drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal team reports: Vulnerability: XSS Vulnerability in taxonomy module It is possible for a malicious user to insert and execute XSS into terms, due to lack of validation on output of the page title. The fix wraps the display of terms in checkplain...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal team reports: Vulnerability: SQL injection A security vulnerability in the database layer allowed certain queries to be submitted to the database without going through Drupal's query sanitizer. Vulnerability: Execution of arbitrary files Certain -- alas, typical -- configurations of...

vnc -- authentication bypass vulnerability

RealVNC is susceptible to an authentication-bypass vulnerability. A malicious VNC client can cause a VNC server to allow it to connect without any authentication regardless of the authentication settings configured in the server. Exploiting this issue allows attackers to gain unauthenticated,...

postgresql -- encoding based SQL injection

The PostgreSQL development team reports: An attacker able to submit crafted strings to an application that will embed those strings in SQL commands can use invalidly-encoded multibyte characters to bypass standard string-escaping methods, resulting in possible injection of hostile SQL commands in...

libxine -- multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities

The libxine development team reports that several vulnerabilities had been found in the libxine library. The first vulnerability is caused by improper checking of the src/input/libreal/real.c "realparsesdp" function. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking an user to connect to a...

libmms -- stack-based buffer overflow

Mitre CVE reports: Stack-based buffer overflow in libmms, as used by a MiMMS 0.0.9 and b xine-lib 1.1.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via the 1 sendcommand, 2 stringutf16, 3 getdata, and 4 getmediapacket...

awstats -- arbitrary command execution vulnerability

OS Reviews reports: If the update of the stats via web front-end is allowed, a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on the server using a specially crafted request involving the migrate parameter. Input starting with a pipe character "|" leads to an insecure call to Perl's open function and...

firefox -- denial of service vulnerability

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports for deleted object reference when designMode="on" Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott each described crashes that were discovered to ultimately stem from the same root cause: attempting to use a deleted controller context when designMode was turned on. Thi...

mysql50-server -- COM_TABLE_DUMP arbitrary code execution

Stefano Di Paola reports: An authenticated user could remotely execute arbitrary commands by taking advantage of a stack overflow. To take advantage of these flaws an attacker should have direct access to MySQL server communication layer port 3306 or unix socket. But if used in conjuction with so...

MySQL -- Information Disclosure and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: MySQL have some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose potentially sensitive information and compromise a vulnerable system. 1 An error within the code that generates an error response to an invalid COMTABLEDUMP packet can be exploited by an...

clamav -- Freshclam HTTP Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in ClamAV, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service and potentially to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the HTTP client in the Freshclam command line...

trac -- Wiki Macro Script Insertion Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks. Input passed using the wiki macro isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed ...

ethereal -- Multiple Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerabilities are caused due to various types of errors including boundary errors, an off-by-one error, an...

zgv, xzgv -- heap overflow vulnerability

Gentoo reports: Andrea Barisani of Gentoo Linux discovered xzgv and zgv allocate insufficient memory when rendering images with more than 3 output components, such as images using the YCCK or CMYK colour space. When xzgv or zgv attempt to render the image, data from the image overruns a heap...

phpldapadmin -- Cross-Site Scripting and Script Insertion vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: phpLDAPadmin have some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. 1 Some input isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to...

coppermine -- "file" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

Secunia reports: Coppermine Photo Gallery have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. Input passed to the "file" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary...

lifetype -- ADOdb "server.php" Insecure Test Script Security Issue

Secunia reports: A security issue has been discovered in LifeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary SQL code and potentially compromise a vulnerable system. The problem is caused due to the presence of the insecure "server.php" test script...

FreeBSD -- FPU information disclosure

Problem Description On "7th generation" and "8th generation" processors manufactured by AMD, including the AMD Athlon, Duron, Athlon MP, Athlon XP, Athlon64, Athlon64 FX, Opteron, Turion, and Sempron, the fxsave and fxrstor instructions do not save and restore the FOP, FIP, and FDP registers unle...

fswiki -- XSS vulnerability

JVN reports: FreeStyleWiki has XSS vulnerability...

phpwebftp -- "language" Local File Inclusion

Secunia reports: phpWebFTP have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. Input passed to the "language" parameter in index.php isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from...

xine -- multiple remote string vulnerabilities

c0ntexb reports: There are 2 format string bugs in the latest version of Xine that could be exploited by a malicious person to execute code on the system of a remote user running the media player against a malicious playlist file. By passing a format specifier in the path of a file that is embedd...

amaya -- Attribute Value Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Amaya have two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the parsing of various attribute values. This can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when a user...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues. Several of which can be used to run arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running the program. MFSA 2006-29 Spoofing with translucent windows MFSA 2006-28 Security check of jsValueToFunctionObject can be circumvented MFSA...

plone -- "member_id" Parameter Portrait Manipulation Vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to missing security declarations in "changeMemberPortrait" and "deletePersonalPortrait". This can be exploited to manipulate or delete another user's portrait via the "memberid" parameter...

frontpage -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Esteban Martinez Fayo reports: The FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 included in Windows Sever 2003 IIS 6.0 and available as a separate download for Windows 2000 and XP has a web page /vtibin/vtiadm/fpadmdll.dll that is used for administrative purposes. This web page is vulnerable to cross site...

cyrus-sasl -- DIGEST-MD5 Pre-Authentication Denial of Service

Unspecified vulnerability in the CMU Cyrus Simple Authentication and Security Layer SASL library, has unknown impact and remote unauthenticated attack vectors, related to DIGEST-MD5 negotiation...

asterisk -- denial of service vulnerability, local system access

Emmanouel Kellenis reports a denial of service vulnerability within asterisk. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in "formatjpeg.c". A large JPEG image could trigger this bug, potentially allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code...

mailman -- Private Archive Script Cross-Site Scripting

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Mailman, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Unspecified input passed to the private archive script is not properly sanitised before being returned to users. This can be exploited to execute...

phpmyadmin -- XSS vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin security announcement: It was possible to conduct an XSS attack with a direct call to some scripts under the themes directory...

clamav -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in ClamAV, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service and compromise a vulnerable system. An unspecified integer overflow error exists in the PE header parser in "libclamav/pe.c". Successful...

kaffeine -- buffer overflow vulnerability

The KDE team reports: Kaffeine can produce a buffer overflow in httppeek while creating HTTP request headers for fetching remote playlists, which under certain circumstances could be used to crash the application and/or execute arbitrary code...

openvpn -- LD_PRELOAD code execution on client through malicious or compromised server

Hendrik Weimer reports: OpenVPN clients are a bit too generous when accepting configuration options from a server. It is possible to transmit environment variables to client-side shell scripts. There are some filters in place to prevent obvious nonsense, however they don't catch the good old...

dia -- XFig Import Plugin Buffer Overflow

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Dia, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the XFig import plugin. This can be exploited to cause buffer overflows and may allow...

samba -- Exposure of machine account credentials in winbind log files

Samba Security Advisory: The machine trust account password is the secret shared between a domain controller and a specific member server. Access to the member server machine credentials allows an attacker to impersonate the server in the domain and gain access to additional information regarding...

mplayer -- Multiple integer overflows

Secunia reports: The vulnerabilities are caused due to integer overflow errors in "libmpdemux/asfheader.c" within the handling of an ASF file, and in "libmpdemux/aviheader.c" when parsing the "indx" chunk in an AVI file. This can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via a malicious A...

mysql -- database suid privilege escalation

Dmitri Lenev reports a privilege escalation in MySQL. MySQL evaluates arguments of suid routines in the security context of the routine's definer instead of the routine's caller, which allows remote and local authenticated users to gain privileges through a routine that has been made available...

horde -- remote code execution vulnerability in the help viewer

Horde 3.1.1 release announcement: Major changes compared to Horde 3.1 are: Fix for remote code execution vulnerability in the help viewer, discovered by Jan Schneider from the Horde team...

mediawiki -- cross site scripting vulnerability

The mediawiki development team reports that there is an site scripting vulnerability within mediawiki. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of encoded links which could allow the injection of html in the output generated by mediawiki. This could lead to cross site scripting attacks...

linux-realplayer -- buffer overrun

Secunia Advisories Reports: A boundary error when processing SWF files can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. This may allow execution of arbitrary code on the user's system...

linux-realplayer -- heap overflow

iDefense Reports: Remote exploitation of a heap-based buffer overflow in RealNetwork Inc's RealPlayer could allow the execution of arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged in user. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to entice a user to follow a link to a...

sendmail -- race condition vulnerability

Problem Description A race condition has been reported to exist in the handling by sendmail of asynchronous signals. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running sendmail, typically root. Workaround There is no known workaround other than...

OPIE -- arbitrary password change

Problem Description The opiepasswd1 program uses getlogin2 to identify the user calling opiepasswd1. In some circumstances getlogin2 will return "root" even when running as an unprivileged user. This causes opiepasswd1 to allow an unpriviled user to configure OPIE authentication for the root user...

ipsec -- reply attack vulnerability

Problem Description IPsec provides an anti-replay service which when enabled prevents an attacker from successfully executing a replay attack. This is done through the verification of sequence numbers. A programming error in the fastipsec4 implementation results in the sequence number associated...

freeradius -- EAP-MSCHAPv2 Authentication Bypass

Freeradius Security Contact reports: Insufficient input validation was being done in the EAP-MSCHAPv2 state machine. A malicious attacker could manipulate their EAP-MSCHAPv2 client state machine to potentially convince the server to bypass authentication checks. This bypassing could also result i...

jabberd -- SASL Negotiation Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in jabberd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of SASL negotiation. This can be exploited to cause a crash by sending a "response" stanza...

xorg-server -- privilege escalation

Daniel Stone of X.Org reports: During the analysis of results from the Coverity code review of X.Org, we discovered a flaw in the server that allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, or cause a denial of service by overwriting files on the system, again with root...

curl -- TFTP packet buffer overflow vulnerability

A Project cURL Security Advisory reports: libcurl uses the given file part of a TFTP URL in a manner that allows a malicious user to overflow a heap-based memory buffer due to the lack of boundary check. This overflow happens if you pass in a URL with a TFTP protocol prefix "tftp://", using a val...

phpmyadmin -- 'set_theme' Cross-Site Scripting

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the "settheme" parameter isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTM...

horde -- "url" disclosure of sensitive information vulnerability

Secunia advisory SA19246: Paul Craig has discovered a vulnerability in Horde, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. Input passed to the "url" parameter in "services/go.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used in a "readfile" call. This can be exploit...

linux-flashplugin -- arbitrary code execution vulnerability

Adobe reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Flash Player that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these 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 these...