dropbear -- exposure of sensitive information, DoS

The Dropbear project reports: A weakness and a vulnerability have been reported in Dropbear SSH Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information and cause a DoS...

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...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

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:...

socat -- Heap-based buffer overflow

The socat development team reports: This vulnerability can be exploited when socat is invoked with the READLINE address this is usually only used interactively without option "prompt" and without option "noprompt" and an attacker succeeds to provide malicious data to the other arbitrary address...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 106577 Medium CVE-2011-3066: Out-of-bounds read in Skia clipping. Credit to miaubiz. 117583 Medium CVE-2011-3067: Cross-origin iframe replacement. Credit to Sergey Glazunov. 117698 High CVE-2011-3068: Use-after-free in run-in handling. Credit to miaubiz. 117728 Hig...

png -- memory corruption/possible remote code execution

The PNG project reports: libpng fails to correctly handle malloc failures for text chunks in pngsettext2, which can lead to memory corruption and the possibility of remote code execution...

dropbear -- arbitrary code execution

The Dropbear project reports: Dropbear SSH Server could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after- free error. If a command restriction is enforced, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system with...

mozilla -- heap-buffer overflow

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2012-11 libpng integer overflow...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal development team reports: Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability in Aggregator module CVE: CVE-2012-0826 An XSRF vulnerability can force an aggregator feed to update. Since some services are rate-limited e.g. Twitter limits requests to 150 per hour this could lead to a denial of service...

mpack -- Information disclosure

The oss-security list reports: Incorrect permissions on temporary files can lead to information disclosure...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2011-53 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:9.0 MFSA 2011-54 Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library MFSA 2011-55 nsSVGValue out-of-bounds access MFSA 2011-56 Key detection without JavaScript via SVG animation MFSA 2011-58 Crash...

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...

Drupal Views plugin -- cross-site scripting

Drupal security team reports: The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content are presented. Under certain circumstances, Views could display parts of the page path without escaping, resulting in a relected Cross Site Scripting XSS...

php5 -- Denial of Service in php_date_parse_tzfile()

MITRE CVE team reports: Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the phpdateparsetzfile cache...

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...

Mailman -- cross-site scripting in web interface

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Mailman, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks. Certain input passed via the list descriptions is not properly sanitised before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary...

vlc -- invalid id3v2 tags may lead to invalid memory dereferencing

VideoLAN project reports: VLC fails to perform sufficient input validation when trying to extract some meta-informations about input media through ID3v2 tags. In the failure case, VLC attempt dereference an invalid memory address, and a crash will ensure...

wireshark -- DOCSIS dissector denial of service

A vulnerability found in the DOCSIS dissector can cause Wireshark to crash when a malformed packet trace file is opened. This means that an attacker will have to trick a victim into opening such a trace file before being able to crash the application...

krb5 -- remote denial of service vulnerability

An authenticated remote attacker can causing a denial of service by using a newer version of the kadmin protocol than the server supports. The MIT Kerberos team also reports the cause: The Kerberos administration daemon kadmind can crash due to referencing freed memory...

ejabberd -- queue overload denial of service vulnerability

The Red Hat security response team reports: A remotely exploitable DoS from XMPP client to ejabberd server via too many "client2server" messages causing the message queue on the server to get overloaded, leading to server crash has been found...

pligg -- Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Site Request Forgery

secunia reports: Russ McRee has discovered some vulnerabilities in Pligg, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks. Input passed via the "Referer" HTTP header to various scripts e.g. admin/adminconfig.php, admin/adminmodules.php,...

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...

squidGuard -- multiple vulnerabilities

SquidGuard website reports: Patch 20091015 fixes one buffer overflow problem in sgLog.c when overlong URLs are requested. SquidGuard will then go into emergency mode were no blocking occurs. This is not required in this situation. Patch 20091019 fixes two bypass problems with URLs which length is...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Team reports: An unspecified error in the processing of JPEG images can be exploited to trigger a memory corruption. An error can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in a different domain via unspecified plugins. An unspecified error has a "moderately severe" impact. No further...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

Vendor reports: On non-Windows systems Wireshark could crash if the HOME environment variable contained sprintf-style string formatting characters. Wireshark could crash while reading a malformed NetScreen snoop file. Wireshark could crash while reading a Tektronix K12 text capture file...

syslog-ng2 -- startup directory leakage in the chroot environment

Florian Grandel reports: I have not had the time to analyze all of syslog-ng code. But by reading the code section near the chroot call and looking at strace results I believe that syslog-ng does not chdir to the chroot jail's location before chrooting into it. This opens up ways to work around t...

openfire -- multiple vulnerabilities

Andreas Kurtz reports: The jabber server Openfire = version 3.6.0a contains several serious vulnerabilities. Depending on the particular runtime environment these issues can potentially even be used by an attacker to execute code on operating system level. Authentication bypass - This vulnerabili...

nagios -- web interface privilege escalation vulnerability

securityfocus reports: An attacker with low-level privileges may exploit this issue to bypass authorization and cause arbitrary commands to run within the context of the Nagios server. This may aid in further attacks...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.45.2 and earlier. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

clamav -- CHM Processing Denial of Service

Hanno Boeck reports: A fuzzing test showed weakness in the chm parser of clamav, which can possibly be exploited. The clamav team has disabled the chm module in older versions though freshclam updates and has released 0.94 with a fixed parser...

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...

IRC Services-- Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to the improper handling of overly long passwords within the "defaultencrypt" function in encrypt.c and can be exploited to...

FreeBSD -- heap overflow in file(1)

Problem Description: When writing data into a buffer in the fileprintf function, the length of the unused portion of the buffer is not correctly tracked, resulting in a buffer overflow when processing certain files. Impact: An attacker who can cause file1 to be run on a maliciously constructed...

mysql -- renaming of arbitrary tables by authenticated users

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

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...

joomla -- multiple remote vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Joomla!, where some have unknown impacts and one can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to an unspecified parameter is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can...

dbus -- match_rule_equal() Weakness

Secunia reports: D-Bus have a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS Denial of Service. An error within the "matchruleequal" function can be exploited to disable the ability of other processes to receive messages by removing their matches from D-Bus...

ImageMagick -- SGI Image File heap overflow vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports about ImageMagick: ImageMagick is prone to a remote heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer. Exploiting this issue allows attackers to execu...

vtiger -- multiple remote file inclusion vulnerabilities

Dedi Dwianto a.k.a theday reports: Input passed to the "$calpath" parameter in update.php is not properly verified before being used. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code by including files from local or external resources...

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...

sppp -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Problem Description While processing Link Control Protocol LCP configuration options received from the remote host, sppp4 fails to correctly validate option lengths. This may result in data being read or written beyond the allocated kernel memory buffer. Impact An attacker able to send LCP packet...

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...

mplayer -- Multiple integer overflows

Secunia reports: The vulnerabilities are caused due to integer overflow errors in "libmpdemux/asfheader.c" within the handling of an ASF file, and in "libmpdemux/aviheader.c" when parsing the "indx" chunk in an AVI file. This can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via a malicious A...

mediawiki -- cross site scripting vulnerability

The mediawiki development team reports that there is an site scripting vulnerability within mediawiki. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of encoded links which could allow the injection of html in the output generated by mediawiki. This could lead to cross site scripting attacks...

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...

SSH.COM SFTP server -- format string vulnerability

SSH Communications Security Corp reports a format string vulnerability in their SFTP server. This vulnerability could cause a user with SCP/SFTP access only to get permission to execute also other commands. It could also allow user A to create a special file that when accessed by user B allows us...

openvpn -- denial of service: client certificate validation can disconnect unrelated clients

James Yonan reports: DoS attack against server when run with "verb 0" and without "tls-auth". If a client connection to the server fails certificate verification, the OpenSSL error queue is not properly flushed, which can result in another unrelated client instance on the server seeing the error...