lftp HTML parsing vulnerability

A buffer overflow exists in lftp which may be triggered when requesting a directory listing from a malicious server over HTTP...

rsync buffer overflow in server mode

When rsync is run in server mode, a buffer overflow could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the rsync server. Anonymous rsync servers are at the highest risk...

Mathopd buffer overflow

Mathopd contains a buffer overflow in the preparereply function that may be remotely exploitable...

racoon remote denial of service vulnerability (IKE Generic Payload Header)

When racoon receives an IKE message with an incorrectly constructed Generic Payload Header, it may behave erratically, going into a tight loop and dropping connections...

pound remotely exploitable vulnerability

An unknown remotely exploitable vulnerability was disclosed. Robert Segall writes: a security vulnerability was brought to my attention many thanks to Akira Higuchi. Everyone running any previous version should upgrade to 1.6 immediately - the vulnerability may allow a remote exploit. No exploits...

bind8 negative cache poison attack

A programming error in BIND 8 named can result in a DNS message being incorrectly cached as a negative response. As a result, an attacker may arrange for malicious DNS messages to be delivered to a target name server, and cause that name server to cache a negative response for some target domain...

mod_python denial-of-service vulnerability in parse_qs

An attacker may cause Apache with modpython to crash by using a specially constructed query string...

ElGamal sign+encrypt keys created by GnuPG can be compromised

Any ElGamal sign+encrypt keys created by GnuPG contain a cryptographic weakness that may allow someone to obtain the private key. These keys should be considered unusable and should be revoked. The following summary was written by Werner Koch, GnuPG author: Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in...

sircd -- remote operator privilege escalation vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in sircd, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain operator privileges. The problem is that any user reportedly can set their usermode to operator. The vulnerability has been reported in versions 0.5.2 and 0.5.3. Other versions may also ...

zebra/quagga denial of service vulnerability

A remote attacker could cause zebra/quagga to crash by sending a malformed telnet command to their management port...

mailman denial-of-service vulnerability in MailCommandHandler

A malformed message could cause mailman to crash...

proftpd IP address access control list breakage

Jindrich Makovicka reports a regression in proftpd's handling of IP address access control lists IP ACLs. Due to this regression, some IP ACLs are treated as allow all''...

grip -- CDDB response multiple matches buffer overflow vulnerability

Joseph VanAndel reports that grip is vulnerability to a buffer overflow vulnerability when receiving more than 16 CDDB responses. This could lead to a crash in grip and potentially execution arbitrary code. A workaround is to disable CDDB lookups...

kpopup -- local root exploit and local denial of service

Mitre CVE reports: Format string vulnerability in main.cpp in kpopup 0.9.1-0.9.5pre2 allows local users to cause a denial of service segmentation fault and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in command line arguments. misc.cpp in KPopup 0.9.1 trusts the PATH variable whe...

fetchmail -- address parsing vulnerability

Fetchmail can be crashed by a malicious email message...

Buffer overflow in pam_smb password handling

Applications utilizing pamsmb can be compromised by any user who can enter a password. In many cases, this is a remote root compromise...

Buffer overflows in libmcrypt

libmcrypt does incomplete input validation, leading to several buffer overflows. Additionally, a memory leak is present. Both of these problems may be exploited in a denial-of-service attack...

fetchmail -- denial-of-service vulnerability

Dave Jones discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in fetchmail. An email message containing a very long line could cause fetchmail to segfault due to missing NUL termination in transact.c. Eric Raymond decided not to mention this issue in the release notes for fetchmail 6.2.5, but it was...

mailman XSS in create script

From the 2.1.3 release notes: Closed a cross-site scripting exploit in the create cgi script...

ProFTPD ASCII translation bug resulting in remote root compromise

A buffer overflow exists in the ProFTPD code that handles translation of newline characters during ASCII-mode file uploads. An attacker may exploit this buffer overflow by uploading a specially crafted file, resulting in code execution and ultimately a remote root compromise...

Midnight Commander buffer overflow during symlink resolution

Midnight Commander uses a fixed sized stack buffer while resolving symbolic links within file archives tar or cpio. If an attacker can cause a user to process a specially crafted file archive with Midnight Commander, the attacker may be able to obtain the privileges of the target user...

pine remotely exploitable vulnerabilities

Pine versions prior to 4.58 are affected by two vulnerabilities discovered by iDEFENSE, a buffer overflow in mailview.c and an integer overflow in strings.c. Both vulnerabilities can result in arbitrary code execution when processing a malicious message...

mpg123 buffer overflow

The mpg123 software version 0.59r contains a buffer overflow vulnerability which may permit the execution of arbitrary code as the owner of the mpg123 process...

ecartis buffer overflows and input validation bugs

Timo Sirainen reports multiple buffer overflows that may be triggered while parsing messages, as well as input validation errors that could result in disclosure of mailing list passwords. These bugs were resolved in the August 2003 snapshot of ecartis...

ezbounce remote format string vulnerability

A security hole exists that can be used to crash the proxy and execute arbitrary code. An exploit is circulating that takes advantage of this, and in some cases succeeds in obtaining a login shell on the machine...

GNATS local privilege elevation

GNATS 3.113.1 contains multiple buffer overflows, through which a local attacker could gain elevated privileges on the system...

leafnode fetchnews denial-of-service triggered by missing header

Fetchnews could hang when a news article to be downloaded lacked one of the mandatory headers. Found by Joshua Crawford...

ChiTeX/ChiLaTeX unsafe set-user-id root

Niels Heinen reports that ChiTeX installs set-user-id root executables that invoked system3 without setting up the environment, trivially allowing local root compromise...

mod_access_referer -- null pointer dereference vulnerability

A malformed Referer header field causes the Apache apparseuricomponents function to discard it with the result that a pointer is not initialized. The modaccessreferer module does not take this into account with the result that it may use such a pointer. The null pointer vulnerability may possibly...

seti@home remotely exploitable buffer overflow

The seti@home client contains a buffer overflow in the HTTP response handler. A malicious, spoofed seti@home server can exploit this buffer overflow to cause remote code execution on the client. Exploit programs are widely available...

Format string vulnerability in SSLtelnet

SSLtelnet contains a format string vulnerability that could allow remote code execution and privilege escalation...

cscope -- symlink attack vulnerability

cscope is vulnerable to a symlink attack which could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running cscope...

sircd -- remote reverse DNS buffer overflow

Secunia reports: A vulnerability in sircd can be exploited by a malicious person to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error in the code handling reverse DNS lookups, when a user connects to the service. If the FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name returned is...

mailman XSS in user options page

From the 2.1.1 release notes: Closed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the user options page...

mpg123 vulnerabilities

In 2003, two vulnerabilities were discovered in mpg123 that could result in remote code execution when using untrusted input or streaming from an untrusted server...

multiple buffer overflows in xboing

Steve Kemp reports in a Debian bug submission: Due to improper bounds checking it is possible for a malicious user to gain a shell with membership group 'games'. The binary is installed setgid games. Environmental variables are used without being bounds-checked in any way, from the source code:...

Cyrus IMAP pre-authentication heap overflow vulnerability

In December 2002, Timo Sirainen reported: Cyrus IMAP server has a remotely exploitable pre-login buffer overflow. ... Note that you don't have to log in before exploiting this, and since Cyrus runs everything under one UID, it's possible to read every user's mail in the system. It is unknown...

leafnode denial-of-service triggered by article request

The leafnode NNTP server may go into an unterminated loop with 100% CPU use when an article is requested by Message-ID that has been crossposted to several news groups when one of the group names is the prefix of another group name that the article was cross-posted to. Found by Jan Knutar...

pine remote denial-of-service attack

An attacker may send a specially-formatted email message that will cause pine to crash...

icecast 1.x multiple vulnerabilities

icecast 1.3.11 and earlier contained numerous security vulnerabilities, the most severe allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as root...

tiff -- divide-by-zero denial-of-service

A US-CERT vulnerability note reports: An Integer overflow in the LibTIFF library may allow a remote attacker to cause a divide-by-zero error that results in a denial-of-service condition...

security/cfs -- buffer overflow

Debian reports: Zorgon found several buffer overflows in cfsd, a daemon that pushes encryption services into the Unixtm file system. We are not yet sure if these overflows can successfully be exploited to gain root access to the machine running the CFS daemon. However, since cfsd can easily be...

nwclient -- multiple vulnerabilities

Insecure file permissions, network access control and DNS usage put systems that use Legato NetWorker at risk. When the software is running, several files that contain sensitive information are created with insecure permissions. The information exposed include passwords and can therefore be used...

pine insecure URL handling

An attacker may send an email message containing a specially constructed URL that will execute arbitrary commands when viewed...

eperl -- Remote code execution

David Madison reports: ePerl is a multipurpose Perl filter and interpreter program for Unix systems. The ePerl preprocessor contains an input validation error. The preprocessor allows foreign data to be "safely" included using the 'sinclude' directive. The problem occurs when a file referenced by...

nap allows arbitrary file access

According to the author: Fixed security loophole which allowed remote clients to access arbitrary files on our system...

pine remotely exploitable buffer overflow in newmail.c

Kris Kennaway reports a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in newmail.c. Mike Silbersack submitted the fix...

CCE contains exploitable buffer overflows

The Chinese Console Environment contains exploitable buffer overflows...

qpopper format string vulnerability

An authenticated user may trigger a format string vulnerability present in qpopper's UIDL code, resulting in arbitrary code execution with group ID mail' privileges...

xloadimage -- buffer overflow in FACES image handling

In 2001, zen-parse discovered a buffer overflow in xloadimage's FACES image loader. A maliciously crafted image could cause xloadimage to execute arbitrary code. A published exploit exists for this vulnerability. In 2005, Rob Holland discovered that the same vulnerability was present in xli...