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imlib -- BMP decoder heap buffer overflow
Marcus Meissner discovered that imlib's BMP decoder would crash when loading the test BMP file created by Chris Evans for testing the previous Qt vulnerability. It is believed that this bug could be exploited for arbitrary code execution...
tor -- remote DoS and loss of anonymity
Tor has various remote crashes which could lead to a remote denial-of-service and be used to defeat clients anonymity. It is not expected that these vulnerabilities are exploitable for arbitrary code execution...
openoffice -- document disclosure
OpenOffice creates a working directory in /tmp on startup, and uses this directory to temporarily store document content. However, the permissions of the created directory may allow other user on the system to read these files, potentially exposing information the user likely assumed was...
icecast -- Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Caused by improper filtering of HTML code in the status display, it is possible for a remote user to execute scripting code in the target user's browser...
ifmail -- unsafe set-user-ID application
Niels Heinen reports that ifmail allows one to specify a configuration file. Since ifmail runs set-user-ID news', this may allow a local attacker to write to arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands as the news' user...
hafiye -- lack of terminal escape sequence filtering
A siyahsapka.org advisory reads: Hafiye-1.0 doesnt filter the payload when printing it to the terminal. A malicious attacker can send packets with escape sequence payloads to exploit this vulnerability. If Hafiye has been started with -n packet count option , the vulnerability could allow remote...
cups -- print queue browser denial-of-service
If the CUPS server cupsd receives a zero-length UDP message, it will disable its print queue browser service...
nss -- exploitable buffer overflow in SSLv2 protocol handler
ISS X-Force reports that a remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Netscape Security Services NSS library's implementation of SSLv2. From their advisory: The NSS library contains a flaw in SSLv2 record parsing that may lead to remote compromise. When parsing the first record in an SSLv...
kdelibs -- konqueror cross-domain cookie injection
According to a KDE Security Advisory: WESTPOINT internet reconnaissance services alerted the KDE security team that the KDE web browser Konqueror allows websites to set cookies for certain country specific secondary top level domains. Web sites operating under the affected domains can set HTTP...
gaim -- malicious smiley themes
The Gaim Security Issues page documents a problem with installing smiley themes from an untrusted source: To install a new smiley theme, a user can drag a tarball from a graphical file manager, or a hypertext link to one from a web browser. When a tarball is dragged, Gaim executes a shell command...
fidogate -- write files as `news' user
Neils Heinen reports that the setuid news' binaries installed as part of fidogate may be used to create files or append to file with the privileges of the news' user by setting the LOGFILE environmental variable...
imwheel -- insecure handling of PID file
A Computer Academic Underground advisory describes the consequences of imwheel's handling of the process ID file PID file: imwheel exclusively uses a predictably named PID file for management of multiple imwheel processes. A race condition exists when the -k command-line option is used to kill...
imp3 -- XSS hole in the HTML viewer
The script vulnerabilities can only be exposed with certain browsers and allow XSS attacks when viewing HTML messages with the HTML MIME viewer...
xv -- exploitable buffer overflows
In a Bugtraq posting, infamous41mdathotpop.com reported: there are at least 5 exploitable buffer and heap overflows in the image handling code. this allows someone to craft a malicious image, trick a user into viewing the file in xv, and upon viewing that image execute arbitrary code under...
a2ps -- insecure command line argument handling
Rudolf Polzer reports: a2ps builds a command line for file containing an unescaped version of the file name, thus might call external programs described by the file name. Running a cronjob over a public writable directory a2ps-ing all files in it - or simply typing "a2ps .txt" in /tmp - is...
courier-imap -- format string vulnerability in debug mode
An iDEFENSE security advisory describes a format string vulnerability that could be exploited when Courier-IMAP is run in debug mode DEBUGLOGIN set...
mysql -- mysqlhotcopy insecure temporary file creation
According to Christian Hammers: mysqlhotcopy created temporary files in /tmp which had predictable filenames and such could be used for a tempfile run attack. Jeroen van Wolffelaar is credited with discovering the issue...
squid -- NTLM authentication denial-of-service vulnerability
A remote attacker is able to cause a denial-of-service situation, when NTLM authentication is enabled in squid. NTLM authentication uses two functions which lack correct offset checking...
tnftpd -- remotely exploitable vulnerability
lukemftpd8 is an enhanced BSD FTP server produced within the NetBSD project. The sources for lukemftpd are shipped with some versions of FreeBSD, however it is not built or installed by default. The build system option WANTLUKEMFTPD must be set to build and install lukemftpd. NOTE: An exception i...
cacti -- SQL injection
Fernando Quintero reports that Cacti 0.8.5a suffers from a SQL injection attack where an attacker can change the password for any Cacti user. This attack is not possible if the PHP option magicquotesgpc is set to On, which is the default for PHP in FreeBSD...
Ruby insecure file permissions in the CGI session management
According to a Debian Security Advisory: Andres Salomon noticed a problem in the CGI session management of Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language. CGI::Session's FileStore and presumably PStore ... implementations store session information insecurely. They simply create files, ignoring...
sharutils -- buffer overflows
From Gentoo advisory GLSA 200410-01: sharutils contains two buffer overflows. Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in shar.c, where the length of data returned by the wc command is not checked. Florian Schilhabel discovered another buffer overflow in unshar.c. An attacker could exploit the...
gaim remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in MSN component
Sebastian Krahmer discovered several remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the MSN component of gaim. In two places in the MSN protocol plugins object.c and slp.c, strncpy was used incorrectly; the size of the array was not checked before copying to it. Both bugs affect MSN's...
acroread uudecoder input validation error
An iDEFENSE security advisory reports: Remote exploitation of an input validation error in the uudecoding feature of Adobe Acrobat Reader Unix 5.0 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The Unix and Linux versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 automatically attempt to convert uuencoded...
rsync -- path sanitizing vulnerability
An rsync security advisory reports: There is a path-sanitizing bug that affects daemon mode in all recent rsync versions including 2.6.2 but only if chroot is disabled. The bug may allow a remote user to access files outside of an rsync module's configured path with the privileges configured for...
Mutiple browser frame injection vulnerability
A class of bugs affecting many web browsers in the same way was discovered. A Secunia advisory reports: The problem is that the browsers don't check if a target frame belongs to a website containing a malicious link, which therefore doesn't prevent one browser window from loading content in a nam...
qt -- image loader vulnerabilities
Qt contains several vulnerabilities related to image loading, including possible crashes when loading corrupt GIF, BMP, or JPEG images. Most seriously, Chris Evans reports that the BMP crash is actually due to a heap buffer overflow. It is believed that an attacker may be able to construct a BMP...
kdelibs insecure temporary file handling
According to a KDE Security Advisory, KDE may sometimes create temporary files without properly checking the ownership and type of the target path. This could allow a local attacker to cause KDE applications to overwrite arbitrary files...
libpng stack-based buffer overflow and other code concerns
Chris Evans has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in libpng, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system or cause a DoS Denial of Service...
gnomevfs -- unsafe URI handling
Alexander Larsson reports that some versions of gnome-vfs and MidnightCommander contain a number of extfs' scripts that do not properly validate user input. If an attacker can cause her victim to process a specially-crafted URI, arbitrary commands can be executed with the privileges of the victim...
SpamAssassin -- denial-of-service in tokenize_headers
According to the SpamAssassin 2.64 release announcement: Security fix prevents a denial of service attack open to certain malformed messages; this DoS affects all SpamAssassin 2.5x and 2.6x versions to date. The issue appears to be triggered by overly long message headers...
ImageMagick png vulnerability fix
Glenn Randers-Pehrson has contributed a fix for the png vulnerabilities discovered by Chris Evans...
gnutls -- certificate chain verification DoS
Patric Hornik reports on a problem in the certificate chain verification procedures of GnuTLS that may result in a denial-of-service vulnerability: The certificate chain should be verified from last root certificate to the first certificate. Otherwise a lot of unauthorized CPU processing can be...
mozilla -- SOAPParameter integer overflow
zen-parse discovered and iDEFENSE reported an exploitable integer overflow in a scriptable Mozilla component SOAPParameter': Improper input validation to the SOAPParameter object constructor in Netscape and Mozilla allows execution of arbitrary code. The SOAPParameter object's constructor contain...
popfile file disclosure
John Graham-Cumming reports that certain configurations of POPFile may allow the retrieval of any files with the extensions .gif, .png, .ico, .css, as well as some files with the extension .html...
ripMIME -- decoding bug allowing content filter bypass
ripMIME may prematurely terminate decoding Base64 encoded messages when it encounters multiple blank lines or other non-standard Base64 constructs. Virus scanning and content filtering tools that use ripMIME may therefore be bypassed. The ripMIME CHANGELOG file says: There's viruses going around...
SoX buffer overflows when handling .WAV files
Ulf Härnhammar discovered a pair of buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code of SoX. If an attacker can cause her victim to process a specially-crafted WAV file with SoX e.g. through social engineering or through some other program that relies on SoX, arbitrary code can be executed with the...
Mozilla certificate spoofing
Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to spoof SSL certification...
mozilla -- POP client heap overflow
zen-parse discovered a heap buffer overflow in Mozilla's POP client implementation. A malicious POP server could exploit this vulnerability to cause Mozilla to execute arbitrary code...
moinmoin -- ACL group bypass
The moinmoin package contains two bugs with ACLs and anonymous users. Both bugs may permit anonymous users to gain access to administrative functions; for example the delete function. There is no known workaround, the vulnerability exists regardless if a site is using ACLs or not...
Mozilla / Firefox user interface spoofing vulnerability
The Mozilla project's family of browsers contain a design flaw that can allow a website to spoof almost perfectly any part of the Mozilla user interface, including spoofing web sites for phishing or internal elements such as the "Master Password" dialog box. This achieved by manipulating "chrome"...
apache13-modssl -- format string vulnerability in proxy support
A OpenPKG Security Advisory reports: Triggered by a report to Packet Storm from Virulent, a format string vulnerability was found in modssl, the Apache SSL/TLS interface to OpenSSL, version up to and including 2.8.18 for Apache 1.3. The modssl in Apache 2.x is not affected. The vulnerability coul...
Multiple Potential Buffer Overruns in Samba
Evgeny Demidov discovered that the Samba server has a buffer overflow in the Samba Web Administration Tool SWAT on decoding Base64 data during HTTP Basic Authentication. Versions 3.0.2 through 3.0.4 are affected. Another buffer overflow bug has been found in the code used to support the "mangling...
mozilla -- insecure permissions for some downloaded files
In a Mozilla bug report, Daniel Kleinsinger writes: I was comparing treatment of attachments opened directly from emails on different platforms. I discovered that Linux builds save attachments in /tmp with world readable rights. This doesn't seem like a good thing. Couldn't someone else logged on...
mozilla -- NULL bytes in FTP URLs
When handling FTP URLs containing NULL bytes, Mozilla will interpret the file content as HTML. This may allow unexpected execution of Javascript when viewing plain text or other file types via FTP...
apache2 -- SSL remote DoS
The Apache HTTP Server 2.0.51 release notes report that the following issues have been fixed: A segfault in modssl which can be triggered by a malicious remote server, if proxying to SSL servers has been configured. CAN-2004-0751 A potential infinite loop in modssl which could be triggered given...
php -- strip_tags cross-site scripting vulnerability
Stefan Esser of e-matters discovered that PHP's striptags function would ignore certain characters during parsing of tags, allowing these tags to pass through. Select browsers could then parse these tags, possibly allowing cross-site scripting attacks...
php -- memory_limit related vulnerability
Stefan Esser of e-matters discovered a condition within PHP that may lead to remote execution of arbitrary code. The memorylimit facility is used to notify functions when memory contraints have been met. Under certain conditions, the entry into this facility is able to interrupt functions such as...