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...

pecl-phar -- format string vulnerability

Entry for CVE-2010-2094 says: Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the phar extension in PHP 5.3 before 5.3.2 allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information memory contents and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted phar:// URI that is not properly handled by the 1...

pidgin -- multiple remote denial of service vulnerabilities

Three denial of service vulnerabilities where found in pidgin and allow remote attackers to crash the application. The developers summarized these problems as follows: Pidgin can become unresponsive when displaying large numbers of smileys Certain nicknames in group chat rooms can trigger a crash...

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...

pidgin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities and weaknesses have been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS or to potentially compromise a user's system. A truncation error in the processing of MSN SLP messages can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. A bounda...

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...

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...

ffmpeg -- 4xm processing memory corruption vulnerability

Secunia reports: Tobias Klein has reported a vulnerability in FFmpeg, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to a signedness error within the "fourxmreadheader" function in libavformat/4xm.c. This can ...

ganglia -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: Spike Spiegel has discovered a vulnerability in Ganglia which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the processpath function in gmetad/server.c. This can be exploited to cause a stack-bas...

squirrelmail -- Cross site scripting vulnerability

Squirrelmail team reports: An issue was fixed that allowed an attacker to send specially- crafted hyperlinks in a message that could execute cross-site scripting XSS when the user viewed the message in SquirrelMail...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera reports: Certain constructs are not escaped correctly by Opera's History Search results. These can be used to inject scripts into the page, which can then be used to look through the user's browsing history, including the contents of the pages they have visited. These may contain sensitive...

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...

horde -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in various Horde products, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks Input via MIME attachment linking is not properly sanitised in the MIME library before being used. This can be exploited to execute...

FreeBSD -- nmount(2) local arbitrary code execution

Problem Description: Various user defined input such as mount points, devices, and mount options are prepared and passed as arguments to nmount2 into the kernel. Under certain error conditions, user defined data will be copied into a stack allocated buffer stored in the kernel without sufficient...

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...

qemu -- "drive_init()" Disk Format Security Bypass

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in QEMU, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerability is caused due to the "driveinit" function in vl.c determining the format of a disk from data contained in the disk's header. This...

libxine -- array index vulnerability

xine Team reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix an unchecked array index that could allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a header structure containing a negative offset, which is used to dereference a function pointer...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Wireshark team reports of multiple vulnerabilities: Wireshark could crash when reading an MP3 file. Beyond Security discovered that Wireshark could loop excessively while reading a malformed DNP packet. Stefan Esser discovered a buffer overflow in the SSL dissector. The ANSI MAP dissector cou...

xfs -- multiple vulnerabilities

Matthieu Herrb reports: Problem Description: Several vulnerabilities have been identified in xfs, the X font server. The QueryXBitmaps and QueryXExtents protocol requests suffer from lack of validation of their 'length' parameters. Impact: On most modern systems, the font server is accessible onl...

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...

wireshark -- Multiple problems

wireshark Team reports: It may be possible to make Wireshark or Ethereal crash or use up available memory by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file...

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...

WebCalendar -- "noSet" variable overwrite vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in WebCalendar, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. Input passed to unspecified parameters is not properly verified before being used with the "noSet" parameter set. This can be exploited to overwrite...

fetchmail -- crashes when refusing a message bound for an MDA

Matthias Andree reports: When delivering messages to a message delivery agent by means of the "mda" option, fetchmail can crash by passing a NULL pointer to ferror and fflush when refusing a message. SMTP and LMTP delivery modes aren't affected...

ruby -- cgi.rb library Denial of Service

The official ruby site reports: Another vulnerability has been discovered in the CGI library cgi.rb that ships with Ruby which could be used by a malicious user to create a denial of service attack DoS. A specific HTTP request for any web application using cgi.rb causes CPU consumption on the...

torrentflux -- User-Agent XSS Vulnerability

Steven Roddis reports that User-Agent string is not properly escaped when handled by torrentflux. This allows for arbitrary code insertion...

gnutls -- RSA Signature Forgery Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in GnuTLS, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the verification of certain signatures. If a RSA key with exponent 3 is used, it may be possible to forg...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues. Several of which can be used to run arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running the program. MFSA 2006-56 chrome: scheme loading remote content MFSA 2006-55 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption rv:1.8.0.5 MFSA...

clamav -- Freshclam HTTP Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in ClamAV, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service and potentially to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the HTTP client in the Freshclam command line...

mailman -- Private Archive Script Cross-Site Scripting

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Mailman, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Unspecified input passed to the private archive script is not properly sanitised before being returned to users. This can be exploited to execute...

bogofilter -- heap corruption through excessively long words

Matthias Andree reports: Bogofilter's/bogolexer's input handling in version 0.96.2 was not keeping track of its output buffers properly and could overrun a heap buffer if the input contained words whose length exceeded 16,384 bytes, the size of flex's input buffer. A "word" here refers to a...

openssl -- potential SSL 2.0 rollback

Vulnerability: Such applications are affected if they use the option SSLOPMSIESSLV2RSAPADDING. This option is implied by use of SSLOPALL, which is intended to work around various bugs in third-party software that might prevent interoperability. The SSLOPMSIESSLV2RSAPADDING option disables a...

libxine -- format string vulnerability

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string bug in the routines handling CDDB server response contents. An attacker could submit malicious information about an audio CD to a public CDDB server or impersonate a public CDDB server. When the victim plays this CD...

xloadimage -- buffer overflows in NIFF image title handling

Ariel Berkman reports: Unlike most of the supported image formats in xloadimage, the NIFF image format can store a title name of arbitrary length as part of the image file. When xloadimage is processing a loaded image, it is creating a new Image object and then writing the processed image to it. ...

gaim -- AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow

The GAIM team reports: A remote AIM or ICQ user can cause a buffer overflow in Gaim by setting an away message containing many AIM substitution strings such as %t or %n...

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...

kdebase -- Kate backup file permission leak

A KDE Security Advisory explains: Kate / Kwrite create a file backup before saving a modified file. These backup files are created with default permissions, even if the original file had more strict permissions set. Depending on the system security settings, backup files might be readable by othe...

mambo -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mambo, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing and SQL injection attacks. Input passed to the "userrating" parameter when voting isn't properly sanitised before being...

mozilla -- code execution via javascript: IconURL vulnerability

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports: Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a user's system. The problem is that "IFRAME" JavaScript URLs are not properly protected from bein...

lighttpd -- script source disclosure vulnerability

The lighttpd website reports: In lighttpd 1.3.7 and below it is possible to fetch the source files which should be handled by CGI or FastCGI applications. The vulnerability is in the handling of urlencoded trailing NUL bytes. Installations that do not use CGI or FastCGI are not affected...

perl -- vulnerabilities in PERLIO_DEBUG handling

Kevin Finisterre discovered bugs in perl's I/O debug support: The environmental variable PERLIODEBUG is honored even by the set-user-ID perl command usually named sperl or suidperl. As a result, a local attacker may be able to gain elevated privileges. CVE-2005-0155 A buffer overflow may occur in...

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...

a2ps -- insecure temporary file creation

A Secunia Security Advisory reports that Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña has found temporary file creation vulnerabilities in the fixps and psmandup scripts which are part of a2ps. These vulnerabilities could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the credentials of the user running...

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...

gd -- integer overflow

infamous41md reports about the GD Graphics Library: There is an integer overflow when allocating memory in the routine that handles loading PNG image files. This later leads to heap data structures being overwritten. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious PNG image, they could...

unarj -- directory traversal vulnerability

unarj has insufficient checks for filenames that contain ... This can allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running unarj...

freeradius -- denial-of-service vulnerability

A remote attacker may be able to crash the freeRADIUS Server due to three independant bugs in the function which does improper checking values while processing RADIUS attributes...

tnftpd -- remotely exploitable vulnerability

lukemftpd8 is an enhanced BSD FTP server produced within the NetBSD project. The sources for lukemftpd are shipped with some versions of FreeBSD, however it is not built or installed by default. The build system option WANTLUKEMFTPD must be set to build and install lukemftpd. NOTE: An exception i...

acroread uudecoder input validation error

An iDEFENSE security advisory reports: Remote exploitation of an input validation error in the uudecoding feature of Adobe Acrobat Reader Unix 5.0 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The Unix and Linux versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 automatically attempt to convert uuencoded...

Pavuk HTTP Location header overflow

When pavuk sends a request to a web server and the server sends back the HTTP status code 305 Use Proxy, pavuk copies data from the HTTP Location header in an unsafe manner. This leads to a stack-based buffer overflow with control over EIP...