PivotX -- administrator password reset vulnerability

US CERT reports: PivotX contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker to change the password of any account just by guessing the username. Version 2.2.4 has been reported to not be affected. This vulnerability is being exploited in the wild and users should immediately upgrade to 2.2.5 or late...

vte -- Classic terminal title set+query attack

Kees Cook reports: Janne Snabb discovered that applications using VTE, such as gnome-terminal, did not correctly filter window and icon title request escape codes. If a user were tricked into viewing specially crafted output in their terminal, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands wi...

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...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.42.34 and earlier. This vulnerability CVE-2010-0186 could subvert the domain sandbox and make unauthorized cross-domain requests. This update also resolves a...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Security Team reports: Cross-site scripting The Forum module does not correctly handle certain arguments obtained from the URL. By enticing a suitably privileged user to visit a specially crafted URL, a malicious user is able to insert arbitrary HTML and script code into forum pages...

GnuTLS -- multiple vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus reports: GnuTLS is prone to multiple remote vulnerabilities: A remote code-execution vulnerability. A denial-of-service vulnerability. A signature-generation vulnerability. A signature-verification vulnerability. An attacker can exploit these issues to potentially execute arbitrary...

memcached -- memcached stats maps Information Disclosure Weakness

Secunia reports: A weakness has been reported in memcached, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose system information. The weakness is caused due to the application disclosing the content of /proc/self/maps if a stats maps command is received. This can be exploited to disclose e.g...

openfire -- multiple vulnerabilities

Core Security Technologies reports: Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been found which may lead to arbitrary remote code execution on the server running the application due to unauthorized upload of Java plugin code...

php5-gd -- uninitialized memory information disclosure vulnerability

According to CVE-2008-5498 entry: Array index error in the "imageRotate" function in PHP 5.2.8 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to read the contents of arbitrary memory locations via a crafted value of the third argument aka the "bgdcolor" or "clrBack" argument for an indexed image...

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...

vlc -- cue processing stack overflow

The VLC Team reports: The VLC media player contains a stack overflow vulnerability while parsing malformed cue files. The vulnerability may be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of VLC media player...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera reports: When certain parameters are passed to Opera's History Search, they can cause content not to be correctly sanitized. This can allow scripts to be injected into the History Search results page. Such scripts can then run with elevated privileges and interact with Opera's configuration...

websvn -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in WebSVN, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose sensitive information, and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and manipulate data. Input passed in the URL to index.php is not properly sanitised befo...

net-snmp -- DoS for SNMP agent via crafted GETBULK request

Wes Hardaker reports through sourceforge.net forum: SECURITY ISSUE: A bug in the getbulk handling code could let anyone with even minimal access crash the agent. If you have open access to your snmp agents bad bad bad; stop doing that! or if you don't trust everyone that does have access to your...

squirrelmail -- Session hijacking vulnerability

Hanno Boeck reports: When configuring a web application to use only ssl e.g. by forwarding all http-requests to https, a user would expect that sniffing and hijacking the session is impossible. Though, for this to be secure, one needs to set the session cookie to have the secure flag. Otherwise t...

poppler -- uninitialized pointer

Felipe Andres Manzano reports: The libpoppler pdf rendering library, can free uninitialized pointers, leading to arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability results from memory management bugs in the Page class constructor/destructor...

libvorbis -- various security issues

Red Hat reports: Will Drewry of the Google Security Team reported several flaws in the way libvorbis processed audio data. An attacker could create a carefully crafted Vorbis audio file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with libvorbis to crash, or execute arbitrary code when...

phpmyadmin -- Username/Password Session File Information Disclosure

A phpMyAdmin security announcement report: phpMyAdmin saves sensitive information like the MySQL username and password and the Blowfish secret key in session data, which might be unprotected on a shared host...

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...

drupal -- cross site request forgery

The Drupal Project reports: The aggregator module fetches items from RSS feeds and makes them available on the site. The module provides an option to remove items from a particular feed. This has been implemented as a simple GET request and is therefore vulnerable to cross site request forgeries...

jetty -- multiple vulnerability

Greg Wilkins reports: jetty allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms and read the source of files via multiple '/' characters in the URI...

jetty -- multiple vulnerabilities

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Dump Servlet in Mortbay Jetty before 6.1.6rc1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters and cookies. Mortbay Jetty before 6.1.6rc1 does not properly handle "certain quote sequences" in HTML cookie parameters...

Squid -- Denial of Service Vulnerability

Squid secuirty advisory reports: Due to incorrect bounds checking Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service check during some cache update reply processing. This problem allows any client trusted to use the service to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service...

openldap -- multiple remote denial of service vulnerabilities

BugTraq reports: OpenLDAP is prone to multiple remote denial-of-service vulnerabilities because of an incorrect NULL-termination issue and a double-free issue...

jdk/jre -- Applet Caching May Allow Network Access Restrictions to be Circumvented

SUN reports: A vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE with applet caching may allow an untrusted applet that is downloaded from a malicious website to make network connections to network services on machines other than the one that the applet was downloaded from. This may allow network...

bind -- Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Problem Description: A type ANY query response containing multiple RRsets can trigger an assertion failure. Certain recursive queries can cause the nameserver to crash by using memory which has already been freed. Impact: A remote attacker sending a type ANY query to an authoritative DNS server f...

tnftpd -- Remote root Exploit

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

screen -- combined UTF-8 characters vulnerability

A vulnerability in the handling of combined UTF-8 characters in screen may allow an user-assisted attacker to crash screen or potentially allow code execution as the user running screen. To exploit this issue the user running scren must in some way interact with the attacker...

kdelibs -- integer overflow in khtml

Red Hat reports: An integer overflow flaw was found in the way Qt handled pixmap images. The KDE khtml library uses Qt in such a way that untrusted parameters could be passed to Qt, triggering the overflow. An attacker could for example create a malicious web page that when viewed by a victim in...

punbb -- NULL byte injection vulnerability

CVE Mitre reports: PunBB 1.2.12 does not properly handle an avatar directory pathname ending in %00, which allows remote authenticated administrative users to upload arbitrary files and execute code, as demonstrated by a query to adminoptions.php with an avatarsdir parameter ending in %00. NOTE:...

squirrelmail -- random variable overwrite vulnerability

The SquirrelMail developers report: A logged in user could overwrite random variables in compose.php, which might make it possible to read/write other users' preferences or attachments...

shoutcast -- cross-site scripting, information exposure

Goober's advisory reports reports that shoutcast is vulnerable to an arbitrary file reading vulnerability: Impact of the vulnerability depends on the way the product was installed. In general, the vulnerability allows the attacker to read any file which can be read by the Shoutcast server process...

openssh -- remote denial of service

Problem description: Because OpenSSH and OpenPAM have conflicting designs one is event- driven while the other is callback-driven, it is necessary for OpenSSH to fork a child process to handle calls to the PAM framework. However, if the unprivileged child terminates while PAM authentication is...

texindex -- temporary file privilege escalation

Problem description The "sortoffline" function used by texindex1 employs the "maketempname" function, which produces predictable file names and fails to validate that the paths do not exist. Impact These predictable temporary file names are problematic because they allow an attacker to take...

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...

gaim -- AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash

The GAIM team reports: A remote user could cause Gaim to crash on some systems by sending the Gaim user a file whose filename contains certain invalid characters. It is unknown what combination of systems are affected, but it is suspected that Windows users and systems with older versions of GTK+...

gforge -- XSS and email flood vulnerabilities

Jose Antonio Coret reports that GForge contains multiple Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities and an e-mail flood vulnerability: The login form is also vulnerable to XSS Cross Site Scripting attacks. This may be used to launch phising attacks by sending HTML e-mails i.e.: saying that you need to...

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...

phpbb -- remote PHP code execution vulnerability

FrSIRT Advisory reports: A vulnerability was identified in phpBB, which may be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "viewtopic.php" script that does not properly filter the "highlight" parameter before calling the...

fswiki -- XSS problem in file upload form

A Secunia security advisory reports: A vulnerability has been reported in FreeStyle Wiki and FSWikiLite, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks. Input passed in uploaded attachments is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to injec...

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...

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...

kdelibs -- local DCOP denial of service vulnerability

A KDE Security Advisory reports: Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE LINUX Security Team reported a local denial of service vulnerability in KDE's Desktop Communication Protocol DCOP daemon better known as dcopserver. A local user can lock up the dcopserver of arbitrary other users on the same machine...

realplayer -- remote heap overflow

Two exploits have been identified in the Linux RealPlayer client. RealNetworks states: RealNetworks, Inc. has addressed recently discovered security vulnerabilities that offered the potential for an attacker to run arbitrary or malicious code on a customer's machine. RealNetworks has received no...

postgresql -- privilege escalation vulnerability

John Heasman and others disovered that non-privileged users could use the LOAD extension to load arbitrary libraries into the postgres server process space. This could be used by non-privileged local users to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the postgresql server...

mozilla -- heap overflow in NNTP handler

Maurycy Prodeus reports a critical vulnerability in Mozilla-based browsers: Mozilla browser supports NNTP urls. Remote side is able to trigger news:// connection to any server. I found a flaw in NNTP handling code which may cause heap overflow and allow remote attacker to execute arbitrary code o...

squid -- confusing results on empty acl declarations

Applying an empty ACL list results in unexpected behavior: anything will match an empty ACL list. For example, The meaning of the configuration gets very confusing when we encounter empty ACLs such as acl something src "/path/to/emptyfile.txt" httpaccess allow something somewhere gets parsed with...

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...

tiff -- multiple integer overflows

Dmitry V. Levin discovered numerous integer overflow bugs in libtiff. Most of these bugs are related to memory management, and are believed to be exploitable for arbitrary code execution...

konqueror -- Password Disclosure for SMB Shares

When browsing SMB shares with Konqueror, shares with authentication show up with hidden password in the browser bar. It is possible to store the URL as a shortcut on the desktop where the password is then available in plain text...