Microsoft Internet Explorer property memory corruption vulnerability

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer handles malformed property objects may may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Internet Explorer contatins a vulnerabilty that could be exploited when Internet Explorer attempts to interpret Web pages that...

SkypeFind fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input

Overview The Skype client does not properly filter user-supplied input that was received from the SkypeFind service. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Skype is a peer-to-peer application that provides Voice over IP VoIP and Instant Messaging services...

Microsoft Windows Vista Weather Gadget vulnerability

Overview The Windows Vista Weather gadget contains a vulnerability that may allow and attacker to execute code. Description From Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-048:Gadgets are mini-applications designed to provide the user with information or utilities. Windows Vista treats gadgets similar to t...

Microsoft Windows Win32 API fails to properly validate function parameters

Overview The Microsoft Windows Win32 API fails to properly validate function parameters, which could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Microsoft Windows Win32 API is a set of application programming interfaces for the...

Logitech VideoCall multiple ActiveX controls contain stack buffer overflows

Overview Logitech VideoCall ActiveX controls contain multiple stack buffer overflows, which could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Logitech VideoCall is video conferencing software for Windows. Logitech VideoCall includes...

Apple QuickTime for Java information disclosure vulnerability

Overview Apple QuickTime for Java fails to properly clear memory. As a result, sensitive information may be exposed to unintended parties. Description Apple QuickTime includes the ability to integrate QuickTime into Java applications and applets. This feature is known as QuickTime for Java. Apple...

HTTP content scanning systems full-width/half-width Unicode encoding bypass

Overview Various HTTP content scanning systems fail to properly scan full-width/half-width Unicode encoded traffic. This may allow malicious HTTP traffic to bypass content scanning systems. Description Full-width and half-width encoding is a technique for encoding Unicode characters. Various HTTP...

Apple QuickTime for Java QTPointerRef heap memory corruption vulnerability

Overview Apple QuickTime for Java contains a heap memory corruption vulnerability, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Apple QuickTime includes the ability to integrate QuickTime into Java applications and applets. This...

CA BrightStor ARCserver Tape Engine memory corruption vulnerability

Overview The Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine contains a memory corruption vulnerability. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or create a denial-of-service condition. Description BrightStor ARCserve Backup is a...

Microsoft Malware Protection Engine fails to properly process a specially crafted PDF File

Overview A vulnerability in the way Microsoft Malware Protection Engine processes PDF files may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Malware Protection Engine contains a vulnerability that could be exploited when it attempts to process specially crafted PDF files. According ...

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...

Trend Micro Anti-Rootkit Common Module fails to properly restrict access to the "\\.\TmComm" DOS device interface

Overview A vulnerability exists in Trend Micro's Anti-Rootkit Common Module that may allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges. Description Trend Micro AntiVirus is a virus scanner for Microsoft Windows and Linux. The Trend Micro Anti-Rootkit Common Module is included with Trend Micro...

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...

Cisco Secure Access Control Server fails to properly handle specially crafted Access-Request messages

Overview Several vulnerabilities in the RADIUS server supplied with Cisco Secure ACS products could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description Cisco Secure ACS is a Remote Access Dial-In User Service RADIUS and Terminal Access Controller Access Control...

Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services server fails to securely create error log files

Overview The Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services server insecurely creates error log files, which may allow a local attacker to overwrite or create files with system privileges. Description Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services server fails to securely create error log files. A local attacker may be...

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...

NaviCOPA Web Server fails to properly handle certain HTTP requests

Overview A vulnerability exists in the NaviCOPA Web Server. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description NaviCOPA Web Server is an HTTP server that is available for multiple versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 98, NT, 2000,...

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...

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...

AOL YGP Screensaver ActiveX control buffer overflow

Overview The AOL YGP Screensaver ActiveX control contains a buffer overflow vulnerability, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The AOL YGP You've Got Pictures Screensaver ActiveX control is a component that comes with AO...

HP OpenView Storage Data Protector may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands

Overview A vulnerability in HP OpenView Storage Data Protector may allow an attacker to issue arbitrary commands on an affected system. Description HP OpenviewHP Openview is a range of products, distributed and developed by Hewlett Packard, that are used for enterprise system and network...

Symantec Veritas Backup Exec for Windows Server vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow

Overview Symantec Veritas Backup Exec for Windows Server contains multiple heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities which can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. Description VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows Server is a data backup and...

Microsoft Windows fails to properly parse the MHTML protocol

Overview Microsoft Windows fails to properly handle MHTML. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description MHTML According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-043: MHTML extends HTML to embed encoded objects, such as images, in the HTML...

Microsoft Word object pointer memory corruption vulnerability

Overview A memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Word could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Word. Description Microsoft Word contains a memory corruption vulnerability. According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-027:When a user...

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...

Mozilla CSS integer overflow vulnerability

Overview Mozilla products contain an integer overflow that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Cascading Style SheetsCSS is a mechanism for adding style to web documents. The problem Mozilla products contain an integer overflow in the CSS letter...

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...

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...

TWiki does not properly sanitize URI parameters

Overview A lack of input validation in the TWiki revision control function may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands. Description TWiki is a web-based collaborative publishing environment. TWiki does not sanitize user-controlled URI parameters supplied to the...

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...

Apple Mac OS X Directory Services contains a buffer overflow

Overview A buffer overflow in Apple Mac OS X Directory Service's authentication process may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Apple Mac OS X Server Directory Service provides reading, writing, and authentication services within...

WebEOC is vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition via uploading large files

Overview WebEOC does not properly impose size limits on files that a user can upload. This may allow a authorized attacker to exhaust system resources leading to a denial-of-service condition. Description WebEOC is a web-based crisis information management application that provides functions to...

Microsoft Object Management DoS Vulnerability

Overview Microsoft Object Management code has a buffer overflow vulnerability that can cause a system to reboot. Description A buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Object Management code exists that could be attacked by sending specially crafted requests locally on an affected operating...

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...

UW-imapd fails to properly authenticate users when using CRAM-MD5

Overview A vulnerablility in an authentication method for the University of Washington IMAP server could allow a remote attacker to access any user's mailbox. Description The Internet Message Access Protocol IMAP is a method of accessing electronic messages kept on a remote mail server and is...

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...

Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerable to buffer overflow via FRAME and IFRAME elements

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer IE contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running IE. Description A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the way IE handles the SRC and NAME attributes of HTML elements...

Multiple networking devices fail to set the "Secure" attribute of a cookie

Overview Multiple vendors' networking devices fail to set the "Secure" cookie attribute and could disclose sensitive information about a user's HTTP session. Description Many networking devices provide a built-in web server, which may support the HTTPS protocol. When a user logs into the device...

Apple Mac OS X CoreFoundation contains a buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview There is a vulnerability in the Mac OS X CoreFoundation framework that could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description The Core Foundation framework CoreFoundation.framework is designed to allow code and data sharing between frameworks, libraries, and applications in...

Oracle Database Server contains several vulnerabilities

Overview Several vulnerabilities exist in the Oracle Database Server and Listener. According the the Oracle Security Alert, exploitation of these vulnerabilities would require the attacker to have network access, but not a valid user account on the vulnerable system. Description Oracle Database 1...

BGP implementations do not adequately handle malformed BGP OPEN and UPDATE messages

Overview Multiple implementations of the Border Gateway Protocol BGP contain vulnerabilities related to the processing of UPDATE and OPEN messages. The impacts of these vulnerabilities appear to be limited to denial of service. Description BGP RFC 1771 is designed to exchange network reachability...

Perl vulnerable to buffer overflow in win32_stat()

Overview A flaw in a standard function in some Perl distributions could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. Description The stat Perl function, similar to the standard C stat function, returns a list giving the status info for a file. Since the stat function is...

BEA WebLogic Server configuration wizard stores administrative credentials in clear text log files

Overview There is a vulnerability in BEA WebLogic Server in which a user with access to log files generated by the configuration wizard could obtain the administrative username and password. Description BEA Systems describes WebLogic Server as "an industrial-strength application infrastructure fo...

Microsoft Windows XP creates tasks with elevated privileges

Overview Microsoft Windows XP contains a vulnerability in the way that tasks are created that may permit an authenticated user to launch applications with elevated privileges. Description Microsoft Windows creates tasks when a user launches an application. A vulnerability in the way that Windows ...

Sun Solaris passwd command allows for privilege escalation

Overview Sun Solaris contains a vulnerability in the passwd1 command which could allow for privilege escalation. Description The passwd command is used to update a user's authentication tokens. There is non-specific vulnerability identified in Sun Security Alert ID: 57454. This vulnerability coul...

metamail contains multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Overview Multiple buffer overflows in the metamail package could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. An attacker may be able to exploit these vulnerabilities via a specially-crafted email message. Description The metamail package is one of the first widely...

Cisco Secure PIX Firewall TCP Reset Vulnerability

Overview A vulnerability in Cisco's Secure PIX Firewall may allow a remote attacker to reset arbitrary TCP sessions. Description Cisco describes the Secure PIX Firewall as, "an easy-to-install, integrated hardware/software firewall appliance". A vulnerability in the Secure PIX Firewall may allow ...

Solaris systems may crash in response to certain IPv6 packets

Overview Solaris 8 systems that accept IPv6 traffic may be subject to denial of service attacks from arbitrary remote attackers. Description Sun Microsystems has reported that systems running Solaris 8 may encounter a system panic in response to IPv6 packets with certain characteristics. Sun Aler...

OpenVMS page management vulnerability

Overview Old versions circa 1993 of OpenVMS and OpenVMS AXP contain a vulnerability related to page management. Description There is a vulnerability related to page management in old versions circa 1993 of Open VMS. An exploit for this vulnerability, written in MACRO-32, was available at the time...

Protegrity Secure.Data for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contains buffer overflows in extended stored procedures

Overview Protegrity Secure.Data for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 includes several extended stored procedures that contain buffer overflow vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, gain access to databases, or cause a denial of service. Descriptio...