FreeType: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background FreeType is a font rendering library for TrueType Font TTF and Printer Font Binary PFB. Description Regenrecht reported multiple vulnerabilities in FreeType via iDefense: An integer overflow when parsing values in the Private dictionary table in a PFB file, leading to a heap-based buff...

Pngcrush: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Pngcrush is a multi platform optimizer for PNG Portable Network Graphics files. Description It has been reported that Pngcrush includes a copy of libpng that is vulnerable to a memory corruption GLSA 200804-15. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted...

libpng: Execution of arbitrary code

Background libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG images. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered that libpng does not handle zero-length unknown chunks in PNG files correctly, which might lead to memory corruption in applications that call...

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...

ImageMagick: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools and libraries for manipulating various image formats. Description regenrecht reported multiple infinite loops in functions ReadDCMImage and ReadXCFImage CVE-2007-4985, multiple integer overflows when handling certain types of images CVE-2007-4986,...

Qt: Multiple format string vulnerabilities

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI framework, which is used e.g. by KDE. Description Tim Brown of Portcullis Computer Security Ltd and Dirk Mueller of KDE reported multiple format string errors in qWarning calls in files qtextedit.cpp, qdatatable.cpp, qsqldatabase.cpp, qsqlindex.cpp,...

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...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla Project. Description Georgi Guninski reported a possible integer overflow in the code handling text/enhanced or text/richtext MIME emails. Additionally, various researchers reported errors in the JavaScript engi...

Apache JK Tomcat Connector: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background The Apache HTTP server is a very widely used web server. modjk provides the JK module for connecting Tomcat and Apache using the ajp13 protocol. Description ZDI reported an unsafe memory copy in modjk that was discovered by an anonymous researcher in the mapuritoworker function of...

ClamAV: Denial of service

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description An anonymous researcher discovered a file descriptor leak error in the processing of CAB archives and a lack of validation of the "id" parameter string used to create local files when parsing MIME headers. Impact A remote attacker can send...

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...

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 ...

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...

FreeType: Multiple integer overflows

Background FreeType is a portable font engine. Description Multiple integer overflows exist in a variety of files bdf/bdflib.c, sfnt/ttcmap.c, cff/cffgload.c, base/ftmac.c. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these buffer overflows by enticing a user to load a specially crafted font, which cou...

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...

aRts: Privilege escalation

Background aRts is a real time modular system for synthesizing audio used by KDE. artswrapper is a helper application used to start the aRts daemon. Description artswrapper fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if setuid fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource...

PAM-MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PAM-MySQL is a PAM module used to authenticate users against a MySQL backend. Description A flaw in handling the result of pamgetitem as well as further unspecified flaws were discovered in PAM-MySQL. Impact By exploiting the mentioned flaws an attacker can cause a Denial of Service an...

rsync: Potential integer overflow

Background rsync is a server and client utility that provides fast incremental file transfers. It is used to efficiently synchronize files between hosts and is used by emerge to fetch Gentoo's Portage tree. Description An integer overflow was found in the receivexattr function from the extended...

xine-ui: Format string vulnerabilities

Background xine-ui is a skin-based user interface for xine. xine is a free multimedia player. It plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, and can also decode other common multimedia formats. Description Ludwig Nussel discovered that xine-ui incorrectly implements formatted printing. Impact By constructing a...

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...

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...

Qt: Buffer overflow in the included zlib library

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE. Description Qt links to a bundled vulnerable version of zlib when emerged with the zlib USE-flag disabled. This may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact By creating a specially crafted compressed data stream, attackers can overwrite data...

phpWebSite: Arbitrary command execution through XML-RPC and SQL injection

Background phpWebSite is a web site content management system. Description phpWebSite uses an XML-RPC library that improperly handles XML-RPC requests and responses with malformed nested tags. Furthermore, "matrixkiller" reported that phpWebSite is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack. Impact A...

Compress::Zlib: Buffer overflow

Background The Compress::Zlib is a Perl module which provides an interface to the zlib compression library. Description Compress::Zlib 1.34 contains a local vulnerable version of zlib, which may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact By creating a specially crafted compressed data stream, attackers ca...

PHP: Script injection through XML-RPC

Background PHP is a general-purpose scripting language widely used to develop web-based applications. It can run inside a web server using the modphp module or the CGI version of PHP, or can run stand-alone in a CLI. Description James Bercegay has discovered that the XML-RPC implementation in PHP...

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...

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,...

Mailutils: Multiple vulnerabilities in imap4d and mail

Background GNU Mailutils is a collection of mail-related utilities, including an IMAP4 server imap4d and a Mail User Agent mail. Description infamous41d discovered several vulnerabilities in GNU Mailutils. imap4d does not correctly implement formatted printing of command tags CAN-2005-1523, fails...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. Description PostgreSQL gives public EXECUTE access to a number of character conversion routines, but doesn't validate the given arguments CAN-2005-1409. It has also been reported that the...

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...

telnet-bsd: Multiple buffer overflows

Background telnet-bsd provides a command line telnet client which is used for remote login using the telnet protocol. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the envoptadd function of telnet-bsd, where a response requiring excessive escaping can cause a heap-based buffer overflow...

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...

Python: Arbitrary code execution through SimpleXMLRPCServer

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. Description Graham Dumpleton discovered that XML-RPC servers making use of the SimpleXMLRPCServer library that use the registerinstance method to register an object without a dispatch method ar...

Evolution: Integer overflow in camel-lock-helper

Background Evolution is a GNOME groupware application similar to Microsoft Outlook. Description Max Vozeler discovered an integer overflow in the camel-lock-helper application, which is installed as setgid mail by default. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute...

teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background teTeX is a complete and open source TeX distribution. CSTeX is another TeX distribution including Czech and Slovak support. pTeX is another alternative that allows Japanese publishing with TeX. xdvizilla is an auxiliary script used to integrate DVI file viewing in Mozilla-based browser...

Speedtouch USB driver: Privilege escalation vulnerability

Background The speedtouch package contains a driver for the ADSL SpeedTouch USB modem. Description The Speedtouch USB driver contains multiple format string vulnerabilities in modemrun, pppoa2 and pppoa3. This flaw is due to an improperly made syslog system call. Impact A malicious local user cou...

MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a popular open-source, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in MySQL: Oleksandr Byelkin found that ALTER TABLE ... RENAME checks CREATE/INSERT rights of the old table instead of the new one CAN-2004-0835...

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...

aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress

Background aspell is a popular spell-checker. Dictionaries are available for many languages. Description aspell includes a utility for handling wordlists called word-list-compress. This utility fails to do proper bounds checking when processing words longer than 256 bytes. Impact If an attacker...

Multiple vulnerabilities in sysstat

Background sysstat is a package containing a number of performance monitoring utilities for Linux, including sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools Description There are two vulnerabilities in the way sysstat handles symlinks: 1. The isag utility, which displays sysstat data in a graphical format,...

QtNetwork: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background QtNetwork provides a set of APIs for programming applications that use TCP/IP. It is part of the Qt framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QtNetwork. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

Rack: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rack. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A possible denial of service vulnerability was found in the multipart parsing component of Rack. A...

libinput: format string vulnerability when using xf86-input-libinput

Background A library to handle input devices in Wayland and, via xf86-input-libinput, in X.org. Description An attacker may be able to run malicious code by exploiting a format string vulnerability. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact When a device is detected by...

OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Modsecurity Core Rule Set is the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for detail...

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...

Vim, gVim: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Vim is an efficient, highly configurable improved version of the classic ‘vi’ text editor. gVim is the GUI version of Vim. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Vim, gVim. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

Go: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Go. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

OpenSC: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSC contains tools and libraries for smart cards. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...