may...

Juniper JunOS Routing Engine MPLS denial of service

Overview Juniper routers will become severely disrupted when attacked with specially-crafted MPLS packets. Description Juniper routers running JUNOS have a vulnerability in which specially-crafted MPLS packets can cause normal operation of affected routers to be severely disrupted.According to...

Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a buffer overflow in CSS parsing

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Internet Explorer processes Cascading Style Sheets CSS. This may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description CSS is a mechanism for adding style to web documents. Microsoft Internet...

Microsoft Windows GDI+ contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the JPEG parsing component

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows GDI+ JPEG parsing component could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Windows Graphics Device Interface GDI+ is an application programming interface API that provides...

tcpdump contains integer underflow vulnerability in ISAKMP "Identification Payload" handling

Overview A vulnerability in tcpdump could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on an affected system. Description The tcpdump tool allows for the inspection of network packets and contains decoders for many standard protocols, including the Internet Security Association and Key...

libpng integer overflow in image height processing

Overview The Portable Network Graphics library libpng contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability which could cause affected applications to crash. Description The Portable Network Graphics PNG image format is used as an alternative to other image formats such as the Graphics Interchange Format...

Microsoft Windows Utility Manager launches applications with system privileges

Overview The Microsoft Windows 2000 Utility Manager allows authenticated local users to launch applications with SYSTEM privileges. Description The Microsoft Windows 2000 Utility Manager is a program that permits users to monitor and launch various accessibility applications. This program contain...

ISC DHCP contains C Includes that define vsnprintf() to vsprintf() creating potential buffer overflow conditions

Overview The Internet Systems Consortium's ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP 3 application contains a vulnerability that introduces several potential buffer overflow conditions. Exploitation of this vulnerability can cause a denial-of-service condition to the DHCP Daemon DHCPD and may...

FreeBSD fails to limit number of TCP segments held in reassembly queue

Overview FreeBSD fails to limit the number of TCP segments held in a reassembly queue which could allow an attacker to exhaust all available memory buffers mbufs on the destination system resulting in a denial-of-service condition. Description The Transmission Control Protocol TCP is part of the...

Microsoft Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) fails to properly validate the length of specially crafted packets

Overview Microsoft Windows Internet Naming Service WINS fails to properly validate the length of specially crafted packets which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description The Windows Internet Naming Service WINS maps IP addresses to NETBIO...

Weaknesses in MIT magic cookie and XDM X Windows authorization

Overview MIT magic cookie and XDM authorization contain vulnerabilities that could allow remote attackers to connect to X displays. Description Two widely used X Window System authorization schemes have weaknesses in their sample implementations. MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 On some systems built without t...

MIT Kerberos V5 KDC logging routines use unsafe format strings

Overview Early releases of the MIT Kerberos V5 KDC contain format string vulnerabilities that can be used by unauthenticated remote attackers to conduct denial of service attacks on KDC servers. Description Logging routines in some unspecified versions of the MIT Kerberos V5 Key Distribution Cent...

Sun Solaris ptexec does not adequately validate argument passed via -o option

Overview The Sun Solaris ptexec command is subject to a buffer overflow due to not adequately validating arguments passed via the -o option. Description A locally exploitable buffer overflow exists in the ptexec command which is included in the SUNWvts package. This package is not included in the...

Low BandWidth X proxy vulnerable to buffer overflow via crafted display command line option

Overview A locally exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Low BandWidth X proxy. Description The Low BandWidth X proxy is a component of XFree86 a freely redistributable open-source implementation of the X Window System. The Low BandWidth X proxy allows applications to transparently take...

Common Desktop Environment (CDE) ToolTalk RPC database server (rpc.ttdbserverd) vulnerable to buffer overflow via _TT_CREATE_FILE()

Overview The Common Desktop Environment CDE ToolTalk RPC database server contains a buffer overflow condition that could let an attacker execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on a vulnerable system. The ToolTalk RPC database server typically runs with root privileges. Description A...

Cisco CallManager contains memory leak

Overview The Cisco Call Manager contains a vulnerability that could permit an intruder to crash the Call Manager. Description The Cisco Call Manageris software to manage telephone calls in a mixed data and voice environment. Specifically the Cisco Call Manager "extends enterprise telephony featur...

Linux kernel IP Masquerading "destination loose" (DLOOSE) configuration passes arbitrary UDP traffic

Overview The default configuration of the IP Masquerade feature of certain Linux 2.2 kernels may allow unsolicited inbound UDP packets to traverse a NAT gateway and reach a translated network. Description As defined in RFC 1631, Network Address Translation NAT provides a means to translate a loca...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Permits Remote Command Execution Through <OBJECT> Tag

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer IE permits the remote execution of arbitrary commands via the tag. Description A vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Internet Explorer IE handles tags. If the CLASSID CLSID is unrecognized, then Internet Explorer will execute arbitrary commands...

Cisco IOS discloses fragments of previous packets when Express Forwarding is enabled

Overview A vulnerability exists in multiple versions of Cisco's Internetworking Operating System IOS software that allows an attacker to collect fragments of previously processed packets. Description Many networking devices running Cisco IOS with Cisco Express Forwarding CEF enabled contain a...

GnuPG format string vulnerability in do_get() in ttyio.c while prompting for a new filename

Overview There is a format string vulnerability in GNU Privacy Guard. By sending a GPG message with a carefully crafted malicious filename, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code as the user who decrypts the message. Description GNU Privacy Guard GPG is a free, RFC2440 compliant...

Common Desktop Environment (CDE) ToolTalk RPC Server rpc.ttdbserverd contains format string vulnerability

Overview A vulnerability exists in CDE ToolTalk that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Description Internet Security Systems ISS X-Force has discovered a format string vulnerability in the Common Desktop Environment CDE ToolTalk Remote Procedure Call RPC...

Internet Explorer DHTML"Download Behavior" can be tricked into exposing local files

Overview The download behavior of Internet Explorer 5.0 can be used to perform arbitrary operations on local files. Description Internet Explorer 5.0 includes a dynamic HTML DHTML behavior called "download behavior." A "behavior" is a software object that specifies some behavior of a web page...

Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) discloses contents of files via crafted request containing "+.htr"

Overview A vulnerability exists in Microsoft Internet Information Server IIS that could disclose sensitive information contained in CGI-type files. Typically a CGI/script file on a web server should only be executable and not readable to remote users. Sensitive information contained in CGI-type...

Robtex Viking Web Server permits traversal out of HTTP docs root directory

Overview Viking v1.07 is a 'multi-protocol-internet-server' available from http://www.robtex.com. A vulnerability exists with this web server which allows a remote user to see any file on the server with read permissions enabled. Description Viking v1.07 does not stop requests which traverse the...