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...

bugzilla -- Cross-Site Request Forgery

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The login form had no CSRF protection, meaning that an attacker could force the victim to log in using the attacker's credentials. If the victim then reports a new security sensitive bug, the attacker would get immediate access to this bug. Due to changes...

zabbix -- shell command injection vulnerability

Recurity Labs Team project reports: Zabbix agent is vulnerable to remote command execution from the Zabbix server in some cases...

FreeBSD -- Cross-mount links between nullfs(5) mounts

Problem Description: The nullfs5 implementation of the VOPLINK9 VFS operation does not check whether the source and target of the link are both in the same nullfs instance. It is therefore possible to create a hardlink from a location in one nullfs instance to a file in another, as long as the...

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...

mozilla -- use-after-free in HTML Editor

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

typo3 -- Multiple vulnerabilities in TYPO3 Core

Typo Security Team reports: TYPO3 Backend History Module - Due to missing encoding of user input, the history module is susceptible to SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting. A valid backend login is required to exploit this vulnerability. Credits go to Thomas Worm who discovered and reported the...

phpMyAdmin -- Multiple XSS due to unescaped HTML output in Trigger, Procedure and Event pages and Fetching the version information from a non-SSL site is vulnerable to a MITM attack

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: When creating/modifying a trigger, event or procedure with a crafted name, it is possible to trigger an XSS. To display information about the current phpMyAdmin version on the main page, a piece of JavaScript is fetched from the phpmyadmin.net website in...

GNU gatekeeper -- denial of service

Jan Willamowius reports: GNU Gatekeeper before 3.1 does not limit the number of connections to the status port, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection and thread consumption via a large number of connections...

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...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Unauthorized Access Due to a lack of proper validation of the X-FORWARDED-FOR header of an authentication request, an attacker could bypass the current lockout policy used for protection against...

isc-dhcp-server -- Remote DoS

ISC reports: A bug exists which allows an attacker who is able to send DHCP Request packets, either directly or through a relay, to remotely crash an ISC DHCP server if that server is configured to evaluate expressions using a regular expression i.e. uses the "=" or "" comparison operators...

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"...

gnutls -- client session resumption vulnerability

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

mod_perl2 -- execute arbitrary Perl code

modperl2 2.0.11 fixes Arbitrary Perl code execution in the context of the user account via a user-owned .htaccess. modperl 2.0 through 2.0.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code by placing it in a user-owned .htaccess file, because contrary to the documentation there is no configurati...

dovecot -- denial of service vulnerability

Timo Sirainen reports: Fixed potential crashes and other problems when parsing header names that contained NUL characters...

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...

redmine -- XSS vulnerability

Jean-Philippe Lang reports: This maintenance release for 1.1.x users includes 13 bug fixes since 1.1.1 and a security fix XSS vulnerability affecting all Redmine versions from 1.0.1 to 1.1.1...

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...

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...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal Team reports: A user-supplied value is directly output during installation allowing a malicious user to craft a URL and perform a cross-site scripting attack. The exploit can only be conducted on sites not yet installed. The API function drupalgoto is susceptible to a phishing attack. An...

irc-ratbox -- multiple vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus reports: The first affects the /quote HELP module and allows a user to trigger an IRCD crash on some platforms. The second affects the /links processing module when the flattenlinks configuration option is not enabled...

rt -- Session fixation vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in RT, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct session fixation attacks. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of sessions and can be exploited to hijack another user's session by tricking the user into logging...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

secunia reports: The security issue is caused due to the wpcheckfiletype function in /wp-includes/functions.php improperly validating uploaded files. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a malicious PHP script with multiple extensions. Successful exploitation of this...

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...

phpmyadmin -- XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin Team reports: Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted MySQL table name. SQL injection vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject SQL via various interface parameters of the PDF schema generator feature...

apache -- Prevent chunk-size integer overflow on platforms where sizeof(int) < sizeof(long)

Apache ChangeLog reports: Integer overflow in the approxysendfb function in proxy/proxyutil.c in modproxy in the Apache HTTP Server before 1.3.42 on 64-bit platforms allows remote origin servers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large chunk size th...

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...

phplist -- local file inclusion vulnerability

Secunia reports: Input passed to the "SERVERConfigFile" parameter in admin/index.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources...

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...

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...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Project reports: On a server configured for IP-based virtual hosts, Drupal may be caused to include and execute specifically named files outside of its root directory. This bug affects both Drupal 5 and Drupal 6. The title of book pages is not always properly escaped, enabling users wi...

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...

ikiwiki -- empty password security hole

The ikiwiki development team reports: This hole allowed ikiwiki to accept logins using empty passwords to openid accounts that didn't use a password. Upgrading to a non-vulnerable ikiwiki version immediatly is recommended if your wiki allows both password and openid logins...

clamav -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in ClamAV, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or to compromise a vulnerable system. 1 A boundary error exists within the "cliscanpe" function in libclamav/pe.c. This can be exploited to cause a...

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...

drupal -- SQL injection vulnerability

The Drupal Project reports: The function taxonomyselectnodes directly injects variables into SQL queries instead of using placeholders. While taxonomy module itself validates the input passed to taxonomyselectnodes, this is a weakness in Drupal core. Several contributed modules, such as...

wordpress -- cross-site scripting

A Secunia Advisory report: Input passed to the "postscolumns" parameter in wp-admin/edit-post-rows.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site...

mediawiki -- cross site scripting vulnerability

The MediaWiki development team reports: A possible HTML/XSS injection vector in the API pretty-printing mode has been found and fixed. The vulnerability may be worked around in an unfixed version by simply disabling the API interface if it is not in use, by adding this to LocalSettings.php:...

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...

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...

MT -- Search Unspecified XSS

Secunia reports: Arai has reported a vulnerability in Movable Type and Movable Type Enterprise, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Some unspecified input passed via the search functionality isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user...

globus -- Multiple tmpfile races

The Globus Alliance reports: The proxy generation tool grid-proxy-init creates the file, secures the file to provide access only to owner and writes proxy to the file. A race condition exists between the opening of the proxy credentials file, and making sure it is safe file to write to. The check...

libwmf -- integer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: infamous41md has reported a vulnerability in libwmf, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the vulnerable library. The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error when allocating memory based on a value taken direct...

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...

horde -- remote code execution vulnerability in the help viewer

Horde 3.1.1 release announcement: Major changes compared to Horde 3.1 are: Fix for remote code execution vulnerability in the help viewer, discovered by Jan Schneider from the Horde team...

ipsec -- reply attack vulnerability

Problem Description IPsec provides an anti-replay service which when enabled prevents an attacker from successfully executing a replay attack. This is done through the verification of sequence numbers. A programming error in the fastipsec4 implementation results in the sequence number associated...