proxychains-ng -- current path as the first directory for the library search path

Mamoru TASAKA reports: proxychains4 sets LDPRELOAD to dlopen libproxychains4.so and execvp the arbitrary command user has specified. proxychains4 sets the current directory as the first path to search libproxychains4.so...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

Gary Pendergast reports: WordPress 4.1.2 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.1.1 and earlier are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could...

FreeBSD -- Insecure default GELI keyfile permissions

Problem Description: The default permission set by bsdinstall8 installer when configuring full disk encrypted ZFS is too open. Impact: A local attacker may be able to get a copy of the geli8 provider's keyfile which is located at a fixed location...

freexl -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jodie Cunningham reports: 1: A flaw was found in the way FreeXL reads sectors from the input file. A specially crafted file could possibly result in stack corruption near freexl.c:3752. 2: A flaw was found in the function allocatecells. A specially crafted file with invalid workbook dimensions...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA-2015-28 Privilege escalation through SVG navigation MFSA-2015-29 Code execution through incorrect JavaScript bounds checking elimination...

cassandra3 -- jBCrypt integer overflow

mindrot project reports: There is an integer overflow that occurs with very large logrounds values, first reported by Marcus Rathsfeld...

websvn -- information disclosure

Thijs Kinkhorst reports: James Clawson reported: "Arbitrary files with a known path can be accessed in websvn by committing a symlink to a repository and then downloading the file using the download link. An attacker must have write access to the repo, and the download option must have been enabl...

polarssl -- Remote attack using crafted certificates

PolarSSL team reports: During the parsing of a ASN.1 sequence, a pointer in the linked list of asn1sequence is not initialized by asn1getsequenceof. In case an error occurs during parsing of the list, a situation is created where the uninitialized pointer is passed to polarsslfree. This sequence...

libzmq4 -- V3 protocol handler vulnerable to downgrade attacks

Pieter Hintjens reports: It is easy to bypass the security mechanism in 4.1.0 and 4.0.5 by sending a ZMTP v2 or earlier header. The library accepts such connections without applying its security mechanism...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: With a crafted ENUM value it is possible to trigger an XSS in table search and table structure pages. This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who is logged in to phpMyAdmin, as the usual token protection prevents non-logged-in users from...

NSS -- RSA Signature Forgery

The Mozilla Project reports: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud discovered that NSS is vulnerable to a variant of a signature forgery attack previously published by Daniel Bleichenbacher. This is due to lenient parsing of ASN.1 values involved in a signature and could lead to the forging of RSA certificates...

trafficserver -- unspecified vulnerability

Bryan Call reports: Below is our announcement for the security issue reported to us from Yahoo! Japan. All versions of Apache Traffic Server are vulnerable. We urge users to upgrade to either 4.2.1.1 or 5.0.1 immediately. This fixes CVE-2014-3525 and limits access to how the health checks are...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Asterisk project reports: Asterisk Manager User Unauthorized Shell Access. Manager users can execute arbitrary shell commands with the MixMonitor manager action. Asterisk does not require system class authorization for a manager user to use the MixMonitor action, so any manager user who is...

subversion -- multiple vulnerabilities

Subversion Project reports: moddontdothat does not restrict requests from serf based clients moddontdothat allows you to block update REPORT requests against certain paths in the repository. It expects the paths in the REPORT request to be absolute URLs. Serf based clients send relative URLs...

mod_pagespeed -- critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

modpagespeed developers report: Various versions of modpagespeed are subject to critical cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability, CVE-2013-6111. This permits a hostile third party to execute JavaScript in users' browsers in context of the domain running modpagespeed, which could permit theft of...

nas -- multiple vulnerabilities

Hamid Zamani reports: multiple security problems buffer overflows, format string vulnerabilities and missing input sanitising, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code...

OpenVPN -- potential side-channel/timing attack when comparing HMACs

The OpenVPN project reports: OpenVPN 2.3.0 and earlier running in UDP mode are subject to chosen ciphertext injection due to a non-constant-time HMAC comparison function...

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...

dns/bind9* -- crash on deliberately constructed combination of records

ISC reports: A deliberately constructed combination of records could cause named to hang while populating the additional section of a response...

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...

Calligra, KOffice -- input validation failure

KDE Security Advisory reports: A flaw has been found which can allow malicious code to take advantage of an input validation failure in the Microsoft import filter in Calligra and KOffice. Exploitation can allow the attacker to gain control of the running process and execute code on its behalf...

libexif -- multiple remote vulnerabilities

libexif project security advisory: A number of remotely exploitable issues were discovered in libexif and exif, with effects ranging from information leakage to potential remote code execution...

automake -- Insecure 'distcheck' recipe granted world-writable distdir

GNU reports: The recipe of the 'distcheck' target granted temporary world-write permissions on the extracted distdir. This introduced a locally exploitable race condition for those who run "make distcheck" with a non-restrictive umask e.g., 022 in a directory that was accessible by others. A...

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...

PuTTY -- Password vulnerability

Simon Tatham reports: PuTTY 0.62 fixes a security issue present in 0.59, 0.60 and 0.61. If you log in using SSH-2 keyboard-interactive authentication which is the usual method used by modern servers to request a password, the password you type was accidentally kept in PuTTY's memory for the rest ...

Subversion -- multiple vulnerabilities

Subversion team reports: Subversion's moddavsvn Apache HTTPD server module will dereference a NULL pointer if asked to deliver baselined WebDAV resources. This can lead to a DoS. An exploit has been tested, and tools or users have been observed triggering this problem in the wild. Subversion's...

xrdb -- root hole via rogue hostname

Matthias Hopf reports: By crafting hostnames with shell escape characters, arbitrary commands can be executed in a root environment when a display manager reads in the resource database via xrdb. These specially crafted hostnames can occur in two environments: Systems are affected are: systems se...

Axis2 -- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Apache Axis2 reports: Apache Axis2 1.7.3 is a security release that contains a fix for CVE-2010-3981. That security vulnerability affects the admin console that is part of the Axis2 Web application and was originally reported for SAP BusinessObjects which includes a version of Axis2. That report...

isolate -- local root exploit

Isolate currently suffers from some bad security bugs! These are local root privilege escalation bugs. Thanks to the helpful person who reported them email Chris if you want credit!. We're working to fix them ASAP, but until then, isolate is unsafe and you should uninstall it. Sorry!...

quagga -- two DoS vulnerabilities

Quagga developers report: Quagga 0.99.18 has been released. This release fixes 2 denial of services in bgpd, which can be remotely triggered by malformed AS-Pathlimit or Extended-Community attributes. These issues have been assigned CVE-2010-1674 and CVE-2010-1675. Support for AS-Pathlimit has be...

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...

fetchmail -- heap overflow on verbose X.509 display

Matthias Andree reports: In verbose mode, fetchmail prints X.509 certificate subject and issuer information to the user, and counts and allocates a malloc buffer for that purpose. If the material to be displayed contains characters with high bit set and the platform treats the "char" type as...

FreeBSD -- ZFS ZIL playback with insecure permissions

Problem Description: When replaying setattr transaction, the replay code would set the attributes with certain insecure defaults, when the logged transaction did not touch these attributes...

dovecot -- Insecure directory permissions

Dovecot author reports: Dovecot v1.2.x had been creating basedir and its parents if necessary with 0777 permissions. The basedir's permissions get changed to 0755 automatically at startup, but you may need to chmod the parent directories manually...

expat2 -- buffer over-read and crash

CVE reports: The big2toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related t...

phpmyadmin -- XSS vulnerability

The phpMyAdmin project reports: It was possible to conduct an XSS attack via a crafted SQL bookmark. All 3.x releases on which the "bookmarks" feature is active are affected, previous versions are not...

git -- denial of service vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: Git is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to properly handle some client requests. Attackers can exploit this issue to cause a daemon process to enter an infinite loop. Repeated exploits may consume excessive system resources, resulting in a denial ...

ejabberd -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: The ejabberd application is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site and to steal cookie-based authentication credentials...

ampache -- insecure temporary file usage

Secunia reports: A security issue has been reported in Ampache, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. The security issue is caused due to the "gather-messages.sh" script handling temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be...

netatalk -- arbitrary command execution in papd daemon

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Netatalk, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to the papd daemon improperly sanitising several received parameters before passing them in a call to popen. Thi...

mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

The MediaWiki development team reports: Certain unspecified input 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. Certain unspecified input related to uploads i...

powerdns-recursor -- DNS cache poisoning

If the system random number generator can be predicted by its past output, then an attacker may spoof Recursor to accept mallicious data. This leads to DNS cache poisoning and client redirection...

gftp -- multiple vulnerabilities

Gentoo reports: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo discovered two boundary errors in fsplib code included in gFTP when processing overly long directory or file names. A remote attacker could trigger these vulnerabilities by enticing a user to download a file with a specially crafted directory or file name,...

irc/bitchx -- multiple vulnerabilities

bannedit reports: Stack-based buffer overflow in BitchX 1.1 Final allows remote IRC servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a MODE command, related to the pmode variable. Nico Golde reports: There is a security issue in ircii-pana in bitchx' hostname command. The ehostname function...

c-ares -- DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to predictable DNS "Transaction ID" field in DNS queries and can be exploited to poison the DNS cache of an application using the library if a valid ID is guessed...

libvorbis -- Multiple memory corruption flaws

isecpartners reports: libvorbis contains several vulnerabilities allowing heap overwrite, read violations and a function pointer overwrite. These bugs cause a at least a denial of service, and potentially code execution...

webmin -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Secunia reports: Input passed to unspecified parameters in pamlogin.cgi 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...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- arbitrary root code execution vulnerability

Rapid7 reports: The NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root. This bug can be exploited both locally or remotely via a remote X client or an X client which visits a malicious web page. A working proof-of-conce...

drupal-pubcookie -- authentication may be bypassed

The Drupal Project reports: It is possible for a malicious user to spoof a user's identity by bypassing the login redirection mechanism in the pubcookie module. The malicious user may gain the privileges of the user they are spoofing, including the administrative user...