FreeBSD -- Denial of Service with IPv6 Router Advertisements

Problem Description: The Neighbor Discover Protocol allows a local router to advertise a suggested Current Hop Limit value of a link, which will replace Current Hop Limit on an interface connected to the link on the FreeBSD system. Impact: When the Current Hop Limit similar to IPv4's TTL is small...

xen-kernel -- Certain domctl operations may be abused to lock up the host

The Xen Project reports: XSA-77 put the majority of the domctl operations on a list excepting them from having security advisories issued for them if any effects their use might have could hamper security. Subsequently some of them got declared disaggregation safe, but for a small subset this was...

samba -- Elevation of privilege to Active Directory Domain Controller

Samba team reports: In Samba's AD DC we neglected to ensure that attempted modifications of the userAccountControl attribute did not allow the UFSERVERTRUSTACCOUNT bit to be set...

privoxy -- multiple vulnerabilities

Privoxy Developers reports: Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to the socket limit being reached CID 66382. This affected Privoxy 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support on most platforms this is the default. Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug CID 66394 and two additional...

kde-runtime -- incorrect CBC encryption handling

Valentin Rusu reports: Until KDE Applications 14.12.0, kwalletd incorrectly handled CBC encryption blocks when encrypting secrets in kwl files. The secrets were still encrypted, but the result binary data corresponded to an ECB encrypted block instead of CBC. The ECB encryption algorithm, even if...

libmspack -- frame_end overflow which could cause infinite loop

There is a denial of service vulnerability in libmspack. The libmspack code is built into cabextract, so it is also vulnerable. MITRE reports: Integer overflow in the qtmddecompress function in libmspack 0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service hang via a crafted CAB file, which...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS vulnerabilities in SQL debug output and server monitor page.

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: With a crafted database or table name it is possible to trigger an XSS in SQL debug output when enabled and in server monitor page when viewing and analysing executed queries. This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who is logged in to...

samba -- remote code execution

Samba developers report: A malicious browser can send packets that may overwrite the heap of the target nmbd NetBIOS name services daemon. It may be possible to use this to generate a remote code execution vulnerability as the superuser root...

kdelibs -- KAuth PID Reuse Flaw

Martin Sandsmark reports: The KAuth framework uses polkit-1 API which tries to authenticate using the requestors PID. This is prone to PID reuse race conditions. This potentially allows a malicious application to pose as another for authentication purposes when executing privileged actions...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in VNC

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the VNC display driver is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing a CLIENTCUTTEXT message with specially crafted payload message. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash th...

FreeBSD -- devfs rules not applied by default for jails

Problem Description: The default devfs rulesets are not loaded on boot, even when jails are used. Device nodes will be created in the jail with their normal default access permissions, while most of them should be hidden and inaccessible. Impact: Jailed processes can get access to restricted...

otrs -- multiple vulnerabilities

The OTRS Project reports: SQL injection issue An attacker that managed to take over the session of a logged in customer could create tickets and/or send follow-ups to existing tickets due to missing challenge token checks...

strongswan -- multiple DoS vulnerabilities

strongSwan Project reports: A DoS vulnerability triggered by crafted IKEv1 fragmentation payloads was discovered in strongSwan's IKE daemon charon. All versions since 5.0.2 are affected. A DoS vulnerability and potential authorization bypass triggered by a crafted IDDERASN1DN ID payload was...

apache-xml-security-c -- heap overflow during XPointer evaluation

The Apache Software Foundation reports: The attempted fix to address CVE-2013-2154 introduced the possibility of a heap overflow, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution, in the processing of malformed XPointer expressions in the XML Signature Reference processing code...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

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

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

phpMyAdmin -- Multiple XSS in Table operations, Database structure, Trigger and Visualize GIS data pages

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: Using a crafted table name, it was possible to produce a XSS : 1 On the Database Structure page, creating a new table with a crafted name 2 On the Database Structure page, using the Empty and Drop links of the crafted table name 3 On the Table Operations...

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...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

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

WebCalendar -- multiple vulnerabilities

Hanno Boeck reports: Fixes are now available for various security vulnerabilities including LFI local file inclusion, XSS cross site scripting and others...

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...

postfixadmin -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

The Postfix Admin Team reports: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities exist: - XSS with $GETdomain in templates/menu.php and edit-vacation - XSS in some create-domain input fields - XSS in create-alias and edit-alias error message - XSS by values stored in the database in fetchmail list view, list-domain...

spamdyke -- Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Fixed a number of very serious errors in the usage of snprintf/vsnprintf. The return value was being used as the length of the string printed into the buffer, but the return value really indicates the length of the string that could be printed if the buffer were of infinite size...

gnutls -- client session resumption vulnerability

The GnuTLS team reports: GNUTLS-SA-2011-2 Possible buffer overflow/Denial of service...

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 -- 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...

krb5 -- MITKRB5-SA-2011-003, KDC vulnerable to double-free when PKINIT enabled

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The MIT Kerberos 5 Key Distribution Center KDC daemon is vulnerable to a double-free condition if the Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication PKINIT capability is enabled, resulting in daemon crash or arbitrary code execution which i...

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...

phpmyadmin -- Several XSS vulnerabilities

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

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...

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...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Team Reports: Fixed an issue where certain domain names could allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Chris Weber of Casaba Security Fixed an issue where scripts can run on the feed subscription page, as reported by Inferno...

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...

ruby -- BigDecimal denial of service vulnerability

The official ruby site reports: A denial of service DoS vulnerability was found on the BigDecimal standard library of Ruby. Conversion from BigDecimal objects into Float numbers had a problem which enables attackers to effectively cause segmentation faults. An attacker can cause a denial of servi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

wireshark -- SMTP Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the SMTP dissector and can be exploited to trigger the execution of an infinite loop via a large SMTP packet...

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...

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...

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...