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PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation
Background PulseAudio is a network-enabled sound server with an advanced plug-in system. Description Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team discovered that the pulseaudio binary is installed setuid root, and does not drop privileges before re-executing itself. The vulnerabili...
APR Utility Library: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library aka apr-util provides an interface to functionality such as XML parsing, string matching and databases connections. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the APR Utility Library: Matthew Palmer reported a heap-based...
ModSecurity: Denial of service
Background ModSecurity is a popular web application firewall for the Apache HTTP server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in ModSecurity: Juan Galiana Lara of ISecAuditors discovered a NULL pointer dereference when processing multipart requests without a part header name...
phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background phpMyAdmin is a web-based management tool for MySQL databases. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin: Greg Ose discovered that the setup script does not sanitize input properly, leading to the injection of arbitrary PHP code into the configuration file...
Squid: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Background Squid is a full-featured web proxy cache. Description The arrayShrink function in lib/Array.c can cause an array to shrink to 0 entries, which triggers an assert error. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-6239 CVE-2008-1612. An invalid version number in a HTTP...
OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description iDefense Labs reported multiple vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org: multiple heap-based...
CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. The alternate pdftops filter is a CUPS filter used to convert PDF files to the Postscript format via Poppler; the filter is installed by default in Gentoo Linux. Description Wei Wang McAfee AVERT Research...
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...
MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution
Background MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol. Description kadmind is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the RPC library shipped with MIT Kerberos 5. It fails to properly handle zero-length RPC credentials CVE-2007-2442 and the RPC library...
Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs for UNIX. Description Samba contains a logical error in the smbd daemon when translating local SID to user names CVE-2007-2444. Furthermore, Samba contains several bugs when parsing NDR encoded RPC parameters CVE-2007-2446. Lastly...
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...
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...
Ruby on Rails: Several vulnerabilities
Background Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework. Description The Ruby on Rails developers have corrected some weaknesses in actioncontroller/, relative to the handling of the user input and the LOADPATH variable. A remote attacker could inject arbitrary entries into the LOADPATH variable...
CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability
Background CherryPy is a Python-based, object-oriented web development framework. Description Ivo van der Wijk discovered that the "staticfilter" component of CherryPy fails to sanitize input correctly. Impact An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files from the web server...
Wine: Windows Metafile SETABORTPROC vulnerability
Background Wine is a free implementation of Windows APIs for Unix-like systems. Description H D Moore discovered that Wine implements the insecure-by-design SETABORTPROC GDI Escape function for Windows Metafile WMF files. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Windows...
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...
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...
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...
Midnight Commander: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Midnight Commander is a visual console file manager. Description Midnight Commander contains several format string vulnerabilities CAN-2004-1004, buffer overflows CAN-2004-1005, a memory deallocation error CAN-2004-1092 and a buffer underflow CAN-2004-1176. Impact An attacker could...
phpMyAdmin: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities
Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description Cedric Cochin has discovered multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin. These vulnerabilities can be exploited through the PmaAbsoluteUri...
Cfengine: RSA Authentication Heap Corruption
Background Cfengine is an agent/software robot and a high level policy language for building expert systems to administrate and configure large computer networks. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in cfservd. One is a buffer overflow in the AuthenticationDialogue function and the...
MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow
Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and at least one in the TranslateFilename function is exploitable. Impact By enticing a user to play a file with a carefull...
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...
Opera: buffer overflows in 7.11 and 7.20
Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description The Opera browser can cause a buffer allocated on the heap to overflow under certain HREFs when rendering HTML. The mail system is also deemed vulnerable and an attacker can send an email containing a malformed HREF, or plant the...
Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge: 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. Google Chrome is one fast, simple, and secure browser for all your devices. Microsoft Edge is a browser that combines a minimal design with...
Apache Batik: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background Apache Batik is a Java-based toolkit for applications or applets that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics SVG format for various purposes, such as display, generation or manipulation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apache Batik. Please revie...
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...
hiredis, hiredis-py: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for the Redis database. hiredis-py is a Python extension that wraps hiredis. Description Hiredis is vulnerable to integer overflow if provided maliciously crafted or corrupted RESP mult-bulk protocol data. When parsing multi-bulk array-like...
Zutty: Arbitrary Code Execution
Background Zutty is an X terminal emulator rendering through OpenGL ES Compute Shaders. Description Zutty does not correctly handle invalid DECRQSS commands, which can be exploited to run arbitrary commands in the terminal. Impact Untrusted text written to the Zutty terminal can achieve arbitrary...
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...
Smarty: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Smarty is a template engine for PHP. The "template security" feature of Smarty is designed to help reduce the risk of a system compromise when you have untrusted parties editing templates. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smarty. Please review the CVE...
TCG TPM2 Software Stack: Information disclosure
Background TCG TPM2 Software Stack is a library to interface with trusted platform modules. Description TCG TPM2 Software Stack did not appropriately apply FAPI policies to protect data encrypted with the trusted platform module. Impact Data encrypted using TCG TPM2 Software Stack tpm2-tss may no...
libssh: Denial of service
Background libssh is a multiplatform C library implementing the SSHv2 protocol on client and server side. Description libssh was found to have a NULL pointer dereference in tftpserver.c if the function sshbuffernew returns NULL. Impact An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service conditio...
libgit2: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libgit2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker coul...
Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background A Modular Open Source PBX System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code, cause a denial of service condition, or cause an unauthorized data...
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...
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 could entice a user to process a specially crafted netwo...
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...
libav: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Libav is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libav. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media...
GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background GnuTLS is an Open Source implementation of the TLS and SSL protocols. Description Multiple heap and stack overflows and double free vulnerabilities have been discovered in GnuTLS by the OSS-Fuzz project. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote...
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...
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...
runC: Privilege escalation
Background RunC is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. Description A vulnerability was discovered in runC that allows additional container processes via ‘runc exec’ to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the...
BIND: Denial of service
Background BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is a Name Server. Description A defect in BIND’s handling of responses containing a DNAME answer can cause a resolver to exit after encountering an assertion failure in db.c or resolver.c. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DNS...
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 could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...
dpkg: Arbitrary code execution
Background Debian package management system. Description Gentoo Linux developer, Hanno Böck, discovered an off-by-one error in the dpkg-deb component of dpkg, the Debian package management system, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could potentially execute arbitrary...
libsndfile: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libsndfile. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially...
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...
Tar: Extract pathname bypass
Background The Tar program provides the ability to create and manipulate tar archives. Description Tar attempts to avoid path traversal attacks by removing offending parts of the element name at extract. This sanitizing leads to a vulnerability where the attacker can bypass the path names specifi...