flac123: Buffer overflow

Background flac123 is a command-line application for playing FLAC audio files. Description A possible buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the localvcentryparsevalue function in vorbiscomment.c. Impact An attacker could entice a user to play a specially crafted audio file, which cou...

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...

Macromedia Flash Player: Remote arbitrary code execution

Background The Macromedia Flash Player is a renderer for the popular SWF file type which is commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Description Mark Hills discovered some errors when interacting with a browser for keystrokes handling CVE-2007-2022...

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...

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...

PHP: Arbitary code execution

Background PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Description The sscanf PHP function contains an array boundary error that can be exploited to dereference a null pointer. This can possibly allow the...

fbida: Arbitrary command execution

Background fbida is a collection of image viewers and editors for the framebuffer console and X11. fbgs is a PostScript and PDF viewer for the linux framebuffer console. Description Toth Andras has discovered a typographic mistake in the "fbgs" script, shipped with fbida if the "fbcon" and "pdf"...

Xpdf, Poppler: Heap overflow

Background Xpdf is a PDF file viewer that runs under the X Window System. Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the Xpdf 3.0 code base. Description Dirk Mueller has reported a vulnerability in Xpdf. It is caused by a missing boundary check in the splash rasterizer engine when handling PDF...

XnView: Privilege escalation

Background XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter, distributed free for non-commercial use. Description Krzysiek Pawlik of Gentoo Linux discovered that the XnView package for IA32 used the DTRPATH field insecurely, causing the dynamic loader to search for shared libraries...

cURL: Off-by-one errors in URL handling

Background cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols. Description Stefan Esser from the Hardened-PHP Project has reported a vulnerability in cURL that allows for a local buffer overflow when cURL attempts to parse specially crafted URLs. The...

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...

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...

Net-SNMP: Insecure RPATH

Background Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement the Simple Network Management Protocol. Description James Cloos reported that Perl modules from the Net-SNMP package look for libraries in an untrusted location. This is due to a flaw in the Gentoo package, and not the Net-SNMP suit...

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...

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...

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...

Kaffeine, gxine: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow

Background Kaffeine and gxine are graphical front-ends for xine-lib multimedia library. Description KF of Secure Network Operations has discovered an overflow that occurs during the Content-Type header processing of Kaffeine. The vulnerable code in Kaffeine is reused from gxine, making gxine...

Netatalk: Insecure tempfile handling in etc2ps.sh

Background Netatalk is a kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, which allows Unix hosts to act as file, print, and time servers for Apple computers. It includes several script utilities, including etc2ps.sh. Description The etc2ps.sh script creates temporary files in...

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...

GTK+ 2, gdk-pixbuf: Multiple image decoding vulnerabilities

Background GTK+ GIMP Toolkit + is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. The GdkPixbuf library provides facilities for image handling. It is available as a standalone library as well as shipped with GTK+ 2. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the BMP image preprocessor...

Tomcat: Insecure installation

Background Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java Servlets and Java Server Pages. Description The Gentoo ebuild for Tomcat sets the ownership of the Tomcat init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but those scripts are executed with root privileges when the system is started...

Roundup: Filesystem access vulnerability

Background Roundup is a simple to use issue-tracking system with command-line, web, and e-mail interfaces. Description Improper handling of a specially crafted URL allows access to the server's filesystem, which could contain sensitive information. Impact An attacker could view files owned by the...

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...

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...

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...

libde265: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Open h.265 video codec implementation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libde265. 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...

JHead: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background JHead is an EXIF JPEG header manipulation tool. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in JHead. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround a...

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...

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...

Gitea: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Gitea is a painless self-hosted Git service. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Gitea. 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...

less: Denial of service

Background less is a pager and text file viewer. Description less suffered from a flaw in its terminal escape sequence handling which made its filtering incomplete. Impact Malicious input could clear the terminal output or otherwise manipulate it with faked interactions. Workaround There is no...

liblouis: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in liblouis. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is...

Expat: Denial of Service

Background Expat is a set of XML parsing libraries. Description In certain out-of-memory situations, Expat may free memory before it should, leading to a use-after-free. Impact A use-after-free can result in denial of service. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All...

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...

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...

OpenSC: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSC contains tools and libraries for smart cards. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

systemd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A system and service manager. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in systemd. 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...

Jinja: Denial of service

Background Jinja is a template engine written in pure Python. Description The ‘urlize’ filter in Jinja utilized an inefficient regular expression that could be exploited to consume excess CPU. Impact An attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition via crafted input to the ‘urlize’ Jinja...

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...

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 Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ClamAV. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause ClamAV to scan a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service...

Patch: Multiple vulnerabilities

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 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Patch. Please review the CVE identifiers reference...

Puppet Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Puppet Agent contains Puppet’s main code and all of the dependencies needed to run it, including Facter, Hiera, and bundled versions of Ruby and OpenSSL. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet Agent. Please review the references for details. Impact A remote...

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...

Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail. Please review upstream’s release notes below for...

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...

Libreswan: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Libreswan is a free software implementation of the most widely supported and standarized VPN protocol based on “IPsec” and the Internet Key Exchange “IKE”. Description The pluto IKE daemon in Libreswan, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service assertion...