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...

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...

FreeBSD -- integer overflow in IP_MSFILTER

Problem Description: An integer overflow in computing the size of a temporary buffer can result in a buffer which is too small for the requested operation. Impact: An unprivileged process can read or write pages of memory which belong to the kernel. These may lead to exposure of sensitive...

passenger -- security vulnerability

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

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...

nss-pam-ldapd -- file descriptor buffer overflow

Garth Mollett reports: A file descriptor overflow issue in the use of FDSET in nss-pam-ldapd can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker could, under some circumstances, use this flaw to cause a process that has the NSS or PAM module loaded to crash or potentially execute arbitrary cod...

libpurple -- multiple vulnerabilities

Pidgin reports: libpurple Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values. MXit Fix two bugs where a remote MXit user could possibly specify a local file path to be written to. Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could potentially send specially crafted da...

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...

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...

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...

jabberd -- domain spoofing in server dialback protocol

XMPP Standards Foundation reports: Some implementations of the XMPP Server Dialback protocol RFC 3920/XEP-0220 have not been checking dialback responses to ensure that validated results are correlated with requests. An attacking server could spoof one or more domains in communicating with a...

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...

pycrypto -- vulnerable ElGamal key generation

Dwayne C. Litzenberger of PyCrypto reports: In the ElGamal schemes for both encryption and signatures, g is supposed to be the generator of the entire Z^p group. However, in PyCrypto 2.5 and earlier, g is more simply the generator of a random sub-group of Z^p. The result is that the signature spa...

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...

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...

inspircd -- buffer overflow

InspIRCd reports: InspIRCd contains a heap corruption vulnerability that exists in the dns.cpp code. The res buffer is allocated on the heap and can be overflowed. The res buffer can be exploited during its deallocation. The number of overflowed bytes can be controlled with DNS compression featur...

bip -- buffer overflow

Julien Tinnes reports, Bip doesn't check if fd is equal or larger than FDSETSIZE...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Tabular and graphical reports, as well as new charts have a debug mode which displays raw data as plain text. This text is not correctly escaped and a crafted URL could use this vulnerability to...

Xorg server -- two vulnerabilities in X server lock handling code

Matthieu Herrb reports: It is possible to deduce if a file exists or not by exploiting the way that Xorg creates its lock files. This is caused by the fact that the X server is behaving differently if the lock file already exists as a symbolic link pointing to an existing or non-existing file. It...

glpi -- remote attack via crafted POST request

The GLPI project reports: The autocompletion functionality in GLPI before 0.80.2 does not blacklist certain username and password fields, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted POST request...

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...

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 -- 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...

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...

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...

nsd -- buffer overflow vulnerability

NLnet Labs: A one-byte buffer overflow has been reported in NSD. The problem affects all versions 2.0.0 to 3.2.1. The bug allows a carefully crafted exploit to bring down your DNS server. It is highly unlikely that this one byte overflow can lead to other system exploits...

libwmf -- embedded GD library Use-After-Free vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in libwmf, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to a use-after-free error within the embedded GD library, which can be exploite...

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...

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...

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...

vinagre -- format string vulnerability

CORE Security Technologies reports: A format string error has been found on the vinagreutilsshowerror function that can be exploited via commands issued from a malicious server containing format string specifiers on the VNC name. In a web based attack scenario, the user would be required to conne...

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...

gnutls -- X.509 certificate chain validation vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: GnuTLS is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability because the application fails to properly validate chained X.509 certificates. Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks by impersonating trusted servers. Unsuspecting users ma...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Project reports: A logic error in the core upload module validation allowed unprivileged users to attach files to content. Users can view files attached to content which they do not otherwise have access to. If the core upload module is not enabled, your site will not be affected. A...

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...

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...

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...

ghostscript -- zseticcspace() function buffer overflow vulnerability

Chris Evans from the Google Security Team reports: Severity: parsing of evil PostScript file will result in arbitrary code execution. A stack-based buffer overflow in the zseticcspace function in zicc.c allows remote arbitrary code execution via a malicious PostScript file .ps that contains a lon...

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...

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...