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 -- 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...

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...

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...

horde-base -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Horde team reports: An error within the form library when handling image form fields can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary local files. An error exists within the MIME Viewer library when rendering unknown text parts. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user...

dokuwiki -- Local File Inclusion with register_globals on

DokuWiki reports: A security hole was discovered which allows an attacker to include arbitrary files located on the attacked DokuWiki installation. The included file is executed in the PHP context. This can be escalated by introducing malicious code through uploading file via the media manager or...

tiff -- Multiple integer overflows

Tielei Wang: Multiple integer overflows in inter-color spaces conversion tools in libtiff 3.8 through 3.8.2, 3.9, and 4.0 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF image with large 1 width and 2 height values, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the a...

GnuTLS -- multiple vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus reports: GnuTLS is prone to multiple remote vulnerabilities: A remote code-execution vulnerability. A denial-of-service vulnerability. A signature-generation vulnerability. A signature-verification vulnerability. An attacker can exploit these issues to potentially execute arbitrary...

wireshark -- PCNFSD Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the PCNFSD dissector and can be exploited to cause a crash via a specially crafted PCNFSD packet...

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"...

nsd -- buffer overflow vulnerability

NLnet Labs: A one-byte buffer overflow has been reported in NSD. The problem affects all versions 2.0.0 to 3.2.1. The bug allows a carefully crafted exploit to bring down your DNS server. It is highly unlikely that this one byte overflow can lead to other system exploits...

openssl -- denial of service in DTLS implementation

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenSSL, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS. The library does not limit the number of buffered DTLS records with a future epoch. This can be exploited to exhaust all available memory via specially crafted DTLS...

libsndfile -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in libsndfile, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library. A boundary error exists within the "vocreadheader" function in src/voc.c. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow v...

eggdrop -- denial of service vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of private messages within the server module /mod/server.mod/servrmsg.c. This can be exploited to cause a crash by sending a specially crafted message to the bot...

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...

ntp -- stack-based buffer overflow

US-CERT reports: ntpd contains a stack buffer overflow which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system or create a denial of service...

libwmf -- embedded GD library Use-After-Free vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in libwmf, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to a use-after-free error within the embedded GD library, which can be exploite...

cups -- remote code execution and DNS rebinding

Gentoo security team summarizes: The following issues were reported in CUPS: iDefense reported an integer overflow in the cupsImageReadTIFF function in the "imagetops" filter, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow CVE-2009-0163. Aaron Siegel of Apple Product Security reported that the CUPS web...

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...

quagga -- Denial of Service

Debian Security Team reports: It was discovered that Quagga, an IP routing daemon, could no longer process the Internet routing table due to broken handling of multiple 4-byte AS numbers in an AS path. If such a prefix is received, the BGP daemon crashes with an assert failure leading to a denial...

drupal -- cross site scripting

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...

memcached -- memcached stats maps Information Disclosure Weakness

Secunia reports: A weakness has been reported in memcached, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose system information. The weakness is caused due to the application disclosing the content of /proc/self/maps if a stats maps command is received. This can be exploited to disclose e.g...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2009-22: Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs MFSA 2009-21: POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame MFSA 2009-20: Malicious search plugins can inject code into arbitrary sites MFSA 2009-19: Same-origin...

moinmoin -- cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Input passed via multiple parameters to action/AttachFile.py is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site...

poppler -- Poppler Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Poppler which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library...

xpdf -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Xpdf, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. A boundary error exists when decoding JBIG2 symbol dictionary segments. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and potential...

freetype2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FreeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library. An integer overflow error within the "cffcharsetcomputecids" function in cff/cffload.c can be exploited to potentially cause...

phpmyadmin -- insufficient output sanitizing when generating configuration file

phpMyAdmin Team reports: Setup script used to generate configuration can be fooled using a crafted POST request to include arbitrary PHP code in generated configuration file. Combined with ability to save files on server, this can allow unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code. This...

cyrus-sasl -- buffer overflow vulnerability

US-CERT reports: The saslencode64 function converts a string into base64. The Cyrus SASL library contains buffer overflows that occur because of unsafe use of the saslencode64 function...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark team reports: Wireshark 1.0.7 fixes the following vulnerabilities: The PROFINET dissector was vulnerable to a format string overflow. Bug 3382 Versions affected: 0.99.6 to 1.0.6, CVE-2009-1210. The Check Point High-Availability Protocol CPHAP dissector could crash. Bug 3269 Versions...

libxine -- multiple vulnerabilities

xine developers report: Fix another possible int overflow in the 4XM demuxer. ref. TKADV2009-004, CVE-2009-0385 Fix an integer overflow in the Quicktime demuxer...

FreeBSD -- remotely exploitable crash in OpenSSL

Problem Description The function ASN1STRINGprintex does not properly validate the lengths of BMPString or UniversalString objects before attempting to print them. Impact An application which attempts to print a BMPString or UniversalString which has an invalid length will crash as a result of...

phpmyadmin -- insufficient output sanitizing when generating configuration file

phpMyAdmin reports: Setup script used to generate configuration can be fooled using a crafted POST request to include arbitrary PHP code in generated configuration file...

drupal6-cck -- cross-site scripting

Drupal CCK plugin developer reports: The Node reference and User reference sub-modules, which are part of the Content Construction Kit CCK project, lets administrators define node fields that are references to other nodes or to users. When displaying a node edit form, the titles of candidate...

pivot-weblog -- file deletion vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in Pivot, which can be exploited by malicious people to delete certain files. Input passed to the "refkey" parameter in extensions/bbclonetools/count.php is not properly sanitised before being used to delete files. This can be exploited to dele...

ejabberd -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: The ejabberd application is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site and to steal cookie-based authentication credentials...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Team reports: An unspecified error in the processing of JPEG images can be exploited to trigger a memory corruption. An error can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in a different domain via unspecified plugins. An unspecified error has a "moderately severe" impact. No further...

zabbix -- php frontend multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the ZABBIX PHP frontend, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks and malicious users to disclose sensitive information and compromise a vulnerable system. Input appended to and passed via...

curl -- cURL/libcURL Location: Redirect URLs Security Bypass

Secunia reports: The security issue is caused due to cURL following HTTP Location: redirects to e.g. scp:// or file:// URLs which can be exploited by a malicious HTTP server to overwrite or disclose the content of arbitrary local files and potentially execute arbitrary commands via specially...

libsndfile -- CAF processing integer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in the processing of CAF description chunks. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking the user into processing a specially crafted CAF audio file...

mod_perl -- cross-site scripting

Secunia reports: Certain input passed to the "Apache::Status" and "Apache2::Status" modules is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected website...

ziproxy -- multiple vulnerability

Ziproxy Developers reports: Multiple HTTP proxy implementations are prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability related to the interpretation of the 'Host' HTTP header. Specifically, this issue occurs when the proxy makes a forwarding decision based on the 'Host' HTTP header instead of the...

pango -- integer overflow

oCERT reports: Pango suffers from a multiplicative integer overflow which may lead to a potentially exploitable, heap overflow depending on the calling conditions. For example, this vulnerability is remotely reachable in Firefox by creating an overly large document.location value but only results...

pngcrush -- libpng Uninitialised Pointer Arrays Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Pngcrush, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to the use of vulnerable libpng code...