Voice mail systems allow administrative access based on Caller ID

Overview Certain voice mail systems trust Calling Number Identification CNID, Caller ID to authenticate administrative access to voice mail accounts. Caller ID can be easily spoofed, allowing an attacker to gain control over a vulnerable voice mailbox. Description Some voice mail systems use Call...

Citrix Access Gateway appliances vulnerable to information disclosure

Overview A vulnerability exists in Citrix Access Gateway appliances that may allow an attacker to access data and compromise the system. Description Citrix Access Gateway products are universal SSL VPN appliances providing a secure, always-on, single point-of-access to an organization's...

Mozilla products allows the src attribute in an img element to be changed to a JavaScript URI

Overview Mozilla products contain a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to a vulnerability in the way IMG elements are loaded. Description A vulnerability in the way Mozilla products load IMG elements in a frame may cause a cross-site script injection. According to Mozilla Foundation Security...

Mozilla products vulnerable to heap overflow via miscalculated size during conversion of an image

Overview A vulnerability exists in Mozilla products that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description Mozilla products contain a vulnerability in the CSS cursor property on Microsoft Windows that may result in a crash when handling malicious...

Intel network drivers privilege escalation vulnerability

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability in Intel PRO Ethernet drivers may allow local attackers to execute code with elevated privileges. Description Intel network adapter drivers are developed and maintained by Intel for Windows and Linux operating systems. A buffer overflow vulnerability exist...

Symantec Veritas NetBackup bpcd daemon fails to properly validate commands

Overview Symantec Veritas NetBackup is vulnerable to command chaining, which may allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system. Description Symantec VERITAS NetBackup is a client/server based backup software solution. The NetBackup bpcd daemon fails t...

Microsoft Windows SNMP Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows handles SNMP may allow a buffer overflow that may allow remote execution of arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Windows contains a buffer overflow that may occur when handling malformed SNMP packets. According to Microsoft Security Bulletin...

Apple Mac OS X CFNetwork may allow arbitrary FTP commands to be executed via a crafted FTP URI

Overview Apple Mac OS X CFNetwork may allow arbitrary FTP commands to be executed via a crafted FTP URI. Description According to Apple Security Update 2006-007:By enticing a user to access a maliciously crafted FTP URI, an attacker can cause the user's FTP client to issue arbitrary FTP commands ...

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...

IBM Lotus Notes sets insecure default permissions on program data

Overview IBM Lotus Notes sets insecure default permissions on the Notes directory. This vulnerability may allow a local attacker to gain unintended access to Lotus Notes program data. Description IBM Lotus Notes installs numerous program files and program data in a special directory known as the...

Microsoft Office fails to properly parse malformed Smart Tags

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office parses files containing malformed Smart Tags may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Office contains a vulnerability that could be exploited when parsing specially crafted Smart Tags. According to Microsoft Security...

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...

Apple Mac OS X bootpd vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability in the Apple Mac OS X bootp daemon may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description bootpd The bootp daemon bootpd is used to send clients network and IP address configuration settings. It can also work in combination with...

Apple Mac OS X ImageIO vulnerable to integer overflow via specially crafted Radiance image

Overview The Apple Mac OS X ImageIO framework contains an integer 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...

Apple Mac OS X vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow via specially crafted TIFF file

Overview Apple has reported a vulnerability in the way Mac OS X 10.4 systems handle TIFF images that could cause affected applications to crash or allow remote code execution.. Description TIFF Image File Format The TIFF image file format is a widely supported file format used for storing images...

ClamAV vulnerable to buffer overflow via malicious database mirror

Overview The Open Source anti-virus program ClamAV's update engine, freshclam, contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. If exploited, an attacker could create a denial-of-service condition, or possibly run arbitrary code with the privileges of the freshclam process. Description Freshclam is a...

Microsoft JScript memory corruption vulnerability

Overview Microsoft JScript contains a memory corruption vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft JScript According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-023: JScript is the Microsoft...

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...

Microsoft Exchange fails to properly handle vCal and iCal properties

Overview Microsoft Exchange Server does not properly handle the vCal and iCal properties of email messages. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on an Exchange Server. Description Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft's Exchange...

Sendmail signal I/O race condition

Overview A race condition in Sendmail may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Sendmail Sendmail is a widely used mail transfer agent MTA. Mail Transfer Agents MTA MTAs are responsible for sending an receiving email messages over the internet. They are also referred to a...

Apple QuickTime image handling 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 ...

Skype URI handling routine contains a buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow in Skype may allow a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. Description Skype software provides telephone service over IP networks. There is a buffer overflow in the routines that handle Skype-specific URIs callto:// or skype://. The buffer overflow may...

Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol service input validation vulnerability

Overview An input validation error in the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol RDP service may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Microsoft describes the Remote Desktop Protocol RDP as follows.RDP is based on, and is an extension of, the T.120 protocol family...

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...

WinAmp contains a flaw in metadata handling in .mpa and .mp4 files

Overview WinAmp contains a flaw which may allow an attacker to crash WinAmp remotely via .mpa or .mp4 files. Description Nullsoft's WinAmp Player, a popular multimedia system for Microsoft Windows, contains a flaw in the handling of the metadata called "tags" contained within .mpa and .mp4 files...

SquirrelMail vulnerable to command injection because of flawed input checking in S/MIME plug-in

Overview SquirrelMail contains a flaw in its S/MIME plug-in certificate handling routines which may allow arbitrary code to be remotely executed. Description From the SquirrelMail web page:SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It includes built-in pure PHP support for...

Microsoft Office XP contains buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview A buffer overflow in Microsoft Office XP may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Office XP is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. According to MS05-005, the buffer overflow exists in the process that passes URL file locations to...

Microsoft OLE buffer overflow

Overview A vulnerability in a way that various programs handle OLE objects could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft OLE is a technology that allows applications to create and edit compound documents. Compound documents are those...

Squid fails to properly handle oversized reply headers

Overview The Squid web proxy cache may be vulnerable to oversized HTTP reply headers. Description Squid functions as a web proxy and cache application for a number of protocols, including the hypertext transfer protocol HTTP. A defect in the Squid HTTP handling prevents oversized reply headers...

Apple iTunes fails to properly handle overly long URLs in playlists

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability in iTunes could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Apple iTunes is a digital media player available for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It supports a variety of playlist formats including .m3u and .pls. A...

Microsoft Windows HTML Help component fails to properly validate input data

Overview There is a vulnerability in the HTML Help component of Microsoft Windows that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description Microsoft HTML Help provides a standard help system for the Windows operating system. There is a vulnerability in the way...

Sun Java Runtime Environment vulnerable to DoS

Overview The Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition in the Java Virtual Machine JVM. Description The Sun Java Runtime Environment provides the libraries and components necessary to run...

FTE fails to properly validate command line arguments

Overview FTE contains a vulnerability in the processing of command line arguments 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 checking...

Microsoft Windows creates COM object identifiers incorrectly

Overview A vulnerability exists in Microsoft's COM object component. Explotiation of this vulnerability may lead to information disclosure and the ability for an attacker to open services on network communication ports. Description Microsoft's COM object component creates object identifiers in a...

Outlook Express MHTML protocol handler does not properly validate source of alternate content

Overview The Outlook Express MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents MHTML protocol handler does not adequately validate the source of alternate content. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access data and execute script in different security domains. By causing script to be ru...

NetScreen Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) platform contains cross-site scripting vulnerability in delhomepage.cgi

Overview NetScreen Instant Virtual Extranet IVE platform contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the row parameter of delhomepage.cgi, which could allow an attacker to mount a cross-site scripting attack. Description The Instant Virtual Extranet platform is an application security gatewa...

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...

Multiple tools within the Netpbm package create temporary files in an insecure manner

Overview Multiple tools within the Netpbm package create temporary files in an insecure manner. Description Netpbm is a toolkit that contains over 220 separate tools for manipulating graphic images. Multiple tools within the Netpbm package create temporary files insecurely. --- Impact A local...

ProFTPD fails to properly handle newline characters when transferring files in ASCII mode

Overview ProFTPD is a popular free File Transfer Protocol FTP server package. A vulnerability in its handling of files transferred in ASCII mode can allow an attacker to compromise the system running the server. Description The File Transfer Protocol FTP described in RFC959 defines operations for...

SSH Communications Secure Shell vulnerable to DoS via malformed BER/DER packet

Overview SSH Communications' Secure Shell contains vulnerabilities in ASN.1 libraries that may allow remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service situation, or potentially execute arbitrary code on the server. Description SSH Communications' Secure Shell contains a vulnerability in the decoding ...

Sendmail contains buffer overflow in ruleset parsing

Overview Sendmail contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the code that parses rulesets. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on a vulnerable system.This vulnerability does not affect the default configuration. Description...

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) does not adequately validate document properties

Overview Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA contains a buffer overflow when validating document properties. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running VBA. Description From Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-037:Microsoft VB...

Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly evaluate "application/hta" MIME type referenced by DATA attribute of OBJECT element

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer IE will execute an HTML Application HTA referenced by the DATA attribute of an OBJECT element if the Content-Type header returned by the web server is set to "application/hta". An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the...

Microsoft Windows DirectX MIDI library does not adequately validate MThd track values in MIDI files

Overview A Microsoft Windows DirectX library, quartz.dll, does not properly validate the number of tracks value 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 o...

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...

Adobe Acrobat does not adequately validate Acrobat JavaScript

Overview Adobe Acrobat contains a vulnerability in its JavaScript parsing engine that could allow an attacker to place arbitrary files on the local file system. Description Different versions of Adobe Acrobat software can create, modify, and read Portable Document Format PDF files. Acrobat...

Kerio Personal Firewall vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview Kerio Personal Firewall contains a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. An exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available. Description Kerio Technologies Inc. describes the Kerio Personal Firewall as follows:Kerio Personal Firewall KPF is a...

tcpdump enters infinite loop when parsing crafted ISAKMP packets

Overview There is a denial-of-service vulnerability in tcpdump that may allow a remote attacker to cause tcpdump to enter an infinite loop. Description tcpdump, a tool used to monitor network traffic, has the ability to capture Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol ISAKMP...

Physical access to a computer system can be used to bypass software-based access control mechanisms

Overview An intruder who gains physical access to a computer system can bypass software-based control mechanisms. Description If an intruder can gain physical access to a computer resource, he can bypass software-based access control mechanisms, install Trojans horses, install hardware to...

Automatic File Content Type Recognition Tool contains memory allocation problem

Overview A memory allocation problem exists in the "Automatic File Content Type Recognition Tool" versions of the file1 package prior to 3.41. Description According to an OpenPKG advisory, a memory allocation problem exists in the "Automatic File Content Type Recognition Tool" AFCTR tool versions...