sylpheed -- MIME-encoded file name buffer overflow vulnerability

Sylpheed is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when displaying emails with attachments that have MIME-encoded file names. This could be used by a remote attacker to crash sylpheed potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running sylpheed...

horde -- Horde Page Title Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory: SA14730 A vulnerability has been reported in Horde, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed when setting the parent frame's page title via JavaScript is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be...

phpSysInfo -- cross site scripting vulnerability

A Securityreason.com advisory reports that various cross site scripting vulnerabilities have been found in phpSysInfo. Input is not properly sanitised before it is returned to the user. A malicious person could exploit this to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a users browser session. Als...

lsh -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in LSH, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service...

kdelibs -- local DCOP denial of service vulnerability

A KDE Security Advisory reports: Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE LINUX Security Team reported a local denial of service vulnerability in KDE's Desktop Communication Protocol DCOP daemon better known as dcopserver. A local user can lock up the dcopserver of arbitrary other users on the same machine...

rxvt-unicode -- buffer overflow vulnerability

A rxvt-unicode changelog reports: Fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long escape sequence, which is probably exploitable fix by Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team...

wine -- information disclosure due to insecure temporary file handling

Due to insecure temporary file creation in the Wine Windows emulator, it is possible for any user to read potentially sensitive information from temporary registry files. When a Win32 application is launched by wine, wine makes a dump of the Windows registry in /tmp with name regxxxxyyyy.tmp ,...

racoon -- remote denial-of-service

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the racoon ISAKMP daemon could be crashed with a maliciously crafted UDP packet. No authentication is required in order to perform the attack...

mysql-server -- multiple remote vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus reports: MySQL is reported prone to an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. Reports indicate that an attacker that has 'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE' privileges on an affected installation may leverage this vulnerability to corrupt files with the privileges of the MySQL process...

mozilla -- heap buffer overflow in GIF image processing

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory states: An sic GIF processing error when parsing the obsolete Netscape extension 2 can lead to an exploitable heap overrun, allowing an attacker to run arbitrary code on the user's machine...

perl -- Directory Permissions Race Condition

Secunia reports: Paul Szabo has reported a vulnerability in Perl File::Path::rmtree, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in the way File::Path::rmtree handles directory permissions when...

ethereal -- multiple protocol dissectors vulnerabilities

An Ethreal Security Advisories reports: Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors: Matevz Pustisek discovered a buffer overflow in the Etheric dissector. CVE: CAN-2005-0704 The GPRS-LLC dissector could crash if the "ignore cipher bit" option was enabled. CVE: CAN-2005-0705...

sylpheed -- buffer overflow in header processing

The Sylpheed web site states: A buffer overflow which occurred when replying to a message with certain headers which contain non-ascii characters was fixed...

hashcash -- format string vulnerability

A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the Hashcash utility that an attacker could expose by specifying a malformed reply address. Successful exploitation would permit an attacker to disrupt Hashcash users, and...

firefox -- arbitrary code execution from sidebar panel

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory states: If a user bookmarked a malicious page as a Firefox sidebar panel that page could execute arbitrary programs by opening a privileged page and injecting javascript into it...

libexif -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Sylvain Defresne reports that libexif is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient input checking. This could lead crash of applications using libexif...

ImageMagick -- format string vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy reports: magemagick-6.2.0-3 fixes an potential issue handling malformed filenames, the flaw may affect webapps or scripts that use the imagemagick utilities for image processing, or applications linked with libMagick. This vulnerability could crash ImageMagick or potentially lead to...

xv -- filename handling format string vulnerability

A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the handling of image filenames by xv. Successful exploitation would require a victim to process a specially crafted image with a malformed filename, potentially resulting in the...

realplayer -- remote heap overflow

Two exploits have been identified in the Linux RealPlayer client. RealNetworks states: RealNetworks, Inc. has addressed recently discovered security vulnerabilities that offered the potential for an attacker to run arbitrary or malicious code on a customer's machine. RealNetworks has received no...

phpbb -- Insuffient check against HTML code in usercp_register.php

Neo Security Team reports: If we specify a variable in the html code any type: hidden, text, radio, check, etc with the name allowhtml, allowbbcode or allowsmilies, is going to be on the html, bbcode and smilies in our signature. This is a low risk vulnerability that allows users to bypass...

postnuke -- cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities

A cross-site scripting vulnerability is present in the PostNuke PHP content management system. By passing data injected through exploitable errors in input validation, an attacker can insert code which will run on the machine of anybody viewing the page. It is feasible that this attack could be...

postnuke -- SQL injection vulnerabilities

Two separate SQL injection vulnerabilities have been identified in the PostNuke PHP content management system. An attacker can use this vulnerability to potentially insert executable PHP code into the content management system to view all files within the PHP scope, for instance. Various other SQ...

phpbb -- privilege elevation and path disclosure

The phpbb developer group reports: phpBB Group announces the release of phpBB 2.0.13, the "Beware of the furries" edition. This release addresses two recent security exploits, one of them critical. They were reported a few days after .12 was released and no one is more annoyed than us, having to...

mozilla -- arbitrary code execution vulnerability

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports: Plugins such as flash can be used to load privileged content into a frame. Once loaded various spoofs can be applied to get the user to interact with the privileged content. Michael Krax's "Fireflashing" example demonstrates that an attacker can ope...

mkbold-mkitalic -- format string vulnerability

The version 0.061 and prior have a format string vulnerability which can be triggered by using a carefully-crafted BDF font file...

phpbb -- multiple vulnerabilities

phpBB is vulnerable to remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability allows attackers to read the contents of arbitrary system files under the privileges of the webserver. This also allows remote attackers to unlink arbitrary system files under the privileges of the webserver...

phpmyadmin -- information disclosure vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports: By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way especially scripts in the libraries subdirectory, it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin...

phpbb -- multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities

psoTFX reports: phpBB Group are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 2.0.12 the "Horray for Furrywood" release. This release addresses a number of bugs and a couple of potential exploits. ... one of the potential exploits addressed in this release could be serious in certain situations and th...

uim -- privilege escalation vulnerability

The uim developers reports: Takumi ASAKI discovered that uim always trusts environment variables. But this is not correct behavior, sometimes environment variables shouldn't be trusted. This bug causes privilege escalation when libuim is linked against setuid/setgid application. Since GTK+...

phpmyadmin -- arbitrary file include and XSS vulnerabilities

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports: We received two bug reports by Maksymilian Arciemowicz about those vulnerabilities and we wish to thank him for his work. The vulnerabilities apply to those points: css/phpmyadmin.css.php was vulnerable against $cfg and GLOBALS variable injections. This...

putty -- pscp/psftp heap corruption vulnerabilities

Simon Tatham reports: This version fixes a security hole in previous versions of PuTTY, which can allow a malicious SFTP server to attack your client. If you use either PSCP or PSFTP, you should upgrade. Users of the main PuTTY program are not affected. However, note that the server must have...

xloadimage -- arbitrary command execution when handling compressed files

Tavis Ormandy discovered that xli and xloadimage attempt to decompress images by piping them through gunzip or similar decompression tools. Unfortunately, the unsanitized file name is included as part of the command. This is dangerous, as in some situations, such as mailcap processing, an attacke...

bidwatcher -- format string vulnerability

A Debian Security Advisory reports: Ulf Härnhammer from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in bidwatcher, a tool for watching and bidding on eBay auctions. This problem can be triggered remotely by a web server of eBay, or someone pretending to be eBay,...

gaim -- remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML

The GAIM team reports: Receiving malformed HTML can result in an invalid memory access causing Gaim to crash...

gaim -- AIM/ICQ remote denial of service vulnerability

The GAIM team reports that GAIM is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability which can cause GAIM to freeze: Certain malformed SNAC packets sent by other AIM or ICQ users can trigger an infinite loop in Gaim when parsing the SNAC. The remote user would need a custom client, able to generate...

typespeed -- arbitrary code execution

Debian reports: Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in typespeed, a touch-typist trainer disguised as game. This could lead to a local attacker executing arbitrary code...

unace -- multiple vulnerabilities

Ulf Härnhammar reports: There are buffer overflows when extracting, testing or listing specially prepared ACE archives. There are directory traversal bugs when extracting ACE archives. There are also buffer overflows when dealing with long 17000 characters command line arguments. Secunia reports:...

cyrus-imapd -- multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities

The Cyrus IMAP Server ChangeLog states: Fix possible single byte overflow in mailbox handling code. Fix possible single byte overflows in the imapd annotate extension. Fix stack buffer overflows in fetchnews exploitable by peer news server, backend exploitable by admin, and in imapd exploitable b...

lighttpd -- script source disclosure vulnerability

The lighttpd website reports: In lighttpd 1.3.7 and below it is possible to fetch the source files which should be handled by CGI or FastCGI applications. The vulnerability is in the handling of urlencoded trailing NUL bytes. Installations that do not use CGI or FastCGI are not affected...

xpcd -- buffer overflow

Debian Project reports: Erik Sjolund discovered a buffer overflow in pcdsvgaview, an SVGA PhotoCD viewer. xpcd-svga is part of xpcd and uses svgalib to display graphics on the Linux console for which root permissions are required. A malicious user could overflow a fixed-size buffer and may cause...

sympa -- buffer overflow in "queue"

Erik Sjölund discovered a vulnerability in Sympa. The queue application processes messages received via aliases. It contains a buffer overflow in the usage of sprintf. In some configurations, it may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as the sympa user...

awstats -- arbitrary command execution

Several input validation errors exist in AWStats that allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands with the priviliges of the web server. These programming errors involve CGI parameters including loadplugin, logfile, pluginmode, update, and possibly others. Additionally,...

xview -- multiple buffer overflows in xv_parse_one

A Debian Security Advisory reports: Erik Sjölund discovered that programs linked against xview are vulnerable to a number of buffer overflows in the XView library. When the overflow is triggered in a program which is installed setuid root a malicious user could perhaps execute arbitrary code as...

xli -- integer overflows in image size calculations

Tavis Ormandy discovered several integer overflows in xli's image size handling. A maliciously crafted image may be able to cause a heap buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code...

gnupg -- OpenPGP symmetric encryption vulnerability

Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato reports that the OpenPGP protocol is vulnerable to a cryptographic attack when using symmetric encryption in an automated way. David Shaw reports about the impact: This attack, while very significant from a cryptographic point of view, is not generally effective...

postgresql -- multiple buffer overflows in PL/PgSQL parser

The PL/PgSQL parser in postgresql is vulnerable to several buffer overflows. These could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the postgresql server by running a specially crafted query...

mozilla -- insecure temporary directory vulnerability

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports: A predictable name is used for the plugin temporary directory. A malicious local user could symlink this to the victim's home directory and wait for the victim to run Firefox. When Firefox shuts down the victim's directory would be erased...

wu-ftpd -- remote globbing DoS vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability in version 2.6.2 of WU-FPTD could allow for a denial of service of the system by resource exhaustion. The vulnerability specifically exists in the wufnmatch function in wufnmatch.c. When a pattern...

gftp -- directory traversal vulnerability

A Debian Security Advisory reports: Albert Puigsech Galicia discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in a proprietary FTP client CAN-2004-1376 which is also present in gftp, a GTK+ FTP client. A malicious server could provide a specially crafted filename that could cause arbitrary files to ...

squid -- DoS on failed PUT/POST requests vulnerability

The squid patches page notes: An inconsistent state is entered on a failed PUT/POST request making a high risk for segmentation faults or other strange errors...