Poppler: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2 image could lead to a crash ...

Smokeping: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Smokeping is a powerful latency measurement tool Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker which gains access to the smokeping user could gain root privileges. Workarou...

GRUB: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot loader used by most Linux systems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GRUB. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no kno...

3MF Consortium lib3mf: Remote code execution

Background lib3mf is an implementation of the 3D Manufacturing Format file standard. Description Incorrect memory handling within lib3mf could result in a use-after-free. Impact An attacker that can provide malicious input to an application using 3MF Consortium's lib3mf could achieve remote code...

Tcpreplay: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tcpreplay is a suite of utilities for UNIX systems for editing and replaying network traffic which was previously captured by tools like tcpdump and ethereal/wireshark. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tcpreplay. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

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 applications, to interpret TIFF images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibTIFF. Please review the referenced...

Dnsmasq: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dnsmasq. Please review the references below for details. Impact An attacker, by sending specially crafted DNS replies, could possibly execute...

SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as “Mozilla Application Suite”. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SeaMonkey. Please review referenced release notes for more...

Mozilla Firefox: Remote code execution

Background Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla project. Description Invalid assumptions when emitting the the MCallGetProperty opcode in the JavaScript JIT may result in a use-after-free condition. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code wi...

libuv: Buffer overflow

Background libuv is a multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O. Description libuv used an incorrect buffer size for paths, causing a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of...

Cyrus IMAP Server: Access restriction bypass

Background The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail server. Description An issue was discovered in Cyrus IMAP Server where sieve script uploading is excessively trusted. Impact A user can use a sieve script to create any mailbox with administrator privileges. Workaround...

Python: Denial of service

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description An issue was discovered in urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler which allowed a remote attacker to send malicious data causing extensive regular expression backtracking. Impact An attacker could...

Deluge: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Deluge is a BitTorrent client. Description A CSRF vulnerability was discovered in the web UI of Deluge. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user currently logged in into Deluge web UI to visit a malicious web page which uses forged requests to make Deluge download and install a...

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 possibly execute arbitrary code wi...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a...

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 open a specially crafted PDF document using MuPDF possibly...

Ansible: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform. Description An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible’s handling of data sent from client systems. Impact An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible and the ability to send facts back to the...

Firewalld: Improper authentication methods

Background Firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network/firewall zones to define the trust level of network connections or interfaces. Description A flaw in Firewalld allows any locally logged in user to tamper with or change firewall settings. This is due to how...

X.Org X Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org X Server. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An authenticated attacker could possibly cause a Denia...

Bash: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Bash is the standard GNU Bourne Again SHell. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Bash. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a...

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. Please review the CVE identifier and change log referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker...

util-linux: Arbitrary code execution

Background util-linux is a suite of Linux programs including mount and umount, programs used to mount and unmount filesystems. Description A command injection flaw was discovered in util-linux’s “blkid” utility. It uses caching files /dev/.blkid.tab or /run/blkid/blkid.tab to store info about the...

GnuPG: RNG output is predictable

Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Description A long standing bug since 1998 in Libgcrypt see “GLSA 201610-04” below and GnuPG allows an attacker to predict the output from the standard RNG. Please review the “Entropy Loss...

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...

OpenVPN: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenVPN is a multi-platform, full-featured SSL VPN solution. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenVPN. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to recover plaintext from encrypted communications...

GIMP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. Description GIMP’s network server, scriptfu, is vulnerable to the remote execution of arbitrary code via the python-fu-eval command due to not requiring authentication. Additionally...

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...

Tor: Denial of service

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Tor does not handle data correctly when specifically crafted data is sent, and also fails to properly verify a descriptor provided by a hidden service...

LibSSH: Information disclosure

Background LibSSH is a C library providing SSHv2 and SSHv1. Description A new connection inherits the state of the PRNG without re-seeding with random data. Impact Servers using ECC ECDSA or DSA certificates in non-deterministic mode may under certain conditions leak their private key. Workaround...

Rack: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rack. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a...

Ettercap: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ettercap is a suite of tools for content filtering, sniffing and man in the middle attacks on a LAN. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ettercap: Ettercap does not handle temporary files securely CVE-2010-3843. A format string flaw in Ettercap could cause a...

GNU Emacs: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Emacs: When ‘global-ede-mode’ is enabled, EDE in Emacs automatically loads a Project.ede file from the project directory CVE-2012-0035. When...

BIND: Denial of service

Background BIND is the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known...

Active Record: SQL injection

Background Active Record is a Ruby gem that allows database entries to be manipulated as objects. Description An Active Record method parameter can mistakenly be used as a scope. Impact A remote attacker could use specially crafted input to execute arbitrary SQL statements. Workaround The...

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 ...

BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background BusyBox is 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 send a specially crafted DHCP reques...

QtCore, QtGui: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application development framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QtCore and QtGui. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially craft...

Subversion: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Subversion is a versioning system designed to be a replacement for CVS. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Subversion. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or obtain...

HAProxy: Arbitrary code execution

Background HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy for high availability environments. Description A boundary error in HAProxy could cause a buffer overflow when header rewriting is enabled and the configuration sets global.tune.bufsize to a value greater than the default 16384 bytes. Impact A remote...

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...

MySQL: Privilege bypass

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description Sergei Golubchik reported that MySQL imposes no restrictions on the specification of "DATA DIRECTORY" or "INDEX DIRECTORY" in SQL "CREATE TABLE" statements. Impact An authenticated remote attacker could create MyISAM...

Mozilla products: Multiple vulnerabilities

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

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...

TikiWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background TikiWiki is an open source content management system written in PHP. Description Stefan Esser reported that a previous vulnerability CVE-2007-5423, GLSA 200710-21 was not properly fixed in TikiWiki 1.9.8.1 CVE-2007-5682. The TikiWiki development team also added several checks to avoid...

teTeX: Multiple buffer overflows

Background teTeX is a complete TeX distribution for editing documents. Description Mark Richters discovered a buffer overflow in the opensty function in file mkind.c. Other vulnerabilities have also been discovered in the same file but might not be exploitable CVE-2007-0650. Tetex also includes...

MySQL: Denial of Service and information leakage

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description Dormando reported a vulnerability within the handling of password packets in the connection protocol CVE-2007-3780. Andrei Elkin also found that the "CREATE TABLE LIKE" command didn't require SELECT privileges on the...

libarchive (formerly named as bsdtar): Multiple PaX Extension Header Vulnerabilities

Background libarchive is a library for manipulating different streaming archive formats, including certain tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. Description CPNI, CERT-FI, Tim Kientzle, and Colin Percival reported a buffer overflow CVE-2007-3641, an infinite loop...

VLC media player: Format string vulnerabilities

Background VLC media player is a multimedia player for various audio and video formats. Description David Thiel from iSEC Partners Inc. discovered format string errors in various plugins when parsing data. The affected plugins include Vorbis, Theora, CDDA and SAP. Impact A remote attacker could...

PhpWiki: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background PhpWiki is an open source content management system written in PHP. Description Harold Hallikainen has reported that the Upload page fails to properly check the extension of a file. Impact A remote attacker could upload a specially crafted PHP file to the vulnerable server, resulting i...

AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries: OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenSSL is a toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer, Transport Layer Security protocols and a general-purpose cryptography library. The x86 emulation base libraries for AMD64 contain a vulnerable version of OpenSSL. Description Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, both of the Google...