Microsoft XML Core Services XMLHTTP ActiveX control vulnerability

Overview The Microsoft XML Core Services XMLHTTP ActiveX control contains an unspecified 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 applications such as...

Wireshark contains an unspecified vulnerability in the DHCP dissector

Overview Wireshark contains a vulnerability in the DHCP dissector that may cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Wireshark for Microsoft Windows contains a vulnerability in the DHCP dissector that may cause a denial-of-service condition. This vulnerability may be exploited when the...

Microsoft Excel fails to properly handle Lotus 1-2-3 files

Overview Microsoft Excel contains a vulnerability in the handling of malformed Lotus 1-2-3 files, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Excel contains an unspecified vulnerability that could be exploited when Exc...

Microsoft Windows WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX integer overflow

Overview The Microsoft Windows WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX control contains an integer overflow vulnerability. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Microsoft WebViewFolderIcon object is an ActiveX control that comes with...

Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML layout rendering vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer fails to properly render certain HTML layout combinations. This can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a vulnerability in the rendering of certain HTML layout combinations...

Apple Mac OS X Image RAW vulnerable to buffer overflow via specially crafted Canon RAW image

Overview The Apple Mac OS X ImageIO framework contains a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description RAW image files provide access to image information directly from a camera's sensor prior to in-camera processing, retaining the...

Mozilla JavaScript engine contains multiple integer overflows

Overview The Mozilla JavaScript engine contains multiple integer overflows. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Mozilla products that use the Mozilla JavaScript engine are vulnerable to integer overflows. Specifically, the...

TIBCO Rendezvous daemon components contain a buffer overflow in the HTTP administrative interface

Overview A vulnerability in the TIBCO Rendezvous daemon components may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description TIBCO Rendezvous is a distributed messaging software platform. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the HTTP administrative...

Apple QuickTime FlashPix integer overflow

Overview Apple QuickTime fails to properly handle FlashPix images. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition. Description Apple's QuickTime Player is multimedia software that allows users to view local and remo...

VMware NAT Service vulnerable to buffer overflow via FTP PORT/EPRT commands

Overview The VMware NAT Service used in multiple VMware products contains a buffer overflow in the way it handles FTP PORT and EPRT commands. An attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the NAT service or cause a denial of service. Description VMware virtualization software...

Apple Mac OS X chpass/chfn/chsh utilities do not properly validate external programs

Overview Apple Mac OS X Directory Service utilities use external programs insecurely, potentially allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description The OS X Directory Services have three utilities chpass, chfn, and chsh to update information in the user database, such as user name,...

Apple Mac OS X Server Admin fails to properly restrict users from using the proxy service

Overview The Apple Mac OS X Server HTTP proxy service does not restrict access by default and may allow unintended remote users to use the service. Description Mac OS X Server includes a service to provide for HTTP proxying. The HTTP proxy service does not include any access restrictions in the...

Microsoft font processing buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview A privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Windows processes certain fonts. This vulnerability could allow a logged on user to take complete control of the system. Description Due to an unchecked buffer in the processing of malicious fonts, a locally authenticat...

Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a Channel Definition Format (CDF) cross-domain vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a vulnerability that may allow unintended information disclosure or remote code execution due to a flaw in handling Channel Definition Format CDF files. Description From the Microsoft Channel Definition Format description:Channel Definition Format CDF...

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

Overview A vulnerability exists in the way the Microsoft Windows kernel processes animated cursor .ani files with a rate 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 Internet Explorer HTML Help control bypasses Local Machine Zone Lockdown

Overview The Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Help ActiveX control is not restricted by the Local Machine Zone Lockdown feature. This can allow an attacker to execute script in the Local Machine Zone. Description Windows XP SP2 introduces a feature called Local Machine Zone Lockdown. This feature...

Microsoft Windows processing of zip files contains a buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow exists in the way Microsoft Windows processes zip files that may allow remote code execution. Description Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 feature the ability to natively handle zip files. Microsoft has released bulletin MS04-034 describing a remotely...

Mozilla fails to restrict access to the "shell:" URI handler

Overview A vulnerability in the way Mozilla and its derived programs handle certain types of links could allow an attacker to run local programs on a vulnerable system. Description Versions of the Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird programs for Microsoft Windows will handle URIs of the form shell:...

Apple Mac OS X help system may interpret inappropriate local script files

Overview A vulnerability has been reported in the default URI protocol handler in Apple's Mac OS X help system. Exploitation of this vulnerability may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary scripts on the local system. Description A vulnerability has been reported in Apple's Mac OS X...

Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center (HCP) fails to validate HCP URLs

Overview A remotely exploitable vulnerability exists in the Help and Support Center HCP. An attacker could compromise the victim's system by tricking them into visiting a malicious web site, or viewing a malicious email message. Description A failure to filter special characters, such as quotes,...

Apple Mac OS X contains a vulnerability in DiskArbitration when initializing writable removable media

Overview Apple Mac OS X contains a vulnerability in the way DiskArbitration initializes writable removable media. Description The DiskArbitration Server in Apple Mac OS X tracks new disks and provides notifications announcing their availability. There is a non-specific vulnerability identified as...

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...

Linux groff utility pic contains format string vulnerability

Overview The pic component of the image processing package groff contains a format string vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description groff is an image processing package on Linux systems. A component of groff called pic contains a format-string...

Microsoft Windows ListBox and ComboBox controls vulnerable to buffer overflow when supplied crafted Windows message

Overview There is a buffer overflow in a function called by the Microsoft Windows ListBox and ComboBox controls that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the process hosting the controls. Description Processes that run on Windows use messages in order to interact...

WS_FTP Server vulnerable to buffer overflow when supplied overly long "APPE" command

Overview It has been reported that a vulnerability exists in the processing of a "APPE" command on WSFTP Servers versions 4.x and prior. Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to an authenticated user executing arbitrary code with the elevated privileges of the server process. Description...

gtop daemon contains buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow exists in the gtop daemon. Description A buffer overflow in gtopd, specifically permitted, may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. For more detailed information, please see Flavio Veloso's analysis.gtop background information Many Unix systems allow only...

Microsoft SQL Server contains flaw in checking method for the named pipe

Overview A vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server may allow an attacker to hijack a named pipe. An attacker may be able to leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges. Description Microsoft describes a named pipe as, "a specifically named one-way or two-way channel for communication...

Windows Media Player 9 ActiveX control does not adequately validate access to Windows Media Library

Overview An ActiveX control included with Windows Media Player 9 does not adequately validate script access to the Windows Media Library. This could allow an attacker to read or modify data contained in the library. Description Windows Media Player 9 includes an ActiveX control that can be used t...

Integer overflow in Sun RPC XDR library routines

Overview The XDR library from Sun Microsystems is a widely used implementation for RPC services. Although the library was originally distributed by Sun Microsystems, multiple vendors have included the vulnerable code in their own implementations. Some implementations of standard functions in this...

SSH Secure Shell for Servers fails to remove child process from master process group

Overview A locally exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in SSH Secure Shell versions 2.0.13 - 3.2.1. Description Secure Shell for Servers, developed by SSH Communications Security, does not properly remove the child process from the master process group after non-interactive...

ISC BIND 8 fails to properly dereference cache SIG RR elements with invalid expiry times from the internal database

Overview A remotely exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in BIND. Description A remotely exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in BIND 8.2 - 8.2.6 and BIND 8.3.0 - 8.3.3. ISC's description of this vulnerability states:It is possible to de-reference a NULL pointer for...

Vandyke Software SecureCRT contains buffer overflow vulnerability in password handling code

Overview SecureCRT is vulnerable to buffer overflow from improper handling of long password input. Description SecureCRT is a terminal emulator and SSH client for Windows. If the SSH1 protocol is used and the user enters a password 300 characters or more in length, SecureCRT will crash, with the...

Microsoft Windows Server Message Block (SMB) fails to properly handle SMB_COM_TRANSACTION packets requesting NetServerEnum2 transaction

Overview Microsoft Server Message Block SMB may crash when it receives a crafted SMBCOMTRANSACTION packet requesting a NetServerEnum2 transaction. Attackers can use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. Description SMB is a protocol for sharing data and resources between computers. It ...

SGI IRIX rpc.xfsmd does not filter shell metacharacters from user input before invoking popen() function

Overview The XFS journaling filesystem daemon uses a call to popen3 with unfiltered client-controlled input. This will lead to arbitrary command execution on remote systems. Description XFS is a 64-bit compliant journaling file system. The XFS journaling filesystem daemon xfsmd on SGI systems use...

Uudecode performs inadequate checks on user-specified output files

Overview The uudecode utility contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files, symbolic links, and named pipes. Description The uudecode utility is used to decode files that have been encoded in the 7-bit printable format generated by uuencode. This format allows for...

Yahoo! Messenger contains buffer overflow in "message" field

Overview Yahoo! Messenger is an instant messaging client. There is a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in the "message" field of Yahoo! Messenger. Description A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in the "message" field that may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitra...

Sun Solaris cachefsd vulnerable to heap overflow in cfsd_calloc() function via long string of characters

Overview Sun's NFS/RPC cachefs daemon cachefsd is shipped and installed by default with Sun Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, and 8 SPARC and Intel architectures. Cachefsd caches requests for operations on remote file systems mounted via the use of NFS protocol. A remotely exploitable heap overflow exists i...

rpc.rwalld contains remotely exploitable format string vulnerability

Overview rpc.rwalld is a utility that is used to send a message to all terminals of a time sharing system. A format string vulnerability may permit a remote user to execute code with the privileges of the rwall daemon. Description rpc.rwalld is a utility that listens for remote wall requests. Wal...

Oracle 9iAS allows anonymous remote users to view sensitive Apache services by default

Overview Oracle Application Server 9iAS allows remote users to access several Apache services without authentication. Description Oracle Application Server 9iAS includes the Apache Web server and several Apache services. In the default install configuration, many of these services, including...

Oracle9i Application Server Apache PL/SQL module vulnerable to buffer overflow via Database Access Descriptor password

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Apache Procedural Language/Structured Query Language PL/SQL module used by Oracle9i Application Server iAS. Specifying a crafted password for a Database Access Descriptor DAD could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with the...

Cisco IOS vulnerable to deferred DoS via SYN scan to certain TCP port ranges

Overview Cisco Internetwork Operating System IOS may reload unexpectedly after being scanned on certain ports. Description Certain versions of Cisco IOS contain a vulnerability that allows the router to enter an unstable state after receiving a connection attempt on any TCP port in the following...

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...

gpm creates temporary files insecurely

Overview gpm version 1.19.3, which usually runs as root, is vulnerable due to a flaw that allows a local user to exploit a race condition to corrupt files that gpm uses. Description gpm General Purpose Mouse is a program that lets you use the mouse in console mode when not using XWindows. It is...

KDE2 kdesu 'keep password' option does not verify socket listener potentially exposing su password

Overview kdesu is a interactive interface to the substitute user su command for the KDE environment. To pass authentication information, it creates a file that may be read by unauthorized users. Description kdesu communicates with su using a socket, implemented as a file in /tmp with a predictabl...

MySQL monitor drop database command contains buffer overflow

Overview MySQL is a popular open source database package. It contains a buffer overflow in the code that processes drop database commands. Description The MySQL server, mysqld, contains a buffer overflow in the code used to process drop database requests . By carefully crafting a MySQL drop...

Cisco IOS software vulnerable to DoS via HTTP request containing "?/"

Overview A vulnerability exists in multiple versions of Cisco's Internetworking Operating System IOS software that allows an attacker to force affected switches and routers to crash and reboot. Description To exploit this vulnerability, the IOS HTTP interface must be enabled and the attacker must...

IE 5.01 will execute VBA code contained in Access databases when triggered from HTML code contained in an IFRAME

Overview Under certain conditions, Internet Explorer can open Microsoft Access database or project files containing malicious code and execute the code without giving a user prior warning. Access files that are referenced by OBJECT tags in HTML documents can allow attackers to execute arbitrary...

Vulnerable WiFi Alliance example code found in Arcadyan FMIMG51AX000J

Overview A command injection vulnerability has been identified in the Wi-Fi Test Suite, a tool developed by the WiFi Alliance, which has been found deployed on Arcadyan routers. This flaw allows an unauthenticated local attacker to exploit the Wi-Fi Test Suite by sending specially crafted packets...

McAfee Agent for Windows is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to OPENSSLDIR location

Overview McAfee Agent contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the use of an OPENSSLDIR variable that specifies a location where an unprivileged Windows user may be able to place files. Description CVE-2022-0166 McAfee Agent, which comes with various McAfee products such as McAfee...

Flash Seats Mobile App for Android and iOS fails to validate SSL certificates

Overview Flash Seats Mobile App for Android, version 1.7.9 and earlier, and for iOS, version 1.9.51 and earlier, fails to properly validate SSL certificates provided by HTTPS connections, which may enable an attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle MITM attacks. Description CWE-295: Improper...