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...

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...

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...

phppgadmin -- cross site scripting vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports about phppgadmin: Exploiting this vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks on unsuspecting users in the context of the affected website. As a result, the attacker may be able to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch...

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 -- 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

clamav -- heap overflow vulnerability

Clamav team reports: A heap overflow vulnerability was discovered in libclamav which could cause a denial of service or allow the execution of arbitrary code. The problem is specifically located in the PE file rebuild function used by the UPX unpacker. Relevant code from libclamav/upx.c: memcpyds...

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...

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...

libxine -- multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities

The libxine development team reports that several vulnerabilities had been found in the libxine library. The first vulnerability is caused by improper checking of the src/input/libreal/real.c "realparsesdp" function. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking an user to connect to a...

lifetype -- ADOdb "server.php" Insecure Test Script Security Issue

Secunia reports: A security issue has been discovered in LifeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary SQL code and potentially compromise a vulnerable system. The problem is caused due to the presence of the insecure "server.php" test script...

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...

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...

wordpress -- full path disclosure

Dedi Dwianto reports: A remote user can access the file directly to cause the system to display an error message that indicates the installation path. The resulting error message will disclose potentially sensitive installation path information to the remote attacker...

xpdf -- disk fill DoS vulnerability

xpdf is vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability which can cause xpdf to create an infinitely large file, thereby filling up the /tmp partition, when opening a specially crafted PDF file. Note that several applications contains an embedded version of xpdf, therefor making them the vulnerab...

zlib -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Problem description A fixed-size buffer is used in the decompression of data streams. Due to erronous analysis performed when zlib was written, this buffer, which was belived to be sufficiently large to handle any possible input stream, is in fact too small. Impact A carefully constructed...

openvpn -- denial of service: malicious authenticated "tap" client can deplete server virtual memory

James Yonan reports: A malicious authenticated client in "dev tap" ethernet bridging mode could theoretically flood the server with packets appearing to come from hundreds of thousands of different MAC addresses, causing the OpenVPN process to deplete system virtual memory as it expands its...

squid -- Denial Of Service Vulnerability in sslConnectTimeout

The squid patches page notes: After certain slightly odd requests Squid crashes with a segmentation fault in sslConnectTimeout...

opera -- XMLHttpRequest security bypass

A Secunia Advisory reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to steal content or to perform actions on other web sites with the privileges of the user. Normally, it should not be possible for the XMLHttpRequest object to access...

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...

rsnapshot -- local privilege escalation

An rsnapshot Advisory reports: The copysymlink subroutine in rsnapshot incorrectly changes file ownership on the files pointed to by symlinks, not on the symlinks themselves. This would allow, under certain circumstances, an arbitrary user to take ownership of a file on the main filesystem...

mozilla -- javascript "lambda" replace exposes memory contents

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports: A bug in javascript's regular expression string replacement when using an anonymous function as the replacement argument allows a malicious script to capture blocks of memory allocated to the browser. A web site could capture data and transmit it to...

ethereal -- multiple protocol dissectors vulnerabilities

An Ethreal Security Advisories reports: Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors: Matevz Pustisek discovered a buffer overflow in the Etheric dissector. CVE: CAN-2005-0704 The GPRS-LLC dissector could crash if the "ignore cipher bit" option was enabled. CVE: CAN-2005-0705...

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...

emacs -- movemail format string vulnerability

Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs. They can be exploited when connecting to a malicious POP server and can allow an attacker can execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the user running Emacs...

squid -- no sanity check of usernames in squid_ldap_auth

The LDAP authentication helper did not strip leading or trailing spaces from the login name. According to the squid patches page: LDAP is very forgiving about spaces in search filters and this could be abused to log in using several variants of the login name, possibly bypassing explicit access...

mpg123 -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Yuri D'Elia has found a buffer overflow vulnerability in mpg123's parsing of frame headers in input streams. This vulnerability can potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running mpg123, if the user runs mpg123 on a specially crafted MP2 or MP3 file...

yamt -- arbitrary command execution vulnerability

Manigandan Radhakrishnan discovered a security vulnerability in YAMT which can lead to execution of arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running YAMT when sorting based on MP3 tags. The problem exist in the id3tagsort routine which does not properly sanitize the artist tag from the...

viewcvs -- information leakage

The hidecvsroot and forbidden configuration options are not properly honored by viewcvs when exporting to a tar file which can lead to information leakage...

helvis -- arbitrary file deletion problem

The setuid root elvprsv utility, used to preserve recovery helvis files, can be abused by local users to delete with root privileges. The problem is that elvprsv deletes files when it thinks they have become corrupt. When elvprsv is pointed to a normal file then it will almost always think the fi...

ecartis -- unauthorised access to admin interface

A Debian security advisory reports: A problem has been discovered in ecartis, a mailing-list manager, which allows an attacker in the same domain as the list admin to gain administrator privileges and alter list settings...

zip -- long path buffer overflow

A HexView security advisory reports: When zip performs recursive folder compression, it does not check for the length of resulting path. If the path is too long, a buffer overflow occurs leading to stack corruption and segmentation fault. It is possible to exploit this vulnerability by embedding ...