Ampache: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ampache is a PHP-based tool for managing, updating and playing audio files via a web interface. Description LT discovered that the "match" parameter in albums.php is not properly sanitized before being processed. The Ampache development team also reported an error when handling user...

NVIDIA drivers: Denial of service

Background The NVIDIA drivers provide support for NVIDIA graphic boards. Description Gregory Shikhman discovered that the default Gentoo setup of NVIDIA drivers creates the /dev/nvidia with insecure file permissions. Impact A local attacker could send arbitrary values into the devices, possibly...

GD: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GD is a graphic library for fast image creation. Description Xavier Roche discovered an infinite loop in the gdPngReadData function when processing a truncated PNG file CVE-2007-2756. An integer overflow has been discovered in the gdImageCreateTrueColor function CVE-2007-3472. An error...

PHProjekt: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PHProjekt is a project management and coordination tool written in PHP. Description Alexios Fakos from n.runs AG has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in PHProjekt, including the execution of arbitrary SQL commands using unknown vectors CVE-2007-1575, the execution of arbitrary PHP...

xine-lib: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background xine-lib is the core library package for the xine media player. Description xine-lib does not check boundaries on data being read into buffers from DMO video files in code that is shared with MPlayer DMOVideoDecoder.c. Impact An attacker could entice a user to play a specially crafted...

Asterisk: Two SIP Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Asterisk is an open source implementation of a telephone private branch exchange PBX. Description The Madynes research team at INRIA has discovered that Asterisk contains a null pointer dereferencing error in the SIP channel when handling INVITE messages. Furthermore qwerty1979...

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...

UFO2000: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background UFO2000 is a multi-player, turn-based tactical simulation. Description Five vulnerabilities were found: a buffer overflow in recvaddunit; a problem with improperly trusting user-supplied string information in decodestringmap; several issues with array manipulation via various commands...

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...

LibXfont, monolithic X.org: Multiple integer overflows

Background libXfont is the X.Org Xfont library, some parts are based on the FreeType code base. Description Several integer overflows have been found in the CID font parser. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to load a malicious font file resulting in the...

Kiax: Arbitrary code execution

Background Kiax is a graphical softphone supporting the IAX protocol Inter Asterisk eXchange, which allows PC users to make VoIP calls to Asterisk servers. Description The iaxnetread function in the iaxclient library fails to properly handle IAX2 packets with truncated full frames or mini-frames...

SquirrelMail: Cross-site scripting and IMAP command injection

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP protocols. Description SquirrelMail does not validate the rightframe parameter in webmail.php, possibly allowing frame replacement or cross-site scripting CVE-2006-0188. Martijn Brinkers and Scott Hughes...

MPlayer: Multiple integer overflows

Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description MPlayer makes use of the FFmpeg library, which is vulnerable to a heap overflow in the avcodecdefaultgetbuffer function discovered by Simon Kilvington see GLSA 200601-06. Furthermore, AFI Securi...

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...

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...

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...

Zebedee: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Zebedee is an application that establishes an encrypted, compressed tunnel for TCP/IP or UDP data transfer between two systems. Description "Shiraishi.M" reported that Zebedee crashes when "0" is received as the port number in the protocol option header. Impact By performing malformed...

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...

phpGroupWare: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpGroupWare is a multi-user groupware suite written in PHP. Description phpGroupWare improperly validates the "mid" parameter retrieved via a forum post. The current version of phpGroupWare also adds several safeguards to prevent XSS issues, and disables the use of a potentially...

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...

PEAR XML-RPC, phpxmlrpc: PHP script injection vulnerability

Background The PEAR XML-RPC and phpxmlrpc libraries are both PHP implementations of the XML-RPC protocol. Description James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research discovered that the PEAR XML-RPC and phpxmlrpc libraries fail to sanatize input sent using the "POST" method. Impact A remote attacker...

Convert-UUlib: Buffer overflow

Background Convert-UUlib provides a Perl interface to the uulib library, allowing Perl applications to access data encoded in a variety of formats. Description A vulnerability has been reported in Convert-UUlib where a malformed parameter can be provided by an attacker allowing a read operation t...

monkeyd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background monkeyd is a fast, efficient, small and easy to configure web server for Linux. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a double expansion error in monkeyd, resulting in a format string vulnerability. Ciaran McCreesh of Gentoo Linux discovered a...

X.org: libXpm vulnerability

Background libXpm is a pixmap manipulation library for the X Window System, included in X.org. Description Chris Gilbert has discovered potentially exploitable buffer overflow cases in libXpm that weren't fixed in previous libXpm versions. Impact A carefully-crafted XPM file could crash X.org,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CUPS: Denial of service vulnerability

Background The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler. Description Alvaro Martinez Echevarria discovered a hole in the CUPS Internet Printing Protocol IPP implementation that allows remote attackers to cause CUPS to stop listening on the IPP port. Impact A remote user...

Gaim: New vulnerabilities

Background Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux which supports many instant messaging protocols. Description Gaim fails to do proper bounds checking when: Handling MSN messages partially fixed with GLSA 200408-12. Handling rich text format messages. Resolving local hostname...

Subversion: Vulnerability in mod_authz_svn

Background Subversion is an advanced version control system, similar to CVS, which supports additional functionality such as the ability to move, copy and delete files and directories. A Subversion server may be run as an Apache module, a standalone server svnserve, or on-demand over ssh a la CVS...

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,...

IPsec-Tools: authentication bug in racoon

Background IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping, and ping6. Description The KAME IKE daemon racoon is used to authenticate peers during Phase 1 when using either preshared keys, GSS-API,...

Horde-IMP: Input validation vulnerability

Background Horde-IMP is the Internet Messaging Program. It is written in PHP and provides webmail access to IMAP and POP3 accounts. Description Horde-IMP fails to properly sanitize email messages that contain malicious HTML or script code. Impact By enticing a user to read a specially crafted...

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 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...

GnuPG: ElGamal signing keys compromised and format string vulnerability

Background GnuPG is a popular open source signing and encryption tool. Description Two flaws have been found in GnuPG 1.2.3. First, ElGamal signing keys can be compromised. These keys are not commonly used, but this is "a significant security failure which can lead to a compromise of almost all...

Commons-BeanUtils: Improper Access Restriction

Background Commons-beanutils provides easy-to-use wrappers around Reflection and Introspection APIs Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Commons-BeanUtils. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

FreeType: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background FreeType is a high-quality and portable font engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeType. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

RDoc: Command Injection

Background RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in RDoc. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact RDoc used to call Kernelopen to open a local file. If a Ruby project has a file whose name...

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...

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...

Nicotine+: Denial of Service

Background Nicotine+ is a fork of nicotine, a Soulseek client in Python. Description Nicotine+ does not sufficiently validate file path in download requests. Impact A file path in a download request which contains a null character will cause a crash of Nicotine+. Workaround There is no known...

Mutt, NeoMutt: Information disclosure

Background Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client. NeoMutt is a command line mail reader or MUA. It’s a fork of Mutt with added features. Description A weakness in TLS handshake handling was found which may allow information disclosure. Impact A remote attacker may be able to...

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Denial of service

Background The Mozilla Network Security Service NSS is a library implementing security features like SSL v.2/v.3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME and X.509 certificates. Description A flaw was found in the way Mozilla Network Security Service NSS handled CCS ChangeCipherSpec message...

Fossil: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Fossil. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

Shadow: Privilege escalation

Background Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts. Description When Shadow was installed with the PAM use flag, setuid binaries provided by Shadow were not properly restricted. Impact A local attacker could escalate privileges to root. Workaround There is no known workaround at this...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There...

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...

Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

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 Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...