django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django Project reports: Host header poisoning Several earlier Django security releases focused on the issue of poisoning the HTTP Host header, causing Django to generate URLs pointing to arbitrary, potentially-malicious domains. In response to further input received and reports of continuing...

weechat -- Crash or freeze when decoding IRC colors in strings

Sebastien Helleu reports: A buffer overflow is causing a crash or freeze of WeeChat when decoding IRC colors in strings. Workaround for a non-patched version: /set irc.network.colorsreceive off...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

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

dns/bind9* -- Several vulnerabilities

ISC reports: Prevents a crash when queried for a record whose RDATA exceeds 65535 bytes. Prevents a crash when validating caused by using "Bad cache" data before it has been initialized. ISCQUEUE handling for recursive clients was updated to address a race condition that could cause a memory leak...

mod_pagespeed -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Reports: modpagespeed 0.10.22.6 is a security update that fixes two critical issues that affect earlier versions: CVE-2012-4001, a problem with validation of own host name. CVE-2012-4360, a cross-site scripting attack, which affects versions starting from 0.10.19.1. The effect of the first...

otrs -- XSS vulnerability in Firefox and Opera

OTRS Security Advisory reports: This advisory covers vulnerabilities discovered in the OTRS core system. This is a variance of the XSS vulnerability, where an attacker could send a specially prepared HTML email to OTRS which would cause JavaScript code to be executed in your browser while...

libutp -- remote denial of service or arbitrary code execution

NVD reports: Stack-based buffer overflow in utp.cpp in libutp, as used in Transmission before 2.74 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted "micro transport protocol packets."...

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...

OpenTTD -- Denial of Service

The OpenTTD Team reports: Denial of service server using ships on half tiles and landscaping...

squidclamav -- cross-site scripting in default virus warning pages

SquidClamav developers report: This release fix several security issues by escaping CGI parameters. Prior to versions 6.7 and 5.8, CGI script clwarn.cgi was not properly sanitizing input variables, so they could be used to inject arbitrary strings to the generated page, leading to the cross-site...

p5-Config-IniFiles -- unsafe temporary file creation

Unsafe Temporary file creation Config::IniFiles used a predictable name for its temporary file without opening it correctly...

phpMyAdmin -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: Multiple XSS in the Tracking feature...

libXfont -- possible local privilege escalation

Tomas Hoger reports: The compress/ LZW decompress implentation does not correctly handle compressed streams that contain code words that were not yet added to the decompression table. This may lead to arbitrary memory corruption. Successfull exploitation may possible lead to a local privilege...

asterisk -- Remote crash vulnerability

The Asterisk Development Team reports: If a remote user initiates a SIP call and the recipient picks up, the remote user can reply with a malformed Contact header that Asterisk will improperly handle and cause a crash due to a segmentation fault...

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...

moinmoin -- cross-site scripting via RST parser

MITRE CVE team reports: Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the reStructuredText rst parser in parser/textrst.py in MoinMoin before 1.9.4, when docutils is installed or when "format rst" is set, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URL in the refu...

subversion -- multiple DoS

Entry for CVE-2010-4539 says: The walk function in repos.c in the moddavsvn module for the Apache HTTP Server, as distributed in Apache Subversion before 1.6.15, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash via vectors that trigger the...

torcs -- untrusted local library loading

TORCS News reports: An insecure change to LDLIBRARYPATH allows loading of libraries in directories other than the standard paths. This can be a problem when downloading and installing untrusted content from the Internet...

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,...

Piwik -- Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

Piwik versions 0.6 through 0.6.3 are vulnerable to arbitrary, remote file inclusion using a directory traversal pattern infinite a crafted request for a data renderer. A vulnerability has been reported in Piwik, which can before exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive...

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...

squid -- Denial of Service vulnerability in DNS handling

Squid security advisory 2010:1 reports: Due to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted DNS packets. This problem allows any trusted client or external server who can determine the squid receiving port to perform a short-term...

drupal -- multiple cross-site scripting

Drupal Team reports: The Contact module does not correctly handle certain user input when displaying category information. Users privileged to create contact categories can insert arbitrary HTML and script code into the contact module administration page. Such a cross-site scripting attack may le...

typo3 -- multiple vulnerabilities in TYPO3 Core

TYPO3 develop team reports: Affected versions: TYPO3 versions 4.0.13 and below, 4.1.12 and below, 4.2.9 and below, 4.3.0beta1 and below. SQL injection, Cross-site scripting XSS, Information disclosure, Frame hijacking, Remote shell command execution and Insecure Install Tool authentication/sessio...

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...

apache -- Prevent chunk-size integer overflow on platforms where sizeof(int) < sizeof(long)

Apache ChangeLog reports: Integer overflow in the approxysendfb function in proxy/proxyutil.c in modproxy in the Apache HTTP Server before 1.3.42 on 64-bit platforms allows remote origin servers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large chunk size th...

libsndfile -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in libsndfile, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library. A boundary error exists within the "vocreadheader" function in src/voc.c. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow v...

typo3 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Typo3, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting and session fixation attacks, and compromise a vulnerable system. The "Install tool" system extension uses...

dia -- remote command execution vulnerability

Security Focus reports: An attacker could exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting victim to execute the vulnerable application in a directory containing a malicious Python file. A successful exploit will allow arbitrary Python commands to run within the privileges of the currently logged-i...

phpmyadmin -- cross-site request forgery vulnerability

The phpMyAdmin Team reports: A logged-in user can be subject of SQL injection through cross site request forgery. Several scripts in phpMyAdmin are vulnerable and the attack can be made through table parameter...

php5 -- potential magic_quotes_gpc vulnerability

PHP Developers reports: Due to a security bug found in the PHP 5.2.7 release, it has been removed from distribution. The bug affects configurations where magicquotesgpc is enabled, because it remains off even when set to on...

lighttpd -- multiple vulnerabilities

Lighttpd seurity annoucement: lighttpd 1.4.19, and possibly other versions before 1.5.0, does not decode the url before matching against rewrite and redirect patterns, which allows attackers to bypass rewrites rules. this can be a security problem in certain configurations if these rules are used...

phpmyadmin -- Code execution vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement: The serverdatabases.php script was vulnerable to an attack coming from a user who is already logged-on to phpMyAdmin, where he can execute shell code if the PHP configuration permits commands like exec...

p5-UI-Dialog -- shell command execution vulnerability

Matthijs Kooijman reports: It seems that the whiptail, cdialog and kdialog backends apply some improper escaping in their shell commands, causing special characters present in menu item titles to be interpreted by the shell. This includes the backtick evaluation operator, so this constitutes a...

hplip -- hpssd Denial of Service

Secunia reports: A security issue has been reported in hplip, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS. The security issue is caused due to an error within hpssd.py when parsing certain requests. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending specially crafted reques...

ipset-tools -- Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus reports: IPsec-Tools is affected by multiple remote denial-of-service vulnerabilities because the software fails to properly handle certain network packets. A successful attack allows a remote attacker to crash the software, denying further service to legitimate users...

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...

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...

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...

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...

phpmyadmin -- Cross Site Scripting

phpMyAdmin security announcement: The login page authtype cookie was vulnerable to XSS via the convcharset parameter. An attacker could use this to execute malicious code on the visitors computer...

mt-daapd -- denial of service vulnerability

US-CERT reports: webserver.c in mt-dappd in Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and daemon crash via a stats method action to /xml-rpc with 1 an empty Authorization header line, which triggers a crash in the wsdecodepassword...

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...

rsync -- off by one stack overflow

BugTraq reports: The rsync utility is prone to an off-by-one buffer-overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly bounds-check user-supplied input. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow arbitrary code-execution in the context of the affected utility...

mcweject -- exploitable buffer overflow

CVE reports: Buffer overflow in eject.c in Jason W. Bacon mcweject 0.9 on FreeBSD, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument, possibly involving the device name...

w3m -- format string vulnerability

An anonymous person reports: w3m-0.5.1 crashes when using the -dump or -backend options to open a HTTPS URL with a SSL certificate where the CN contains "%n%n%n%n%n%n"...

Imlib2 -- multiple image file processing vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in imlib2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or potentially compromise an application using the library. The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors within the processing of JPG, ARGB,...

phpmyadmin -- XSRF vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin team reports: We received a security advisory from Stefan Esser [email protected] and we wish to thank him for his work. It was possible to inject arbitrary SQL commands by forcing an authenticated user to follow a crafted link...

alsaplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities

Luigi Auriemma reports three vulnerabilities within alsaplayer: The function which handles the HTTP connections is vulnerable to a buffer-overflow that happens when it uses sscanf for copying the URL in the Location's field received from the server into the redirect buffer of only 1024 bytes...

trac -- reStructuredText breach of privacy and denial of service vulnerability

The Trac 0.9.6 Release Notes reports: Fixed reStructuredText breach of privacy and denial of service vulnerability found by Felix Wiemann. The discovered vulnerability requires docutils to be installed and enabled. Systems that do not have docutils installed or enabled are not vulnerable. As of...