ruby -- $SAFE escaping vulnerability about Exception#to_s/NameError#to_s

The official ruby site reports: Vulnerabilities found for Exceptiontos, NameErrortos, and nameerrmesgtos which is Ruby interpreter-internal API. A malicious user code can bypass $SAFE check by utilizing one of those security holes. Ruby's $SAFE mechanism enables untrusted user codes to run in $SA...

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...

ImageMagick -- multiple vulnerabilities

ImageMagick reports: Three vulnerabilities have been identified in ImageMagick's handling of JPEG and TIFF files. With these vulnerabilities, it is possible to cause a denial of service situation in the target system...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- access to arbitrary system memory

NVIDIA Unix security team reports: Security vulnerability CVE-2012-0946 in the NVIDIA UNIX driver was disclosed to NVIDIA on March 20th, 2012. The vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker who has read and write access to the GPU device nodes to reconfigure GPUs to gain access to arbitrary...

libpurple -- Remote DoS via an MSN OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding

US-CERT reports: The msnoimreporttouser function in oim.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service application crash via an OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding...

bugzilla Cross-Site Request Forgery

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Due to a lack of validation of the enctype form attribute when making POST requests to xmlrpc.cgi, a possible CSRF vulnerability was discovered. If a user visits an HTML page with some malicious...

libxml2 -- heap buffer overflow

Google chrome team reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in libxml2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors...

codeigniter -- SQL injection vulnerability

The CodeIgniter changelog reports: An improvement was made to the MySQL and MySQLi drivers to prevent exposing a potential vector for SQL injection on sites using multi-byte character sets in the database client connection. An incompatibility in PHP versions 5.0.7 with mysqlsetcharset creates a...

XSS issue in MantisBT

Net.Edit0r from BlACK Hat Group reported an XSS issue in search.php. All MantisBT users including anonymous users that are not logged in to public bug trackers could be impacted by this vulnerability...

libXfont -- possible local privilege escalation

Tomas Hoger reports: The compress/ LZW decompress implentation does not correctly handle compressed streams that contain code words that were not yet added to the decompression table. This may lead to arbitrary memory corruption. Successfull exploitation may possible lead to a local privilege...

Unbound -- an empty error packet handling assertion failure

Unbound developer reports: NLnet Labs was notified of an error in Unbound's code-path for error replies which is triggered under special conditions. The error causes the program to abort...

rsync -- incremental recursion memory corruption vulnerability

rsync development team reports: Fixed a data-corruption issue when preserving hard-links without preserving file ownership, and doing deletions either before or during the transfer CVE-2011-1097. This fixes some assert errors in the hard-linking code, and some potential failed checksums via -c th...

PivotX -- administrator password reset vulnerability

US CERT reports: PivotX contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker to change the password of any account just by guessing the username. Version 2.2.4 has been reported to not be affected. This vulnerability is being exploited in the wild and users should immediately upgrade to 2.2.5 or late...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacke...

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...

krb5 -- unkeyed PAC checksum handling vulnerability

The MIT Kerberos team reports: MIT krb5 incorrectly accepts an unkeyed checksum for PAC signatures. An authenticated remote attacker can forge PACs if using a KDC that does not filter client-provided PAC data. This can result in privilege escalation against a service that relies on PAC contents t...

krb5 -- client impersonation vulnerability

The MIT Kerberos team reports: MIT krb5 KDC may issue tickets not requested by a client, based on an attacker-chosen KrbFastArmoredReq. An authenticated remote attacker that controls a legitimate service principal could obtain a valid service ticket to itself containing valid KDC-generated...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2010-64 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:1.9.2.11/ 1.9.1.14 MFSA 2010-65 Buffer overflow and memory corruption using document.write MFSA 2010-66 Use-after-free error in nsBarProp MFSA 2010-67 Dangling pointer vulnerability in LookupGetterOrSetter MFSA 2010-...

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...

bugzilla -- information disclosure, denial of service

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: Remote Information Disclosure: An unprivileged user is normally not allowed to view other users' group membership. But boolean charts let the user use group-based pronouns, indirectly disclosing group membership. This security fix restricts the use of pronoun...

piwik -- cross site scripting vulnerability

The Piwik security advisory reports: A non-persistent, cross-site scripting vulnerability XSS was found in Piwik's Login form that reflected the formurl parameter without being properly escaped or filtered...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.1.53.64 and earlier. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

pango -- integer overflow

oCERT reports: Pango suffers from a multiplicative integer overflow which may lead to a potentially exploitable, heap overflow depending on the calling conditions. For example, this vulnerability is remotely reachable in Firefox by creating an overly large document.location value but only results...

p5-File-Path -- rmtree allows creation of setuid files

Jan Lieskovsky reports: perl-File-Path rmtree race condition CVE-2005-0448 was assigned to address this This vulnerability was fixed in 5.8.4-7 but re-introduced in 5.8.8-1. It's also present in File::Path 2.xx, up to and including 2.07 which has only a partial fix...

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...

libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Libxml2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or to potentially compromise an application using the library. 1 An integer overflow error in the "xmlSAX2Characters" function can be exploited to trigge...

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...

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...

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...

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...

moinmoin -- superuser privilege escalation

MoinMoin team reports: A check in the userform processing was not working as expected and could be abused for ACL and superuser privilege escalation...

mplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mplayer team reports: A buffer overflow was found in the code used to extract album titles from CDDB server answers. When parsing answers from the CDDB server, the album title is copied into a fixed-size buffer with insufficient size checks, which may cause a buffer overflow. A malicious...

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...

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...

bind -- Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Problem Description: A type ANY query response containing multiple RRsets can trigger an assertion failure. Certain recursive queries can cause the nameserver to crash by using memory which has already been freed. Impact: A remote attacker sending a type ANY query to an authoritative DNS server f...

samba -- format string bug in afsacl.so VFS plugin

The Samba Team reports: NOTE: This security advisory only impacts Samba servers that share AFS file systems to CIFS clients and which have been explicitly instructed in smb.conf to load the afsacl.so VFS module. The source defect results in the name of a file stored on disk being used as the form...

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...

tnftpd -- Remote root Exploit

The tnftpd port suffer from a remote stack overrun, which can lead to a root compromise...

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...

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...

mailman -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Mailman can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and phishing attacks, and cause a DoS Denial of Service. 1 An error in the logging functionality can be exploited to inject a spoofed log message into the error log via a specially crafted URL. Successfu...

xine -- multiple remote string vulnerabilities

c0ntexb reports: There are 2 format string bugs in the latest version of Xine that could be exploited by a malicious person to execute code on the system of a remote user running the media player against a malicious playlist file. By passing a format specifier in the path of a file that is embedd...

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...

mediawiki -- hardcoded placeholder string security bypass vulnerability

The mediawiki development team reports a vulnerability within the mediawiki application. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of inline style attributes. This could result in the execution of arbitrary javascript code in Microsoft Internet Explorer. It appears that other browsers are...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

perl, webmin, usermin -- perl format string integer wrap vulnerability

The Perl Development page reports: Dyad Security recently released a security advisory explaining how in certain cases, a carefully crafted format string passed to sprintf can cause a buffer overflow. This buffer overflow can then be used by an attacker to execute code on the machine. This was...