rubygem-ruby_parser -- insecure tmp file usage

Michael Scherer reports: This is a relatively minor tmp file usage issue...

dbus-glib -- privledge escalation

Sebastian Krahmer reports: A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way dbus-glib, the D-Bus add-on library to integrate the standard D-Bus library with the GLib thread abstraction and main loop, performed filtering of the message sender message source subject, when the NameOwnerChanged signa...

tinc -- Buffer overflow

tinc-vpn.org reports: Drop packets forwarded via TCP if they are too big...

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...

kdeutils4 -- Directory traversal vulnerability

Tim Brown from Nth Dimention reports: I recently discovered that the Ark archiving tool is vulnerable to directory traversal via malformed. When attempts are made to view files within the malformed Zip file in Ark's default view, the wrong file may be displayed due to incorrect construction of th...

PHP -- crypt() returns only the salt for MD5

PHP development team reports: If crypt is executed with MD5 salts, the return value consists of the salt only. DES and BLOWFISH salts work as expected...

OpenTTD -- Buffer overflows in savegame loading

The OpenTTD Team reports: Multiple buffer overflows in OpenTTD before 1.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to 1 NAME, 2 PLYR, 3 CHTS, or 4 AIPL aka AI config chunk loading from a savegame...

linux-flashplugin -- remote code execution vulnerability

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.33 and earlier versions Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.18 and earlier for Chrome users for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, Adobe Flash Player 10.1.106.16 and...

lftp -- multiple HTTP client download filename vulnerability

The get1 command, as used by lftpget, in LFTP before 4.0.6 does not properly validate a server-provided filename before determining the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a Content-Disposition header that suggests a crafted...

sudo -- Secure path vulnerability

Todd Miller reports: Most versions of the C library function getenv return the first instance of an environment variable to the caller. However, some programs, notably the GNU Bourne Again SHell bash, do their own environment parsing and may choose the last instance of a variable rather than the...

mDNSResponder -- corrupted stack crash when parsing bad resolv.conf

Juli Mallett reports: mdnsd will crash on some systems with a corrupt stack and once that's fixed it will still leak a file descriptor when parsing resolv.conf. The crash is because scanf is used with %10s for a buffer that is only 10 chars long. The buffer size needs increased to 11 chars to hol...

ziproxy -- atypical huge picture files vulnerability

Ziproxy 3.0.1 release fixes a security vulnerability related to atypical huge picture files 4GB of size once expanded...

mediawiki -- authenticated CSRF vulnerability

A MediaWiki security announcement reports: MediaWiki was found to be vulnerable to login CSRF. An attacker who controls a user account on the target wiki can force the victim to log in as the attacker, via a script on an external website. If the wiki is configured to allow user scripts, say with...

Zend Framework -- security issues in bundled Dojo library

The Zend Framework team reports: Several files in the bundled Dojo library were identified as having potential exploits, and the Dojo team also advised disabling or removing any PHP scripts in the Dojo library tree when deploying to production...

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...

subversion -- heap overflow vulnerability

A Subversion Security Advisory reports: Subversion clients and servers have multiple heap overflow issues in the parsing of binary deltas. This is related to an allocation vulnerability in the APR library used by Subversion. Clients with commit access to a vulnerable server can cause a remote hea...

slim -- local disclosure of X authority magic cookie

Secunia reports: A security issue has been reported in SLiM, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information. The security issue is caused due to the application generating the X authority file by passing the X authority cookie via the command line to "xauth"...

mod_perl -- cross-site scripting

Secunia reports: Certain input passed to the "Apache::Status" and "Apache2::Status" modules 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 website...

squid -- remote denial of service vulnerability

Squid security advisory 2009:1 reports: Due to an internal error Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests. This problem allows any client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service...

mgetty+sendfax -- symlink attack via insecure temporary files

Debian reports: Faxspool in mgetty 1.1.36 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/faxsp. temporary file...

geeklog xss vulnerability

Geeklog reports: MustLive pointed out a possible XSS in the form to email an article to a friend that we're fixing with this release. Please note that this problem only exists in Geeklog 1.4.0 - neither Geeklog 1.4.1 nor any older versions 1.3.x series have that problem...

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,...

fsplib -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: fsplib can be exploited to compromise an application using the library. A boundary error exists in the processing of file names in fspreaddirnative, which can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow if the defined MAXNAMLEN is bigger than 256. A boundary...

flac123 -- stack overflow in comment parsing

isecpartners reports: flac123, also known as flac-tools, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in vorbis comment parsing. This allows for the execution of arbitrary code...

wordpress -- unmoderated comments disclosure

Blogsecurity reports: An attacker can read comments on posts that have not been moderated. This can be a real security risk if blog admins are using unmoderated comments comments that have not been made public to hide sensitive notes regarding posts, future work, passwords etc. So please be caref...

trac -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "download wiki page as text" function, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. Successful exploitation may require that the victim uses IE...

xmms -- Integer Overflow And Underflow Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in XMMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1 An integer underflow error exists in the processing of skin bitmap images. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via...

mono -- "System.CodeDom.Compiler" Insecure Temporary Creation

Sebastian Krahmer reports: Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE security team discovered that the System.CodeDom.Compiler classes used temporary files in an insecure way. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

drupal -- XSS vulnerability

The Drupal project reports: A malicious user can execute a cross site scripting attack by enticing someone to visit a Drupal site via a specially crafted link...

dokuwiki -- spellchecker remote PHP code execution

Stefan Esser reports: During the evaluation of DokuWiki for a german/korean wiki of mine a flaw in DokuWiki's spellchecker was discovered, that allows injecting arbitrary PHP commands, by requesting a spellcheck on PHP commands in 'complex curly syntax'. Because the spellchecker is written as par...

phpmyadmin -- XSRF vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin security team reports: It was possible to inject arbitrary SQL commands by forcing an authenticated user to follow a crafted link. Such issue is quite common in many PHP applications and users should take care what links they follow. We consider these vulnerabilities to be quite...

zgv, xzgv -- heap overflow vulnerability

Gentoo reports: Andrea Barisani of Gentoo Linux discovered xzgv and zgv allocate insufficient memory when rendering images with more than 3 output components, such as images using the YCCK or CMYK colour space. When xzgv or zgv attempt to render the image, data from the image overruns a heap...

coppermine -- "file" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

Secunia reports: Coppermine Photo Gallery have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. Input passed to the "file" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary...

openvpn -- LD_PRELOAD code execution on client through malicious or compromised server

Hendrik Weimer reports: OpenVPN clients are a bit too generous when accepting configuration options from a server. It is possible to transmit environment variables to client-side shell scripts. There are some filters in place to prevent obvious nonsense, however they don't catch the good old...

linux-realplayer -- buffer overrun

Secunia Advisories Reports: A boundary error when processing SWF files can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. This may allow execution of arbitrary code on the user's system...

jabberd -- SASL Negotiation Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in jabberd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of SASL negotiation. This can be exploited to cause a crash by sending a "response" stanza...

nfs -- remote denial of service

Problem description: A part of the NFS server code charged with handling incoming RPC messages via TCP had an error which, when the server received a message with a zero-length payload, would cause a NULL pointer dereference which results in a kernel panic. The kernel will only process the RPC...

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...

phpicalendar -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Francesco Ongaro reports that phpicalendar is vulnerable for a cross site scripting attack. The vulnerability is caused by improper validation of the index.php file allowing attackers to include an arbitrary file with the .php extension...

vim -- vulnerabilities in modeline handling: glob, expand

Georgi Guninski discovered a way to construct Vim modelines that execute arbitrary shell commands. The vulnerability can be exploited by including shell commands in modelines that call the glob or expand functions. An attacker could trick an user to read or edit a trojaned file with modelines...

clamav -- multiple remote buffer overflows

An Secunia Advisory reports: Neel Mehta and Alex Wheeler have reported some vulnerabilities in Clam AntiVirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or compromise a vulnerable system. Two integer overflow errors in "libclamav/tnef.c" when processing TNEF file...

phppgadmin -- "formLanguage" local file inclusion vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: A vulnerability has been reported in phpPgAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. Input passed to the "formLanguage" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited...

egroupware -- multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection vulnerabilities

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in eGroupware before 1.0.0.007 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 abid, 2 page, 3 type, or 4 lang parameter to index.php or 5 categoryid parameter. Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in index.php in...

libexif -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Sylvain Defresne reports that libexif is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient input checking. This could lead crash of applications using libexif...

typespeed -- arbitrary code execution

Debian reports: Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in typespeed, a touch-typist trainer disguised as game. This could lead to a local attacker executing arbitrary code...

bugzilla -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

A Bugzilla advisory states: This advisory covers a single cross-site scripting issue that has recently been discovered and fixed in the Bugzilla code: If a malicious user links to a Bugzilla site using a specially crafted URL, a script in the error page generated by Bugzilla will display the URL...

putty -- buffer overflow vulnerability in ssh2 support

There is a bug in SSH2 support that allows a server to execute malicious code on a connecting PuTTY client. This attack can be performed before host key verification happens, so a different machine -- man in the middle attack -- could fake the machine you are connecting to...

xtrlock -- X display locking bypass

The X display locking program xtrlock contains an integer overflow bug. It is possible for an attacker with physical access to the system to bypass the display lock...

cyrus-sasl -- potential buffer overflow in DIGEST-MD5 plugin

The Cyrus SASL DIGEST-MD5 plugin contains a potential buffer overflow when quoting is required in the output...

bmon -- unsafe set-user-ID application

Jon Nistor reported that the FreeBSD port of bmon was installed set-user-ID root, and executes commands using relative paths. This could allow local user to easily obtain root privileges...