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 -- KDC double free vulnerability

The MIT Kerberos team reports: An authenticated remote attacker can crash the KDC by inducing the KDC to perform a double free. Under some circumstances on some platforms, this could also allow malicious code execution...

MoinMoin -- cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

The MoinMoin developers reports: Fix XSS in Despam action CVE-2010-0828 Fix XSS issues by escaping template name in messages by fixing other places that had similar issues...

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...

freeradius -- remote packet of death vulnerability

freeRADIUS Vulnerability Notifications reports: 2009.09.09 v1.1.7 - Anyone who can send packets to the server can crash it by sending a Tunnel-Password attribute in an Access-Request packet. This vulnerability is not otherwise exploitable. We have released 1.1.8 to correct this vulnerability. Thi...

quagga -- Denial of Service

Debian Security Team reports: It was discovered that Quagga, an IP routing daemon, could no longer process the Internet routing table due to broken handling of multiple 4-byte AS numbers in an AS path. If such a prefix is received, the BGP daemon crashes with an assert failure leading to a denial...

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...

wordpress -- header rss feed script insertion vulnerability

Secunia reports: Input passed via the HTTP "Host" header is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site if malicious data is viewed...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Opera Team reports: Manipulating certain text-area contents can cause a buffer overflow, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code. Certain HTML constructs can cause the resulting DOM to change unexpectedly, which triggers a crash. To inject code, additional techniques will have to be...

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...

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...

faad2 -- heap overflow vulnerability

CVE reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeMP4file function frontend/main.c in FAAD2 2.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MPEG-4 MP4 file...

fetchmail -- potential crash in -v -v verbose mode

Matthias Andree reports: Gunter Nau reported fetchmail crashing on some messages; further debugging by Petr Uzel and Petr Cerny at Novell/SUSE Czech Republic dug up that this happened when fetchmail was trying to print, in -v -v verbose level, headers exceeding 2048 bytes. In this situation,...

Bugzilla -- Directory Traversal in importxml.pl

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: When importing bugs using importxml.pl, the --attachpath option can be specified, pointing to the directory where attachments to import are stored. If the XML file being read by importxml.pl contains a malicious ../relativepath/to/localfile node, the script...

mantis -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mantis, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system and malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks. Input passed to the "filtertarget" parameter in returndynamicfilters.ph...

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...

drupal -- cross site scripting (utf8)

The Drupal Project reports: When outputting plaintext Drupal strips potentially dangerous HTML tags and attributes from HTML, and escapes characters which have a special meaning in HTML. This output filtering secures the site against cross site scripting attacks via user input. Certain byte...

zenphoto -- XSS vulnerability

zenphoto project reports: A new zenphoto version is now available. This release contains security fixes for HTML, XSS, and SQL injection vulnerabilities...

dovecot -- Specific LDAP + auth cache configuration may mix up user logins

Dovecot reports: If two users with the same password and same passfilter variables log in within authcachettl seconds 1h by default, the second user may get logged in with the first user's cached passattrs. For example if passattrs contained the user's home/mail directory, this would mean that th...

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...

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...

FreeBSD -- Predictable query ids in named(8)

Problem Description: When named8 is operating as a recursive DNS server or sending NOTIFY requests to slave DNS servers, named8 uses a predictable query id. Impact: An attacker who can see the query id for some requests sent by named8 is likely to be able to perform DNS cache poisoning by...

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...

fetchmail -- insecure APOP authentication

Matthias Andree reports: The POP3 standard, currently RFC-1939, has specified an optional, MD5-based authentication scheme called "APOP" which no longer should be considered secure. Additionally, fetchmail's POP3 client implementation has been validating the APOP challenge too lightly and accepte...

claws-mail -- APOP vulnerability

CVE reports: The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions...

ktorrent -- multiple vulnerabilities

Two problems have been found in KTorrent: KTorrent does not properly sanitize file names to filter out ".." components, so it's possible for an attacker to create a malicious torrent in order to overwrite arbitrary files within the filesystem. Messages with invalid chunk indexes aren't rejected...

samba -- potential Denial of Service bug in smbd

The Samba Team reports: Internally Samba's file server daemon, smbd, implements support for deferred file open calls in an attempt to serve client requests that would otherwise fail due to a share mode violation. When renaming a file under certain circumstances it is possible that the request is...

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...

linux-flashplugin7 -- arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Multiple input validation errors have been identified in Flash Player 8.0.24.0 and earlier versions that could lead to the potential execution of arbitrary code. These vulnerabilities could be accessed through content delivered from a remote location via the user?s web browser, ema...

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...

mambo -- SQL injection vulnerabilities

The Team Mambo reports that two SQL injection vulnerabilities have been found in Mambo. The vulnerabilities exists due to missing sanitation of the title and catid parameters in the weblinks.php page and can lead to execution of arbitrary SQL code...

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...

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...

linux-realplayer -- heap overflow

iDefense Reports: Remote exploitation of a heap-based buffer overflow in RealNetwork Inc's RealPlayer could allow the execution of arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged in user. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to entice a user to follow a link to a...

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...

ipfw -- IP fragment denial of service

Problem description: The firewall maintains a pointer to layer 4 header information in the event that it needs to send a TCP reset or ICMP error message to discard packets. Due to incorrect handling of IP fragments, this pointer fails to get initialized. Impact: An attacker can cause the firewall...

mantis -- "t_core_path" file inclusion vulnerability

Secunia Research reports: Input passed to the "tcorepath" parameter in "bugsponsorshiplistviewinc.php" isn't properly verified, before it used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local resources...

tiff -- buffer overflow vulnerability

A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag. Successful exploitation would require the victim to open a specially crafte...

gaim -- remote crash on some protocols

The GAIM team reports that GAIM is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability which can cause GAIM to crash: It is possible for a remote user to overflow a static buffer by sending an IM containing a very large URL greater than 8192 bytes to the Gaim user. This is not possible on all...

qmail -- 64 bit integer overflows with possible remote code execution on large SMTP requests

Georgi Guninski writes: There are several issues with qmail on 64 bit platforms - classical integer overflow, pointer with signed index and signedness problem not counting the memory consumtion dos, which just helps. Update: the problem with the signed index is exploitable on Freebsd 5.4 amd64 wi...

openoffice -- DOC document heap overflow vulnerability

AD-LAB reports that a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in OpenOffice's handling of DOC documents. When reading a DOC document 16 bit from a 32 bit integer is used for memory allocation, but the full 32 bit is used for further processing of the document. This can allow an attacker t...

unace -- multiple vulnerabilities

Ulf Härnhammar reports: There are buffer overflows when extracting, testing or listing specially prepared ACE archives. There are directory traversal bugs when extracting ACE archives. There are also buffer overflows when dealing with long 17000 characters command line arguments. Secunia reports:...

squid -- DoS on failed PUT/POST requests vulnerability

The squid patches page notes: An inconsistent state is entered on a failed PUT/POST request making a high risk for segmentation faults or other strange errors...

squid -- correct handling of oversized HTTP reply headers

The squid patches page notes: This patch addresses a HTTP protocol mismatch related to oversized reply headers. In addition it enhances the cache.log reporting on reply header parsing failures to make it easier to track down which sites are malfunctioning. It is believed that this bug may lead to...