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...

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...

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...

CUPS: Arbitrary file read/write

Background CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System, is a full-featured print server. Description Members of the lpadmin group have admin access to the web interface, where they can edit the config file and set some “dangerous” directives like the logfilenames, which enable them to read or write fil...

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...

WebP: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background WebP is a lossy image compression format. Description An integer overflow flaw has been found in WebP. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted image in an application linked against WebP, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the...

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...

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...

Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Asterisk: Nick Baggott reported that Asterisk does not properly process overly long ASCII strings in various packets CVE-2009-2726. Noam Rathaus and Blake Cornell reporte...

net-snmp: Authorization bypass

Background net-snmp bundles software for generating and retrieving SNMP data. Description The netsnmpudpfmtaddr function snmplib/snmpUDPDomain.c, when using TCP wrappers for client authorization, does not properly parse hosts.allow rules. Impact A remote, unauthenticated attacker could bypass the...

GLib: Execution of arbitrary code

Background The GLib is a library of C routines that is used by a multitude of programs. Description Diego E. Petteno reported multiple integer overflows in glib/gbase64.c when converting a long string from or to a base64 representation. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated...

gedit: Untrusted search path

Background gedit is a text editor for the GNOME desktop. Description James Vega reported that gedit uses the current working directory when searching for python modules, a vulnerability related to CVE-2008-5983. Impact A local attacker could entice a user to open gedit from a specially crafted...

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...

Mantis: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mantis is a PHP/MySQL/Web based bugtracking system. Description Multiple issues have been reported in Mantis: EgiX reported that manageprojpage.php does not correctly sanitize the sort parameter before passing it to createfunction in core/utilityapi.php CVE-2008-4687. Privileges of...

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,...

Cpio: Buffer overflow

Background GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Description A buffer overflow vulnerability in the safernamesuffix function in GNU cpio has been discovered. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted archive file resulting in a stack-based buff...

BEA JRockit: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background BEA JRockit provides tools, utilities, and a complete runtime environment for developing and running applications using the Java programming language. Description An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the embedded ICC profile image parser CVE-2007-2788, an unspecified vulnerabili...

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'...

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...

fvwm: fvwm-menu-directory fvwm command injection

Background fvwm is a highly configurable virtual window manager for X11 desktops. fvwm-menu-directory allows fvwm users to browse directories from within fvwm. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that fvwm-menu-directory does not sufficiently sanitise...

OpenSSH: Denial of service

Background OpenSSH is a free suite of applications for the SSH protocol, developed and maintained by the OpenBSD project. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the SSH protocol version 1 CRC compensation attack detector. Impact A...

Apache: Off-by-one flaw in mod_rewrite

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. The Apache module modrewrite provides a rule-based engine to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. Description An off-by-one flaw has been found in Apache's modrewrite module by Mark Dowd of McAfee Avert Labs...

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...

Berkeley MPEG Tools: Multiple insecure temporary files

Background The Berkeley MPEG Tools are a collection of utilities for manipulating MPEG video technology, including an encoder mpegencode and various conversion utilities. Description Mike Frysinger of the Gentoo Security Team discovered that mpegencode and the conversion utilities were creating...

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...

Kommander: Insecure remote script execution

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. Kommander is a visual dialog editor and interpreter for KDE applications, part of the kdewebdev package. Description Kommander executes data files from possibly untrusted locations without us...

ImageMagick: PSD decoding heap overflow

Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. Description Andrei Nigmatulin discovered that a Photoshop Document PSD file with more than 24 layers could trigger a heap overflow. Impact An attacker could potentially design a mailicous PSD ima...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Binutils. Please review the CVE identifie...

gThumb: Arbitrary code execution

Background gThumb is an image viewer and browser for GNOME. Description A heap-based buffer overflow in gThumb’s cairoimagesurfacecreatefromjpeg function, located in extensions/cairoio/cairo-image-surface-jpeg.c was discovered. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially...

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...

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...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ClamAV. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause ClamAV to scan a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary...

MuPDF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MuPDF. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted PDF document or image using MuPDF,...

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...

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...

Pygments: Arbitrary code execution

Background Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code. Description A vulnerability in FontManager’s getnixfontpath function allows shell metacharacters to be passed in a font name. Impact A remot...

libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libpng is a standard library used to process PNG Portable Network Graphics images. It is used by several other programs, including web browsers and potentially server processes. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were found in libpng. Please review the referenced CVE’s for additional...

Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

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. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Chromium web browser. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details...

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...