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...

mupdf -- Remote System Access

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "closedctd" function in fitz/filtdctd.c when processing PDF files containing certain malformed JPEG images. This can be exploited to cause a stack corruption by e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF file...

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!...

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...

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...

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...

gnome-screensaver -- Multiple monitor hotplug issues

Ray Strode reports: Under certain circumstances it is possible to circumvent the security of screen locking functionality of gnome-screensaver by changing the systems physical monitor configuration. gnome-screensaver can lose its keyboard grab when locked, exposing the system to intrusion by addi...

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...

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"...

drupal -- cross-site scripting

The Drupal Security Team reports: When outputting user-supplied data Drupal strips potentially dangerous HTML attributes and tags or escapes characters which have a special meaning in HTML. This output filtering secures the site against cross site scripting attacks via user input. Certain byte...

openfire -- Openfire No Password Changes Security Bypass

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Openfire which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerability is caused due to Openfire not properly respecting the no password changes setting which can be exploited to change passwords by sendi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-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...

zope -- restructuredText "csv_table" Information Disclosure

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Zope, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the use of the docutils module to parse and render "restructured" text. This can be exploited to...

libmusicbrainz -- multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus reports about libmusicbrainz: The libmusicbrainz library is prone to multiple buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because the application fails to check the size of the data before copying it into a finite-sized internal memory buffer. An attacker can exploit these issues to execute...

gnupg -- user id integer overflow vulnerability

If GnuPG processes a userid with a very long packet length, GnuPG can crash due to insufficient bounds check. This can result in a denial-of-service condition or potentially execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running GnuPG...

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...

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...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Bugzilla, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks, and by malicious people to disclose sensitive information and conduct script insertion attacks...

rssh -- privilege escalation vulnerability

Pizzashack reports: Max Vozeler has reported a problem whereby rssh can allow users who have shell access to systems where rssh is installed and rsshchroothelper is installed SUID to gain root access to the system, due to the ability to chroot to arbitrary locations. There are a lot of potentiall...

mnemo -- Cross site scripting vulnerabilities in several of the notepad name and note data fields

Announce of Mnemo H3 2.0.3 final: This 2.0.3 is a security release that fixes cross site scripting vulnerabilities in several of the notepad name and note data fields. None of the vulnerabilities can be exploited by unauthenticated users; however, we strongly recommend that all users of Mnemo 2.0...

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...

firefox & mozilla -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Tom Ferris reports: A buffer overflow vulnerability exists within Firefox version 1.0.6 and all other prior versions which allows for an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on an affected host. The problem seems to be when a hostname which has all dashes causes the NormalizeIDN call in...

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...

opera -- redirection cross-site scripting vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks against users. The vulnerability is caused due to input not being sanitised, when Opera generates a temporary page for displayin...

tcpdump -- infinite loops in protocol decoding

Problem Description Several tcpdump protocol decoders contain programming errors which can cause them to go into infinite loops. Impact An attacker can inject specially crafted packets into the network which, when processed by tcpdump, could lead to a denial-of-service. After the attack, tcpdump...

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...

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...

konversation -- shell script command injection

Konversation comes with Perl scripts that do not properly escape shell characters on executing a script. This makes it possible to attack Konversation with shell script command injection...

libxine -- buffer-overflow vulnerability in aiff support

Due to a buffer overflow in the openaifffile function in demuxaiff.c, a remote attacker is able to execute arbitrary code via a modified AIFF file...

up-imapproxy -- multiple vulnerabilities

Timo Sirainen reports: There are various bugs in up-imapproxy which can crash it. Since up-imapproxy runs in a single process with each connection handled in a separate thread, any crash kills all the connections and stops listening for new ones. In 64bit systems it might be possible to make it...

icecast -- HTTP header overflow

It is possible to execute remote code simply using HTTP request plus 31 headers followed by a shellcode that will be executed directly...

xv -- exploitable buffer overflows

In a Bugtraq posting, infamous41mdathotpop.com reported: there are at least 5 exploitable buffer and heap overflows in the image handling code. this allows someone to craft a malicious image, trick a user into viewing the file in xv, and upon viewing that image execute arbitrary code under...

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...

multiple vulnerabilities in ethereal

Issues have been discovered in multiple protocol dissectors...

ident2 double byte buffer overflow

Jack of RaptureSecurity reported a double byte buffer overflow in ident2. The bug may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of the ident2 daemon. The daemon typically runs as user-ID nobody', but with group-ID wheel'...

GNU Anubis buffer overflows and format string vulnerabilities

Ulf Härnhammar discovered several vulnerabilities in GNU Anubis. Unsafe uses of sscanf'. The %s' format specifier is used, which allows a classical buffer overflow. auth.c Format string bugs invoking syslog'. log.c, errs.c, ssl.c Ulf notes that these vulnerabilities can be exploited by a maliciou...

seti@home remotely exploitable buffer overflow

The seti@home client contains a buffer overflow in the HTTP response handler. A malicious, spoofed seti@home server can exploit this buffer overflow to cause remote code execution on the client. Exploit programs are widely available...