xorg-server -- Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers.

Peter Hutterer reports: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string...

FreeBSD -- SCTP SCTP_SS_VALUE kernel memory corruption and disclosure

Problem Description: Due to insufficient validation of the SCTP stream ID, which serves as an array index, a local unprivileged attacker can read or write 16-bits of kernel memory. Impact: An unprivileged process can read or modify 16-bits of memory which belongs to the kernel. This may lead to...

WebKit-gtk -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Webkit release team reports: This release fixes the following security issues: CVE-2014-1344, CVE-2014-1384, CVE-2014-1385, CVE-2014-1386, CVE-2014-1387, CVE-2014-1388, CVE-2014-1389, CVE-2014-1390...

libevent -- integer overflow in evbuffers

Debian Security Team reports: Andrew Bartlett of Catalyst reported a defect affecting certain applications using the Libevent evbuffer API. This defect leaves applications which pass insanely large inputs to evbuffers open to a possible heap overflow or infinite loop. In order to exploit this fla...

otrs -- Incomplete Access Control

The OTRS project reports: An attacker with valid OTRS credentials could access and manipulate ticket data of other users via the GenericInterface, if a ticket webservice is configured and not additionally secured...

unzip -- input sanitization errors

oCERT reports: The UnZip tool is an open source extraction utility for archives compressed in the zip format. The unzip command line tool is affected by heap-based buffer overflows within the CRC32 verification, the testcompreb and the getZip64Data functions. The input errors may result in...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2014-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:33.0 / rv:31.2 MFSA 2014-75 Buffer overflow during CSS manipulation MFSA 2014-76 Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom waveforms MFSA 2014-78 Further uninitialized memory use during GIF MFSA 2014-79...

Bugzilla multiple security issues

Bugzilla Security Advisory Unauthorized Account Creation An attacker creating a new Bugzilla account can override certain parameters when finalizing the account creation that can lead to the user being created with a different email address than originally requested. The overridden login name cou...

www/chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 4 security fixes in this release, including: 401362 High CVE-2014-3178: Use-after-free in rendering. Credit to miaubiz. 411014 CVE-2014-3179: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 50 security fixes in this release, including: 386988 Critical CVE-2014-3176, CVE-2014-3177: A special reward to lokihardt@asrt for a combination of bugs in V8, IPC, sync, and extensions that can lead to remote code execution outside of the sandbox. 369860 High...

e2fsprogs -- buffer overflow if s_first_meta_bg too big

Theodore Ts'o reports: If sfirstmetabg is greater than the of number block group descriptor blocks, then reading or writing the block group descriptors will end up overruning the memory buffer allocated for the descriptors. The finding is credited to a vulnerability report from Jose Duart of Goog...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 26 security fixes in this release, including 380885 Medium CVE-2014-3160: Same-Origin-Policy bypass in SVG. Credit to Christian Schneider. 393765 CVE-2014-3162: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives...

phpmyfaq -- multiple vulnerabilities

The phpMyFAQ team reports: An arbitrary script may be executed on the user's Internet Explorer when using an older version of the browser. If a user views a malicious page while logged in, settings may be changed unintentionally...

varnish -- DoS vulnerability in Varnish HTTP cache

Varnish Cache Project reports: If Varnish receives a certain illegal request, and the subroutine 'vclerror' restarts the request, the varnishd worker process will crash with an assert. The varnishd management process will restart the worker process, but there will be a brief interruption of servi...

mod_fcgid -- possible heap buffer overwrite

Apache Project reports: Fix possible heap buffer overwrite...

www/mod_security -- NULL pointer dereference DoS

SecurityFocus reports: When ModSecurity receives a request body with a size bigger than the value set by the "SecRequestBodyInMemoryLimit" and with a "Content-Type" that has no request body processor mapped to it, ModSecurity will systematically crash on every call to "forceRequestBodyVariable"...

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...

ruby -- Object taint bypassing in DL and Fiddle in Ruby

Ruby Developers report: There is a vulnerability in DL and Fiddle in Ruby where tainted strings can be used by system calls regardless of the $SAFE level set in Ruby. Native functions exposed to Ruby with DL or Fiddle do not check the taint values set on the objects passed in. This can result in...

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...

FreeBSD -- Linux compatibility layer input validation error

Problem description: A programming error in the handling of some Linux system calls may result in memory locations being accessed without proper validation...

otrs -- XSS vulnerability in Internet Explorer could lead to remote code execution

The OTRS Project reports: This advisory covers vulnerabilities discovered in the OTRS core system. Due to the XSS vulnerability in Internet Explorer an attacker could send a specially prepared HTML email to OTRS which would cause JavaScript code to be executed in your Internet Explorer while...

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...

rssh -- arbitrary command execution

Derek Martin rssh maintainer reports: Henrik Erkkonen has discovered that, through clever manipulation of environment variables on the ssh command line, it is possible to circumvent rssh. As far as I can tell, there is no way to effect a root compromise, except of course if the root account is th...

raptor/raptor2 -- XXE in RDF/XML File Interpretation

Timothy D. Morgan reports: In December 2011, VSR identified a vulnerability in multiple open source office products including OpenOffice, LibreOffice, KOffice, and AbiWord due to unsafe interpretation of XML files with custom entity declarations. Deeper analysis revealed that the vulnerability wa...

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...

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...

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 -- 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...

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...

postgresql -- bitsubstr overflow

BugTraq reports: PostgreSQL is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges or crash the affected application...

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...

lxr -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg reports: There are several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in LXR. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute scripts in a user's browser, steal cookies associated with vulnerable domains, redirect the user to malicious websites, etc...

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...

django -- denial-of-service attack

Django project reports: Django's forms library includes field types which perform regular-expression-based validation of email addresses and URLs. Certain addresses/URLs could trigger a pathological performance case in these regular expression, resulting in the server process/thread becoming...

wireshark -- PCNFSD Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the PCNFSD dissector and can be exploited to cause a crash via a specially crafted PCNFSD packet...

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...

moinmoin -- cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Input passed via multiple parameters to action/AttachFile.py is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site...

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...

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...

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...

mplayer -- vulnerability in STR files processor

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "strreadpacket" function in libavformat/psxstr.c. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted STR file...

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...

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...

serendipity -- multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Hanno Boeck reports: The installer of serendipity 1.3 has various Cross Site Scripting issues. This is considered low priority, as attack scenarios are very unlikely. Various path fields are not escaped properly, thus filling them with javascript code will lead to XSS. MySQL error messages are no...

mksh -- TTY attachment privilege escalation

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error when attaching to a TTY via the -T command line switch. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running mksh via characters previously written to the attached virtual console...

openfire -- unspecified denial of service

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Openfire, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be exploited to cause a Denial of Service...

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...