ISC DHCP: Denial of service

Background ISC DHCP is ISC's reference implementation of all aspects of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Description A buffer overflow error was found in ISC DHCP server, that can only be exploited under unusual server configurations where the DHCP server is configured to provide clients...

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...

Net-SNMP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Net-SNMP is a collection of tools for generating and retrieving SNMP data. The SNMPv3 protocol uses a keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code HMAC to verify data integrity and authenticity of SNMP messages. Description Wes Hardaker reported that the SNMPv3 HMAC verification relies on th...

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...

gnome-screensaver: Privilege escalation

Background gnome-screensaver is a screensaver, designed to integrate with the Gnome desktop, that can replace xscreensaver. Description gnome-screensaver incorrectly handles the results of the getpwuid function in the file src/setuid.c when using directory servers like NIS during a network outage...

Samba: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs for UNIX. Description Two vulnerabilities have been reported in nmbd. Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research discovered a boundary checking error in the replynetbiospacket function which could lead to a stack-based buffer overflow...

Poppler, KDE: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. KWord is the KOffice word processor. KPDF is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. Description Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research discovered sever...

Python: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description Slythers Bro discovered multiple integer overflows in the imageop module, one of them in the tovideo method, in various locations in files imageop.c, rbgimgmodule.c, and also in other files. Impact...

X.Org X server: Composite local privilege escalation

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Aaron Plattner discovered a buffer overflow in the compNewPixmap function when copying data from a large pixel depth pixmap into a smaller pixel depth pixmap. Impact A local attacker could...

Lighttpd: Buffer overflow

Background Lighttpd is a lightweight HTTP web server. Description Mattias Bengtsson and Philip Olausson have discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the function fcgienvadd in the file modfastcgi.c when processing overly long HTTP headers. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially...

SquirrelMail G/PGP plugin: Arbitrary code execution

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP protocols. Description The functions deletekey, gpgchecksignpgpmime and gpgrecvkey used in the SquirrelMail G/PGP encryption plugin do not properly escape user-supplied data. Impact An authenticated user could...

LibXfont, TightVNC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LibXfont is the X.Org font library. TightVNC is a VNC client/server for X displays. Description The libXfont code is prone to several integer overflows, in functions ProcXCMiscGetXIDList, bdfReadCharacters and FontFileInitTable. TightVNC contains a local copy of this code and is also...

Mozilla Network Security Service: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background The Mozilla Network Security Service is a library implementing security features like SSL v2/v3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME and X.509 certificates. Description iDefense has reported two potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities found by researcher "regenrecht" in the...

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...

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...

OpenOffice.org: EMF/WMF file handling vulnerabilities

Background OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description John Heasman of NGSSoftware has discovered integer overflows in the EMRPOLYPOLYGON and...

FFmpeg: Buffer overflows

Background FFmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter. Description FFmpeg contains buffer overflows in the AVI processing code. Impact An attacker could trigger the buffer overflows by enticing a user to load a specially crafted AVI file in an application using the FFmpeg library. This might...

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...

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...

Ruby: Denial of service

Background Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It comes bundled with HTTP "WEBrick" and XMLRPC server objects. Description Ruby uses blocking sockets for WEBrick and XMLRPC servers. Impact An attacker could send large amounts of data to an...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project. Description Several vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird. Impact A remote attacker could craft malicious emails that would leverage these issues to inject and execute arbitrary scrip...

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...

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...

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...

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...

phpLDAPadmin: Authentication bypass

Background phpLDAPadmin is a web-based LDAP client allowing to easily manage LDAP servers. Description Alexander Gerasiov discovered a flaw in login.php preventing the application from validating whether anonymous bind has been disabled in the target LDAP server configuration. Impact Anonymous...

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...

Gaim: Denial of Service and buffer overflow vulnerabilties

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Stu Tomlinson discovered that Gaim is vulnerable to a remote stack based buffer overflow when receiving messages in certain protocols, like Jabber and SILC, with a very...

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...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

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

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...

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...

PDFlib: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library

Background PDFlib is a library providing functions to handle PDF files. It includes a modified TIFF library used to process TIFF images. Description The TIFF library is subject to several known vulnerabilities see GLSA 200410-11. Most of these overflows also apply to PDFlib. Impact A remote...

WordPress: HTTP response splitting and XSS vulnerabilities

Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. Description Due to the lack of input validation in the administration panel scripts, WordPress is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting attacks. Impact A malicious user could inject...

ImageMagick, imlib, imlib2: BMP decoding buffer overflows

Background ImageMagick is a suite of image manipulation utilities and libraries used for a wide variety of image formats. imlib is a general image loading and rendering library. Description Due to improper bounds checking, ImageMagick and imlib are vulnerable to a buffer overflow when decoding...

l2tpd: Buffer overflow

Background l2tpd is a GPL implentation of the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol. Description Thomas Walpuski discovered a buffer overflow that may be exploitable by sending a specially crafted packet. In order to exploit the vulnerable code, an attacker would need to fake the establishment of an L2TP...

Opera telnet URI handler file creation/truncation vulnerability

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description The telnet URI handler in Opera does not check for leading '-' characters in the host name. Consequently, a maliciously-crafted telnet:// link may be able to pass options to the telnet program itself. One example would be the following...

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,...

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...

Python, PyPy3: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Python, PyPy3. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers f...

X.Org X Server, XWayland: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org X Server and XWayland. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact The X server can be crashed by a maliciou...

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...

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...

WebKitGTK+: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background WebKitGTK+ is a full-featured port of the WebKit rendering engine, suitable for projects requiring any kind of web integration, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web browsers. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WebKitGTK+. Please review the CVE...

zlib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background zlib is a widely used free and patent unencumbered data compression library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in zlib. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Maliciously crafted input handled by zlib may result in 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...