rt -- multiple vulnerabilities

Best Practical reports: In the process of preparing the release of RT 4.0.0, we performed an extensive security audit of RT's source code. During this audit, several vulnerabilities were found which affect earlier releases of RT...

krb5 -- MITKRB5-SA-2011-004, kadmind invalid pointer free() [CVE-2011-0285]

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The password-changing capability of the MIT krb5 administration daemon kadmind has a bug that can cause it to attempt to free an invalid pointer under certain error conditions. This can cause the daemon to crash or induce the execution of...

rsync -- incremental recursion memory corruption vulnerability

rsync development team reports: Fixed a data-corruption issue when preserving hard-links without preserving file ownership, and doing deletions either before or during the transfer CVE-2011-1097. This fixes some assert errors in the hard-linking code, and some potential failed checksums via -c th...

VLC -- Heap corruption in MP4 demultiplexer

VideoLAN project reports: When parsing some MP4 MPEG-4 Part 14 files, insufficient buffer size might lead to corruption of the heap...

isc-dhcp-client -- dhclient does not strip or escape shell meta-characters

ISC reports: ISC dhclient did not strip or escape certain shell meta-characters in responses from the dhcp server like hostname before passing the responses on to dhclient-script. Depending on the script and OS, this can result in execution of exploit code on the client...

xrdb -- root hole via rogue hostname

Matthias Hopf reports: By crafting hostnames with shell escape characters, arbitrary commands can be executed in a root environment when a display manager reads in the resource database via xrdb. These specially crafted hostnames can occur in two environments: Systems are affected are: systems se...

pureftpd -- multiple vulnerabilities

Pure-FTPd development team reports: Support for braces expansion in directory listings has been disabled -- Cf. CVE-2011-0418. Fix a STARTTLS flaw similar to Postfix's CVE-2011-0411. If you're using TLS, upgrading is recommended...

gdm -- privilege escalation vulnerability

Sebastian Krahmer reports: It was discovered that the GNOME Display Manager gdm cleared the cache directory, which is owned by an unprivileged user, with the privileges of the root user. A race condition exists in gdm where a local user could take advantage of this by writing to the cache directo...

mozilla -- update to HTTPS certificate blacklist

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2011-11 Update to HTTPS certificate blacklist...

php -- ZipArchive segfault with FL_UNCHANGED on empty archive

US-CERT/NIST reports: The zipnamelocate function in zipnamelocate.c in the Zip extension in PHP before 5.3.6 does not properly handle a ZIPARCHIVE::FLUNCHANGED argument, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via an empty ZIP archive that is...

php -- crash on crafted tag in exif

US-CERT/NIST reports: exif.c in the Exif extension in PHP before 5.3.6 on 64-bit platforms performs an incorrect cast, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via an image with a crafted Image File Directory IFD that triggers a buffer over-read...

krb5 -- MITKRB5-SA-2011-003, KDC vulnerable to double-free when PKINIT enabled

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The MIT Kerberos 5 Key Distribution Center KDC daemon is vulnerable to a double-free condition if the Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication PKINIT capability is enabled, resulting in daemon crash or arbitrary code execution which i...

OTRS -- Several XSS attacks possible

OTRS Security Advisory reports: Several XSS attacks possible: An attacker could trick a logged in user to following a prepared URL inside of the OTRS system which causes a page to be shown that possibly includes malicious !JavaScript code because of incorrect escaping during the generation of the...

redmine -- XSS vulnerability

Jean-Philippe Lang reports: This maintenance release for 1.1.x users includes 13 bug fixes since 1.1.1 and a security fix XSS vulnerability affecting all Redmine versions from 1.0.1 to 1.1.1...

postfix -- plaintext command injection with SMTP over TLS

Wietse Venema has discovered a software flaw that allows an attacker to inject client commands into an SMTP session during the unprotected plaintext SMTP protocol phase, such that the server will execute those commands during the SMTP- over-TLS protocol phase when all communication is supposed to...

dtc -- multiple vulnerabilities

Ansgar Burchardt reports: Ansgar Burchardt discovered several vulnerabilities in DTC, a web control panel for admin and accounting hosting services: The bwpermoth.php graph contains an SQL injection vulnerability; insufficient checks in bwpermonth.php can lead to bandwidth usage information...

asterisk -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

The Asterisk Development Team reports: The releases of Asterisk 1.6.1.23, 1.6.2.17.1, and 1.8.3.1 resolve two issues: Resource exhaustion in Asterisk Manager Interface AST-2011-003 Remote crash vulnerability in TCP/TLS server AST-2011-004 The issues and resolutions are described in the AST-2011-0...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2011-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:1.9.2.14/ 1.9.1.17 MFSA 2011-02 Recursive eval call causes confirm dialogs to evaluate to true MFSA 2011-03 Use-after-free error in JSON.stringify MFSA 2011-04 Buffer overflow in JavaScript upvarMap MFSA 2011-05 Buff...

Samba -- Denial of service - memory corruption

The Samba team reports: Samba is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption error related to missing range checks on file descriptors being used in the "FDSET" macro. By performing a select on a bad file descriptor set, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...

subversion -- remote HTTP DoS vulnerability

Subversion project reports: Subversion HTTP servers up to 1.5.9 inclusive or 1.6.15 inclusive are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable NULL-pointer dereference...

hiawatha -- integer overflow in Content-Length header parsing

Hugo Leisink reports: A bug has been found in version 7.4 of the Hiawatha webserver, which could lead to a server crash. This is caused by an integer overflow in the routine that reads the HTTP request. A too large value of the Content-Length HTTP header results in an overflow...

moinmoin -- cross-site scripting via RST parser

MITRE CVE team reports: Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the reStructuredText rst parser in parser/textrst.py in MoinMoin before 1.9.4, when docutils is installed or when "format rst" is set, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URL in the refu...

asterisk -- Exploitable Stack and Heap Array Overflows

The Asterisk Development Team reports: The releases of Asterisk 1.4.39.2, 1.6.1.22, 1.6.2.16.2, and 1.8.2.4 resolve an issue that when decoding UDPTL packets, multiple heap based arrays can be made to overflow by specially crafted packets. Systems configured for T.38 pass through or termination a...

avahi -- denial of service

Avahi developers reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Avahi, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing certain UDP packets, which can be exploited to trigger an infinite loop by e.g. sending an...

PivotX -- administrator password reset vulnerability

US CERT reports: PivotX contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker to change the password of any account just by guessing the username. Version 2.2.4 has been reported to not be affected. This vulnerability is being exploited in the wild and users should immediately upgrade to 2.2.5 or late...

openldap -- two security bypass vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenLDAP, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.4.24...

mailman -- XSS vulnerability

CVE reports: Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Cgi/confirm.py in GNU Mailman 2.1.14 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 full name or 2 username field in a confirmation message...

krb5 -- MITKRB5-SA-2011-001, kpropd denial of service

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The MIT krb5 KDC database propagation daemon kpropd is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack triggered by invalid network input. If a kpropd worker process receives invalid input that causes it to exit with an abnormal status, it can cause t...

webkit-gtk2 -- Multiple vurnabilities.

Gustavo Noronha Silva reports: This release has essentially security fixes. Refer to the WebKit/gtk/NEWS file inside the tarball for details. We would like to thank the Red Hat security team Huzaifa Sidhpurwala in particular and Michael Gilbert from Debian for their help in checking and pushing!...

krb5 -- MITKRB5-SA-2011-002, KDC vulnerable to hang when using LDAP back end

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The MIT krb5 Key Distribution Center KDC daemon is vulnerable to denial of service attacks from unauthenticated remote attackers. CVE-2011-0281 and CVE-2011-0282 occur only in KDCs using LDAP back ends, but CVE-2011-0283 occurs in all krb5-1.9...

phpMyAdmin -- multiple vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin team reports: It was possible to create a bookmark which would be executed unintentionally by other users. When the files README, ChangeLog or LICENSE have been removed from their original place possibly by the distributor, the scripts used to display these files can show their full...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacke...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

Django project reports: Today the Django team is issuing multiple releases -- Django 1.2.5 and Django 1.1.4 -- to remedy three security issues reported to us. All users of affected versions of Django are urged to upgrade immediately...

plone -- Remote Security Bypass

Plone developer reports: This is an escalation of privileges attack that can be used by anonymous users to gain access to a Plone site's administration controls, view unpublished content, create new content and modify a site's skin. The sandbox protecting access to the underlying system is still ...

mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Medawiki reports: An arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability was discovered. The vulnerability only allows execution of files with names ending in ".php" which are already present in the local filesystem. Only servers running Microsoft Windows and possibly Novell Netware are affected. Despite...

exim -- local privilege escalation

exim.org reports: CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to arbitrary files...

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...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera reports: Opera 11.01 is a recommended upgrade offering security and stability enhancements. The following security vulnerabilities have been fixed: Removed support for "javascript:" URLs in CSS -o-link values, to make it easier for sites to filter untrusted CSS. Fixed an issue where large...

vlc -- Insufficient input validation in MKV demuxer

VLC team reports: When parsing an invalid MKV Matroska or WebM file, input validation are insufficient...

isc-dhcp-server -- DHCPv6 crash

ISC reports: When the DHCPv6 server code processes a message for an address that was previously declined and internally tagged as abandoned it can trigger an assert failure resulting in the server crashing. This could be used to crash DHCPv6 servers remotely. This issue only affects DHCPv6 server...

rubygem-mail -- Remote Arbitrary Shell Command Injection Vulnerability

Secunia reports: Input passed via an email from address is not properly sanitised in the "deliver" function lib/mail/network/deliverymethods/sendmail.rb before being used as a command line argument. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands...

bugzilla -- multiple serious vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: This advisory covers three security issues that have recently been fixed in the Bugzilla code: A weakness in Bugzilla could allow a user to gain unauthorized access to another Bugzilla account. A weakness in the Perl CGI.pm module allows injecting HTTP header...

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...

linux-flashplugin -- remote code execution vulnerability

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: A critical vulnerability exists in Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier for Chrome users for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.159.1 and earlier versions Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.28 and earlier for Chrome users for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.2.157.51 and...

linux-flashplugin -- remote code execution vulnerability

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.33 and earlier versions Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.18 and earlier for Chrome users for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, Adobe Flash Player 10.1.106.16 and...

asterisk -- Exploitable Stack Buffer Overflow

The Asterisk Development Team reports: The releases of Asterisk 1.4.38.1, 1.4.39.1, 1.6.1.21, 1.6.2.15.1, 1.6.2.16.2, 1.8.1.2, and 1.8.2.1 resolve an issue when forming an outgoing SIP request while in pedantic mode, which can cause a stack buffer to be made to overflow if supplied with carefully...

tarsnap -- cryptographic nonce reuse

Colin Percival reports: In versions 1.0.22 through 1.0.27 of Tarsnap, the CTR nonce value is not incremented after each chunk is encrypted. The CTR counter is correctly incremented after each 16 bytes of data was processed, but this counter is reset to zero for each new chunk. Note that since the...

dokuwiki -- multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Dokuwiki reports: This security update fixes problems in the XMLRPC interface where ACLs where not checked correctly sometimes, making it possible to access and write information that should not have been accessible/writable. This only affects users who have enabled the XMLRPC interface default i...

tor -- remote code execution and crash

The Tor Project reports: A remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely. All Tor users should upgrade...