xpdf -- multiple remote Stream.CC vulnerabilities

Secunia Research reports: Secunia Research has discovered some vulnerabilities in Xpdf, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. An array indexing error within the "DCTStream::readProgressiveDataUnit" method in xpdf/Stream.cc can be exploited to corrupt memory via...

coppermine -- multiple vulnerabilities

Coppermine Security advisory The development team is releasing a security update for Coppermine in order to counter a recently discovered cross-site-scripting vulnerability...

plone -- unsafe data interpreted as pickles

Plone projectreports: This hotfix corrects a vulnerability in the statusmessages and linkintegrity modules, where unsafe network data was interpreted as python pickles. This allows an attacker to run arbitrary python code within the Zope/Plone process...

net-snmp -- denial of service via GETBULK request

CVE reports: The SNMP agent snmpagent.c in net-snmp before 5.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and memory consumption via a GETBULK request with a large max-repeaters value...

cups -- off-by-one buffer overflow

Secunia reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in CUPS, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "ippReadIO" function in cups/ipp.c when processing IPP Internet Printing Protocol...

pcre -- arbitrary code execution

Debian project reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team has discovered several security issues in PCRE, the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library, which potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by compiling specially crafted regular expressions...

mt-daapd -- denial of service vulnerability

US-CERT reports: webserver.c in mt-dappd in Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and daemon crash via a stats method action to /xml-rpc with 1 an empty Authorization header line, which triggers a crash in the wsdecodepassword...

perl -- regular expressions unicode data buffer overflow

Red Hat reports: A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the permissions of the user running Perl...

gftp -- multiple vulnerabilities

Gentoo reports: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo discovered two boundary errors in fsplib code included in gFTP when processing overly long directory or file names. A remote attacker could trigger these vulnerabilities by enticing a user to download a file with a specially crafted directory or file name,...

perdition -- str_vwrite format string vulnerability

SEC-Consult reports: Perdition IMAP is affected by a format string bug in one of its IMAP output-string formatting functions. The bug allows the execution of arbitrary code on the affected server. A successful exploit does not require prior authentication...

wordpress -- cross-site scripting

A Secunia Advisory report: Input passed to the "postscolumns" parameter in wp-admin/edit-post-rows.php 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...

openldap -- multiple remote denial of service vulnerabilities

BugTraq reports: OpenLDAP is prone to multiple remote denial-of-service vulnerabilities because of an incorrect NULL-termination issue and a double-free issue...

py-django -- denial of service vulnerability

Django project reports: A per-process cache used by Django's internationalization "i18n" system to store the results of translation lookups for particular values of the HTTP Accept-Language header used the full value of that header as a key. An attacker could take advantage of this by sending...

linux-realplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in RealPlayer/RealOne/HelixPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. An input validation error when processing .RA/.RAM files can be exploited to cause a heap corruption via a specially crafted...

firefox -- OnUnload Javascript browser entrapment vulnerability

RedHat reports: Several flaws were found in the way in which Firefox displayed malformed web content. A web page containing specially-crafted content could potentially trick a user into surrendering sensitive information. CVE-2007-1095, CVE-2007-3844, CVE-2007-3511, CVE-2007-5334...

drupal --- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Project reports: In some circumstances Drupal allows user-supplied data to become part of response headers. As this user-supplied data is not always properly escaped, this can be exploited by malicious users to execute HTTP response splitting attacks which may lead to a variety of...

phpmyadmin -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

The DigiTrust Group discovered serious XSS vulnerability in the phpMyAdmin serverstatus.php script. According to their report vulnerability can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

An advisory from Opera reports: If a user has configured Opera to use an external newsgroup client or e-mail application, specially crafted Web pages can cause Opera to run that application incorrectly. In some cases this can lead to execution of arbitrary code. When accesing frames from differen...

rubygem-rails -- JSON XSS vulnerability

Rails core team reports: All users of Rails 1.2.4 or earlier are advised to upgrade to 1.2.5, though it isn't strictly necessary if you aren't working with JSON. For more information the JSON vulnerability, see CVE-2007-3227...

phpmyadmin -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: phpMyAdmin is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may...

flac -- media file processing integer overflow vulnerabilities

iDefense Laps reports: Remote exploitation of multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in libFLAC, as included with various vendor's software distributions, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged in user. These vulnerabilities specifically exist in the...

ldapscripts -- Command Line User Credentials Disclosure

Ganael Laplanche reports: Up to now, each ldap command was called with the -w parameter, which allows to specify the bind password on the command line. Unfortunately, this could make the password appear to anybody performing a ps during the call. This is now avoided by using the -y parameter and ...

png -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in libpng, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. Certain errors within libpng, including a logical NOT instead of a bitwise NOT in pngtrtran.c, an error in the 16bit cheap transparency...

firebird -- multiple remote buffer overflow vulnerabilities

RISE Security reports: There exists multiple vulnerabilities within functions of Firebird Relational Database, which when properly exploited can lead to remote compromise of the vulnerable system...

jdk/jre -- Applet Caching May Allow Network Access Restrictions to be Circumvented

SUN reports: A vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE with applet caching may allow an untrusted applet that is downloaded from a malicious website to make network connections to network services on machines other than the one that the applet was downloaded from. This may allow network...

xfs -- multiple vulnerabilities

Matthieu Herrb reports: Problem Description: Several vulnerabilities have been identified in xfs, the X font server. The QueryXBitmaps and QueryXExtents protocol requests suffer from lack of validation of their 'length' parameters. Impact: On most modern systems, the font server is accessible onl...

smbftpd -- format string vulnerability

Secunia reports: Format string vulnerability in the SMBDirList function in dirlist.c in SmbFTPD 0.96 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a directory name...

nagios-plugins -- Long Location Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the redir function in checkhttp.c when processing HTTP Location: header information. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by returning an overly long string in the "Location:" header to a vulnerable...

tcl/tk -- buffer overflow in ReadImage function

A Buffer overflow in the ReadImage function in generic/tkImgGIF.c in Tcl/Tk, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via multi-frame interlaced GIF files in which later frames are smaller than the first...

openoffice -- arbitrary command execution vulnerability

iDefense reports: Remote exploitation of multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities within OpenOffice, as included in various vendors' operating system distributions, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. These vulnerabilities exist within the TIFF parsing code of the OpenOffice suite. When...

kdm -- passwordless login vulnerability

The KDE development team reports: KDM can be tricked into performing a password-less login even for accounts with a password set under certain circumstances, namely autologin to be configured and "shutdown with password" enabled...

ImageMagick -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ImageMagick. ImageMagick before 6.3.5-9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file that triggers 1 an infinite loop in the ReadDCMImage function, related to ReadBlobByte function calls; or 2 an infinite...

mozilla -- code execution via Quicktime media-link files

The Mozilla Foundation reports a vulnerability within the mozilla browser. This vulnerability also affects various other browsers like firefox and seamonkey. The vulnerability is caused by QuickTime Media-Link files that contain a qtnext attribute. This could allow an attacker to start the browse...

bugzilla -- "createmailregexp" security bypass vulnerability

The Bugzilla development team reports: Bugzilla::WebService::User::offeraccountbyemail does not check the "createemailregexp" parameter, and thus allows users to create accounts who would normally be denied account creation. The "emailregexp" parameter is still checked. If you do not have the...

coppermine -- multiple vulnerabilities

The coppermine development team reports two vulnerabilities with the coppermine application. These vulnerabilities are caused by improper checking of the log variable in "viewlog.php" and improper checking of the referer variable in "mode.php". This could allow local file inclusion, potentially...

konquerer -- address bar spoofing

The KDE development team reports: The Konqueror address bar is vulnerable to spoofing attacks that are based on embedding white spaces in the url. In addition the address bar could be tricked to show an URL which it is intending to visit for a short amount of time instead of the current URL...

samba -- nss_info plugin privilege escalation vulnerability

The Samba development team reports: The idmapad.so library provides an nssinfo extension to Winbind for retrieving a user's home directory path, login shell and primary group id from an Active Directory domain controller. This functionality is enabled by defining the "winbind nss info" smb.conf...

mediawiki -- cross site scripting vulnerability

The MediaWiki development team reports: A possible HTML/XSS injection vector in the API pretty-printing mode has been found and fixed. The vulnerability may be worked around in an unfixed version by simply disabling the API interface if it is not in use, by adding this to LocalSettings.php:...

wordpress -- remote sql injection vulnerability

Alexander Concha reports: While testing WordPress, it has been discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability that allows an attacker to retrieve remotely any user credentials from a vulnerable site, this bug is caused because of early database escaping and the lack of validation in query string like...

lighttpd -- FastCGI header overrun in mod_fastcgi

lighttpd maintainer reports: Lighttpd is prone to a header overflow when using the modfastcgi extension, this can lead to arbitrary code execution in the fastcgi application. For a detailed description of the bug see the external reference. This bug was found by Mattias Bengtsson and Philip Olaus...

apache -- multiple vulnerabilities

Apache HTTP server project reports: The following potential security flaws are addressed: CVE-2007-3847: modproxy: Prevent reading past the end of a buffer when parsing date-related headers. CVE-2007-1863: modcache: Prevent a segmentation fault if attributes are listed in a Cache-Control header...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

The PHP development team reports: Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.4: Fixed a floating point exception inside wordwrap Reported by Mattias Bengtsson Fixed several integer overflows inside the GD extension Reported by Mattias Bengtsson Fixed size calculation in chunksplit Reported by...

gallery2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Gallery project reports: Gallery 2.2.3 addresses the following security vulnerabilities: Unauthorized renaming of items possible with WebDAV reported by Merrick Manalastas Unauthorized modification and retrieval of item properties possible with WebDAV Unauthorized locking and replacing of items...

irc/bitchx -- multiple vulnerabilities

bannedit reports: Stack-based buffer overflow in BitchX 1.1 Final allows remote IRC servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a MODE command, related to the pmode variable. Nico Golde reports: There is a security issue in ircii-pana in bitchx' hostname command. The ehostname function...

tikiwiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in TikiWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and script insertion attacks and disclose potentially sensitive information. Input passed to the username parameter in tiki-remindpassword.php when remi...

claws-mail -- POP3 Format String Vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: A format string error in the "incputerror" function in src/inc.c when displaying a POP3 server's error response can be exploited via specially crafted POP3 server replies containing format specifiers. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: This advisory covers three security issues that have recently been fixed in the Bugzilla code: A possible cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability when filing bugs using the guided form. When using emailin.pl, insufficiently escaped data may be passed to...

gtar -- Directory traversal vulnerability

Red Hat reports: A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary files to which the user running GNU tar had write access. Red Hat credits Dmitry V. Levin for reporting the issue...

clamav -- multiple remote Denial of Service vulnerabilities

BugTraq reports: ClamAV is prone to multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities. A successful attack may allow an attacker to crash the application and deny service to users...

id3lib -- insecure temporary file creation

Debian Bug report log reports: When tagging file $foo, a temporary copy of the file is created, and for some reason, libid3 doesn't use mkstemp but just creates $foo.XXXXXX literally, without any checking. This would silently truncate and overwrite an existing $foo.XXXXXX...