moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities

Moodle Release Notes report: MSA-15-0037 Possible to send a message to a user who blocked messages from non contacts MSA-15-0038 DDoS possibility in Atto MSA-15-0039 CSRF in site registration form MSA-15-0040 Student XSS in survey MSA-15-0041 XSS in flash video player MSA-15-0042 CSRF in lesson...

PuTTY -- memory corruption in terminal emulator's erase character handling

Ben Harris reports: Versions of PuTTY and pterm between 0.54 and 0.65 inclusive have a potentially memory-corrupting integer overflow in the handling of the ECH erase characters control sequence in the terminal emulator. To exploit a vulnerability in the terminal emulator, an attacker must be abl...

codeigniter -- multiple vulnerabilities

The CodeIgniter changelog reports: Fixed an XSS attack vector in Security Library method xssclean. Changed Config Library method baseurl to fallback to $SERVER'SERVERADDR' in order to avoid Host header injections. Changed CAPTCHA Helper to try to use the operating system's PRNG first...

redmine -- open redirect vulnerability

Redmine reports: Open Redirect vulnerability...

KeePassX -- information disclosure

Yves-Alexis Perez reports: Starting an export using File / Export to / KeepassX XML file and cancelling it leads to KeepassX saving a cleartext XML file in /.xml without any warning...

freexl -- integer overflow

Stefan Cornelius reports: There's an integer overflow in the allocatecells function when trying to allocate the memory for worksheet with specially crafted row/column dimensions. This can be exploited to cause a heap memory corruption. The most likely outcome of this is a crash when trying to...

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...

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...

redmine -- open redirect vulnerability

Redmine reports: Open Redirect vulnerability...

py-suds -- vulnerable to symlink attacks

SUSE reports: cache.py in Suds 0.4, when tempdir is set to None, allows local users to redirect SOAP queries and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on a cache file with a predictable name in /tmp/suds/...

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...

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...

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 improperly grants access when user account has unencrypted SSH private keys

Problem Description: The OpenSSL library call used to decrypt private keys ignores the passphrase argument if the key is not encrypted. Because the pamssh module only checks whether the passphrase provided by the user is null, users with unencrypted SSH private keys may successfully authenticate...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

bogofilter -- heap underrun on malformed base64 input

Julius Plenz reports: I found a bug in the base64decode function which may cause memory corruption when the function is executed on a malformed base64 encoded string. If a string starting with an equal-sign is passed to the base64decode function it triggers a memory corruption that in some cases...

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...

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...

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...

phppgadmin -- directory traversal with register_globals enabled

Secunia reports: Dun has discovered a vulnerability in phpPgAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. Input passed via the "language" parameter to libraries/lib.inc.php is not properly sanitised before being used to include files. This can be exploited t...

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...

twiki -- Arbitrary code execution in session files

Th1nk3r reports: The version of TWiki installed on the remote host allows access to the 'configure' script and fails to sanitize the 'image' parameter of that script of directory traversal sequences before returning the file contents when the 'action' parameter is set to 'image'. An unauthenticat...

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...

tikiwiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in TikiWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and script insertion attacks and disclose potentially sensitive information. Input passed to the username parameter in tiki-remindpassword.php when remi...

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...

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,...

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...

plone -- unprotected MembershipTool methods

The Plone Team reports: Plone 2.0.5, 2.1.2, and 2.5-beta1 does not restrict access to the: changeMemberPortrait deletePersonalPortrait testCurrentPassword methods, which allows remote attackers to modify portraits...

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...

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...

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...

WebCalendar -- information disclosure vulnerability

Secunia reports: socsam has discovered a vulnerability in WebCalendar, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and disclose sensitive information. Input passed to the "includedir" parameter isn't properly verified, before it is used in an "fopen" call...

rxvt-unicode -- restore permissions on tty devices

A rxvt-unicode changelog reports: SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as world-readable and world-writable likely in original rxvt, too, and were not restored properly. Affected are only systems where non-unix ptys were us...

mantis -- "view_filters_page.php" cross-site scripting vulnerability

r0t reports: Mantis contains a flaw that allows a remote cross site scripting attack. This flaw exists because input passed to "targetfield" parameter in "viewfilterspage.php" isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This could allow a user to create a specially crafted URL tha...

cvsbug -- race condition

Problem description A temporary file is created, used, deleted, and then re-created with the same name. This creates a window during which an attacker could replace the file with a link to another file. While cvsbug1 is based on the send-pr1 utility, this problem does not exist in the version of...

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...