libpng fails to properly check length of transparency chunk (tRNS) data

Overview The Portable Network Graphics library libpng contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability, which could lead to arbitrary code execution on an affected system. Description The Portable Network Graphics PNG image format is used as an alternative to other image formats such as the Graphics...

libpng contains integer overflows in progressive display image reading

Overview The Portable Network Graphics library libpng contains several flaws in progressive image handling that could introduce a remotely exploitable vulnerability. Description The Portable Network Graphics PNG image format is used as an alternative to other image formats such as the Graphics...

libpng png_handle_iCCP() NULL pointer dereference

Overview The Portable Network Graphics library libpng contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that could cause affected applications to crash. Description The Portable Network Graphics PNG image format is used as an alternative to other image formats such as the Graphics Interchange Format...

libpng png_handle_sBIT() performs insufficient bounds checking

Overview The Portable Network Graphics library libpng contains a flaw that could introduce a remotely exploitable vulnerability. Description The Portable Network Graphics PNG image format is used as an alternative to other image formats such as the Graphics Interchange Format GIF. The libpng...

libpng png_handle_sPLT() integer overflow

Overview The Portable Network Graphics library libpng contains a flaw that could introduce a remotely exploitable vulnerability. Description The Portable Network Graphics PNG image format is used as an alternative to other image formats such as the Graphics Interchange Format GIF. The libpng...

BlackJumboDog contains buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview BlackJumboDog fails to verify the length of several FTP commands, creating a buffer overflow vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability may result in code execution on the target system with privileges of the FTP service. Description BlackJumboDog is a multi-function server for...

Check Point VPN-1 products contain boundary error in the ASN.1 decoding library

Overview A vulnerability exists in Check Point's VPN-1 Server, which is included in many Check Point products. This vulnerability may permit a remote attacker to compromise the gateway system. Description Check Point VPN-1 Server is a Virtual Private Network VPN application. A buffer overflow...

Microsoft Internet Explorer contains an integer overflow in the processing of bitmap files

Overview A vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Internet Explorer IE is a web browser. An integer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the way that Internet Explorer processes...

Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a double-free vulnerability in the processing of GIF files

Overview A double-free vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer IE web browser could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition or execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Internet Explorer IE is a web browser. A double-free vulnerability has...

Cisco Transaction Language 1 (TL1) interface fails to properly validate accounts with blank passwords

Overview There is a vulnerability in the Cisco Transaction Language 1 TL1 login interface that could allow a remote attacker to gain access to a Cisco ONS device. Description Transaction Language 1 TL1 is a widely used telecommunications management protocol. A default account, CISCO15, contains a...

Multiple Cisco ONS control cards fail to properly handle malformed IP packets

Overview A vulnerability exists in multiple control cards used by Cisco ONS devices. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Cisco's Optical Networking product line consists of a series of devices designed to offer high-bandwidth data...

Multiple Cisco ONS control cards fail to properly handle malformed UDP packets

Overview A vulnerability exists in multiple control cards used by Cisco ONS devices. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Cisco's Optical Networking product line consists of a series of devices designed to offer high-bandwidth data...

Multiple Cisco ONS control cards fail to properly handle malformed SNMP packets

Overview A vulnerability exists in multiple control cards used by Cisco ONS devices. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Cisco's Optical Networking product line consists of a series of devices designed to offer high-bandwidth data...

Multiple Cisco ONS control cards fail to properly handle malformed TCP packets

Overview A vulnerability exists in multiple control cards used by Cisco ONS devices. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Cisco's Optical Networking product line consists of a series of devices designed to offer high-bandwidth data...

Multiple Cisco ONS control cards fail to properly handle malformed ICMP packets

Overview A vulnerability exists in multiple control cards used by Cisco ONS devices. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Cisco's Optical Networking product line consists of a series of devices designed to offer high-bandwidth data...

Multiple Cisco ONS control cards fail to properly handle invalid TCP responses

Overview A vulnerability exists in multiple control cards used by Cisco ONS devices. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description Cisco's Optical Networking product line consists of a series of devices designed to offer high-bandwidth data...

Sun Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) fails to properly handle malformed probe requests

Overview There is a vulnerability in the Sun Solaris Volume Manager SVM that could allow a local user to cause a denial-of-service condition. Description The Sun Volume Manager is a component of the Solaris operating system and provides disk and storage management. There is a vulnerability in the...

Sun Java System Portal Server fails to properly handle changes to display options

Overview There is a vulnerability in the Sun Java System Portal Server, which could allow a remote, authenticated user to gain access to the administrative credentials of the Calendar server. Description The Sun Java System Portal Server is a content management system that provides centralized...

mod_ssl contains a format string vulnerability in the ssl_log() function

Overview There is a format string vulnerability in the ssllog function of the modssl module that could allow an attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code. Description modssl is an Apache module that provides Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocol support...

Microsoft Windows Utility Manager launches applications with system privileges

Overview The Microsoft Windows 2000 Utility Manager allows authenticated local users to launch applications with SYSTEM privileges. Description The Microsoft Windows 2000 Utility Manager is a program that permits users to monitor and launch various accessibility applications. This program contain...

Microsoft Windows fails to properly process showHelp URLs

Overview A vulnerability in the showHelp Method may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description A cross domain vulnerability exists in the showHelp method that may permit a remote attacker to execute local commands on the system with the privileges of the current user...

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...

Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Buffer Overflow

Overview Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler has a buffer overflow that may allow a remote or local intruder to execute arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Mstask.dll is a COM-based API ActiveX control that provides a scheduling service for executing arbitrary commands on a...

Microsoft Outlook Express fails to properly validate malformed e-mail headers

Overview A vulnerability exists in some versions of Microsoft Outlook Express that could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Description According to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-018, a flaw exists in the way that some versions of Microsoft's Outlook Express mail client...

Microsoft Windows contains a buffer overflow in the POSIX subsystem

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX POSIX subsystem for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. This vulnerability may be exploited by a local authenticated user to gain full system privileges. Description Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000...

Microsoft Windows contains a vulnerability in the way the Windows Shell launches applications

Overview Microsoft Windows contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the way that the Windows Shell launches applications. An remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code if they could trick a user into visiting a malicious website. Description Microsoft...

Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 contains a buffer overflow in the redirect function

Overview There is a vulnerability in the redirect function of Microsoft's Internet Information Server IIS 4.0 that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Description Internet Information Server IIS is a web server available for the Microsoft Windows operating...

MySQL fails to properly evaluate zero-length strings in the check_scramble_323() function

Overview There is a vulnerability in the password authentication mechanism of MySQL which could allow an attacker to bypass authentication by supplying a zero-length string. Description MySQL is an open-source database system available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and other UNIX-based operating...

MySQL fails to properly handle overly long "scramble" values

Overview There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way MySQL handles overly long "scramble" strings, which could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. Description MySQL is an open-source database system available for Microsoft Windows, Linux,...

Cisco Collaboration Server (CCS) ServletExec allows arbitrary file uploading

Overview There is a vulnerability in the ServletExec subcomponent of the Cisco Collaboration Server CCS that could allow an attacker to upload arbitrary files to the server. Description The Cisco Collaboration Server CCS is designed to provide interactive customer support web page sharing,...

Mozilla fails to restrict access to the "shell:" URI handler

Overview A vulnerability in the way Mozilla and its derived programs handle certain types of links could allow an attacker to run local programs on a vulnerable system. Description Versions of the Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird programs for Microsoft Windows will handle URIs of the form shell:...

Juniper JUNOS Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) IPv6 memory leak

Overview The Juniper JUNOS Packet Forwarding Engine PFE leaks memory when certain IPv6 packets are submitted for processing. If an attacker submits multiple packets to a vulnerable router running IPv6-enabled PFE, the router can be repeatedly rebooted, essentially creating a denial of service for...

Sun Solaris vulnerable to DoS when the Basic Security Module (BSM) is configured to perform auditing of specific classes

Overview There is a vulnerability in Sun Solaris that could allow local users to cause a denial of service when the Basic Security Module BSM is configured to perform auditing of specific audit classes. Description Sun Microsystems describes the Basic Security Module BSM as a "security auditing...

Sun Solaris patches may cause passwords to be logged in clear text

Overview Sun Solaris contains a vulnerability in which systems configured as kerberos clients that have specific patches installed may log passwords in clear text. Description Sun Microsystems released patches 112908-12 and 115168-03 to address issues in kerberos. There is a vulnerability in thes...

ISC DHCP contains C Includes that define vsnprintf() to vsprintf() creating potential buffer overflow conditions

Overview The Internet Systems Consortium's ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP 3 application contains a vulnerability that introduces several potential buffer overflow conditions. Exploitation of this vulnerability can cause a denial-of-service condition to the DHCP Daemon DHCPD and may...

ISC DHCP contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in handling log lines containing ASCII characters only

Overview The Internet Systems Consortium's ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP 3 application contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability can cause a denial of service condition to the DHCP Daemon DHCPD and may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary...

Apple Mac OS X vulnerable to privilege escalation when using Directory Services

Overview A vulnerability in Mac OS X may permit a local authenticated user with physical access to the machine to gain elevated privileges. Description Mac OS X permits the remote authentication of users via directory sevices lookups. When a user logs in to a machine configured to use the Directo...

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...

Linux kernel fails to properly handle floating point signals generated by "fsave" and "frstor"

Overview The Linux kernel contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows local users to disable affected hosts. Description Several versions of the Linux kernel contain a defect in their use of the Intel processor instruction set. The "fsave" and "frstor" instructions are used to store an...

Cisco CatOS TCP ACK handling vulnerability

Overview A vulnerability in Cisco CatOS may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on an affected device. Description Cisco's CatOS is an operating system that runs on some Cisco Catalyst switch products. A vulnerability in the way that TCP services on CatOS handle malformed...

BEA WebLogic Server contains vulnerability in handling of certain tags when editing "weblogic.xml"

Overview BEA WebLogic Server contains a vulnerability in the way Weblogic Builder and the SecurityRoleAssignmentMBean.toXML method parse certain tags in the weblogic.xml file. Description BEA Systems describes WebLogic Server as "an industrial-strength application infrastructure for developing,...

Cisco IPsec VPNSM vulnerable to DoS via malformed IKE packet

Overview A vulnerability in a Cisco VPN module can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service to the device in which the module is installed. Description The Cisco IP Security IPsec VPN Services Module VPNSM is a high-speed module for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch and the Cisco...

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...

Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly validate source of redirected frame

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer IE does not adequately validate the security context of a frame that has been redirected by a web server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to evaluate script in different security domains. By causing script to be evaluated in the Local Machine Zone...

Oracle E-Business Suite SQL Injection vulnerabilities

Overview Oracle E-Business Suite fails to filter user input permiting the exploitation of SQL injection vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to execute procedures or SQL queries and updates on the vulnerable database application. Description According to the Oracle...

MIT Kerberos 5 krb5_aname_to_localname() contains several heap overflows

Overview MIT Kerberos 5 contains several heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities in code that translates Kerberos principal names to local UNIX account names. An authenticated, remote attacker could execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system with root privileges. Description MIT Kerberos 5 contai...

HP OpenView Select Access fails to properly decode UTF-8 encoded unicode characters in URLs

Overview There is a vulnerability in the way HP OpenView Select Access decodes UTF-8 encoded unicode characters in URLs. This vulnerability could allow a remote user to gain access to resources the user would otherwise be unauthorized to access. Description HP OpenView Select Access is a software...

Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 ActiveX control fails to properly validate input

Overview There is a vulnerability in an ActiveX control provided by Norton AntiVirus 2004 that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary programs, launch a browser window containing an unauthorized URL, or cause a denial of service on a vulnerable system. Description Norton AntiVirus 2004 is a...

Apple Mac OS X help system may interpret inappropriate local script files

Overview A vulnerability has been reported in the default URI protocol handler in Apple's Mac OS X help system. Exploitation of this vulnerability may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary scripts on the local system. Description A vulnerability has been reported in Apple's Mac OS X...

Apple Mac OS X "disk://" URI handler stores arbitrary files in a known location

Overview A vulnerability has been reported in the default "disk://" protocol handler installed on Apple Mac OS X systems. Remote attackers may potentially use this vulnerability to create files on the local system without explicit user consent. We have not independently verified the scope of this...