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KAuth and KDELibs: Privilege escalation
Background KAuth provides a convenient, system-integrated way to offload actions that need to be performed as a privileged user root, for example to small hopefully secure helper utilities. The KDE libraries, basis of KDE and used by many open source projects. Description KAuth and KDELibs contai...
Shadow: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Shadow. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition, gain privileges via...
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 CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...
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 A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code wi...
GPL Ghostscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. Description An integer overflow flaw was discovered that leads to an out-of-bounds read and write in gsttf.ps. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in the...
Patch: Denial of service
Background Patch takes a patch file containing a difference listing produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions. Description Due to a flaw in Patch, the application can enter an infinite loop when processing a specially...
TestDisk: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error such as accidentally deleting a Partition...
Chromium: 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. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Chromium web browser. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details...
QtGui: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background QtGui is the GUI module and platform plugins for the Qt framework Description Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in QtGui. It is possible for remote attackers to construct specially crafted BMP, ICO, or GIF images that lead to buffer overflows. After...
Git: Arbitrary command execution
Background Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Description A vulnerability in Git causing Git-compatible clients that access case-insensitive or case-normalizing filesystems to...
Perl: Denial of service
Background Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language. Description Sregmatch function lacks proper checks before passing arguments to atoi Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted input, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no...
OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security as well as a general purpose cryptography library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impac...
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 CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...
D-Bus: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in D-Bus. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service...
Jinja2: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Jinja2 is a template engine written in pure Python. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Jinja2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted cache file or...
Zend Framework: SQL injection
Background Zend Framework is a high quality and open source framework for developing Web Applications. Description Developers using non-ASCII-compatible encodings in conjunction with the MySQL PDO driver of PHP may be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Impact A remote attacker could use special...
Django: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Django is a Python-based web framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Django. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute code with the privileges of the process, modify SQL queries, or disclose...
Dnsmasq: Denial of Service
Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description When used with certain libvirt configurations Dnsmasq replies to queries from prohibited interfaces. Impact A remote attackers can cause a Denial of Service via spoofed TCP based DNS queries...
libssh: Arbitrary code execution
Background libssh is a C library providing SSHv2 and SSHv1. Description Multiple buffer overflow, double free, and integer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in libssh. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial o...
ISC DHCP: Denial of service
Background ISC DHCP is a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP client/server. Description ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion attack involving regular expressions sent by DHCP clients. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request from a malicious or spoofed client,...
Tinyproxy: Denial of service
Background Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the way how Tinyproxy works with headers. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request with too many headers, possibly resulting in a...
GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background GnuTLS is an Open Source implementation of the TLS 1.2 and SSL 3.0 protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GnuTLS. Please review the CVE identifiers and Lucky Thirteen research paper referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could sent a...
Perl Parallel-ForkManager Module: Insecure temporary file usage
Background Parallel-ForkManager is a simple parallel processing fork manager for Perl. Description The Perl Parallel-ForkManager module does not handle temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user...
strongSwan: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongSwan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could use ECDSA to authenticate as another user with an invalid signature...
Puppet: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Puppet is a system configuration management tool written in Ruby. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of t...
qemu-kvm: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background qemu-kvm provides QEMU and Kernel-based Virtual Machine userland tools. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in qemu-kvm. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact These vulnerabilities allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Servi...
mod_rpaf: Denial of service
Background modrpaf is a reverse proxy add forward module for backend Apache servers. Description An error has been found in the way modrpaf handles X-Forwarded-For headers. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP...
Linux-PAM: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Linux-PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is an architecture allowing the separation of the development of privilege granting software from the development of secure and appropriate authentication schemes. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Linux-PAM. Please...
Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Asterisk: An error in manager.c allows shell access through the MixMonitor application, GetVar, or Status CVE-2012-2414. An error in chanskinny.c could cause a heap-based...
libxslt: Denial of service
Background libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT is an XML language to define transformations for XML. Description An out of bounds read error has been found in libxslt/pattern.c in libxslt. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to process an XML file using a...
GnuPG: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. The GPGSM utility in GnuPG is responsible for processing X.509 certificates, signatures and encryption as well as S/MIME messages. Description The GPGSM utility in GnuPG contains a...
sudo: Privilege escalation
Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo: Glenn Waller and neonsignal reported that sudo does not properly handle access control of the "sudoedit" pseudo-command...
LittleCMS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background LittleCMS, or short lcms, is a color management system for working with ICC profiles. It is used by many applications including GIMP and Firefox. Description RedHat reported a null-pointer dereference flaw while processing monochrome ICC profiles CVE-2009-0793. Chris Evans of Google...
ntp: Certificate validation error
Background ntp contains the client and daemon implementations for the Network Time Protocol. Description It has been reported that ntp incorrectly checks the return value of the EVPVerifyFinal, a vulnerability related to CVE-2008-5077 GLSA 200902-02. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this...
BIND: Incorrect signature verification
Background ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocol. Description BIND does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL functions to verify DSA CVE-2009-0025 and RSA CVE-2009-0265 certificates. Impact A remote attacker could bypass...
GnuTLS: Certificate validation error
Background GnuTLS is an open-source implementation of TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0. Description Martin von Gagern reported that the gnutlsx509verifycertificate function in lib/x509/verify.c trusts certificate chains in which the last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate. Impact A...
OpenOffice.org: Multiple 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 Two heap-based buffer overflows when processing WMF files CVE-2008-2237 and EMF files...
ClamAV: Multiple Denials of Service
Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Hanno boeck reported an error in libclamav/chmunpack.c when processing CHM files CVE-2008-1389. Other unspecified vulnerabilities were also reported, including a...
Apache: Denial of service
Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apache: Dustin Kirkland reported that the modssl module can leak memory when the client reports support for a compression algorithm CVE-2008-1678...
ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: Damian Put reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing PeSpin packed PE binaries CVE-2008-0314. Alin Rad Po...
OpenSSL: Remote execution of arbitrary code
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 Andy Polyakov reported a vulnerability in the OpenSSL toolkit, that is caused due to an unspecified...
MLDonkey: Privilege escalation
Background MLDonkey is a peer-to-peer filesharing client that connects to several different peer-to-peer networks, including Overnet and BitTorrent. Description The Gentoo MLDonkey ebuild adds a user to the system named "p2p" so that the MLDonkey service can run under a user with low privileges...
Poppler: Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities
Background Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. Description Poppler and Xpdf are vulnerable to an integer overflow in the StreamPredictor::StreamPredictor function, and a stack overflow in the StreamPredictor::getNextLine function. The original vulnerability...
Apache mod_jk: Directory traversal
Background Apache modjk is a connector for the Tomcat web server. Description Apache modjk decodes the URL within Apache before passing them to Tomcat, which decodes them a second time. Impact A remote attacker could browse a specially crafted URL on an Apache server running modjk, possibly gaini...
Xvid: Array indexing vulnerabilities
Background Xvid is a popular open source video codec licensed under the GPL. Description Trixter Jack discovered an array indexing error in the getintrablock function in the file src/bitstream/mbcoding.c. The getinterblockh263 and getinterblockmpeg functions in the same file were also reported as...
emul-linux-x86-java: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background emul-linux-x86-java is the 32 bit version of the Sun's J2SE Development Kit. Description Chris Evans of the Google Security Team has discovered an integer overflow in the ICC parser, and another vulnerability in the BMP parser. An unspecified vulnerability involving an "incorrect use o...
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...
Blender: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code
Background Blender is a 3D creation, animation and publishing program. Description Stefan Cornelius of Secunia Research discovered an insecure use of the "eval" function in kmzImportWithMesh.py. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Blender file .kmz or .kml,...
libwpd: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background libwpd is a library used to convert Wordperfect documents into other formats. Description libwpd contains heap-based overflows in two functions that convert WordPerfect document tables. In addition, it contains an integer overflow in a text-conversion function. Impact An attacker could...
CUPS: Denial of service
Background CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. Description CUPS does not properly handle partially-negotiated SSL connections. Upon receiving a partially-negotiated SSL connection, CUPS no longer accepts further incoming connections, as the initial connection...