man 'makewhatis' insecurely uses /tmp

Overview The 'makewhatis' script in the Linux man package allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack. Description The 'makewhatis' program is a Bourne shell script that ships with many Linux distributions in the 'man' package of programs. The 'makewhatis' script creates files in t...

ISC BIND 4 contains input validation error in nslookupComplain()

Overview The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS by the Internet Software Consortium ISC. There is a format string vulnerability in BIND 4.9.4 that may allow remote intruders to gain access to systems running BIND. Although BIND 4.9.x is no longer...

HP-UX kermit contains local buffer overflow that allows denial-of-service

Overview The HP-UX version of kermit contains a buffer overflow that allows local users to prevent other users from running kermit. Description Kermit is a file transfer protocol that has been implemented by Hewlett-Packard for use on their systems. On December 21, 2000, HP released a security...

Autodesk VRED contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability

Overview Autodesk VRED contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. Description CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command 'OS Command Injection': Autodesk VRED Professional 2014 contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability...

Unauthorized modification of UEFI variables in UEFI systems

Overview Certain firmware implementations may not correctly protect and validate information contained in certain UEFI variables. Exploitation of such vulnerabilities could potentially lead to bypass of security features and/or denial of service for the platform. Description As discussed in recen...

Dell KACE K1000 management appliance contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability

Overview Dell KACE K1000 management appliance version 5.5.90545, and possibly earlier versions, contains a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability. CWE-79 Description Dell KACE K1000 management appliance version 5.5.90545, and possibly earlier versions, contains a cross-site scripting XSS...

HP Insight Diagnostics 8.20 b2878 multiple vulnerabilities

Overview HP Insight Diagnostics 8.20 b2878 and possibly earlier versions contains multiple vulnerabilities. Description It has been reported that HP Insight Diagnostics 8.20 b2878 and possibly earlier versions contains multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute...

Serva32 2.1.0 TFTPD service buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview Serva32 2.1.0 TFTPD service contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. Description The Serva32 2.1.0 TFTPD service contains a buffer overflow vulnerability when parsing large read requests. When the application reads in a large buffer the application crashes. --- Impact An unauthenticated...

pd-admin contains cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Overview pd-admin, a web interface for users of hosting providers, is susceptible to cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. Description CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' pd-admin, contains cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. The...

PHP Address Book sqli vulnerability

Overview PHP Address Book web application is vulnerable to multiple sqli injection vulnerabilities. Description CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command 'SQL Injection'PHP Address Book 8.2.5 and possibly older versions fail to sanitize input from multiple...

IBM ISS Proventia Mail Security contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview IBM ISS Proventia Mail Security contains cross-site scripting and arbitrary file read vulnerabilities. Description The IBM security advisories state:CVE-2012-2955 "The administrative user interface contains pages where it is possible to inject arbitrary JavaScript code contained in an HT...

Quagga contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Quagga, a routing software suite, contains multiple vulnerabilities that result in a denial-of-service condition. Description Quagga 0.99.20 and previous versions are susceptible to various denial-of-service conditions. The Quagga advisories state the following:CVE-2012-0249 :E rror in...

Project Open cross-site scripting vulnerability

Overview Project Open po version 3.4 and possibly earlier versions suffer from a reflective cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the account-closed.tcl script Description The XSS vulnerability CWE-79 is contained within the message parameter in the account-closed.tcl script...

Dell KACE K2000 Appliance database administration account allows arbitrary command execution

Overview The Dell KACE K2000 System Deployment Appliance contains a vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected device. Description The Dell KACE K2000 Deployment Appliance is an integrated systems provisioning product for large-scale operating...

MIT KDC vulnerable to double-free when PKINIT enabled

Overview The KDC in releases krb5-1.7 and later are vulnerable to a double-free vulnerability if they are configured to respond to PKINIT requests. Description The MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2011-003 states:"The MIT Kerberos 5 Key Distribution Center KDC daemon is vulnerable to a double-free...

Libpng 1.5.0 png_set_rgb_to_gray() vulnerability

Overview Libpng-1.5.0 introduced a vulnerability in the rgb-to-gray transform function. Description Libpng based applications that call the pngsetrgbtogray function from pngrtran.c are vulnerable. Libpng versions prior to 1.5.0 are not vulnerable. --- Impact An attacker may cause the application ...

Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools WBEMSingleView.ocx ActiveX control vulnerability

Overview The ActiveX control, WBEMSingleView.ocx, that is a part of the WMI Administrative Tools package contains a vulnerability. Description The AddContextRef and ReleaseContext functions of the WMI Object Viewer control can be passed an object pointer from an attacker that results in arbitrary...

Microsoft Internet Explorer invalid flag reference vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer invalid flag reference vulnerability Description According to the Microsoft Security Research & Defense Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer incorrectly under-allocates memory to store a certain combination of Cascading Style Sheets CSS tags when parsing HTML,...

ISC DHCP server fails to handle zero-length client identifier

Overview A vulnerability in ISC DHCP could allow a remote attacker to cause the DHCP server to exit, resulting in a denial of service. Description ISC DHCP is a commonly redistributed reference implementation of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP, including a server, client, and relay...

Adobe Acrobat and Reader contain vulnerabilities in multiple Document Object JavaScript methods

Overview A vulnerability in the way Adobe Acrobat and Reader enforce privileges on JavaScript in PDF files could allow arbitrary files to be written to the local file system of an affected system. Description Adobe Reader and the Adobe Acrobat family of software are designed to create, view, and...

Trend Micro HouseCall ActiveX control notifyOnLoadNative() uses previously free'd memory

Overview The Trend Micro HouseCall ActiveX control contains a vulnerability that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Trend Micro HouseCall ActiveX control HousecallActiveX.dll contains a "use-after-free" vulnerability. Usi...

InstallShield Update Service Agent ActiveX control memory corruption

Overview The InstallShield Update Service ActiveX control contains a memory corruption vulnerability that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The InstallShield Update Service contains an ActiveX control called Update Service...

RealNetworks RealPlayer Shockwave Flash (SWF) file vulnerability

Overview RealNetworks RealPlayer fails to properly handle frames within Shockwave Flash SWF files, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The RealNetworks RealPlayer application provides support for the SWF file format. A...

Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control race condition

Overview The Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control contains a race condition, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to download arbitrary files to arbitrary locations. Description Microsoft Snapshot Viewer is a viewer for snapshots created with Microsoft Access. Snapshot...

Apple Safari automatically executes downloaded files based on Internet Explorer zone settings

Overview Apple Safari automatically executes downloaded files based on Internet Explorer zone settings, which can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Apple Safari is a web browser that is available for OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms. Apple...

Apple Help Viewer vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview A vulnerability in the way Apple Help Viewer handles specially crafted URLs may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. Description According to Apple Security Update 2008-003: An integer underflow in Help Viewer's handling of help:topic URLs may result ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 DisableCachingOfSSLPages may not prevent caching

Overview Setting the Internet Explorer 7 option DisableCachingOfSSLPages may not prevent the caching of SSL-enabled web pages. Description Administrators and users can set the Internet Explorer DisableCachingOfSSLPages option to prevent sensitive or private data from being saved to disk. The...

BGP implementations do not properly handle UPDATE messages

Overview BGP implementations from multiple vendors including Juniper may not properly handle specially crafted BGP UPDATE messages. These vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Disrupting BGP communication could lead to routing instability...

Microsoft DirectX SAMI parsing buffer overflow

Overview Microsoft DirectX is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft DirectX is a feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system used for streaming...

Mortbay Jetty fails to properly handle cookies with quotes

Overview Mortbay Jetty fails to properly handle cookie quotes, which may allow session hijacking. Description Mortbay Jetty is a web server that is written in Java. Jetty fails to properly handle cookies with certain quote sequences. This can cause the Jetty cookie parsing mechanism to improperly...

VUPlayer malformed playlist buffer overflow

Overview VUPlayer fails to properly handle malformed playlists. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description VUPlayer is a freeware audio player for the Microsoft Windows platform. It can play various types of media files, such as MP3s. A Playlist .PLS or...

Yahoo! Installer Plugin for Widgets ActiveX control stack buffer overflow

Overview The Yahoo! Installer Plugin for Widgets ActiveX control contains a stack buffer overflow, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Yahoo! Widgets is a program for Windows that allows the user to run applications call...

Microsoft Windows VML compressed content integer underflow

Overview Microsoft Windows VML fails to properly handle compressed content, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft IE version 5.0 and higher supports the Vector Markup Language VML, which is a set of XML tags for...

Adobe Flash Player fails to properly validate HTTP Referers

Overview The Adobe Flash Player fails to properly validate HTTP Referers. This may allow an attacker to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks. Description Adobe Flash Player is a player for the Flash media format and enables frame-based animations with sound to be viewed within a web browser...

Microsoft Windows Active Directory fails to properly validate LDAP requests

Overview A vulnerability in Windows Active Directory could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP is a standard protocol that enables users to query or modify the data in a meta directory. Microsoft's...

SAP Message Server heap buffer overflow

Overview The SAP Message Server contains a flaw that may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. Description The SAP Message Server is used to exchange and regulate messages between servers in a SAP network. A heap-based buffer...

RealNetworks GameHouse dldisplay ActiveX control stack buffer overflows

Overview The RealNetworks GameHouse dldisplay ActiveX control contains multiple stack buffer overflows, which could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description RealNetworks GameHouse is a web site that provides games. GameHouse has an...

HP-UX ICMP vulnerable to DoS via ICMP Path Maximum Transmission Unit (PMTU) Discovery

Overview A vulnerability in HP-UX may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a specially crafted ICMP packet. Description A number of widely accepted Internet standards describe different aspects of the relationships between the Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP and...

Intel Centrino wireless drivers fail to properly process malformed frames

Overview Microsoft Windows drivers for Intel Centrino wireless adapters fail to properly handle malformed frames. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description The Microsoft Windows drivers for Intel Centrino 2200BG and 2915ABG PRO wireless adapters fail to...

AOL SuperBuddy ActiveX fails to properly validate method arguments

Overview The AOL SuperBuddy ActiveX control does not properly validate arguments to the LinkSBIcons method. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The AOL SuperBuddy ActiveX control Sb.SuperBuddy.1 is a compone...

Apple Mac OS X fails to properly handle corrupted Universal Mach-O Binaries

Overview A vulnerability in the way Apple Mac OS X handles corrupted Universal Mach-O Binaries may result in execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. Description Apple Mac OS X uses the Mach-O file format's ability to support more than one type of machine code to create Mac OS X Universa...

Apple Mac OS X fails to properly handle corrupted UDTO HFS+ image structures

Overview Apple Mac OS X fails to properly handle corrupted UDTO HFS+ image structures. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Hierarchical File System HFS+ is a file system that supports files that use 32-bit block addresses and Unicode file a...

Novell Netmail WebAdmin buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview Novell NetMail contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Novell NetMail is an email and messenging software package developed by Novell. It is designed to offer mail and calendaring services to large groups of users.WebAdmi...

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...

Cisco Firewall Services Module vulnerable to DoS via inspection of malformed SIP messages

Overview Cisco Firewall Services Module fails to properly inspect SIP messages. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition. Description The Cisco Firewall Services Module is an integrated firewall service for Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches and Cisco...

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...

Apple Mac OS X UFS filesystem integer overflow vulnerability

Overview There is an integer overflow in the ffsmountfs function, which is used by Apple's OS X operating system to handle UFS disc images. Description Unix File System UFS is a file system used by Unix and other similar operating systems. Apple OS X supports UFS, partitions, and images. There is...

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...

X.Org fails to check for setuid failure on Linux systems

Overview Programs distributed as part of the X.Org software distribution fail to properly handle test results for effective user ID. This vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation. Description Linux, like most Unix systems, provides a system call, setuid, to set the effective user ID of a...

NVIDIA Display Driver for Unix systems vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview A vulnerability in the NVIDIA Display Driver for Unix systems may allow a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. Description The NVIDIA Display Driver for Unix systems provides access to the display adapter's accelerated features on supported systems, and includes a modu...