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dnsmasq -- data exposure and denial of service
Nick Sampanis reported a potential memory exposure and denial of service vulnerability against dnsmasq 2.72. The CVE entry summarizes this as: The tcprequest function in Dnsmasq before 2.73rc4 does not properly handle the return value of the setupreply function, which allows remote attackers to...
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...
p7zip -- directory traversal vulnerability
Alexander Cherepanov reports: 7z and 7zr is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further entries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside the current directo...
OpenVPN -- denial of service security vulnerability
The OpenVPN project reports: In late November 2014 Dragana Damjanovic notified OpenVPN developers of a critical denial of service security vulnerability CVE-2014-8104. The vulnerability allows an tls-authenticated client to crash the server by sending a too-short control channel packet to 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...
FreeBSD -- Incorrect error handling in PAM policy parser
Problem Description: The OpenPAM library searches for policy definitions in several locations. While doing so, the absence of a policy file is a soft failure handled by searching in the next location while the presence of an invalid file is a hard failure handled by returning an error to the...
FreeBSD -- Insufficient credential checks in network ioctl(2)
Problem Description: As is commonly the case, the IPv6 and ATM network layer ioctl request handlers are written in such a way that an unrecognized request is passed on unmodified to the link layer, which will either handle it or return an error code. Network interface drivers, however, assume tha...
asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities
The Asterisk project reports: Remote Crash From Late Arriving SIP ACK With SDP Remote Crash when Invalid SDP is sent in SIP Request...
chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities
Google Chrome Releases reports: 25 security fixes in this release, including: 181617 High CVE-2013-2900: Incomplete path sanitization in file handling. Credit to Krystian Bigaj. 254159 Low CVE-2013-2905: Information leak via overly broad permissions on shared memory files. Credit to Christian...
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...
tinc -- Buffer overflow
tinc-vpn.org reports: Drop packets forwarded via TCP if they are too big...
asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities
Asterisk project reports: Crashes due to large stack allocations when using TCP Denial of Service Through Exploitation of Device State Caching...
chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities
Google Chrome Releases reports: 136643 137721 137957 High CVE-2012-2862: Use-after-free in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team. 136968 137361 High CVE-2012-2863: Out-of-bounds writes in PDF viewer. Credit to...
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...
isc-dhcp-server -- DoS in DHCPv6
ISC reports: Due to improper handling of a DHCPv6 lease structure, ISC DHCP servers that are serving IPv6 address pools AND using Dynamic DNS can encounter a segmentation fault error while updating lease status under certain conditions. The potential exists for this condition to be intentionally...
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"...
dovecot -- denial of service vulnerability
Timo Sirainen reports: Fixed potential crashes and other problems when parsing header names that contained NUL characters...
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...
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...
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...
p5-libwww -- possibility to remote servers to create file with a .(dot) character
lwp-download in libwww-perl before 5.835 does not reject downloads to filenames that begin with a .' dot character, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename or a Content-Disposition header that suggests a crafted filename, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
optipng -- arbitrary code execution via crafted BMP image
Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in OptiPNG, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the BMP reader and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by tricking a user into...
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...
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...
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...
opera -- multiple vulnerabilities
Opera Software ASA reports about multiple security fixes: Fixed an issue where plug-ins could be used to allow cross domain scripting, as reported by David Bloom. Details will be disclosed at a later date. Fixed an issue with TLS certificates that could be used to execute arbitrary code, as...
claws-mail -- POP3 Format String Vulnerability
A Secunia Advisory reports: A format string error in the "incputerror" function in src/inc.c when displaying a POP3 server's error response can be exploited via specially crafted POP3 server replies containing format specifiers. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but...
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...
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...
clamav -- Multipart Nestings Denial of Service
Secunia reports: Clam AntiVirus have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to a stack overflow when scanning messages with deeply nested multipart content. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending...
horde -- various problems in dereferrer
Horde 3.1.2 release announcement: Security Fixes: Closed XSS problems in dereferrer IE only, help viewer and problem reporting screen. Removed unused image proxy code from dereferrer...
sendmail -- Incorrect multipart message handling
Problem Description A suitably malformed multipart MIME message can cause sendmail to exceed predefined limits on its stack usage. Impact An attacker able to send mail to, or via, a server can cause queued messages on the system to not be delivered, by causing the sendmail process which handles...
firefox -- denial of service vulnerability
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports for deleted object reference when designMode="on" Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott each described crashes that were discovered to ultimately stem from the same root cause: attempting to use a deleted controller context when designMode was turned on. Thi...
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...
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...
kpdf -- heap based buffer overflow
The KDE team reports: kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains a heap based buffer overflow in the splash rasterizer engine that can crash kpdf or even execute arbitrary code...
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...
fetchmail -- crash when bouncing a message
Matthias Andree reports: Fetchmail contains a bug that causes itself to crash when bouncing a message to the originator or to the local postmaster. The crash happens after the bounce message has been sent, when fetchmail tries to free the dynamic array of failed addresses, and calls the free...