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...

PolarSSL -- Security Fix Backports

Paul Bakker reports: PolarSSL 1.2.14 fixes one remotely-triggerable issues that was found by the Codenomicon Defensics tool, one potential remote crash and countermeasures against the "Lucky 13 strikes back" cache-based attack...

security/ossec-hids-* -- root escalation via syscheck feature

OSSEC reports: The CVE-2015-3222 vulnerability, which allows for root escalation via sys check has been fixed in OSSEC 2.8.2. This issue does not affect agents...

py-foolscap -- local file inclusion

Brian Warner reports: The "flappserver" feature was found to have a vulnerability in the service-lookup code which, when combined with an attacker who has the ability to write files to a location where the flappserver process could read them, would allow that attacker to obtain control of the...

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...

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...

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...

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Verifiers may inappropriately convey message trust

US-CERT reports: DomainKeys Identified Mail DKIM Verifiers may inappropriately convey message trust when messages are signed using test or small bit signing keys...

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...

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...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Possible resource leak on uncompleted re-invite transactions. Remote crash vulnerability in voice mail application...

mutt-devel -- failure to check SMTP TLS server certificate

Dave B reports on Full Disclosure: It seems that mutt fails to check the validity of a SMTP servers certificate during a TLS connection. ... This means that an attacker could potentially MITM a mutt user connecting to their SMTP server even when the user has forced a TLS connection...

surf -- private information disclosure

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

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Account Impersonation: When a user creates a new account, Bugzilla doesn't correctly reject email addresses containing non-ASCII characters, which could be used to impersonate another user accoun...

PowerDNS -- Denial of Service Vulnerability

The PowerDNS Team reports: Using well crafted UDP packets, one or more PowerDNS servers could be made to enter a tight packet loop, causing temporary denial of service...

FreeBSD -- pam_ssh() does not validate service names

Problem Description: Some third-party applications, including KDE's kcheckpass command, allow the user to specify the name of the policy on the command line. Since OpenPAM treats the policy name as a path relative to /etc/pam.d or /usr/local/etc/pam.d, users who are permitted to run such an...

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,...

stunnel -- heap corruption vulnerability

Michal Trojnara reports: Version 4.42, 2011.08.18, urgency: HIGH: Fixed a heap corruption vulnerability in versions 4.40 and 4.41. It may possibly be leveraged to perform DoS or remote code execution attacks...

OTRS -- Vulnerabilities in OTRS-Core allows read access to any file on local file system

OTRS Security Advisory reports: An attacker with valid session and admin permissions could get read access to any file on the servers local operating system. For this it would be needed minimum one installed OTRS package...

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...

ikiwiki -- tty hijacking via ikiwiki-mass-rebuild

The IkiWiki development team reports: Ludwig Nussel discovered a way for users to hijack root's tty when ikiwiki-mass-rebuild was run. Additionally, there was some potential for information disclosure via symlinks...

php -- corruption of $GLOBALS and $this variables via extract() method

Off-by-one error in the sanity validator for the extract method allowed attackers to replace the values of $GLOBALS and $this when mode EXTROVERWRITE was used...

wordpress -- SQL injection vulnerability

Vendor reports: SQL injection vulnerability in the dotrackbacks function in wp-includes/comment.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the Send Trackbacks field...

openx -- remote code execution vulnerability

The OpenX project reported: It has been brought to our attention that there is a vulnerability in the 2.8 downloadable version of OpenX that can result in a server running the downloaded version of OpenX being compromised. This vulnerability exists in the file upload functionality and allows...

spamass-milter -- remote command execution vulnerability

The spamassassin milter plugin contains a vulnerability that can allow remote attackers to execute commands on affected systems. The vulnerability can be exploited trough a special-crafted email header when the plugin was started with the '-x' expand flag...

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...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal Team reports: The core OpenID module does not correctly implement Form API for the form that allows one to link user accounts with OpenID identifiers. A malicious user is therefore able to use cross site request forgeries to add attacker controlled OpenID identities to existing accounts...

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...

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...

imap-uw -- imap c-client buffer overflow

SANS reports: The University of Washington IMAP library is a library implementing the IMAP mail protocol. University of Washington IMAP is exposed to a buffer overflow issue that occurs due to a boundary error within the rfc822outputchar function in the c-client library. The University of...

trac -- potential DOS vulnerability

Trac development team reports: 0.11.2 is a new stable maintenance release. It contains several security fixes and everyone is recommended to upgrade their installations. Bug fixes: Fixes potential DOS vulnerability with certain wiki markup...

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...

emacs -- run-python vulnerability

Emacs developers report: The Emacs command run-python' launches an interactive Python interpreter. After the Python process starts up, Emacs automatically sends it the line: import emacs which normally imports a script named emacs.py which is distributed with Emacs. This script, which is typicall...

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...

drupal -- Cross site request forgeries

The Drupal Project reports: Several parts in Drupal core are not protected against cross site request forgeries due to inproper use of the Forms API, or by taking action solely on GET requests. Malicious users are able to delete comments and content revisions and disable menu items by enticing a...

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...

gnupg -- buffer overflow

Werner Koch reports: When running GnuPG interactively, special crafted messages may be used to crash gpg or gpg2. Running gpg in batch mode, as done by all software using gpg as a backend e.g. mailers, is not affected by this bug. Exploiting this overflow seems to be possible. gpg-agent, gpgsm,...

tdiary -- cross site scripting vulnerability

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

proftpd -- Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

FrSIRT reports: A vulnerability has been identified in ProFTPD, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "main.c" file where the "cmdbufsize" size of the buffer used to handle FTP commands...

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...

dircproxy -- remote denial of service

Securiweb reports: dircproxy allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via an ACTION command without a parameter, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated using a blank /me message from irssi...

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 ...

squirrelmail -- plugin.php local file inclusion vulnerability

The SquirrelMail Project Team reports: A security issue has been uncovered in functions/plugin.php that could allow a remote user to access local files on the server without requiring login. This issue manifests itself if registerglobals is enabled, and magicquotesgpc is disabled...

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...