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dovecot -- ACL plugin bypass vulnerabilities
Timo Sirainen reports in dovecot 1.1.4 release notes: ACL plugin fixes: Negative rights were actually treated as positive rights. 'k' right didn't prevent creating parent/child/child mailbox. ACL groups weren't working...
opera -- multiple vulnerabilities
Opera reports: If a malicious page redirects Opera to a specially crafted address URL, it can cause Opera to crash. Given sufficient address content, the crash could cause execution of code controlled by the attacking page. Once a Java applet has been cached, if a page can predict the cache path...
openx -- sql injection vulnerability
Secunia reports: OpenX can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed to the "bannerid" parameter in www/delivery/ac.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code...
linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities
Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.45.2 and earlier. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...
FreeBSD -- IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol routing vulnerability
Problem Description IPv6 routers may allow "on-link" IPv6 nodes to create and update the router's neighbor cache and forwarding information. A malicious IPv6 node sharing a common router but on a different physical segment from another node may be able to spoof Neighbor Discovery messages, allowi...
mplayer -- multiple integer overflows
The oCERT team reports: The MPlayer multimedia player suffers from a vulnerability which could result in arbitrary code execution and at the least, in unexpected process termination. Three integer underflows located in the Real demuxer code can be used to exploit a heap overflow, a specific video...
lighttpd -- multiple vulnerabilities
Lighttpd seurity annoucement: lighttpd 1.4.19, and possibly other versions before 1.5.0, does not decode the url before matching against rewrite and redirect patterns, which allows attackers to bypass rewrites rules. this can be a security problem in certain configurations if these rules are used...
mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities
The Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2008-37UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow MFSA 2008-38nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect same-origin violation MFSA 2008-39Privilege escalation using feed preview page and XSS flaw MFSA 2008-40Forced mouse drag MFSA 2008-41Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper...
phpmyadmin -- Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia reports: An error exists in the "PMAescapeJsString" function in libraries/jsescape.lib.php, which can be exploited to bypass certain filters and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer is used...
proftpd -- Long Command Processing Vulnerability
Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to the application truncating an overly long FTP command, and improperly interpreting the remainder string as a new FTP command. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary FTP commands with the privileges of another user by e.g. tricking the user...
gallery -- multiple vulnerabilities
Secunia reports: An error in the handing of ZIP archives with symbolic links can be exploited to disclose the contents of arbitrary files. Input from uploaded Flash animations is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is...
faad2 -- heap overflow vulnerability
CVE reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeMP4file function frontend/main.c in FAAD2 2.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MPEG-4 MP4 file...
phpmyadmin -- Code execution vulnerability
A phpMyAdmin security announcement: The serverdatabases.php script was vulnerable to an attack coming from a user who is already logged-on to phpMyAdmin, where he can execute shell code if the PHP configuration permits commands like exec...
mysql -- empty bit-string literal denial of service
MySQL reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing an empty bit-string literal and can be exploited to crash the server via a specially crafted SQL statement...
horde -- multiple vulnerabilities
Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in various Horde products, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks Input via MIME attachment linking is not properly sanitised in the MIME library before being used. This can be exploited to execute...
rubygem-rails -- SQL injection vulnerability
Jonathan Weiss reports, that it is possible to perform an SQL injection in Rails applications via not correctly sanitized :limit and :offset parameters. It is possible to change arbitrary values in affected tables or gain access to the sensitive data...
wordpress -- remote privilege escalation
The Wordpress development team reports: With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another users password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the...
emacs -- run-python vulnerability
Emacs developers report: The Emacs command run-python' launches an interactive Python interpreter. After the Python process starts up, Emacs automatically sends it the line: import emacs which normally imports a script named emacs.py which is distributed with Emacs. This script, which is typicall...
FreeBSD -- amd64 swapgs local privilege escalation
Problem Description: If a General Protection Fault happens on a FreeBSD/amd64 system while it is returning from an interrupt, trap or system call, the swapgs CPU instruction may be called one extra time when it should not resulting in userland and kernel state being mixed. Impact: A local attacke...
FreeBSD -- nmount(2) local arbitrary code execution
Problem Description: Various user defined input such as mount points, devices, and mount options are prepared and passed as arguments to nmount2 into the kernel. Under certain error conditions, user defined data will be copied into a stack allocated buffer stored in the kernel without sufficient...
FreeBSD -- Remote kernel panics on IPv6 connections
Problem Description: In case of an incoming ICMPv6 'Packet Too Big Message', there is an insufficient check on the proposed new MTU for a path to the destination. Impact: When the kernel is configured to process IPv6 packets and has active IPv6 TCP sockets, a specifically crafted ICMPv6 'Packet T...
bitlbee -- account recreation security issues
Secunia reports: Some security issues have been reported in BitlBee, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and hijack accounts. The security issues are caused due to unspecified errors, which can be exploited to overwrite existing accounts...
p5-UI-Dialog -- shell command execution vulnerability
Matthijs Kooijman reports: It seems that the whiptail, cdialog and kdialog backends apply some improper escaping in their shell commands, causing special characters present in menu item titles to be interpreted by the shell. This includes the backtick evaluation operator, so this constitutes a...
mgetty+sendfax -- symlink attack via insecure temporary files
Debian reports: Faxspool in mgetty 1.1.36 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/faxsp. temporary file...
libxml2 -- two vulnerabilities
Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Libxml2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or potentially compromise an application using the library. 1 A recursion error exists when processing certain XML content. This can be exploited to e.g...
opera -- multiple vulnerabilities
The Opera Team reports: Scripts are able to change the addresses of framed pages that come from the same site. Due to a flaw in the way that Opera checks what frames can be changed, a site can change the address of frames on other sites inside any window that it has opened. This allows sites to...
neon -- NULL pointer dereference in Digest domain support
Joe Orton reports: A NULL pointer deference in the Digest authentication support in neon versions 0.28.0 through 0.28.2 inclusive allows a malicious server to crash a client application, resulting in possible denial of service...
gnutls -- "gnutls_handshake()" Denial of Service
Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in GnuTLS, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to a use-after-free error when an application calls "gnutlshandshake" for an already valid session and can...
hplip -- hpssd Denial of Service
Secunia reports: A security issue has been reported in hplip, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS. The security issue is caused due to an error within hpssd.py when parsing certain requests. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending specially crafted reques...
joomla -- flaw in the reset token validation
Joomla project reports: A flaw in the reset token validation mechanism allows for non-validating tokens to be forged. This will allow an unauthenticated, unauthorized user to reset the password of the first enabled user lowest id. Typically, this is an administrator user. Note, that changing the...
drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities
The Drupal Project reports: A bug in the output filter employed by Drupal makes it possible for malicious users to insert script code into pages cross site scripting or XSS. A bug in the private filesystem trusts the MIME type sent by the browser, enabling malicious users with the ability to uplo...
squirrelmail -- Session hijacking vulnerability
Hanno Boeck reports: When configuring a web application to use only ssl e.g. by forwarding all http-requests to https, a user would expect that sniffing and hijacking the session is impossible. Though, for this to be secure, one needs to set the session cookie to have the secure flag. Otherwise t...
ruby -- multiple vulnerabilities in safe level
The official ruby site reports: Several vulnerabilities in safe level have been discovereds:. untracevar is permitted at safe level 4; $PROGRAMNAME may be modified at safe level 4; insecure methods may be called at safe level 1-3; syslog operations are permitted at safe level 4; dl doesn't check...
ruby -- DNS spoofing vulnerability
The official ruby site reports: resolv.rb allow remote attackers to spoof DNS answers. This risk can be reduced by randomness of DNS transaction IDs and source ports...
ruby -- DoS vulnerability in WEBrick
The official ruby site reports: WEBrick::HTTP::DefaultFileHandler is faulty of exponential time taking requests due to a backtracking regular expression in WEBrick::HTTPUtils.splitheadervalue...
twiki -- Arbitrary code execution in session files
Th1nk3r reports: The version of TWiki installed on the remote host allows access to the 'configure' script and fails to sanitize the 'image' parameter of that script of directory traversal sequences before returning the file contents when the 'action' parameter is set to 'image'. An unauthenticat...
python -- multiple vulnerabilities
Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Python, where some have unknown impact and others can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or to compromise a vulnerable system. Various integer overflow errors exist in core modules e.g...
vim6 -- heap-based overflow while parsing shell metacharacters
Description for CVE-2008-3432 says: Heap-based buffer overflow in the mchexpandwildcards function in osunix.c in Vim 6.2 and 6.3 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames, as demonstrated by the netrw.v3 test case...
openvpn-devel -- arbitrary code execution
James Yonan reports: Security Fix - affects non-Windows OpenVPN clients running OpenVPN 2.1-beta14 through 2.1-rc8 OpenVPN 2.0.x clients are NOT vulnerable nor are any versions of the OpenVPN server vulnerable. An OpenVPN client connecting to a malicious or compromised server could potentially...
ipset-tools -- Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
SecurityFocus reports: IPsec-Tools is affected by multiple remote denial-of-service vulnerabilities because the software fails to properly handle certain network packets. A successful attack allows a remote attacker to crash the software, denying further service to legitimate users...
apache -- Cross-site scripting vulnerability
CVE Mitre reports: Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in proxyftp.c in the modproxyftp module in Apache 2.0.63 and earlier, and modproxyftp.c in the modproxyftp module in Apache 2.2.9 and earlier 2.2 versions, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a wildcard in th...
phpmyadmin -- cross site request forgery vulnerabilities
A phpMyAdmin security announcement: A logged-in user, if abused into clicking a crafted link or loading an attack page, would create a database he did not intend to, or would change his connection character set...
libxine -- denial of service vulnerability
xine team reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains some security fixes, notably a DoS via corrupted Ogg files CVE-2008-3231, some related fixes, and fixes for a few possible buffer overflows...
drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities
The Drupal Project reports: Free tagging taxonomy terms can be used to insert arbitrary script and HTML code cross site scripting or XSS on node preview pages. A successful exploit requires that the victim selects a term containing script code and chooses to preview the node. This issue affects...
mplayer -- vulnerability in STR files processor
Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "strreadpacket" function in libavformat/psxstr.c. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted STR file...
clamav -- CHM Processing Denial of Service
Hanno Boeck reports: A fuzzing test showed weakness in the chm parser of clamav, which can possibly be exploited. The clamav team has disabled the chm module in older versions though freshclam updates and has released 0.94 with a fixed parser...
FreeBSD -- DNS cache poisoning
Problem Description: The BIND DNS implementation does not randomize the UDP source port when doing remote queries, and the query id alone does not provide adequate randomization. Impact: The lack of source port randomization reduces the amount of data the attacker needs to guess in order to...
poppler -- uninitialized pointer
Felipe Andres Manzano reports: The libpoppler pdf rendering library, can free uninitialized pointers, leading to arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability results from memory management bugs in the Page class constructor/destructor...
mysql -- MyISAM table privileges security bypass vulnerability for symlinked paths
MySQL Team reports: Additional corrections were made for the symlink-related privilege problem originally addressed. The original fix did not correctly handle the data directory pathname if it contained symlinked directories in its path, and the check was made only at table-creation time, not at...