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...

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...

libksba: Remote Code Execution

Background Libksba is a X.509 and CMS PKCS7 library. Description An integer overflow in parsing ASN.1 objects could lead to a buffer overflow. Impact Crafted ASN.1 objects could trigger an integer overflow and buffer overflow to result in remote code execution. Workaround There is no known...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

HDF5: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background HDF5 technology suite includes a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. Description Multiple arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities have been discovered in HDF5. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could...

ARJ: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Open-source implementation of the ARJ archiver. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ARJ. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker, using a specially crafted ARJ archive, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the...

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...

GRUB: Authentication bypass

Background GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot loader used by most Linux systems. Description An integer underflow in GRUB’s username/password authentication code has been discovered. Impact An attacker with access to the system console may bypass the username prompt by entering a sequence of backspace...

International Components for Unicode: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background International Components for Unicode is a set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in International Components for Unicode. Please review the CVE identifiers referenc...

MySQL and MariaDB: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. MariaDB is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MySQL and MariaDB. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker coul...

libxml2: Denial of service

Background libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. Description parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.2 does not properly prevent entity expansion even when entity substitution has been disabled. Impact A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to a specially craft...

Konqueror: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Konqueror is the KDE web browser and file manager. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Konqueror. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web site using Konqueror,...

bzip2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background bzip2 is a high-quality data compressor used extensively by Gentoo Linux. Description An integer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in bzip2. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted...

libvirt: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libvirt is a C toolkit to manipulate virtual machines. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact These vulnerabilities allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition on th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

exiftags: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background exiftags is a library and set of tools 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 that Exif metadata i...

SiteBar: Multiple issues

Background SiteBar is a PHP application that allows users to store their bookmarks on a web server. Description Tim Brown discovered these multiple issues: the translation module does not properly sanitize the value to the "dir" parameter CVE-2007-5491, CVE-2007-5694; the translation module also...

Star: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background The Star program provides the ability to create and extract tar archives. Description Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security team discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in the hasdotdot function which does not identify //.. slash slash dot dot sequences in file names inside tar...

OpenAFS: Privilege escalation

Background OpenAFS is a distributed network filesystem. Description Benjamin Bennett discovered that the OpenAFS client contains a design flaw where cache managers do not use authenticated server connections when performing actions not requested by a user. Impact If setuid is enabled on the clien...

Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Asterisk is an open source implementation of a telephone private branch exchange PBX. Description Asterisk contains buffer overflows in channels/chanmgcp.c from the MGCP driver and in channels/chanskinny.c from the Skinny channel driver for Cisco SCCP phones. It also dangerously handle...

Tikiwiki: Arbitrary command execution

Background Tikiwiki is a web-based groupware and content management system, developed with PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. Description A vulnerability in jhot.php allows for an unrestricted file upload to the img/wiki/ directory. Additionally, an XSS exists in the highlight parameter of...

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...

X.org and some X.org libraries: Local privilege escalations

Background X.org is an implementation of the X Window System. Description Several X.org libraries and X.org itself contain system calls to setuid functions, without checking their result. Impact Local users could deliberately exceed their assigned resource limits and elevate their privileges afte...

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...

OpenSSH, Dropbear: Insecure use of system() call

Background OpenSSH is a free application suite consisting of server and clients that replace tools like telnet, rlogin, rcp and ftp with more secure versions offering additional functionality. Dropbear is an SSH server and client designed with a small memory footprint that includes OpenSSH scp...

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...

GNUMP3d: Directory traversal and insecure temporary file creation

Background GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats. Description Ludwig Nussel from SUSE Linux has identified two vulnerabilities in GNUMP3d. GNUMP3d fails to properly check for the existence of /tmp/index.lok before writing to the file, allowing fo...

OpenVPN: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenVPN is a multi-platform, full-featured SSL VPN solution. Description The OpenVPN client contains a format string bug in the handling of the foreignoption in options.c. Furthermore, when the OpenVPN server runs in TCP mode, it may dereference a NULL pointer under specific error...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ClamAV is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. ClamAV also provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the virus database. Description ClamAV has multiple security flaws: a boundary check was perform...

Perl, Qt-UnixODBC, CMake: RUNPATH issues

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. Qt-UnixODBC is an ODBC library for Qt. CMake is a cross-platform build environment. Description Some packages may introduce insecure paths into the list of directories that are searched for libraries at runtim...

Gaim: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Brandon Perry discovered that Gaim is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow when handling away messages CAN-2005-2103. Furthermore, Daniel Atallah discovered a...

PeerCast: Format string vulnerability

Background PeerCast is a media streaming system based on P2P technology. Description James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that PeerCast insecurely implements formatted printing when receiving a request with a malformed URL. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this...

GNU shtool, ocaml-mysql: Insecure temporary file creation

Background GNU shtool is a compilation of small shell scripts into a single shell tool. The ocaml-mysql package includes the GNU shtool code. Description Eric Romang has discovered that GNU shtool insecurely creates temporary files with predictable filenames CAN-2005-1751. On closer inspection,...

gxine: Format string vulnerability

Background gxine is a GTK+ and xine-lib based media player. Description Exworm discovered that gxine insecurely implements formatted printing in the hostname decoding function. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a carefully crafted file with gxine, possibly leading to the...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is the popular next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Firefox: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape extension 2...