libass: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha subtitle format. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libass. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a...

libpng: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background libpng is a standard library used to process PNG Portable Network Graphics images. It is used by several programs, including web browsers and potentially server processes. Description A null pointer dereference was discovered in libpng in the pngpushsavebuffer function. In order to be...

imlib2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background imlib2 is an advanced replacement for image manipulation libraries such as libXpm. It is utilized by numerous programs, including gkrellm and several window managers, to display images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in imlib2. Please review the CVE identifie...

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 have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...

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 have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...

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 have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...

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 can cause a denial of service condition by the lack of GeoIP databases, or vi...

MySQL, MariaDB: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. MariaDB is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. Description Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered in MySQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker coul...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote authenticated attacker may be able to create a Denial of...

polkit, Spice-Gtk, systemd, HPLIP, libvirt: Privilege escalation

Background polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged processes communicating with privileged processes. Description polkit has a race condition which potentially allows a process to change its UID/EUID via suid or pkexec before authentication is completed. Impact A local...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process ...

OpenSSL: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 as well as a general purpose cryptography library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

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 and release notes referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web site usi...

LibreOffice: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LibreOffice is a full office productivity suite. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in LibreOffice: The Microsoft Word Document parser contains an out-of-bounds read error CVE-2011-2713. The Raptor RDF parser contains an XML External Entity expansion error...

Expat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Expat is a set of XML parsing libraries. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted XML file in an application linked agains...

sudo: Privilege escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo: When the sudoers file is configured with a Runas group, sudo does not prompt for a password when changing to the new group...

Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Adobe Reader formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Adobe Reader. For further information please consult the CVE entries and the Adobe Security Bulletins referenced below. Impact A remote attacker might entic...

Adobe products: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Adobe Flash Player is a closed-source playback software for Flash SWF files. Adobe Reader is a closed-source PDF reader that plays Flash content as well. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player: lakehu of Tencent Security Center reported an...

Adobe Reader: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Adobe Reader formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Reader: Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing PDF files containing a malformed JBIG2 symbol...

OpenSSL: Denial of service

Background OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 as well as a general purpose cryptography library. Description The ASN1STRINGprintex function does not properly check the provided length of a BMPString or...

pdnsd: Denial of Service and cache poisoning

Background pdnsd is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching that is designed to cope with unreachable DNS servers. Description Two issues have been reported in pdnsd: The pexecquery function in src/dnsquery.c does not properly handle many entries in the answer section of a DNS reply, related to...

Python: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Python: David Remahl of Apple Product Security reported several integer overflows in core modules such as stringobject, unicodeobject, bufferobject,...

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge. Description Michal Zalewski reported two vulnerabilities, memory corruption when adding news feed sources from a website CVE-2008-1761 as well as when processing HTML CANVAS elements to use scaled images CVE-2008-1762...

Doomsday: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Doomsday Engine deng is a modern gaming engine for popular ID games like Doom, Heretic and Hexen. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered multiple buffer overflows in the DNetPlayerEvent function, the MsgWrite function and the NetSvReadCommands function. He also discovered errors whe...

KOffice, KWord, KPDF, KDE Graphics Libraries: Stack-based buffer overflow

Background KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. KWord is the KOffice word processor. KPDF is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. Description KPDF includes code from xpdf that is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the StreamPredictor::StreamPredictor function...

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...

F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background F-Prot Antivirus is a FRISK Software antivirus program that can used with procmail. Description F-Prot Antivirus version 4.6.7 fixes a heap-based buffer overflow, an infinite loop, and other unspecified vulnerabilities. Impact Among other weaker impacts, a remote attacker could send an...

GnuPG: Incorrect signature verification

Background GnuPG The GNU Privacy Guard is a free replacement for PGP Pretty Good Privacy. As GnuPG does not rely on any patented algorithms, it can be used without any restrictions. gpgv is the OpenPGP signature verification tool provided by the GnuPG system. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gent...

scponly: Multiple privilege escalation issues

Background scponly is a restricted shell, allowing only a few predefined commands. It is often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide access to remote users without providing any remote execution privileges. Description Max Vozeler discovered that the scponlyc command allows users to chroot...

GNUMP3d: Directory traversal and XSS vulnerabilities

Background GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats. Description Steve Kemp reported about two cross-site scripting attacks that are related to the handling of files CVE-2005-3424, CVE-2005-3425. Also reported is a directory traversal vulnerability...

Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox: Remote compromise

Background The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. Description The Mozilla Suite and Firefox do not properly protect "IFRAME" JavaScript URLs from being executed in context...

phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description Nicolas Gregoire exaprobe.com has discovered two vulnerabilities that exist only on a webserver where PHP safemode is off. These vulnerabilities could lead to...

Linux Kernel: Multiple DoS and permission vulnerabilities

Background The Linux kernel is responsible for managing the core aspects of a GNU/Linux system, providing an interface for core system applications as well as providing the essential structure and capability to access hardware that is needed for a running system. Description The Linux kernel allo...

Ethereal: Multiple security problems

Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.5, including: In some cases the iSNS dissector could cause Ethereal to abort. If there was no policy name for a handle for SMB SID snooping it...

Linux kernel do_mremap local privilege escalation vulnerability

Background The Linux kernel is responsible for memory management in a working system - to allow this, processes are allowed to allocate and unallocate memory. Description The memory subsystem allows for shrinking, growing, and moving of chunks of memory along any of the allocated memory areas whi...

Updated kernel packages fix the AMD64 ptrace vulnerability

Background Description A vulnerability has been discovered by Andi Kleen in the ptrace emulation code for AMD64 platforms when eflags are processed, allowing a local user to obtain elevated priveleges. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project, http://cve.mitre.org, has assigned...

Xpdf: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Xpdf is an X viewer for PDF files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xpdf. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...

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...

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...

Exim: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Exim is a message transfer agent MTA designed to be a 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 Please review the referenced CVE...

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...

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...

RAR, UnRAR: Arbitrary File Overwrite

Background RAR and UnRAR provide command line interfaces for compressing and decompressing RAR files. Description Due to an error in the validation of symbolic links within archives, RAR and UnRAR can potentially write files to a directory which is outside of the intended unpack directory. Impact...

LibTIFF: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background LibTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF Tagged Image File Format images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibTIFF. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

libaacplus: Denial of Service

Background libaacplus is an HE-AAC+ v2 library, based on the reference implementation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libaacplus. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workarou...

LibRaw: Stack buffer overread

Background LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras. Description LibRaw incorrectly handles parsing DNG fields in some cases, potentially resulting in a buffer overread leading to denial of service. Impact An attacker capable of providing crafted input to LibR...

BlueZ: Arbitrary code execution

Background Set of tools to manage Bluetooth devices for Linux. Description It was discovered that there was a double-free vulnerability in Bluez after the service discovery which occurs after a Bluetoth Low Energy BLE connection has been established to a device. Impact A remote attacker, by...

Chromium, Google Chrome: Heap buffer overflow

Background Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. Google Chrome is one fast, simple, and secure browser for all your devices. Description A buffer overflow has been discovered in Chromium and Google...