FreeBSD -- remotely exploitable crash in OpenSSL

Problem Description The function ASN1STRINGprintex does not properly validate the lengths of BMPString or UniversalString objects before attempting to print them. Impact An application which attempts to print a BMPString or UniversalString which has an invalid length will crash as a result of...

twiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Marc Schoenefeld and Steve Milner of RedHat SRT and Peter Allor of IBM ISS report: XSS vulnerability with URLPARAM variable SEARCH variable allows arbitrary shell command execution...

vlc -- arbitrary code execution in the RealMedia processor

Tobias Klein from TrapKit reports: The VLC media player contains an integer overflow vulnerability while parsing malformed RealMedia .rm files. The vulnerability leads to a heap overflow that can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of VLC media player...

amaya -- multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: A boundary error when processing "div" HTML tags can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long "id" parameter. A boundary error exists when processing overly long links. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by tricking the user...

imlib2 -- XPM processing buffer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in imlib2, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to a pointer arithmetic error within the "load" function provided by the XPM loader. This can be...

mplayer -- multiple integer overflows

The oCERT team reports: The MPlayer multimedia player suffers from a vulnerability which could result in arbitrary code execution and at the least, in unexpected process termination. Three integer underflows located in the Real demuxer code can be used to exploit a heap overflow, a specific video...

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...

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...

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...

apache -- Cross-site scripting vulnerability

CVE Mitre reports: Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in proxyftp.c in the modproxyftp module in Apache 2.0.63 and earlier, and modproxyftp.c in the modproxyftp module in Apache 2.2.9 and earlier 2.2 versions, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a wildcard in th...

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...

ruby -- multiple integer and buffer overflow vulnerabilities

The official ruby site reports: Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service DoS condition or allow execution of arbitrary code...

spamdyke -- open relay

Spamdyke Team reports: Fixed smtpfilter to reject the DATA command if no valid recipients have been specified. Otherwise, a specific scenario could result in every spamdyke installation being used as an open relay. If the remote server connects and gives one or more recipients that are rejected f...

Nagios -- Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Nagios, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks...

phpmyadmin -- Shared Host Information Disclosure

A phpMyAdmin security announcement report: It is possible to read the contents of any file that the web server's user can access. The exact mechanism to achieve this won't be disclosed. If a user can upload on the same host where phpMyAdmin is running a PHP script that can read files with the...

firefox -- javascript garbage collector vulnerability

Mozilla Foundation reports: Fixes for security problems in the JavaScript engine described in MFSA 2008-15 introduced a stability problem, where some users experienced crashes during JavaScript garbage collection. This is being fixed primarily to address stability concerns. We have no demonstrati...

drupal -- cross site scripting (register_globals)

The Drupal Project reports: When theme .tpl.php files are accessible via the web and the PHP setting registerglobals is set to enabled, anonymous users are able to execute cross site scripting attacks via specially crafted links. Drupal's .htaccess attempts to set registerglobals to disabled and...

gallery2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Gallery project reports: Gallery 2.2.3 addresses the following security vulnerabilities: Unauthorized renaming of items possible with WebDAV reported by Merrick Manalastas Unauthorized modification and retrieval of item properties possible with WebDAV Unauthorized locking and replacing of items...

joomla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: joomla can be exploited to conduct session fixation attacks, cross-site scripting attacks or HTTP response splitting attacks. Certain unspecified input passed in comsearch, comcontent and modlogin is not properly sanitised before being returned to a user. This can be...

mysql -- remote dos via malformed password packet

MySQL reports: A malformed password packet in the connection protocol could cause the server to crash...

vlc -- format string vulnerability and integer overflow

isecpartners reports: VLC is vulnerable to a format string attack in the parsing of Vorbis comments in Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora files, CDDA data or SAP/SDP service discovery messages. Additionally, there are two errors in the handling of wav files, one a denial of service due to an uninitialized...

mod_jk -- information disclosure

Kazu Nambo reports: URL decoding the the Apache webserver prior to decoding in the Tomcat server could pypass access control rules and give access to pages on a different AJP by sending a crafted URL...

FreeType 2 -- Heap overflow vulnerability

Integer signedness error in truetype/ttgload.c in Freetype 2.3.4 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TTF image with a negative npoints value, which leads to an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow...

zope -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

The Zope Team reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in Zope, where by certain types of misuse of HTTP GET, an attacker could gain elevated privileges. All Zope versions up to and including 2.10.2 are affected...

clamav -- Multipart Nestings Denial of Service

Secunia reports: Clam AntiVirus have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to a stack overflow when scanning messages with deeply nested multipart content. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending...

phpbb -- NULL byte injection vulnerability

Secunia reports: ShAnKaR has discovered a vulnerability in phpBB, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system. Input passed to the "avatarpath" parameter in admin/adminboard.php is not properly sanitised before being used as a configuration variable to store avatar...

firefox -- denial of service vulnerability

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports for deleted object reference when designMode="on" Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott each described crashes that were discovered to ultimately stem from the same root cause: attempting to use a deleted controller context when designMode was turned on. Thi...

phpmyadmin -- 'set_theme' Cross-Site Scripting

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the "settheme" parameter isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTM...

kpdf -- heap based buffer overflow

The KDE team reports: kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains a heap based buffer overflow in the splash rasterizer engine that can crash kpdf or even execute arbitrary code...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera reports: It is possible to make a form input that looks like an image link. If the form input has a "title" attribute, the status bar will show the "title". A "title" which looks like a URL can mislead the user, since the title can say http://nice.familiar.com/, while the form action can be...

lynx -- remote buffer overflow

Ulf Härnhammar reports: When Lynx connects to an NNTP server to fetch information about the available articles in a newsgroup, it will call a function called HTrjis with the information from certain article headers. The function adds missing ESC characters to certain data, to support Asian...

gallery2 -- file disclosure vulnerability

Michael Dipper wrote: A vulnerability has been discovered in gallery, which allows remote users unauthorized access to files on the webserver. A remote user accessing gallery over the web may use specially crafted HTTP parameters to access arbitrary files located on the webserver. All files...

zope -- expose RestructuredText functionality to untrusted users

A Zope Hotfix Alert reports: This hotfix resolves a security issue with docutils. Affected are possibly all Zope instances that expose RestructuredText functionalies to untrusted users through the web...

cacti -- multiple vulnerabilities

Stefan Esser reports: Wrongly implemented user input filters lead to multiple SQL Injection vulnerabilities which can lead f.e. to disclosure of the admin password hash. Wrongly implemented user input filters allows injection of user input into executed commandline. Alberto Trivero posted his...

trac -- file upload/download vulnerability

Stefan Esser reports: Trac's wiki and ticket systems allows to add attachments to wiki entries and bug tracker tickets. These attachments are stored within directories that are determined by the id of the corresponding ticket or wiki entry. Due to a missing validation of the id parameter it is...

ethereal -- multiple protocol dissectors vulnerabilities

An Ethreal Security Advisories reports: An aggressive testing program as well as independent discovery has turned up a multitude of security issues Please reference CVE/URL list for details...

gaim -- remote DoS on receiving certain messages over IRC

The GAIM team reports: The IRC protocol plugin in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows 1 remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via ircmsgkick, ircmsgmode, ircmsgpart, ircmsgquit, 2 remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via...

perl -- Directory Permissions Race Condition

Secunia reports: Paul Szabo has reported a vulnerability in Perl File::Path::rmtree, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in the way File::Path::rmtree handles directory permissions when...

tiff -- tiffdump integer overflow vulnerability

Dmitry V. Levin found a potential integer overflow in the tiffdump utility which could lead to execution of arbitrary code. This could be exploited by tricking an user into executing tiffdump on a specially crafted tiff image...

xpdf -- buffer overflow vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the xpdf PDF viewer, as included in multiple Linux distributions, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code as the user viewing a PDF file. The offending code can be found in the Gfx::doImage...

phpbb -- arbitrary command execution and other vulnerabilities

The ChangeLog for phpBB 2.0.11 states: Changes since 2.0.10 Fixed vulnerability in highlighting code very high severity, please update your installation as soon as possible Fixed unsetting global vars - Matt Kavanagh Fixed XSS vulnerability in username handling - AnthraX101 Fixed not confirmed sq...

unarj -- long filename buffer overflow

Ludwig Nussel has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in unarj's handling of long filenames which could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running unarj...

libxml -- remote buffer overflows

infamous41md reports that libxml contains multiple buffer overflows in the URL parsing and DNS name resolving functions. These vulnerabilities could lead to execution of arbitrary code...

mod_ssl -- SSLCipherSuite bypass

It is possible for clients to use any cipher suite configured by the virtual host, whether or not a certain cipher suite is selected for a specific directory. This might result in clients using a weaker encryption than originally configured...

CUPS -- local information disclosure

Certain methods of authenticated remote printing in CUPS can disclose user names and passwords in the log files. A workaround for this problem is to set more strict access permissions on the CUPS logfiles...

webmin -- insecure temporary file creation at installation time

The Webmin developers documented a security issue in the release notes for version 1.160: Fixed a security hole in the maketemp.pl script, used to create the /tmp/.webmin directory at install time. If an un-trusted user creates this directory before Webmin is installed, he could create in it a...

gaim -- heap overflow exploitable by malicious GroupWise server

Sean infamous42md reports that a malicious GroupWise messaging server may be able to exploit a heap buffer overflow in gaim, leading to arbitrary code execution...

icecast -- Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Caused by improper filtering of HTML code in the status display, it is possible for a remote user to execute scripting code in the target user's browser...

phpBB IP address spoofing

The common.php script always trusts the X-Forwarded-For' header in the client's HTTP request. A remote user could forge this header in order to bypass any IP address access control lists ACLs...

setsockopt(2) IPv6 sockets input validation error

From the FreeBSD Security Advisory: A programming error in the handling of some IPv6 socket options within the setsockopt2 system call may result in memory locations being accessed without proper validation. It may be possible for a local attacker to read portions of kernel memory, resulting in...