mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2013-41 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:21.0 / rv:17.0.6 MFSA 2013-42 Privileged access for content level constructor MFSA 2013-43 File input control has access to full path MFSA 2013-44 Local privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service MFSA...

FreeBSD -- BIND remote denial of service

A flaw in a library used by BIND allows an attacker to deliberately cause excessive memory consumption by the named8 process. This affects both recursive and authoritative servers...

perl -- denial of service via algorithmic complexity attack on hashing routines

Perl developers report: In order to prevent an algorithmic complexity attack against its hashing mechanism, perl will sometimes recalculate keys and redistribute the contents of a hash. This mechanism has made perl robust against attacks that have been demonstrated against other systems. Research...

FreeBSD -- Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)

Problem description: The BIND daemon would crash when a query is made on a resource record with RDATA that exceeds 65535 bytes. The BIND daemon would lock up when a query is made on specific combinations of RDATA...

Exim -- remote code execution

This vulnerability affects Exim instances built with DKIM enabled this is the default for FreeBSD Exim port and running verification of DKIM signatures on the incoming mail messages. Phil Penncock reports: This is a SECURITY release, addressing a CRITICAL remote code execution flaw in versions of...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 154983154987 Critical CVE-2012-5112: SVG use-after-free and IPC arbitrary file write. Credit to Pinkie Pie...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 138208 High CVE-2012-2900: Crash in Skia text rendering. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 147499 Critical CVE-2012-5108: Race condition in audio device handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 148692 Medium CVE-2012-5109: OOB read in ICU regex. Credit to Arthur...

FreeBSD -- named(8) DNSSEC validation Denial of Service

Problem description: BIND 9 stores a cache of query names that are known to be failing due to misconfigured name servers or a broken chain of trust. Under high query loads, when DNSSEC validation is active, it is possible for a condition to arise in which data from this cache of failing queries...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 117409 High CVE-2011-3103: Crashes in v8 garbage collection. Credit to the Chromium development community Brett Wilson. 118018 Medium CVE-2011-3104: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Inferno. 120912 High CVE-2011-3105: Use-after-free...

haproxy -- buffer overflow

HAProxy reports: A flaw was reported in HAProxy where, due to a boundary error when copying data into the trash buffer, an external attacker could cause a buffer overflow. Exploiting this flaw could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, however it requires non-default settings for the...

typo -- Cross-Site Scripting

Typo Security Team reports: Failing to properly encode the output, the default TYPO3 Exception Handler is susceptible to Cross-Site Scripting. We are not aware of a possibility to exploit this vulnerability without third party extensions being installed that put user input in exception messages...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Multiple Priority 2 vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

chromium -- Errant plug-in load and GPU process memory corruption

Google Chrome Releases reports: 117620 117656 Critical CVE-2011-3047: Errant plug-in load and GPU process memory corruption. Credit to PinkiePie...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera software reports: Fixed a moderately severe issue; details will be disclosed at a later date Fixed an issue that could allow pages to set cookies or communicate cross-site for some top level domains; see our advisory Improved handling of certificate revocation corner cases Added a fix for a...

OpenTTD -- Denial of service via improperly validated commands

The OpenTTD Team reports: Multiple off-by-one errors in ordercmd.cpp in OpenTTD before 1.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted CMDINSERTORDER command...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Internet Explorer 8 and older, and Safari before 5.0.6 do content sniffing when viewing a patch in "Raw Unified" mode, which could trigger a cross-site scripting attack due to the execution of...

Erlang -- ssh library uses a weak random number generator

US-CERT reports: The Erlang/OTP ssh library implements a number of cryptographic operations that depend on cryptographically strong random numbers. Unfortunately the RNG used by the library is not cryptographically strong, and is further weakened by the use of predictable seed material. The RNG...

Asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Asterisk Development Team reports: It is possible for a user of the Asterisk Manager Interface to bypass a security check and execute shell commands when they should not have that ability. Sending the "Async" header with the "Application" header during an Originate action, allows authenticate...

php -- ZipArchive segfault with FL_UNCHANGED on empty archive

US-CERT/NIST reports: The zipnamelocate function in zipnamelocate.c in the Zip extension in PHP before 5.3.6 does not properly handle a ZIPARCHIVE::FLUNCHANGED argument, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via an empty ZIP archive that is...

krb5 -- MITKRB5-SA-2011-002, KDC vulnerable to hang when using LDAP back end

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The MIT krb5 Key Distribution Center KDC daemon is vulnerable to denial of service attacks from unauthenticated remote attackers. CVE-2011-0281 and CVE-2011-0282 occur only in KDCs using LDAP back ends, but CVE-2011-0283 occurs in all krb5-1.9...

plone -- Remote Security Bypass

Plone developer reports: This is an escalation of privileges attack that can be used by anonymous users to gain access to a Plone site's administration controls, view unpublished content, create new content and modify a site's skin. The sandbox protecting access to the underlying system is still ...

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...

php-imap -- Denial of Service

The following DoS condition in IMAP extension was fixed in PHP 5.3.4 and PHP 5.2.15: A remote user can send specially crafted IMAP user name or password data to trigger a double free memory error in 'ext/imap/phpimap.c' and cause the target service to crash. It may be possible to execute arbitrar...

Wireshark -- DoS in the BER-based dissectors

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite recursion error in the "dissectunknownber" function in epan/dissectors/packet-ber.c and can be exploited t...

git -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Greg Brockman reports: If an attacker were to create a crafted working copy where the user runs any git command, the attacker could force execution of arbitrary code...

cacti -- cross-site scripting issues

The cacti development team reports: The Cross-Site Scripting patch has been posted. This patch addresses cross-site scripting issues reported by Moritz Naumann...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2009-38: Data corruption with SOCKS5 reply containing DNS name longer than 15 characters MFSA 2009-42: Compromise of SSL-protected communication MFSA 2009-43: Heap overflow in certificate regexp parsing MFSA 2009-44: Location bar and SSL indicator spoofing via...

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...

libxine -- multiple vulnerabilities

xine developers report: Fix another possible int overflow in the 4XM demuxer. ref. TKADV2009-004, CVE-2009-0385 Fix an integer overflow in the Quicktime demuxer...

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 ...

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...

FreeBSD -- Cross-site request forgery in ftpd(8)

Problem Description: The ftpd8 server splits long commands into several requests. This may result in the server executing a command which is hidden inside another very long command. Impact: This could, with a specifically crafted command, be used in a cross-site request forgery attack. FreeBSD...

roundcube -- remote execution of arbitrary code

Entry for CVE-2008-5619 says: html2text.php in RoundCube Webmail roundcubemail 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the pregreplace function with the eval switch...

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...

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...

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...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Software reports of multiple security issues in Opera. All of them can lead to arbitrary code execution. Details are as the following: Newsfeed prompt can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code Resized canvas patterns can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code...

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...

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...

linux-realplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in RealPlayer/RealOne/HelixPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. An input validation error when processing .RA/.RAM files can be exploited to cause a heap corruption via a specially crafted...

qemu -- several vulnerabilities

The Debian Security Team reports: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the QEMU processor emulator, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-1320Tavis Ormandy...

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...

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...

OpenSSL -- Multiple problems in crypto(3)

Problem Description: Several problems have been found in OpenSSL: During the parsing of certain invalid ASN1 structures an error condition is mishandled, possibly resulting in an infinite loop. A buffer overflow exists in the SSLgetsharedciphers function. A NULL pointer may be dereferenced in the...

gtetrinet -- remote code execution

The Debian Security Team reports: Michael Gehring discovered several potential out-of-bounds index accesses in gtetrinet, a multiplayer Tetris-like game, which may allow a remote server to execute arbitrary code...

ruby -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Ruby, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. An error in the handling of the "alias" functionality can be exploited to bypass the safe level protection and replace methods called in the trusted...

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...

amaya -- Attribute Value Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Amaya have two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the parsing of various attribute values. This can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when a user...

clamav -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in ClamAV, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service and compromise a vulnerable system. An unspecified integer overflow error exists in the PE header parser in "libclamav/pe.c". Successful...

OPIE -- arbitrary password change

Problem Description The opiepasswd1 program uses getlogin2 to identify the user calling opiepasswd1. In some circumstances getlogin2 will return "root" even when running as an unprivileged user. This causes opiepasswd1 to allow an unpriviled user to configure OPIE authentication for the root user...