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...

fetchmail -- improper SSL certificate subject verification

Matthias Andree reports: Moxie Marlinspike demonstrated in July 2009 that some CAs would sign certificates that contain embedded NUL characters in the Common Name or subjectAltName fields of ITU-T X.509 certificates. Applications that would treat such X.509 strings as NUL-terminated C strings...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2009-38: Data corruption with SOCKS5 reply containing DNS name longer than 15 characters MFSA 2009-42: Compromise of SSL-protected communication MFSA 2009-43: Heap overflow in certificate regexp parsing MFSA 2009-44: Location bar and SSL indicator spoofing via...

silc-client -- Format string vulnerability

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

freetype2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FreeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library. An integer overflow error within the "cffcharsetcomputecids" function in cff/cffload.c can be exploited to potentially cause...

epiphany -- untrusted search path vulnerability

CVE Mitre reports: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Epiphany 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySysSetArgv function...

amarok -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Tobias Klein has reported some vulnerabilities in Amarok, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Two integer overflow errors exist within the "Audible::Tag::readTag" function in src/metadata/audible/audibletag.cpp. These can be...

libaudiofile -- heap-based overflow in Microsoft ADPCM compression module

Debian reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in msadpcm.c in libaudiofile in audiofile 0.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted WAV file...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2008-69 XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore MFSA 2008-68 XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation MFSA 2008-67 Escaped null characters ignored by CSS parser MFSA 2008-66 Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters MFSA 2008-65 Cross-domai...

libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Libxml2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or to potentially compromise an application using the library. 1 An integer overflow error in the "xmlSAX2Characters" function can be exploited to trigge...

mysql -- empty bit-string literal denial of service

MySQL reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing an empty bit-string literal and can be exploited to crash the server via a specially crafted SQL statement...

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...

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...

FreeBSD -- Buffer overflow in tcpdump(1)

Problem Description: An un-checked return value in the BGP dissector code can result in an integer overflow. This value is used in subsequent buffer management operations, resulting in a stack based buffer overflow under certain circumstances. Impact: By crafting malicious BGP packets, an attacke...

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...

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 ...

flyspray -- authentication bypass

The Flyspray Project reports: Flyspray authentication system can be bypassed by sending a carefully crafted post request. To be vulnerable, PHP configuration directive outputbuffering has to be disabled or set to a low value...

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...

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...

hlstats -- multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Kefka reports multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities within hlstats. The vulnerabilities are caused due to improper checking of variables, allowing an attacker to perform cross site scripting...

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...

postgresql -- encoding based SQL injection

The PostgreSQL development team reports: An attacker able to submit crafted strings to an application that will embed those strings in SQL commands can use invalidly-encoded multibyte characters to bypass standard string-escaping methods, resulting in possible injection of hostile SQL commands in...

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...

curl -- URL buffer overflow vulnerability

A Project cURL Security Advisory reports: libcurl's URL parser function can overflow a malloced buffer in two ways, if given a too long URL. 1 - pass in a URL with no protocol like "http://" prefix, using no slash and the string is 256 bytes or longer. This leads to a single zero byte overflow of...

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...

apache -- mod_imap cross-site scripting flaw

The Apache HTTP Server Project reports: A flaw in modimap when using the Referer directive with image maps. In certain site configurations a remote attacker could perform a cross-site scripting attack if a victim can be forced to visit a malicious URL using certain web browsers...

acroread -- buffer overflow vulnerability

An Adobe Security Advisory reports: A vulnerability within Adobe Reader has been identified. Under certain circumstances, remote exploitation of a buffer overflow in Adobe Reader could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. If exploited, it could allow the execution of arbitrary code under...

portupgrade -- insecure temporary file handling vulnerability

Simon L. Nielsen discovered that portupgrade handles temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow an unprivileged local attacker to execute arbitrary commands or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running portupgrade, typically root, by way of a symlink attack...

gallery -- cross-site scripting

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

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...

cups-base -- CUPS server remote DoS vulnerability

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

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...

jdk/jre -- Security Vulnerability With Java Plugin

The Sun Java Plugin capability in Java 2 Runtime Environment JRE 1.4.201, 1.4.204, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly restrict access between Javascript and Java applets during data transfer, which allows remote attackers to load unsafe classes and execute arbitrary code...

Boundary checking errors in syscons

The syscons CONSSCRSHOT ioctl2 does insufficient validation of its input arguments. In particular, negative coordinates or large coordinates may cause unexpected behavior. It may be possible to cause the CONSSCRSHOT ioctl to return portions of kernel memory. Such memory might contain sensitive...

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...

apache -- apr_uri_parse IPv6 address handling vulnerability

The Apache Software Foundation Security Team discovered a programming error in the apr-util library function apruriparse. When parsing IPv6 literal addresses, it is possible that a length is incorrectly calculated to be negative, and this value is passed to memcpy. This may result in an exploitab...

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...

Buffer overflows and format string bugs in Emil

Ulf Härnhammar reports multiple buffer overflows in Emil, some of which are triggered during the parsing of attachment filenames. In addition, some format string bugs are present in the error reporting code. Depending upon local configuration, these vulnerabilities may be exploited using speciall...

xwayland -- Multiple vulnerabilities

X.Org project reports: Multiple issues have been found in the X server and Xwayland implementations published by X.Org for which we are releasing security fixes for in xorg-server-21.1.22 and xwayland-24.1.10...

Gitlab -- vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Partial Bypass for Device OAuth flow using Cross Window Forgery Denial of service by abusing Github import API Group IP restriction bypass allows disclosing issue title of restricted project...

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"...

MySQL -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Oracle reports: 36 new security patches for Oracle MySQL. 11 of these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without requiring user credentials. The highest CVSS v3.1 Base Score of vulnerabilities affecting Oracle MySQL is 9.8...

PostgreSQL server -- Potentially allowing authenicated database users to see data that they shouldn't.

PostgreSQL project reports: A security vulnerability was found in the system views pgstatsext and pgstatsextexprs, potentially allowing authenticated database users to see data they shouldn't. If this is of concern in your installation, run the SQL script...

go -- http2: close connections when receiving too many headers

The Go project reports: http2: close connections when receiving too many headers Maintaining HPACK state requires that we parse and process all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, we don't allocate memory to store the excess headers but...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 3 security fixes: 325893559 High CVE-2024-2173: Out of bounds memory access in V8. Reported by 5fceb6172bbf7e2c5a948183b53565b9 on 2024-02-19 325866363 High CVE-2024-2174: Inappropriate implementation in V8. Reported by 5f46f4ee2e17957ba7b39897fb376be...

OpenSSL -- Vector register corruption on PowerPC

The OpenSSL Team reports: The POLY1305 MAC message authentication code implementation contains a bug that might corrupt the internal state of applications running on PowerPC CPU based platforms if the CPU provides vector instructions...

electron{26,27} -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-6508. Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-7024...

electron25 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-6350. Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-6351...