asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Crashes due to large stack allocations when using TCP Denial of Service Through Exploitation of Device State Caching...

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...

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...

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...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Multiple Priority 2 vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

vlc -- arbitrary code execution in Real RTSP and MMS support

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, on behalf of the VideoLAN project reports: If successful, a malicious third party could crash the VLC media player process. Arbitrary code execution could be possible on some systems...

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...

libxml2 -- heap buffer overflow

Google chrome team reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in libxml2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors...

phpMyAdmin -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: Multiple XSS in the Tracking feature...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

squid -- Denial of service vulnerability in request handling

Squid security advisory 2010:3 reports: Due to an internal error in string handling Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests. This problem allows any trusted client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service...

firefox -- Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2010-48 Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix...

joomla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Joomla! reported the following vulnerabilities: If a user entered a URL with a negative query limit or offset, a PHP notice would display revealing information about the system.. The migration script in the Joomla! installer does not check the file type being uploaded. If the installation...

Zend Framework -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Zend Framework team reports: Potential XSS or HTML Injection vector in ZendJson. Potential XSS vector in ZendServiceReCaptchaMailHide. Potential MIME-type Injection in ZendFileTransfer Executive Summary. Potential XSS vector in ZendFilterStripTags when comments allowed. Potential XSS vector i...

mozilla -- corrupt JIT state after deep return from native function

Mozilla Project reports: Firefox user zbyte reported a crash that we determined could result in an exploitable memory corruption problem. In certain cases after a return from a native function, such as escape, the Just-in-Time JIT compiler could get into a corrupt state. This could be exploited b...

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...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark team reports: Wireshark 1.0.7 fixes the following vulnerabilities: The PROFINET dissector was vulnerable to a format string overflow. Bug 3382 Versions affected: 0.99.6 to 1.0.6, CVE-2009-1210. The Check Point High-Availability Protocol CPHAP dissector could crash. Bug 3269 Versions...

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...

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...

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...

openoffice -- arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities

The OpenOffice Team reports: A security vulnerability with the way OpenOffice 2.x process WMF files may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides a StarOffice/StarSuite document that is opened by a local user to execute arbitrary commands on the system with the privileges of the user running...

cups -- potential buffer overflow in PNG reading code

CUPS reports: The PNG image reading code did not validate the image size properly, leading to a potential buffer overflow STR 2974...

p5-UI-Dialog -- shell command execution vulnerability

Matthijs Kooijman reports: It seems that the whiptail, cdialog and kdialog backends apply some improper escaping in their shell commands, causing special characters present in menu item titles to be interpreted by the shell. This includes the backtick evaluation operator, so this constitutes a...

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...

django -- XSS vulnerability

Django project reports: The Django administration application will, when accessed by a user who is not sufficiently authenticated, display a login form and ask the user to provide the necessary credentials before displaying the requested page. This form will be submitted to the URL the user...

vorbis-tools -- Speex header processing vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in vorbis-tools, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when processing Speex headers, which can be exploited via a specially crafted Spee...

lighttpd -- OpenSSL Error Queue Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in lighttpd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to lighttpd not properly clearing the OpenSSL error queue. This can be exploited to close concurrent SSL connections of...

libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability

xine project reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix remotely-expoitable buffer overflow, CVE-2006-1664. This is not the first time that that bug has been fixed... It also fixes a few more recent bugs, such as the audio output problems in 1.1.9...

claws-mail -- insecure temporary file creation

Nico Golde reports: A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite files with the privileges of the user running Claws Mail...

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...

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...

evince -- Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in Evince, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "getnexttext" function in ps/ps.c. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by e.g...

libarchive -- Infinite loop in corrupt archives handling in libarchive

Problem Description: If the end of an archive is reached while attempting to "skip" past a region of an archive, libarchive will enter an infinite loop wherein it repeatedly attempts and fails to read further data. Impact: An attacker able to cause a system to extract via "tar -x" or another...

drupal -- cross site request forgeries

The Drupal Team reports: Visiting a specially crafted page, anywhere on the web, may allow that page to post forms to a Drupal site in the context of the visitor's session. To illustrate; suppose one has an active user 1 session, the most powerful administrator account for a site, to a Drupal sit...

mysql -- database "case-sensitive" privilege escalation

Michal Prokopiuk reports a privilege escalation in MySQL. The vulnerability causes MySQL, when run on case-sensitive filesystems, to allow remote and local authenticated users to create or access a database when the database name differs only in case from a database for which they have permission...

zope -- information disclosure vulnerability

Zope team reports: Unspecified vulnerability in Zope2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unknown attack vectors related to the docutils module and "restructured text"...

mutt -- Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: Mutt is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to the application's failure to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer. This issue may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary machin...

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...

phpldapadmin -- Cross-Site Scripting and Script Insertion vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: phpLDAPadmin have some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. 1 Some input isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to...

plone -- "member_id" Parameter Portrait Manipulation Vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to missing security declarations in "changeMemberPortrait" and "deletePersonalPortrait". This can be exploited to manipulate or delete another user's portrait via the "memberid" parameter...

asterisk -- denial of service vulnerability, local system access

Emmanouel Kellenis reports a denial of service vulnerability within asterisk. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in "formatjpeg.c". A large JPEG image could trigger this bug, potentially allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code...

mplayer -- heap overflow in the ASF demuxer

The Mplayer team reports: A potential buffer overflow was found in the ASF demuxer. Arbitrary remote code execution is possible under the user ID running the player when streaming an ASF file from a malicious server or local code execution under the user ID running the player if a malicious ASF...

postgresql81-server -- SET ROLE privilege escalation

The PostgreSQL team reports: Due to inadequate validity checking, a user could exploit the special case that SET ROLE normally uses to restore the previous role setting after an error. This allowed ordinary users to acquire superuser status, for example...

FreeBSD -- Infinite loop in SACK handling

Problem description: When insufficient memory is available to handle an incoming selective acknowledgement, the TCP/IP stack may enter an infinite loop. Impact: By opening a TCP connection and sending a carefully crafted series of packets, an attacker may be able to cause a denial of service...

cpio -- multiple vulnerabilities

Problem description: A number of issues has been discovered in cpio: When creating a new file, cpio closes the file before setting its permissions. CVE-2005-1111 When extracting files cpio does not properly sanitize file names to filter out ".." components, even if the --no-absolute-filenames...