libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability

xine project reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix remotely-expoitable buffer overflow, CVE-2008-0225. It also contains a read-past-end fix for an internal library function which is only used if the OS does not supply it and a rendering fix for...

vim -- Command Format String Vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: A format string error in the "helptagsone" function in src/excmds.c when running the "helptags" command can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted help files...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Software ASA reports of multiple security fixes in Opera, including an arbitrary code execute vulnerability: Opera for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris has a flaw in the createPattern function that leaves old data that was in the memory before Opera allocated it in the new pattern. The pattern c...

squirrelmail -- Cross site scripting in HTML filter

The SquirrelMail developers report: Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the HTML filter in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9a allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 data: URI in an HTML e-mail attachment or 2 various non-ASCII character sets that a...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PHP, including: buffer overflows, stack overflows, format string, and information disclosure vulnerabilities. The session extension contained safemode and openbasedir bypasses, but the FreeBSD Security Officer does not consider these real security...

proftpd -- remote code execution vulnerabilities

The proftpd development team reports that several remote buffer overflows had been found in the proftpd server...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

The PHP development team reports: Added missing safemode/openbasedir checks inside the errorlog, fileexists, imapopen and imapreopen functions. Fixed overflows inside strrepeat and wordwrap functions on 64bit systems. Fixed possible openbasedir/safemode bypass in cURL extension and with realpath...

freetype -- LWFN Files Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SecurityTracker reports: A vulnerability was reported in FreeType. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system. A remote user can create a specially crafted font file that, when loaded by the target user's system, will trigger an integer underflow or integer...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues. Several of which can be used to run arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running the program. MFSA 2006-29 Spoofing with translucent windows MFSA 2006-28 Security check of jsValueToFunctionObject can be circumvented MFSA...

thunderbird -- javascript execution

Renaud Lifchitz reports a vulnerability within thunderbird. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of javascript scripts. This could lead to javascript code execution which can lead to information disclosure or a denial of service application crash. This vulnerability is present even if...

acroread -- insecure temporary file creation

Secunia Research reports: Secunia has discovered a security issue in Adobe Reader for Linux, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of sensitive information. The problem is caused due to temporary files being created with permissions based on a user's umask in the "/tm...

qmail -- 64 bit integer overflows with possible remote code execution on large SMTP requests

Georgi Guninski writes: There are several issues with qmail on 64 bit platforms - classical integer overflow, pointer with signed index and signedness problem not counting the memory consumtion dos, which just helps. Update: the problem with the signed index is exploitable on Freebsd 5.4 amd64 wi...

postgresql -- character conversion and tsearch2 vulnerabilities

The postgresql development team reports: The more severe of the two errors is that the functions that support client-to-server character set conversion can be called from SQL commands by unprivileged users, but these functions are not designed to be safe against malicious choices of argument...

ImageMagick -- format string vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy reports: magemagick-6.2.0-3 fixes an potential issue handling malformed filenames, the flaw may affect webapps or scripts that use the imagemagick utilities for image processing, or applications linked with libMagick. This vulnerability could crash ImageMagick or potentially lead to...

ez-ipupdate -- format string vulnerability

Data supplied by a remote server is used as the format string instead of as parameters in a syslog call. This may lead to crashes or potential running of arbitrary code. It is only a problem when running in daemon mode very common and when using some service types...

Cyrus IMAPd -- IMAPMAGICPLUS preauthentification overflow

When the option imapmagicplus is activated on a server the PROXY and LOGIN commands suffer a standard stack overflow, because the username is not checked against a maximum length when it is copied into a temporary stack buffer. This bug is especially dangerous because it can be triggered before a...

mozilla -- vCard stack buffer overflow

Georgi Guninski discovered a stack buffer overflow which may be triggered when viewing email messages with vCard attachments...

mozilla -- BMP decoder vulnerabilities

Gael Delalleau discovered several integer overflows in Mozilla's BMP decoder that can result in denial-of-service or arbitrary code execution...

postgresql-contrib -- insecure temporary file creation

The makeoidjoinscheck script in the PostgreSQL RDBMS has insecure handling of temporary files, which could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the credentials of the user running the makeoidjoinscheck script...

gaim -- multiple buffer overflows

Sean infamous42md reports several situations in gaim that may result in exploitable buffer overflows: Rich Text Format RTF messages in Novell GroupWise protocol Unsafe use of gethostbyname in zephyr protocol URLs which are over 2048 bytes long once decoded...

mysql -- mysqlhotcopy insecure temporary file creation

According to Christian Hammers: mysqlhotcopy created temporary files in /tmp which had predictable filenames and such could be used for a tempfile run attack. Jeroen van Wolffelaar is credited with discovering the issue...

Multiple Potential Buffer Overruns in Samba

Evgeny Demidov discovered that the Samba server has a buffer overflow in the Samba Web Administration Tool SWAT on decoding Base64 data during HTTP Basic Authentication. Versions 3.0.2 through 3.0.4 are affected. Another buffer overflow bug has been found in the code used to support the "mangling...

apache2 -- SSL remote DoS

The Apache HTTP Server 2.0.51 release notes report that the following issues have been fixed: A segfault in modssl which can be triggered by a malicious remote server, if proxying to SSL servers has been configured. CAN-2004-0751 A potential infinite loop in modssl which could be triggered given...

mysql -- mysql_real_connect buffer overflow vulnerability

The mysqlrealconnect function doesn't properly handle DNS replies by copying the IP address into a buffer without any length checking. A specially crafted DNS reply may therefore be used to cause a buffer overflow on affected systems. Note that whether this issue can be exploitable depends on the...

cvs pserver remote heap buffer overflow

Due to a programming error in code used to parse data received from the client, malformed data can cause a heap buffer to overflow, allowing the client to overwrite arbitrary portions of the server's memory. A malicious CVS client can exploit this to run arbitrary code on the server at the...

mozilla -- hostname spoofing bug

When processing URIs that contain an unqualified host name-- specifically, a domain name of only one component-- Mozilla will perform matching against the first component of the domain name in SSL certificates. In other words, in some situations, a certificate issued to "www.example.com" will be...

libxml2 stack buffer overflow in URI parsing

Yuuichi Teranishi reported a crash in libxml2's URI handling when a long URL is supplied. The implementation in nanohttp.c and nanoftp.c uses a 4K stack buffer, and longer URLs will overwrite the stack. This could result in denial-of-service or arbitrary code execution in applications using libxm...

go -- net/http: denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling

The Go project reports: net/http: denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling The net/http HTTP/1.1 client mishandled the case where a server responds to a request with an "Expect: 100-continue" header with a non-informational 200 or higher status. This mishandling could leave a clien...

Gitlab -- vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: GitLab account takeover, under certain conditions, when using Bitbucket as an OAuth provider Path Traversal leads to DoS and Restricted File Read Unauthenticated ReDoS in FileFinder when using wildcard filters in project file search Personal Access Token scopes not honoured by...

electron{26,27} -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-0224. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-0225. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-0223. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-0222...

electron{25,26} -- use after free in Garbage Collection

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerability: Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-5997...

curl -- SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow

The curl team reports: This flaw makes curl overflow a heap based buffer in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake. When curl is asked to pass along the hostname to the SOCKS5 proxy to allow that to resolve the address instead of it getting done by curl itself, the maximum length that hostname can be is 255...

electron22 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-2724. Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-2723. Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-2725. Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-2721. Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-3079...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 16 security fixes: 1410191 High CVE-2023-2929: Out of bounds write in Swiftshader. Reported by Jaehun Jeong@n3sk of Theori on 2023-01-25 1443401 High CVE-2023-2930: Use after free in Extensions. Reported by asnine on 2023-05-08 1444238 High...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 8 security fixes: 1429197 High CVE-2023-2133: Out of bounds memory access in Service Worker API. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on 2023-03-30 1429201 High CVE-2023-2134: Out of bounds memory access in Service Worker API. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on...

Grafana -- Stored XSS in text panel plugin

Grafana Labs reports: During an internal audit of Grafana on January 1, a member of the security team found a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core text plugin. The stored XSS vulnerability requires several user interactions in order to be fully exploited. The vulnerability was possible due...

wolfssl -- multiple issues

wolfSSL blog reports: In release 5.4.0 there were 3 vulnerabilities listed as fixed in wolfSSL. Two relatively new reports, one dealing with a DTLS 1.0/1.2 denial of service attack and the other a ciphertext attack on ECC/DH operations. The last vulnerability listed was a public disclosure of a...

Django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django Project reports: CVE-2022-34265: Potential SQL injection via Trunckind and Extractlookupname arguments...

Rails -- XSS vulnerabilities

Ruby on Rails blog: This is an announcement to let you know that Rails 7.0.2.4, 6.1.5.1, 6.0.4.8, and 5.2.7.1 have been released! These are security releases so please update as soon as you can. Once again we've made these releases based on the last release tag, so hopefully upgrading will go...

squid -- Exposure of sensitive information in cache manager

Mikhail Evdokimov aka konata reports: Due to inconsistent handling of internal URIs Squid is vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information about clients using the proxy. This problem allows a trusted client to directly access cache manager information bypassing the manager ACL protection. The...

kafka -- Denial Of Service vulnerability

NIST reports: jackson-databind before 2.13.0 allows a Java StackOverflow exception and denial of service via a large depth of nested objects...

jenkins -- DoS vulnerability in bundled XStream library

Jenkins Security Advisory: Description Medium SECURITY-2602 / CVE-2021-43859 upstream issue, CVE-2022-0538 Jenkins-specific converters DoS vulnerability in bundled XStream library...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases reports: This release contains 22 security fixes, including: 1267661 High CVE-2021-4052: Use after free in web apps. Reported by Wei Yuan of MoyunSec VLab on 2021-11-07 1267791 High CVE-2021-4053: Use after free in UI. Reported by Rox on 2021-11-08 1265806 High CVE-2021-4079: Out ...

Node.js -- October 2021 Security Releases

Node.js reports: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaced in headers MediumCVE-2021-22959 The http parser accepts requests with a space SP right after the header name before the colon. This can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling HRS. HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body MediumCVE-2021-22960 The...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases/Stable updates reports: This release contains 4 security fixes, including: 1245578 High CVE-2021-37974: Use after free in Safe Browsing. Reported by Weipeng Jiang @Krace from Codesafe Team of Legendsec at Qi'anxin Group on 2021-09-01 1252918 High CVE-2021-37975: Use after free in...

PostgreSQL server -- Memory disclosure in certain queries

The PostgreSQL Project reports: A purpose-crafted query can read arbitrary bytes of server memory. In the default configuration, any authenticated database user can complete this attack at will. The attack does not require the ability to create objects. If server settings include...

PuppetDB -- SQL Injection

Puppet reports: Fixed an issue where someone with the ability to query PuppetDB could arbitrarily write, update, or delete data CVE-2021-27021 PDB-5138...

RabbitMQ -- Denial of Service via improper input validation

Jonathon Knudsen of Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center reports: All versions prior to 3.8.16 are prone to a denial of service vulnerability due to improper input validation in AMQP 1.0 client connection endpoint. A malicious client can exploit the vulnerability by sending malicious AMQP...

asterisk -- pjproject/pjsip: crash when SSL socket destroyed during handshake

The Asterisk project reports: Depending on the timing, it's possible for Asterisk to crash when using a TLS connection if the underlying socket parent/listener gets destroyed during the handshake...

Rails -- multiple vulnerabilities

Ruby on Rails blog: Rails versions 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, and 5.2.6 have been released! These releases contain important security fixes. Here is a list of the issues fixed: CVE-2021-22885: Possible Information Disclosure / Unintended Method Execution in Action Pack CVE-2021-22902: Possible Denial of...