dns/bind9* -- zero-length RDATA can cause named to terminate, reveal memory

ISC reports: Processing of DNS resource records where the rdata field is zero length may cause various issues for the servers handling them. Processing of these records may lead to unexpected outcomes. Recursive servers may crash or disclose some portion of memory to the client. Secondary servers...

libjpeg-turbo -- heap-based buffer overflow

The Changelog for version 1.2.1 says: Fixed a regression caused by 1.2.06 in which decompressing corrupt JPEG images specifically, images in which the component count was erroneously set to a large value would cause libjpeg-turbo to segfault. A Heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way...

rubygem-activerecord -- multiple vulnerabilities

rubygem-activerecord -- multiple vulernabilities Due to the way Active Record interprets parameters in combination with the way that Rack parses query parameters, it is possible for an attacker to issue unexpected database queries with "IS NULL" where clauses. This issue does not let an attacker...

FreeBSD -- Incorrect crypt() hashing

Problem description: There is a programming error in the DES implementation used in crypt when handling input which contains characters that cannot be represented with 7-bit ASCII. When the input contains characters with only the most significant bit set 0x80, that character and all characters...

databases/postgresql*-server -- crypt vulnerabilities

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group reports: Today the PHP, OpenBSD and FreeBSD communities announced updates to patch a security hole involving their crypt hashing algorithms. This issue is described in CVE-2012-2143. This vulnerability also affects a minority of PostgreSQL users, and will b...

nut -- upsd can be remotely crashed

Networkupstools project reports: NUT server upsd, from versions 2.4.0 to 2.6.3, are exposed to crashes when receiving random data from the network. This issue is related to the way NUT parses characters, especially from the network. Non printable characters were missed from strings operation such...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Remote crash vulnerability in IAX2 channel driver. Skinny Channel Driver Remote Crash Vulnerability...

pycrypto -- vulnerable ElGamal key generation

Dwayne C. Litzenberger of PyCrypto reports: In the ElGamal schemes for both encryption and signatures, g is supposed to be the generator of the entire Z^p group. However, in PyCrypto 2.5 and earlier, g is more simply the generator of a random sub-group of Z^p. The result is that the signature spa...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 117409 High CVE-2011-3103: Crashes in v8 garbage collection. Credit to the Chromium development community Brett Wilson. 118018 Medium CVE-2011-3104: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Inferno. 120912 High CVE-2011-3105: Use-after-free...

RT -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

BestPractical report: Internal audits of the RT codebase have uncovered a number of security vulnerabilities in RT. We are releasing versions 3.8.12 and 4.0.6 to resolve these vulnerabilities, as well as patches which apply atop all released versions of 3.8 and 4.0. The vulnerabilities addressed ...

haproxy -- buffer overflow

HAProxy reports: A flaw was reported in HAProxy where, due to a boundary error when copying data into the trash buffer, an external attacker could cause a buffer overflow. Exploiting this flaw could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, however it requires non-default settings for the...

pidgin-otr -- format string vulnerability

The authors report: Versions 3.2.0 and earlier of the pidgin-otr plugin contain a format string security flaw. This flaw could potentially be exploited by a remote attacker to cause arbitrary code to be executed on the user's machine. The flaw is in pidgin-otr, not in libotr. Other applications...

sudo -- netmask vulnerability

Todd Miller reports: Sudo supports granting access to commands on a per-host basis. The host specification may be in the form of a host name, a netgroup, an IP address, or an IP network an IP address with an associated netmask. When IPv6 support was added to sudo, a bug was introduced that caused...

mail/sympa* -- Multiple vulnerabilities in Sympa archive management

David Verdin reports: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Sympa archive management that allow to skip the scenario-based authorization mechanisms. This vulnerability allows the attacker to: display the archives management page 'arcmanage' download the list's archives delete the list'...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 112983 Low CVE-2011-3083: Browser crash with video + FTP. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG. 113496 Low CVE-2011-3084: Load links from internal pages in their own process. Credit to Brett Wilson of the Chromium development community. 118374 Medium CVE-2011-3085: UI...

libxml2 -- An off-by-one out-of-bounds write by XPointer

Google chrome team reports: An off-by-one out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way libxml, a library for providing XML and HTML support, evaluated certain XPointer parts XPointer is used by libxml to include only the part from the returned XML document, that can be accessed using the XPath...

socat -- Heap-based buffer overflow

The socat development team reports: This vulnerability can be exploited when socat is invoked with the READLINE address this is usually only used interactively without option "prompt" and without option "noprompt" and an attacker succeeds to provide malicious data to the other arbitrary address...

sympa -- Multiple Security Bypass Vulnerabilities

Secunia team reports: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Sympa, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerabilities are caused due to the application allowing access to archive functions without checking credentials. This can be...

openjpeg -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Openjpeg release notes report: That CVE-2012-3535 and CVE-2012-3358 are fixed in the 1.5.1 release. That CVE-2013-4289, CVE-2013-4290, CVE-2013-1447, CVE-2013-6045, CVE-2013-6052, CVE-2013-6054, CVE-2013-6053, CVE-2013-6887, where fixed in the 1.5.2 release...

OpenSSL -- DTLS and TLS 1.1, 1.2 denial of service

OpenSSL security team reports: A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of CBC mode ciphersuites in TLS 1.1, 1.2 and DTLS can be exploited in a denial of service attack on both clients and servers...

PivotX -- 'ajaxhelper.php' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

High-Tech Bridge reports: Input passed via the "file" GET parameter to /pivotx/ajaxhelper.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in administrator's browser session in context of the affected website...

rssh -- arbitrary command execution

Derek Martin rssh maintainer reports: Henrik Erkkonen has discovered that, through clever manipulation of environment variables on the ssh command line, it is possible to circumvent rssh. As far as I can tell, there is no way to effect a root compromise, except of course if the root account is th...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

The PHP Development Team reports: The release of PHP 5.4.13 and 5.4.3 complete a fix for the vulnerability in CGI-based setups as originally described in CVE-2012-1823. CVE-2012-2311 Note: modphp and php-fpm are not vulnerable to this attack. PHP 5.4.3 fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the...

libpurple -- Invalid memory dereference in the XMPP protocol plug-in by processing serie of specially-crafted file transfer requests

Pidgin reports: A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the file transfer requests...

FreeBSD -- OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities

Problem description: OpenSSL fails to clear the bytes used as block cipher padding in SSL 3.0 records when operating as a client or a server that accept SSL 3.0 handshakes. As a result, in each record, up to 15 bytes of uninitialized memory may be sent, encrypted, to the SSL peer. This could...

php -- vulnerability in certain CGI-based setups

php development team reports: Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.12: Initial fix for cgi-bin ?-s cmdarg parse issue CVE-2012-1823...

p5-Config-IniFiles -- unsafe temporary file creation

Unsafe Temporary file creation Config::IniFiles used a predictable name for its temporary file without opening it correctly...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 106413 High CVE-2011-3078: Use after free in floats handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Marty Barbella and independent later discovery by miaubiz. 117627 Medium CVE-2011-3079: IPC validation failure. Credit to PinkiePie. 121726 Medium CVE-2011-3080: Rac...

portupgrade-devel -- lack of distfile checksums

Ports security team reports: The portupgrade-devel port fetched directly from a git respository without checking against a known good SHA hash. This means that it is possible that packages built using this port may not match the one vetted by the maintainer. Users are advised to rebuild...

samba -- incorrect permission checks vulnerability

The Samba project reports: Samba versions 3.4.x to 3.6.4 inclusive are affected by a vulnerability that allows arbitrary users to modify privileges on a file server. Security checks were incorrectly applied to the Local Security Authority LSA remote proceedure calls RPC CreateAccount, OpenAccount...

joomla -- Privilege Escalation

Joomla! reported a Core Privilege Escalation:: Inadequate checking leads to possible user privilege escalation...

WebCalendar -- multiple vulnerabilities

Hanno Boeck reports: Fixes are now available for various security vulnerabilities including LFI local file inclusion, XSS cross site scripting and others...

net-snmp -- Remote DoS

The Red Hat Security Response Team reports: An array index error, leading to out-of heap-based buffer read flaw was found in the way the net-snmp agent performed lookups in the extension table. When certain MIB subtrees were handled by the extend directive, a remote attacker having read privilege...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2012-20 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:12.0/ rv:10.0.4 MFSA 2012-21 Multiple security flaws fixed in FreeType v2.4.9 MFSA 2012-22 use-after-free in IDBKeyRange MFSA 2012-23 Invalid frees causes heap corruption in gfxImageSurface MFSA 2012-24 Potential XSS...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP Channel Driver Heap Buffer Overflow in Skinny Channel Driver Asterisk Manager User Unauthorized Shell Access...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wordpress reports: External code has been updated to non-vulnerable versions. In addition the following bugs have been fixed: Limited privilege escalation where a site administrator could deactivate network-wide plugins when running a WordPress network under particular circumstances. Cross-site...

OpenSSL -- integer conversions result in memory corruption

OpenSSL security team reports: A potentially exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in the OpenSSL function asn1d2ireadbio. Any application which uses BIO or FILE based functions to read untrusted DER format data is vulnerable. Affected functions are of the form d2ibio or d2ifp, for exampl...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Unauthorized Access Due to a lack of proper validation of the X-FORWARDED-FOR header of an authentication request, an attacker could bypass the current lockout policy used for protection against...

node -- private information disclosure

Private information disclosure An attacker can cause private information disclosure...

Dokuwiki -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Andy Webber reports: Add User appears to be vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF/XSRF...

typo -- Cross-Site Scripting

Typo Security Team reports: Failing to properly encode the output, the default TYPO3 Exception Handler is susceptible to Cross-Site Scripting. We are not aware of a possibility to exploit this vulnerability without third party extensions being installed that put user input in exception messages...

phpmyfaq -- Remote PHP Code Execution Vulnerability

The phpMyFAQ project reports: The bundled ImageManager library allows injection of arbitrary PHP code to execute arbitrary PHP code and upload malware and trojan horses...

foswiki -- Script Insertion Vulnerability via unchecked user registration fields

Foswiki team reports: When a new user registers, the new user can add arbitrary HTML and script code into the user topic which is generated by the RegistrationAgent via standard registration fields such as "FirstName" or "OrganisationName". By design, Foswiki's normal editing features allow...

nginx -- Buffer overflow in the ngx_http_mp4_module

The nginx project reports: Buffer overflow in the ngxhttpmp4module...

httpclient -- Improper Certificate Validation

MITRE reports: Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in ..., does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid...

samba -- "root" credential remote code execution

Samba development team reports: Samba versions 3.6.3 and all versions previous to this are affected by a vulnerability that allows remote code execution as the "root" user from an anonymous connection. As this does not require an authenticated connection it is the most serious vulnerability...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Multiple Priority 2 vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 106577 Medium CVE-2011-3066: Out-of-bounds read in Skia clipping. Credit to miaubiz. 117583 Medium CVE-2011-3067: Cross-origin iframe replacement. Credit to Sergey Glazunov. 117698 High CVE-2011-3068: Use-after-free in run-in handling. Credit to miaubiz. 117728 Hig...

coppermine -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The Coppermine Team reports: The release covers several path disclosure vulnerabilities. If unpatched, it's possible to generate an error that will reveal the full path of the script. A remote user can determine the full path to the web root directory and other potentially sensitive information...

png -- memory corruption/possible remote code execution

The PNG project reports: libpng fails to correctly handle malloc failures for text chunks in pngsettext2, which can lead to memory corruption and the possibility of remote code execution...