mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:22.0 / rv:17.0.7 Title: Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer Privileged content access and execution via XBL Arbitrary code execution within Profiler Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange Data in the...

passenger -- security vulnerability

The Phusion reports: A denial of service and arbitrary code execution by hijacking temp files. CVE-2013-2119...

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...

ruby -- Hash-flooding DoS vulnerability for ruby 1.9

The official ruby site reports: Carefully crafted sequence of strings can cause a denial of service attack on the service that parses the sequence to create a Hash object by using the strings as keys. For instance, this vulnerability affects web application that parses the JSON data sent from...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 157079 Medium CVE-2012-5127: Integer overflow leading to out-of-bounds read in WebP handling. Credit to Phil Turnbull. Linux 64-bit only 150729 Medium CVE-2012-5120: Out-of-bounds array access in v8. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 143761 High CVE-2012-5116:...

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...

Several vulnerabilities found in IcedTea-Web

The IcedTea project team reports: CVE-2012-3422: Use of uninitialized instance pointers An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in IcedTea-Web web browser plugin. A malicious web page could use this flaw make IcedTea-Web browser plugin pass invalid pointer to a web browser. Depending on the...

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...

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...

asterisk -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: It is possible to enumerate SIP usernames when the general and user/peer NAT settings differ in whether to respond to the port a request is sent from or the port listed for responses in the Via header. When the "automon" feature is enabled in features.conf, it is possibl...

asterisk -- remote crash vulnerability in SIP channel driver

Asterisk project reports: A remote authenticated user can cause a crash with a malformed request due to an unitialized variable...

Apache APR -- DoS vulnerabilities

The Apache Portable Runtime Project reports: Reimplement aprfnmatch from scratch using a non-recursive algorithm; now has improved compliance with the fnmatch spec...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

OpenTTD -- Denial of service (server/client) via invalid read

The OpenTTD Team reports: When a client disconnects, without sending the "quit" or "client error" message, the server has a chance of reading and writing a just freed piece of memory. The writing can only happen while the server is sending the map. Depending on what happens directly after freeing...

torcs -- untrusted local library loading

TORCS News reports: An insecure change to LDLIBRARYPATH allows loading of libraries in directories other than the standard paths. This can be a problem when downloading and installing untrusted content from the Internet...

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...

e107 -- code execution and XSS vulnerabilities

Secunia Research reported two vulnerabilities in e107: The first problem affects installations that have the Content Manager plugin enabled. This plugin does not sanitize the "contentheading" parameter correctly and is therefore vulnerable to a cross site scripting attack. The second vulnerabilit...

lighttpd -- denial of service vulnerability

Lighttpd security advisory reports: If you send the request data very slow e.g. sleep 0.01 after each byte, lighttpd will easily use all available memory and die especially for parallel requests, allowing a DoS within minutes...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Project reports: The update system is vulnerable to Cross site request forgeries. Malicious users may cause the superuser user 1 to execute old updates that may damage the database. When an input format is deleted, not all existing content on a site is updated to reflect this deletion...

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...

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...

gnutls -- "gnutls_handshake()" Denial of Service

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in GnuTLS, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to a use-after-free error when an application calls "gnutlshandshake" for an already valid session and can...

libxine -- denial of service vulnerability

xine team reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains some security fixes, notably a DoS via corrupted Ogg files CVE-2008-3231, some related fixes, and fixes for a few possible buffer overflows...

phpmyadmin -- Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Secunia report: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed via unspecified parameters to files in /libraries is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be...

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,...

swfdec -- exposure of sensitive information

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in swfdec, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to swfdec not properly restricting untrusted sandboxes from reading local files, which can be exploited to disclose the conte...

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...

plone -- unsafe data interpreted as pickles

Plone projectreports: This hotfix corrects a vulnerability in the statusmessages and linkintegrity modules, where unsafe network data was interpreted as python pickles. This allows an attacker to run arbitrary python code within the Zope/Plone process...

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...

p5-Imager -- possibly exploitable buffer overflow

Imager 0.56 and all earlier versions with BMP support have a security issue when reading compressed 8-bit per pixel BMP files where either a compressed run of data or a literal run of data overflows the scan-line. Such an overflow causes a buffer overflow in a malloc allocated memory buffer,...

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...

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...

ruby -- cgi.rb library Denial of Service

Official ruby site reports: A 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. The problem is triggered by sending the library an HTTP request that uses multipart MIME encoding and as...

opera -- URL parsing heap overflow vulnerability

iDefense Labs reports: Remote exploitation of a heap overflow vulnerability within version 9 of Opera Software's Opera Web browser could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected host. A flaw exists within Opera when parsing a tag that contains a URL. A heap buffer with a consta...

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...