The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 SMP Kernel fails to properly handle IPC shared-memory

Overview The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 SMP Kernel may allow an authenticated attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition with specially crafted IPC shared-memory functions. Description Inter-Process Communication IPC shared-memory is a method of passing data between programs used by the Red...

Cisco products contain hard-coded SNMP values

Overview Certain versions of the Cisco IOS software have a hard-coded SNMP read-write community string that cannot be changed by an administrator. Description Some versions of the Cisco IOS have a hardcoded SNMP read-write community string. This community string is designed to ensure that...

Microsoft XML Core Services contain a buffer overflow in the XSLT component

Overview The XSLT component of the Microsoft XML Core Services contains a buffer overflow. An attacker may be able to use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft XML Core Services MSXML allow developers who use JScript, Visual Basic Scripting...

Microsoft Excel fails to properly process malformed STYLE records

Overview Microsoft Excel contains a vulnerability in the handling of malformed STYLE 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...

Apple AirPort wireless vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in Apple AirPort wireless drivers. If exploited, this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description According to Apple:Two separate stack buffer overflows exist in the AirPort wireless driver's handling of malformed...

Apple AirPort wireless drivers fails to properly handle scan cache updates

Overview An heap buffer overflow exists in the Apple AirPort wireless driver. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Apple AirPort drivers contain a heap buffer overflow in the code that...

Apple QuickTime fails to properly handle FLC movies

Overview Apple QuickTime fails to properly handle FLC movies. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Apple QuickTime is multimedia software that allows users to view local and remote audio, vide...

Apple QuickTime Player H.264 Codec contains an integer overflow

Overview Apple QuickTime fails to properly handle H.264 movies. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Apple QuickTime Player is multimedia software that allows users to view local and remote...

X.Org server fails to properly test for effective user ID

Overview A vulnerability in the X.Org server could allow a local attacker to gain administrative privileges or cause a denial of service on an affected system. Description The X.Org server program provides several command-line options that are meant to be parsed only when the program is running a...

Microsoft Windows kernel fails to properly manage exception handling

Overview An exception handling vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows kernel may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Windows kernel contains an exception handling vulnerability that can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the...

Microsoft Internet Explorer fails to properly handle chained Cascading Style Sheets

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer fails to properly handle chained Cascading Style Sheets CSS. This can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description CSS is a mechanism for adding style to web documents. Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a vulnerabili...

Apple Mac OS X ImageIO vulnerable to integer overflow via specially crafted GIF 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 Apple's ImageIO is an image processing framework that was introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. It includes the ability to process...

Mozilla products fail to properly validate JavaScript constructors

Overview Mozilla products fail to properly validate references returned by JavaScript constructors. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description According to Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-51: JavaScript functions have a...

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...

Mozilla fails to properly release JavaScript references

Overview Mozilla products fail to properly release memory. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Mozilla products fail to properly release JavaScript references. This may corrupt memory in a way that can allow an attacker to...

Adobe Flash Player fails to properly handle malformed SWF files

Overview Adobe Flash Player fails to properly handle malformed SWF files resulting in a memory corruption vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Adobe Flash Player is a player for the Flash media format and enables...

Apple Mac OS X Open Directory server vulnerable to DoS via an invalid LDAP request

Overview Apple has reported a vulnerability in their version of OpenLDAP that is included in Apple Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server versions 10.4 to 10.4.6. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability would allow an attacker to create a denial-of-service condition. Description OpenLDAP is a popular...

Microsoft Internet Explorer UTF-8 decoding vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer fails to properly decode UTF-8 encoded HTML. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Unicode The Unicode character set contains more than 96,000 characters. Because of this, Unicode can be...

Microsoft Remote Access Connection Manager service vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview A vulnerability in the Microsoft Remote Access Connection Manager may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft describes the Routing and Remote Access Service RRAS as follows:RRAS makes it possible for a computer to function as a...

Microsoft PowerPoint malformed record vulnerability

Overview Microsoft PowerPoint fails to properly handle malformed records. This may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint is presentation software that is available on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac platform...

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...

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...

Oracle Database Data Pump Metadata API SQL injection vulnerability

Overview Oracle Database Data Pump Metadata API is vulnerable to SQL injection, which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands on a vulnerable Oracle installation. Description The Oracle Database Data Pump Metadata API fails to properly filter user-supplied input. This may...

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...

Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow in Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects CDO is a scripting library used to develop applications that handle email. Note that C...

Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup Agents vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview Several Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup Agents contain a buffer overflow, which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup is a cross-platform backup and recovery application. Backup Agents are availabl...

Mozilla Firefox insecurely handles content from external applications

Overview Mozilla Firefox does not properly enforce domain restrictions on content sent by external applications, allowing a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. Description Mozilla Firefox can accept links from external applications, such as Flash and Quicktime. When such an...

Mozilla insecurely clones objects and member functions

Overview Mozilla fails to enforce security restrictions on cloned base objects. This may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable web browser. Description Mozilla supports the use of JavaScript to perform client side scripting. JavaScript uses prototyping as a way to...

Microsoft Color Management Module buffer overflow during profile tag validation

Overview Microsoft Color Management Module contains a flaw that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description The Microsoft Color Management Module provides consistent color management operations between applications and devices, and transforms between colorspaces such as 'RGB' and...

Mozilla fails to properly prevent "JavaScript:" URIs containing "eval()" from being executed in the context of other URIs in the history list

Overview Mozilla fails to properly restrict the execution of javascript: URIs. The impact is similar to that of a cross-site scripting vulnerability, which allows an attacker to access data in other sites. Description Mozilla uses a same origin security model to maintain separation between browse...

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...

Multiple web browsers vulnerable to spoofing via Internationalized Domain Name support

Overview Multiple web browsers are vulnerable to spoofing attacks through the use of Internationalized Domain Names. Other applications such as email programs may also be vulnerable. Description The Domain Name System The Domain Name System DNS provides name, address, and other information about...

Gaim vulnerable to HTML processing denial of service

Overview Gaim contains a flaw in HTML processing that may result in an invalid memory access and denial of service condition. Description From the Gaim project:Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging IM client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ Oscar...

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...

Samba vulnerable to integer overflow processing file security descriptors

Overview Samba contains an integer overflow vulnerability in code that processes file security descriptors. This could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on a vulnerable system. Description Samba is an open-source implementation of...

Sun Java Plug-in fails to restrict access to private Java packages

Overview There is a vulnerability in the Sun Java Plug-in that could allow a malicious Java applet to bypass restrictions for untrusted applets. Description The Java Plug-in is part of the Java 2 Runtime Environment JRE and establishes a framework for displaying Java applets within a web browser...

Microsoft Windows contains buffer overflow in processing of WMF and EMF image files

Overview A vulnerability in the way the Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine processes certain types of image files could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Microsoft Windows Graphics Rendering Engine supports a number of image formats...

Microsoft Windows kernel fails to reset values in CPU data structures

Overview A vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows kernel could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description The Microsoft Windows kernel is responsible for handling processor resources and system services such as device and memory management. There is a vulnerability in t...

libXpm image library vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview libXpm image parsing code contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition or execute arbitrary code. Description X PixMap XPM is a format for encoding and decoding images on the X Windows System 11 X11. libXpm is a library of...

cdrecord fails to set proper permissions on programs specified in RSH environment variable

Overview Cdrecord can call external programs specified by the RSH environment variable. This may permit a malicious local user to gain elevated privileges. Description Cdrecord is an application used to create data or audio compact discs. Cdrecord permits the use of CD recorders on remote machine...

CVS "history" command may disclose sensitive information

Overview A vulnerability exists in the history command of Concurrent Versions System CVS. If exploited, this vulnerability could disclose sensitive information about files and directories on an affected system to a remote, authenticated CVS user. Description Concurrent Versions System CVS is a...

Cisco Collaboration Server (CCS) ServletExec allows arbitrary file uploading

Overview There is a vulnerability in the ServletExec subcomponent of the Cisco Collaboration Server CCS that could allow an attacker to upload arbitrary files to the server. Description The Cisco Collaboration Server CCS is designed to provide interactive customer support web page sharing,...

Multiple Symantec firewall products fail to properly process NBNS response packets

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

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

Overview There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Gaim yahoodecode 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 supports a variety of instan...

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...

Oracle9i Database contains buffer overflow in NUMTODSINTERVAL() function

Overview Oracle9i Database contains a buffer overflow in the NUMTODSINTERVAL function which could allow anyone who can query the server to execute arbitrary code or access data with the privileges of the vulnerable process. Description A buffer overflow exists in the NUMTODSINTERVAL function. Thi...

Microsoft Windows Workstation service vulnerable to buffer overflow when sent specially crafted network message

Overview A remotely exploitable vulnerability affects Microsoft Windows Systems. Exploitation of this vulnerability could permit the execution of arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges. The exploit vector for this vulnerability is highly conducive to a worm or other automated...

Linux NFS utils package "rpc.mountd" contains off-by-one buffer overflow in xlog() function

Overview A vulnerability in the Linux NFS network File System could permit an attacker to cause a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code on the system. Description The Linux NFS network File System was developed to allow machines to mount a disk partition on a remote machine as ...

Microsoft Windows RPC service vulnerable to denial of service

Overview A vulnerability exists in Microsoft's Remote Procedure Call RPC implementation. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. An exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available. Description Microsoft has released MS03-039 to address a vulnerability...

Symantec ActiveX control vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview There is a buffer overflow in a component of Symantec's web-based Security Check. Description Symantec describes Security Check as "a free web-based tool that enables users to test their computer's exposure to a wide range of on-line threats. As part of running the check, users may insta...