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...

ghostscript -- buffer overflow vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: Ghostscript is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it into a finite-sized buffer. Exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to overwrite a sensitive memory buffer with arbitrary dat...

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...

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...

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...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Project reports: A bug in the output filter employed by Drupal makes it possible for malicious users to insert script code into pages cross site scripting or XSS. A bug in the private filesystem trusts the MIME type sent by the browser, enabling malicious users with the ability to uplo...

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...

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...

phpmyadmin -- SQL injection vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement report: phpMyAdmin used the $REQUEST superglobal as a source for its parameters, instead of $GET and $POST. This means that on most servers, a cookie with the same name as one of phpMyAdmin's parameters can interfere. Another application could set a cookie for t...

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...

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...

firefox -- multiple remote unspecified memory corruption vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: The Firefox 2.0.0.10 update contains fixes for three bugs that improve the stability of the product. These crashes showed some evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to...

perdition -- str_vwrite format string vulnerability

SEC-Consult reports: Perdition IMAP is affected by a format string bug in one of its IMAP output-string formatting functions. The bug allows the execution of arbitrary code on the affected server. A successful exploit does not require prior authentication...

p5-Net-DNS -- multiple Vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: An error exists in the handling of DNS queries where IDs are incremented with a fixed value and are additionally used for child processes in a forking server. This can be exploited to poison the DNS cache of an application using the module if a valid ID is guessed. An...

evolution-data-server -- remote execution of arbitrary code vulnerability

Debian project reports: It was discovered that the IMAP code in the Evolution Data Server performs insufficient sanitising of a value later used an array index, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code...

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...

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...

plone -- user can masquerade as a group

Plone.org reports: PlonePAS-using Plone releases Plone 2.5 and Plone 2.5.1 has a potential vulnerability that allows a user to masquerade as a group. Please update your sites...

wv -- Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in wvWare, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service and potentially compromise an application using the library. The vulnerabilities are caused due to integer overflows within the "wvGetLFOrecords" and...

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...

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...

libmms -- stack-based buffer overflow

Mitre CVE reports: Stack-based buffer overflow in libmms, as used by a MiMMS 0.0.9 and b xine-lib 1.1.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via the 1 sendcommand, 2 stringutf16, 3 getdata, and 4 getmediapacket...

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...

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...

squirrelmail -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered since 1.4.5, including IMAP injection as well as some XSS issues...

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...

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...

mantis -- "view_filters_page.php" cross site scripting vulnerability

r0t reports: Mantis contains a flaw that allows a remote cross site scripting attack. This flaw exists because input passed to "targetfield" parameter in "viewfilterspage.php" is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This could allow a user to create a specially crafted URL th...

p5-Mail-SpamAssassin -- long message header denial of service

A Secunia Advisory reports: A vulnerability has been reported in SpamAssassin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to the use of an inefficient regular expression in "/SpamAssassin/Message.pm" to parse email headers. This ca...

clamav -- arbitrary code execution and DoS vulnerabilities

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in "libclamav/upx.c" when processing malformed UPX-packed executables. It can also be sent into an infinite loop in "libclamav/fsg.c" when processing specially-crafted FSG-packed executables. By sending a...

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...

squirrelmail -- Several cross site scripting vulnerabilities

A SquirrelMail Security Advisory reports: Several cross site scripting XSS vulnerabilities have been discovered in SquirrelMail versions 1.4.0 - 1.4.4. The vulnerabilities are in two categories: the majority can be exploited through URL manipulation, and some by sending a specially crafted email ...

gedit -- format string vulnerability

Yan Feng reports a format string vulnerability in gedit. This vulnerability could cause a denial of service with a binary file that contains format string characters within the filename. It had been reported that web browsers and email clients can be configured to provide a filename as an argumen...

kdelibs -- kimgio input validation errors

A KDE Security Advisory reports: kimgio contains a PCX image file format reader that does not properly perform input validation. A source code audit performed by the KDE security team discovered several vulnerabilities in the PCX and other image file format readers, some of them exploitable to...

sharutils -- unshar insecure temporary file creation

An Ubuntu Advisory reports: Joey Hess discovered that "unshar" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

gaim -- remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML

The GAIM team reports: The gaimmarkupstriphtml function in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a string that contains malformed HTML, which causes an out-of-bounds read...

postnuke -- SQL injection vulnerabilities

Two separate SQL injection vulnerabilities have been identified in the PostNuke PHP content management system. An attacker can use this vulnerability to potentially insert executable PHP code into the content management system to view all files within the PHP scope, for instance. Various other SQ...

wu-ftpd -- remote globbing DoS vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability in version 2.6.2 of WU-FPTD could allow for a denial of service of the system by resource exhaustion. The vulnerability specifically exists in the wufnmatch function in wufnmatch.c. When a pattern...

enscript -- multiple vulnerabilities

Erik Sjölund discovered several issues in enscript: it suffers from several buffer overflows, quotes and shell escape characters are insufficiently sanitized in filenames, and it supported taking input from an arbitrary command pipe, with unwanted side effects...

mod_python -- information leakage vulnerability

Mark J Cox reports: Graham Dumpleton discovered a flaw which can affect anyone using the publisher handle of the Apache Software Foundation modpython. The publisher handle lets you publish objects inside modules to make them callable via URL. The flaw allows a carefully crafted URL to obtain extr...

zhcon -- unauthorized file access

Martin Joey Schulze reports: Erik Sjöund discovered that zhcon, a fast console CJK system using the Linux framebuffer, accesses a user-controlled configuration file with elevated privileges. Thus, it is possible to read arbitrary files. When installed from the FreeBSD Ports Collection, zhcon is...

kdelibs -- insecure temporary file creation

Davide Madrisan reports: The dcopidlng' script in the KDE library package kdelibs-3.3.2/dcop/dcopidlng/dcopidlng creates temporary files in a unsecure manner. Note: dcopidlng is only used at build time, so only users installing KDE are vulnerable, not users already running KDE...

mpg123 -- playlist processing buffer overflow vulnerability

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the playlist processing of mpg123. A specially crafted playlist entry can cause a stack overflow that can be used to inject arbitrary code into the mpg123 process. Note that a malicious playlist, demonstrating this vulnerability, was released by the bug...

cscope -- buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Jason Duell reports: Cscope contains an alarming number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities. By a rough count, there are at least 48 places where we blindly sprintf a file name into a fixed-length buffer of size PATHLEN without checking to see if the file's name is = PATHLEN. We do similar things...

egroupware -- arbitrary file download in JiNN

eGroupWare contains a bug in the JiNN component that allows a remote attacker to download arbitrary files...

ecartis -- unauthorised access to admin interface

A Debian security advisory reports: A problem has been discovered in ecartis, a mailing-list manager, which allows an attacker in the same domain as the list admin to gain administrator privileges and alter list settings...

groff -- groffer uses temporary files unsafely

The groffer script in the groff package 1.18 and later versions allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

getmail -- symlink vulnerability during maildir delivery

David Watson reports a symlink vulnerability in getmail. If run as root not the recommended mode of operation, a local user may be able to cause getmail to write files in arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on subdirectories of the maildir...