libpng: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libpng is a standard library used to process PNG Portable Network Graphics images. It is used by several programs, including web browsers and potentially server processes. Description Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in libpng: The pnguserversioncheck function contains an...

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...

Jinja2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Jinja2 is a template engine written in pure Python. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Jinja2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted cache file or...

OpenSSL: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 as well as a general purpose cryptography library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

Quassel: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Quassel is a Qt4/KDE4 IRC client suppporting a remote daemon for 24/7 connectivity. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in Quassel: Quassel does not properly handle multiple CTCP requests CVE-2010-3443. Quassel, when used with certain versions of Qt and PostgreSQL, does not...

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 attacker could spoof SSL connections. Furthermore, a remot...

nginx: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background nginx is a robust, small, and high performance HTTP and reverse proxy server. Description An error in ngxhttpmp4module.c could cause a buffer overflow. NOTE: nginx must have been emerged with USE="nginxmoduleshttpmp4" in order to be affected by this vulnerability. Impact A remote...

X.Org X Server/X Keyboard Configuration Database: Screen lock bypass

Background The X Keyboard Configuration Database provides keyboard configuration for various X server implementations. Description Starting with the =x11-base/xorg-server-1.11 package, the X.Org X Server again provides debugging functionality that can be used terminate an application that...

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...

GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GnuTLS is an Open Source implementation of the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols. Description The following vulnerabilities were found in GnuTLS: Miroslav Kratochvil reported that lib/pk-libgcrypt.c does not properly handle corrupt DSA signatures, possibly leading to a double-free...

Tremulous: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Tremulous is a team-based First Person Shooter game. Description It has been reported that Tremulous includes a vulnerable version of the ioQuake3 engine GLSA 200605-12, CVE-2006-2236. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious games server, possibly resulti...

MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in MySQL: Mattias Jonsson reported that a "RENAME TABLE" command against a table with explicit "DATA DIRECTORY" and "INDEX DIRECTORY" options would overwrite the file to...

Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Cacti is a web-based network graphing and reporting tool. Description The following inputs are not properly sanitized before being processed: "viewtype" parameter in the file graph.php, "filter" parameter in the file graphview.php, "action" and "loginusername" parameters in the file...

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...

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...

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...

GIMP: Buffer overflow

Background GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Description Marsu discovered that the "setcolortable" function in the SUNRAS plugin is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted .RAS file, possibly leading to the executio...

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...

LSAT: Insecure temporary file creation

Background The Linux Security Auditing Tool LSAT is a post install security auditor which checks many system configurations and local network settings on the system for common security or configuration errors and for packages that are not needed. Description LSAT insecurely writes in /tmp with a...

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...

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...

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...

Mantis: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mantis is a web-based bugtracking system written in PHP. Description Tobias Klein discovered that Mantis contains several vulnerabilities, including: a file upload vulnerability. an injection vulnerability in filters. an SQL injection vulnerability in the user-management page. a port...

Perl: Format string errors can lead to code execution

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. It contains printf functions that allows construction of strings from format specifiers and parameters, like the C printf functions. A well-known class of vulnerabilities, called format string errors, result o...

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...

Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors

Background Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.13, including: The SLIM3 and AgentX dissectors could overflow a buffer CVE-2005-3243. iDEFENSE discovered a buffer overflow in the SRVLOC dissector...

Mantis: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mantis is a web-based bugtracking system written in PHP. Description Mantis contains several vulnerabilities, including: a remote file inclusion vulnerability an SQL injection vulnerability multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities...

phpWebSite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpWebSite is a content management system written in PHP. Description phpWebSite fails to sanitize input sent to the XML-RPC server using the "POST" method. Other unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered by Diabolic Crab of Hackers Center. Impact A remote attacker could exploit...

Xpdf, GPdf: Stack overflow in Decrypt::makeFileKey2

Background Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. GPdf is a Gnome-based PDF viewer that includes some Xpdf code. Description iDEFENSE reports that the Decrypt::makeFileKey2 function in Xpdf's Decrypt.cc insufficiently checks boundaries when processing /Encrypt /Leng...

Netatalk: Insecure tempfile handling in etc2ps.sh

Background Netatalk is a kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, which allows Unix hosts to act as file, print, and time servers for Apple computers. It includes several script utilities, including etc2ps.sh. Description The etc2ps.sh script creates temporary files in...

Ghostscript: Insecure temporary file use in multiple scripts

Background Ghostscript is a software package providing an interpreter for the PostScript language and the PDF file format. It also provides output drivers for various file formats and printers. Description The pj-gs.sh, ps2epsi, pv.sh and sysvlp.sh scripts create temporary files in world-writeabl...

Unreal Tournament 2003/2004: Buffer overflow in 'secure' queries

Background Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 are popular first-person-shooter games. They are both based on the Unreal engine, and can be used in a game server / client setup. Description The Unreal-based game servers support a specific type of query called 'secure'. Part of the Gamespy protocol,...

Icecast denial of service vulnerability

Background Icecast is a program that streams audio data to listeners over the Internet. Description There is an out-of-bounds read error in the web interface of Icecast when handling Basic Authorization requests. This vulnerability can theorically be exploited by sending a specially crafted...

Tcpdump Vulnerabilities in ISAKMP Parsing

Background Tcpdump is a program for monitoring IP network traffic. Libpcap is a supporting library which is responsibile for capturing packets off a network interface. Description There are two specific vulnerabilities in tcpdump, outlined in reference 1 . In the first scenario, an attacker may...

Dalli: Code Injection

Background Dalli is a high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers. Description A vulnerability was found in Dalli. Affected is the function self.metaset of the file lib/dalli/protocol/meta/requestformatter.rb of the component Meta Protocol Handler. The manipulation leads to...

OpenSSL: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 as well as a general purpose cryptography library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

libgit2: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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 A vulnerability has been discovered in libgit2. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Usages of a malicious craft...

Prometheus SNMP Exporter: Basic Authentication Bypass

Background The Prometheus SNMP Exporter is the recommended way to expose SNMP data in a format which Prometheus can ingest. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Prometheus SNMP Exporter. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A user who knows the...

Open vSwitch: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Open vSwitch is a production quality multilayer virtual switch. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Open vSwitch. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There i...

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...

libxml2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the GNOME project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libxml2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround The...

SQLite: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SQLite. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no kno...

mdbtools: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background mdbtools is a set of libraries and utilities for reading Microsoft Access database MDB files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mdbtools. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

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,...

libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

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 applications, to interpret TIFF images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibTIFF. Please review the referenced...

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...

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...

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. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workarou...

GNU GLOBAL: Arbitrary code execution

Background GNU GLOBAL is a source code tagging system that works the same way across diverse environments, such as Emacs editor, Vi editor, Less viewer, Bash shell, various web browsers, etc. Description A vulnerability was found in an undocumented function of gozilla. Impact A remote attacker...

MCollective: Remote Code Execution

Background MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. Description A vulnerability was discovered in MCollective which allowed for deserialized YAML from agents without calling safeload. This allows the potential for arbitrary code execution on the...