OpenSSH -- PermitRootLogin may allow password connections with 'without-password'

OpenSSH 7.0 contained a logic error in PermitRootLogin= prohibit-password/without-password that could, depending on compile-time configuration, permit password authentication to root while preventing other forms of authentication. This problem was reported by Mantas Mikulenas...

libXfont -- BDF parsing issues

Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered an issue in the parsing of BDF font files by libXfont. Additional testing by Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet with the American Fuzzy Lop afl tool uncovered two more issues in the parsing of BDF...

gpgme -- heap-based buffer overflow in gpgsm status handler

Tomas Trnka reports: Gpgme contains a buffer overflow in the gpgsm status handler that could possibly be exploited using a specially crafted certificate...

FreeBSD -- ktrace kernel memory disclosure

Problem Description: Due to an overlooked merge to -STABLE branches, the size for page fault kernel trace entries was set incorrectly. Impact: A user who can enable kernel process tracing could end up reading the contents of kernel memory. Such memory might contain sensitive information, such as...

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...

mohawk -- multiple vulnerabilities

The mohawk project reports: Segfault when parsing malformed / unescaped url, coredump when setting syslog facility...

redmine -- open redirect vulnerability

Redmine reports: Open Redirect vulnerability...

FreeBSD -- bsnmpd remote denial of service vulnerability

Problem Description: The bsnmpd8 daemon is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow when it has received a specifically crafted GETBULK PDU request. Impact: This issue could be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the context of the service daemon, or crash the service daemon, causing a...

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...

bogofilter -- heap corruption by invalid base64 input

David Relson reports: Fix a heap corruption in base64 decoder on invalid input. Analysis and patch by Julius Plenz, FU Berlin, Germany...

roundcube -- cross-site scripting in HTML email messages

RoundCube branch 0.8.x prior to the version 0.8.1 is prone to the cross-scripting attack XSS originating from incoming HTML e-mails: due to the lack of proper sanitization of JavaScript code inside the "href" attribute, sender could launch XSS attack when recipient opens the message in RoundCube...

squidclamav -- Denial of Service

SquidClamav developers report: Add a workaround for a squidGuard bug that unescape the URL and send it back unescaped. This result in garbage staying into pipe of the system command call and could crash squidclamav on next read or return false information. This is specially true with URL containi...

joomla -- Privilege Escalation

Joomla! reported a Core Privilege Escalation:: Inadequate checking leads to possible user privilege escalation...

coppermine -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The Coppermine Team reports: The release covers several path disclosure vulnerabilities. If unpatched, it's possible to generate an error that will reveal the full path of the script. A remote user can determine the full path to the web root directory and other potentially sensitive information...

nginx -- potential information leak

nginx development team reports: Matthew Daley recently discovered a security problem which may lead to a disclosure of previously freed memory on specially crafted response from an upstream server, potentially resulting in sensitive information leak...

surf -- private information disclosure

surf does not protect its cookie jar against access read access from other local users...

unbound -- denial of service vulnerabilities from nonstandard redirection and denial of existence

Unbound developer reports: Unbound crashes when confronted with a non-standard response from a server for a domain. This domain produces duplicate RRs from a certain type and is DNSSEC signed. Unbound also crashes when confronted with a query that eventually, and under specific circumstances,...

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...

FreeBSD -- Insufficient environment sanitization in jail(8)

Problem Description: The jail8 utility does not change the current working directory while imprisoning. The current working directory can be accessed by its descendants...

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...

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...

Enhanced cTorrent -- stack-based overflow

Securityfocus reports: cTorrent and dTorrent are prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because the software fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer. Successful exploits allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary...

vlc -- stack overflow in MPA, AVI and ASF demuxer

VideoLAN reports: When parsing a MP4, ASF or AVI file with an overly deep box structure, a stack overflow might occur. It would overwrite the return address and thus redirect the execution flow. If successful, a malicious third party could trigger execution of arbitrary code within the context of...

cscope -- buffer overflow

SecurityFocus reports: Attackers may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions...

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...

drupal -- cross site scripting

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...

drupal6-cck -- cross-site scripting

Drupal CCK plugin developer reports: The Node reference and User reference sub-modules, which are part of the Content Construction Kit CCK project, lets administrators define node fields that are references to other nodes or to users. When displaying a node edit form, the titles of candidate...

imap-uw -- local buffer overflow vulnerabilities

SANS reports: University of Washington "tmail" and "dmail" are mail deliver agents. "tmail" and "dmail" are exposed to local buffer overflow issues because they fail to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data...

mantis -- session hijacking vulnerability

The mantis Team reports: When configuring a web application to use only ssl e. g. by forwarding all http-requests to https, a user would expect that sniffing and hijacking the session is impossible. Though, for this to be secure, one needs to set the session cookie to have the secure flag. Else t...

cdf3 -- Buffer overflow vulnerability

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center reports: The libraries for the scientific data file format, Common Data Format CDF version 3.2 and earlier, have the potential for a buffer overflow vulnerability when reading specially-crafted invalid CDF files. If successful, this could trigger execution of...

suphp -- multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Multiple local privilege escalation are found in the symlink verification code. An attacker may use it to run a PHP script with the victim's privilege. This attack is a little harder when suphp operates in paranoid mode. For suphp that runs in owner mode which is the default in ports, immediate...

peercast -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Luigi Auriemma reports that peercast is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to a DoS or potentially remote code execution: The handshakeHTTP function which handles all the requests received by the other clients is vulnerable to a heap overflow which allows an attacker to fill the...

Pubcookie Login Server -- XSS vulnerability

Nathan Dors, Pubcookie Project reports: A new non-persistent XSS vulnerability was found in the Pubcookie login server's compiled binary "index.cgi" CGI program. The CGI program mishandles untrusted data when printing responses to the browser. This makes the program vulnerable to carefully crafte...

rar -- password prompt buffer overflow vulnerability

iDefense reports: Remote exploitation of a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability in RARLabs Unrar may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the archive. Unrar is prone to a stack based buffer overflow when processing specially crafted password...

tdiary -- injection vulnerability

An undisclosed eRuby injection vulnerability had been discovered in tDiary...

tdiary -- cross site scripting vulnerability

tDiary was vulnerable to an unspecified Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability...

dokuwiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in DokuWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or potentially compromise a vulnerable system. Input passed to the "w" and "h" parameters in lib/exec/fetch.php is not properly sanitised before being...

eyeOS -- multiple XSS security bugs

eyeOS team reports: EyeOS 0.9.1 release fixes two XSS security bugs, so we recommend all users to upgrade to this new version in order to have the best security. These two bugs were discovered by Jose Carlos Norte, who is a new eyeOS developer...

horde -- Phishing and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Horde, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing and cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the "url" parameter in index.php isn't properly verified before it is being used to include an arbitrary web site in ...

fswiki -- XSS vulnerability

JVN reports: FreeStyleWiki has XSS vulnerability...

tor -- malicious tor server can locate a hidden service

Roger Dingledine reports: If you offer a Tor hidden service, an adversary who can run a fast Tor server and who knows some basic statistics can find the location of your hidden service in a matter of minutes to hours...

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...

trac -- search module SQL injection vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Trac, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Some unspecified input passed in the search module isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by...

mambo -- "register_globals" emulation layer overwrite vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: peter MC tachatte has discovered a vulnerability in Mambo, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain information and compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "registerglobals" emulation layer in...

squid -- Possible Denial Of Service Vulnerability in store.c

The squid patches page notes: Squid crashes with the above assertion failure assertion failed: store.c:523: "e-storestatus == STOREPENDING" in certain conditions involving aborted requests...

proftpd -- format string vulnerabilities

The ProFTPD release notes states: sean found two format string vulnerabilities, one in modsql's SQLShowInfo directive, and one involving the 'ftpshut' utility. Both can be considered low risk, as they require active involvement on the part of the site administrator in order to be exploited. These...

heartbeat -- insecure temporary file creation vulnerability

Eric Romang reports a temporary file creation vulnerability within heartbeat. The vulnerability is caused by hardcoded temporary file usage. This can cause an attacker to create an arbitrary symlink causing the application to overwrite the symlinked file with the permissions of the user executing...

mozilla -- "Wrapped" javascript: urls bypass security checks

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports: Some security checks intended to prevent script injection were incorrect and could be bypassed by wrapping a javascript: url in the view-source: pseudo-protocol. Michael Krax demonstrated that a variant of his favicon exploit could still execute...