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 -- 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

fetchmail -- potential crash in -v -v verbose mode (revised patch)

Matthias Andree reports: 2008-06-24 1.2 also fixed issue in reportcomplete reported by Petr Uzel...

phpmyadmin -- Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Secunia report: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed via unspecified parameters to files in /libraries is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be...

cgiwrap -- XSS Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in CGIWrap, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. The vulnerability is caused due to the application generating error messages without specifying a charset. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary...

ruby -- multiple integer and buffer overflow vulnerabilities

The official ruby site reports: Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service DoS condition or allow execution of arbitrary code...

php -- input validation error in safe_mode

According to Maksymilian Arciemowicz research, it is possible to bypass security restrictions of safemode in various functions via directory traversal vulnerability. The attacker can use this attack to gain access to sensitive information. Functions utilizing expandfilepath may be affected. It...

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...

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...

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...

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 -- 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...