Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Adobe Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Reader, including an integer overflow in TrueType Font handling CVE-2012-0774 and multiple unspecified errors which could cause memory corruption. Impact A remote attacker could...

ejabberd: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background ejabberd is the Erlang jabber daemon. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ejabberd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact ejabberd allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition with the result of either crashing...

GNU Tar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background GNU Tar is a utility to create archives as well as add and extract files from archives. Description GNU Tar is vulnerable to a boundary error in the rmtread function in lib/rtapelib.c, which could cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice the user to loa...

sudo: Privilege Escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in sudo: Evan Broder and Anders Kaseorg of Ksplice, Inc. reported that the sudo 'secure path' feature does not properly handle multiple...

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...

libxslt: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT itself is an XML language to define transformations for XML. Description Anthony de Almeida Lopes reported a vulnerability in libxslt when handling XSL style-sheet files, which could be exploited to trigger the use of...

Multiple X11 terminals: Local privilege escalation

Background Aterm, Eterm, Mrxvt, multi-aterm, RXVT, rxvt-unicode, and wterm are X11 terminal emulators. Description Bernhard R. Link discovered that RXVT opens a terminal on :0 if the "-display" option is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set. Further research by the Gentoo...

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...

Sarg: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Sarg Squid Analysis Report Generator is a tool that provides many informations about the Squid web proxy server users activities: time, sites, traffic, etc. Description Sarg doesn't properly check its input for abnormal content when processing Squid log files. Impact A remote attacker...

libxml2: Denial of service

Background libxml2 is the XML eXtended Markup Language C parser and toolkit initially developed for the Gnome project. Description Brad Fitzpatrick reported that the xmlCurrentChar function does not properly handle some UTF-8 multibyte encodings. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to op...

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...

Firebird: Multiple buffer overflows

Background Firebird is a multi-platfrom, open source relational database. Description Adriano Lima and Ramon de Carvalho Valle reported that functions iscattachdatabase and isccreatedatabase do not perform proper boundary checking when processing their input. Impact A remote attacker could send...

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...

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...

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 the 'Mozilla Application Suite'. Description Tom Ferris reported a heap-based buffer overflow involving wide SVG stroke widths that affects SeaMonke...

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe. Description Adobe Acrobat Reader in stand-alone mode is vulnerable to remote code execution via heap corruption when loading a specially crafted PDF file. The browser plugin released with Adobe Acrobat Reader nppdf.so does not...

Opera: Two remote code execution vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Christoph Deal discovered that JPEG files with a specially crafted DHT marker can be exploited to cause a heap overflow. Furthermore, an anonymous person discovered that Opera does not correctly handle objects passed to the...

GNU Radius: Format string vulnerability

Background GNU Radius is a GNU version of Radius, a server for remote user authentication and accounting. Description A format string vulnerability was found in the sqllog function from the SQL accounting code for radiusd. That function is only used if one or more of the "postgresql", "mysql" or...

teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple overflows in included XPdf code

Background teTex is a complete TeX distribution. It is used for creating and manipulating LaTeX documents. CSTeX is a TeX distribution with Czech and Slovak support. pTeX is and ASCII publishing TeX distribution. Description CSTeX, teTex, and pTeX include XPdf code to handle PDF files. This XPdf...

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...

Texinfo: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Texinfo is the official documentation system created by the GNU project. Description Frank Lichtenheld has discovered that the "sortoffline" function in texindex insecurely creates temporary files with predictable filenames. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the...

Net-SNMP: fixproc insecure temporary file creation

Background Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement the Simple Network Management Protocol. Description The fixproc application of Net-SNMP creates temporary files with predictable filenames. Impact A malicious local attacker could exploit a race condition to change the content of th...

GnomeVFS, libcdaudio: CDDB response overflow

Background GnomeVFS is a filesystem abstraction library for the GNOME desktop environment. libcdaudio is a multi-platform CD player development library. They both include code to query CDDB servers to get Audio CD track titles. Description Joseph VanAndel has discovered a buffer overflow in Grip...

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...

tiff: Buffer overflows in image decoding

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, to help in displaying TIFF images. xv is a multi-format image manipulation utility that is statically linked to the tiff library...

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...

phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a popular, web-based MySQL administration tool written in PHP. It allows users to administer a MySQL database from a web-browser. Description Two serious vulnerabilities exist in phpMyAdmin. The first allows any user to alter the server configuration variables including...

Multiple vulnerabilities in xine

Background xine is a multimedia player allowing to play back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs and decoding multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It is available in Gentoo as a reusable library xine-lib with a standard user...

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...

Gallery 1.4.1 and below remote exploit vulnerability

Background Gallery is an open source image management system written in PHP. More information is available at http://gallery.sourceforge.net Description Starting in the 1.3.1 release, Gallery includes code to simulate the behaviour of the PHP 'registerglobals' variable in environments where that...

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...

Node.js: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Node.js. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround Ther...

Pixman: Heap Buffer Overflow

Background Pixman is a pixel manipulation library. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Pixman. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An out-of-bounds write aka heap-based buffer overflow in rasterizeedges8 can occur due to an integer overflow in...

ImageMagick: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images, that can also read, write, and convert images in many other formats. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ImageMagick. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details...

libsdl: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SDL. Please review the CVE identifiers...

Sofia-SIP: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Sofia-SIP is an RFC3261 compliant SIP User-Agent library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Sofia-SIP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no know...

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...

LibRaw: Stack buffer overread

Background LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras. Description LibRaw incorrectly handles parsing DNG fields in some cases, potentially resulting in a buffer overread leading to denial of service. Impact An attacker capable of providing crafted input to LibR...

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...

rxvt-unicode: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background rxvt-unicode urxvt is a clone of the rxvt terminal emulator. Description It was discovered that rxvt-unicode did not properly handle certain escape sequences. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to run a program where attacker controls the output inside a rxvt terminal window,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition, disclose sensitive...

Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Cacti is a complete frontend to rrdtool. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code or bypass intended access restrictions. Workaround There is ...

GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript and the bundled OpenJPEG. Please review the CVE identifiers and GLSA-201612-26 OpenJPEG referenced below for additional information. Note:...

Lsyncd: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background A daemon to synchronize local directories using rsync. Description default-rsyncssh.lua in Lsyncd performed insufficient sanitising of filenames. Impact An attacker, able to control files processed by Lsyncd, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or...