linux-flashplugin -- critical vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: 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 exploit...

wireshark -- Multiple problems

wireshark Team reports: It may be possible to make Wireshark or Ethereal crash or use up available memory by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file...

p5-Net-DNS -- multiple Vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: An error exists in the handling of DNS queries where IDs are incremented with a fixed value and are additionally used for child processes in a forking server. This can be exploited to poison the DNS cache of an application using the module if a valid ID is guessed. An...

dokuwiki -- XSS vulnerability in spellchecker backend

DokuWiki reports: The spellchecker tests the UTF-8 capabilities of the used browser by sending an UTF-8 string to the backend, which will send it back unfiltered. By comparing string length the spellchecker can work around broken implementations. An attacker could construct a form to let users se...

evolution-data-server -- remote execution of arbitrary code vulnerability

Debian project reports: It was discovered that the IMAP code in the Evolution Data Server performs insufficient sanitising of a value later used an array index, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code...

gd -- multiple vulnerabilities

gd had been reported vulnerable to several vulnerabilities: CVE-2007-3472: Integer overflow in gdImageCreateTrueColor function in the GD Graphics Library libgd before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers has unspecified attack vectors and impact. CVE-2007-3473: The gdImageCreateXbm functi...

p5-Mail-SpamAssassin -- local user symlink-attack DoS vulnerability

SpamAssassin website reports: A local user symlink-attack DoS vulnerability in SpamAssassin has been found, affecting versions 3.1.x, 3.2.0, and SVN trunk...

c-ares -- DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to predictable DNS "Transaction ID" field in DNS queries and can be exploited to poison the DNS cache of an application using the library if a valid ID is guessed...

wordpress -- XMLRPC SQL Injection

Secunia reports: Slappter has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed to the "wp.suggestCategories" method in xmlrpc.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to...

mplayer -- cddb stack overflow

Mplayer Team reports: A stack overflow was found in the code used to handle cddb queries. When copying the album title and category, no checking was performed on the size of the strings before storing them in a fixed-size array. A malicious entry in the database could trigger a stack overflow in...

vlc -- format string vulnerability and integer overflow

isecpartners reports: VLC is vulnerable to a format string attack in the parsing of Vorbis comments in Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora files, CDDA data or SAP/SDP service discovery messages. Additionally, there are two errors in the handling of wav files, one a denial of service due to an uninitialized...

flac123 -- stack overflow in comment parsing

isecpartners reports: flac123, also known as flac-tools, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in vorbis comment parsing. This allows for the execution of arbitrary code...

libvorbis -- Multiple memory corruption flaws

isecpartners reports: libvorbis contains several vulnerabilities allowing heap overwrite, read violations and a function pointer overwrite. These bugs cause a at least a denial of service, and potentially code execution...

webmin -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Secunia reports: Input passed to unspecified parameters in pamlogin.cgi 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...

wordpress -- unmoderated comments disclosure

Blogsecurity reports: An attacker can read comments on posts that have not been moderated. This can be a real security risk if blog admins are using unmoderated comments comments that have not been made public to hide sensitive notes regarding posts, future work, passwords etc. So please be caref...

findutils -- GNU locate heap buffer overrun

James Youngman reports: When GNU locate reads filenames from an old-format locate database, they are read into a fixed-length buffer allocated on the heap. Filenames longer than the 1026-byte buffer can cause a buffer overrun. The overrunning data can be chosen by any person able to control the...

mutt -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Securityfocus reports: Mutt is prone to a local buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before using it in a memory copy operation. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the with the privileges of the victim. Failed...

phppgadmin -- cross site scripting vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports about phppgadmin: Exploiting this vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks on unsuspecting users in the context of the affected website. As a result, the attacker may be able to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch...

Pubcookie Login Server -- XSS vulnerability

Nathan Dors, Pubcookie Project reports: A new non-persistent XSS vulnerability was found in the Pubcookie login server's compiled binary "index.cgi" CGI program. The CGI program mishandles untrusted data when printing responses to the browser. This makes the program vulnerable to carefully crafte...

FreeBSD -- heap overflow in file(1)

Problem Description: When writing data into a buffer in the fileprintf function, the length of the unused portion of the buffer is not correctly tracked, resulting in a buffer overflow when processing certain files. Impact: An attacker who can cause file1 to be run on a maliciously constructed...

tomcat -- XSS vulnerability in sample applications

The Apache Project reports: The JSP and Servlet included in the sample application within the Tomcat documentation webapp did not escape user provided data before including it in the output. This enabled a XSS attack. These pages have been simplified not to use any user provided data in the outpu...

mod_jk -- information disclosure

Kazu Nambo reports: URL decoding the the Apache webserver prior to decoding in the Tomcat server could pypass access control rules and give access to pages on a different AJP by sending a crafted URL...

png -- DoS crash vulnerability

A Libpng Security Advisory reports: A grayscale PNG image with a malformed bad CRC tRNS chunk will crash some libpng applications. This vulnerability could be used to crash a browser when a user tries to view such a malformed PNG file. It is not known whether the vulnerability could be exploited...

mysql -- renaming of arbitrary tables by authenticated users

MySQL reports: The requirement of the DROP privilege for RENAME TABLE was not enforced...

samba -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Samba Team reports: A bug in the local SID/Name translation routines may potentially result in a user being able to issue SMB/CIFS protocol operations as root. When translating SIDs to/from names using Samba local list of user and group accounts, a logic error in the smbd daemon's internal...

squirrelmail -- Cross site scripting in HTML filter

The SquirrelMail developers report: Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the HTML filter in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9a allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 data: URI in an HTML e-mail attachment or 2 various non-ASCII character sets that a...

cups -- Incomplete SSL Negotiation Denial of Service

Secunia reports: CUPS is not using multiple workers to handle connections. This can be exploited to stop CUPS from accepting new connections by starting but never completing an SSL negotiation...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

The PHP development team reports: Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.2 and PHP 4.4.7: Fixed CVE-2007-1001, GD wbmp used with invalid image size Fixed asciiz byte truncation inside mail Fixed a bug in mbparsestr that can be used to activate registerglobals Fixed unallocated memory...

qemu -- several vulnerabilities

The Debian Security Team reports: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the QEMU processor emulator, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-1320Tavis Ormandy...

tomcat -- multiple vulnerabilities

Apache Project reports: The Apache Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Tomcat 4.1.36 stable. This build contains numerous library updates, A small number of bug fixes and two important security fixes...

FreeType 2 -- Heap overflow vulnerability

Integer signedness error in truetype/ttgload.c in Freetype 2.3.4 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TTF image with a negative npoints value, which leads to an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow...

FreeBSD -- IPv6 Routing Header 0 is dangerous

Problem Description There is no mechanism for preventing IPv6 routing headers from being used to route packets over the same links many times. Impact An attacker can "amplify" a denial of service attack against a link between two vulnerable hosts; that is, by sending a small volume of traffic the...

clamav -- multiple vulnerabilities

Clamav had been found vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities: Improper checking for the end of an buffer causing an unspecified attack vector. Insecure temporary file handling, which could be exploited to read sensitive information. A flaw in the parser engine which could allow a remote attacker ...

mysql -- command line client input validation vulnerability

Thomas Henlich reports: The mysql command-line client does not quote HTML special characters like in its output. This allows an attacker who is able to write data into a table to hide or modify records in the output, and to inject potentially dangerous code, e. g. Javascript to perform cross-site...

freeradius -- EAP-TTLS Tunnel Memory Leak Remote DOS Vulnerability

The freeradius development team reports: A malicious 802.1x supplicant could send malformed Diameter format attributes inside of an EAP-TTLS tunnel. The server would reject the authentication request, but would leak one VALUEPAIR data structure, of approximately 300 bytes. If an attacker performe...

fetchmail -- insecure APOP authentication

Matthias Andree reports: The POP3 standard, currently RFC-1939, has specified an optional, MD5-based authentication scheme called "APOP" which no longer should be considered secure. Additionally, fetchmail's POP3 client implementation has been validating the APOP challenge too lightly and accepte...

p5-Imager -- possibly exploitable buffer overflow

Imager 0.56 and all earlier versions with BMP support have a security issue when reading compressed 8-bit per pixel BMP files where either a compressed run of data or a literal run of data overflows the scan-line. Such an overflow causes a buffer overflow in a malloc allocated memory buffer,...

claws-mail -- APOP vulnerability

CVE reports: The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions...

mod_perl -- remote DoS in PATH_INFO parsing

Mandriva reports: PerlRun.pm in Apache modperl 1.29 and earlier, and RegistryCooker.pm in modperl 2.x, does not properly escape PATHINFO before use in a regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption via a crafted URI...

mcweject -- exploitable buffer overflow

CVE reports: Buffer overflow in eject.c in Jason W. Bacon mcweject 0.9 on FreeBSD, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument, possibly involving the device name...

Squid -- TRACE method handling denial of service

Squid advisory 2007:1 notes: Due to an internal error Squid-2.6 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing the TRACE request method. Workarounds: To work around the problem deny access to using the TRACE method by inserting the following two lines before your first httpaccess rul...

flyspray -- authentication bypass

The Flyspray Project reports: Flyspray authentication system can be bypassed by sending a carefully crafted post request. To be vulnerable, PHP configuration directive outputbuffering has to be disabled or set to a low value...

trac -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "download wiki page as text" function, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. Successful exploitation may require that the victim uses IE...

sql-ledger -- security bypass vulnerability

Chris Travers reports: George Theall of Tenable Security notified the LedgerSMB core team today of an authentication bypass vulnerability allowing full access to the administrator interface of LedgerSMB 1.1 and SQL-Ledger 2.x. The problem is caused by the password checking routine failing to...

ktorrent -- multiple vulnerabilities

Two problems have been found in KTorrent: KTorrent does not properly sanitize file names to filter out ".." components, so it's possible for an attacker to create a malicious torrent in order to overwrite arbitrary files within the filesystem. Messages with invalid chunk indexes aren't rejected...

WebCalendar -- "noSet" variable overwrite vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in WebCalendar, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. Input passed to unspecified parameters is not properly verified before being used with the "noSet" parameter set. This can be exploited to overwrite...

mod_jk -- long URL stack overflow vulnerability

TippingPoint and The Zero Day Initiative reports: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apache Tomcat JK Web Server Connector. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the URI handler fo...

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 2007-08 onUnload + document.write memory corruption MFSA 2007-07 Embedded...

typo3 -- email header injection

Olivier Dobberkau, Andreas Otto, and Thorsten Kahler report: An unspecified error in the internal form engine can be used for sending arbitrary mail headers, using it for purposes which it is not meant for, e.g. sending spam messages...

snort -- DCE/RPC preprocessor vulnerability

A IBM Internet Security Systems Protection Advisory reports: Snort is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow as a result of DCE/RPC reassembly. This vulnerability is in a dynamic-preprocessor enabled in the default configuration, and the configuration for this preprocessor allows for...