chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 162494 High CVE-2012-5145: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 165622 High CVE-2012-5146: Same origin policy bypass with malformed URL. Credit to Erling A Ellingsen and Subodh Iyengar, both of Facebook. 165864 High CVE-2012-5147:...

xlockmore -- local exploit

Ignatios Souvatzis of NetBSD reports: Due to an error in the dclock screensaver in xlockmore, users who explicitly use this screensaver or a random mix of screensavers using something like "xlockmore -mode random" may have their screen unlocked unexpectedly at a random time...

Wireshark -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Wireshark reports: The HSRP dissector could go into an infinite loop. The PPP dissector could abort. Martin Wilck discovered an infinite loop in the DRDA dissector. Laurent Butti discovered a buffer overflow in the LDP dissector...

Dokuwiki -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Secunia Research reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in DokuWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the "ns" POST parameter in lib/exe/ajax.php when "call" is set to "medialist" and "do" is set to "media" is no...

libjpeg-turbo -- heap-based buffer overflow

The Changelog for version 1.2.1 says: Fixed a regression caused by 1.2.06 in which decompressing corrupt JPEG images specifically, images in which the component count was erroneously set to a large value would cause libjpeg-turbo to segfault. A Heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way...

RT -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

BestPractical report: Internal audits of the RT codebase have uncovered a number of security vulnerabilities in RT. We are releasing versions 3.8.12 and 4.0.6 to resolve these vulnerabilities, as well as patches which apply atop all released versions of 3.8 and 4.0. The vulnerabilities addressed ...

sudo -- netmask vulnerability

Todd Miller reports: Sudo supports granting access to commands on a per-host basis. The host specification may be in the form of a host name, a netgroup, an IP address, or an IP network an IP address with an associated netmask. When IPv6 support was added to sudo, a bug was introduced that caused...

raptor/raptor2 -- XXE in RDF/XML File Interpretation

Timothy D. Morgan reports: In December 2011, VSR identified a vulnerability in multiple open source office products including OpenOffice, LibreOffice, KOffice, and AbiWord due to unsafe interpretation of XML files with custom entity declarations. Deeper analysis revealed that the vulnerability wa...

Apache Traffic Server -- heap overflow vulnerability

CERT-FI reports: A heap overflow vulnerability has been found in the HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol protocol handling of Apache Traffic Server. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially to execute his own code by sending a specially modified HTTP message t...

OpenSSL -- multiple vulnerabilities

OpenSSL Team reports: Two security flaws have been fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0e Under certain circumstances OpenSSL's internal certificate verification routines can incorrectly accept a CRL whose nextUpdate field is in the past. CVE-2011-3207 OpenSSL server code for ephemeral ECDH ciphersuites is not...

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...

krb5 -- MITKRB5-SA-2011-001, kpropd denial of service

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The MIT krb5 KDC database propagation daemon kpropd is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack triggered by invalid network input. If a kpropd worker process receives invalid input that causes it to exit with an abnormal status, it can cause t...

exim -- local privilege escalation

David Woodhouse reports: Secondly a privilege escalation where the trusted 'exim' user is able to tell Exim to use arbitrary config files, in which further $run ... commands will be invoked as root...

isc-dhcp-server -- Empty link-address denial of service

ISC reports: If the server receives a DHCPv6 packet containing one or more Relay-Forward messages, and none of them supply an address in the Relay-Forward link-address field, then the server will crash. This can be used as a single packet crash attack vector...

bzip2 -- integer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in bzip2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or potentially compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow in the "BZ2decompress" function in decompress.c and can be...

wget -- multiple HTTP client download filename vulnerability

GNU Wget version 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a...

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...

krb5 -- multiple denial of service vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities in krb5 can be used by remote attackers in denial of service attacks. The MIT security advisories report this as follows: An unauthenticated remote attacker can send an invalid request to a KDC process that will cause it to crash due to an assertion failure, creating a denial ...

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...

curl -- libcurl buffer overflow vulnerability

The cURL project reports in a security advisory: Using the affected libcurl version to download compressed content over HTTP, an application can ask libcurl to automatically uncompress data. When doing so, libcurl can wrongly send data up to 64K in size to the callback which thus is much larger...

lighttpd -- denial of service vulnerability

Lighttpd security advisory reports: If you send the request data very slow e.g. sleep 0.01 after each byte, lighttpd will easily use all available memory and die especially for parallel requests, allowing a DoS within minutes...

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-toolkit -- Format string vulnerabilities

SILC Changlog reports: An unspecified format string vulnerability exists in silc-toolkit...

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...

libxml -- Stack consumption vulnerability

Stack consumption vulnerability allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD...

curl -- cURL/libcURL Location: Redirect URLs Security Bypass

Secunia reports: The security issue is caused due to cURL following HTTP Location: redirects to e.g. scp:// or file:// URLs which can be exploited by a malicious HTTP server to overwrite or disclose the content of arbitrary local files and potentially execute arbitrary commands via specially...

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...

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...

fetchmail -- potential crash in -v -v verbose mode (revised patch)

Matthias Andree reports: 2008-06-24 1.2 also fixed issue in reportcomplete reported by Petr Uzel...

FreeType 2 -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: An integer overflow error exists in the processing of PFB font files. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a PFB file containing a specially crafted "Private" dictionary table. An error in the processing of PFB font files can be exploited to trigger the...

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...

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...

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...

FreeBSD -- IPv6 Routing Header 0 is dangerous

Problem Description There is no mechanism for preventing IPv6 routing headers from being used to route packets over the same links many times. Impact An attacker can "amplify" a denial of service attack against a link between two vulnerable hosts; that is, by sending a small volume of traffic the...

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...

sql-ledger -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Debian security Team reports: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in SQL Ledger, a web based double-entry accounting program, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: Chris Travers...

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...

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...

dnrd -- remote buffer and stack overflow vulnerabilities

Natanael Copa reports that dnrd is vulnerable to a remote buffer overflow and a remote stack overflow. These vulnerabilities can be triggered by sending invalid DNS packets to dnrd. The buffer overflow could potentially be used to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the dnrd daemon. No...

net-snmp -- remote DoS vulnerability

A Net-SNMP release announcement reports: A security vulnerability has been found in Net-SNMP releases that could allow a denial of service attack against Net-SNMP agent's which have opened a stream based protocol EG, TCP but not UDP; it should be noted that Net-SNMP does not by default open a TCP...

clamav -- cabinet file handling DoS vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of an input validation error in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV allows attackers to cause a denial of service condition. The vulnerability specifically exists due to insufficient validation on cabinet file header data. The ENSUREBITS macro fails to...

phpmyadmin -- cross site scripting vulnerability

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

phpmyadmin -- information disclosure vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports: By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way especially scripts in the libraries subdirectory, it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin...

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...

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...

phpmyadmin -- file disclosure vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports: File disclosure: on systems where the UploadDir mecanism is active, readdump.php can be called with a crafted form; using the fact that the sqllocalfile variable is not sanitized can lead to a file disclosure. Enabling PHP safe mode on the server can be...

opera -- kfmclient exec command execution vulnerability

Giovanni Delvecchio reports: Opera for linux uses "kfmclient exec" as "Default Application" to handle saved files. This could be used by malicious remote users to execute arbitrary shell commands on a target system...

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...