vim -- Vim Shell Command Injection Vulnerabilities

Rdancer.org reports: Improper quoting in some parts of Vim written in the Vim Script can lead to arbitrary code execution upon opening a crafted file...

apache -- multiple vulnerabilities

Apache HTTP server project reports: The following potential security flaws are addressed: CVE-2008-2364: modproxyhttp: Better handling of excessive interim responses from origin server to prevent potential denial of service and high memory usage. Reported by Ryujiro Shibuya. CVE-2007-6420:...

fetchmail -- potential crash in -v -v verbose mode

Matthias Andree reports: Gunter Nau reported fetchmail crashing on some messages; further debugging by Petr Uzel and Petr Cerny at Novell/SUSE Czech Republic dug up that this happened when fetchmail was trying to print, in -v -v verbose level, headers exceeding 2048 bytes. In this situation,...

xorg -- multiple vulnerabilities

Matthieu Herrb of X.Org reports: Several vulnerabilities have been found in the server-side code of some extensions in the X Window System. Improper validation of client-provided data can cause data corruption. Exploiting these overflows will crash the X server or, under certain circumstances all...

FreeType 2 -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: An integer overflow error exists in the processing of PFB font files. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a PFB file containing a specially crafted "Private" dictionary table. An error in the processing of PFB font files can be exploited to trigger the...

Courier Authentication Library -- SQL Injection

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in the Courier Authentication Library, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed via e.g. the username to the library is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploite...

Bugzilla -- Directory Traversal in importxml.pl

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: When importing bugs using importxml.pl, the --attachpath option can be specified, pointing to the directory where attachments to import are stored. If the XML file being read by importxml.pl contains a malicious ../relativepath/to/localfile node, the script...

ikiwiki -- cleartext passwords

The ikiwiki development team reports: Until version 2.48, ikiwiki stored passwords in cleartext in the userdb. That risks exposing all users' passwords if the file is somehow exposed. To pre-emtively guard against that, current versions of ikiwiki store password hashes using Eksblowfish...

ikiwiki -- empty password security hole

The ikiwiki development team reports: This hole allowed ikiwiki to accept logins using empty passwords to openid accounts that didn't use a password. Upgrading to a non-vulnerable ikiwiki version immediatly is recommended if your wiki allows both password and openid logins...

py-pylons -- Path traversal bug

Pylons team reports: The error.py controller uses paste.fileapp to serve the static resources to the browser. The default error.py controller uses os.path.join to combine the id from Routes with the media path. Routes prior to 1.8 double unquoted the PATHINFO, resulting in FileApp returning files...

linux-flashplugin -- unspecified remote code execution vulnerability

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: An exploit appears to be taking advantage of a known vulnerability, reported by Mark Dowd of the ISS X-Force and wushi of team509, that was resolved in Flash Player 9.0.124.0 CVE-2007-0071. This exploit does NOT appear to include a new,...

spamdyke -- open relay

Spamdyke Team reports: Fixed smtpfilter to reject the DATA command if no valid recipients have been specified. Otherwise, a specific scenario could result in every spamdyke installation being used as an open relay. If the remote server connects and gives one or more recipients that are rejected f...

peercast -- arbitrary code execution

Nico Golde discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming server, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP Basic Authentication code, allowing a remote attacker to crash PeerCast or execure arbitrary code...

Nagios -- Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Nagios, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks...

mantis -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mantis, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system and malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks. Input passed to the "filtertarget" parameter in returndynamicfilters.ph...

cdf3 -- Buffer overflow vulnerability

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center reports: The libraries for the scientific data file format, Common Data Format CDF version 3.2 and earlier, have the potential for a buffer overflow vulnerability when reading specially-crafted invalid CDF files. If successful, this could trigger execution of...

libvorbis -- various security issues

Red Hat reports: Will Drewry of the Google Security Team reported several flaws in the way libvorbis processed audio data. An attacker could create a carefully crafted Vorbis audio file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with libvorbis to crash, or execute arbitrary code when...

django -- XSS vulnerability

Django project reports: The Django administration application will, when accessed by a user who is not sufficiently authenticated, display a login form and ask the user to provide the necessary credentials before displaying the requested page. This form will be submitted to the URL the user...

mysql -- MyISAM table privileges security bypass vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: MySQL is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to overwrite existing table files in the MySQL data directory, bypassing certain security restrictions...

qemu -- "drive_init()" Disk Format Security Bypass

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in QEMU, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerability is caused due to the "driveinit" function in vl.c determining the format of a disk from data contained in the disk's header. This...

phpmyadmin -- Shared Host Information Disclosure

A phpMyAdmin security announcement report: It is possible to read the contents of any file that the web server's user can access. The exact mechanism to achieve this won't be disclosed. If a user can upload on the same host where phpMyAdmin is running a PHP script that can read files with the...

serendipity -- multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Hanno Boeck reports: The installer of serendipity 1.3 has various Cross Site Scripting issues. This is considered low priority, as attack scenarios are very unlikely. Various path fields are not escaped properly, thus filling them with javascript code will lead to XSS. MySQL error messages are no...

mt-daapd -- integer overflow

FrSIRT reports: A vulnerability has been identified in mt-daapd which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the wsgetpostvars function when processing a negative Content-Length: head...

moinmoin -- superuser privilege escalation

MoinMoin team reports: A check in the userform processing was not working as expected and could be abused for ACL and superuser privilege escalation...

vorbis-tools -- Speex header processing vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in vorbis-tools, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when processing Speex headers, which can be exploited via a specially crafted Spee...

firefox -- javascript garbage collector vulnerability

Mozilla Foundation reports: Fixes for security problems in the JavaScript engine described in MFSA 2008-15 introduced a stability problem, where some users experienced crashes during JavaScript garbage collection. This is being fixed primarily to address stability concerns. We have no demonstrati...

clamav -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in ClamAV, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or to compromise a vulnerable system. 1 A boundary error exists within the "cliscanpe" function in libclamav/pe.c. This can be exploited to cause a...

mksh -- TTY attachment privilege escalation

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error when attaching to a TTY via the -T command line switch. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running mksh via characters previously written to the attached virtual console...

png -- unknown chunk processing uninitialized memory access

Secunia reports: Tavis Ormandy has reported a vulnerability in libpng, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service, disclose potentially sensitive information, or potentially compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to the improper...

ikiwiki -- cross site request forging

The ikiwiki development team reports: Cross Site Request Forging could be used to construct a link that would change a logged-in user's password or other preferences if they clicked on the link. It could also be used to construct a link that would cause a wiki page to be modified by a logged-in...

openfire -- unspecified denial of service

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Openfire, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be exploited to cause a Denial of Service...

python -- Integer Signedness Error in zlib Module

Justin Ferguson reports: Integer signedness error in the zlib extension module in Python 2.5.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative signed integer, which triggers insufficient memory allocation and a buffer overflow...

swfdec -- exposure of sensitive information

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in swfdec, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to swfdec not properly restricting untrusted sandboxes from reading local files, which can be exploited to disclose the conte...

libxine -- array index vulnerability

xine Team reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix an unchecked array index that could allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a header structure containing a negative offset, which is used to dereference a function pointer...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Software reports of multiple security issues in Opera. All of them can lead to arbitrary code execution. Details are as the following: Newsfeed prompt can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code Resized canvas patterns can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code...

lighttpd -- OpenSSL Error Queue Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in lighttpd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to lighttpd not properly clearing the OpenSSL error queue. This can be exploited to close concurrent SSL connections of...

extman -- password bypass vulnerability

Extmail team reports: Emergency update 4 fixes a serious security vulnerability. Successful exploit of this vulnerability would allow attacker to change user's password without knowing it by using specifically crafted HTTP request...

phpmyadmin -- Username/Password Session File Information Disclosure

A phpMyAdmin security announcement report: phpMyAdmin saves sensitive information like the MySQL username and password and the Blowfish secret key in session data, which might be unprotected on a shared host...

powerdns-recursor -- DNS cache poisoning

If the system random number generator can be predicted by its past output, then an attacker may spoof Recursor to accept mallicious data. This leads to DNS cache poisoning and client redirection...

suphp -- multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Multiple local privilege escalation are found in the symlink verification code. An attacker may use it to run a PHP script with the victim's privilege. This attack is a little harder when suphp operates in paranoid mode. For suphp that runs in owner mode which is the default in ports, immediate...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Foundation reports of multiple security issues in Firefox, Seamonkey, and Thunderbird. Several of these issues can probably be used to run arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running the program. MFSA 2008-19 XUL popup spoofing variant cross-tab popups MFSA 2008-18 Java sock...

silc -- pkcs_decode buffer overflow

Core Security Technologies reports: A remote buffer overflow vulnerability found in a library used by both the SILC server and client to process packets containing cryptographic material may allow an un-authenticated client to executearbitrary code on the server with the privileges of the user...

postfix-policyd-weight -- working directory symlink vulnerability

postfix-policyd-weight does not check for symlink for its working directory. If the working directory is not already setup by the super root, an unprivileged user can link it to another directories in the system. This results in ownership/permission changes on the target directory...

php -- integer overflow vulnerability

CVE reports: Integer overflow in PHP 5.2.5 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact via a printf format parameter with a large width specifier, related to the phpsprintfappendstring function in formattedprint.c and...

gnupg -- memory corruption vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in GnuPG, which can potentially be exploited to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when importing keys with duplicated IDs. This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption when importing keys via...

libtremor -- multiple vulnerabilities

The RedHat Project reports: Will Drewry of the Google Security Team reported multiple issues in OGG Vorbis and Tremor libraries, that could cause application using those libraries to crash NULL pointer dereference or divide by zero, enter an infinite loop or cause heap overflow caused by integer...

bzip2 -- crash with certain malformed archive files

SecurityFocus reports: The 'bzip2' application is prone to a remote file-handling vulnerability because the application fails to properly handle malformed files. Exploit attempts likely result in application crashes...

awstats -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Morgan Todd has discovered a vulnerability in AWStats, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed in the URL to awstats.pl is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary...

dovecot -- security hole in blocking passdbs

Dovecot reports: Security hole in blocking passdbs MySQL always. PAM, passwd and shadow if blocking=yes where user could specify extra fields in the password. The main problem here is when specifying "skippasswordcheck" introduced in v1.0.11 for fixing master user logins, allowing the user to log...

phpmyadmin -- SQL injection vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement report: phpMyAdmin used the $REQUEST superglobal as a source for its parameters, instead of $GET and $POST. This means that on most servers, a cookie with the same name as one of phpMyAdmin's parameters can interfere. Another application could set a cookie for t...