feh: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background feh is a fast, lightweight imageviewer using imlib2. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in feh. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A malicious entity might entice a user to visit a URL using the --wget-timestamp option, thus...

IO::Socket::SSL: Certificate validation error

Background IO::Socket::SSL is a Perl class implementing an object oriented interface to SSL sockets. Description The vendor reported that IO::Socket::SSL does not properly handle Common Name CN fields. Impact A remote attacker might employ a specially crafted certificate to conduct...

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...

VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The VirtualBox family provides powerful x86 virtualization products. Description Thomas Biege of SUSE discovered multiple vulnerabilities: A shell metacharacter injection in popen CVE-2009-3692 and a possible buffer overflow in strncpy in the VBoxNetAdpCtl configuration tool. An...

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...

GNU Emacs, XEmacs: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text editors. edit-utils are miscellaneous extensions to XEmacs. Description Morten Welinder reports about GNU Emacs and edit-utils in XEmacs: By shipping a .flc accompanying a source file .c for example and setting...

Portage: Untrusted search path local root vulnerability

Background Portage is Gentoo's package manager which is responsible for installing, compiling and updating all packages on the system through the Gentoo rsync tree. Description The Gentoo Security Team discovered that several ebuilds, such as sys-apps/portage, net-mail/fetchmail or app-editors/le...

UUDeview: Insecure temporary file creation

Background UUdeview is encoder and decoder supporting various binary formats. NZBGet is a command-line based binary newsgrabber supporting .nzb files. Description UUdeview makes insecure usage of the tempnam function when creating temporary files. NZBGet includes a copy of the vulnerable code...

phpMyAdmin: Information disclosure

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description Cezary Tomczak reported that an undefined UploadDir variable exposes an information disclosure vulnerability when running on shared hosts. Impact A remote attack...

libexif: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif metadata from images. Exif, the Exchangeable image file format, specifies the addition of metadata tags to JPEG, TIFF and RIFF files. Description Meder Kydyraliev Google Security discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in t...

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...

Sun JDK/JRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Sun Java Development Kit JDK and the Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE provide the Sun Java platform. Description Chris Evans has discovered multiple buffer overflows in Sun JDK and Sun JRE possibly related to various AWT or font layout functions. Tom Hawtin has discovered an...

Apache mod_tcl: Format string vulnerability

Background Apache modtcl is a TCL interpreting module for the Apache 2.x web server. Description Sparfell discovered format string errors in calls to the setvar function in tclcmds.c and tclcore.c. Impact A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the rights ...

Streamripper: Multiple remote buffer overflows

Background Streamripper extracts and records individual MP3 file tracks from SHOUTcast streams. Description Ulf Harnhammar, from the Debian Security Audit Project, has found that Streamripper is vulnerable to multiple stack based buffer overflows caused by improper bounds checking when processing...

libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities, ranging from integer overflows and NULL pointer dereferences to double frees, were reported in libTIFF. Impact An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by enticing a user to...

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...

Xpdf, Poppler, GPdf, libextractor, pdftohtml: Heap overflows

Background Xpdf is a PDF file viewer that runs under the X Window System. Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the Xpdf 3.0 code base. GPdf is a PDF file viewer for the GNOME 2 platform, also based on Xpdf. libextractor is a library which includes Xpdf code to extract arbitrary meta-data...

pam_ldap: Authentication bypass vulnerability

Background pamldap is a Pluggable Authentication Module which allows authentication against LDAP directories. Description When a pamldap client attempts to authenticate against an LDAP server that omits the optional error value from the PasswordPolicyResponseValue, the authentication attempt will...

Cacti: Several vulnerabilities

Background Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool. Description Cacti fails to properly sanitize input which can lead to SQL injection, authentication bypass as well as PHP file inclusion. Impact An attacker could potentially exploit the file inclusion to execute arbitrary code with the...

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...

wpa_supplicant: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background wpasupplicant is a WPA Supplicant with support for WPA and WPA2 IEEE 802.11i / RSN. Description wpasupplicant contains a possible buffer overflow due to the lacking validation of received EAPOL-Key frames. Impact An attacker could cause the crash of wpasupplicant using a specially...

lighttpd: Script source disclosure

Background lighttpd is a small-footprint, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which is optimized for high-performance environments. Description lighttpd uses file extensions to determine which elements are programs that should be executed and which are static pages that should be sent...

Webmin: Information leak in Gentoo binary package

Background Webmin is a web-based system administration console allowing an administrator to easily configure servers and other features. Using the 'buildpkg' FEATURE, or the -b/-B emerge options, Portage can build reusable binary packages for any of the packages available through the Portage tree...

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...

zip: Path name buffer overflow

Background zip is a compression and file packaging utility. Description zip does not check the resulting path length when doing recursive folder compression. Impact An attacker could exploit this by enticing another user or web application to create an archive including a specially-crafted path...

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...

acroread: UUDecode filename buffer overflow

Background acroread is Adobe's Acrobat PDF reader for Linux. Description acroread contains two errors in the handling of UUEncoded filenames. First, it fails to check the length of a filename before copying it into a fixed size buffer and, secondly, it fails to check for the backtick shell...

Gaim: MSN protocol parsing function buffer overflow

Background Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux which supports many instant messaging protocols. Description Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team has discovered a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in the code handling MSN protocol parsing. Impact By...

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...

Squirrelmail: Another XSS vulnerability

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP, and can optionally be installed with SQL support. Description A new cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Squirrelmail-1.4.3rc1 has been discovered. In functions/mime.php Squirrelmail fails to properly...

Util-linux login may leak sensitive data

Background Util-linux is a suite of essential system utilites, including login, agetty, fdisk. Description In some situations the login program could leak sensitive data due to an incorrect usage of a reallocated pointer. NOTE: Only users who have PAM support disabled on their systems i.e. -PAM i...

Percona XtraBackup: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Percona XtraBackup is a complete and open source online backup solution for all versions of MySQL. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Percona XtraBackup. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

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 Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaroun...

MariaDB: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background MariaDB is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MariaDB. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

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...

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...

syslog-ng: Denial of Service

Background syslog replacement with advanced filtering features. Description An integer overflow in the RFC3164 parser allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted syslog input that is mishandled by the tcp or network function. Impact Attackers with access to input syslogs over...

Lua: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Lua. Please...

xterm: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window system. Description xterm does not correctly handle control characters related to OSC 50 font ops sequence handling. Impact The vulnerability allows text written to the terminal to write text to the terminal's command line. If the terminal'...

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...

aiohttp: Open redirect vulnerability

Background aiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Description A bug in aiohttp.webmiddlewares.normalizepathmiddleware creates an open redirect vulnerability. Impact An attacker use this vulnerability to craft a link that, while appearing to be a link to an...

c-ares: Denial of service

Background c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. Description It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain DNS requests. Impact A remote attacker, able to trigger a DNS request for a host of their choice by an application linked against c-ares, could possibly cause a Denial of...

ReportLab: Arbitrary code execution

Background ReportLab is an Open Source Python library for generating PDFs and graphics. Description ReportLab was found to be mishandling XML documents and may evaluate the contents without checking for their safety. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileg...

Chromium, Google Chrome: 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. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and...

OpenSLP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenSLP is an open-source implementation of Service Location Protocol SLP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSLP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround...

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 may be able to execute arbitrar...

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 referenced Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories and CVE identifiers below for details. Impact A remo...

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...

Graphite: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Graphite is a “smart font” system developed specifically to handle the complexities of lesser-known languages of the world. Description An out-of-bounds write has been found in the Graphite 2 library. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document usi...

FileZilla: Buffer overflow

Background FileZilla is an open source FTP client. Description FileZilla is affected by the same vulnerability as reported in “GLSA 201703-03” because the package included a vulnerable copy of PuTTY. Please read the GLSA for PuTTY referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker, utilizing...