mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2012-57 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:15.0/ rv:10.0.7 MFSA 2012-58 Use-after-free issues found using Address Sanitizer MFSA 2012-59 Location object can be shadowed using Object.defineProperty MFSA 2012-60 Escalation of privilege through about:newtab MFSA...

haproxy -- buffer overflow

HAProxy reports: A flaw was reported in HAProxy where, due to a boundary error when copying data into the trash buffer, an external attacker could cause a buffer overflow. Exploiting this flaw could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, however it requires non-default settings for the...

quagga -- multiple vulnerabilities

CERT-FI reports: Five vulnerabilities have been found in the BGP, OSPF, and OSPFv3 components of Quagga. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially to execute his own code by sending a specially modified packets to an affected server. Routing messages are...

gdm -- privilege escalation vulnerability

Sebastian Krahmer reports: It was discovered that the GNOME Display Manager gdm cleared the cache directory, which is owned by an unprivileged user, with the privileges of the root user. A race condition exists in gdm where a local user could take advantage of this by writing to the cache directo...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2011-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:1.9.2.14/ 1.9.1.17 MFSA 2011-02 Recursive eval call causes confirm dialogs to evaluate to true MFSA 2011-03 Use-after-free error in JSON.stringify MFSA 2011-04 Buffer overflow in JavaScript upvarMap MFSA 2011-05 Buff...

bugzilla -- multiple serious vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: This advisory covers three security issues that have recently been fixed in the Bugzilla code: A weakness in Bugzilla could allow a user to gain unauthorized access to another Bugzilla account. A weakness in the Perl CGI.pm module allows injecting HTTP header...

php-filter -- Denial of Service

The following DoS condition in filter extension was fixed in PHP 5.3.4 and PHP 5.2.15: Stack consumption vulnerability in the filtervar function in PHP 5.2.x through 5.2.14 and 5.3.x through 5.3.3, when FILTERVALIDATEEMAIL mode is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.85.3 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.1.95.1 for Android. These vulnerabilities, including CVE-2010-3654...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2010-07 Fixes for potentially exploitable crashes ported to the legacy branch MFSA 2010-06 Scriptable plugin execution in SeaMonkey mail MFSA 2009-68 NTLM reflection vulnerability MFSA 2009-62 Download filename spoofing with RTL override MFSA 2009-59 Heap buffer...

dokuwiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Dokuwiki reports: The plugin does no checks against cross-site request forgeries CSRF which can be exploited to e.g. change the access control rules by tricking a logged in administrator into visiting a malicious web site. The bug allows listing the names of arbitrary file on the webserver - not...

piwik -- php code execution

secunia reports: Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in Piwik, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to the core/Cookie.php script using "unserialize" with user controlled input. This can be exploited to e.g. execute...

silc-client -- Format string vulnerability

SILC changelog reports: An unspecified format string vulnerability exists in silc-client...

libsndfile -- CAF processing integer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in the processing of CAF description chunks. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking the user into processing a specially crafted CAF audio file...

qemu -- Heap overflow in Cirrus emulation

Aurelien Jarno reports: CVE-2008-4539: fix a heap overflow in Cirrus emulation The code in hw/cirrusvga.c has changed a lot between CVE-2007-1320 has been announced and the patch has been applied. As a consequence it has wrongly applied and QEMU is still vulnerable to this bug if using VNC...

python -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Python, where some have unknown impact and others can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or to compromise a vulnerable system. Various integer overflow errors exist in core modules e.g...

linux-flashplugin -- unspecified remote code execution vulnerability

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: An exploit appears to be taking advantage of a known vulnerability, reported by Mark Dowd of the ISS X-Force and wushi of team509, that was resolved in Flash Player 9.0.124.0 CVE-2007-0071. This exploit does NOT appear to include a new,...

openoffice -- arbitrary command execution vulnerability

iDefense reports: Remote exploitation of multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities within OpenOffice, as included in various vendors' operating system distributions, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. These vulnerabilities exist within the TIFF parsing code of the OpenOffice suite. When...

samba -- nss_info plugin privilege escalation vulnerability

The Samba development team reports: The idmapad.so library provides an nssinfo extension to Winbind for retrieving a user's home directory path, login shell and primary group id from an Active Directory domain controller. This functionality is enabled by defining the "winbind nss info" smb.conf...

apache -- multiple vulnerabilities

Apache HTTP server project reports: The following potential security flaws are addressed: CVE-2007-3847: modproxy: Prevent reading past the end of a buffer when parsing date-related headers. CVE-2007-1863: modcache: Prevent a segmentation fault if attributes are listed in a Cache-Control header...

fetchmail -- denial of service on reject of local warning message

Matthias Andree reports: fetchmail will generate warning messages in certain circumstances for instance, when leaving oversized messages on the server or login to the upstream fails and send them to the local postmaster or the user running it. If this warning message is then refused by the SMTP...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Foundation reports of multiple security issues in Firefox, Seamonkey, and Thunderbird. Several of these issues can probably be used to run arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running the program. MFSA 2007-25 XPCNativeWrapper pollution MFSA 2007-24 Unauthorized access to...

mutt -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Securityfocus reports: Mutt is prone to a local buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before using it in a memory copy operation. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the with the privileges of the victim. Failed...

clamav -- multiple vulnerabilities

Clamav had been found vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities: Improper checking for the end of an buffer causing an unspecified attack vector. Insecure temporary file handling, which could be exploited to read sensitive information. A flaw in the parser engine which could allow a remote attacker ...

libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability

xine Team reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix array index vulnerability which may lead to a stack buffer overflow...

fetchmail -- TLS enforcement problem/MITM attack/password exposure

Matthias Andree reports: Fetchmail has had several longstanding password disclosure vulnerabilities. sslcertck/sslfingerprint options should have implied "sslproto tls1" in order to enforce TLS negotiation, but did not. Even with "sslproto tls1" in the config, fetches would go ahead in plain text...

bind9 -- Denial of Service in named(8)

Problem Description For a recursive DNS server, a remote attacker sending enough recursive queries for the replies to arrive after all the interested clients have left the recursion queue will trigger an INSIST failure in the named8 daemon. Also for a recursive DNS server, an assertion failure ca...

cscope -- Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Will Drewry has reported some vulnerabilities in Cscope, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. Various boundary errors within the parsing of file lists or the expansion of environment variables can be exploited to cause...

opera -- command line URL shell command injection

An Opera Advisory reports: Opera for UNIX uses a wrapper shell script to start up Opera. This shell script reads the input arguments, like the file names or URLs that Opera is to open. It also performs some environment checks, for example whether Java is available and if so, where it is located...

kernel -- TCP connection stall denial of service

Problem Description Two problems have been discovered in the FreeBSD TCP stack. First, when a TCP packets containing a timestamp is received, inadequate checking of sequence numbers is performed, allowing an attacker to artificially increase the internal "recent" timestamp for a connection. Secon...

kernel -- information disclosure when using HTT

Problem description and impact When running on processors supporting Hyper-Threading Technology, it is possible for a malicious thread to monitor the execution of another thread. Information may be disclosed to local users, allowing in many cases for privilege escalation. For example, on a...

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...

gallery -- cross-site scripting

Gallery includes several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that could allow malicious content to be injected...

squid -- denial-of-service vulnerabilities

The Squid team reported several denial-of-service vulnerabilities related to the handling of DNS responses and NT Lan Manager messages. These may allow an attacker to crash the Squid cache...

xpdf -- makeFileKey2() buffer overflow vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the xpdf PDF viewer included in multiple Unix and Linux distributions could allow for arbitrary code execution as the user viewing a PDF file. The vulnerability specifically exists due to insufficient...

perl -- File::Path insecure file/directory permissions

Jeroen van Wolffelaar reports that the Perl module File::Path contains a race condition wherein traversed directories and files are temporarily made world-readable/writable...

cups-base -- CUPS server remote DoS vulnerability

Kenshi Muto discovered that the CUPS server would enter an infinite loop when processing a URL containing /...

mplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities

iDEFENSE and the MPlayer Team have found multiple vulnerabilities in MPlayer: Potential heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code Potential stack overflow in MMST streaming code Multiple buffer overflows in BMP demuxer Potential heap overflow in pnm streaming code Potential buffer overflow in...

vim -- vulnerabilities in modeline handling

Ciaran McCreesh discovered news ways in which a VIM modeline can be used to trojan a text file. The patch by Bram Moolenaar reads: Problem: Unusual characters in an option value may cause unexpected behavior, especially for a modeline. Ciaran McCreesh Solution: Don't allow setting termcap options...

xpm -- image decoding vulnerabilities

Chris Evans discovered several vulnerabilities in the libXpm image decoder: A stack-based buffer overflow in xpmParseColors An integer overflow in xpmParseColors A stack-based buffer overflow in ParsePixels and ParseAndPutPixels The X11R6.8.1 release announcement reads: This version is purely a...

Ruby insecure file permissions in the CGI session management

According to a Debian Security Advisory: Andres Salomon noticed a problem in the CGI session management of Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language. CGI::Session's FileStore and presumably PStore ... implementations store session information insecurely. They simply create files, ignoring...

rsync -- path sanitizing vulnerability

An rsync security advisory reports: There is a path-sanitizing bug that affects daemon mode in all recent rsync versions including 2.6.2 but only if chroot is disabled. The bug may allow a remote user to access files outside of an rsync module's configured path with the privileges configured for...

kdelibs insecure temporary file handling

According to a KDE Security Advisory, KDE may sometimes create temporary files without properly checking the ownership and type of the target path. This could allow a local attacker to cause KDE applications to overwrite arbitrary files...

buffer cache invalidation implementation issues

Programming errors in the implementation of the msync2 system call involving the MSINVALIDATE operation lead to cache consistency problems between the virtual memory system and on-disk contents. In some situations, a user with read access to a file may be able to prevent changes to that file from...

mozilla -- security icon spoofing

Under certain situations it is possible for the security icon which Mozilla displays when connected to a site using SSL to be spoofed. This could be used to make so-called "phishing attacks" more difficult to detect...

tiff -- divide-by-zero denial-of-service

A US-CERT vulnerability note reports: An Integer overflow in the LibTIFF library may allow a remote attacker to cause a divide-by-zero error that results in a denial-of-service condition...

Gitlab -- Vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Denial of service via CI pipelines Unintentionally authorizing sensitive actions on users behalf IP Restriction Bypass through GraphQL Subscription Unauthorized users can list the number of confidential issues Debugging Information Disclosed...

electron32 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-10230. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-10231. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-10229. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-10487...

expat -- multiple vulnerabilities

libexpat reports: CVE-2024-45490: Calling function XMLParseBuffer with len 0 without noticing and then calling XMLGetBuffer will have XMLParseBuffer fail to recognize the problem and XMLGetBuffer corrupt memory. With the fix, XMLParseBuffer now complains with error XMLERRORINVALIDARGUMENT just li...

jenkins -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jenkins Security Advisory: Description Critical SECURITY-3430 / CVE-2024-43044 Arbitrary file read vulnerability through agent connections can lead to RCE Description Medium SECURITY-3349 / CVE-2024-43045 Missing permission check allows accessing other users' "My Views"...

electron30 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-5493. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-5831. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-5832. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-6100. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-6101...