Python -- DoS via malformed XML-RPC / HTTP POST request

Jan Lieskovsky reports, A denial of service flaw was found in the way Simple XML-RPC Server module of Python processed client connections, that were closed prior the complete request body has been received. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Python Simple XML-RPC based server process ...

surf -- private information disclosure

surf does not protect its cookie jar against access read access from other local users...

mozilla -- use-after-free in nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2012-10 use after free in nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 73478 Low CVE-2011-3953: Avoid clipboard monitoring after paste event. Credit to Daniel Cheng of the Chromium development community. 92550 Low CVE-2011-3954: Crash with excessive database usage. Credit to Collin Payne. 93106 High CVE-2011-3955: Crash aborting an...

php -- arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a logic error within the "phpregistervariableex" function phpvariables.c when hashing form posts and updating a hash table,...

mathopd -- directory traversal vulnerability

Michiel Boland reports: The software has a vulnerability that could lead to directory traversal if the '' construct for mass virtual hosting is used...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal development team reports: Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability in Aggregator module CVE: CVE-2012-0826 An XSRF vulnerability can force an aggregator feed to update. Since some services are rate-limited e.g. Twitter limits requests to 150 per hour this could lead to a denial of service...

libtremor -- memory corruption

The Mozilla Project reports: Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative the possibility of memory corruption during the decoding of Ogg Vorbis files. This can cause a crash during decoding and has the potential for remote code execution...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Account Impersonation: When a user creates a new account, Bugzilla doesn't correctly reject email addresses containing non-ASCII characters, which could be used to impersonate another user accoun...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2012-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:10.0/ rv:1.9.2.26 MFSA 2012-02 Overly permissive IPv6 literal syntax MFSA 2012-03 iframe element exposed across domains via name attribute MFSA 2012-04 Child nodes from nsDOMAttribute still accessible after removal o...

sudo -- format string vulnerability

Todd Miller reports: Sudo 1.8.0 introduced simple debugging support that was primarily intended for use when developing policy or I/O logging plugins. The sudodebug function contains a flaw where the program name is used as part of the format string passed to the fprintf function. The program nam...

postfixadmin -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

The Postfix Admin Team reports: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities exist: - XSS with $GETdomain in templates/menu.php and edit-vacation - XSS in some create-domain input fields - XSS in create-alias and edit-alias error message - XSS by values stored in the database in fetchmail list view, list-domain...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 106484 High CVE-2011-3924: Use-after-free in DOM selections. Credit to Arthur Gerkis. 108461 High CVE-2011-3928: Use-after-free in DOM handling. Credit to wushi of team509 reported through ZDI ZDI-CAN-1415. 108605 High CVE-2011-3927: Uninitialized value in Skia...

fetchmail -- chosen plaintext attack against SSL CBC initialization vectors

Matthias Andree reports: Fetchmail version 6.3.9 enabled "all SSL workarounds" SSLOPALL which contains a switch to disable a countermeasure against certain attacks against block ciphers that permit guessing the initialization vectors, providing that an attacker can make the application fetchmail...

OpenSSL -- DTLS Denial of Service

The OpenSSL Team reports: A flaw in the fix to CVE-2011-4108 can be exploited in a denial of service attack. Only DTLS applications using OpenSSL 1.0.0f and 0.9.8s are affected...

spamdyke -- Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Fixed a number of very serious errors in the usage of snprintf/vsnprintf. The return value was being used as the length of the string printed into the buffer, but the return value really indicates the length of the string that could be printed if the buffer were of infinite size...

asterisk -- SRTP Video Remote Crash Vulnerability

Asterisk project reports: An attacker attempting to negotiate a secure video stream can crash Asterisk if video support has not been enabled and the ressrtp Asterisk module is loaded...

couchdb -- DOM based Cross-Site Scripting via Futon UI

Jan Lehnardt reports: Query parameters passed into the browser-based test suite are not sanitised, and can be used to load external resources. An attacker may execute JavaScript code in the browser, using the context of the remote user...

isc-dhcp-server -- DoS in DHCPv6

ISC reports: Due to improper handling of a DHCPv6 lease structure, ISC DHCP servers that are serving IPv6 address pools AND using Dynamic DNS can encounter a segmentation fault error while updating lease status under certain conditions. The potential exists for this condition to be intentionally...

poweradmin -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities Multiple scripts are vulnerable to XSS attacks...

WebCalendar -- Persistent XSS

tom reports, There is no sanitation on the input of the location variable allowing for persistent XSS...

PowerDNS -- Denial of Service Vulnerability

The PowerDNS Team reports: Using well crafted UDP packets, one or more PowerDNS servers could be made to enter a tight packet loop, causing temporary denial of service...

bip -- buffer overflow

Julien Tinnes reports, Bip doesn't check if fd is equal or larger than FDSETSIZE...

OpenTTD -- Denial of service (server) via slow read attack

The OpenTTD Team reports: Using a slow read type attack it is possible to prevent anyone from joining a server with virtually no resources. Once downloading the map no other downloads of the map can start, so downloading really slowly will prevent others from joining. This can be further aggravat...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 106672 High CVE-2011-3921: Use-after-free in animation frames. Credit to Boris Zbarsky of Mozilla. 107128 High CVE-2011-3919: Heap-buffer-overflow in libxml. Credit to Juri Aedla. 108006 High CVE-2011-3922: Stack-buffer-overflow in glyph handling. Credit to Google...

libxml2 -- heap buffer overflow

Google chrome team reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in libxml2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors...

spamdyke -- STARTTLS Plaintext Injection Vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to the TLS implementation not properly clearing transport layer buffers when upgrading from plaintext to ciphertext after receiving the "STARTTLS" command. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary plaintext data e.g. SMTP commands during the...

OpenSSL -- multiple vulnerabilities

The OpenSSL Team reports: 6 security flaws have been fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0f: If X509VFLAGPOLICYCHECK is set in OpenSSL 0.9.8, then a policy check failure can lead to a double-free. OpenSSL prior to 1.0.0f and 0.9.8s failed to clear the bytes used as block cipher padding in SSL 3.0 records. As a...

WordPress -- cross site scripting vulnerability

WordPress development team reports: WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K., and the Go Daddy...

mpack -- Information disclosure

The oss-security list reports: Incorrect permissions on temporary files can lead to information disclosure...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

php development team reports: Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9: Added maxinputvars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. CVE-2011-4885 Fixed bug 60150 Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif header. CVE-2011-4566...

Multiple implementations -- DoS via hash algorithm collision

oCERT reports: A variety of programming languages suffer from a denial-of-service DoS condition against storage functions of key/value pairs in hash data structures, the condition can be leveraged by exploiting predictable collisions in the underlying hashing algorithms. The issue finds particula...

FreeBSD -- pam_ssh improperly grants access when user account has unencrypted SSH private keys

Problem Description: The OpenSSL library call used to decrypt private keys ignores the passphrase argument if the key is not encrypted. Because the pamssh module only checks whether the passphrase provided by the user is null, users with unencrypted SSH private keys may successfully authenticate...

krb5-appl -- telnetd code execution vulnerability

The MIT Kerberos Team reports: When an encryption key is supplied via the TELNET protocol, its length is not validated before the key is copied into a fixed-size buffer. Also see MITKRB5-SA-2011-008...

FreeBSD -- pam_ssh() does not validate service names

Problem Description: Some third-party applications, including KDE's kcheckpass command, allow the user to specify the name of the policy on the command line. Since OpenPAM treats the policy name as a path relative to /etc/pam.d or /usr/local/etc/pam.d, users who are permitted to run such an...

plib -- remote code execution via buffer overflow

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in PLIB, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "ulSetError" function src/util/ulError.cxx when creating the error message, which...

plib -- buffer overflow

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in PLIB, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "ulSetError" function src/util/ulError.cxx when creating the error message, which...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2011-53 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:9.0 MFSA 2011-54 Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library MFSA 2011-55 nsSVGValue out-of-bounds access MFSA 2011-56 Key detection without JavaScript via SVG animation MFSA 2011-58 Crash...

unbound -- denial of service vulnerabilities from nonstandard redirection and denial of existence

Unbound developer reports: Unbound crashes when confronted with a non-standard response from a server for a domain. This domain produces duplicate RRs from a certain type and is DNSSEC signed. Unbound also crashes when confronted with a query that eventually, and under specific circumstances,...

phpMyAdmin -- Multiple XSS

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: Using crafted url parameters, it was possible to produce XSS on the export panels in the server, database and table sections. Crafted values entered in the setup interface can produce XSS; also, if the config directory exists and is writeable, the XSS...

typo3 -- Remote Code Execution

The typo3 security team reports: A crafted request to a vulnerable TYPO3 installation will allow an attacker to load PHP code from an external source and to execute it on the TYPO3 installation. This is caused by a PHP file, which is part of the workspaces system extension, that does not validate...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 81753 Medium CVE-2011-3903: Out-of-bounds read in regex matching. Credit to David Holloway of the Chromium development community. 95465 Low CVE-2011-3905: Out-of-bounds reads in libxml. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Inferno. 98809 Medium CVE-2011-3906:...

krb5 -- KDC null pointer dereference in TGS handling

The MIT Kerberos Team reports: In releases krb5-1.9 and later, the KDC can crash due to a NULL pointer dereference in code that handles TGS Ticket Granting Service requests. The trigger condition is trivial to produce using unmodified client software, but requires the ability to authenticate as a...

redmine -- CSRF protection bypass

Redmine reports: Vulnerability that would allow an attacker to bypass the CSRF protection...

PuTTY -- Password vulnerability

Simon Tatham reports: PuTTY 0.62 fixes a security issue present in 0.59, 0.60 and 0.61. If you log in using SSH-2 keyboard-interactive authentication which is the usual method used by modern servers to request a password, the password you type was accidentally kept in PuTTY's memory for the rest ...

jasper -- buffer overflow

Fedora reports: JasPer fails to properly decode marker segments and other sections in malformed JPEG2000 files. Malformed inputs can cause heap buffer overflows which in turn may result in execution of attacker-controlled code...

asterisk -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: It is possible to enumerate SIP usernames when the general and user/peer NAT settings differ in whether to respond to the port a request is sent from or the port listed for responses in the Via header. When the "automon" feature is enabled in features.conf, it is possibl...

acroread9 -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

The Adobe Security Team reports: An unspecified vulnerability in the U3D component allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service attack via unknown vectors. A heap-based buffer overflow allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

isc-dhcp-server -- Remote DoS

ISC reports: A bug exists which allows an attacker who is able to send DHCP Request packets, either directly or through a relay, to remotely crash an ISC DHCP server if that server is configured to evaluate expressions using a regular expression i.e. uses the "=" or "" comparison operators...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera software reports: Fixed a moderately severe issue; details will be disclosed at a later date Fixed an issue that could allow pages to set cookies or communicate cross-site for some top level domains; see our advisory Improved handling of certificate revocation corner cases Added a fix for a...