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mod_wsgi: Privilege escalation
Background modwsgi is an Apache2 module for running Python WSGI applications. Description modwsgi, when creating a daemon process group, does not properly handle dropping group privileges. Impact Context-dependent attackers could escalate privileges due to the improper handling of group privilege...
Exim: Arbitrary code execution
Background Exim is a message transfer agent MTA designed to be a a highly configurable, drop-in replacement for sendmail. Description Vulnerabilities have been discovered in Exim’s implementation of set-uid root and when using ‘perlstartup’. These vulnerabilities require a user account on the Exi...
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 A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or remote...
CUPS: Buffer overflow
Background CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System, is a full-featured print server. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in CUPS concerning the handling of compressed raster files. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process...
Chromium: 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. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Chromium web browser. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details...
Git: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Description Git is vulnerable to the remote execution of arbitrary code by cloning repositories with large filenames or a large...
libgadu: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background libgadu is a library that implements the client side of the Gadu-Gadu protocol. Description libgadu contains multiple vulnerabilities: X.509 certificates are not properly validated CVE-2013-4488 A integer overflow error could lead to a buffer overflow CVE-2013-6487 Malformed responses...
BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background BusyBox is set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker can load kernel modules without...
Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Description An assertion failure in processing of SSL-Bump has been found in Squid. Heap based overflow is discovered when processing SNMP requests. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted...
Xen: Multiple Vunlerabilities
Background Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker can utilize multiple vectors to execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, or gain access to...
libtar: Arbitraty code execution
Background libtar is a C library for manipulating POSIX tar files. Description An integer overflow error within the “thread” function when processing long names or link extensions can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted archive. Impact A remote attacker coul...
Xpdf: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Xpdf is an X viewer for PDF files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xpdf. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround Ther...
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...
VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle. Description Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges via unknown...
Rack: Denial of service
Background Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Description Rack does not properly randomize hash functions to protect against hash collision attacks. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted form post, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There i...
Firewall Builder: Privilege escalation
Background Firewall Builder is a GUI for easy management of multiple firewall platforms. Description Two vulnerabilities in Firewall Builder allow the iptables and fwbinstall scripts to use temporary files insecurely. Impact A local attacker could possibly overwrite arbitrary files with the...
NTP: Denial of service
Background NTP is a set of the Network Time Protocol programs. Description Robin Park and Dmitri Vinokurov discovered that ntprequest.c in ntpd does not handle MODEPRIVATE packets correctly, causing a continuous exchange of MODEPRIVATE error responses between two NTP daemons or causing high CPU...
Python: Integer overflows
Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description Chris Evans reported multiple integer overflows in the expandtabs method, as implemented by 1 the stringexpandtabs function in Objects/stringobject.c and 2 the unicodeexpandtabs function in...
acpid: Denial of service
Background acpid is a daemon for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI. Description The acpid daemon allows opening a large number of UNIX sockets without closing them, triggering an infinite loop. Impact Remote attackers can cause a Denial of Service CPU consumption and connectivit...
Ventrilo: Denial of service
Background Ventrilo is a Voice over IP group communication server. Description Luigi Auriemma reported a NULL pointer dereference in Ventrilo when processing packets with an invalid version number followed by another packet. Impact A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to the...
OpenTTD: Execution of arbitrary code
Background OpenTTD is a clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Description Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in OpenTTD, when storing long for client names CVE-2008-3547, in the TruncateString function in src/gfx.cpp CVE-2008-3576 and in src/openttd.cpp when processing a large filename...
NDISwrapper: Arbitrary remote code execution
Background NDISwrapper is a Linux kernel module that enables the use of Microsoft Windows drivers for wireless network devices. Description Anders Kaseorg reported multiple buffer overflows related to long ESSIDs. Impact A physically proximate attacker could send packets over a wireless network...
Mozilla products: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird an open-source email client, both from the Mozilla Project. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as the 'Mozilla...
OpenSSL: Denial of service
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 Ossi Herrala and Jukka Taimisto of Codenomicon discovered two vulnerabilities: A double free call in the...
MPlayer: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background MPlayer is a media player including support for a wide range of audio and video formats. Description ksOSe reported an integer overflow vulnerability in the sdpplinparse function in the file stream/realrtsp/sdpplin.c, which can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary memory regions via an...
UnZip: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Info-ZIP's UnZip is a tool to list and extract files inside PKZIP compressed files. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered that the NEEDBITS macro in the inflatedynamic function in the file inflate.c can be invoked using invalid buffers, which can lead to a...
ViewVC: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. Description Multiple unspecified errors were reportedly fixed by the ViewVC development team. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted URL to the server to list CVS or SVN commits on...
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...
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...
KHTML: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. KHTML is the HTML interpreter used in Konqueror and other parts of KDE. Description The KHTML code allows for the execution of JavaScript code located inside the "Title" HTML element, a relat...
thttpd: Unauthenticated remote file access
Background thttpd is a webserver designed to be simple, small, and fast. Description thttpd is vulnerable to an underlying change made to the start-stop-daemon command in the current stable Gentoo baselayout package version 1.12.6. In the new version, the start-stop-daemon command performs a "chd...
WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background WordPress is a popular personal publishing platform with a web interface. Description When decoding trackbacks with alternate character sets, WordPress does not correctly sanitize the entries before further modifying a SQL query. WordPress also displays different error messages in...
KOffice shared libraries: Heap corruption
Background KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. koffice-libs is a package containing shared librares used by KOffice programs. Description Kees Cook of Ubuntu discovered that 'KLaola::readBigBlockDepot' in klaola.cc fills 'numofbbdblocks' while reading a .ppt PowerPoint file without...
GNU gv: Stack overflow
Background GNU gv is a viewer for PostScript and PDF documents. Description GNU gv does not properly boundary check user-supplied data before copying it into process buffers. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document with GNU gv and execute arbitrary code with th...
OpenTTD: Remote Denial of service
Background OpenTTD is a clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Description OpenTTD is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a flaw in the manner the game server handles errors in command packets. Impact An authenticated attacker can cause a Denial of Service by sending an invalid error numbe...
x11vnc: Authentication bypass in included LibVNCServer code
Background x11vnc provides VNC servers for X displays. Description x11vnc includes vulnerable LibVNCServer code, which fails to properly validate protocol types effectively letting users decide what protocol to use, such as "Type 1 - None" GLSA-200608-05. x11vnc will accept this security type, ev...
Mutt: Buffer overflow
Background Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client. Description TAKAHASHI Tamotsu has discovered that Mutt contains a boundary error in the "browsegetnamespace" function in browse.c, which can be triggered when receiving an overly long namespace from an IMAP server. Impact A...
bsd-games: Local privilege escalation in tetris-bsd
Background bsd-games is a collection of NetBSD games ported to Linux. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the checkscores function in scores.c reads in the data from the /var/games/tetris-bsd.scores file without validation, rendering it vulnerable to...
GnuPG: Incorrect signature verification
Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software that may be used without restriction, as it does not rely on any patented algorithms. GnuPG can be used to digitally sign messages, a method of ensuring the authenticity of a message using...
ImageMagick: Format string vulnerability
Background ImageMagick is an application suite to manipulate and convert images. It is often used as a utility backend by web applications like forums, content management systems or picture galleries. Description The SetImageInfo function was found vulnerable to a format string mishandling. Danie...
VMware Workstation: Vulnerability in NAT networking
Background VMware Workstation is a powerful virtual machine for developers and system administrators. Description Tim Shelton discovered that vmnet-natd, the host module providing NAT-style networking for VMware guest operating systems, is unable to process incorrect 'EPRT' and 'PORT' FTP request...
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...
Macromedia Flash Player: Remote arbitrary code execution
Background The Macromedia Flash Player is a renderer for the popular SWF filetype which is commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Description When handling a SWF file, the Macromedia Flash Player incorrectly validates the frame type identifier store...
QDBM, ImageMagick, GDAL: RUNPATH issues
Background QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. ImageMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images. GDAL is a geospatial data abstraction library. Description Some packages may introduce insecure paths into the list of directories that are searched for...
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...
zlib: Buffer overflow
Background zlib is a widely used free and patent unencumbered data compression library. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a buffer overflow in zlib. A bounds checking operation failed to take invalid data into account, allowing a specifically malformed...
WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. Description James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that WordPress insufficiently checks data passed to the XML-RPC server. He also discovered that WordPress has several cross-site...
GnuTLS: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background GnuTLS is a free TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 implementation for the GNU project. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the record packet parsing in the GnuTLS library. Additionally, a flaw was also found in the RSA key export functionality. Impact A remote attacker could exploit...
RealPlayer, Helix Player: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Helix Player is the Open Source version of RealPlayer. Description Piotr Bania has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in RealPlayer and Helix Player when processing malicious RAM files. Impa...
phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description phpMyAdmin contains several security issues: Maksymilian Arciemowicz has discovered multiple variable injection vulnerabilities that can be exploited through...