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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Project reports: Free tagging taxonomy terms can be used to insert arbitrary script and HTML code cross site scripting or XSS on node preview pages. A successful exploit requires that the victim selects a term containing script code and chooses to preview the node. This issue affects...

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...

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...

p5-Mail-SpamAssassin -- local user symlink-attack DoS vulnerability

SpamAssassin website reports: A local user symlink-attack DoS vulnerability in SpamAssassin has been found, affecting versions 3.1.x, 3.2.0, and SVN trunk...

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...

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,...

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...

freeradius -- authentication bypass vulnerability

The freeradius development team reports: A validation issue exists with the EAP-MSCHAPv2 module in all versions from 1.0.0 where the module first appeared to 1.1.0. Insufficient input validation was being done in the EAP-MSCHAPv2 state machine. A malicious attacker could manipulate their...

MySQL -- SQL-injection security vulnerability

MySQL reports: An SQL-injection security hole has been found in multibyte encoding processing. An SQL-injection security hole can include a situation whereby when inserting user supplied data into a database, the user might inject his own SQL statements that the server will execute. With regards ...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal team reports: Vulnerability: SQL injection A security vulnerability in the database layer allowed certain queries to be submitted to the database without going through Drupal's query sanitizer. Vulnerability: Execution of arbitrary files Certain -- alas, typical -- configurations of...

tkdiff -- temporary file symlink privilege escalation

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña reports a vulnerability in tkdiff which allows local users to gain priveleges of the user running tkdiff due to insecure temporary file creation...

openvpn -- potential denial-of-service on servers in TCP mode

James Yonan reports: If the TCP server accept call returns an error status, the resulting exception handler may attempt to indirect through a NULL pointer, causing a segfault. Affects all OpenVPN 2.0 versions...

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...

firefox & mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues: Heap overrun in XBM image processing jackerror reports that an improperly terminated XBM image ending with space characters instead of the expected end tag can lead to a heap buffer overrun. This appears to be exploitable to insta...

firefox & mozilla -- command line URL shell command injection

A Secunia Advisory reports: Peter Zelezny has discovered a vulnerability in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to the shell script used to launch Firefox parsing shell commands that are enclosed within backticks in th...

evolution -- remote format string vulnerabilities

A SITIC Vulnerability Advisory reports: Evolution suffers from several format string bugs when handling data from remote sources. These bugs lead to crashes or the execution of arbitrary assembly language code. The first format string bug occurs when viewing the full vCard data attached to an...

PowerDNS -- LDAP backend fails to escape all queries

The LDAP backend in PowerDNS has issues with escaping queries which could cause connection errors. This would make it possible for a malicious user to temporarily blank domains. This is known to affect all releases prior to 2.9.18...

zlib -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Problem Description An error in the handling of corrupt compressed data streams can result in a buffer being overflowed. Impact By carefully crafting a corrupt compressed data stream, an attacker can overwrite data structures in a zlib-using application. This may cause the application to halt,...

clamav -- MS-Expand file handling DoS vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of an input validation error in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV allows attackers to cause a denial of service condition. The vulnerability specifically exists due to improper behavior during exceptional conditions. Successful exploitation allows...

kdewebdev -- kommander untrusted code execution vulnerability

A KDE Security Advisory reports: Kommander executes without user confirmation data files from possibly untrusted locations. As they contain scripts, the user might accidentally run arbitrary code. Impact: Remotly supplied kommander files from untrusted sources are executed without confirmation...

racoon -- remote denial-of-service

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the racoon ISAKMP daemon could be crashed with a maliciously crafted UDP packet. No authentication is required in order to perform the attack...

gaim -- remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML

The GAIM team reports: Receiving malformed HTML can result in an invalid memory access causing Gaim to crash...

gftp -- directory traversal vulnerability

A Debian Security Advisory reports: Albert Puigsech Galicia discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in a proprietary FTP client CAN-2004-1376 which is also present in gftp, a GTK+ FTP client. A malicious server could provide a specially crafted filename that could cause arbitrary files to ...

imap-uw -- authentication bypass when CRAM-MD5 is enabled

The CRAM-MD5 authentication support of the University of Washington IMAP and POP3 servers contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to bypass authentication and impersonate arbitrary users. Only installations with CRAM-MD5 support configured are affected...

twiki -- arbitrary shell command execution

Hans Ulrich Niedermann reports: The TWiki search function uses a user supplied search string to compose a command line executed by the Perl backtick operator. The search string is not checked properly for shell metacharacters and is thus vulnerable to search string containing quotes and shell...

apache2 multiple space header denial-of-service vulnerability

It is possible for remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service scenario on Apache 2.0.52 and earlier by sending an HTTP GET request with a MIME header containing multiple lines full of whitespaces...

awstats -- remote command execution vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability in AWStats allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands under the privileges of the web server. The problem specifically exists when the application is running as a CGI script on a web server. The...

gdk-pixbuf -- image decoding vulnerabilities

Chris Evans discovered several flaws in the gdk-pixbuf XPM image decoder: Heap-based overflow in pixbufcreatefromxpm Stack-based overflow in xpmextractcolor Integer overflows in io-ico.c Some of these flaws are believed to be exploitable...

Darwin Streaming Server denial-of-service vulnerability

An attacker can cause an assertion to trigger by sending a long User-Agent field in a request...

Buffer overflows in XFree86 servers

A number of buffer overflows were recently discovered in XFree86, prompted by initial discoveries by iDEFENSE. These buffer overflows are present in the font alias handling. An attacker with authenticated access to a running X server may exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain root privileges on...

rsync buffer overflow in server mode

When rsync is run in server mode, a buffer overflow could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the rsync server. Anonymous rsync servers are at the highest risk...

pine remotely exploitable vulnerabilities

Pine versions prior to 4.58 are affected by two vulnerabilities discovered by iDEFENSE, a buffer overflow in mailview.c and an integer overflow in strings.c. Both vulnerabilities can result in arbitrary code execution when processing a malicious message...

minio -- Privilege Escalation via Session Policy Bypass in Service Accounts and STS

mino reports: A privilege escalation vulnerability allows service accounts and STS Security Token Service accounts with restricted session policies to bypass their inline policy restrictions when performing "own" account operations, specifically when creating new service accounts for the same use...