c-icap: Denial of service

Background c-icap is an implementation of an ICAP server. It can be used with HTTP proxies that support the ICAP protocol to implement content adaptation and filtering services. Description c-icap contains a flaw in the parserequest function of request.c that may allow a remote denial of service...

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...

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...

X.Org X Server: Privilege escalation

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description The "LogVHdrMessageVerb" function in log.c contains a format string vulnerability. NOTE: Exposure to this vulnerability is reduced in Gentoo due to X.Org X Server being built with...

libxml2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. Description The "xmlXPtrEvalXPtrPart" function in xpointer.c contains an off-by-one error. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to open a specially crafted XML document with an...

mount-cifs: Multiple vulnerabilites

Background mount-cifs is the cifs filesystem mount helper split from Samba. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mount-cifs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact The vulnerabilities allow local users to cause a denial of service mtab...

ConnMan: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ConnMan provides a daemon for managing Internet connections. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ConnMan: Errors in inet.c and rtnl.c prevent ConnMan from checking the origin of netlink messages CVE-2012-2320. ConnMan does not properly check for shell escapes when...

Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Adobe Reader formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Adobe Reader. For further information please consult the CVE entries and the Adobe Security Bulletins referenced below. Impact A remote attacker might entic...

acpid: Denial of service

Background acpid is a daemon for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI. Description The acpid daemon allows opening a large number of UNIX sockets without closing them, triggering an infinite loop. Impact Remote attackers can cause a Denial of Service CPU consumption and connectivit...

PyCrypto: Execution of arbitrary code

Background PyCrypto is the Python Cryptography Toolkit. Description Mike Wiacek of the Google Security Team reported a buffer overflow in the ARC2 module when processing a large ARC2 key length. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to decrypt an ARC2 stream in an...

Bacula: Information disclosure

Background Bacula is a network based backup suite. Description Matthijs Kooijman reported that the "makecatalogbackup" script uses the MySQL password as a command line argument when invoking other programs. Impact A local attacker could list the processes on the local machine when the script is...

OpenSSL: Denial of service

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 Ossi Herrala and Jukka Taimisto of Codenomicon discovered two vulnerabilities: A double free call in the...

KDE start_kdeinit: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. startkdeinit is a wrapper for kdeinit. Description Vulnerabilities have been reported in the processing of user-controlled data by startkdeinit, which is setuid root by default. Impact A loca...

SILC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol Toolkit is a software development kit for use in clients, SILC Server is a communication server, and SILC Client is an IRSSI-based text client. Description Nathan G. Grennan reported a boundary error in SILC Toolkit within the...

PHP Toolkit: Data disclosure and Denial of service

Background PHP Toolkit is a utility to manage parallel installations of PHP within Gentoo. It is executed by the PHP ebuilds at setup. Description Toni Arnold, David Sveningsson, Michal Bartoszkiewicz, and Joseph reported that php-select does not quote parameters passed to the "tr" command, which...

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast Web browser that is available free of charge. Description David Bloom reported two vulnerabilities where plug-ins CVE-2007-6520 and Rich text editing CVE-2007-6522 could be used to allow cross domain scripting. Alexander Klink Cynops GmbH discovered an issue with TLS...

Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Lookup is a search interface to books and dictionnaries for Emacs. Description Tatsuya Kinoshita reported that the ndeb-binary function does not handle temporay files correctly. Impact A local attacker could use a symlink attack to overwrite files with the privileges of the user runnin...

libpng: Multiple Denials of Service

Background libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG images. Description An off-by-one error when handling ICC profile chunks in the pngsetiCCP function was discovered CVE-2007-5266. George Cook and Jeff Phillips reported several errors in pngrtran.c, the use of logical...

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...

XnView: Stack-based buffer overflow

Background XnView is software to view and convert graphics files. XPixMap XPM is a simple ascii-based graphics format. Description XnView is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow while processing an XPM file with an overly long section string greater than 1024 bytes. Impact An attacker coul...

Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation

Background Blackdown provides implementations of the Java Development Kit JDK and the Java Runtime Environment JRE. Description Chris Evans has discovered multiple buffer overflows in the Sun JDK and the Sun JRE possibly related to various AWT and font layout functions. Tom Hawtin has discovered ...

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...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla Project. Description Georgi Guninski reported a possible integer overflow in the code handling text/enhanced or text/richtext MIME emails. Additionally, various researchers reported errors in the JavaScript engi...

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...

Nexuiz: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Nexuiz is a multi-player FPS game which uses a modified version of the Quake 1 engine. Description Nexuiz fails to correctly validate input within "clientcommands". There is also a failure to correctly handle connection attempts from remote hosts. Impact Using a specially crafted...

ImageMagick: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background ImageMagick is a free software suite to manipulate, convert, and create many image formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a stack and heap buffer overflow in the GIMP XCF Image decoder and multiple heap and integer overflows in the SUN bitmap decoder...

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...

MySQL: Information leakage

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description The processing of the COMTABLEDUMP command by a MySQL server fails to properly validate packets that arrive from the client via a network socket. Impact By crafting specific malicious packets an attacker cou...

Ruby: Denial of service

Background Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It comes bundled with HTTP "WEBrick" and XMLRPC server objects. Description Ruby uses blocking sockets for WEBrick and XMLRPC servers. Impact An attacker could send large amounts of data to an...

Sendmail: Race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals

Background Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent MTA. Description ISS discovered that Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals. Impact An attacker could exploit this via certain crafted timing conditions. Workaround There is no known workaround at thi...

IMAP Proxy: Format string vulnerabilities

Background IMAP Proxy also known as up-imapproxy proxies IMAP transactions between an IMAP client and an IMAP server. Description Steve Kemp discovered two format string errors in IMAP Proxy. Impact A remote attacker could design a malicious IMAP server and entice someone to connect to it using...

WordPress: SQL injection vulnerability

Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. Description Patrik Karlsson reported that WordPress 1.5.2 makes use of an insufficiently filtered User Agent string in SQL queries related to comments posting. This vulnerability was already fixed in the...

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...

KPdf: Heap based overflow

Background KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. Description KPdf includes Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Dirk Mueller discovered that the Xpdf code is vulnerable a heap based overflow in the splash rasterizer engine. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a...

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...

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...

Xpdf, GPdf, CUPS, Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Xpdf and GPdf are PDF file viewers that run under the X Window System. Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf code. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler. It makes use of Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Description infamous41md discovered that...

Scorched 3D: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Scorched 3D is a clone of the classic "Scorched Earth" DOS game, adding features like a 3D island environment and Internet multiplayer capabilities. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered multiple flaws in the Scorched 3D game server, including a format string vulnerability and several...

Python: Heap overflow in the included PCRE library

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. The "re" Python module provides regular expression functions. Description The "re" Python module makes use of a private copy of libpcre which is subject to an integer overflow leading to a heap...

phpLDAPadmin: Authentication bypass

Background phpLDAPadmin is a web-based LDAP client allowing to easily manage LDAP servers. Description Alexander Gerasiov discovered a flaw in login.php preventing the application from validating whether anonymous bind has been disabled in the target LDAP server configuration. Impact Anonymous...

pstotext: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background pstotext is a program that works with GhostScript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files. Description Max Vozeler reported that pstotext calls the GhostScript interpreter on untrusted PostScript files without specifying the -dSAFER option. Impact An attacker could craft a...

PHP: Script injection through XML-RPC

Background PHP is a general-purpose scripting language widely used to develop web-based applications. It can run inside a web server using the modphp module or the CGI version of PHP, or can run stand-alone in a CLI. Description James Bercegay has discovered that the XML-RPC implementation in PHP...

cpio: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background cpio is a file archival tool which can also read and write tar files. Description A vulnerability has been found in cpio that can potentially allow a cpio archive to extract its files to an arbitrary directory of the creator's choice. Impact An attacker could create a malicious cpio...

HT Editor: Multiple buffer overflows

Background HT is a hex editor, designed to help analyse and modify executable files. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team discovered an integer overflow in the ELF parser, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. The vendor has reported that an unrelated buffer overflow has...

Rootkit Hunter: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Rootkit Hunter is a scanning tool to detect rootkits, backdoors and local exploits on a local machine. Rootkit Hunter uses downloaded data files to check file integrity. These files are updated via the checkupdate.sh script. Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen and Tavis Ormandy of th...

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...

telnet-bsd: Multiple buffer overflows

Background telnet-bsd provides a command line telnet client which is used for remote login using the telnet protocol. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the envoptadd function of telnet-bsd, where a response requiring excessive escaping can cause a heap-based buffer overflow...

Python: Arbitrary code execution through SimpleXMLRPCServer

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. Description Graham Dumpleton discovered that XML-RPC servers making use of the SimpleXMLRPCServer library that use the registerinstance method to register an object without a dispatch method ar...