cpio -- multiple vulnerabilities

From the Debian Security Team: Heap-based buffer overflow in the processcopyin function in GNU Cpio 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large block value in a cpio archive. cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitra...

privoxy -- multiple vulnerabilities

Privoxy Developers reports: Fixed a DoS issue in case of client requests with incorrect chunk-encoded body. When compiled with assertions enabled the default they could previously cause Privoxy to abort. Reported by Matthew Daley. CVE-2015-1380. Fixed multiple segmentation faults and memory leaks...

libssh2 -- denial of service vulnerability

Mariusz Ziulek reports: A malicious attacker could man in the middle a real server and cause libssh2 using clients to crash denial of service or otherwise read and use completely unintended memory areas in this process...

FreeBSD -- Denial of service attack against sshd(8)

Problem Description: Although OpenSSH is not multithreaded, when OpenSSH is compiled with Kerberos support, the Heimdal libraries bring in the POSIX thread library as a dependency. Due to incorrect library ordering while linking sshd8, symbols in the C library which are shadowed by the POSIX thre...

Konversation -- out-of-bounds read on a heap-allocated array

Konversation developers report: Konversation's Blowfish ECB encryption support assumes incoming blocks to be the expected 12 bytes. The lack of a sanity-check for the actual size can cause a denial of service and an information leak to the local user...

FreeBSD -- Kernel stack disclosure in setlogin(2) / getlogin(2)

Problem Description: When setlogin2 is called while setting up a new login session, the login name is copied into an uninitialized stack buffer, which is then copied into a buffer of the same size in the session structure. The getlogin2 system call returns the entire buffer rather than just the...

Flash player -- Multiple security vulnerabilities in www/linux-*-flashplugin11

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

botan -- cryptographic vulnerability

MITRE reports: The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group...

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...

ansible -- local symlink exploits

MITRE reports: runner/connectionplugins/ssh.py in Ansible before 1.2.3, when using ControlPersist, allows local users to redirect a ssh session via a symlink attack on a socket file with a predictable name in /tmp/. lib/ansible/playbook/init.py in Ansible 1.2.x before 1.2.3, when playbook does no...

lcms2 -- Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability

Mageia security team reports: It was discovered that Little CMS did not properly verify certain memory allocations. If a user or automated system using Little CMS were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause Little CMS to crash CVE-2013-4160...

otrs -- information disclosure

The OTRS Project reports: An attacker with a valid agent login could manipulate URLs in the ticket watch mechanism to see contents of tickets they are not permitted to see...

mozilla -- use-after-free in HTML Editor

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2013-29 Use-after-free in HTML Editor...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 151008 High CVE-2013-0839: Use-after-free in canvas font handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 170532 Medium CVE-2013-0840: Missing URL validation when opening new windows. 169770 High CVE-2013-0841: Unchecked array index in content blocking. Credit to Google...

RT -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

BestPractical report: All versions of RT are vulnerable to an email header injection attack. Users with ModifySelf or AdminUser can cause RT to add arbitrary headers or content to outgoing mail. Depending on the scrips that are configured, this may be be leveraged for information leakage or...

freeradius -- arbitrary code execution for TLS-based authentication

freeRADIUS security team reports: Overflow in EAP-TLS for 2.1.10, 2.1.11 and 2.1.12. The issue was found by Timo Warns, and communicated to [email protected]. A sample exploit for the issue was included in the notification. The vulnerability was created in commit a368a6f4f4aaf on August 18,...

fetchmail -- two vulnerabilities in NTLM authentication

Matthias Andree reports: With NTLM support enabled, fetchmail might mistake a server-side error message during NTLM protocol exchange for protocol data, leading to a SIGSEGV. Also, with a carefully crafted NTLM challenge, a malicious server might cause fetchmail to read from a bad memory location...

libcloud -- possible SSL MITM due to invalid regexp used to validate target server hostname

The libcloud development team reports: When establishing a secure SSL / TLS connection to a target server an invalid regular expression has been used for performing the hostname verification. Subset instead of the full target server hostname has been marked an an acceptable match for the given...

FreeBSD -- named(8) DNSSEC validation Denial of Service

Problem description: BIND 9 stores a cache of query names that are known to be failing due to misconfigured name servers or a broken chain of trust. Under high query loads, when DNSSEC validation is active, it is possible for a condition to arise in which data from this cache of failing queries...

dns/nsd -- DoS vulnerability from non-standard DNS packet

Marek Vavrusa and Lubos Slovak report: It is possible to crash SIGSEGV a NSD child server process by sending it a non-standard DNS packet from any host on the internet. A crashed child process will automatically be restarted by the parent process, but an attacker may keep the NSD server occupied...

foswiki -- Script Insertion Vulnerability via unchecked user registration fields

Foswiki team reports: When a new user registers, the new user can add arbitrary HTML and script code into the user topic which is generated by the RegistrationAgent via standard registration fields such as "FirstName" or "OrganisationName". By design, Foswiki's normal editing features allow...

BIND -- Remote DOS

The Internet Systems Consortium reports: Organizations across the Internet reported crashes interrupting service on BIND 9 nameservers performing recursive queries. Affected servers crashed after logging an error in query.c with the following message: "INSIST! dnsrdatasetisassociatedsigrdataset"...

Asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Asterisk Development Team reports: AST-2011-008: If a remote user sends a SIP packet containing a NULL, Asterisk assumes available data extends past the null to the end of the packet when the buffer is actually truncated when copied. This causes SIP header parsing to modify data past the end ...

exim -- local privilege escalation

exim.org reports: CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to arbitrary files...

sudo -- Flaw in Runas group matching

Todd Miller reports: Beginning with sudo version 1.7.0 it has been possible to grant permission to run a command using a specified group via sudo -g option run as group. A flaw exists in the logic that matches Runas groups in the sudoers file when the -u option is also specified run as user. This...

bugzilla -- two SQL injections, sensitive data exposure

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: It is possible to inject raw SQL into the Bugzilla database via the "Bug.create" and "Bug.search" WebService functions. When a user would change his password, his new password would be exposed in the URL field of the browser if he logged in right after changi...

pidgin -- MSN overflow parsing SLP messages

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "msnslplinkprocessmsg" function when processing MSN SLP messages and can be exploited to corrupt...

squid -- several remote denial of service vulnerabilities

Squid security advisory 2009:2 reports: Due to incorrect buffer limits and related bound checks Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests or responses. Due to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when...

cscope -- multiple buffer overflows

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Cscope, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerabilities are caused due to various boundary errors, which can be exploited to cause buffer overflows when parsing specially crafted...

cyrus-sasl -- buffer overflow vulnerability

US-CERT reports: The saslencode64 function converts a string into base64. The Cyrus SASL library contains buffer overflows that occur because of unsafe use of the saslencode64 function...

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...

tor -- unspecified memory corruption vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability with an unknown impact has been reported in Tor. The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be exploited to trigger a heap corruption. No further information is currently available...

gstreamer-plugins-good -- multiple memory overflows

Secunia reports: Tobias Klein has reported some vulnerabilities in GStreamer Good Plug-ins, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. A boundary error occurs within the "qtdemuxparsesamples" function in gst/gtdemux/qtdemux.c when performing QuickTim...

roundcube -- webmail script insertion and php code injection

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in RoundCube Webmail, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system and by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks and compromise a vulnerable system. The HTML "background" attribute within e.g. HT...

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...

bitlbee -- account recreation security issues

Secunia reports: Some security issues have been reported in BitlBee, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and hijack accounts. The security issues are caused due to unspecified errors, which can be exploited to overwrite existing accounts...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Opera Team reports: Scripts are able to change the addresses of framed pages that come from the same site. Due to a flaw in the way that Opera checks what frames can be changed, a site can change the address of frames on other sites inside any window that it has opened. This allows sites to...

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...

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...

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...

xfce -- multiple vulnerabilities

Gentoo reports: A remote attacker could entice a user to install a specially crafted "rc" file to execute arbitrary code via long strings in the "Name" and "Comment" fields or via unspecified vectors involving the second vulnerability...

ikiwiki -- improper symlink verification vulnerability

The ikiwiki development team reports: Ikiwiki did not check if path to the srcdir to contained a symlink. If an attacker had commit access to the directories in the path, they could change it to a symlink, causing ikiwiki to read and publish files that were not intended to be published. But not...

py-django -- denial of service vulnerability

Django project reports: A per-process cache used by Django's internationalization "i18n" system to store the results of translation lookups for particular values of the HTTP Accept-Language header used the full value of that header as a key. An attacker could take advantage of this by sending...

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...

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...

snort -- DCE/RPC preprocessor vulnerability

A IBM Internet Security Systems Protection Advisory reports: Snort is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow as a result of DCE/RPC reassembly. This vulnerability is in a dynamic-preprocessor enabled in the default configuration, and the configuration for this preprocessor allows for...