dns/bind9* -- Heavy DNSSEC Validation Load Can Cause a 'Bad Cache' Assertion Failure

ISC reports: High numbers of queries with DNSSEC validation enabled can cause an assertion failure in named, caused by using a 'bad cache' data structure before it has been initialized. BIND 9 stores a cache of query names that are known to be failing due to misconfigured name servers or a broken...

pidgin-otr -- format string vulnerability

The authors report: Versions 3.2.0 and earlier of the pidgin-otr plugin contain a format string security flaw. This flaw could potentially be exploited by a remote attacker to cause arbitrary code to be executed on the user's machine. The flaw is in pidgin-otr, not in libotr. Other applications...

sympa -- Multiple Security Bypass Vulnerabilities

Secunia team reports: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Sympa, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerabilities are caused due to the application allowing access to archive functions without checking credentials. This can be...

OpenSSL -- DTLS Denial of Service

The OpenSSL Team reports: A flaw in the fix to CVE-2011-4108 can be exploited in a denial of service attack. Only DTLS applications using OpenSSL 1.0.0f and 0.9.8s are affected...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.152 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.153 and earlier versions for Android. In addition a patch was release...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2011-46 loadSubScript unwraps XPCNativeWrapper scope parameter 1.9.2 branch MFSA 2011-47 Potential XSS against sites using Shift-JIS MFSA 2011-48 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:8.0 MFSA 2011-49 Memory corruption while profiling using Firebug MFSA 2011-50...

freetype -- Some type 1 fonts handling vulnerabilities

The FreeType project reports: A couple of vulnerabilities in handling Type 1 fonts...

BIND -- Remote DoS with certain RPZ configurations

ISC reports: Two defects were discovered in ISC's BIND 9.8 code. These defects only affect BIND 9.8 servers which have recursion enabled and which use a specific feature of the software known as Response Policy Zones RPZ and where the RPZ zone contains a specific rule/action pattern...

Apache APR -- DoS vulnerabilities

The Apache Portable Runtime Project reports: A flaw was discovered in the aprfnmatch function in the Apache Portable Runtime APR library 1.4.4 or any backported versions that contained the upstream fix for CVE-2011-0419. This could cause httpd workers to enter a hung state 100% CPU utilization...

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...

mailman -- XSS vulnerability

CVE reports: Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Cgi/confirm.py in GNU Mailman 2.1.14 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 full name or 2 username field in a confirmation message...

mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Medawiki reports: An arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability was discovered. The vulnerability only allows execution of files with names ending in ".php" which are already present in the local filesystem. Only servers running Microsoft Windows and possibly Novell Netware are affected. Despite...

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...

apache -- Remote DoS bug in mod_cache and mod_dav

Apache ChangeLog reports: moddav, modcache: Fix Handling of requests without a path segment...

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...

ziproxy -- multiple vulnerability

Ziproxy Developers reports: Multiple HTTP proxy implementations are prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability related to the interpretation of the 'Host' HTTP header. Specifically, this issue occurs when the proxy makes a forwarding decision based on the 'Host' HTTP header instead of the...

sudo -- certain authorized users could run commands as any user

Todd Miller reports: A bug was introduced in Sudo's group matching code in version 1.6.9 when support for matching based on the supplemental group vector was added. This bug may allow certain users listed in the sudoers file to run a command as a different user than their access rule specifies...

clamav -- off-by-one heap overflow in VBA project parser

Advisory from Moritz Jodeit, November 8th, 2008: ClamAV contains an off-by-one heap overflow vulnerability in the code responsible for parsing VBA project files. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the clamd' process by sending an email...

ruby -- multiple vulnerabilities in safe level

The official ruby site reports: Several vulnerabilities in safe level have been discovereds:. untracevar is permitted at safe level 4; $PROGRAMNAME may be modified at safe level 4; insecure methods may be called at safe level 1-3; syslog operations are permitted at safe level 4; dl doesn't check...

apache -- multiple vulnerabilities

Apache HTTP server project reports: The following potential security flaws are addressed: CVE-2008-2364: modproxyhttp: Better handling of excessive interim responses from origin server to prevent potential denial of service and high memory usage. Reported by Ryujiro Shibuya. CVE-2007-6420:...

qemu -- unchecked block read/write vulnerability

Ian Jackson reports on the debian-security mailinglist: When a block device read or write request is made by the guest, nothing checks that the request is within the range supported by the backend, but the code in the backend typically assumes that the request is sensible. Depending on the backen...

rubygem-rails -- session-fixation vulnerability

Rails core team reports: The rails core team has released ruby on rails 1.2.6 to address a bug in the fix for session fixation attacks CVE-2007-5380. The CVE Identifier for this new issue is CVE-2007-6077...

pcre -- arbitrary code execution

Debian project reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team has discovered several security issues in PCRE, the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library, which potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by compiling specially crafted regular expressions...

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...

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...

mplayer -- DMO File Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

"Moritz Jodeit reports: There's an exploitable buffer overflow in the current version of MPlayer v1.0rc1 which can be exploited with a maliciously crafted video file. It is hidden in the DMOVideoDecoder function of loader/dmo/DMOVideoDecoder.c' file...

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...

php -- _ecalloc Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Stefan Esser reports: The PHP 5 branch of the PHP source code lacks the protection against possible integer overflows inside ecalloc that is present in the PHP 4 branch and also for several years part of our Hardening-Patch and our new Suhosin-Patch. It was discovered that such an integer overflo...

cyrus-sasl -- DIGEST-MD5 Pre-Authentication Denial of Service

Unspecified vulnerability in the CMU Cyrus Simple Authentication and Security Layer SASL library, has unknown impact and remote unauthenticated attack vectors, related to DIGEST-MD5 negotiation...

libwww -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mitre reports: The HTBoundaryputblock function in HTBound.c for W3C libwww w3c-libwww allows remote servers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted multipart/byteranges MIME message that triggers an out-of-bounds read. The big2toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in...

phpmyfaq -- SQL injection, takeover, path disclosure, remote code execution

If magic quotes are off there's a SQL injection when sending a forgotten password. It's possible to overwrite the admin password and to take over the whole system. In some files in the admin section there are some cross site scripting vulnerabilities. In the public frontend it's possible to inclu...

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...

opera -- "javascript:" URL cross-site scripting vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and to read local files. The vulnerability is caused due to Opera not properly restricting the privileges of "javascript:" URLs...

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...

xview -- multiple buffer overflows in xv_parse_one

A Debian Security Advisory reports: Erik Sjölund discovered that programs linked against xview are vulnerable to a number of buffer overflows in the XView library. When the overflow is triggered in a program which is installed setuid root a malicious user could perhaps execute arbitrary code as...

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...

hylafax -- unauthorized login vulnerability

A flaw in HylaFAX may allow an attacker to bypass normal authentication by spoofing their DNS PTR records...

squid -- denial of service with forged WCCP messages

The squid patches page notes: WCCPISEEYOU messages contain a 'number of caches' field which should be between 1 and 32. Values outside that range may crash Squid if WCCP is enabled, and if an attacker can spoof UDP packets with the WCCP router's IP address...

bnc -- remotely exploitable buffer overflow in getnickuserhost

A LSS Security Advisory reports: There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in getnickuserhost function that is called when BNC is processing response from IRC server. Vulnerability can be exploited if attacker tricks user to connect to his fake IRC server that will exploit this vulnerability. If t...

krb5 -- ASN.1 decoder denial-of-service vulnerability

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The ASN.1 decoder library in the MIT Kerberos 5 distribution is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack causing an infinite loop in the decoder. The KDC is vulnerable to this attack. An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a KDC or...

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...

XFree86 opens a chooserFd TCP socket even when DisplayManager.requestPort is 0

When the IPv6 code was added to xdm a critical test to disable xdmcp was accidentally removed. This caused xdm to create the chooser socket regardless if DisplayManager.requestPort was disabled in xdm-config or not...

racoon remote denial of service vulnerability (ISAKMP header length field)

When racoon receives an ISAKMP header, it will attempt to allocate sufficient memory for the entire ISAKMP message according to the header's length field. If an attacker crafts an ISAKMP header with a ridiculously large value in the length field, racoon may exceed operating system resource limits...

file disclosure in phpMyAdmin

Lack of proper input validation in phpMyAdmin may allow an attacker to obtain the contents of any file on the target system that is readable by the web server...

mod_python denial-of-service vulnerability in parse_qs

An attacker may cause Apache with modpython to crash by using a specially constructed query string...

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...

FreeBSD -- Use-after-free bug in the IPV6_MSFILTER socket option handler

Problem Description: The kernel handler for IPV6MSFILTER dropped a serializing lock in order to copy the source-filter list from userspace, then reacquired the lock. During this window another thread could free the multicast filter structure, leaving the handler with a stale pointer to freed...

MariaDB -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The MariaDB project reports: Multiple vulnerabilities in MariaDB Cluster Galera...

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...

firefox -- multiple vulnerabilities

[email protected] reports: CVE-2024-9392: A compromised content process could have allowed for the arbitrary loading of cross-origin pages. CVE-2024-9396: It is currently unknown if this issue is exploitable but a condition may arise where the structured clone of certain objects could lead to...