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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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+...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

cyrus-sasl -- dynamic library loading and set-user-ID applications

The Cyrus SASL library, libsasl, contains functions which may load dynamic libraries. These libraries may be loaded from the path specified by the environmental variable SASLPATH, which in some situations may be fully controlled by a local attacker. Thus, if a set-user-ID application such as chsh...

gaim -- malicious smiley themes

The Gaim Security Issues page documents a problem with installing smiley themes from an untrusted source: To install a new smiley theme, a user can drag a tarball from a graphical file manager, or a hypertext link to one from a web browser. When a tarball is dragged, Gaim executes a shell command...

lha -- numerous vulnerabilities when extracting archives

Source code reviews of lha by Lukasz Wojtow, Thomas Biege, and others uncovered a number of vulnerabilities affecting lha: Buffer overflows when handling archives and filenames. CVE-2004-0694 Possible command execution via shell meta-characters when built with NOMKDIR. CVE-2004-0745 Buffer overfl...

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...

proftpd IP address access control list breakage

Jindrich Makovicka reports a regression in proftpd's handling of IP address access control lists IP ACLs. Due to this regression, some IP ACLs are treated as allow all''...

cscope -- symlink attack vulnerability

cscope is vulnerable to a symlink attack which could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running cscope...

xloadimage -- buffer overflow in FACES image handling

In 2001, zen-parse discovered a buffer overflow in xloadimage's FACES image loader. A maliciously crafted image could cause xloadimage to execute arbitrary code. A published exploit exists for this vulnerability. In 2005, Rob Holland discovered that the same vulnerability was present in xli...

Mozilla -- Memory safety bugs

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bugid=2028537%2C2029911%2C2031121%2C2033602 reports: Memory safety bugs. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code...

Gitlab -- Vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Stored XSS via Asciidoctor render Developer could exfiltrate protected CI/CD variables via CI lint Cyclic reference of epics leads resource exhaustion...

Django -- multiple vulnerabilities

Django reports: CVE-2024-41989: Memory exhaustion in django.utils.numberformat.floatformat. CVE-2024-41990: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.urlize. CVE-2024-41991: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in django.utils.html.urlize and AdminURLFieldWidget. CVE-2024-42005:...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 22 security fixes: 349198731 High CVE-2024-6988: Use after free in Downloads. Reported by lime@limeSec from TIANGONG Team of Legendsec at QI-ANXIN Group on 2024-06-25 349342289 High CVE-2024-6989: Use after free in Loader. Reported by Anonymous on...

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...

Django -- multiple vulnerabilities

Django reports: CVE-2024-27351: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.words...

electron{25,26} -- Use after free in Site Isolation

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerability: Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-5218...

Request Tracker -- multiple vulnerabilities

Request Tracker reports: CVE-2023-41259 SECURITY: RT is vulnerable to unvalidated email headers in incoming email and the mail-gateway REST interface. CVE-2023-41260 SECURITY: RT is vulnerable to information leakage via response messages returned from requests sent via the mail-gateway REST...

11/libX11 multiple vulnerabilities

The X.Org project reports: CVE-2023-43785: out-of-bounds memory access in XkbReadKeySyms When libX11 is processing the reply from the X server to the XkbGetMap request, if it detected the number of symbols in the new map was less than the size of the buffer it had allocated, it always added room...