kronolith -- Cross site scripting vulnerabilities in several of the calendar name and event data fields

Announce of Kronolith H3 2.0.6 final: This 2.0.6 is a security release that fixes cross site scripting vulnerabilities in several of the calendar name and event data fields. None of the vulnerabilities can be exploited by unauthenticated users; however, we strongly recommend that all users of...

phpmyadmin -- register_globals emulation "import_blacklist" manipulation

Secunia reports: Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, disclose sensitive information, and compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the registerglobals...

curl -- URL buffer overflow vulnerability

A Project cURL Security Advisory reports: libcurl's URL parser function can overflow a malloced buffer in two ways, if given a too long URL. 1 - pass in a URL with no protocol like "http://" prefix, using no slash and the string is 256 bytes or longer. This leads to a single zero byte overflow of...

trac -- search module SQL injection vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Trac, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Some unspecified input passed in the search module isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by...

phpmyadmin -- XSS vulnerabilities

A phpMyAdmin security advisory reports: It was possible to conduct an XSS attack via the HTTPHOST variable; also, some scripts in the libraries directory that handle header generation were vulnerable to XSS...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, and conduct script insertion and HTTP response splitting attacks. 1 An input validation error in the filtering of HTML code can be exploited to...

ffmpeg -- libavcodec buffer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: Simon Kilvington has reported a vulnerability in FFmpeg libavcodec, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service and potentially to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "avcodecdefaultgetbuffer"...

horde -- Cross site scripting vulnerabilities in MIME viewers

Announce of Horde 3.0.7 final: This 3.0.7 is a security release that fixes cross site scripting vulnerabilities in two of Horde's MIME viewers. These holes could for example be exploited by an attacker sending specially crafted emails to Horde's webmail client IMP. The attack could be used to ste...

mambo -- "register_globals" emulation layer overwrite vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: peter MC tachatte has discovered a vulnerability in Mambo, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain information and compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "registerglobals" emulation layer in...

opera -- command line URL shell command injection

An Opera Advisory reports: Opera for UNIX uses a wrapper shell script to start up Opera. This shell script reads the input arguments, like the file names or URLs that Opera is to open. It also performs some environment checks, for example whether Java is available and if so, where it is located...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera reports: It is possible to make a form input that looks like an image link. If the form input has a "title" attribute, the status bar will show the "title". A "title" which looks like a URL can mislead the user, since the title can say http://nice.familiar.com/, while the form action can be...

phpmyadmin -- HTTP Response Splitting vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security advisory reports: Some scripts in phpMyAdmin are vulnerable to an HTTP Response Splitting attack. Severity: We consider these vulnerabilities to be serious. However, they can only be triggered on systems running with registerglobals = on...

p5-Mail-SpamAssassin -- long message header denial of service

A Secunia Advisory reports: A vulnerability has been reported in SpamAssassin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to the use of an inefficient regular expression in "/SpamAssassin/Message.pm" to parse email headers. This ca...

phpSysInfo -- "register_globals" emulation layer overwrite vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: Christopher Kunz has reported a vulnerability in phpSysInfo, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain information. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "registerglobals" emulation layer where certain arrays used by the system can b...

apache -- mod_imap cross-site scripting flaw

The Apache HTTP Server Project reports: A flaw in modimap when using the Referer directive with image maps. In certain site configurations a remote attacker could perform a cross-site scripting attack if a victim can be forced to visit a malicious URL using certain web browsers...

openvpn -- potential denial-of-service on servers in TCP mode

James Yonan reports: If the TCP server accept call returns an error status, the resulting exception handler may attempt to indirect through a NULL pointer, causing a segfault. Affects all OpenVPN 2.0 versions...

pear-PEAR -- PEAR installer arbitrary code execution vulnerability

Gregory Beaver reports: A standard feature of the PEAR installer implemented in all versions of PEAR can lead to the execution of arbitrary PHP code upon running the "pear" command or loading the Web/Gtk frontend. To be vulnerable, a user must explicitly install a publicly released malicious...

PHP -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, and potentially compromise a vulnerable system...

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

James Yonan reports: A format string vulnerability in the foreignoption function in options.c could potentially allow a malicious or compromised server to execute arbitrary code on the client. Only non-Windows clients are affected. The vulnerability only exists if a the client's TLS negotiation...

flyspray -- cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: Lostmon has reported some vulnerabilities in Flyspray, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Some input isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script...

mantis -- "t_core_path" file inclusion vulnerability

Secunia Research reports: Input passed to the "tcorepath" parameter in "bugsponsorshiplistviewinc.php" isn't properly verified, before it used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local resources...

sudo -- arbitrary command execution

Tavis Ormandy reports: The bash shell uses the value of the PS4 environment variable after expansion as a prefix for commands run in execution trace mode. Execution trace mode xtrace is normally set via bash's -x command line option or interactively by running "set -o xtrace". However, it may als...

phpicalendar -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Francesco Ongaro reports that phpicalendar is vulnerable for a cross site scripting attack. The vulnerability is caused by improper validation of the index.php file allowing attackers to include an arbitrary file with the .php extension...

base -- PHP SQL injection vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: Remco Verhoef has discovered a vulnerability in Basic Analysis and Security Engine BASE, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks...

skype -- multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Skype, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS or to compromise a user's system...

phpbb -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported within phpbb. phpbb is proven vulnerable to: script insertion, bypassing of protetion mechanisms, multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities, SQL injection, arbitrary code execution...

bogofilter -- heap corruption through excessively long words

Matthias Andree reports: Bogofilter's/bogolexer's input handling in version 0.96.2 was not keeping track of its output buffers properly and could overrun a heap buffer if the input contained words whose length exceeded 16,384 bytes, the size of flex's input buffer. A "word" here refers to a...

bogofilter -- heap corruption through malformed input

Matthias Andree reports: When using Unicode databases default in more recent bogofilter installations, upon encountering invalid input sequences, bogofilter or bogolexer could overrun a malloc'd buffer, corrupting the heap, while converting character sets. Bogofilter would usually be processing...

fetchmail -- fetchmailconf local password exposure

The fetchmail team reports: The fetchmailconf program before and excluding version 1.49 opened the run control file, wrote the configuration to it, and only then changed the mode to 0600 rw-------. Writing the file, which usually contains passwords, before making it unreadable to other users, can...

squid -- FTP server response handling denial of service

A Secunia Advisory reports: M.A.Young has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in handling certain FTP server responses. This can be exploited to crash Squid by visiting a...

snort -- Back Orifice preprocessor buffer overflow vulnerability

Jennifer Steffens reports: The Back Orifice preprocessor contains a stack-based buffer overflow. This vulnerability could be leveraged by an attacker to execute code remotely on a Snort sensor where the Back Orifice preprocessor is enabled. However, there are a number of factors that make remote...

netpbm -- buffer overflow in pnmtopng

Ubuntu reports: A buffer overflow was found in the "pnmtopng" conversion program. By tricking an user or automated system to process a specially crafted PNM image with pnmtopng, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pnmtopng...

lynx -- remote buffer overflow

Ulf Härnhammar reports: When Lynx connects to an NNTP server to fetch information about the available articles in a newsgroup, it will call a function called HTrjis with the information from certain article headers. The function adds missing ESC characters to certain data, to support Asian...

abiword, koffice -- stack based buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Chris Evans reports that AbiWord is vulnerable to multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities. This is caused by improper checking of the user-supplied data before it is being copied to an too small buffer. The vulnerability is triggered when someone is importing RTF files...

libwww -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mitre reports: The HTBoundaryputblock function in HTBound.c for W3C libwww w3c-libwww allows remote servers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted multipart/byteranges MIME message that triggers an out-of-bounds read. The big2toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in...

gallery2 -- file disclosure vulnerability

Michael Dipper wrote: A vulnerability has been discovered in gallery, which allows remote users unauthorized access to files on the webserver. A remote user accessing gallery over the web may use specially crafted HTTP parameters to access arbitrary files located on the webserver. All files...

phpmyadmin -- local file inclusion vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports: In libraries/grabglobals.lib.php, the $redirect parameter was not correctly validated, opening the door to a local file inclusion attack. We consider this vulnerability to be serious...

openssl -- potential SSL 2.0 rollback

Vulnerability: Such applications are affected if they use the option SSLOPMSIESSLV2RSAPADDING. This option is implied by use of SSLOPALL, which is intended to work around various bugs in third-party software that might prevent interoperability. The SSLOPMSIESSLV2RSAPADDING option disables a...

zope -- expose RestructuredText functionality to untrusted users

A Zope Hotfix Alert reports: This hotfix resolves a security issue with docutils. Affected are possibly all Zope instances that expose RestructuredText functionalies to untrusted users through the web...

libxine -- format string vulnerability

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string bug in the routines handling CDDB server response contents. An attacker could submit malicious information about an audio CD to a public CDDB server or impersonate a public CDDB server. When the victim plays this CD...

imap-uw -- mailbox name handling remote buffer vulnerability

FrSIRT reports: A vulnerability has been identified in UW-IMAP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a stack overflow error in the "mailvalidnetparsework" src/c-client/mail.c function that does not properly handle specially crafted mailbo...

xloadimage -- buffer overflows in NIFF image title handling

Ariel Berkman reports: Unlike most of the supported image formats in xloadimage, the NIFF image format can store a title name of arbitrary length as part of the image file. When xloadimage is processing a loaded image, it is creating a new Image object and then writing the processed image to it. ...

weex -- remote format string vulnerability

Emanuel Haupt reports: Someone who controls an FTP server that weex will log in to can set up malicious data in the account that weex will use, and that will cause a format string bug that will allow remote code execution. It will only happen when weex is first run or when its cache files are...

ruby -- vulnerability in the safe level settings

Ruby home page reports: The Object Oriented Scripting Language Ruby supports safely executing an untrusted code with two mechanisms: safe level and taint flag on objects. A vulnerability has been found that allows bypassing these mechanisms. By using the vulnerability, arbitrary code can be...

cfengine -- arbitrary file overwriting vulnerability

A Debian Security Advisory reports: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered several insecure temporary file uses in cfengine, a tool for configuring and maintaining networked machines, that can be exploited by a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user executing cfengine,...

uim -- privilege escalation vulnerability

The uim developers reports: Masanari Yamamoto discovered that incorrect use of environment variables in uim. This bug causes privilege escalation if setuid/setgid applications was linked to libuim. This bug appears in 'immodule for Qt' enabled Qt. Normal Qt is also safe. In some distribution,...

phpmyfaq -- SQL injection, takeover, path disclosure, remote code execution

If magic quotes are off there's a SQL injection when sending a forgotten password. It's possible to overwrite the admin password and to take over the whole system. In some files in the admin section there are some cross site scripting vulnerabilities. In the public frontend it's possible to inclu...

perl, webmin, usermin -- perl format string integer wrap vulnerability

The Perl Development page reports: Dyad Security recently released a security advisory explaining how in certain cases, a carefully crafted format string passed to sprintf can cause a buffer overflow. This buffer overflow can then be used by an attacker to execute code on the machine. This was...

firefox & mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues: Heap overrun in XBM image processing jackerror reports that an improperly terminated XBM image ending with space characters instead of the expected end tag can lead to a heap buffer overrun. This appears to be exploitable to insta...

clamav -- arbitrary code execution and DoS vulnerabilities

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in "libclamav/upx.c" when processing malformed UPX-packed executables. It can also be sent into an infinite loop in "libclamav/fsg.c" when processing specially-crafted FSG-packed executables. By sending a...