squid -- remote denial of service vulnerability

Squid security advisory 2009:1 reports: Due to an internal error Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests. This problem allows any client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service...

sudo -- certain authorized users could run commands as any user

Todd Miller reports: A bug was introduced in Sudo's group matching code in version 1.6.9 when support for matching based on the supplemental group vector was added. This bug may allow certain users listed in the sudoers file to run a command as a different user than their access rule specifies...

firefox -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2009-06: Directives to not cache pages ignored MFSA 2009-05: XMLHttpRequest allows reading HTTPOnly cookies MFSA 2009-04: Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files MFSA 2009-03: Local file stealing with SessionStore MFSA 2009-02: XSS using a chrome XBL...

ghostscript -- buffer overflow vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: Ghostscript is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it into a finite-sized buffer. Exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to overwrite a sensitive memory buffer with arbitrary dat...

ffmpeg -- 4xm processing memory corruption vulnerability

Secunia reports: Tobias Klein has reported a vulnerability in FFmpeg, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to a signedness error within the "fourxmreadheader" function in libavformat/4xm.c. This can ...

ganglia -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: Spike Spiegel has discovered a vulnerability in Ganglia which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the processpath function in gmetad/server.c. This can be exploited to cause a stack-bas...

epiphany -- untrusted search path vulnerability

CVE Mitre reports: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Epiphany 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySysSetArgv function...

dia -- remote command execution vulnerability

Security Focus reports: An attacker could exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting victim to execute the vulnerable application in a directory containing a malicious Python file. A successful exploit will allow arbitrary Python commands to run within the privileges of the currently logged-i...

glpi -- SQL Injection

The GLPI project reports: Input passed via unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulateSQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code...

tor -- unspecified memory corruption vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability with an unknown impact has been reported in Tor. The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be exploited to trigger a heap corruption. No further information is currently available...

gstreamer-plugins-good -- multiple memory overflows

Secunia reports: Tobias Klein has reported some vulnerabilities in GStreamer Good Plug-ins, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. A boundary error occurs within the "qtdemuxparsesamples" function in gst/gtdemux/qtdemux.c when performing QuickTim...

moinmoin -- multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in MoinMoin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to multiple parameters in action/AttachFile.py is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited ...

roundcube -- webmail script insertion and php code injection

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in RoundCube Webmail, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system and by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks and compromise a vulnerable system. The HTML "background" attribute within e.g. HT...

moinmoin -- multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Input passed to multiple parameters in 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. Certain input passed to...

expat2 -- Parser crash with specially formatted UTF-8 sequences

CVE reports: The updatePosition function in lib/xmltokimpl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buff...

phplist -- local file inclusion vulnerability

Secunia reports: Input passed to the "SERVERConfigFile" parameter in admin/index.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources...

Teamspeak Server -- Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: TeamSpeak is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input data. Exploiting the issue may allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information that could aid in further attacks...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal Team reports: The Content Translation module for Drupal 6.x enables users to make a translation of an existing item of content a node. In that proces the existing node's content is copied into the new node's submission form. The module contains a flaw that allows a user with the 'translate...

amarok -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Tobias Klein has reported some vulnerabilities in Amarok, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Two integer overflow errors exist within the "Audible::Tag::readTag" function in src/metadata/audible/audibletag.cpp. These can be...

openfire -- multiple vulnerabilities

Core Security Technologies reports: Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been found which may lead to arbitrary remote code execution on the server running the application due to unauthorized upload of Java plugin code...

libaudiofile -- heap-based overflow in Microsoft ADPCM compression module

Debian reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in msadpcm.c in libaudiofile in audiofile 0.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted WAV file...

xterm -- DECRQSS remote command execution vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: The xterm program is prone to a remote command-execution vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently validate user input. Successfully exploiting this issue would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected computer in the context of the affected...

php5-gd -- uninitialized memory information disclosure vulnerability

According to CVE-2008-5498 entry: Array index error in the "imageRotate" function in PHP 5.2.8 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to read the contents of arbitrary memory locations via a crafted value of the third argument aka the "bgdcolor" or "clrBack" argument for an indexed image...

ampache -- insecure temporary file usage

Secunia reports: A security issue has been reported in Ampache, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. The security issue is caused due to the "gather-messages.sh" script handling temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be...

FreeBSD -- Cross-site request forgery in ftpd(8)

Problem Description: The ftpd8 server splits long commands into several requests. This may result in the server executing a command which is hidden inside another very long command. Impact: This could, with a specifically crafted command, be used in a cross-site request forgery attack. FreeBSD...

FreeBSD -- netgraph / bluetooth privilege escalation

Problem Description: Some function pointers for netgraph and bluetooth sockets are not properly initialized. Impact: A local user can cause the FreeBSD kernel to execute arbitrary code. This could be used by an attacker directly; or it could be used to gain root privilege or to escape from a jail...

php-mbstring -- php mbstring buffer overflow vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: PHP is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform boundary checks before copying user-supplied data to insufficiently sized memory buffers. The issue affects the 'mbstring' extension included in the standard distribution. An attacker can exploit th...

git -- gitweb privilege escalation

Git maintainers report: gitweb has a possible local privilege escalation bug that allows a malicious repository owner to run a command of his choice by specifying diff.external configuration variable in his repository and running a crafted gitweb query...

netatalk -- arbitrary command execution in papd daemon

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Netatalk, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to the papd daemon improperly sanitising several received parameters before passing them in a call to popen. Thi...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2008-69 XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore MFSA 2008-68 XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation MFSA 2008-67 Escaped null characters ignored by CSS parser MFSA 2008-66 Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters MFSA 2008-65 Cross-domai...

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...

mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

The MediaWiki development team reports: Certain unspecified input 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 site. Certain unspecified input related to uploads i...

mplayer -- twinvq processing buffer overflow vulnerability

A trapkit reports: MPlayer contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing malformed TwinVQ media files. The vulnerability may be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of MPlayer...

roundcube -- remote execution of arbitrary code

Entry for CVE-2008-5619 says: html2text.php in RoundCube Webmail roundcubemail 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the pregreplace function with the eval switch...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Project reports: The update system is vulnerable to Cross site request forgeries. Malicious users may cause the superuser user 1 to execute old updates that may damage the database. When an input format is deleted, not all existing content on a site is updated to reflect this deletion...

vinagre -- format string vulnerability

CORE Security Technologies reports: A format string error has been found on the vinagreutilsshowerror function that can be exploited via commands issued from a malicious server containing format string specifiers on the VNC name. In a web based attack scenario, the user would be required to conne...

phpmyadmin -- cross-site request forgery vulnerability

The phpMyAdmin Team reports: A logged-in user can be subject of SQL injection through cross site request forgery. Several scripts in phpMyAdmin are vulnerable and the attack can be made through table parameter...

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...

php5 -- potential magic_quotes_gpc vulnerability

PHP Developers reports: Due to a security bug found in the PHP 5.2.7 release, it has been removed from distribution. The bug affects configurations where magicquotesgpc is enabled, because it remains off even when set to on...

pdfjam -- insecure temporary files

Secunia reports: Some security issues have been reported in PDFjam, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. The security issues are caused due to the "pdf90", "pdfjoin", and "pdfnup" scripts using temporary files in an insecure manner...

twiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Marc Schoenefeld and Steve Milner of RedHat SRT and Peter Allor of IBM ISS report: XSS vulnerability with URLPARAM variable SEARCH variable allows arbitrary shell command execution...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP, where some have an unknown impact and others can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or compromise a vulnerable system. An input validation error exists within the "ZipArchive::extractTo"...

squirrelmail -- Cross site scripting vulnerability

Squirrelmail team reports: An issue was fixed that allowed an attacker to send specially- crafted hyperlinks in a message that could execute cross-site scripting XSS when the user viewed the message in SquirrelMail...

vlc -- arbitrary code execution in the RealMedia processor

Tobias Klein from TrapKit reports: The VLC media player contains an integer overflow vulnerability while parsing malformed RealMedia .rm files. The vulnerability leads to a heap overflow that can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of VLC media player...

codeigniter -- arbitrary script execution in the new Form Validation class

znirkel reports: The eval function in resetpostarray crashes when posting certain data. By passing in carefully-crafted input data, the eval function could also execute malicious PHP code. Note that CodeIgniter applications that either do not use the new Form Validation class or use the old...

php -- ini database truncation inside dba_replace() function

securityfocus research reports: A bug that leads to the emptying of the INI file contents if the database key was not found exists in PHP dba extension in versions 5.2.6, 4.4.9 and earlier. Function dbareplace are not filtering strings key and value. There is a possibility for the destruction of...

p5-File-Path -- rmtree allows creation of setuid files

Jan Lieskovsky reports: perl-File-Path rmtree race condition CVE-2005-0448 was assigned to address this This vulnerability was fixed in 5.8.4-7 but re-introduced in 5.8.8-1. It's also present in File::Path 2.xx, up to and including 2.07 which has only a partial fix...

samba -- potential leakage of arbitrary memory contents

Samba Team reports: Samba 3.0.29 and beyond contain a change to deal with gcc 4 optimizations. Part of the change modified range checking for client-generated offsets of secondary trans, trans2 and nttrans requests. These requests are used to transfer arbitrary amounts of memory from clients to...

wordpress -- header rss feed script insertion vulnerability

Secunia reports: Input passed via the HTTP "Host" header is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site if malicious data is viewed...

amaya -- multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: A boundary error when processing "div" HTML tags can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long "id" parameter. A boundary error exists when processing overly long links. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by tricking the user...