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...

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...

openvpn -- denial of service: client certificate validation can disconnect unrelated clients

James Yonan reports: DoS attack against server when run with "verb 0" and without "tls-auth". If a client connection to the server fails certificate verification, the OpenSSL error queue is not properly flushed, which can result in another unrelated client instance on the server seeing the error...

pcre -- regular expression buffer overflow

The pcre library is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of quantifier values. This could lead execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the program using pcre by way of a specially crated regular expression...

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...

gzip -- directory traversal and permission race vulnerabilities

Problem Description Two problems related to extraction of files exist in gzip: The first problem is that gzip does not properly sanitize filenames containing "/" when uncompressing files using the -N command line option. The second problem is that gzip does not set permissions on newly extracted...

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...

phpbb -- multiple vulnerabilities

phpBB is vulnerable to remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability allows attackers to read the contents of arbitrary system files under the privileges of the webserver. This also allows remote attackers to unlink arbitrary system files under the privileges of the webserver...

gaim -- AIM/ICQ remote denial of service vulnerability

The GAIM team reports that GAIM is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability which can cause GAIM to freeze: Certain malformed SNAC packets sent by other AIM or ICQ users can trigger an infinite loop in Gaim when parsing the SNAC. The remote user would need a custom client, able to generate...

gnupg -- OpenPGP symmetric encryption vulnerability

Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato reports that the OpenPGP protocol is vulnerable to a cryptographic attack when using symmetric encryption in an automated way. David Shaw reports about the impact: This attack, while very significant from a cryptographic point of view, is not generally effective...

squirrelmail -- XSS and remote code injection vulnerabilities

A SquirrelMail Security Advisory reports: SquirrelMail 1.4.4 has been released to resolve a number of security issues disclosed below. It is strongly recommended that all running SquirrelMail prior to 1.4.4 upgrade to the latest release. Remote File Inclusion Manoel Zaninetti reported an issue in...

mysql-scripts -- mysqlaccess insecure temporary file creation

The Debian Security Team reports: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlaccess script of MySQL that could allow an unprivileged user to let root overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and could also coul...

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...

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...

apache mod_include buffer overflow vulnerability

There is a buffer overflow in a function used by modinclude that may enable a local user to gain privileges of a httpd child. Only users that are able to create SSI documents can take advantage of that vulnerability...

samba -- potential remote DoS vulnerability

Karol Wiesek at iDEFENSE reports: A remote attacker could cause an smbd process to consume abnormal amounts of system resources due to an input validation error when matching filenames containing wildcard characters. Although samba.org classifies this as a DoS vulnerability, several members of th...

cyrus-sasl -- dynamic library loading and set-user-ID applications

The Cyrus SASL library, libsasl, contains functions which may load dynamic libraries. These libraries may be loaded from the path specified by the environmental variable SASLPATH, which in some situations may be fully controlled by a local attacker. Thus, if a set-user-ID application such as chsh...

samba3 DoS attack

Code found in nmbd and smbd may allow a remote attacker to effectively crash the nmbd server or use the smbd server to exhaust the system memory...

gaim -- malicious smiley themes

The Gaim Security Issues page documents a problem with installing smiley themes from an untrusted source: To install a new smiley theme, a user can drag a tarball from a graphical file manager, or a hypertext link to one from a web browser. When a tarball is dragged, Gaim executes a shell command...

squid -- NTLM authentication denial-of-service vulnerability

A remote attacker is able to cause a denial-of-service situation, when NTLM authentication is enabled in squid. NTLM authentication uses two functions which lack correct offset checking...

courier-imap -- format string vulnerability in debug mode

An iDEFENSE security advisory describes a format string vulnerability that could be exploited when Courier-IMAP is run in debug mode DEBUGLOGIN set...

mozilla -- NULL bytes in FTP URLs

When handling FTP URLs containing NULL bytes, Mozilla will interpret the file content as HTML. This may allow unexpected execution of Javascript when viewing plain text or other file types via FTP...

gnats -- format string vulnerability

Gnats suffers from a format string bug, which may enable an attacker to execute arbitary code...

Gallery 1.4.3 and ealier user authentication bypass

A flaw exists in Gallery versions previous to 1.4.3-pl1 and post 1.2 which may give an attacker the potential to log in under the "admin" account. Data outside of the gallery is unaffected and the attacker cannot modify any data other than the photos or photo albums...

metamail format string bugs and buffer overflows

Ulf Härnhammar reported four bugs in metamail: two are format string bugs and two are buffer overflows. The bugs are in SaveSquirrelFile, PrintHeader, and ShareThisHeader. These vulnerabilities could be triggered by a maliciously formatted email message if metamail' or splitmail' is used to proce...

racoon security association deletion vulnerability

A remote attacker may use specially crafted IKE/ISAKMP messages to cause racoon to delete security associations. This could result in denial-of-service or possibly cause sensitive traffic to be transmitted in plaintext, depending upon configuration...

Buffer overflow in pam_smb password handling

Applications utilizing pamsmb can be compromised by any user who can enter a password. In many cases, this is a remote root compromise...

mailman XSS in create script

From the 2.1.3 release notes: Closed a cross-site scripting exploit in the create cgi script...

ecartis buffer overflows and input validation bugs

Timo Sirainen reports multiple buffer overflows that may be triggered while parsing messages, as well as input validation errors that could result in disclosure of mailing list passwords. These bugs were resolved in the August 2003 snapshot of ecartis...

icecast 1.x multiple vulnerabilities

icecast 1.3.11 and earlier contained numerous security vulnerabilities, the most severe allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as root...

www/nginx -- Remote Code Execution/DoS

nginx development team reports: When using the "proxysetbody" directive, an attacker might inject data in the proxied request to an HTTP/2 backend A heap memory buffer overflow might occur in a worker process while handling a specially crafted request by ngxhttprewritemodule, potentially resultin...

Gitlab -- vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Cross-site Scripting issue in Analytics dashboard chart rendering impacts GitLab EE Cross-site Scripting issue in global search impacts GitLab CE/EE Cross-site Scripting issue in Duo Agent output rendering impacts GitLab EE Cross-site Scripting issue in Analytics Dashboard impacts...

FreeBSD -- Local privilege escalation via execve()

Problem Description: An operator precedence bug in the kernel results in a scenario where a buffer overflow causes attacker-controlled data to overwrite adjacent execve2 argument buffers. Impact: The bug may be exploitable by an unprivileged user to obtain superuser privileges...

chromium -- security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes multiple security fixes: Critical: CVE-2026-5858: Heap buffer overflow in WebML. CVE-2026-5859: Integer overflow in WebML. High: CVE-2026-5860: Use after free in WebRTC. CVE-2026-5861: Use after free in V8. CVE-2026-5862: Inappropriate implementation ...

Gitlab -- vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Partial Bypass for Device OAuth flow using Cross Window Forgery Denial of service by abusing Github import API Group IP restriction bypass allows disclosing issue title of restricted project...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 5 security fixes: 398065918 High CVE-2025-1920: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Excello s.r.o. on 2025-02-21 400052777 High CVE-2025-2135: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Zhenghang Xiao @Kipreyyy on 2025-03-02 401059730 High CVE-TBD: Out of bounds...

Gitlab -- vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Run pipelines on arbitrary branches An attacker can impersonate arbitrary user SSRF in Analytics Dashboard Viewing diffs of MR with conflicts can be slow HTMLi in OAuth page Deploy Keys can push changes to an archived repository Guests can disclose project templates GitLab instanc...

firefox -- use-after-free code execution

[email protected] reports: An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting a use-after-free in Animation timelines. We have had reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild...

Gitlab -- vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Execute environment stop actions as the owner of the stop action job Prevent code injection in Product Analytics funnels YAML SSRF via Dependency Proxy Denial of Service via sending a large glmsource parameter CIJOBTOKEN can be used to obtain GitLab session token Variables from...

netatalk3 -- multiple WolfSSL vulnerabilities

Netatalk release reports: WolfSSL 5.7.0 included in netatalk includes multiple security vulnerabilities...

Django -- multiple vulnerabilities

Django reports: CVE-2024-41989: Memory exhaustion in django.utils.numberformat.floatformat. CVE-2024-41990: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.urlize. CVE-2024-41991: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in django.utils.html.urlize and AdminURLFieldWidget. CVE-2024-42005:...

electron29 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-6291. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-6293. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-6290. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-6292...

electron28 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-4948. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-3914. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-4060. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-4058. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-4558...

electron29 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-4060. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-4058...

qt5-webengine -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Backports for 2 security bugs in Chromium: CVE-2024-3157: Out of bounds write in Compositing CVE-2024-3516: Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 3 security fixes: 331237485 High CVE-2024-3157: Out of bounds write in Compositing. Reported by DarkNavy on 2024-03-26 328859176 High CVE-2024-3516: Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE. Reported by Bao zx Pham and Toan suto Pham of Qrious Secure on 2024-03-...

Gitlab -- Patch Release: 16.10.2, 16.9.4, 16.8.6

Gitlab reports: Stored XSS injected in diff viewer Stored XSS via autocomplete results Redos on Integrations Chat Messages Redos During Parse Junit Test Report...

electron27 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerability: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-1283. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-1284...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 12 security fixes: 41495060 High CVE-2024-1669: Out of bounds memory access in Blink. Reported by Anonymous on 2024-01-26 41481374 High CVE-2024-1670: Use after free in Mojo. Reported by Cassidy Kim@cassidy6564 on 2023-12-06 41487933 Medium...