ghostscript -- zseticcspace() function buffer overflow vulnerability

Chris Evans from the Google Security Team reports: Severity: parsing of evil PostScript file will result in arbitrary code execution. A stack-based buffer overflow in the zseticcspace function in zicc.c allows remote arbitrary code execution via a malicious PostScript file .ps that contains a lon...

flyspray -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Flyspray Project reports: Flyspray is affected by a Cross Site scripting Vulnerability due to an error escaping PHP's $SERVER'QUERYSTRING' superglobal, that can be maliciously used to inject arbitrary code into the savesearch javascript function. There is an XSS problem in the history tab, th...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Software ASA reports about multiple security fixes: Fixed an issue where simulated text inputs could trick users into uploading arbitrary files, as reported by Mozilla. Image properties can no longer be used to execute scripts, as reported by Max Leonov. Fixed an issue where the...

qemu -- unchecked block read/write vulnerability

Ian Jackson reports on the debian-security mailinglist: When a block device read or write request is made by the guest, nothing checks that the request is within the range supported by the backend, but the code in the backend typically assumes that the request is sensible. Depending on the backen...

openldap -- modrdn Denial of Service vulnerability

Secunia Advisory reports: A vulnerability has been reported in OpenLDAP, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS Denial of Service...

cacti -- Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered

The cacti development team reports: Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti's web interface: XSS vulnerabilities Path disclosure vulnerabilities SQL injection vulnerabilities HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities...

ikiwiki -- javascript insertion via uris

The ikiwiki development team reports: The htmlscrubber did not block javascript in uris. This was fixed by adding a whitelist of valid uri types, which does not include javascript. Some urls specifyable by the meta plugin could also theoretically have been used to inject javascript; this was also...

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. Web forgery overwrite with div overlay URL token stealing via stylesheet redire...

mailman -- script insertion vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Mailman, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks. Certain input when editing the list templates and the list info attribute is not properly sanitised before being stored. This can be exploited to insert...

mplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mplayer team reports: A buffer overflow was found in the code used to extract album titles from CDDB server answers. When parsing answers from the CDDB server, the album title is copied into a fixed-size buffer with insufficient size checks, which may cause a buffer overflow. A malicious...

pcre -- buffer overflow vulnerability

PCRE developers report: A character class containing a very large number of characters with codepoints greater than 255 in UTF-8 mode, of course caused a buffer overflow...

sdl_image -- buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in SDLimage, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service or potentially compromise an application using the library. A boundary error within the LWZReadByte function in IMGgif.c can be exploited to trigger the...

libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability

xine project reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix remotely-expoitable buffer overflow, CVE-2006-1664. This is not the first time that that bug has been fixed... It also fixes a few more recent bugs, such as the audio output problems in 1.1.9...

xorg -- multiple vulnerabilities

Matthieu Herrb of X.Org reports: Several vulnerabilities have been identified in server code of the X window system caused by lack of proper input validation on user controlled data in various parts of the software, causing various kinds of overflows. Exploiting these overflows will crash the X...

drupal -- cross site request forgery

The Drupal Project reports: The aggregator module fetches items from RSS feeds and makes them available on the site. The module provides an option to remove items from a particular feed. This has been implemented as a simple GET request and is therefore vulnerable to cross site request forgeries...

drupal -- cross site scripting (register_globals)

The Drupal Project reports: When theme .tpl.php files are accessible via the web and the PHP setting registerglobals is set to enabled, anonymous users are able to execute cross site scripting attacks via specially crafted links. Drupal's .htaccess attempts to set registerglobals to disabled and...

drupal -- cross site scripting (utf8)

The Drupal Project reports: When outputting plaintext Drupal strips potentially dangerous HTML tags and attributes from HTML, and 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...

xfce -- multiple vulnerabilities

Gentoo reports: A remote attacker could entice a user to install a specially crafted "rc" file to execute arbitrary code via long strings in the "Name" and "Comment" fields or via unspecified vectors involving the second vulnerability...

libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability

xine project reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix remotely-expoitable buffer overflow, CVE-2008-0225. It also contains a read-past-end fix for an internal library function which is only used if the OS does not supply it and a rendering fix for...

geeklog xss vulnerability

Geeklog reports: MustLive pointed out a possible XSS in the form to email an article to a friend that we're fixing with this release. Please note that this problem only exists in Geeklog 1.4.0 - neither Geeklog 1.4.1 nor any older versions 1.3.x series have that problem...

clamav -- ClamAV libclamav PE File Integer Overflow Vulnerability

iDefense Security Advisory 02.12.08: Remote exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus' ClamAV, as included in various vendors' operating system distributions, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the affected process. The vulnerability exists...

postgresql -- multiple vulnerabilities

The PostgreSQL developers report: PostgreSQL allows users to create indexes on the results of user-defined functions, known as "expression indexes". This provided two vulnerabilities to privilege escalation: 1 index functions were executed as the superuser and not the table owner during VACUUM an...

maradns -- CNAME record resource rotation denial of service

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in MaraDNS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of certain DNS packets. This can be exploited to cause a resource rotation by sending specially...

zenphoto -- XSS vulnerability

zenphoto project reports: A new zenphoto version is now available. This release contains security fixes for HTML, XSS, and SQL injection vulnerabilities...

gallery2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Gallery team reports: Gallery 2.2.4 addresses the following security vulnerabilities: Publish XP module - Fixed unauthorized album creation and file uploads. URL rewrite module - Fixed local file inclusion vulnerability in unsecured admin controller and information disclosure in hotlink...

jetty -- multiple vulnerability

Greg Wilkins reports: jetty allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms and read the source of files via multiple '/' characters in the URI...

dovecot -- Specific LDAP + auth cache configuration may mix up user logins

Dovecot reports: If two users with the same password and same passfilter variables log in within authcachettl seconds 1h by default, the second user may get logged in with the first user's cached passattrs. For example if passattrs contained the user's home/mail directory, this would mean that th...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Software ASA reports about multiple security fixes: Fixed an issue where plug-ins could be used to allow cross domain scripting, as reported by David Bloom. Details will be disclosed at a later date. Fixed an issue with TLS certificates that could be used to execute arbitrary code, as...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Wireshark team reports of multiple vulnerabilities: Wireshark could crash when reading an MP3 file. Beyond Security discovered that Wireshark could loop excessively while reading a malformed DNP packet. Stefan Esser discovered a buffer overflow in the SSL dissector. The ANSI MAP dissector cou...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Security bulletin: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these potential vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious SWF must be loaded in Flash Player by the user for an attacker to...

peercast -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Luigi Auriemma reports that peercast is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to a DoS or potentially remote code execution: The handshakeHTTP function which handles all the requests received by the other clients is vulnerable to a heap overflow which allows an attacker to fill the...

ganglia-webfrontend -- XSS vulnerabilities

The Ganglia project reports: The Ganglia development team is pleased to release Ganglia 3.0.6 Foss which is available.... This release includes a security fix for web frontend cross-scripting vulnerability...

samba -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Secuna Research reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "sendmailslot" function. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based...

e2fsprogs -- heap buffer overflow

Theodore Y. Ts'o reports: Fix a potential security vulnerability where an untrusted filesystem can be corrupted in such a way that a program using libext2fs will allocate a buffer which is far too small. This can lead to either a crash or potentially a heap-based buffer overflow crash. No known...

jetty -- multiple vulnerabilities

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Dump Servlet in Mortbay Jetty before 6.1.6rc1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters and cookies. Mortbay Jetty before 6.1.6rc1 does not properly handle "certain quote sequences" in HTML cookie parameters...

drupal -- SQL injection vulnerability

The Drupal Project reports: The function taxonomyselectnodes directly injects variables into SQL queries instead of using placeholders. While taxonomy module itself validates the input passed to taxonomyselectnodes, this is a weakness in Drupal core. Several contributed modules, such as...

claws-mail -- insecure temporary file creation

Nico Golde reports: A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite files with the privileges of the user running Claws Mail...

qemu -- Translation Block Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: QEMU is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks when handling user-supplied input. Attackers can exploit this issue to cause denial-of-service conditions. Given the nature of the issue, attackers may also be able...

Squid -- Denial of Service Vulnerability

Squid secuirty advisory reports: Due to incorrect bounds checking Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service check during some cache update reply processing. This problem allows any client trusted to use the service to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service...

firefox -- multiple remote unspecified memory corruption vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: The Firefox 2.0.0.10 update contains fixes for three bugs that improve the stability of the product. These crashes showed some evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to...

ikiwiki -- improper symlink verification vulnerability

The ikiwiki development team reports: Ikiwiki did not check if path to the srcdir to contained a symlink. If an attacker had commit access to the directories in the path, they could change it to a symlink, causing ikiwiki to read and publish files that were not intended to be published. But not...

rubygem-rails -- session-fixation vulnerability

Rails core team reports: The rails core team has released ruby on rails 1.2.6 to address a bug in the fix for session fixation attacks CVE-2007-5380. The CVE Identifier for this new issue is CVE-2007-6077...

IRC Services-- Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to the improper handling of overly long passwords within the "defaultencrypt" function in encrypt.c and can be exploited to...

liveMedia -- DoS vulnerability

The live555 development team reports: Fixed a bounds-checking error in "parseRTSPRequestString" caused by an int vs. unsigned problem. The function which handles the incoming queries from the clients is affected by a vulnerability which allows an attacker to crash the server remotely using the...

phpmyadmin -- Cross Site Scripting

phpMyAdmin security announcement: The login page authtype cookie was vulnerable to XSS via the convcharset parameter. An attacker could use this to execute malicious code on the visitors computer...

samba -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Samba Team reports: Secunia Research reported a vulnerability that allows for the execution of arbitrary code in nmbd. This defect may only be exploited when the "wins support" parameter has been enabled in smb.conf. Samba developers have discovered what is believed to be a non-exploitable...

mysql -- privilege escalation and overwrite of the system table information

MySQL reports: Using RENAME TABLE against a table with explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options can be used to overwrite system table information by replacing the symbolic link points. the file to which the symlink points...

gtar -- GNU TAR safer_name_suffix Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: GNUs tar and cpio utilities are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because of insecure use of the alloca function. Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to crash the affected utilities and possibly to execute code but this has not been confirmed...

phpmyadmin -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

The DigiTrust Group reports: When creating a new database, a malicious user can use a client-side Web proxy to place malicious code in the db parameter of the POST request. Since dbcreate.php does not properly sanitize user-supplied input, an administrator could face a persistent XSS attack when...

php -- multiple security vulnerabilities

PHP project reports: Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.5: Fixed dl to only accept filenames. Reported by Laurent Gaffie. Fixed dl to limit argument size to MAXPATHLEN CVE-2007-4887. Reported by Laurent Gaffie. Fixed htmlentities/htmlspecialchars not to accept partial multibyte sequences...