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 ...

Unexpected ACL Behavior in BIND 9.7.2

Overview A flaw exists in BIND 9.7.2 through 9.7.2-P1 pertaining to how an ACL is applied. Description There is a flaw in BIND 9.7.2 through 9.7.2-P1 where the wrong ACL is applied. This flaw could allow access to a cache via recursion even though the ACL disallowed it. This bug is primarily a ri...

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...

Mozilla Firefox code execution vulnerability

Overview Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.15 contain a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute code. Description Versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to 2.0.0.15 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability. Browsers such as SeaMonkey and Epiphany that use Mozilla's rendering engine ma...

HP Online Support Services ActiveX AppendStringToFile() arbitrary file writing

Overview The HP Online Support Services ActiveX control contains a method called AppendStringToFile. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to write to files on a vulnerable system. Description HP Services provides online product support services including HP Instant Support. The...

PhotoStockPlus Uploader Tool ActiveX stack buffer overflows

Overview The PhotoStockPlus Uploader Tool ActiveX control contains several stack buffer overflows, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description PhotoStockPlus provides an image uploader ActiveX control, which is provided by the...

Microsoft Office Project vulnerable to remote code execution via specially crafted Project file

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office Project parses files may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Office Project contains a vulnerability that could be exploited when Project attempts to parse specially crafted files. According to Microsoft Security Bulletin...

Cisco IOS denial-of-service vulnerability

Overview A vulnerability in the way Cisco IOS handles IPv6 packets could result in a remotely exploitable denial of service. Description The Cisco Internetwork Operating System IOS includes support for processing Internet Protocol version 6 IPv6 packets.Per Cisco Advisory...

Adobe Form Designer and Advanced Form Client ActiveX controls contain multiple buffer overflows

Overview Adobe Form Designer and Advanced Form Client contain multiple ActiveX buffer overflows, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Adobe Form Designer and Advanced Form Client software provide multiple ActiveX...

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...

Microsoft Windows Vista privilege escalation vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Windows Vista contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Description The Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call ALPC does not properly evaluate certain conditions in legacy reply paths.Per Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-066: An elevation of privilege vulnerability...

Mozilla products vulnerable to memory corruption in the browser engine

Overview A number of vulnerabilities in the Mozilla browser engine may allow the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. Description The Mozilla browser engine contains several vulnerabilities that may result in memory corruption. The impact of this memory corruption in specific cases i...

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...

Trend Micro ServerProtect Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Overview Trend Micro ServerProtect contains an integer overflow vulnerability that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Trend Micro ServerProtect is an anti-virus application designed to run on Microsoft Windows servers. The application provides administrators with...

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...

IBM and Lenovo Access Support acpRunner ActiveX control format string vulnerability

Overview The IBM Lenovo Access Support acpRunner ActiveX control contains a format string vulnerability, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Access Support software package for IBM and Lenovo systems includes several...

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...

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...

InterActual Player SyscheckObject ActiveX controls contain stack buffer overflows

Overview InterActual Player provides multiple ActiveX controls that are vulnerable to buffer overflows. This can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description InterActual Player is a video DVD playing application for Windows systems...

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...

Microsoft Windows Shell vulnerable to privilege escalation

Overview A vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Shell may allow an attacker to gain access with escalated privileges. Description The Microsoft Windows Shell Hardware Detection service provides notification for AutoPlay hardware events. This service fails to properly validate a function parameter i...

Microsoft Word 2000 stack buffer overflow

Overview A stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Word could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Word 2000 fails to properly handle malformed documents allowing a stack-based buffer overflow to occur. It is possible that this vulnerability c...

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 Internet Explorer fails to properly handle malformed DHTML script function calls

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer handles malformed DHTML script function calls may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-072:When Internet Explorer interprets certain DHTML scrip...

Newtone ImageKit ActiveX buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Overview The Newtone ImageKit ActiveX controls contain several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Newtone ImageKit is a set of ActiveX controls that provide image processing, scanning, a...

Sky Software FileView ActiveX control allows arbitrary command execution via unsafe methods

Overview The Sky Software FileView ActiveX control contains unsafe methods, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Sky Software FileView object is an ActiveX control that is provided with several applications, such as...

The Mozilla Network Security Services library fails to properly verify RSA signatures

Overview The Mozilla Network Security Services library fails to properly verify RSA signatures. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to forge RSA signatures. Description RSA signatures are used to authenticate the source of a message. To prevent RSA signatures from being forged, messages are...

Computer Associates Discovery Service buffer overflow

Overview Multiple Computer Associates products contain a buffer overflow in the code that handles the Discovery Service protocol. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup, BrightStor...

Oracle ENABLE_HIERARCHY_INTERNAL procedure vulnerable to PL/SQL injection

Overview The Oracle ENABLEHIERARCHYINTERNAL procedure is vulnerable to PL/SQL injection. This vulnerability may allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PL/SQL commands on a vulnerable Oracle installation. Description The Oracle ENABLEHIERARCHYINTERNAL procedure fails to proper...

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...

Samba fails to properly handle multiple share connection requests

Overview There is a vulnerability in the smbd process which may allow an attacker to create a denial of service condition. Description Samba Samba is an open-source implementation of SMB/CIFS file and print services. It is frequently included in UNIX and Linux distributions and is typically used...

Microsoft Office string parsing vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Office fails to properly parse strings. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Office applications fail to properly parse strings. When an Office document containing malformed string is opened with an Office application...

Microsoft DXImageTransform Light filter fails to validate input

Overview The Microsoft DXImageTransform Light COM object fails to validate input, which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft COMMicrosoft COM is a technology that allows programmers to create reusable software components that can be...

Mozilla JavaScript cloned parent vulnerability

Overview Mozilla products fail to properly restrict access to a JavaScript functions cloned parent. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description According to Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-15: it was possible to use the...

SunnComm MediaMax privilege elevation vulnerability

Overview SunnComm MediaMax contains a privilege elevation vulnerability, which may allow a user with limited rights to execute code with elevated privileges. Description SunnComm MediaMax SunnComm MediaMax is copy protection software that is automatically installed by some audio CDs. Sony BMG has...

Microsoft Excel malformed record memory corruption vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Excel contains a memory corruption vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Excel fails to properly validate records in data files. When a file with a malformed record is opened in Exce...

Microsoft Office routing slip buffer overflow

Overview Microsoft Office contains a buffer overflow in the parsing of routing slips, which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Routing slips According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-012: Microsoft Office applications have the ability to add a...

LISTSERV contains multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the WA CGI script

Overview Several buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in LISTSERV. These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description L-Soft's LISTSERV is an email list management software package. It includes a Web Archive and...

Apple QuickTime fails to properly handle corrupt media files

Overview Apple QuickTime contains a heap overflow vulnerability in the handling of media files which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on a vulnerable system. Description Apple's QuickTime Player is multimedia software that allows...

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...

Apple Mac OS X AppKit vulnerable to buffer overflow via maliciously crafted Microsoft Word files

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in a component of Apple's Mac OS X operating system that handles Microsoft Word 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...

Symantec Norton AntiVirus vulnerable to DoS via the Auto-Protect "SmartScan" feature

Overview Symantec Norton AntiVirus may hang or crash when the Auto-Protect module SmartScan feature scans a renamed file on a network share. Description Symantec Norton AntiVirus is an anti-virus product for desktop and enterprise use. The Norton AntiVirus "Auto-Protect" module provides automatic...

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...

NotifyLink contains multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities

Overview There are multiple vulnerabilities in NotifyLink that allow unauthenticated remote users to view or modify the contents of the NotifyLink SQL database. Possible modifications include the addition of unauthorized user and administrator accounts. Description Notify Technology NotifyLink...

AWStats fails to validate input supplied to pluginmode parameter

Overview AWStats performs inadequate validation on user-controlled data that is supplied to the pluginmode parameter. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands. Description AWStats is a Perl CGI script that collects and graphically displays...

QNX PPPoEd daemon vulnerable to command spoofing

Overview The QNX PPPoEd daemon is vulnerable to command spoofing that may lead to arbitrary code execution. Description QNX is an RTOS Realtime Operating System. QNX is used in many different devices and industries, including, but not limited to routers manufacturing and processing medical...

Ability Server vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow in the Ability Server may allow remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code. Description A lack of input validation in Ability Server's FTP STOR command may allow a buffer overflow to occur. A remote authenticated attacker may be able to exploit this...

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...