libssh -- PRNG state reuse on forking servers

Aris Adamantiadis reports: When accepting a new connection, the server forks and the child process handles the request. The RANDbytes function of openssl doesn't reset its state after the fork, but simply adds the current process id getpid to the PRNG state, which is not guaranteed to be unique...

virtualbox-ose -- local vulnerability

Oracle reports: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox prior to 3.2.20, 4.0.22, 4.1.30, 4.2.22, and 4.3.6 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Core...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

imlib2 -- denial of service vulnerabilities

Enlightenment reports: GIF loader: Fix segv on images without colormap Prevent division-by-zero crashes. Fix segfault when opening input/queue/id:000007,src:000000,op:flip1,pos:51 with feh...

ruby-gems -- Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerability

Ruby Gem developers report: RubyGems validates versions with a regular expression that is vulnerable to denial of service due to backtracking. For specially crafted RubyGems versions attackers can cause denial of service through CPU consumption...

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...

dbus -- local dos

Simon McVittie reports: Alexandru Cornea discovered a vulnerability in libdbus caused by an implementation bug in dbusprintfstringupperbound. This vulnerability can be exploited by a local user to crash system services that use libdbus, causing denial of service. It is platform-specific: x86-64...

www/mod_security -- NULL pointer dereference DoS

SecurityFocus reports: When ModSecurity receives a request body with a size bigger than the value set by the "SecRequestBodyInMemoryLimit" and with a "Content-Type" that has no request body processor mapped to it, ModSecurity will systematically crash on every call to "forceRequestBodyVariable"...

RT -- multiple vulnerabilities

Thomas Sibley reports: We discovered a number of security vulnerabilities which affect both RT 3.8.x and RT 4.0.x. We are releasing RT versions 3.8.17 and 4.0.13 to resolve these vulnerabilities, as well as patches which apply atop all released versions of 3.8 and 4.0. The vulnerabilities address...

dropbear -- exposure of sensitive information, DoS

The Dropbear project reports: A weakness and a vulnerability have been reported in Dropbear SSH Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information and cause a DoS...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

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...

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...

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...

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...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django project reports: Today the Django team is issuing multiple releases -- Django 1.3.2 and Django 1.4.1 -- to remedy security issues reported to us: Cross-site scripting in authentication views Denial-of-service in image validation Denial-of-service via getimagedimensions All users are...

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...

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...

socat -- Heap-based buffer overflow

The socat development team reports: This vulnerability can be exploited when socat is invoked with the READLINE address this is usually only used interactively without option "prompt" and without option "noprompt" and an attacker succeeds to provide malicious data to the other arbitrary address...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 106577 Medium CVE-2011-3066: Out-of-bounds read in Skia clipping. Credit to miaubiz. 117583 Medium CVE-2011-3067: Cross-origin iframe replacement. Credit to Sergey Glazunov. 117698 High CVE-2011-3068: Use-after-free in run-in handling. Credit to miaubiz. 117728 Hig...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal development team reports: Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability in Aggregator module CVE: CVE-2012-0826 An XSRF vulnerability can force an aggregator feed to update. Since some services are rate-limited e.g. Twitter limits requests to 150 per hour this could lead to a denial of service...

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...

rt -- multiple vulnerabilities

Best Practical reports: In the process of preparing the release of RT 4.0.0, we performed an extensive security audit of RT's source code. During this audit, several vulnerabilities were found which affect earlier releases of RT...

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...

django -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

Django project reports: The provided template tag for inserting the CSRF token into forms -- % csrftoken % -- explicitly trusts the cookie value, and displays it as-is. Thus, an attacker who is able to tamper with the value of the CSRF cookie can cause arbitrary content to be inserted, unescaped,...

wireshark -- DOCSIS dissector denial of service

A vulnerability found in the DOCSIS dissector can cause Wireshark to crash when a malformed packet trace file is opened. This means that an attacker will have to trick a victim into opening such a trace file before being able to crash the application...

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...

krb5 -- remote denial of service vulnerability

An authenticated remote attacker can causing a denial of service by using a newer version of the kadmin protocol than the server supports. The MIT Kerberos team also reports the cause: The Kerberos administration daemon kadmind can crash due to referencing freed memory...

wireshark -- LWRES vulnerability

Wireshark project reports: Babi discovered several buffer overflows in the LWRES dissector. It may be possible to make Wireshark crash remotely or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file...

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...

mozilla -- corrupt JIT state after deep return from native function

Mozilla Project reports: Firefox user zbyte reported a crash that we determined could result in an exploitable memory corruption problem. In certain cases after a return from a native function, such as escape, the Just-in-Time JIT compiler could get into a corrupt state. This could be exploited b...

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...

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...

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...

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...

openvpn-devel -- arbitrary code execution

James Yonan reports: Security Fix - affects non-Windows OpenVPN clients running OpenVPN 2.1-beta14 through 2.1-rc8 OpenVPN 2.0.x clients are NOT vulnerable nor are any versions of the OpenVPN server vulnerable. An OpenVPN client connecting to a malicious or compromised server could potentially...

peercast -- arbitrary code execution

Nico Golde discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming server, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP Basic Authentication code, allowing a remote attacker to crash PeerCast or execure arbitrary code...

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...

mplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mplayer team reports: A buffer overflow was found in the code used to extract album titles from CDDB server answers. When parsing answers from the CDDB server, the album title is copied into a fixed-size buffer with insufficient size checks, which may cause a buffer overflow. A malicious...

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...

e2fsprogs -- heap buffer overflow

Theodore Y. Ts'o reports: Fix a potential security vulnerability where an untrusted filesystem can be corrupted in such a way that a program using libext2fs will allocate a buffer which is far too small. This can lead to either a crash or potentially a heap-based buffer overflow crash. No known...

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...

konquerer -- address bar spoofing

The KDE development team reports: The Konqueror address bar is vulnerable to spoofing attacks that are based on embedding white spaces in the url. In addition the address bar could be tricked to show an URL which it is intending to visit for a short amount of time instead of the current URL...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

The PHP development team reports: Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.2 and PHP 4.4.7: Fixed CVE-2007-1001, GD wbmp used with invalid image size Fixed asciiz byte truncation inside mail Fixed a bug in mbparsestr that can be used to activate registerglobals Fixed unallocated memory...

claws-mail -- APOP vulnerability

CVE reports: The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions...

moinmoin -- multiple vulnerabilities

MoinMoin Security advisory XSS issue in login action XSS issue in AttachFile action XSS issue in RenamePage/DeletePage action XSS issue in gui editor...

dbus -- match_rule_equal() Weakness

Secunia reports: D-Bus have a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS Denial of Service. An error within the "matchruleequal" function can be exploited to disable the ability of other processes to receive messages by removing their matches from D-Bus...

gtar -- GNUTYPE_NAMES directory traversal vulnerability

Teemu Salmela reports: There is a tar record type, called GNUTYPENAMES an obsolete GNU extension, that allows the creation of symbolic links pointing to arbitrary locations in the filesystem, which makes it possible to create/overwrite arbitrary files...