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...

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...

webkit-gtk2 -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Gustavo Noronha Silva reports: The patches to fix the following CVEs are included with help from Huzaifa Sidhpurwala from the Red Hat security team...

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...

firefox -- WOFF heap corruption due to integer overflow

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2010-08 WOFF heap corruption due to integer overflow...

png -- libpng decompression denial of service

A vulnerability in libpng can result in denial of service conditions when a remote attacker tricks a victim to open a specially-crafted PNG file. The PNG project describes the problem in an advisory: Because of the efficient compression method used in Portable Network Graphics PNG files, a small...

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...

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...

FreeBSD -- arc4random(9) predictable sequence vulnerability

Problem Description: When the arc4random9 random number generator is initialized, there may be inadequate entropy to meet the needs of kernel systems which rely on arc4random9; and it may take up to 5 minutes before arc4random9 is reseeded with secure entropy from the Yarrow random number...

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...

cups -- multiple vulnerabilities

The release note of cups 1.3.9 reports: It contains the following fixes: SECURITY: The HP-GL/2 filter did not range check pen numbers STR 2911 SECURITY: The SGI image file reader did not range check 16-bit run lengths STR 2918 SECURITY: The text filter did not range check cpi, lpi, or column valu...

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...

bzip2 -- crash with certain malformed archive files

SecurityFocus reports: The 'bzip2' application is prone to a remote file-handling vulnerability because the application fails to properly handle malformed files. Exploit attempts likely result in application crashes...

sdl_image -- buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in SDLimage, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service or potentially compromise an application using the library. A boundary error within the LWZReadByte function in IMGgif.c can be exploited to trigger the...

gallery2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Gallery team reports: Gallery 2.2.4 addresses the following security vulnerabilities: Publish XP module - Fixed unauthorized album creation and file uploads. URL rewrite module - Fixed local file inclusion vulnerability in unsecured admin controller and information disclosure in hotlink...

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...

gtar -- Directory traversal vulnerability

Red Hat reports: A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary files to which the user running GNU tar had write access. Red Hat credits Dmitry V. Levin for reporting the issue...

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...

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 ...

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...

tnftpd -- Remote root Exploit

The tnftpd port suffer from a remote stack overrun, which can lead to a root compromise...

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...

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...

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...

pear-XML_RPC -- remote PHP code injection vulnerability

A Hardened-PHP Project Security Advisory reports: When the library parses XMLRPC requests/responses, it constructs a string of PHP code, that is later evaluated. This means any failure to properly handle the construction of this string can result in arbitrary execution of PHP code. This new...

ekg -- insecure temporary file creation

Eric Romang reports that ekg creates temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by an attacker using a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly execute arbitrary commands with the permissions of the user running ekg...

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...

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...

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...

phpmyadmin -- cross site scripting vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports: The convcharset parameter was not correctly validated, opening the door to a XSS attack...

sylpheed -- MIME-encoded file name buffer overflow vulnerability

Sylpheed is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when displaying emails with attachments that have MIME-encoded file names. This could be used by a remote attacker to crash sylpheed potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running sylpheed...

postgresql -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities had been reported in various versions of PostgreSQL: The EXECUTE restrictions can be bypassed by using the AGGREGATE function, which is missing a permissions check. A buffer overflow exists in gram.y which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a lar...

hylafax -- unauthorized login vulnerability

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

exim -- two buffer overflow vulnerabilities

The function hostaton can overflow a buffer if it is presented with an illegal IPv6 address that has more than 8 components. 2. The second report described a buffer overflow in the function spabase64tobits, which is part of the code for SPA authentication...

mailman -- generated passwords are poor quality

Florian Weimer wrote: Mailman 2.1.5 uses weak auto-generated passwords for new subscribers. These passwords are assigned when members subscribe without specifying their own password either by email or the web frontend. Knowledge of this password allows an attacker to gain access to the list archi...

ethereal -- multiple vulnerabilities

An Ethreal Security Advisories reports: Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors: Matthew Bing discovered a bug in DICOM dissection that could make Ethereal crash. An invalid RTP timestamp could make Ethereal hang and create a large temporary file, possibly filling availab...

cups-lpr -- lppasswd multiple vulnerabilities

D. J. Bernstein reports that Bartlomiej Sieka has discovered several security vulnerabilities in lppasswd, which is part of CUPS. In the following excerpt from Bernstein's email, CVE names have been added for each issue: First, lppasswd blithely ignores write errors in fputsline,outfile at lines...

krb5 -- heap buffer overflow vulnerability in libkadm5srv

A MIT krb5 Security Advisory reports: The MIT Kerberos 5 administration library libkadm5srv contains a heap buffer overflow in password history handling code which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a Key Distribution Center KDC host. The overflow occurs during a password change of a...

acroread5 -- mailListIsPdf() buffer overflow vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow in version 5.09 of Adobe Acrobat Reader for Unix could allow for execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerability specifically exists in a the function mailListIsPdf. This function checks if the input file is an email...

kdelibs -- konqueror cross-domain cookie injection

According to a KDE Security Advisory: WESTPOINT internet reconnaissance services alerted the KDE security team that the KDE web browser Konqueror allows websites to set cookies for certain country specific secondary top level domains. Web sites operating under the affected domains can set HTTP...

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...

Mutiple browser frame injection vulnerability

A class of bugs affecting many web browsers in the same way was discovered. A Secunia advisory reports: The problem is that the browsers don't check if a target frame belongs to a website containing a malicious link, which therefore doesn't prevent one browser window from loading content in a nam...

MySQL authentication bypass / buffer overflow

By submitting a carefully crafted authentication packet, it is possible for an attacker to bypass password authentication in MySQL 4.1. Using a similar method, a stack buffer used in the authentication mechanism can be overflowed...

URI handler vulnerabilities in several browsers

Karol Wiesek and Greg MacManus reported via iDEFENSE that the Opera web browser contains a flaw in the handling of certain URIs. When presented with these URIs, Opera would invoke external commands to process them after some validation. However, if the hostname component of a URI begins with a -'...

heimdal kadmind remote heap buffer overflow

An input validation error was discovered in the kadmind code that handles the framing of Kerberos 4 compatibility administration requests. The code assumed that the length given in the framing was always two or more bytes. Smaller lengths will cause kadmind to read an arbitrary amount of data int...

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...

FreeBSD -- Jail reference count underflow

Problem Description: When the JAILATDESC flag is specified, kernjailset and kernjailget released the reference to the caller's current prison before looking up the jail descriptor. If the descriptor lookup failed, error-handling paths released the same reference a second time. Impact: An...

OpenEXR -- 3.4.12 fixes multiple vulnerabilities

Cary Phillips reports: The OpenEXR 3.4.12 release addresses the following security vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-45696 OpenEXR htundoimpl heap-buffer-overflow READ via codestream/channel width mismatch in HTJ2K decode CVE-2026-44663 Integer overflow in HTJ2K decoder htundoimpl leading to...