PDFKit, ImageKits: Buffer overflow

Background PDFKit is a framework for rendering of PDF content in GNUstep applications. ImageKits is a collection of frameworks to support imaging in GNUstep applications. Description Maurycy Prodeus discovered an integer overflow vulnerability possibly leading to a stack-based buffer overflow in...

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...

X.Org X11 library: Multiple integer overflows

Background X.Org is an implementation of the X Window System. The X.Org X11 library provides the X11 protocol library files. Description Multiple integer overflows have been reported in the XGetPixel function of the X.Org X11 library. Impact By enticing a user to open a specially crafted image, a...

capi4k-utils: Buffer overflow

Background capi4k-utils is a set of utilities for accessing COMMON-ISDN-API software interfaces for ISDN devices. Description The bufprint function in capi4k-utils fails to properly check boundaries of data coming from CAPI packets. Impact A local attacker could possibly escalate privileges or...

File: Denial of service

Background file is a utility that identifies a file format by scanning binary data for patterns. Description Conor Edberg discovered an error in the way file processes a specific regular expression. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file, using excessive CPU...

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...

Cacti: Command execution and SQL injection

Background Cacti is a web-based network graphing and reporting tool. Description rgod discovered that the Cacti cmd.php and copycactiuser.php scripts do not properly control access to the command shell, and are remotely accessible by unauthenticated users. This allows SQL injection via cmd.php an...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla Project. Description Georgi Guninski and David Bienvenu discovered buffer overflows in the processing of long "Content-Type:" and long non-ASCII MIME headers. Additionally, Frederik Reiss discovered a heap-based...

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...

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...

WordPress: Arbitrary command execution

Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. Description rgod discovered that WordPress insufficiently checks the format of cached username data. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands by sending a specially...

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...

zoo: Buffer overflow

Background zoo is a file archiving utility for maintaining collections of files, written by Rahul Dhesi. Description zoo is vulnerable to a new buffer overflow due to insecure use of the strcpy function when trying to create an archive from certain directories or filenames. Impact An attacker cou...

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...

chmlib, KchmViewer: Stack-based buffer overflow

Background chmlib is a library for dealing with Microsoft ITSS and CHM format files. KchmViewer is a CHM viewer that includes its own copy of the chmlib library. Description Sven Tantau reported about a buffer overflow vulnerability in chmlib. The function "chmdecompressblock" does not properly...

FUSE: mtab corruption through fusermount

Background FUSE Filesystem in Userspace allows implementation of a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program. The fusermount utility is used to mount/unmount FUSE file systems. Description Thomas Biege discovered that fusermount fails to securely handle special characters specified in...

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...

Tor: Information disclosure

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description A bug in Tor allows attackers to view arbitrary memory contents from an exit server's process space. Impact A remote attacker could exploit the memory...

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...

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...

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...

KDE FTP KIOslave: Command injection

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. KDE provided KIOslaves for many protocols in the kdelibs package, one of them being FTP. These are used by KDE applications such as Konqueror. Description The FTP KIOslave fails to properly...

pdftohtml: Vulnerabilities in included Xpdf

Background pdftohtml is a utility to convert PDF files to HTML or XML formats. It makes use of Xpdf code to decode PDF files. Description Xpdf is vulnerable to integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200412-24. Impact An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF file,...

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...

phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability

Background phpWebSite is a web site content management system. Description Due to lack of proper input validation, phpWebSite has been found to be vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks. Impact A malicious user could inject arbitrary response data, leading to content spoofing, web cache...

phpBB: Remote command execution

Background phpBB is an Open Source bulletin board package. Description phpBB contains a vulnerability in the highlighting code and several vulnerabilities in the username handling code. Impact An attacker can exploit the highlighting vulnerability to access the PHP exec function without...

Apache 2, mod_ssl: Bypass of SSLCipherSuite directive

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the internet. modssl provides SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1 support for Apache 1.3 and is also included in Apache 2. Description A flaw has been found in modssl where the "SSLCipherSuite" directive could be bypassed in certain...

CUPS: Leakage of sensitive information

Background The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler. Description When printing to a SMB-shared printer requiring authentication, CUPS leaks the user name and password to a logfile. Impact A local user could gain knowledge of sensitive authentication data. Workaround...

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...

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...

KDE URI Handler Vulnerabilities

Background The K Desktop Environment KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment. KDE makes use of URI handlers to trigger various programs when specific URLs are received. Description The telnet, rlogin, ssh and mailto URI handlers in KDE do not check for '-' at the beginning o...

cpio: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background cpio is a file archival tool which can also read and write tar files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cpio. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact GNU cpio allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file...

UltraJSON: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background UltraJSON is an ultra fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.8+. Description Affected versions were found to improperly decode certain characters. JSON strings that contain escaped surrogate characters not part of a proper surrogate pair were decoded...

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...

phpMyAdmin: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers...

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...

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...

ProFTPd: Memory Disclosure

Background ProFTPD is an advanced and very configurable FTP server. Description ProFTPd unconditionally sends passwords to Radius servers for authentication in multiples of 16 bytes. If a password is not of a length that is a multiple of 16 bytes, ProFTPd will read beyond the end of the password...

Shadow: TOCTOU Race

Background Shadow contains utilities to deal with user accounts Description A TOCTOU race condition was discovered in shadow. A local attacker with write privileges in a directory removed or copied by usermod/userdel could potentially exploit this flaw when the administrator invokes...

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...

Perl DBI: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A database access module for the Perl programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Perl module DBI. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround Ther...

PyCrypto: Weak key generation

Background PyCrypto is the Python Cryptography Toolkit. Description It was discovered that PyCrypto incorrectly generated ElGamal key parameters. Impact Attackers may be able to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext data. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resoluti...

pump: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background BOOTP and DHCP client for automatic IP configuration. Description It was discovered that there was an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the pump DHCP/BOOTP client. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to connect to a malicious server, could cause the execution of...

Nagios: Privilege escalation

Background Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description A vulnerability in Nagios was discovered due to the improper handling of configuration files which can be owned by a non-root user. Impact A local attacker can escalate privileges to root by leveraging...

libsndfile: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libsndfile. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially...

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...

Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers and Adobe Security Bulletin for details...

X.Org Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org Server. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact Attackers could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Servi...