Dia: Format string vulnerabilities

Background Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program. Description KaDaL-X discovered a format string error within the handling of filenames. Hans de Goede also discovered several other format string errors in the processing of dia files. Impact By enticing a user to open a specially crafted...

OpenSSL: SSL 2.0 protocol rollback

Background OpenSSL is a toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer, Transport Layer Security protocols and a general-purpose cryptography library. Description Applications setting the SSLOPMSIESSLV2RSAPADDING option or the SSLOPALL option, that implies it can be forced by a third-party to...

Kismet: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Kismet is an 802.11 Layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Description Kismet is vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling pcap captures and to an integer underflow in the CDP protocol dissector. Impact With a specially crafted packet an attacker...

phpBB: Arbitrary command execution

Background phpBB is an Open Source bulletin board package. Description Ron van Daal discovered that phpBB contains a vulnerability in the highlighting code. Impact Successful exploitation would grant an attacker unrestricted access to the PHP exec or system functions, allowing the execution of...

phpMyAdmin: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description Oriol Torrent Santiago has discovered that phpMyAdmin fails to validate input to the "convcharset" variable, rendering it vulnerable to cross-site scripting...

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...

file: Arbitrary code execution

Background file is a utility used to identify the type of a file. Description A possible stack overflow has been found in the ELF header parsing code of file. Impact An attacker may be able to create a specially crafted ELF file which, when processed with file, may allow the execution of arbitrar...

Perl: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. Description Some Perl modules create temporary files in world-writable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a...

WordPress: HTTP response splitting and XSS vulnerabilities

Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. Description Due to the lack of input validation in the administration panel scripts, WordPress is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting attacks. Impact A malicious user could inject...

giFT-FastTrack: remote denial of service attack

Background giFT-FastTrack is a plugin for the giFT file-sharing application. It allows giFT users to connect to the fasttrack network to share files. Description Alan Fitton found a vulnerability in the giFT-FastTrack plugin in version 0.8.6 and earlier. It can be used to remotely crash the giFT...

IPsec-Tools: authentication bug in racoon

Background IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping, and ping6. Description The KAME IKE daemon racoon is used to authenticate peers during Phase 1 when using either preshared keys, GSS-API,...

Webmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Webmin is a web-based administration tool for Unix. It supports a wide range of applications including Apache, DNS, file sharing and others. Description Webmin contains two security vulnerabilities. One allows any user to view the configuration of any module and the other could allow a...

MPlayer, xine-lib: vulnerabilities in RTSP stream handling

Background MPlayer is a movie player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. xine-lib is a multimedia player library used by several graphical user interfaces, including xine-ui. They both use the same code to handle Real-Time Streaming Protocol RTSP streams from RealNetworks server...

CVS heap overflow vulnerability

Background CVS Concurrent Versions System is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server. Description Stefan Esser discovered a heap overflow in the CVS server, which can be triggered by sending malicious "Entry" lines and manipulating...

ipsec-tools and iputils contain a remote DoS vulnerability

Background From http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.n et/ "IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's IPsec utilities to the Linux-2.6 IPsec implementation." iputils is a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping and ping6. Description When racoon receives an ISAKMP header, it allocates memo...

glibc: getgrouplist buffer overflow vulnerability

Background glibc is the GNU C library. Description A bug in the getgrouplist function can cause a buffer overflow if the size of the group list is too small to hold all the user's groups. This overflow can cause segmentation faults in user applications. This vulnerability exists only when an...

PostgreSQL: Privilege Escalation

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact An attacker able to create and drop non-temporary objects could inject SQL cod...

GPAC: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background GPAC is an implementation of the MPEG-4 Systems standard developed from scratch in ANSI C. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPAC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

Commons-BeanUtils: Improper Access Restriction

Background Commons-beanutils provides easy-to-use wrappers around Reflection and Introspection APIs Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Commons-BeanUtils. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

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...

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 Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

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...

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...

Unbound: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Unbound. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no...

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla Network Security Service is a library implementing security features like SSL v.2/v.3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME and X.509 certificates. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Network Security Service NSS. Please review the...

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...

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...

ICU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ICU. Please review the upstream bugs referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers...

rsync: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background File transfer program to keep remote files into sync. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in rsync within bundled zlib. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround Ther...

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...

Long Range ZIP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Optimized for compressing large files Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Long Range ZIP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted archive file possibly resulting in...

ConnMan: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ConnMan provides a daemon for managing Internet connections. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ConnMan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker, via a crafted DNS packet, could remotely execute code or cause a...

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...

libarchive: Multiple 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 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libarchive. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers fo...

Graphite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Graphite is a “smart font” system developed specifically to handle the complexities of lesser-known languages of the world. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Graphite. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote attacker could...

Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the CVE identifiers and Xen Security Advisory referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code with privileges of Xen QEMU proce...

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. gst-plugins-libav is affected because this package is bundli...

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...

LibRaw: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibRaw. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of Service...

flex: Potential insecure code generation

Background flex is a programming tool used to generate scanners programs which recognize lexical patterns in text. Description A heap-based buffer overflow in the yygetnextbuffer function in Flex might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary co...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 A remote attacker can cause arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Servic...

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...

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...

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...