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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

plone -- unsafe data interpreted as pickles

Plone projectreports: This hotfix corrects a vulnerability in the statusmessages and linkintegrity modules, where unsafe network data was interpreted as python pickles. This allows an attacker to run arbitrary python code within the Zope/Plone process...

mysql -- renaming of arbitrary tables by authenticated users

MySQL reports: The requirement of the DROP privilege for RENAME TABLE was not enforced...

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...

p5-Imager -- possibly exploitable buffer overflow

Imager 0.56 and all earlier versions with BMP support have a security issue when reading compressed 8-bit per pixel BMP files where either a compressed run of data or a literal run of data overflows the scan-line. Such an overflow causes a buffer overflow in a malloc allocated memory buffer,...

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...

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...

opera -- URL parsing heap overflow vulnerability

iDefense Labs reports: Remote exploitation of a heap overflow vulnerability within version 9 of Opera Software's Opera Web browser could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected host. A flaw exists within Opera when parsing a tag that contains a URL. A heap buffer with a consta...

clamav -- heap overflow vulnerability

Clamav team reports: A heap overflow vulnerability was discovered in libclamav which could cause a denial of service or allow the execution of arbitrary code. The problem is specifically located in the PE file rebuild function used by the UPX unpacker. Relevant code from libclamav/upx.c: memcpyds...

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...

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...

GnuPG does not detect injection of unsigned data

Werner Koch reports: In the aftermath of the false positive signature verfication bug announced 2006-02-15 more thorough testing of the fix has been done and another vulnerability has been detected. This new problem affects the use of gpg for verification of signatures which are not detached...

gtar -- invalid headers buffer overflow

GNU tar is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking of the PAX extended headers. By tricking an user into processing a specially crafted tar archive, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...

heimdal -- Multiple vulnerabilities

A Project heimdal Security Advisory reports: The telnet client program in Heimdal has buffer overflows in the functions slcaddreply and envoptadd, which may lead to remote code execution. The telnetd server program in Heimdal has buffer overflows in the function getterminaltype, which may lead to...

openvpn -- arbitrary code execution on client through malicious or compromised server

James Yonan reports: A format string vulnerability in the foreignoption function in options.c could potentially allow a malicious or compromised server to execute arbitrary code on the client. Only non-Windows clients are affected. The vulnerability only exists if a the client's TLS negotiation...

squid -- FTP server response handling denial of service

A Secunia Advisory reports: M.A.Young has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in handling certain FTP server responses. This can be exploited to crash Squid by visiting 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. ...

freeradius -- multiple vulnerabilities

The freeradious development team reports: Multiple issues exist with version 1.0.4, and all prior versions of the server. Externally exploitable vulnerabilities exist only for sites that use the rlmsqlcounter module. Those sites may be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, similar to the issues...

squirrelmail -- _$POST variable handling allows for various attacks

A Squirrelmail Advisory reports: An extract$POST was done in optionsidentities.php which allowed for an attacker to set random variables in that file. This could lead to the reading and possible writing of other people's preferences, cross site scripting or writing files in webserver-writable...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: Any user can change any flag on any bug, even if they don't have access to that bug, or even if they can't normally make bug changes. This also allows them to expose the summary of a bug. Bugs are inserted into the database before they are marked as private, ...

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...

acroread -- XML External Entity vulnerability

Sverre H. Huseby discovered a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. Under certain circumstances, using XML scripts it is possible to discover the existence of local files...

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...

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...

firefox -- PLUGINSPAGE privileged javascript execution

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports: When a webpage requires a plugin that is not installed the user can click to launch the Plugin Finder Service PFS to find an appropriate plugin. If the service does not have an appropriate plugin the EMBED tag is checked for a PLUGINSPAGE attribute,...

ethereal -- multiple protocol dissectors vulnerabilities

An Ethreal Security Advisories reports: Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors: Matevz Pustisek discovered a buffer overflow in the Etheric dissector. CVE: CAN-2005-0704 The GPRS-LLC dissector could crash if the "ignore cipher bit" option was enabled. CVE: CAN-2005-0705...

p5-DBI -- insecure temporary file creation vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña reports: The DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates a temporary PID file in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person executing the parts of the library...

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...

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...

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...

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...

mod_dav -- lock related denial-of-service

A malicious user with DAV write privileges can trigger a null pointer dereference in the Apache moddav module. This could cause the server to become unavailable...

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...

mozilla -- SOAPParameter integer overflow

zen-parse discovered and iDEFENSE reported an exploitable integer overflow in a scriptable Mozilla component SOAPParameter': Improper input validation to the SOAPParameter object constructor in Netscape and Mozilla allows execution of arbitrary code. The SOAPParameter object's constructor contain...

mozilla -- built-in CA certificates may be overridden

Under some situations, Mozilla will automatically import a certificate from an email message or web site. This behavior can be used as a denial-of-service attack: if the certificate has a distinguished name DN identical to one of the built-in Certificate Authorities CAs, then Mozilla will no long...

neon date parsing vulnerability

Stefan Esser reports: A vulnerability within a libneon date parsing function could cause a heap overflow which could lead to remote code execution, depending on the application using libneon. The vulnerability is in the function nerfc1036parse, which is in turn used by the function nehttpdatepars...

racoon fails to verify signature during Phase 1

Ralf Spenneberg discovered a serious flaw in racoon. When using Phase 1 main or aggressive mode, racoon does not verify the client's RSA signature. Any installations using X.509 authentication are strongly urged to upgrade. Installations using pre-shared keys are believed to be unaffected...

OpenSSL ChangeCipherSpec denial-of-service vulnerability

A remote attacker could cause an application using OpenSSL to crash by performing a specially crafted SSL/TLS handshake...

jailed processes can manipulate host routing tables

A programming error resulting in a failure to verify that an attempt to manipulate routing tables originated from a non-jailed process. Jailed processes running with superuser privileges could modify host routing tables. This could result in a variety of consequences including packets being sent...

ezbounce remote format string vulnerability

A security hole exists that can be used to crash the proxy and execute arbitrary code. An exploit is circulating that takes advantage of this, and in some cases succeeds in obtaining a login shell on the machine...

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...