Python: Multiple integer overflows

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Python: David Remahl reported multiple integer overflows in the file imageop.c, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow CVE-2008-1679. This issue is due ...

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...

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...

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...

Aircrack-ng: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. Description Jonathan So reported that the airodump-ng module does not correctly check the size of 802.11 authentication packets before copying them into a...

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...

AMD64 x86 emulation Sun's J2SE Development Kit: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Sun Java Development Kit JDK and the Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE provide the Sun Java platform. The x86 emulation Sun's J2SE Development Kit for AMD64 contains a vulnerable version of Sun's JDK. Description Chris Evans has discovered multiple buffer overflows in Sun JDK and Su...

OpenLDAP: Insecure usage of /tmp during installation

Background OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team has discovered that the file gencert.sh distributed with the Gentoo ebuild for OpenLDAP does not exit upon the existence of a...

MadWifi: Kernel driver buffer overflow

Background MadWifi Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity provides a Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based Wireless LAN devices. Description Laurent Butti, Jerome Raznieski and Julien Tinnes reported a buffer overflow in the encodeie and the giwscancb functions from...

OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenSSL is a toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer, Transport Layer Security protocols and a general-purpose cryptography library. Description Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, both of the Google Security Team, discovered that the SSLgetsharedciphers function contains a buffer...

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...

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...

MySQL: SQL Injection

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description MySQL is vulnerable to an injection flaw in mysqlrealescape when used with multi-byte characters. Impact Due to a flaw in the multi-byte character process, an attacker is still able to inject arbitary SQL statements...

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...

HylaFAX: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background HylaFAX is an enterprise-class system for sending and receiving facsimile messages and for sending alpha-numeric pages. Description Patrice Fournier discovered that HylaFAX runs the notify script on untrusted user input. Furthermore, users can log in without a password when HylaFAX is...

phpSysInfo: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpSysInfo displays various system stats via PHP scripts. Description Christopher Kunz from the Hardened-PHP Project discovered that phpSysInfo is vulnerable to local file inclusion, cross-site scripting and a HTTP Response Splitting attacks. Impact A local attacker may exploit the fil...

Weex: Format string vulnerability

Background Weex is a non-interactive FTP client typically used to update web pages. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string bug in Weex that can be triggered when it is first run or when its cache files are rebuilt, using the -r option. Impact An attacker could setup a malicious FTP...

AWStats: Arbitrary code execution using malicious Referrer information

Background AWStats is an advanced log file analyzer and statistics generator. In HTTP reports it parses Referrer information in order to display the most common Referrer values that caused users to visit the website. Description When using a URLPlugin, AWStats fails to sanitize Referrer URL data...

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 Due to a lack of input validation, WordPress is vulnerable to SQL injection and XSS attacks. Impact An attacker could use the SQL injection vulnerabilities to gain information from the database...

FreeRADIUS: SQL injection and Denial of Service vulnerability

Background FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server implementation. Description Primoz Bratanic discovered that the sqlescapefunc function of FreeRADIUS may be vulnerable to a buffer overflow BID 13541. He also discovered that FreeRADIUS fails to sanitize user-input before using ...

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...

Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow

Background Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed. Description Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle non-ASCII characters in email headers when composing reply messages. Impact An attacker can send an email...

UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities

Background UnAce is an utility to extract, view and test the contents of an ACE archive. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered that UnAce suffers from buffer overflows when testing, unpacking or listing specially crafted ACE archives CAN-2005-0160. He also found out that UnAce is vulnerable to...

mod_python: Publisher Handler vulnerability

Background modpython is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server allowing Python-based web-applications to be created. Description Graham Dumpleton discovered a vulnerability in modpython's Publisher Handler. Impact By requesting a specially crafted URL for a publishe...

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...

a2ps: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background a2ps is an Any to Postscript filter that can convert to Postscript from many filetypes. fixps is a script that fixes errors in Postscript files. psmandup produces a Postscript file for printing in manual duplex mode. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the a2ps...

Apache: Exposure of protected directories

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of most popular web servers on the Internet. Description A bug in the way Apache handles the Satisfy directive, which is used to require that certain conditions client host, client authentication, etc be met before access to a certain directory is granted,...

xv: Buffer overflows in image handling

Background xv is a multi-format image manipulation utility. Description Multiple buffer overflow and integer handling vulnerabilities have been discovered in xv's image processing code. These vulnerabilities have been found in the xvbmp.c, xviris.c, xvpcx.c and xvpm.c source files. Impact An...

PHP: Multiple security vulnerabilities

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 Several security vulnerabilities were found and fixed in version 4.3...

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,...

OpenLDAP DoS Vulnerability

Background OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related application and development tools. It includes slapd the standalone LDAP server, slurpd the standalone LDAP replication server, and various LDAP libraries, utilities and example clients. Description A password extended operation password EXOP which...

Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Monit

Background Monit is a system administration utility that allows management and monitoring of processes, files, directories and devices on a Unix system. Description A denial of service may occur due to Monit not sanitizing remotely supplied HTTP parameters before passing them to memory allocation...

Multiple security vulnerabilities in Apache 2

Background The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides services in tune with the current HTTP standards. Description Thre...

Roundcube: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Free and open source webmail software for the masses, written in PHP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Roundcube. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround Ther...

Nettle: Denial of Service

Background Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in almost any context: In cryptographic toolkits for object-oriented languages, such as C++, Python, or Pike, in applications like lsh or GnuPG, or even in kernel space. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been...

zlib: Buffer Overflow

Background zlib is a widely used free and patent unencumbered data compression library. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in zlib. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact MiniZip in zlib through 1.3 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffe...

util-linux: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background util-linux is a suite of Linux programs including mount and umount, programs used to mount and unmount filesystems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in util-linux. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenc...

Salt: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Salt is a fast, intelligent and scalable automation engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Salt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

GNU Mailutils: unexpected processsing of escape sequences

Background GNU Mailutils is a collection of mail-related utilities, including an IMAP4 server imap4d and a Mail User Agent mail. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in GNU Mailutils. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact mail1 from mailutils would proce...

scikit-learn: Denial of Service

Background scikit-learn is a machine learning library for Python. Description When supplied with a crafted model SVM, predict can result in a null pointer dereference. Impact An attcker capable of providing a crafted model to scikit-learn can result in denial of service. Workaround There is no...

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...

libebml: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability

Background libebml is a C++ library to parse EBML files. Description On 32bit builds of libebml, the length of a string is miscalculated, potentially leading to an exploitable heap overflow. Impact An attacker able to provide arbitrary input to libebml could achieve arbitrary code execution...

Babel: Remote code execution

Background Babel is a collection of tools for internationalizing Python applications. Description Babel does not properly restrict which sources a locale can be loaded from. If Babel loads an attacker-controlled .dat file, arbitrary code execution can be achieved via unsafe Pickle deserialization...

PowerDNS: information disclosure

Background The PowerDNS nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture. Description It was discovered that PowerDNS did not properly handle certain unknown records. Impact An authorized attacker with the ability to insert crafted records into a zone migh...

PHP: Denial of service

Background PHP is an open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development. Description It was discovered that PHP did not properly handle PHAR files. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PHAR file using PHP, possibly...

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...

SNMP Trap Translator: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SNMP Trap Translator SNMPTT is an SNMP trap handler written in Perl. Description It was found that SNMP Trap Translator does not drop privileges as configured and does not properly escape shell commands in certain functions. Impact A remote attacker, by sending a malicious crafted SNMP...

KDE KConfig: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Provides an advanced configuration system. Description A vulnerability was discovered in KDE KConfig’s handling of .desktop and .directory files. Impact An attacker could entice a user to execute a specially crafted .desktop or .directory file possibly resulting in execution of arbitra...