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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ImageMagick png vulnerability fix

Glenn Randers-Pehrson has contributed a fix for the png vulnerabilities discovered by Chris Evans...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -- 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...

multiple vulnerabilities in ethereal

Issues have been discovered in multiple protocol dissectors...

cyrus-sasl -- potential buffer overflow in DIGEST-MD5 plugin

The Cyrus SASL DIGEST-MD5 plugin contains a potential buffer overflow when quoting is required in the output...

MySQL authentication bypass / buffer overflow

By submitting a carefully crafted authentication packet, it is possible for an attacker to bypass password authentication in MySQL 4.1. Using a similar method, a stack buffer used in the authentication mechanism can be overflowed...

Pavuk HTTP Location header overflow

When pavuk sends a request to a web server and the server sends back the HTTP status code 305 Use Proxy, pavuk copies data from the HTTP Location header in an unsafe manner. This leads to a stack-based buffer overflow with control over EIP...

mozilla -- built-in CA certificates may be overridden

Under some situations, Mozilla will automatically import a certificate from an email message or web site. This behavior can be used as a denial-of-service attack: if the certificate has a distinguished name DN identical to one of the built-in Certificate Authorities CAs, then Mozilla will no long...

Remote code injection in phpMyAdmin

This vulnerability would allow remote user to inject PHP code to be executed by eval function. This vulnerability is only exploitable if variable $cfg'LeftFrameLight' is set to FALSE in file config.inc.php...

distcc -- incorrect parsing of IP access control rules

Fix bug that might cause IP-based access control rules not to be interpreted correctly on 64-bit platforms...

isc-dhcp3-server buffer overflow in logging mechanism

A buffer overflow exists in the logging functionality of the DHCP daemon which could lead to Denial of Service attacks and has the potential to allow attackers to execute arbitrary code...

gnats -- format string vulnerability

Gnats suffers from a format string bug, which may enable an attacker to execute arbitary code...

rssh -- file name disclosure bug

rssh expands command line paramters before invoking chroot. This could result in the disclosure to the client of file names outside of the chroot directory. A posting by the rssh author explains: The cause of the problem identified by Mr. McCaw is that rssh expanded command-line arguments prior t...