MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The MediaWiki wiki web application as used on wikipedia.org. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mediawiki. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact MediaWiki allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, to perform imports fro...

PolicyKit: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PolicyKit is a toolkit for controlling privileges for system-wide services. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PolicyKit: Error messages in the pkexec utility disclose the existence of local files CVE-2010-0750. The pkexec utility initially checks the effective use...

Apache mod_authnz_external: SQL injection

Background modauthnzexternal is a tool for creating custom authentication backends for HTTP basic authentication. Description mysql/mysql-auth.pl in modauthnzexternal does not properly sanitize input before using it in an SQL query. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...

Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Adobe Flash Player. For further information please consult the CVE entries and the Adobe Security Bulletins...

Nagios: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Nagios: Paul reported that statuswml.cgi does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters in the 1 ping and 2 traceroute parameters CVE-2009-2288. Nagios doe...

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Opera: Vitaly McLain reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing host names in file:// URLs CVE-2008-5178. Alexios Fakos reported a vulnerability in the HTML...

Linux Audit: Buffer overflow

Background Linux Audit is a set of userspace utilities for storing and processing auditing records. Description A stack-based buffer overflow has been reported in the auditlogusercommand function in the file lib/auditlogging.c when processing overly long arguments. Impact A local attacker could...

eGroupWare: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background eGroupWare is a suite of web-based group applications including calendar, address book, messenger and email. Description A vulnerability has been reported in FCKEditor due to the way that file uploads are handled in the file editor/filemanager/upload/php/upload.php when a filename has...

Mozilla products: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project, and Mozilla Thunderbird an email client. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as the 'Mozilla Application Suite'...

libpng: Denial of service

Background libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG images. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that a vulnerability exists in the sPLT chunk handling code of libpng, a large sPLT chunk may cause an application to attempt to read...

KPdf, KWord: Multiple overflows in included Xpdf code

Background KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. KWord is a KDE-based word processor also included in the koffice package. Description KPdf and KWord both include Xpdf code to handle PDF files. This Xpdf code is vulnerable to several heap overflows GLSA 200512-08 as...

Apache: buffer overflows and a possible information disclosure

Background The Apache HTTP Server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. Description Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in modalias and modrewrite allow attackers who can create or edit configuration files including .htaccess files, to cause a denial of service and execute...

Ruby on Rails: Remote Code Execution

Background Ruby on Rails is a free web framework used to develop database-driven web applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby on Rails. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact When serialized columns that use YAML the default a...

intel-microcode: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Intel IA32/IA64 microcode update data. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NVIDIA Drivers. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround a...

Minecraft Server: Remote Code Execution

Background Minecraft Server is the official server for the sandbox video game. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Minecraft Server. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Vulnerable Minecraft Server versions include a bundled version of log4j which i...

squashfs-tools: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival use i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used, and in constrained block device/memory systems e.g. embedded systems where low overhead is needed...

Cairo: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Background Cairo is a 2D vector graphics library with cross-device output support. Description An attacker with the ability to provide input to Cairo's image-compositor can cause a buffer overwrite. Impact Malicious input to Cairo's image-compositor can result in denial of service of the...

sudo: Root Privilege Escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description The sudoedit aka -e feature mishandles extra arguments passed in the user-provided environment variables SUDOEDITOR, VISUAL, and EDITOR, allowing a local attacker to append arbitrar...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

GDAL: Heap Buffer Overflow

Background GDAL is a geospatial data abstraction library. Description GDAL does not sufficiently sanitize input when loading PCIDSK binary segments. Impact Loading crafted PCIDSK data via GDAL could result in denial of service. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There...

libjpeg-turbo: Information disclosure

Background libjpeg-turbo is a MMX, SSE, and SSE2 SIMD accelerated JPEG library. Description It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain PPM files. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PPM file using an application linked against...

Ark: Arbitrary code execution

Background Ark is a graphical file compression/decompression utility with support for multiple formats. Description It was discovered that Ark incorrectly handled symbolic links in tar archive files. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted archive using Ark,...

GStreamer RTSP Server: Denial of service

Background RTSP server library based on GStreamer. Description It was discovered that GStreamer RTSP Server did not properly handle authentication. Impact A remote attacker, by sending specially crafted authentication requests, could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There ...

WebKitGTK+: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background WebKitGTK+ is a full-featured port of the WebKit rendering engine, suitable for projects requiring any kind of web integration, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web browsers. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WebKitGTK+. Please review the CVE...

ReportLab: Arbitrary code execution

Background ReportLab is an Open Source Python library for generating PDFs and graphics. Description ReportLab was found to be mishandling XML documents and may evaluate the contents without checking for their safety. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileg...

Pure-FTPd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality and standards-compliant FTP server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pure-FTPd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service conditio...

GNU Wget: Arbitrary code execution

Background GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. Description A buffer overflow was discovered in GNU’s Wget. Impact An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause ...

QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no...

Kpathsea: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Kpathsea is a library to do path searching. It is used by TeX Live and others TeX related software. Description It was discovered that the mpost program from the shellescapecommands list is capable of executing arbitrary external programs during the conversion of .tex files. The...

Git: Security bypass

Background Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Description Timo Schmid discovered that the Git restricted shell incorrectly filtered allowed commands. Impact A remote attacker...

NTFS-3G: Privilege escalation

Background NTFS-3G is a stable, full-featured, read-write NTFS driver for various operating systems. Description The NTFS-3G driver does not properly clear environment variables before invoking mount or umount. This flaw is similar to the vulnerability described in “GLSA-201701-19” and...

Quagga: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Quagga is a free routing daemon replacing Zebra supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Quagga. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted packet possibly...

Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Botan Japanese for peony is a cryptography library written in C++11. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Botan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker might obtain ECDSA secret keys via a timing side-channel...

XStream: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. Description It was found that XStream would deserialize arbitrary user-supplied XML content, thus representing objects of any type. Impact A remote attacker could pass a specially crafted XML document to XStream,...

SQLite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SQLite. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

PECL HTTP: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background This HTTP extension aims to provide a convenient and powerful set of functionality for one of PHPs major applications. Description A buffer overflow can be triggered in the URL parsing functions of the PECL HTTP extension. This allows overflowing a buffer with data originating from an...

LinuxCIFS utils: Buffer overflow

Background The LinuxCIFS utils are a collection of tools for managing Linux CIFS Client Filesystems. Description A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in cifskey.c or cifscreds.c in LinuxCIFS, as used in “pamcifscreds.” Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an...

Puppet Server and Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Puppet Agent contains Puppet’s main code and all of the dependencies needed to run it, including Facter, Hiera, and bundled versions of Ruby and OpenSSL. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet Server and Agent. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

NTP: Multiple vulnerablities

Background NTP contains software for the Network Time Protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NTP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or...

Python: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Python. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or...

libvirt: Denial of service

Background libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker may be able to cause Denial of Service. Workaround There i...

Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of...

NRPE: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Nagios Remote Plugin Executor NRPE remotely executes Nagios plugins on other Linux/Unix machines. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NRPE. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker can utilize multiple vectors to...

Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open-source web browser project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could conduct a number of attacks which include: cross site scripting attacks,...

Openfire: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Openfire is a real time collaboration RTC server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Openfire. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or bypass security...

GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GnuTLS is an Open Source implementation of the TLS 1.2 and SSL 3.0 protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GnuTLS. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could utilize multiple vectors to spoof arbitrary...

LibYAML: Arbitrary code execution

Background LibYAML is a YAML 1.1 parser and emitter written in C. Description The yamlparserscanuriescapes function does not properly expand strings passed as input, which can result in a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could provide a specially-crafted YAML document, which, when...

Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Pidgin is a GTK Instant Messenger client for a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code wit...

Exim: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Exim is a highly configurable, drop-in replacement for sendmail. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Exim. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with root privileges, or...