Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 ISAlertDataCOM ActiveX control stack buffer overflow

Overview The Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 ISAlertDataCOM ActiveX control contains a stack buffer overflow, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Symantec Norton Internet Security is a software package for Windows...

libpng denial of service vulnerability

Overview The libpng library contains a denial-of-service vulnerability. Description The libpng library can be used to allow other applications to render PNG images.The libpng library contains a denial-of-service vulnerability. From the Libpng-1.2.16-ADVISORY: This vulnerability could be used to...

Microsoft Windows Media Services NMSA Session Description Object ActiveX control contains dangerous methods

Overview The Microsoft Windows Media Services NMSA Session Description Object ActiveX control fails to restrict access to dangerous methods. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description Microsoft Windows Media Services is a software...

Research In Motion TeamOn Import Object ActiveX control buffer overflow

Overview The Research In Motion TeamOn Import Object ActiveX control contains a buffer overflow, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Research In Motion TeamOn Import Object is an ActiveX control, which is provided by the file TOImport.dl...

Takebishi Electric DeviceXPlorer OPC Server fails to properly validate OPC server handles

Overview The Takebishi Electric DeviceXPlorer 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...

Apple Mac OS X fails to properly handle crafted AppleSingleEncoding disk images

Overview A vulnerabilty in the Apple Mac OS X AppleSingleEncoding disk image handler may allow execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. Description Apple Mac OS X contains a vulnerability that may be exploited when a user mounts a specially crafted AppleSingleEncoding disk image file...

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) fails to properly process malformed SSLv2 server messages

Overview A vulnerability in the way Mozilla Network Security Services NSS handles malformed SSLv2 server messages may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description The SSLv2 protocol uses a client master key to generate all subsequent session keys. The client master key is created using a publ...

Apple QuickTime QTIF stack buffer overflow

Overview A vulnerabilty in the way Apple QuickTime processes QTIF files may allow execution of arbitrary code. Description A vulnerability exists in the way Apple QuickTime handles specially crafted QuickTime Image QTIF files. According to Apple QuickTime 7.1.5 security document 305149:A stack...

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

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

Microsoft Word fails to properly handle malformed strings

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Word handles malformed Word Document streams could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Word contains a memory corruption vulnerability that could be triggered when Word opens...

Microsoft Excel memory access vulnerability

Overview An unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Excel contains a vulnerability. According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-015 The vulnerability is caused when Excel opens a specially crafted Excel file which...

CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup Message Engine RPC buffer overflow

Overview The Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup Message Engine contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description BrightStor ARCserve Backup is a backup and data retention tool that...

Kerberos administration daemon may free uninitialized pointers

Overview A vulnerability exists in the Kerberos administration daemon that may allow a remote, unauthenticated user to free uninitialized pointers. Freeing uninitialized pointers corrupts memory in a way that could allow an attacker to execute code. Description The MIT krb 5 administration daemon...

Kerberos administration daemon fails to properly initialize function pointers

Overview The Kerberos administration daemon fails to properly initialize pointers. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description A vulnerability exists in the way the Kerberos administration daemon handles...

OpenOffice fails to properly process WMF and EMF files

Overview Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the OpenOffice.org office suite. If successfully exploited, these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description OpenOffice.org is a free office suite that is available for multiple...

Microsoft Word malformed string vulnerability

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

Wireshark contains an unspecified vulnerability in the SCSI dissector

Overview Wireshark contains a vulnerability in the SCSI dissector that may cause a denial-of-service condition. Description The SCSI dissector in Wireshark contains an unspecified error that may allow remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service condition.Wireshark states that Wireshark version...

gzip contains a buffer underflow

Overview The gzip program contains a buffer underflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, or create a denial-of-service condition. Description The gzip program is used to compress and decompress archived files.A buffer underflow vulnerability exists in gzip. An...

Apple Mac OS X AFP server vulnerable to an integer overflow when file sharing is enabled

Overview A vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X AFP server may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition on an affected system. Description The AFP Apple Filing Protocol service allows Apple Mac OS clients to remotely access files from a server. Apple's M...

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...

Adobe Acrobat fails to properly convert files to PDF

Overview A vulnerability exists in Adobe Acrobat that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Adobe Acrobat contains a buffer overflow in the code that converts files to PDF. If an attacker can convince a user to create a PDF using specially-crafted input, that attacker may b...

WinSCP URI handlers fails to properly parse command line switches

Overview A vulnerability has been found in WinSCP, which can be exploited by an attacker to overwrite or add files to the victim's computer. Description WinSCP is an open source SFTP client for Microsoft windows. It supports a file-manager user interface, and uses the SSH protocol to transfer fil...

Secure Elements Class 5 AVR client fails to properly validate a messages target CEID

Overview The Secure Elements Class 5 AVR client fails to properly validate a message's target CEID. This makes attacks easier, as the attacker does not need to guess the victim's true CEID. Description Class 5 AVR Secure Elements Class 5 AVR Automated Vulnerability Remediation is a security produ...

Symantec products vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview Symantec products are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Symantec Client Security and Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition contain a stack-based buffer overflow. For informati...

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...

Mozilla products border-rendering code vulnerability using CSS

Overview A vulnerability in the way Mozilla products and derivative programs handle certain CSS methods could allow a remote attacker to crash the application or execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Mozilla browser and derived products include support for Content Style...

Adobe Flash products contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Several vulnerabilities in Adobe Macromedia Flash products may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Adobe Flash Player is a player for the Flash media format and enables frame-based animations with sound to be viewed within a web...

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...

Apple QuickTime and iTunes QTIF image buffer overflow

Overview Apple QuickTime contains a heap-based buffer overflow that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Apple QuickTime fails to properly validate QuickTime Images QTIF, potentially allowing a heap-based buffer overflow to occur. If ...

Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Router vulnerable to denial of service via Server Routing Protocol (SRP)

Overview The Research in Motion RIM BlackBerry Router contains a vulnerability in the way the router handles Server Routing Protocol SRP packets. By sending specially crafted SRP packets to the router, an attacker could cause a denial of service. Description The BlackBerry Router is a component o...

Apple Mac OS X AppKit vulnerable to buffer overflow via the handling of maliciously crafted rich text files

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in a component of Apple's Mac OS X operating system that handles rich text files. Description The Cocoa Application Framework also referred to as the Application Kit, or AppKit is one of the core Cocoa frameworks supplied with Apple's Mac OS X...

GNOME gedit contains format string vulnerability

Overview gedit has a format string vulnerability in some error dialogs that can occur when a file is opened for editing. Description gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. gedit 2.10.2 has a format string error in some some error dialogs that can occur when a file is...

Microsoft Plug and Play contains a buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Plug and Play contains a flaw in the handling of message buffers that may result in local or remote arbitrary code execution or denial-of-service conditions. Description The following is from the Microsoft Plug and Play description: Plug and Play PnP allows the operating system...

Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup Discovery Service SERVICEPC vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview The Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup Discovery Service contains 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. The ARCserve Backu...

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...

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'...

TCP does not adequately validate segments before updating timestamp value

Overview Certain TCP implementations may allow a remote attacker to arbitrarily modify host timestamp values, leading to a denial-of-service condition. Description The Transmission Control Protocol TCP is defined in RFC 793 as a means to provide reliable host-to-host transmission between hosts in...

Apple Mac OS X with Bluetooth enabled may allow file exchange without prompting users

Overview Apple Mac OS X with Bluetooth support may unintentionally allow files to be exchanged with other systems by default. Description Mac OS X includes support for the Bluetooth networking protocol suite. Bluetooth is a communication technology that enables short-range communication between...

sendfile() system call may leak sections of kernel memory

Overview The sendfile system call does not handle specially crafted files properly. Exploitation of this vulnerability may leak sensitive information to a local attacker. Description The sendfile system call is used to send a file through a socket without copying the file data into memory. A...

Microsoft Exchange Server contains unchecked buffer in SMTP extended verb handling

Overview A vulnerability in some versions of Microsoft's Exchange Server may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected server. Description Microsoft's Exchange Server supports a number of protocols for handling email, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SMTP and SMT...

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...

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...

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...

LibTIFF vulnerable to integer overflow via corrupted directory entry count

Overview An integer overflow in LibTIFF may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description LibTIFF is a library used to encode and decode images in Tag Image File Format TIFF. A lack of validation on user supplied input may allow buffer overflow to occur. TIFF files contain...

SuSe Linux LibTIFF package vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview The SuSe Linux version of LibTIFF is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description SuSe LibTIFF is a library used to encode and decode images in Tag Image File Format TIFF format on SuSE systems. A lack of input validation in the...

Microsoft Windows Shell contains a buffer overflow

Overview A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows Shell. Description The Microsoft Windows Shell provides the basic human-computer interface for Windows systems. Microsoft describes the Shell as follows: The Windows Shell is responsible for providing th...

Archive::Zip may not properly parse the file sizes of Zip archives

Overview Archive::Zip does not properly parse Zip files and may incorrectly interpret malformed zip archives to contain zero length/size files. As a a result, anti-virus software using Archive::Zip may fail to detect malicious content within a Zip archive. Description The Archive::Zip module allo...

PhpWebSite contains multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Overview PhpWebSite contains multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on users' web browser. Description PhpWebSite is an open-source web content management system. Certain PhpWebSite modules fail to properly filter URLs for malicious...

FreeBSD syscons fails to properly validate input in "CONS_SCRSHOT" ioctl

Overview The FreeBSD syscons CONSSCRSHOT ioctl does not sufficiently validate input for the function's arguments. This may cause the disclosure of arbitrary portions of kernel memory that may contain sensitive information. Description Syscons is the default console driver for FreeBSD. It provides...

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...