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...

freeradius -- remote packet of death vulnerability

freeRADIUS Vulnerability Notifications reports: 2009.09.09 v1.1.7 - Anyone who can send packets to the server can crash it by sending a Tunnel-Password attribute in an Access-Request packet. This vulnerability is not otherwise exploitable. We have released 1.1.8 to correct this vulnerability. Thi...

xapian-omega -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

Olly Betts reports: There's a cross-site scripting issue in Omega - exception messages don't currently get HTML entities escaped, but can contain CGI parameter values in some cases...

cyrus-imapd -- Potential buffer overflow in Sieve

The Cyrus IMAP Server ChangeLog states: Fixed CERT VU336053 - Potential buffer overflow in Sieve...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Team Reports: Issue where sites using revoked intermediate certificates might be shown as secure Issue where the collapsed address bar didn't show the current domain Issue where pages could trick users into uploading files Some IDNA characters not correctly displaying in the address bar Iss...

dnsmasq -- TFTP server remote code injection vulnerability

Simon Kelley reports: Fix security problem which allowed any host permitted to do TFTP to possibly compromise dnsmasq by remote buffer overflow when TFTP enabled. Fix a problem which allowed a malicious TFTP client to crash dnsmasq...

ikiwiki -- insufficient blacklisting in teximg plugin

The IkiWiki development team reports: IkiWikis teximg plugin's blacklisting of insecure TeX commands is insufficient; it can be bypassed and used to read arbitrary files...

pidgin -- MSN overflow parsing SLP messages

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "msnslplinkprocessmsg" function when processing MSN SLP messages and can be exploited to corrupt...

GnuTLS -- improper SSL certificate verification

GnuTLS reports: By using a NUL byte in CN/SAN fields, it was possible to fool GnuTLS into 1 not printing the entire CN/SAN field value when printing a certificate and 2 cause incorrect positive matches when matching a hostname against a certificate...

wordpress -- remote admin password reset vulnerability

WordPress reports: A specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database usually the admin account would have its password reset and a new passwor...

silc-toolkit -- Format string vulnerabilities

SILC Changlog reports: An unspecified format string vulnerability exists in silc-toolkit...

OpenLDAP -- incorrect handling of NULL in certificate Common Name

Jan Lieskovsky reports: OpenLDAP 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 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authori...

fetchmail -- improper SSL certificate subject verification

Matthias Andree reports: Moxie Marlinspike demonstrated in July 2009 that some CAs would sign certificates that contain embedded NUL characters in the Common Name or subjectAltName fields of ITU-T X.509 certificates. Applications that would treat such X.509 strings as NUL-terminated C strings...

subversion -- heap overflow vulnerability

A Subversion Security Advisory reports: Subversion clients and servers have multiple heap overflow issues in the parsing of binary deltas. This is related to an allocation vulnerability in the APR library used by Subversion. Clients with commit access to a vulnerable server can cause a remote hea...

libxml -- Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml 1.8.17 that allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via crafted 1 Notation or 2 Enumeration attribute types in an XML file...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2009-38: Data corruption with SOCKS5 reply containing DNS name longer than 15 characters MFSA 2009-42: Compromise of SSL-protected communication MFSA 2009-43: Heap overflow in certificate regexp parsing MFSA 2009-44: Location bar and SSL indicator spoofing via...

libxml -- Stack consumption vulnerability

Stack consumption vulnerability allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD...

silc-client -- Format string vulnerability

SILC changelog reports: An unspecified format string vulnerability exists in silc-client...

SquirrelMail -- Plug-ins compromise

Problem Description: The SquirrelMail Web Server has been compromised, and three plugins are affected. The port of squirrelmail-sasql-plugin is safe right MD5, and changepass is not in the FreeBSD ports tree, but multilogin has a wrong MD5...

bugzilla -- product name information leak

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: Normally, users are only supposed to see products that they can file bugs against in the "Product" drop-down on the bug-editing page. Instead, users were being shown all products, even those that they normally could not see. Any user who could edit any bug...

apache22 -- several vulnerabilities

Apache ChangeLog reports: CVE-2009-1891: Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against moddeflate or other modules. CVE-2009-1195: Prevent the "Includes" Option from being enabled in an .htaccess file if the AllowOverride restrictions do not permit it. CVE-2009-1890: Fix a potential...

BIND -- Dynamic update message remote DoS

Problem Description: When named8 receives a specially crafted dynamic update message an internal assertion check is triggered which causes named8 to exit. To trigger the problem, the dynamic update message must contains a record of type "ANY" and at least one resource record set RRset for this...

squid -- several remote denial of service vulnerabilities

Squid security advisory 2009:2 reports: Due to incorrect buffer limits and related bound checks Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests or responses. Due to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when...

joomla15 -- com_mailto Timeout Issue

Joomla! Security Center reports: In commailto, it was possible to bypass timeout protection against sending automated emails...

mozilla -- corrupt JIT state after deep return from native function

Mozilla Project reports: Firefox user zbyte reported a crash that we determined could result in an exploitable memory corruption problem. In certain cases after a return from a native function, such as escape, the Just-in-Time JIT compiler could get into a corrupt state. This could be exploited b...

mono -- XML signature HMAC truncation spoofing

Secunia reports: A security issue has been reported in Mono, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks. The security issue is caused due to an error when processing certain XML signatures...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.32.18 and earlier. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

isc-dhcp-client -- Stack overflow vulnerability

US-CERT reports: The ISC DHCP dhclient application contains a stack buffer overflow, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Security Team reports: Cross-site scripting The Forum module does not correctly handle certain arguments obtained from the URL. By enticing a suitably privileged user to visit a specially crafted URL, a malicious user is able to insert arbitrary HTML and script code into forum pages...

phpmyadmin -- XSS vulnerability

The phpMyAdmin project reports: It was possible to conduct an XSS attack via a crafted SQL bookmark. All 3.x releases on which the "bookmarks" feature is active are affected, previous versions are not...

apache -- Prevent chunk-size integer overflow on platforms where sizeof(int) < sizeof(long)

Apache ChangeLog reports: Integer overflow in the approxysendfb function in proxy/proxyutil.c in modproxy in the Apache HTTP Server before 1.3.42 on 64-bit platforms allows remote origin servers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large chunk size th...

tor-devel -- DNS resolution vulnerability

The Tor Project reports: A malicious exit relay could convince a controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP address...

nfsen -- remote command execution

nfsen reports: Due to double input checking, a remote command execution security bug exists in all NfSen versions 1.3 and 1.3.1. Users are requested to update to nfsen-1.3.2...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2009-32 JavaScript chrome privilege escalation MFSA 2009-31 XUL scripts bypass content-policy checks MFSA 2009-30 Incorrect principal set for file: resources loaded via location bar MFSA 2009-29 Arbitrary code execution using event listeners attached to an element...

ruby -- BigDecimal denial of service vulnerability

The official ruby site reports: A denial of service DoS vulnerability was found on the BigDecimal standard library of Ruby. Conversion from BigDecimal objects into Float numbers had a problem which enables attackers to effectively cause segmentation faults. An attacker can cause a denial of servi...

apr -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in APR-util, which can be exploited by malicious users and malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. A vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of XML files and can be exploited to exhaust all available memory via ...

git -- denial of service vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: Git is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to properly handle some client requests. Attackers can exploit this issue to cause a daemon process to enter an infinite loop. Repeated exploits may consume excessive system resources, resulting in a denial ...

pidgin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities and weaknesses have been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS or to potentially compromise a user's system. A truncation error in the processing of MSN SLP messages can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. A bounda...

joomla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be...

cscope -- multiple buffer overflows

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Cscope, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerabilities are caused due to various boundary errors, which can be exploited to cause buffer overflows when parsing specially crafted...

cscope -- buffer overflow

SecurityFocus reports: Attackers may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions...

nagios -- Command Injection Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Nagios, which can be exploited by malicious users to potentially compromise a vulnerable system. Input passed to the "ping" parameter in statuswml.cgi is not properly sanitised before being used to invoke the ping command. This can be exploite...