Mutt: Buffer overflow

Background Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client. Description TAKAHASHI Tamotsu has discovered that Mutt contains a boundary error in the "browsegetnamespace" function in browse.c, which can be triggered when receiving an overly long namespace from an IMAP server. Impact A...

OpenLDAP: Buffer overflow

Background OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related applications and development tools. It includes slapd the standalone LDAP server, slurpd the standalone LDAP replication server, various LDAP libraries, utilities and example clients. Description slurpd contains a buffer overflow when reading very lo...

PAM-MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PAM-MySQL is a PAM module used to authenticate users against a MySQL backend. Description A flaw in handling the result of pamgetitem as well as further unspecified flaws were discovered in PAM-MySQL. Impact By exploiting the mentioned flaws an attacker can cause a Denial of Service an...

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...

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...

Macromedia Flash Player: Remote arbitrary code execution

Background The Macromedia Flash Player is a renderer for the popular SWF filetype which is commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Description When handling a SWF file, the Macromedia Flash Player incorrectly validates the frame type identifier store...

Webmin, Usermin: Remote code execution through PAM authentication

Background Webmin and Usermin are web-based system administration consoles. Webmin allows an administrator to easily configure servers and other features. Usermin allows users to configure their own accounts, execute commands, and read e-mails. Description Keigo Yamazaki discovered that the...

X.Org: Heap overflow in pixmap allocation

Background X.Org is X.Org Foundation's Public Implementation of the X Window System. Description X.Org is missing an integer overflow check during pixmap memory allocation. Impact An X.Org user could exploit this issue to make the X server execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Workarou...

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...

Compress::Zlib: Buffer overflow

Background The Compress::Zlib is a Perl module which provides an interface to the zlib compression library. Description Compress::Zlib 1.34 contains a local vulnerable version of zlib, which may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact By creating a specially crafted compressed data stream, attackers ca...

MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia. Description MediaWiki fails to escape a parameter in the page move template correctly. Impact By enticing a user to visit a specially crafted URL, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Adobe Acrobat Reader is a utility used to view PDF files. Description A buffer overflow has been discovered in the UnixAppOpenFilePerform function, which is called when Adobe Acrobat Reader tries to open a file with the "\Filespec" tag. Impact By enticing a user to open a specially...

Gaim: Denial of Service and buffer overflow vulnerabilties

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Stu Tomlinson discovered that Gaim is vulnerable to a remote stack based buffer overflow when receiving messages in certain protocols, like Jabber and SILC, with a very...

RealPlayer, Helix Player: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Helix Player is the Open Source version of RealPlayer. Description Piotr Bania has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in RealPlayer and Helix Player when processing malicious RAM files. Impa...

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,...

Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Specially crafted SNAC packets sent by other instant-messaging users can cause Gaim to loop endlessly CAN-2005-0472. Malformed HTML code could lead to invalid memory...

PowerDNS: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture. Description A vulnerability has been reported in the DNSPacket::expand method of dnspacket.cc. Impact An attacker could cause a temporary Denial of Service by sending a random stream...

ClamAV: Multiple issues

Background ClamAV is an antivirus toolkit. It includes a multi-threaded daemon and a command line scanner. Description ClamAV fails to properly scan ZIP files with special headers CAN-2005-0133 and base64 encoded images in URLs. Impact By sending a base64 encoded image file in a URL an attacker...

Gallery: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on other servers. Description Rafel Ivgi has discovered a cross-site scripting...

SquirrelMail: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP and can optionally be installed with SQL support. Description SquirrelMail fails to properly sanitize certain strings when decoding specially-crafted strings, which can lead to PHP file inclusion and XSS...

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...

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...

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...

phpGroupWare: XSS vulnerability in wiki module

Background phpGroupWare is a web-based suite of group applications including calendar, todo-list, addressbook, email, wiki, news headlines, and a file manager. Description Due to an input validation error, the wiki module in the phpGroupWare suite is vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks...

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...

Horde-IMP: Input validation vulnerability for Internet Explorer users

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 so that it is not safe for users of Internet Explorer when...

ClamAV VirusEvent parameter vulnerability

Background From http://www.clamav.net/ : "Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers attachment scanning. The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for...

Multiple remote buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Courier

Background Courier MTA is a multiprotocol mail server suite that provides webmail, mailing lists, IMAP, and POP3 services. Courier-IMAP is a standalone server that gives IMAP access to local mailboxes. Description The vulnerabilities have been found in the 'SHIFTJIS' converter in 'shiftjis.c' and...

Apache: multiple buffer overflows

Background The Apache HTTP Server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. Description Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in modalias and modrewrite allow attackers who can create or edit configuration files including .htaccess files, to cause a denial of service and execute...

yt-dlp: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in yt-dlp. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

nghttp2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Nghttp2 is an implementation of HTTP/2 and its header compression algorithm HPACK in C. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in nghttp2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

QtWebEngine: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background QtWebEngine is a library for rendering dynamic web content in Qt5 and Qt6 C++ and QML applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QtWebEngine. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

XZ utils: Backdoor in release tarballs

Background XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with a high compression ratio. Description A backdoor has been discovered in XZ utils. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Our current understanding of the backdoor is that is does not affect...

Tox: Remote Code Execution

Background Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in btrbk. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A stack-based buffer overflow allows remote attackers ...

KTextEditor: Arbitrary Local Code Execution

Background Framework providing a full text editor component for KDE. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in KTextEditor. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact KTextEditor executes binaries without user interaction in a few cases, e.g. KTextEditor will...

AIDE: Root Privilege Escalation

Background AIDE Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment is a file and directory integrity checker. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config files. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several...

LinuxCIFS utils: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The LinuxCIFS utils are a collection of tools for managing Linux CIFS Client Filesystems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LinuxCIFS utils. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A stack-based buffer overflow when parsing the...

Requests: Information Leak

Background Requests is an HTTP library for human beings. Description Requests is vulnerable to potentially leaking Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers, specifically during redirects to an HTTPS origin with authentication credentials encoded into the URL. Impact Users' proxy...

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...

Open Asset Import Library ("assimp"): Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Open Asset Import Library is a library to import and export various 3d-model-formats including scene-post-processing to generate missing render data. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Fetchmail, the worst of which could result in email disclosure to third...

GraphicsMagick: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background GraphicsMagick is a collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating images in many major formats. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GraphicsMagick. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Pleas...

Puma: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Puma is a simple, fast, threaded, and highly concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puma. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

libexif: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif metadata from images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libexif. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

Thin: Privilege escalation

Background Thin is a small and fast Ruby web server. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s Thin ebuild does not properly handle its temporary runtime directories. This only affects OpenRC systems, as the flaw was exploitable via the init script. Impact A local attacker could cause denial of...

Zsh: Privilege escalation

Background A shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. Description It was discovered that Zsh was insecure dropping privileges when unsetting PRIVILEGED option. Impact An attacker could escalate privileges. Workaround There is no known workaround at th...

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...

Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dovecot. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details Workaround There is no known...

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...

runC: Privilege escalation

Background RunC is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. Description A vulnerability was discovered in runC that allows additional container processes via ‘runc exec’ to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the...