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...

FreeBSD -- ntpd mode 7 denial of service

Problem Description: If ntpd receives a mode 7 MODEPRIVATE request or error response from a source address not listed in either a 'restrict ... noquery' or a 'restrict ... ignore' section it will log the even and send a mode 7 error response...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.1.53.64 and earlier. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

lxr -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg reports: There are several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in LXR. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute scripts in a user's browser, steal cookies associated with vulnerable domains, redirect the user to malicious websites, etc...

Zend Framework -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Zend Framework team reports: Potential XSS or HTML Injection vector in ZendJson. Potential XSS vector in ZendServiceReCaptchaMailHide. Potential MIME-type Injection in ZendFileTransfer Executive Summary. Potential XSS vector in ZendFilterStripTags when comments allowed. Potential XSS vector i...

jpgraph2 -- XSS vulnerability

Martin Barbella reports: JpGraph is an object oriented library for PHP that can be used to create various types of graphs which also contains support for client side image maps. The GetURLArguments function for the JpGraph's Graph class does not properly sanitize the names of get and post...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

PHP developers reports: This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.12: Fixed a safemode bypass in...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2009-71 GeckoActiveXObject exception messages can be used to enumerate installed COM objects MFSA 2009-70 Privilege escalation via chrome window.opener MFSA 2009-69 Location bar spoofing vulnerabilities MFSA 2009-68 NTLM reflection vulnerability MFSA 2009-67 Integer...

drupal -- multiple cross-site scripting

Drupal Team reports: The Contact module does not correctly handle certain user input when displaying category information. Users privileged to create contact categories can insert arbitrary HTML and script code into the contact module administration page. Such a cross-site scripting attack may le...

monkey -- improper input validation vulnerability

Census Labs reports: We have discovered a remotely exploitable "improper input validation" vulnerability in the Monkey web server that allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by repeatedly crashing worker threads that process HTTP requests...

piwik -- php code execution

secunia reports: Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in Piwik, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to the core/Cookie.php script using "unserialize" with user controlled input. This can be exploited to e.g. execute...

FreeBSD -- Inappropriate directory permissions in freebsd-update(8)

Problem Description: When downloading updates to FreeBSD via 'freebsd-update fetch' or 'freebsd-update upgrade', the freebsd-update8 utility copies currently installed files into its working directory /var/db/freebsd-update by default both for the purpose of merging changes to configuration files...

FreeBSD -- Improper environment sanitization in rtld(1)

Problem Description: When running setuid programs rtld will normally remove potentially dangerous environment variables. Due to recent changes in FreeBSD environment variable handling code, a corrupt environment may result in attempts to unset environment variables failing...

FreeBSD -- SSL protocol flaw

Problem Description: The SSL version 3 and TLS protocols support session renegotiation without cryptographically tying the new session parameters to the old parameters...

pligg -- Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Site Request Forgery

secunia reports: Russ McRee has discovered some vulnerabilities in Pligg, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks. Input passed via the "Referer" HTTP header to various scripts e.g. admin/adminconfig.php, admin/adminmodules.php,...

rt -- Session fixation vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in RT, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct session fixation attacks. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of sessions and can be exploited to hijack another user's session by tricking the user into logging...

ruby -- heap overflow vulnerability

The official ruby site reports: There is a heap overflow vulnerability in Stringljust, Stringcenter and Stringrjust. This has allowed an attacker to run arbitrary code in some rare cases...

libtool -- Library Search Path Privilege Escalation Issue

Secunia.com Do not attempt to load an unqualified module.la file from the current directory by default since doing so is insecure and is not compliant with the documentation...

libvorbis -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Ubuntu security team reports: It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle certain malformed vorbis files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted vorbis file with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Team reports: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion Fixed an issue where error messages could leak onto unrelated sites Fixed a moderately severe issue, as reported by Chris Evans of the Google Security Team; details will be disclosed at a later date...

cacti -- cross-site scripting issues

The cacti development team reports: The Cross-Site Scripting patch has been posted. This patch addresses cross-site scripting issues reported by Moritz Naumann...

dovecot -- Insecure directory permissions

Dovecot author reports: Dovecot v1.2.x had been creating basedir and its parents if necessary with 0777 permissions. The basedir's permissions get changed to 0755 automatically at startup, but you may need to chmod the parent directories manually...

postgresql -- multiple vulnerabilities

PostgreSQL project reports: PostgreSQL 7.4.x before 7.4.27, 8.0.x before 8.0.23, 8.1.x before 8.1.19, 8.2.x before 8.2.15, 8.3.x before 8.3.9, and 8.4.x before 8.4.2 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN field of an X.509 certificate, which 1...

bugzilla -- information leak

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: When a bug is in a group, none of its information other than its status and resolution should be visible to users outside that group. It was discovered that as of 3.3.2, Bugzilla was showing the alias of the bug a very short string used as a shortcut for...

PEAR -- Net_Ping and Net_Traceroute remote arbitrary command injection

PEAR Security Advisory reports: Multiple remote arbitrary command injections have been found in the NetPing and NetTraceroute. When input from forms are used directly, the attacker could pass variables that would allow him to execute remote arbitrary command injections...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

secunia reports: The security issue is caused due to the wpcheckfiletype function in /wp-includes/functions.php improperly validating uploaded files. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a malicious PHP script with multiple extensions. Successful exploitation of this...

KDE -- multiple vulnerabilities

oCERT reports: Ark input sanitization errors: The KDE archiving tool, Ark, performs insufficient validation which leads to specially crafted archive files, using unknown MIME types, to be rendered using a KHTML instance, this can trigger uncontrolled XMLHTTPRequests to remote sites. IO Slaves inp...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Team Reports: Fixed an issue where certain domain names could allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Chris Weber of Casaba Security Fixed an issue where scripts can run on the feed subscription page, as reported by Inferno...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2009-64 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption rv:1.9.1.4/ 1.9.0.15 MFSA 2009-63 Upgrade media libraries to fix memory safety bugs MFSA 2009-62 Download filename spoofing with RTL override MFSA 2009-61 Cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection MFSA...

p5-HTML-Parser -- denial of service

CVE reports: The decodeentities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character...

typo3 -- multiple vulnerabilities in TYPO3 Core

TYPO3 develop team reports: Affected versions: TYPO3 versions 4.0.13 and below, 4.1.12 and below, 4.2.9 and below, 4.3.0beta1 and below. SQL injection, Cross-site scripting XSS, Information disclosure, Frame hijacking, Remote shell command execution and Insecure Install Tool authentication/sessio...

gd -- '_gdGetColors' remote buffer overflow vulnerability

CVE reports: The gdGetColors function in gdgd.c in PHP 5.2.11 and 5.3.0, and the GD Graphics Library 2.x, does not properly verify a certain colorsTotal structure member, which might allow remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow or buffer over-read attacks via a crafted GD file, a different...

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...

squidGuard -- multiple vulnerabilities

SquidGuard website reports: Patch 20091015 fixes one buffer overflow problem in sgLog.c when overlong URLs are requested. SquidGuard will then go into emergency mode were no blocking occurs. This is not required in this situation. Patch 20091019 fixes two bypass problems with URLs which length is...

Xpdf -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Xpdf, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. 1 Multiple integer overflows in "SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap" can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows. 2 An integer overflow...

phpmyadmin -- XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin Team reports: Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted MySQL table name. SQL injection vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject SQL via various interface parameters of the PDF schema generator feature...

django -- denial-of-service attack

Django project reports: Django's forms library includes field types which perform regular-expression-based validation of email addresses and URLs. Certain addresses/URLs could trigger a pathological performance case in these regular expression, resulting in the server process/thread becoming...

virtualbox -- privilege escalation

Sun reports: A security vulnerability in the VBoxNetAdpCtl configuration tool for certain Sun VirtualBox 3.0 packages may allow local unprivileged users who are authorized to run VirtualBox to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges...

expat2 -- buffer over-read and crash

CVE reports: The big2toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related t...

FreeBSD -- Devfs / VFS NULL pointer race condition

Problem Description: Due to the interaction between devfs and VFS, a race condition exists where the kernel might dereference a NULL pointer. Impact: Successful exploitation of the race condition can lead to local kernel privilege escalation, kernel data corruption and/or crash. To exploit this...

FreeBSD -- kqueue pipe race conditions

Problem Description A race condition exists in the pipe close code relating to kqueues, causing use-after-free for kernel memory, which may lead to an exploitable NULL pointer vulnerability in the kernel, kernel memory corruption, and other unpredictable results. Impact: Successful exploitation o...

mybb -- multiple vulnerabilities

mybb team reports: Input passed via avatar extensions is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by uploading specially named avatars. The script allows to sign up with usernames containing zero width space characters, which can be...

fwbuilder -- security issue in temporary file handling

Firewall Builder release notes reports: Vadim Kurland [email protected] reports: Fwbuilder and libfwbuilder 3.0.4 through to 3.0.6 generate iptables scripts with a security issue when also used to generate static routing configurations...

php5 -- Multiple security issues

Vendor reports Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.11: Fixed certificate validation inside phpopensslapplyverificationpolicy. Fixed sanity check for the color index in imagecolortransparent. Added missing sanity checks around exif processing. Fixed bug 44683 popen crashes when an invalid...

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...

fuser -- missing user's privileges check

Denis Barov reports: sysutils/fuser allows user to send any signal to any process when installed with suid bit...

nginx -- remote denial of service vulnerability

nginx development team reports: A segmentation fault might occur in worker process while specially crafted request handling...

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...

bugzilla -- two SQL injections, sensitive data exposure

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: It is possible to inject raw SQL into the Bugzilla database via the "Bug.create" and "Bug.search" WebService functions. When a user would change his password, his new password would be exposed in the URL field of the browser if he logged in right after changi...

mozilla firefox -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2009-51 Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter MFSA 2009-50 Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters MFSA 2009-49 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability MFSA 2009-48 Insufficient warning for PKCS11 module installation and removal MFSA...