enscript -- multiple vulnerabilities

Erik Sjölund discovered several issues in enscript: it suffers from several buffer overflows, quotes and shell escape characters are insufficiently sanitized in filenames, and it supported taking input from an arbitrary command pipe, with unwanted side effects...

perl -- vulnerabilities in PERLIO_DEBUG handling

Kevin Finisterre discovered bugs in perl's I/O debug support: The environmental variable PERLIODEBUG is honored even by the set-user-ID perl command usually named sperl or suidperl. As a result, a local attacker may be able to gain elevated privileges. CVE-2005-0155 A buffer overflow may occur in...

postgresql -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities had been reported in various versions of PostgreSQL: The EXECUTE restrictions can be bypassed by using the AGGREGATE function, which is missing a permissions check. A buffer overflow exists in gram.y which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a lar...

phpmyadmin -- increased privilege vulnerability

The phpMyAdmin team reports: Escaping of the "" character was not properly done, giving a wildcard privilege when editing db-specific privileges with phpMyAdmin...

emacs -- movemail format string vulnerability

Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs. They can be exploited when connecting to a malicious POP server and can allow an attacker can execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the user running Emacs...

squid -- correct handling of oversized HTTP reply headers

The squid patches page notes: This patch addresses a HTTP protocol mismatch related to oversized reply headers. In addition it enhances the cache.log reporting on reply header parsing failures to make it easier to track down which sites are malfunctioning. It is believed that this bug may lead to...

mod_python -- information leakage vulnerability

Mark J Cox reports: Graham Dumpleton discovered a flaw which can affect anyone using the publisher handle of the Apache Software Foundation modpython. The publisher handle lets you publish objects inside modules to make them callable via URL. The flaw allows a carefully crafted URL to obtain extr...

squirrelmail -- XSS and remote code injection vulnerabilities

A SquirrelMail Security Advisory reports: SquirrelMail 1.4.4 has been released to resolve a number of security issues disclosed below. It is strongly recommended that all running SquirrelMail prior to 1.4.4 upgrade to the latest release. Remote File Inclusion Manoel Zaninetti reported an issue in...

squid -- buffer overflow in WCCP recvfrom() call

According to the Squid Proxy Cache Security Update Advisory SQUID-2005:3, The WCCP recvfrom call accepts more data than will fit in the allocated buffer. An attacker may send a larger-than-normal WCCP message to Squid and overflow this buffer. Severity: The bug is important because it allows remo...

f2c -- insecure temporary files

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña reports two temporary file vulnerability within f2c. The vulnerabilities are caused due to weak temporary file handling. An attacker could create an symbolic link, causing a local user running f2c to overwrite the symlinked file. This could give the attacker elevate...

clamav -- zip handling DoS vulnerability

The clamav daemon is vulnerable to a DoS vulnerability due to insufficient handling of malformed zip files which can crash the clamav daemon...

gallery -- cross-site scripting

Gallery includes several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that could allow malicious content to be injected...

ngircd -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Florian Westphal discovered a buffer overflow in ngircd which can be used remotely crash the server and possibly execute arbitrary code...

p5-DBI -- insecure temporary file creation vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña reports: The DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates a temporary PID file in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person executing the parts of the library...

bind9 -- denial of service

Problem description A DNSSEC-related validator function in BIND 9.3.0 contains an inappropriate internal consistency test. When this test is triggered, named8 will exit. Impact On systems with DNSSEC enabled, a remote attacker may be able to inject a specially crafted packet that will cause the...

bind -- buffer overrun vulnerability

An ISC advisory reports a buffer overrun vulnerability within bind. The vulnerability could result in a Denial of Service. A workaround is available by disabling recursion and glue fetching...

zhcon -- unauthorized file access

Martin Joey Schulze reports: Erik Sjöund discovered that zhcon, a fast console CJK system using the Linux framebuffer, accesses a user-controlled configuration file with elevated privileges. Thus, it is possible to read arbitrary files. When installed from the FreeBSD Ports Collection, zhcon is...

squid -- possible cache-poisoning via malformed HTTP responses

The squid patches page notes: This patch makes Squid considerably stricter while parsing the HTTP protocol. A Content-length header should only appear once in a valid request or response. Multiple Content-length headers, in conjunction with specially crafted requests, may allow Squid's cache to b...

postgresql -- privilege escalation vulnerability

John Heasman and others disovered that non-privileged users could use the LOAD extension to load arbitrary libraries into the postgres server process space. This could be used by non-privileged local users to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the postgresql server...

kdelibs -- insecure temporary file creation

Davide Madrisan reports: The dcopidlng' script in the KDE library package kdelibs-3.3.2/dcop/dcopidlng/dcopidlng creates temporary files in a unsecure manner. Note: dcopidlng is only used at build time, so only users installing KDE are vulnerable, not users already running KDE...

yamt -- buffer overflow and directory traversal issues

Stanislav Brabec discovered errors in yamt's path name handling that lead to buffer overflows and directory traversal issues. When processing a file with a maliciously crafted ID3 tag, yamt might overwrite arbitrary files or possibly execute arbitrary code. The SuSE package ChangeLog contains:...

gforge -- directory traversal vulnerability

An STG Security Advisory reports: GForge CVS module made by Dragos Moinescu and another module made by Ronald Petty have a directory traversal vulnerability. ... malicious attackers can read arbitrary directory lists...

evolution -- arbitrary code execution vulnerability

Martin Joey Schulze reports: Max Vozeler discovered an integer overflow in the helper application camel-lock-helper which runs setuid root or setgid mail inside of Evolution, a free groupware suite. A local attacker can cause the setuid root helper to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileg...

konversation -- shell script command injection

Konversation comes with Perl scripts that do not properly escape shell characters on executing a script. This makes it possible to attack Konversation with shell script command injection...

ethereal -- multiple protocol dissectors vulnerabilities

An Ethreal Security Advisories reports: Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors: The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop. CVE: CAN-2005-0006 The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion. CVE: CAN-2005-0007 The DNP dissector could cause memory corruption. CVE:...

newsgrab -- directory traversal vulnerability

The newsgrab script creates files by using the names provided in the newsgroup messages in a perl open call. This is done without performing any security checks to prevent a directory traversal. A specially crafted newsgroup message could cause newsgrab to drop an attachment anywhere on the file...

newsgrab -- insecure file and directory creation

The newsgrab script uses insecure permissions during the creation of the local output directory and downloaded files. After a file is created, permissions on it are set using the mode value of the newsgroup posting. This can potentially be a problem when the mode is not restrictive enough. In...

newsfetch -- server response buffer overflow vulnerability

The newsfetch program uses the sscanf function to read information from server responses into static memory buffers. Unfortunately this is done without any proper bounds checking. As a result long server responses may cause an overflow when a newsgroup listing is requested from an NNTP server...

squid -- denial-of-service vulnerabilities

The Squid team reported several denial-of-service vulnerabilities related to the handling of DNS responses and NT Lan Manager messages. These may allow an attacker to crash the Squid cache...

newspost -- server response buffer overflow vulnerability

The newspost program uses a function named socketgetline to read server responses from the network socket. Unfortunately this function does not check the length of the buffer in which the read data is stored and only stops reading when a newline character is found. A malicious NNTP server could u...

opera -- "data:" URI handler spoofing vulnerability

A Secunia Advisory reports: Michael Holzt has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into executing malicious files. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of "data:" URIs, causing wrong information to be shown in a...

mysql-scripts -- mysqlaccess insecure temporary file creation

The Debian Security Team reports: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlaccess script of MySQL that could allow an unprivileged user to let root overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and could also coul...

hylafax -- unauthorized login vulnerability

A flaw in HylaFAX may allow an attacker to bypass normal authentication by spoofing their DNS PTR records...

squid -- buffer overflow vulnerability in gopherToHTML

The squid patches page notes: A malicious gopher server may return a response with very long lines that cause a buffer overflow in Squid. Workaround: Since gopher is very obscure these days, do not allow Squid to any gopher servers. Use an ACL rule like: acl Gopher proto gopher httpaccess deny...

xshisen -- local buffer overflows

Steve Kemp has found buffer overflows in the handling of the command line flag -KCONV and the XSHISENLIB environment variable. Ulf Härnhammer has detected an unbounded copy from the GECOS field to a char array. All overflows can be exploited to gain group games privileges...

squid -- no sanity check of usernames in squid_ldap_auth

The LDAP authentication helper did not strip leading or trailing spaces from the login name. According to the squid patches page: LDAP is very forgiving about spaces in search filters and this could be abused to log in using several variants of the login name, possibly bypassing explicit access...

squid -- denial of service with forged WCCP messages

The squid patches page notes: WCCPISEEYOU messages contain a 'number of caches' field which should be between 1 and 32. Values outside that range may crash Squid if WCCP is enabled, and if an attacker can spoof UDP packets with the WCCP router's IP address...

xpdf -- makeFileKey2() buffer overflow vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the xpdf PDF viewer included in multiple Unix and Linux distributions could allow for arbitrary code execution as the user viewing a PDF file. The vulnerability specifically exists due to insufficient...

tiff -- tiffdump integer overflow vulnerability

Dmitry V. Levin found a potential integer overflow in the tiffdump utility which could lead to execution of arbitrary code. This could be exploited by tricking an user into executing tiffdump on a specially crafted tiff image...

kstars -- exploitable set-user-ID application fliccd

A KDE Security Advisory explains: Overview KStars includes support for the Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface INDI. The build system of this extra 3rd party software contained an installation hook to install fliccd part of INDI as SUID root application. Erik Sjölund discovered that the code...

exim -- two buffer overflow vulnerabilities

The function hostaton can overflow a buffer if it is presented with an illegal IPv6 address that has more than 8 components. 2. The second report described a buffer overflow in the function spabase64tobits, which is part of the code for SPA authentication...

imap-uw -- authentication bypass when CRAM-MD5 is enabled

The CRAM-MD5 authentication support of the University of Washington IMAP and POP3 servers contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to bypass authentication and impersonate arbitrary users. Only installations with CRAM-MD5 support configured are affected...

mod_dosevasive -- insecure temporary file creation

An LSS Security Advisory reports: When a denial of service attack is detected, moddosevasive will, among other things, create a temporary file which it will use to trace actions from the offensive IP address. This file is insecurely created in /tmp and it's name is easily predictable. It is then...

dillo -- format string vulnerability

dillo contains a format string vulnerability which could lead to execution of arbitrary code simply by viewing a web page or opening a HTML file...

horde -- XSS vulnerabilities

A Hyperdose Security Advisory reports: Horde contains two XSS attacks that can be exploited through GET requests. Once exploited, these requests could be used to execute any javascript commands in the context of that user, potentially including but not limited to reading and deleting email, and...

tomcat -- Tomcat Manager cross-site scripting

Oliver Karow discovered cross-site scripting issues in the Apache Jakarta Tomcat manager. The developers refer to the issues as minor...

mailman -- directory traversal vulnerability

A directory traversal vulnerability in mailman allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files due to inadequate input sanitizing. This could, among other things, lead remote attackers to gaining access to the mailman configuration database which contains subscriber email addresses and passwords o...

mpg123 -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Yuri D'Elia has found a buffer overflow vulnerability in mpg123's parsing of frame headers in input streams. This vulnerability can potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running mpg123, if the user runs mpg123 on a specially crafted MP2 or MP3 file...

cups-base -- CUPS server remote DoS vulnerability

Kenshi Muto discovered that the CUPS server would enter an infinite loop when processing a URL containing /...

perl -- File::Path insecure file/directory permissions

Jeroen van Wolffelaar reports that the Perl module File::Path contains a race condition wherein traversed directories and files are temporarily made world-readable/writable...