glibc: Information leak with LD_DEBUG

Background The GNU C library defines various Unix-like "system calls" and other basic facilities needed for a standard POSIX-like application to operate. Description Silvio Cesare discovered a potential information leak in glibc. It allows LDDEBUG on SUID binaries where it should not be allowed...

FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan: Vulnerabilities in certificate handling

Background FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan and Super-FreeS/WAN are Open Source implementations of IPsec for the Linux operating system. They are all based on the discontinued FreeS/WAN project. Description All these IPsec implementations have several bugs in the verifyx509cert function, which...

Ethereal: Multiple security problems

Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.4, including: A buffer overflow in the MMSE dissector. Under specific conditions a SIP packet could make Ethereal crash. The AIM dissector coul...

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...

runc: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in runc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

GLib: Privilege Escalation

Background GLib is a library providing a number of GNOME's core objects and functions. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in GLib. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact When a GDBus-based client subscribes to signals from a trusted system service such ...

Samba: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

Apache Log4j: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Log4j is a Java logging framework that supports various use cases with a rich set of components, a separate API, and a performance-optimized implementation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities hav been discovered in Apache Log4j. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for...

Apache XML-RPC: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Apache XML-RPC previously known as Helma XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apache XML-RPC. Please review the CVE identifiers reference...

SABnzbd: Remote Code Execution

Background Free and easy binary newsreader with web interface. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in SABnzbd. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A design flaw was discovered in SABnzbd that could allow remote code execution. Manipulating the...

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...

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 ...

Ark: Arbitrary code execution

Background Ark is a graphical file compression/decompression utility with support for multiple formats. Description A maliciously crafted archive with “../” in the file paths could install files anywhere in the user’s home directory upon extraction. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...

FFmpeg: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FFmpeg. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

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 A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially...

Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor, and tor. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker coul...

BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background BusyBox is a set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code wi...

WebkitGTK+: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background WebKitGTK+ is a full-featured port of the WebKit rendering engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WebkitGTK+. Please review the referenced CVE Identifiers for details. Impact An attacker, by enticing a user to visit maliciously crafted web content, may be...

Jython: Arbitrary code execution

Background An implementation of Python written in Java. Description It was found that Jython is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution by sending a serialized function to the deserializer. Impact Remote execution of arbitrary code by enticing a user to execute malicious code. Workaround There is ...

Pillow: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The friendly PIL fork. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pillow. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the...

nghttp2: Denial of service

Background Nghttp2 is an implementation of HTTP/2 and its header compression algorithm HPACK in C. Description Nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2asio applications do not limit the memory usage for the incoming HTTP header field. If a peer sends a specially crafted HTTP/2 HEADERS frame and CONTINUATI...

DavFS2: Local privilege escalation

Background DavFS2 is a file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a local disk drive. Description DavFS2 installs “/usr/sbin/mount.davfs” as setuid root. This utility uses “system” to call “/sbin/modprobe”. While the call to “modprobe” itself cannot be manipulated, a local...

BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is a Name Server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition through multiple attack vectors...

IPython: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background IPython is an advanced interactive shell for Python. Description IPython does not properly check the MIME type of a file. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted text file using IPython, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary JavaScript with the...

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...

policycoreutils: Privilege escalation

Background policycoreutils is a collection of SELinux policy utilities. Description The seunshare utility is owned by root with 4755 permissions which can be exploited by a setuid system call. Impact A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges. Workaround There is no known workaroun...

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...

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,...

spice-gtk: Privilege escalation

Background spice-gtk is a set of GObject and Gtk objects for connecting to Spice servers and a client GUI. Description spice-gtk does not properly sanitize the DBUSSYSTEMBUSADDRESS environment variable. Impact A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges. Workaround There is no known...

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 remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition ...

MantisBT: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MantisBT is a PHP/MySQL/Web based bugtracking system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MantisBT. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to conduct directory traversal...

gdk-pixbuf: Denial of service

Background gdk-pixbuf is an image loading library for GTK+. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in gdk-pixbuf: The "gdkpixbufgifimageload" function in io-gif.c fails to properly handle certain return values from subroutines CVE-2011-2485. The "readbitmapfiledata" function in io-xbm.c...

TinTin++: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background TinTin++ is a free MUD gaming client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in TinTin++. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Remote unauthenticated attackers may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the TinTin++...

FreeType 1: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background FreeType is a True Type Font rendering library. Description Multiple issues found in FreeType 2 were also discovered in FreeType 1. For details on these issues, please review the Gentoo Linux Security Advisories and CVE identifiers referenced below. Impact A remote attacker could entic...

WebSVN: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background WebSVN is a web-based browsing tool for Subversion repositories written in PHP. Description James Bercegay of GulfTech Security reported a Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the getParameterisedSelfUrl function in index.php CVE-2008-5918 and a directory traversal vulnerability i...

VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description Remi Denis-Courmont reported that VLC loads plugins from the current working directory in an unsafe manner CVE-2008-2147. Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research reported an integer overflow error in the Open function in the...

VLC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC: Luigi Auriemma discovered that the stack-based buffer overflow when reading subtitles, which has been reported as CVE-2007-6681 in GLSA 200803-13, was not properly fixed...

PowerDNS Recursor: DNS Cache Poisoning

Background The PowerDNS Recursor is an advanced recursing nameserver. Description Amit Klein of Trusteer reported that insufficient randomness is used to calculate the TRXID values and the UDP source port numbers CVE-2008-1637. Thomas Biege of SUSE pointed out that a prior fix to resolve this iss...

MadWifi: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The MadWifi driver provides support for Atheros based IEEE 802.11 Wireless Lan cards. Description Md Sohail Ahmad from AirTight Networks has discovered a divison by zero in the athbeaconconfig function CVE-2007-2830. The vendor has corrected an input validation error in the...

Smb4K: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Smb4K is a SMB/CIFS Windows share browser for KDE. Description Kees Cook of the Ubuntu Security Team has identified multiple vulnerabilities in Smb4K. The writeFile function of smb4k/core/smb4kfileio.cpp makes insecure usage of temporary files. The writeFile function also stores the...

PHP: Format string and XSS vulnerabilities

Background PHP is a general-purpose scripting language widely used to develop web-based applications. It can run on a web server with the modphp module or the CGI version and also stand-alone in a CLI. Description Stefan Esser of the Hardened PHP project has reported a few vulnerabilities found i...

Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation

Background Sun and Blackdown both provide implementations of the Java Development Kit JDK and Java Runtime Environment JRE. Description Adam Gowdiak discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment's Reflection APIs that may allow untrusted applets to elevate privileges. Impact...

gzip: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background gzip GNU zip is a popular compression program. The included zgrep utility allows you to grep gzipped files in place. Description The gzip and gunzip programs are vulnerable to a race condition when setting file permissions CAN-2005-0988, as well as improper handling of filename...

Konqueror: Java sandbox vulnerabilities

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. Konqueror is the KDE web browser and file manager. Description Konqueror contains two errors that allow JavaScript scripts and Java applets to have access to restricted Java classes. Impact A...

pdftohtml: Vulnerabilities in included Xpdf

Background pdftohtml is a utility to convert PDF files to HTML or XML formats. It makes use of Xpdf code to decode PDF files. Description Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200410-20. Impact An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF fil...

tiff: Buffer overflows in image decoding

Background The tiff library contains encoding and decoding routines for the Tag Image File Format. It is called by numerous programs, including GNOME and KDE, to help in displaying TIFF images. xv is a multi-format image manipulation utility that is statically linked to the tiff library...

PHP: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review th...

ImageMagick: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images, that can also read, write, and convert images in many other formats. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ImageMagick. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details...

Eclipse Mosquitto: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Eclipse Mosquitto is an open source MQTT v3 broker. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Eclipse Mosquitto. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no kno...

OpenSSH: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSSH is a free application suite consisting of server and clients that replace tools like telnet, rlogin, rcp and ftp with more secure versions offering additional functionality. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSH. Please review the CVE identifiers...