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...

FreeBSD -- NFS remote denial of service

Insufficient input validation in the NFS server allows an attacker to cause the underlying file system to treat a regular file as a directory...

firebird -- Remote Stack Buffer Overflow

Firebird Project reports: The FirebirdSQL server is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow that can be triggered when an unauthenticated user sends a specially crafted packet. The result can lead to remote code execution as the user which runs the FirebirdSQL server...

FreeBSD -- Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)

Problem description: The BIND daemon would crash when a query is made on a resource record with RDATA that exceeds 65535 bytes. The BIND daemon would lock up when a query is made on specific combinations of RDATA...

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:...

gitolite -- path traversal vulnerability

Sitaram Chamarty reports: I'm sorry to say there is a potential path traversal vulnerability in v3. Thanks to Stephane Chazelas for finding it and alerting me. Can it affect you? This can only affect you if you are using wild card repos, and at least one of your patterns allows the string "../" t...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 138208 High CVE-2012-2900: Crash in Skia text rendering. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 147499 Critical CVE-2012-5108: Race condition in audio device handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 148692 Medium CVE-2012-5109: OOB read in ICU regex. Credit to Arthur...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Remote crash vulnerability in IAX2 channel driver. Skinny Channel Driver Remote Crash Vulnerability...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 117409 High CVE-2011-3103: Crashes in v8 garbage collection. Credit to the Chromium development community Brett Wilson. 118018 Medium CVE-2011-3104: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Inferno. 120912 High CVE-2011-3105: Use-after-free...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP Channel Driver Heap Buffer Overflow in Skinny Channel Driver Asterisk Manager User Unauthorized Shell Access...

libxml2 -- heap buffer overflow

Google chrome team reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in libxml2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors...

phpMyAdmin -- Multiple XSS

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: Using crafted database names, it was possible to produce XSS in the Database Synchronize and Database rename panels. Using an invalid and crafted SQL query, it was possible to produce XSS when editing a query on a table overview panel or when using the vie...

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...

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...

subversion -- remote HTTP DoS vulnerability

Subversion project reports: Subversion HTTP servers up to 1.5.9 inclusive or 1.6.15 inclusive are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable NULL-pointer dereference...

tor -- remote crash and potential remote code execution

The Tor Project reports: Remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should upgrade...

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...

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...

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...

mplayer -- twinvq processing buffer overflow vulnerability

A trapkit reports: MPlayer contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing malformed TwinVQ media files. The vulnerability may be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of MPlayer...

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...

p5-File-Path -- rmtree allows creation of setuid files

Jan Lieskovsky reports: perl-File-Path rmtree race condition CVE-2005-0448 was assigned to address this This vulnerability was fixed in 5.8.4-7 but re-introduced in 5.8.8-1. It's also present in File::Path 2.xx, up to and including 2.07 which has only a partial fix...

mantis -- php code execution vulnerability

Secunia reports: EgiX has discovered a vulnerability in Mantis, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system. Input passed to the "sort" parameter in manageprojpage.php is not properly sanitised before being used in a "createfunction" call. This can be exploited to...

neon -- NULL pointer dereference in Digest domain support

Joe Orton reports: A NULL pointer deference in the Digest authentication support in neon versions 0.28.0 through 0.28.2 inclusive allows a malicious server to crash a client application, resulting in possible denial of service...

ruby -- DoS vulnerability in WEBrick

The official ruby site reports: WEBrick::HTTP::DefaultFileHandler is faulty of exponential time taking requests due to a backtracking regular expression in WEBrick::HTTPUtils.splitheadervalue...

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...

ikiwiki -- javascript insertion via uris

The ikiwiki development team reports: The htmlscrubber did not block javascript in uris. This was fixed by adding a whitelist of valid uri types, which does not include javascript. Some urls specifyable by the meta plugin could also theoretically have been used to inject javascript; this was also...

clamav -- ClamAV libclamav PE File Integer Overflow Vulnerability

iDefense Security Advisory 02.12.08: Remote exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus' ClamAV, as included in various vendors' operating system distributions, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the affected process. The vulnerability exists...

cups -- off-by-one buffer overflow

Secunia reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in CUPS, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "ippReadIO" function in cups/ipp.c when processing IPP Internet Printing Protocol...

ImageMagick -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ImageMagick. ImageMagick before 6.3.5-9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file that triggers 1 an infinite loop in the ReadDCMImage function, related to ReadBlobByte function calls; or 2 an infinite...

dokuwiki -- XSS vulnerability in spellchecker backend

DokuWiki reports: The spellchecker tests the UTF-8 capabilities of the used browser by sending an UTF-8 string to the backend, which will send it back unfiltered. By comparing string length the spellchecker can work around broken implementations. An attacker could construct a form to let users se...

findutils -- GNU locate heap buffer overrun

James Youngman reports: When GNU locate reads filenames from an old-format locate database, they are read into a fixed-length buffer allocated on the heap. Filenames longer than the 1026-byte buffer can cause a buffer overrun. The overrunning data can be chosen by any person able to control the...

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...

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...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal security team reports: A few arguments passed via URLs are not properly sanitized before display. When an attacker is able to entice an administrator to follow a specially crafted link, arbitrary HTML and script code can be injected and executed in the victim's session. Such an attack...

mplayer -- buffer overflow in the code for RealMedia RTSP streams.

A potential buffer overflow was found in the code used to handle RealMedia RTSP streams. When checking for matching asm rules, the code stores the results in a fixed-size array, but no boundary checks are performed. This may lead to a buffer overflow if the user is tricked into connecting to a...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: Sometimes the information put into the and tags in Bugzilla was not properly escaped, leading to a possible XSS vulnerability. Bugzilla administrators were allowed to put raw, unfiltered HTML into many fields in Bugzilla, leading to a possible XSS...

php -- open_basedir Race Condition Vulnerability

Stefan Esser reports: PHP's openbasedir feature is meant to disallow scripts to access files outside a set of configured base directories. The checks for this are placed within PHP functions dealing with files before the actual open call is performed. Obviously there is a little span of time...

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...

pf -- IP fragment handling panic

Problem description: A logic bug in pf's IP fragment cache may result in a packet fragment being inserted twice, violating a kernel invariant. Impact: By sending carefully crafted sequence of IP packet fragments, a remote attacker can cause a system running pf with a ruleset containing a 'scrub...

sudo -- arbitrary command execution

Tavis Ormandy reports: The bash shell uses the value of the PS4 environment variable after expansion as a prefix for commands run in execution trace mode. Execution trace mode xtrace is normally set via bash's -x command line option or interactively by running "set -o xtrace". However, it may als...

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...

X11 server -- pixmap allocation vulnerability

Allocating large pixmaps by a client can trigger an integer overflow in the X server, potentially leading to execution of arbitrary code with elevated root privileges...

ruby -- arbitrary command execution on XMLRPC server

Nobuhiro IMAI reports: the default value modification on Modulepublicinstancemethods from false to true breaks s.addhandlerXMLRPC::iPIMethods"sample", MyHandler.new style security protection. This problem could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on XMLRPC server of libruby...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Due to a lack of input validation, WordPress is vulnerable to SQL injection and XSS attacks. An attacker could use the SQL injection vulnerabilities to gain information from the database. Furthermore the cross-site scripting issues give an attacker the...

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...

putty -- pscp/psftp heap corruption vulnerabilities

Simon Tatham reports: This version fixes a security hole in previous versions of PuTTY, which can allow a malicious SFTP server to attack your client. If you use either PSCP or PSFTP, you should upgrade. Users of the main PuTTY program are not affected. However, note that the server must have...

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...

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...