clamav -- MS-Expand file handling DoS vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of an input validation error in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV allows attackers to cause a denial of service condition. The vulnerability specifically exists due to improper behavior during exceptional conditions. Successful exploitation allows...

phpbb -- remote PHP code execution vulnerability

FrSIRT Advisory reports: A vulnerability was identified in phpBB, which may be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "viewtopic.php" script that does not properly filter the "highlight" parameter before calling the...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

GulfTech Security Research reports: There are a number of vulnerabilities in WordPress that may allow an attacker to ultimately run arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. These vulnerabilities include SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, and also issues that may aid an attacker in social...

Macromedia flash player -- swf file handling arbitrary code

A Secunia Advisory reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Macromedia Flash Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to missing validation of the frame type identifier that is read from a SWF file. This value is used a...

WebCalendar -- unauthorized access vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports that WebCalendar is affected by an unauthorized access vulnerability. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of the authentication mechanism before access is being permitted to the "assistantedit.php" file...

linux-realplayer -- RealText parsing heap overflow

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the RealText file format parser within various versions of RealNetworks Inc.'s RealPlayer could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code...

ruby -- arbitrary command execution on XMLRPC server

Nobuhiro IMAI reports: the default value modification on Modulepublicinstancemethods from false to true breaks s.addhandlerXMLRPC::iPIMethods"sample", MyHandler.new style security protection. This problem could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on XMLRPC server of libruby...

cacti -- multiple vulnerabilities

Stefan Esser reports: Wrongly implemented user input filters lead to multiple SQL Injection vulnerabilities which can lead f.e. to disclosure of the admin password hash. Wrongly implemented user input filters allows injection of user input into executed commandline. Alberto Trivero posted his...

cacti -- potential SQL injection and cross site scripting attacks

iDEFENSE security group disclosed potential SQL injection attacks from unchecked user input and two security holes regarding potential cross site scripting attacks...

trac -- file upload/download vulnerability

Stefan Esser reports: Trac's wiki and ticket systems allows to add attachments to wiki entries and bug tracker tickets. These attachments are stored within directories that are determined by the id of the corresponding ticket or wiki entry. Due to a missing validation of the id parameter it is...

sudo -- local race condition vulnerability

Todd C. Miller reports: A race condition in Sudo's command pathname handling prior to Sudo version 1.6.8p9 that could allow a user with Sudo privileges to run arbitrary commands. Exploitation of the bug requires that the user be allowed to run one or more commands via Sudo and be able to create...

razor-agents -- denial of service vulnerability

A Secunia security advisory reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Razor-agents, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service. An unspecified error in the preprocessing of certain HTML messages can be exploited to crash the application. A bug in the...

opera -- redirection cross-site scripting vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks against users. The vulnerability is caused due to input not being sanitised, when Opera generates a temporary page for displayin...

opera -- XMLHttpRequest security bypass

A Secunia Advisory reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to steal content or to perform actions on other web sites with the privileges of the user. Normally, it should not be possible for the XMLHttpRequest object to access...

tor -- information disclosure

Roger Dingledine reports: The Tor 0.1.0.10 release from a few days ago includes a fix for a bug that might allow an attacker to read arbitrary memory maybe even keys from an exit server's process space. We haven't heard any reports of exploits yet, but hey...

opera -- "javascript:" URL cross-site scripting vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and to read local files. The vulnerability is caused due to Opera not properly restricting the privileges of "javascript:" URLs...

mambo -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Secunia Advisory reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mambo, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing and SQL injection attacks. Input passed to the "userrating" parameter when voting isn't properly sanitised before being...

acroread -- XML External Entity vulnerability

Sverre H. Huseby discovered a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. Under certain circumstances, using XML scripts it is possible to discover the existence of local files...

p5-Mail-SpamAssassin -- denial of service vulnerability

Apache SpamAssassin Security Team reports: Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.4 was recently released, and fixes a denial of service vulnerability in versions 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3. The vulnerability allows certain misformatted long message headers to cause spam checking to take a very long time. While th...

squirrelmail -- Several cross site scripting vulnerabilities

A SquirrelMail Security Advisory reports: Several cross site scripting XSS vulnerabilities have been discovered in SquirrelMail versions 1.4.0 - 1.4.4. The vulnerabilities are in two categories: the majority can be exploited through URL manipulation, and some by sending a specially crafted email ...

gaim -- MSN Remote DoS vulnerability

The GAIM team reports: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service crash via a malformed MSN message that leads to a memory allocation of a large size, possibly due to an integer signedness error...

gaim -- Yahoo! remote crash vulnerability

Jacopo Ottaviani reports that Gaim can be crashed by being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters via the Yahoo! protocol...

tcpdump -- infinite loops in protocol decoding

Problem Description Several tcpdump protocol decoders contain programming errors which can cause them to go into infinite loops. Impact An attacker can inject specially crafted packets into the network which, when processed by tcpdump, could lead to a denial-of-service. After the attack, tcpdump...

leafnode -- denial of service vulnerability

Matthias Andree reports: A vulnerability was found in the fetchnews program the NNTP client that may under some circumstances cause a wait for input that never arrives, fetchnews "hangs". ... As only one fetchnews program can run at a time, subsequently started fetchnews and texpire programs will...

postnuke -- multiple vulnerabilities

Postnuke Security Announcementss reports of the following vulnerabilities: missing input validation within /modules/Messages/readpmsg.php possible path disclosure within /user.php possible path disclosure within /modules/News/article.php possible remote code injection within /includes/pnMod.php...

qpopper -- multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Jens Steube reports that qpopper is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability. qpopper does not properly drop root privileges so that user supplied configuration and trace files can be processed with root privileges. This could allow a local attacker to create or modify arbitrary files...

shtool -- insecure temporary file creation

A Zataz advisory reports that shtool contains a security flaw which could allow a malicious local user to create or overwrite the contents of arbitrary files. The attacker could fool a user into executing the arbitrary file possibly executing arbitrary code...

net-snmp -- fixproc insecure temporary file creation

A Gentoo advisory reports: Net-SNMP creates temporary files in an insecure manner, possibly allowing the execution of arbitrary code. A malicious local attacker could exploit a race condition to change the content of the temporary files before they are executed by fixproc, possibly leading to the...

gedit -- format string vulnerability

Yan Feng reports a format string vulnerability in gedit. This vulnerability could cause a denial of service with a binary file that contains format string characters within the filename. It had been reported that web browsers and email clients can be configured to provide a filename as an argumen...

picasm -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Shaun Colley reports: When generating error and warning messages, picasm copies strings into fixed length buffers without bounds checking. If an attacker could trick a user into assembling a source file with a malformed 'error' directive, arbitrary code could be executed with the privileges of th...

fswiki -- XSS problem in file upload form

A Secunia security advisory reports: A vulnerability has been reported in FreeStyle Wiki and FSWikiLite, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks. Input passed in uploaded attachments is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to injec...

ppxp -- local root exploit

A Debian Advisory reports: Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening potentially user supplied log files. This can be tricked into opening a root shell...

freeradius -- sql injection and denial of service vulnerability

A Gentoo Advisory reports: The FreeRADIUS server is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack and a buffer overflow, possibly resulting in disclosure and modification of data and Denial of Service...

kernel -- information disclosure when using HTT

Problem description and impact When running on processors supporting Hyper-Threading Technology, it is possible for a malicious thread to monitor the execution of another thread. Information may be disclosed to local users, allowing in many cases for privilege escalation. For example, on a...

cdrdao -- unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability

The developers of cdrdao report that there is a potential root exploit in the software. In order to be able to succesfully exploit this vulnerability cdrdao must be installed setuid root. When succesfully exploited a local user might get escalated privileges. By default this port is not installed...

mozilla -- privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports: Additional checks were added to make sure Javascript eval and Script objects are run with the privileges of the context that created them, not the potentially elevated privilege of the context calling them in order to protect against an additional...

mozilla -- "Wrapped" javascript: urls bypass security checks

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports: Some security checks intended to prevent script injection were incorrect and could be bypassed by wrapping a javascript: url in the view-source: pseudo-protocol. Michael Krax demonstrated that a variant of his favicon exploit could still execute...

squid -- DNS lookup spoofing vulnerability

The squid patches page notes: Malicious users may spoof DNS lookups if the DNS client UDP port random, assigned by OS as startup is unfiltered and your network is not protected from IP spoofing...

tiff -- buffer overflow vulnerability

A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag. Successful exploitation would require the victim to open a specially crafte...

gaim -- MSN remote DoS vulnerability

The GAIM team reports: Potential remote denial of service bug resulting from not checking a pointer for non-NULL before passing it to strncmp, which results in a crash. This can be triggered by a remote client sending an SLP message with an empty body...

gaim -- remote crash on some protocols

The GAIM team reports that GAIM is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability which can cause GAIM to crash: It is possible for a remote user to overflow a static buffer by sending an IM containing a very large URL greater than 8192 bytes to the Gaim user. This is not possible on all...

mozilla -- code execution via javascript: IconURL vulnerability

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports: Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a user's system. The problem is that "IFRAME" JavaScript URLs are not properly protected from bein...

mysql-server -- insecure temporary file creation

A Zataz advisory reports that MySQL contains a security flaw which could allow a malicious local user to inject arbitrary SQL commands during the initial database creation process. The problem lies in the mysqlinstalldb script which creates temporary files based on the PID used by the script...

qmail -- 64 bit integer overflows with possible remote code execution on large SMTP requests

Georgi Guninski writes: There are several issues with qmail on 64 bit platforms - classical integer overflow, pointer with signed index and signedness problem not counting the memory consumtion dos, which just helps. Update: the problem with the signed index is exploitable on Freebsd 5.4 amd64 wi...

qmail -- 64 bit integer overflows with possible remote code execution on large SMTP requests

Georgi Guninski writes: There are several issues with qmail on 64 bit platforms - classical integer overflow, pointer with signed index and signedness problem not counting the memory consumtion dos, which just helps. Update: the problem with the signed index is exploitable on Freebsd 5.4 amd64 wi...

qmail -- 64 bit integer overflows with possible remote code execution on large SMTP requests

Georgi Guninski writes: There are several issues with qmail on 64 bit platforms - classical integer overflow, pointer with signed index and signedness problem not counting the memory consumtion dos, which just helps. Update: the problem with the signed index is exploitable on Freebsd 5.4 amd64 wi...

ethereal -- multiple protocol dissectors vulnerabilities

An Ethreal Security Advisories reports: An aggressive testing program as well as independent discovery has turned up a multitude of security issues Please reference CVE/URL list for details...

leafnode -- fetchnews denial-of-service triggered by transmission abort/timeout

When an upstream server aborts the transmission or stops sending data after the fetchnews program has requested an article header or body, fetchnews may crash, without querying further servers that are configured. This can prevent articles from being fetched...

postgresql -- character conversion and tsearch2 vulnerabilities

The postgresql development team reports: The more severe of the two errors is that the functions that support client-to-server character set conversion can be called from SQL commands by unprivileged users, but these functions are not designed to be safe against malicious choices of argument...

libtomcrypt -- weak signature scheme with ECC keys

The Secure Science Corporation reports that libtomcrypt is vulnerable to a weak signature scheme. This allows an attacker to create a valid random signature and use that to sign arbitrary messages without requiring the private key...