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...

mod_pagespeed -- critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

modpagespeed developers report: Various versions of modpagespeed are subject to critical cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability, CVE-2013-6111. This permits a hostile third party to execute JavaScript in users' browsers in context of the domain running modpagespeed, which could permit theft of...

typo3 -- Multiple vulnerabilities in TYPO3 Core

Typo Security Team reports: TYPO3 Backend History Module - Due to missing encoding of user input, the history module is susceptible to SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting. A valid backend login is required to exploit this vulnerability. Credits go to Thomas Worm who discovered and reported the...

phpMyAdmin -- Multiple XSS due to unescaped HTML output in Trigger, Procedure and Event pages and Fetching the version information from a non-SSL site is vulnerable to a MITM attack

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: When creating/modifying a trigger, event or procedure with a crafted name, it is possible to trigger an XSS. To display information about the current phpMyAdmin version on the main page, a piece of JavaScript is fetched from the phpmyadmin.net website in...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

axel -- remote buffer overflow

A Debian Security Advisory reports: Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a buffer overflow in axel, a light download accelerator. When reading remote input the program did not check if a part of the input can overflow a buffer and maybe trigger the execution of arbitra...

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...

tnftp -- mget does not check for directory escapes

When downloading a batch of files from an FTP server the mget command does not check for directory escapes. A specially crafted file on the FTP server could then potentially overwrite an existing file of the user...

fd_set -- bitmap index overflow in multiple applications

3APA3A reports: If programmer fails to check socket number before using select or fdset macros, it's possible to overwrite memory behind fdset structure. Very few select based application actually check FDSETSIZE value. ... Depending on vulnerable application it's possible to overwrite portions o...