Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications buffer overflow

Overview Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications fails to properly validate document properties. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Visual Basic For Applications VBA According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-047: Microsoft VBA is a...

Apple Mac OS X WebKit may allow code execution when visiting a malicious website

Overview A vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X WebKit may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description WebKit From the OpenDarwin WebKit project description, WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version...

Microsoft Office fails to properly handle PNG images

Overview Microsoft Office applications fail to properly handle PNG images. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Office applications fail to properly parse PNG images. When an Office document containing a malformed P...

Microsoft Excel vulnerability

Overview An unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Excel contains a vulnerability that could be exploited when Excel opens a specially crafted document. It is possible that the vulnerability can ...

Mozilla contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in crypto.signText()

Overview Mozilla products contain a buffer overflow in the crypto.signText method. This may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description crypto.SignText JavaScript contains a crypto.signText method, which allows the user to digitally sign a text string. The problem The Mozilla...

Mozilla may process content-defined setters on object prototypes with elevated privileges

Overview Mozilla allows content-defined setters on object prototypes to execute with elevated privileges. This may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Setters A setter is a method in JavaScript that sets the value of a property. The problem The setters in Mozilla are...

WeOnlyDo! Software wodSSHServer ActiveX component fails to properly validate key exchange algorithm strings

Overview The WeOnlyDo! Software wodSSHServer ActiveX component fails to properly validate the length of key exchange algorithm strings. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description wodSSHServerActiveX component According to the wodSSHServer ActiveX...

Microsoft Internet Explorer may automatically execute HTA files

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer IE fails to properly handle HTA files. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description HTML Application HTA HTML Applications HTAs are HTML documents that are executed as trusted applications. HTAs can run script, Java, or...

Apple Mail buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview Apple Mail contains a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Apple Mail Mac OS X includes the Mail application Mail.app for handling electronic mail. The Problem Apple Mail contains a buffer overflow caused by lack o...

Winamp fails to properly handle playlists with long "file" parameter

Overview Winamp contains a buffer overflow vulnerability when processing a playlist that has a long file parameter. This may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Winamp Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows systems. It can...

Clam AntiVirus vulnerable to memory corruption via specially crafted UPX packed file

Overview A vulnerability in the ClamAV antivirus toolkit may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Clam AntiVirus is an antivirus toolkit for Unix-like systems that is commonly integrated with mail servers for email attachment scanning. It supports ...

Microsoft embedded web font buffer overflow

Overview A heap-based buffer overflow in the way Microsoft Windows processes embedded web fonts may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Windows contains a heap-based buffer overflow in a routine that processes embedded w...

Perl contains an integer sign error in format string processing

Overview The Perl interpreter contains a flaw that may increase the impact of format string vulnerabilities in programs written in Perl. Description Perl is a programming language used in many applications and commonly used for web applications. The Perl interpreter, which interprets and executes...

Skype VCARD handling routine contains a buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow in the way Skype handles imported VCARDs may allow a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. Description Skype software provides telephone service over IP networks. Skype fails to properly validate imported VCARDs, allowing a buffer overflow to occur. Th...

Microsoft Windows FTP client does not properly validate received file names

Overview An input validation error in the Microsoft Windows FTP Client may allow a remote attacker to write files to arbitrary locations and may allow the execution of arbitrary code. Description The Microsoft Windows FTP Client does not properly validate the names of received files. If a remote...

Apple Mac OS X QuickDraw Manager fails to properly handle corrupt PICT files

Overview Apple Mac OS X QuickDraw Manager contains a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Apple Mac OS X QuickDraw is a 2D graphics library. It is used by several applications, including Safari, Mail, and Finder. QuickDraw is used to render PICT...

VERITAS Backup Exec remote registry access validation vulnerability

Overview VERITAS Backup Exec contains a remote registry access validation vulnerability. Description VERITAS Backup Exec is a data backup and recovery solution with support for over the network backup.An access validation vulnerability in Backup Exec for Windows allows remote attackers to access...

Microsoft Outlook Express vulnerable to remote code execution

Overview A vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Express's NNTP response parsing may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Outlook Express contains support for Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP data, which is defined in RFC 977 and RFC 2980. A flaw in Outlook Express'...

Apple Cocoa applications vulnerable to denial of service via malformed TIFF image

Overview Apple Mac OS X applications using the Cocoa environment may quit due to an unhandled exception in TIFF image handling routines. Description Mac OS X applications may take advantage of the Cocoa programming environment, which is described by Apple as "an object-oriented application...

Microsoft Word contains a buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Word contains a vulnerability that may result in the execution of code on the system with the privileges of the current user. Description Microsoft Word contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may be exploited by opening a maliciously-crafted word document. Successful...

Microsoft DHTML Drag-and-Drop events insufficiently validated

Overview Microsoft DHTML Drag-and-Drop events can manipulate windows to copy objects from one domain to another, including the Local Machine Zone. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to write arbitrary files to the local file system. Description Microsoft Drag-and-Drop events do not proper...

SquirrelMail may allow execution of arbitrary code

Overview SquirrelMail 1.2.6 may allow remote execution of arbitrary code via URL manipulation. Description From the SquirrelMail webpage:SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render i...

Apple Mac OS X vulnerable to buffer overflow in ColorSync ICC color profile handling

Overview Apple's Mac OS X operating system contains a flaw in the handling of ICC color profiles, which may allow arbitrary code execution through a heap-based buffer overflow. Description The Apple Mac OS X operating system contains support for ICC color profiles in the ColorSync component. This...

BIND 8.4.4 and 8.4.5 vulnerable to buffer overflow in q_usedns

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 buffer overflow err...

XFree86 vulnerable to buffer overflow via error in 'ReadFontAlias()' function

Overview XFree86 contains a vulnerability in the parsing of the 'fonts.alias' file, which could be exploited by a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Description XFree86 contains a flaw during the processing of the 'fonts.alias' file. XFree86 is an implementation of the...

GdkPixbuf ICO parser contains an integer overflow vulnerability

Overview An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the ICO handling of GdkPixbuf. This vulnerability can lead to a denial-of-service condition. Description GdkPixbuf is a library used by GTK+ 2 for loading and rendering images. GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user...

Microsoft Internet Explorer window.createPopup() method creates chromeless windows

Overview The Internet Explorer IE window.createPopup method creates chromeless popup windows. These windows can be used to spoof the user interface in Internet Explorer, any Windows application, or the Windows desktop. Description The visible area of a web browser window can be categorized into t...

Ethereal fails to properly handle malfored SNMP packets

Overview Ethereal contains a vulnerability in the way it processes Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP packets. Description The Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP protocol enables network and system administrators to remotely monitor and configure devices on the network devices such as...

Microsoft Outlook Web Access contains vulnerability in HTML redirection query

Overview A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Outlook Web Access OWA could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary scripting code in the victim's browser. Description Outlook Web Access OWA is a component of Microsoft Exchange. By using OWA, a server that is running...

Microsoft Windows contains a vulnerability in the way the Windows Shell launches applications

Overview Microsoft Windows contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the way that the Windows Shell launches applications. An remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code if they could trick a user into visiting a malicious website. Description Microsoft...

Apple Mac OS X "disk://" URI handler stores arbitrary files in a known location

Overview A vulnerability has been reported in the default "disk://" protocol handler installed on Apple Mac OS X systems. Remote attackers may potentially use this vulnerability to create files on the local system without explicit user consent. We have not independently verified the scope of this...

Multiple Symantec firewall products contain a buffer overflow in the processing of DNS resource records

Overview There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in multiple Symantec firewall products in which attempts to process a specially crafted Domain Name Service DNS packet could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Description Symantec offers a...

FTE fails to properly validate environment variables

Overview FTE contains a vulnerability in the processing of certain environment variables that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description FTE is a text editor available for a variety of operating systems. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way FTE performs bounds...

Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) contains buffer overflow

Overview Microsoft Data Access Components MDAC contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description From Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-003:Microsoft Data Access Components MDAC is a collection of...

Microsoft Exchange Server fails to properly handle specially crafted SMTP extended verb requests

Overview Microsoft Exchange fails to handle certain SMTP extended verbs correctly. In Exchange 5.5, this can lead to a denial-of-service condition. In Exchange 2000, this could permit an attacker to run arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Exchange is a popular collaboration product which includ...

IBM AIX vulnerable to DoS

Overview A denial-of-service vulnerability in AIX may allow a remote attacker to consume 100% of the CPU. Description AIX is a UNIX operating system distributed by IBM. A vulnerability in AIX 4.3.3 may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. For more information, please see IBM APAR...

ScriptLogic RunAdmin service can allow users to gain administrative access

Overview There is a vulnerability in version 4.01 of ScriptLogic that may allow local or domain users to gain administrative access to workstations running the ScriptLogic RunAdmin service. Description The ScriptLogic product from ScriptLogic, Inc. provides remote system administration capabiliti...

The ISS RealSecure Network Sensor fails to properly process certain types of DHCP traffic.

Overview ISS RealSecure Network Sensor "informational signatures" fail to properly process certain types of DHCP traffic, thereby causing the sensor to crash. Description The ISS RealSecure Network Sensor fails to properly process certain types of DHCP traffic. If the sensor processes certain typ...

Remote Buffer Overflow in Sendmail

Overview There is a vulnerability in sendmail that may allow remote attackers to gain the privileges of the sendmail daemon, typically root. Description Researchers at Internet Security Systems ISS have discovered a remotely exploitable vulnerability in sendmail. This vulnerability could allow an...

Microsoft Virtual Machine incorrectly parses the domain portion of URLs containing a colon

Overview Some versions of the Microsoft virtual machine Microsoft VM contain a flaw that could allow untrusted Java applets from an attacker's site to be run instead of the trusted applet from the intended site. Description The Microsoft virtual machine Microsoft VM enables Java programs to run o...

Lotus Domino web server vulnerable to buffer overflow via long HTTP authentication header containing non-ASCII characters

Overview A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in versions of IBM's Lotus Domino web server prior to R5.0.10. Description A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Lotus Domino web server. The overflow can occur as the result of an overly long HTTP Authenticate header containin...

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Windows Shell

Overview A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Microsoft Windows Shell. This buffer overflow is present in all versions of Windows XP, but it is not present in other versions of Windows. Description There is a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Windows Shell. The Shell provides the...

Multiple IPsec implementations do not adequately validate authentication data

Overview IPsec implementations from multiple vendors do not adequately validate the authentication data in IPsec packets, exposing vulnerable systems to a denial of service. Description For background: RFC 2401 Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol RFC 2402 IP Authentication Header RFC...

DansGuardian content filtering proxy fails to adequately validate user input thereby allowing user to access restricted site via hex encoded URLs

Overview DansGuardian does not properly filter Description DansGuardian is an HTTP proxy server based on Squid and enhanced to filter web content. DansGuardian does not properly process URLs that contain certain unspecified hexadecimal encodings, resulting in incomplete filtering of HTTP response...

FreeBSD privilege elevation vulnerability

Overview A locally exploitable privilege elevation vulnerability exists in FreeBSD. Description A locally exploitable privilege elevation vulnerability exists in FreeBSD. For more information, please see the Pine Internet Security Advisory. --- Impact A local user can gain root privileges. ---...

Microsoft Remote Access Service API contains buffer overflow vulnerability via phonebook entries

Overview The Microsoft Remote Access Service API contains a vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code with system privileges. Description The Microsoft Remote Access Service RAS Application Programming Interface API allows Windows programs to make dial-up connections to...

Microsoft Exchange 2000 exhausts server resources while attempting to process malformed mail attributes

Overview Microsoft Exchange 2000 contains a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to conduct a denial-of-service attack that once begun, cannot be stopped until the crafted message has been completely processed. Description Microsoft Exchange 2000 contains a vulnerability in its handling of...

OpenBSD kernel fails to properly check closed file descriptors "0-2" when running setuid program

Overview The OpenBSD kernel does not adequately check file descriptors 0-2 prior to execing setuid binaries. Other OS kernels may be vulnerable as well. Description The OpenBSD kernel does not adequately check file descriptors 0-2 prior to execing setuid binaries. As a result, an attacker may be...

Cisco Content Service Switch performs soft reset when XML data is sent to web management interface

Overview The Cisco Content Service Switch contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to perform a soft reset on affected devices. Description The Cisco Content Service Switch CSS products include support for the session and application layers. This additional...

Oracle 9iAS contains cross-site scripting vulnerability in "htp.print"

Overview Oracle 9i Application Servers are vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The server may inadvertently include malicious HTML tags or scriptJavaScript, VBScript, Java, etc. in a dynamically generated page based on unvalidated input from untrustworthy sources. This can be a...