chicken -- multiple vulnerabilities

CHICKEN reports: CVE-2017-6949: Unchecked malloc call in SRFI-4 constructors when allocating in non-GC memory, resulting in potential 1-word buffer overrun and/or segfault CVE-2017-9334: "length" crashes on improper lists CVE-2017-11343: The randomization factor of the symbol table was set before...

flash -- remote code execution

Adobe reports: Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. These updates address a critical vulnerability that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for...

eog -- out-of-bounds write

Felix Riemann reports: CVE-2016-6855 out-of-bounds write in eog 3.10.2...

collectd -- Network plugin heap overflow

The collectd Project reports: Emilien Gaspar has identified a heap overflow in collectd's network plugin which can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable...

p7zip -- out-of-bounds read vulnerability

Cisco Talos reports: An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the way 7-Zip handles Universal Disk Format UDF files. Central to 7-Zip’s processing of UDF files is the CInArchive::ReadFileItem method. Because volumes can have more than one partition map, their objects are kept in an object...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: A response containing multiple DNS cookies causes servers with cookie support enabled to exit with an assertion failure...

django -- regression in permissions model

Tim Graham reports: User with "change" but not "add" permission can create objects for ModelAdmin’s with saveas=True...

dpkg -- stack-based buffer overflow

Salvatore Bonaccorso reports: Hanno Boeck discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the dpkg-deb component of dpkg, the Debian package management system. This flaw could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution if a user or an automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafte...

gnutls -- double free in certificate DN decoding

gnutls.org reports: Kurt Roeckx reported that decoding a specific certificate with very long DistinguishedName DN entries leads to double free, which may result to a denial of service. Since the DN decoding occurs in almost all applications using certificates it is recommended to upgrade the late...

inspircd -- DoS

Inspircd reports: This release fixes the issues discovered since 2.0.18, containing multiple important stability and correctness related improvements, including a fix for a bug which allowed malformed DNS records to cause netsplits on a network...

ha -- Directory traversals

Alexander Cherepanov reports: Version 0.999b and older of ha archiver is susceptible to directory traversal vulnerabilities via absolute and relative paths...

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...

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...

Joomla! -- Core - XSS Vulnerability

The JSST and the Joomla! Security Center report: 20140901 - Core - XSS Vulnerability Inadequate escaping leads to XSS vulnerability in commedia...

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...

pivotx -- Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities

Pivotx reports: Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in fileupload.php in PivotX before 2.3.9 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a file with a 1 .php or 2 .php extension, and then accessing it via unspecified vectors...

Quassel IRC -- SQL injection vulnerability

Quassel IRC developers report: SQL injection vulnerability in Quassel IRC before 0.9.1, when Qt 4.8.5 or later and PostgreSQL 8.2 or later are used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a \ backslash in a message...

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...

FreeBSD -- Kernel memory disclosure in sctp(4)

Problem Description: When initializing the SCTP state cookie being sent in INIT-ACK chunks, a buffer allocated from the kernel stack is not completely initialized. Impact: Fragments of kernel memory may be included in SCTP packets and transmitted over the network. For each SCTP session, there are...

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...

telepathy-gabble -- TLS verification bypass

Simon McVittie reports: This release fixes a man-in-the-middle attack. If you use an unencrypted connection to a "legacy Jabber" pre-XMPP server, this version of Gabble will not connect until you make one of these configuration changes: . upgrade the server software to something that supports XMP...

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...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Crashes due to large stack allocations when using TCP Denial of Service Through Exploitation of Device State Caching...

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...

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 ...

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...

maradns -- denial of service when resolving a long DNS hostname

MaraDNS developer Sam Trenholme reports: ... a mistake in allocating an array of integers, allocating it in bytes instead of sizeofint units. This resulted in a buffer being too small, allowing it to be overwritten. The impact of this programming error is that MaraDNS can be crashed by sending...

firefox -- Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2010-48 Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix...

kvirc -- multiple vulnerabilities

Two security vulnerabilities have been discovered: Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the DCC functionality in KVIrc 3.4 and 4.0 have unspecified impact and remote attack vectors. Directory traversal vulnerability in the DCC functionality in KVIrc 3.4 and 4.0 allows remote attackers to...

awstats -- arbitrary commands execution vulnerability

Awstats change log reports: Security fix Traverse directory of LoadPlugin Security fix Limit config to defined directory to avoid access to external config file via a nfs or webdav link...

joomla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Joomla! reported the following vulnerabilities: If a user entered a URL with a negative query limit or offset, a PHP notice would display revealing information about the system.. The migration script in the Joomla! installer does not check the file type being uploaded. If the installation...

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...

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...

powerdns-recursor -- multiple vulnerabilities

PowerDNS Security Advisory reports: PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 3.1.7.1 can be brought down and probably exploited. PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 3.1.7.1 can be spoofed into accepting bogus data...

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...

pidgin -- MSN overflow parsing SLP messages

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "msnslplinkprocessmsg" function when processing MSN SLP messages and can be exploited to corrupt...

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...

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...

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...

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...

FreeBSD -- Remote kernel panics on IPv6 connections

Problem Description: In case of an incoming ICMPv6 'Packet Too Big Message', there is an insufficient check on the proposed new MTU for a path to the destination. Impact: When the kernel is configured to process IPv6 packets and has active IPv6 TCP sockets, a specifically crafted ICMPv6 'Packet T...

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...

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...

ikiwiki -- improper symlink verification vulnerability

The ikiwiki development team reports: Ikiwiki did not check if path to the srcdir to contained a symlink. If an attacker had commit access to the directories in the path, they could change it to a symlink, causing ikiwiki to read and publish files that were not intended to be published. But not...

liveMedia -- DoS vulnerability

The live555 development team reports: Fixed a bounds-checking error in "parseRTSPRequestString" caused by an int vs. unsigned problem. The function which handles the incoming queries from the clients is affected by a vulnerability which allows an attacker to crash the server remotely using the...

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,...

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...

wordpress -- remote sql injection vulnerability

Alexander Concha reports: While testing WordPress, it has been discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability that allows an attacker to retrieve remotely any user credentials from a vulnerable site, this bug is caused because of early database escaping and the lack of validation in query string like...

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...

mplayer -- cddb stack overflow

Mplayer Team reports: A stack overflow was found in the code used to handle cddb queries. When copying the album title and category, no checking was performed on the size of the strings before storing them in a fixed-size array. A malicious entry in the database could trigger a stack overflow in...