BIND -- Remote DoS against authoritative and recursive servers

ISC reports: A defect in the affected BIND 9 versions allows an attacker to remotely cause the "named" process to exit using a specially crafted packet. This defect affects both recursive and authoritative servers...

linux-flashplugin -- remote code execution vulnerability

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.23 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.185.23 and earlier versions for Android. This memory corruption...

linux-flashplugin -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: An important vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.16 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.185.22 and earlier versions for Android. This universal cross-site...

Samba -- Denial of service - memory corruption

The Samba team reports: Samba is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption error related to missing range checks on file descriptors being used in the "FDSET" macro. By performing a select on a bad file descriptor set, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...

rubygem-mail -- Remote Arbitrary Shell Command Injection Vulnerability

Secunia reports: Input passed via an email from address is not properly sanitised in the "deliver" function lib/mail/network/deliverymethods/sendmail.rb before being used as a command line argument. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands...

tor -- remote code execution and crash

The Tor Project reports: A remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely. All Tor users should upgrade...

krb5 -- client impersonation vulnerability

The MIT Kerberos team reports: MIT krb5 KDC may issue tickets not requested by a client, based on an attacker-chosen KrbFastArmoredReq. An authenticated remote attacker that controls a legitimate service principal could obtain a valid service ticket to itself containing valid KDC-generated...

krb5 -- RFC 3961 key-derivation checksum handling vulnerability

The MIT Kerberos team reports: MIT krb5 releases incorrectly accepts RFC 3961 key-derivation checksums using RC4 keys when verifying AD-SIGNEDPATH and AD-KDC-ISSUED authorization data. An authenticated remote attacker that controls a legitimate service principal has a 1/256 chance of forging the...

linux-flashplugin -- remote code execution

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.1.92.10 for Android. This vulnerability also affects Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier versio...

phpmyadmin -- Several XSS vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin Team reports: It was possible to conduct a XSS attack using crafted URLs org POST parameters on several pages...

git -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Greg Brockman reports: If an attacker were to create a crafted working copy where the user runs any git command, the attacker could force execution of arbitrary code...

fetchmail -- denial of service vulnerability

Fetchmail developer Matthias Andree reported a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the application when it is runs in verbose mode. Fetchmail before release 6.3.17 did not properly sanitize external input mail headers and UID. When a multi-character locale such as UTF-8 was in use...

ruby -- heap overflow vulnerability

The official ruby site reports: There is a heap overflow vulnerability in Stringljust, Stringcenter and Stringrjust. This has allowed an attacker to run arbitrary code in some rare cases...

phpmyadmin -- insufficient output sanitizing when generating configuration file

phpMyAdmin Team reports: Setup script used to generate configuration can be fooled using a crafted POST request to include arbitrary PHP code in generated configuration file. Combined with ability to save files on server, this can allow unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code. This...

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...

samba -- potential leakage of arbitrary memory contents

Samba Team reports: Samba 3.0.29 and beyond contain a change to deal with gcc 4 optimizations. Part of the change modified range checking for client-generated offsets of secondary trans, trans2 and nttrans requests. These requests are used to transfer arbitrary amounts of memory from clients to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

ethereal -- Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerabilities are caused due to various types of errors including boundary errors, an off-by-one error, an...

samba -- Exposure of machine account credentials in winbind log files

Samba Security Advisory: The machine trust account password is the secret shared between a domain controller and a specific member server. Access to the member server machine credentials allows an attacker to impersonate the server in the domain and gain access to additional information regarding...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ruby -- vulnerability in the safe level settings

Ruby home page reports: The Object Oriented Scripting Language Ruby supports safely executing an untrusted code with two mechanisms: safe level and taint flag on objects. A vulnerability has been found that allows bypassing these mechanisms. By using the vulnerability, arbitrary code can be...

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...

tor -- diffie-hellman handshake flaw

A tor advisory reports Tor clients can completely loose anonymity, confidentiality, and data integrity if the first Tor server in their path is malicious. Specifically, if the Tor client chooses a malicious Tor server for her first hop in the circuit, that server can learn all the keys she...

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...

openvpn -- multiple TCP clients connecting with the same certificate at the same time can crash the server

James Yonan reports: If two or more client machines try to connect to the server at the same time via TCP, using the same client certificate, and when --duplicate-cn is not enabled on the server, a race condition can crash the server with "Assertion failed at mtcp.c:411"...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...