globus -- Multiple tmpfile races

The Globus Alliance reports: The proxy generation tool grid-proxy-init creates the file, secures the file to provide access only to owner and writes proxy to the file. A race condition exists between the opening of the proxy credentials file, and making sure it is safe file to write to. The check...

x11vnc -- authentication bypass vulnerability

Ludwig Nussel reports that x11vnc is vulnerable to an authentication bypass vulnerability. The vulnerability is caused by an error in auth.c. This could allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized and unauthenticated access to the system...

clamav -- heap overflow vulnerability

Clamav team reports: A heap overflow vulnerability was discovered in libclamav which could cause a denial of service or allow the execution of arbitrary code. The problem is specifically located in the PE file rebuild function used by the UPX unpacker. Relevant code from libclamav/upx.c: memcpyds...

drupal -- XSS vulnerability

The Drupal project reports: A malicious user can execute a cross site scripting attack by enticing someone to visit a Drupal site via a specially crafted link...

gnupg -- 2 more possible memory allocation attacks

Author reports: Fixed 2 more possible memory allocation attacks. They are similar to the problem we fixed with 1.4.4. This bug can easily be exploted for a DoS; remote code execution is not entirely impossible...

elinks -- buffer overflow vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: ELinks is prone to an off-by-one buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to accurately reference the last element of a buffer. Attackers may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. Failed attacks will cause...

apache -- mod_rewrite buffer overflow vulnerability

The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache HTTP Server Project reports: An off-by-one flaw exists in the Rewrite module, modrewrite, as shipped with Apache 1.3 since 1.3.28, 2.0 since 2.0.46, and 2.2 since 2.2.0. Depending on the manner in which Apache HTTP Server was compiled, this software...

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 2006-56 chrome: scheme loading remote content MFSA 2006-55 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption rv:1.8.0.5 MFSA...

freeciv -- Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Freeciv, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. An error in the "generichandleplayerattributechunk" function in common/packets.c can be exploited to crash the service via a specially crafted...

ruby -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Ruby, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. An error in the handling of the "alias" functionality can be exploited to bypass the safe level protection and replace methods called in the trusted...

freetype -- LWFN Files Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SecurityTracker reports: A vulnerability was reported in FreeType. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system. A remote user can create a specially crafted font file that, when loaded by the target user's system, will trigger an integer underflow or integer...

samba -- memory exhaustion DoS in smbd

The Samba Team reports: The smbd daemon maintains internal data structures used track active connections to file and printer shares. In certain circumstances an attacker may be able to continually increase the memory usage of an smbd process by issuing a large number of share connection requests...

trac -- reStructuredText breach of privacy and denial of service vulnerability

The Trac 0.9.6 Release Notes reports: Fixed reStructuredText breach of privacy and denial of service vulnerability found by Felix Wiemann. The discovered vulnerability requires docutils to be installed and enabled. Systems that do not have docutils installed or enabled are not vulnerable. As of...

twiki -- multiple file extensions file upload vulnerability

A TWiki Security Alert reports: The TWiki upload filter already prevents executable scripts such as .php, .php1, .phps, .pl from potentially getting executed by appending a .txt suffix to the uploaded filename. However, PHP and some other types allows additional file suffixes, such as .php.en,...

zope -- information disclosure vulnerability

Zope team reports: Unspecified vulnerability in Zope2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unknown attack vectors related to the docutils module and "restructured text"...

libwmf -- integer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: infamous41md has reported a vulnerability in libwmf, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the vulnerable library. The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error when allocating memory based on a value taken direct...

phpmyadmin -- cross site scripting vulnerability

phpmyadmin Site reports: It was possible to craft a request that contains XSS by attacking the "table" parameter...

webmin, usermin -- arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability

The webmin development team reports: An attacker without a login to Webmin can read the contents of any file on the server using a specially crafted URL. All users should upgrade to version 1.290 as soon as possible, or setup IP access control in Webmin...

horde -- various problems in dereferrer

Horde 3.1.2 release announcement: Security Fixes: Closed XSS problems in dereferrer IE only, help viewer and problem reporting screen. Removed unused image proxy code from dereferrer...

mysql -- format string vulnerability

Jean-David Maillefer reports a Denial of Service vulnerability within MySQL. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of the dataformat routine, which cause the MySQL server to crash. The crash is triggered by the following code: "SELECT dateformat'%d%s', 1;...

hashcash -- heap overflow vulnerability

Andreas Seltenreich reports that hashcash is prone to a heap overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability is caused by improper checking of memory allocations within the "arraypush" function. An attacker could trigger this vulnerability by passing a lot of "-r" or "-j" flags from the command line,...

Joomla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Joomla Site reports: Secured "Remember Me" functionality against SQL injection attacks Secured "Related Items" module against SQL injection attacks Secured "Weblinks" submission against SQL injection attacks Secured SEF from XSS vulnerability Hardened frontend submission forms against spoofing...

mutt -- Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: Mutt is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to the application's failure to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer. This issue may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary machin...

mambo -- SQL injection vulnerabilities

The Team Mambo reports that two SQL injection vulnerabilities have been found in Mambo. The vulnerabilities exists due to missing sanitation of the title and catid parameters in the weblinks.php page and can lead to execution of arbitrary SQL code...

sendmail -- Incorrect multipart message handling

Problem Description A suitably malformed multipart MIME message can cause sendmail to exceed predefined limits on its stack usage. Impact An attacker able to send mail to, or via, a server can cause queued messages on the system to not be delivered, by causing the sendmail process which handles...

openldap -- slapd acl selfwrite Security Issue

Howard Chu reports: An ACL of the form 'access to dn.subtree="ou=groups, dc=example,dc=com" attr=member by selfwrite' is intended to only allow users to add/delete their own DN to the target attribute. Currently it allows any DNs to be modified...

wv2 -- Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in wvWare wv2 Library, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in "wordhelper.h" when handling a Word document. This can b...

horde -- multiple parameter cross site scripting vulnerabilities

FrSIRT advisory ADV-2006-2356 reports: Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Horde Application Framework, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. These flaws are due to input validation errors in the "test.php" and "templates/problem/problem.inc" script...

shoutcast -- cross-site scripting, information exposure

Goober's advisory reports reports that shoutcast is vulnerable to an arbitrary file reading vulnerability: Impact of the vulnerability depends on the way the product was installed. In general, the vulnerability allows the attacker to read any file which can be read by the Shoutcast server process...

mailman -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Mailman can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and phishing attacks, and cause a DoS Denial of Service. 1 An error in the logging functionality can be exploited to inject a spoofed log message into the error log via a specially crafted URL. Successfu...

dokuwiki -- spellchecker remote PHP code execution

Stefan Esser reports: During the evaluation of DokuWiki for a german/korean wiki of mine a flaw in DokuWiki's spellchecker was discovered, that allows injecting arbitrary PHP commands, by requesting a spellcheck on PHP commands in 'complex curly syntax'. Because the spellchecker is written as par...

freeradius -- authentication bypass vulnerability

The freeradius development team reports: A validation issue exists with the EAP-MSCHAPv2 module in all versions from 1.0.0 where the module first appeared to 1.1.0. Insufficient input validation was being done in the EAP-MSCHAPv2 state machine. A malicious attacker could manipulate their...

squirrelmail -- plugin.php local file inclusion vulnerability

The SquirrelMail Project Team reports: A security issue has been uncovered in functions/plugin.php that could allow a remote user to access local files on the server without requiring login. This issue manifests itself if registerglobals is enabled, and magicquotesgpc is disabled...

libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: Federico L. Bossi Bonin has discovered a weakness in xine-lib, which can be exploited by malicious people to crash certain applications on a user's system. The weakness is cause due to a heap corruption within the "xinepluginphttp.so" plugin when handling an overly lar...

ypserv -- Inoperative access controls in ypserv

Problem Description There are two documented methods of restricting access to NIS maps through ypserv8: through the use of the /var/yp/securenets file, and through the /etc/hosts.allow file. While both mechanisms are implemented in the server, a change in the build process caused the "securenets"...

gnupg -- user id integer overflow vulnerability

If GnuPG processes a userid with a very long packet length, GnuPG can crash due to insufficient bounds check. This can result in a denial-of-service condition or potentially execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running GnuPG...

dokuwiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported within dokuwiki. dokuwiki is proven vulnerable to: arbitrary PHP code insertion via spellcheck module, XSS attack via "Update your account profile," bypassing of ACL controls when enabled...

smbfs -- chroot escape

Problem Description smbfs does not properly sanitize paths containing a backslash character; in particular the directory name '..' is interpreted as the parent directory by the SMB/CIFS server, but smbfs handles it in the same manner as any other directory. Impact When inside a chroot environment...

MySQL -- SQL-injection security vulnerability

MySQL reports: An SQL-injection security hole has been found in multibyte encoding processing. An SQL-injection security hole can include a situation whereby when inserting user supplied data into a database, the user might inject his own SQL statements that the server will execute. With regards ...

WebCalendar -- information disclosure vulnerability

Secunia reports: socsam has discovered a vulnerability in WebCalendar, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and disclose sensitive information. Input passed to the "includedir" parameter isn't properly verified, before it is used in an "fopen" call...

coppermine -- Multiple File Extensions Vulnerability

Secunia reports: Coppermine Photo Gallery have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of file uploads where a filename has multiple file extensions. This can be exploited to upload...

phpmyadmin -- XSRF vulnerabilities

phpMyAdmin security team reports: It was possible to inject arbitrary SQL commands by forcing an authenticated user to follow a crafted link. Such issue is quite common in many PHP applications and users should take care what links they follow. We consider these vulnerabilities to be quite...

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...

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...

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...

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...