Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService may allow arbitrary users to change the root password

Overview A vulnerabilty in the Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService may allow unprivileged users to change the root password. Description The Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService contains a vulnerability that may allow unprivileged LDAP users to change the local root password. According to Apple security...

Apple QuickTime movie heap buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview The Apple QuickTime player contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or create a denial-of-service condition. Description Apple QuickTime contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow an...

WordPress fails to properly sanitize input passed to the ix parameter in wp-includes/feed.php

Overview WordPress fails to properly sanitize input to the ix parameter in wp-includes/feed.php, which could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code. Description WordPress is a blogging application that is written in PHP. WordPress 2.1.1 fails to properly sanitize...

Microsoft Internet Explorer fails to properly instantiate COM objects

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer instantiates COM objects may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description Component Object Model, or COM objects are used to enable interprocess communication and dynamic object creation within Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Intern...

Mozilla products vulnerable to privilege escalation via a JavaScript watch() function

Overview A vulnerability exists in Mozilla products that may allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges. Description Mozilla products contain a vulnerability in the way the JavaScript watch function is handled that may result in privilege escalation. According to the Mozilla Foundation...

Novell NetMail IMAP vulnerable to buffer overflow when processing "SUBSCRIBE" commands

Overview A vulnerability in the way Novell Netmail handles IMAP SUBSCRIBE commands may cause a buffer overflow that may allow remote execution of arbitrary code. Description Novell Netmail's IMAP server contains a buffer overflow that may occur when processing parameters supplied to the SUBSCRIBE...

Apple Quicktime HREFTrack Cross-Zone Scripting vulnerability

Overview Web browsers running the Apple QuickTime plugin may allow remote web sites to reference content on the local filesystem. This may allow an attacker to execute script within the security context of the local machine. Description Web browser plugins that allow remote web sites to reference...

CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine directly calls user supplied data in RPC requests

Overview The Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine contains a vulnerability in its Tape Engine RPC service. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description BrightStor ARCserve Backup is a backup and data retenti...

Microsoft Outlook fails to properly parse Office Saved Searches (.oss) files

Overview A vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Outlook handles Office Saved Searches .oss. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Office Saved Searches .oss contain views of e-mail items that satisfy previous search criteria.Microsoft Outlook...

Oracle MDSYS.SDO_LRS package vulnerable to PL/SQL injection

Overview The Oracle MDSYS.SDOLRS package is vulnerable to PL/SQL injection. This vulnerability may allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PL/SQL commands on a vulnerable Oracle installation. Description The Oracle MDSYS.SDOLRS package is vulnerable to PL/SQL injection...

Microsoft Excel fails to properly process malformed DATETIME records

Overview Microsoft Excel contains a vulnerability in the handling of malformed DATETIME records, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Excel contains a vulnerability that could be exploited when Excel opens a...

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...

X.Org server buffer overflow in Xrender extension

Overview A vulnerability in the X.Org X server could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the server. Description The X Window System provides a number of components to support graphical user interfaces, primarily on Unix-like operating systems. It features a...

Microsoft Windows ART image handling buffer overflow

Overview Microsoft Windows ART image handling routines are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description ART Images According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-022: ART is...

Microsoft Internet Explorer exception handling vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer fails to properly handle exception conditions. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Internet Explorer allows objects to register exception handlers. These handlers may not properly handle some conditions, whi...

Mozilla XBL binding vulnerability

Overview Mozilla products fail to properly restrict access to privileged XBL bindings. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description XBL According to Mozilla, XBL "is a markup language that defines special new elements, or 'bindings' for XU...

Microsoft Internet Explorer fails to properly handle double-byte characters in specially crafted URLs

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer IE fails to properly handle double-byte characters in URLs, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description IE fails to properly handle double-byte characters in URLs. When a specially crafted HTML file is opened in IE...

RealNetworks products vulnerable to buffer overflow via specially crafted flash media file

Overview Numerous RealNetworks products are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description RealNetworks RealPlayer RealNetworks RealPlayer is a multimedia application that allows users to view local and remote...

Microsoft Excel malformed parsing format file memory corruption vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Excel contains a memory corruption vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Excel fails to properly validate parsing format files. When a file with a malformed parsing format files is...

Microsoft Excel malformed description memory corruption vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Excel contains a memory corruption vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Excel fails to properly validate description fields in Excel data files. When a file with a malformed...

Apple QuickTime fails to properly handle corrupt TGA 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 Targa TGA image format files could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Several types of overflow...

Microsoft Windows buffer overflow in Enhanced Metafile rendering API

Overview Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile Format image rendering routines contain a buffer overflow flaw that may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Microsoft describes the Enhanced Metafile Format EMF as the following:An EMF image is a 32-bit format that can...

Microsoft Windows vulnerable to buffer overflow via specially crafted WMF file

Overview Microsoft Windows may be vulnerable to remote code execution via a buffer overflow in the Windows Metafile image format handling. Description Windows Metafile WMF format images are metafiles that can contain both vector and bitmap-based information. Microsoft Windows contains routines fo...

Mozilla products vulnerable to heap overflow via specially crafted GIF file

Overview Mozilla products, including the Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, and Mozilla Thunderbird, are vulnerable to a heap-based overflow in the GIF image-processing routines. Description The Mozilla project produces an application suite Mozilla Suite, web browsers Mozilla Firefox, email software...

SMB filesystem read system call vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview The SMB filesystem read system call contains buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description "Server Message Block SMB is an application-level protocol that supports file, printer, and other resource sharing. The SMB filesystem...

BIND 9.3.0 vulnerable to denial of service in validator code

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. BIND supports the DNS...

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...

LibTIFF contains multiple heap-based buffer overflows

Overview LibTIFF contains multiple heap-based buffer overflows that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. Description LibTIFF is a library used to encode and decode images in Tag Image File Format TIFF. Multiple LibTIFF routines contain buffer...

Mac OS X Safari "Show in Finder" option may allow arbitrary file execution

Overview Mac OS X Safari "Show in Finder" option may automatically open and execute downloaded files. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Safari is the default web browser for Mac OS X. Safari has a "Show in Finder" option to allow users to automatically reveal the...

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:...

BEA WebLogic Server contains vulnerability in handling of certain tags when editing "weblogic.xml"

Overview BEA WebLogic Server contains a vulnerability in the way Weblogic Builder and the SecurityRoleAssignmentMBean.toXML method parse certain tags in the weblogic.xml file. Description BEA Systems describes WebLogic Server as "an industrial-strength application infrastructure for developing,...

Cisco 6000/6500/7600 series systems fail to properly process layer 2 frames

Overview Cisco 6000/6500/7600 series systems with Multilayer Switch Feature Card 2 MSFC2 fail to properly process layer 2 frames. Description Cisco 6000/6500/7600 series systems with MSFC2 contain a vulnerability in the way layer 2 frames are processed in software. By sending a specially crafted...

Microsoft Authenticode mechanism installs ActiveX controls without prompting user

Overview A vulnerability in Microsoft's Authenticode could allow a remote attacker to install an untrusted ActiveX control on the victim's system. Description According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-041:ActiveX is a technology that allows programmers to develop self-contained software modul...

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...

IRISconsole allows login to the "iceadmin" account with incorrect password

Overview SGI IRIS console contains a vulnerability which may allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges. Description SGI describes IRISconsole as a "central control point that manages and monitors servers and logs their activity." A vulnerability in IRISconsole may allow a local attacker ...

Microsoft Windows DirectX MIDI library does not adequately validate Text or Copyright parameters in MIDI files

Overview A Microsoft Windows DirectX library, quartz.dll, does not properly validate certain parameters in Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIDI files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or crash any application using the library, causing a denial of servic...

zlib "gzprintf()" function vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow exists in one of the functions included with the zlib compression library. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. An exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available. Description The zlib website...

TCP/IP implementations handle unusual flag combinations inconsistently

Overview Various vendors' TCP/IP implementations handle packets containing unusual flag combinations in different ways, which may lead to a violation of implicit or explicit security policies. Description Background on TCP/IP Connection Semantics To establish a TCP connection, a client and server...

Sun KCMS library service daemon does not adequately validate location of KCMS profiles

Overview The Sun KCMS library service daemon, kcmsserver, does not adequately validate the location of KCMS profile files. This could allow a remote attacker to read arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. Description Sun Solaris contains support for the Kodak Color Management System KCMS, an...

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) server improperly deallocates memory

Overview A "double-free" vulnerability in the Concurrent Versions System CVS server could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands or cause a denial of service on a vulnerable system. Description CVS is a source code maintenance system that is widely used by open-source...

Microsoft Windows SQL Server allows arbitrary queries to be executed via "xp_printstatements" extended procedure

Overview MS SQL Server contains an extended stored procedure with inappropriate permission settings. Description Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contain an extended stored procedure, xpprintstatements , that permits an unprivileged user of a database to gain administrative...

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...

Netwin Surge FTP Server does not adequately validate user input thereby allowing directory traversal

Overview Surge FTP Server 2.0a contains a directory traversal vulnerability. Description Surge FTP Server 2.0a allows remote users to list files outside the FTP root directory. --- Impact Attackers may list files from directories to which access was not granted. --- Solution Upgrade to version...

OpenSSH contains a one-off overflow of an array in the channel handling code

Overview OpenSSH is a program used to provide secure connection and communications between client and servers. Channels are used to segregate differing traffic between the client and the server. Description OpenSSH versions 2.0 - 3.0.2 contain a one-off overflow of an array in the code that handl...

Digital Unix msgchk vulnerable to file contents disclosure via symlink redirection of profile

Overview msgchk, a part of the MH mail system, reads the user's .mhprofile in order to obtain configuration options. If the .mhprofile is linked to another file with illegal format, the first line of that file will be displayed in an error message by msgchk. Description msgchk is the portion of t...

shadow-utils useradd creates temporary files insecurely

Overview Shadow-utils is an encryption and account management package freely distributed for many Linux implementations. The useradd program in this package creates insecure temporary files with predictable names in a write-protected directory. If this directory is changed to be writable, an...

Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet Service fails to enforce timeouts on idle telnet sessions

Overview The Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet Service contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to disrupt the telnet service on affected servers. Description The Microsoft Windows 2000 Telnet Service contains a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to place idle...

FreeBSD can be compromised locally via signal handlers

Overview The FreeBSD operating system does not adequately clear signal handlers subsequent to a process calling exec on a setuid program. This vulnerability can allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code as root. Description The unix fork function's purpose is to create a new process from a...

HPUX kmmodreg allows arbitrary file overwriting via symlink redirection of temporary file

Overview The kmmodreg program distributed with some HPUX versions creates two temporary files with predictable names. Due to insecure handling of these files, an intruder may use them to overwrite arbitrary files during system boot via a symbolic link attack. Description The kmmodreg program...

SSH Secure Shell sshd2 does not adequately authenticate logins to accounts with encrypted password fields containing two or fewer characters

Overview A vulnerability exists in SSH Secure Shell that allows an intruder to log to an account which contains a stored encrypted password of two or fewer characters in length. An intruder may leverage the privileges of such an account to gain full control of the system. Description Certain Unix...