HP Tru64 UNIX "lpc" contains buffer overflow (SSRT2260)

Overview The HP Tru64 UNIX implementation of "lpc" contains a locally exploitable buffer overflow. Description "lpc" is used to control the line printer system. A locally exploitable buffer overflow in "lpc" may permit a local attacker to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code on a...

HP Tru64 UNIX "passwd" contains buffer overflow (SSRT2192)

Overview The HP Tru64 UNIX implementation of "passwd" contains a locally exploitable buffer overflow. Description "passwd" is a utility used to change the password for the current user. A locally exploitable buffer overflow in "passwd" may permit a local attacker to gain elevated privileges and...

HP Tru64 UNIX "ypmatch" contains buffer overflow (SSRT2277)

Overview The HP Tru64 UNIX implementation of "ypmatch" contains a locally exploitable buffer overflow. Description "ypmatch" is used to print the value of keys from an NIS map. A locally exploitable buffer overflow in ypmatch may permit a local attacker to gain elevated privileges and execute...

HP Tru64 UNIX "traceroute" contains buffer overflow (SSRT2261)

Overview The HP Tru64 UNIX implementation of "traceroute" contains a locally exploitable buffer overflow. Description "traceroute" is used to display the route packets follow from one host to another on the Internet. A locally exploitable buffer overflow in "traceroute" may permit a local attacke...

Cisco VPN 3000 series concentrator does not properly handle malformed ISAKMP packets

Overview Cisco VPN 3000 series concentrators do not properly handle specially crafted Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol ISAKMP packets, which can cause a vulnerable device to reload, denying service to legitimate users. Description According to information on the Cisco web...

HP Tru64 UNIX contains buffer overflow in libc libraries (SSRT2257)

Overview The HP Tru64 Unix operating system contains multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Description A vulnerability exists in the way in which the libc libraries handle environment variables in the HP Tru64 UNIX operating system. As a result, local attackers may be able to execute arbitrar...

Sun Solaris ptexec does not adequately validate argument passed via -o option

Overview The Sun Solaris ptexec command is subject to a buffer overflow due to not adequately validating arguments passed via the -o option. Description A locally exploitable buffer overflow exists in the ptexec command which is included in the SUNWvts package. This package is not included in the...

Microsoft Windows Terminal Services Advanced Client (TSAC) contains buffer overflow in process that handles input parameters

Overview Microsoft Windows Terminal Services Advanced Client TSAC contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow. Description The Microsoft Windows Terminal Services Advanced Client TSAC contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow. This ActiveX control provides a way to deliver Terminal...

Microsoft Office Web Components allows reading of local files via "LoadText" method by using URL redirection

Overview The Microsoft Office Web Components allow a remote attacker to read arbitrary files. Description The Microsoft Office Web Components OWC are ActiveX controls that can be embedded in web pages. These controls give users of a website limited Microsoft Office functionality, without having t...

Microsoft Windows Server Message Block (SMB) fails to properly handle SMB_COM_TRANSACTION packets requesting NetServerEnum2 transaction

Overview Microsoft Server Message Block SMB may crash when it receives a crafted SMBCOMTRANSACTION packet requesting a NetServerEnum2 transaction. Attackers can use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. Description SMB is a protocol for sharing data and resources between computers. It ...

Microsoft Windows Server Message Block (SMB) fails to properly handle SMB_COM_TRANSACTION packets requesting NetShareEnum transaction

Overview Microsoft Server Message Block SMB is a protocol for sharing data and resources between computers. SMB may crash upon receipt of a crafted SMBCOMTRANSACTION packet requesting a NetShareEnum transaction. Attackers can use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. SMB is included in...

Microsoft Windows Server Message Block (SMB) fails to properly handle SMB_COM_TRANSACTION packets requesting NetServerEnum3 transaction

Overview Microsoft Server Message Block SMB may crash upon receipt of a crafted SMBCOMTRANSACTION packet requesting a NetServerEnum3 transaction. Attackers can use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. Description SMB is a protocol for sharing data and resources between computers,...

Novell Netware RCONAG6 fails to validate user password when "Secure IP" is used to establish connection

Overview Novell Netware RCONAG6 allows users to gain access to the server without a password. Description Novell Netware RCONAG6 allows users to remotely administer a Novell host. A vulnerability in RCONAG6 makes it possible for a remote user to connect to the server without supplying a password...

FreeBSD privilege elevation vulnerability

Overview A locally exploitable privilege elevation vulnerability exists in FreeBSD. Description A locally exploitable privilege elevation vulnerability exists in FreeBSD. For more information, please see the Pine Internet Security Advisory. --- Impact A local user can gain root privileges. ---...

Low BandWidth X proxy vulnerable to buffer overflow via crafted display command line option

Overview A locally exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Low BandWidth X proxy. Description The Low BandWidth X proxy is a component of XFree86 a freely redistributable open-source implementation of the X Window System. The Low BandWidth X proxy allows applications to transparently take...

Microsoft Windows SQL Server allows arbitrary queries to be executed via "xp_execresultset" extended procedure

Overview MS SQL Server contains an extended stored procedure with inappropriate permission settings. Description Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contain an extended stored procedure, xpexecresultset , that permits an unprivileged user of a database to gain administrative...

Microsoft Windows SQL Server allows arbitrary queries to be executed via "xp_displayparamstmt" extended procedure

Overview MS SQL Server contains an extended stored procedure with inappropriate permission settings. Description Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contain an extended stored procedure, xpdisplayparamstmt , that permits an unprivileged user of a database to gain administrative...

Microsoft Windows Network Connection Manager (NCM) handler routine may execute code with LocalSystem privileges

Overview A locally exploitable vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Connection Manager NCM. Exploitation of this vulnerability may permit a local user to gain full privileges on the system. Description Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Connection Manager NCM provides routines t...

Microsoft Windows SQL Server allows arbitrary queries to be executed via "xp_printstatements" extended procedure

Overview MS SQL Server contains an extended stored procedure with inappropriate permission settings. Description Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contain an extended stored procedure, xpprintstatements , that permits an unprivileged user of a database to gain administrative...

OpenBSD contains buffer overflow in "select" call

Overview A locally exploitable buffer overflow exists in all versions of OpenBSD. Description The buffer overflow exists in the select2 system call. The overflow occurs if select is supplied with arbitrary negative values. --- Impact Local users can gain system privileges and execute code in the...

Multiple vendors' Internet Key Exchange (IKE) implementations do not properly handle IKE response packets

Overview Internet Key Exchange IKE implementations from several vendors contain buffer overflows and denial-of-service conditions. The buffer overflow vulnerabilities could permit an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The CERT/CC has received a report describin...

Common Desktop Environment (CDE) ToolTalk RPC database server (rpc.ttdbserverd) vulnerable to buffer overflow via _TT_CREATE_FILE()

Overview The Common Desktop Environment CDE ToolTalk RPC database server contains a buffer overflow condition that could let an attacker execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on a vulnerable system. The ToolTalk RPC database server typically runs with root privileges. Description A...

Cisco CallManager contains memory leak

Overview The Cisco Call Manager contains a vulnerability that could permit an intruder to crash the Call Manager. Description The Cisco Call Manageris software to manage telephone calls in a mixed data and voice environment. Specifically the Cisco Call Manager "extends enterprise telephony featur...

Macromedia Flash Player continues to download flash files until browser is closed

Overview Macromedia Flash 6 does not terminate connections when a web user leaves the page. These connections may consume excessive amounts of bandwidth and limit the flow of other data. Description The Macromedia Flash media format enables frame-based animations with sound to be viewed within a...

SurfControl SuperScout does not filter web requests fragmented in multiple packets

Overview SurfControl SuperScout Web Filter does not block some HTTP requests that have been fragmented into multiple packets. Description SurfControl SuperScout Web Filter is software intended for companies that wish to limit employees' web surfing to appropriate uses. SuperScout anazlyzes...

SGI IRIX rpc.xfsmd uses weak authentication mechanism for RPC authentication

Overview The XFS file system on SGI systems allows anonymous remote users to call xfs-related RPC functions. Description XFS is a 64-bit compliant journaling file system. The XFS journaling filesystem daemon rpc.xfsmd on SGI systems uses the default AUTHUNIX authentication mechanism a client-base...

SGI IRIX rpc.xfsmd does not filter shell metacharacters from user input before invoking popen() function

Overview The XFS journaling filesystem daemon uses a call to popen3 with unfiltered client-controlled input. This will lead to arbitrary command execution on remote systems. Description XFS is a 64-bit compliant journaling file system. The XFS journaling filesystem daemon xfsmd on SGI systems use...

Nevrona Designs MiraMail stores all configuration and user account information in unencrypted text file

Overview Some versions of MiraMail store username and passwords in a text file without using encryption. Description MiraMail is a news server for Windows-based hosts. Versions of MiraMail up to and including 1.04 store MiraMail user data, including usernames and passwords, in unencrypted plainte...

Buffer-overflow vulnerability in Midnight Commander

Overview The mcedit component of some versions of Midnight Commander contains a buffer-overflow vulnerability. Description Midnight Commander is a file manager for open source operating systems, distributed under the GNU General Public License GPL. In version 4.5.1 of Midnight Commander, the mced...

Magic Enterprise contains multiple shell scripts that allow arbitrary file overwriting via symlink redirection of temporary file

Overview Some versions of Magic eDeveloper Enterprise Edition contain a symbolic-link vulnerability that allows attackers to overwrite data or execute arbitrary commands. Description Magic eDeveloper is a development environment for large-scale and distributed applications.Magic eDeveloper...

Multiple vendor implementations of file scanning utilities vulnerable to DoS via compressed file archive

Overview Several file scanning utilities, including some virus scanners, may fail and crash when scanning compressed file archives. Description Many file scanners will decompress compressed file archives in memory so their contents can be scanned. However, some of these scanners do not check if...

Talentsoft Web+ contains buffer overflow in "webpsvc.exe"

Overview Talentsoft's Web+ development platform contains a buffer overflow in a component that also installs by default into all web sites produced by Web+. Description Talentsoft Web+ is a set of tools for accelerated web site development. A component of Web+ named "webpsvc.exe" contains a buffe...

Mac OS X Finder creates world-readable ".FBCIndex" file thereby disclosing sensitive information

Overview Mac OS X's Find-By-Content indexing may store file data where it can be served to remote users by Apache. Description The Find-By-Content feature of Mac OS X generates indexing data from the contents of files in each directory. It then stores the indexing data for each directory in a...

Directory-traversal vulnerability in Mike Spice's My Classifieds CGI script

Overview Some versions of My Classifieds contain a directory-traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to overwrite files. Description My Classifieds is a Perl CGI script, maintained by Mike Spice, that produces dynamic ad listings on a web server and allows users to edit their ads remotely...

Multiple vendors' Domain Name System (DNS) stub resolvers vulnerable to buffer overflow via network name and address lookups

Overview Buffer overflow vulnerabilities exists in the DNS stub resolver library used by BSD, ISC BIND, and GNU glibc. Other systems that use DNS resolver code derived from ISC BIND may also be affected. An attacker who is able to control DNS responses could exploit arbitrary code or cause a deni...

ncompress vulnerable to buffer overflow via long filename

Overview Some versions of ncompress contain a buffer-overflow vulnerability. Description Versions 4.2.4 and earlier of ncompress do not properly handle filenames longer than 1023 characters. --- Impact By supplying long filenames to ncompress, an attacker may be able to gain local access to the...

Integer overflow in xdr_array() function when deserializing the XDR stream

Overview There is an integer overflow present in the xdrarray function distributed as part of the Sun Microsystems XDR library. This overflow has been shown to lead to remotely exploitable buffer overflows in multiple applications, leading to the execution of arbitrary code. Although the library...

Oracle Configurator discloses version and host information via "test" argument passed to servlet

Overview A servlet component of Oracle Configurator may post sensitive version and host information to any Web user that makes a crafted request to the server. Description Oracle Configurator is an Internet application used to configure Oracle Application and Database Servers. If a user sends a...

Certain implementations of SSH1 may reveal internal cryptologic state

Overview An implementation problem in at least one Secure Shell SSH product and a weakness in the PKCS11.5 public key encryption standard allows attackers to recover plaintext of messages encrypted with SSH. Description A weakness in some SSH products using the SSH1 protocol may allow an attacker...

OpenSSL contains multiple buffer overflows in buffers that are used to hold ASCII representations of integers

Overview OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer SSL protocol. There is a buffer overflow on 64-bit platforms related to the ASCII representation of integers. Description OpenSSL clients and servers running on 64-bit platforms prior to version 0.9.6e and pre-release...

OpenSSL servers contain a buffer overflow during the SSL2 handshake process

Overview OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer SSL protocol. A remotely exploitable vulnerability exists in OpenSSL servers that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the server. Description Versions of OpenSSL servers prior to 0.9.6e and pre-release...

OpenSSL clients contain a buffer overflow during the SSL3 handshake process

Overview OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer SSL protocol. A remotely exploitable vulnerability exists in OpenSSL clients that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the client's system. Description OpenSSL clients using SSLv3 prior to version 0.9.6e and...

OpenSSL servers contain a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability during the SSL3 handshake process

Overview OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer SSL protocol. A remotely exploitable vulnerability exists in OpenSSL servers that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the system Description Servers running OpenSSL pre-release version 0.9.7 with Kerberos...

ASN.1 parsing errors exist in implementations of SSL, TLS, S/MIME, PKCS#7 routines

Overview Abstract Syntax Notation number One ASN.1 is an international standard used to describe and transmit data packets between applications and across networks. There is a vulnerability related to ASN.1 that could permit an attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrar...

util-linux package vulnerable to privilege escalation when "ptmptmp" file is not removed properly when using "chfn" utility

Overview The util-linux package contains a race condition vulnerability that can be used to elevate privileges on the system. Description util-linux is shipped with Red Hat Linux and numerous other Linux distributions. It contains a collection of utility programs, such as fstab, mkfs, and chfn. T...

Sambar Web Server vulnerable to sourcecode disclosure due to improper parsing of scripts

Overview Sambar Webserver displays script contents instead of interpreting them when the user adds certain characters to the end of the script URL. Description Sambar Webserver is designed to handle CGI requests by interpreting CGI scripts to produce output returned to the client. However, due to...

Microsoft SQL Server installation process leaves sensitive information on system

Overview Microsoft SQL server versions 7.0 and 2000, as well as MSDE 1.0, may leave installation and log files on the server after the installation process is complete. These files may contain senstitive information such as passwords used during the install. Users with authenticated access to the...

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contains denial-of-service vulnerability in SQL Server Resolution Service

Overview Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contains a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition between two Microsoft SQL servers. Description The SQL Server Resolution Service SSRS was introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to provide referral services for...

Microsoft SQL Server contains buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple extended stored procedures

Overview Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 contain buffer overflow vulnerabilities in multiple extended stored procedures. A remote attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code or commands with the privileges of the SQL Server process, potentially gaining complete...

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contains stack buffer overflow in SQL Server Resolution Service

Overview Microsoft SQL Server 2000 contains a remotely exploitable stack buffer overflow that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the SQL server. Description The SQL Server Resolution Service SSRS was introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to provide referral...