Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Pidgin formerly Gaim is an instant messaging client for a variety of instant messaging protocols. It is based on the libpurple instant messaging library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin and the libpurple library: A participant to the TippingPoint ZDI...

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...

D-Bus: Denial of service

Background D-Bus is a daemon providing a framework for applications to communicate with one another. Description schelte reported that the dbussignaturevalidate function can trigger a failed assertion when processing a message containing a malformed signature. Impact A local user could send a...

MoinMoin: Privilege escalation

Background MoinMoin is an advanced and extensible Wiki Engine. Description It has been reported that the user form processing in the file userform.py does not properly manage users when using Access Control Lists or a non-empty superusers list. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this...

rsync: Execution of arbitrary code

Background rsync is a file transfer program to keep remote directories synchronized. Description Sebastian Krahmer of SUSE reported an integer overflow in the expanditemlist function in the file util.c which might lead to a heap-based buffer overflow when extended attribute xattr support is...

am-utils: Insecure temporary file creation

Background am-utils is a collection of utilities for use with the Berkeley Automounter. Description Tavis Ormandy discovered that, when creating temporary files, the 'expn' utility does not check whether the file already exists. Impact A local attacker could exploit the vulnerability via a symlin...

LIVE555 Media Server: Denial of service

Background LIVE555 Media Server is a set of libraries for multimedia streaming. Description Luigi Auriemma reported a signedness error in the parseRTSPRequestString function when processing short RTSP queries. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted RTSP query to the vulnerable...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description An integer overflow has been reported in the "cliscanpe" function in file libclamav/pe.c CVE-2008-0318. Another unspecified vulnerability has been reported in fil...

Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the popular SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Description Flash contains a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow GLSA 200711-30,...

OpenOffice.org: User-assisted arbitrary code execution

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 The HSQLDB engine, as used in Openoffice.org, does not properly enforce restrictions to...

IRC Services: Denial of service

Background IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay Chat networks. Description loverboy reported that the "defaultencrypt" function in file encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords. Impact A remote attacker could provide an overly long password to the...

nss_ldap: Information disclosure

Background nssldap is a Name Service Switch module which allows 'passwd', 'group' and 'host' database information to be pulled from LDAP. Description Josh Burley reported that nssldap does not properly handle the LDAP connections due to a race condition that can be triggered by multi-threaded...

CUPS: Memory corruption

Background CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. Description Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research discovered an off-by-one error in the ippReadIO function when handling Internet Printing Protocol IPP tags that might allow to overwrite one byte on the stack. Impact A...

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...

GD: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GD is a graphic library for fast image creation. Description Xavier Roche discovered an infinite loop in the gdPngReadData function when processing a truncated PNG file CVE-2007-2756. An integer overflow has been discovered in the gdImageCreateTrueColor function CVE-2007-3472. An error...

UFO2000: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background UFO2000 is a multi-player, turn-based tactical simulation. Description Five vulnerabilities were found: a buffer overflow in recvaddunit; a problem with improperly trusting user-supplied string information in decodestringmap; several issues with array manipulation via various commands...

Snort: Denial of service

Background Snort is a widely deployed intrusion detection program. Description Randy Smith, Christian Estan and Somesh Jha discovered that the rule matching algorithm of Snort can be exploited in a way known as a "backtracking attack" to perform numerous time-consuming operations. Impact A remote...

OpenOffice.org: EMF/WMF file handling 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 John Heasman of NGSSoftware has discovered integer overflows in the EMRPOLYPOLYGON and...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project. Description Mozilla Firefox improperly handles Script objects while they are being executed. Mozilla Firefox has also been found to be vulnerable to various possible buffer overflows. Lastly, the binary...

DokuWiki: Arbitrary command execution

Background DokuWiki is a wiki targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It does not use a database backend. Description "rgod" discovered that DokuWiki doesn't sanitize the X-FORWARDED-FOR HTTP header, allowing the injection of arbitrary contents - such as PHP commands - into a...

SquirrelMail: Cross-site scripting and IMAP command injection

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP protocols. Description SquirrelMail does not validate the rightframe parameter in webmail.php, possibly allowing frame replacement or cross-site scripting CVE-2006-0188. Martijn Brinkers and Scott Hughes...

CenterICQ: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background CenterICQ is a text-based instant messaging interface that supports multiple protocols. It includes the ktools library, which provides text-mode user interface controls. Description Gentoo developer Wernfried Haas discovered that when the "Enable peer-to-peer communications" option is...

Gnumeric: Heap overflow in the included PCRE library

Background The Gnumeric spreadsheet is a versatile application developed as part of the GNOME Office project. libpcre is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions. Description Gnumeric contains a private copy of libpcre which is subject to an integer overflow leading t...

Tor: Information disclosure

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description The Diffie-Hellman implementation of Tor fails to verify the cryptographic strength of keys which are used during handshakes. Impact By setting up a malicio...

Oops!: Remote code execution

Background Oops! is an advanced, multithreaded caching web proxy. Description A format string flaw has been detected in the myxlog function of the Oops! proxy, which is called by the passwdmysql and passwdpgsql module's auth functions. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP...

rxvt-unicode: Buffer overflow

Background rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt. Description Rob Holland of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that rxvt-unicode fails to properly check input length. Impact Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the...

uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability

Background uim is a simple, secure and flexible input method library. Description Takumi Asaki discovered that uim insufficiently checks environment variables. setuid/setgid applications linked against libuim could end up executing arbitrary code. This vulnerability only affects immodule-enabled ...

MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia. Description A security audit of the MediaWiki project discovered that MediaWiki is vulnerable to several cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks, and that the image deletion code doe...

Konversation: Various vulnerabilities

Background Konversation is a user-friendly IRC client for KDE. Description Wouter Coekaerts has discovered three vulnerabilities within Konversation: The Server::parseWildcards function, which is used by the "Quick Buttons", does not properly handle variable expansion CAN-2005-0129. Perl scripts...

KPdf, KOffice: More vulnerabilities in included Xpdf

Background KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. Description KPdf and KOffice both include Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple new integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200412-24. Impact An...

Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.8, including: Bug in DICOM dissection discovered by Bing could make Ethereal crash CAN 2004-1139. An invalid RTP timestamp could make Ethereal...

kfax: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kfax part of kdegraphics is the KDE fax file viewer. Description Than Ngo discovered that kfax contains a private copy of the TIFF library and is therefore subject to several known...

TWiki: Arbitrary command execution

Background TWiki is a Web-based groupware tool based around the concept of wiki pages that can be edited by anybody with a Web browser. Description The TWiki search function, which uses a shell command executed via the Perl backtick operator, does not properly escape shell metacharacters in the...

xine-lib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. Description xine-lib contains two stack-based overflows and one heap-based overflow. In the code reading VCD disc labels, the ISO disc label is copied into an unprotected stack buffer of fixed size...

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...

Qt: Image loader overflows

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE. Description There are several unspecified bugs in the QImage class which may cause crashes or allow execution of arbitrary code as the user running the Qt application. These bugs affect the PNG, XPM, BMP, GIF and JPEG image types. Impact ...

Gallery: Privilege escalation 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 There is a vulnerability in the Gallery photo album...

CVS: additional DoS and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities

Background CVS Concurrent Versions System is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server. Description A team audit of the CVS source code performed by Stefan Esser and Sebastian Krahmer resulted in the discovery of several remotely...

Pound format string vulnerability

Background Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end. It allows to distribute the load on several web servers and offers a SSL wrapper for web servers that do not support SSL directly. Description A format string flaw in the processing of syslog messages was discovered and...

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in neon 0.24.4 and earlier

Background neon provides an HTTP and WebDAV client library. Description There are multiple format string vulnerabilities in libneon which may allow a malicious WebDAV server to execute arbitrary code under the context of the process using libneon. Impact An attacker may be able to execute arbitra...

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...

rsync: exploitable heap overflow

Background rsync is a popular file transfer package used to synchronize the Portage tree. Description Rsync version 2.5.6 contains a vulnerability that can be used to run arbitrary code. The Gentoo infrastructure team has some reasonably good forensic evidence that this exploit may have been used...

Flatpak: Sandbox Escape

Background Flatpak is a Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Flatpak. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A malicious or compromised Flatpak app using persistent directories could read and wri...

PoDoFo: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background PoDoFo is a free portable C++ library to work with the PDF file format. Description Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All PoDoFo use...

mujs: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background mujs is an embeddable Javascript interpreter in C. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mujs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround...

FAAD2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background FAAD2 is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoder. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FAAD2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

MiniDLNA: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background MiniDLNA is a simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MiniDLNA. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

AtomicParsley: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background AtomicParsley is a command line program for manipulating iTunes-style metadata in MPEG4 files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in AtomicParsley. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers...

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...

Libtirpc: Denial of Service

Background Libtirpc is a port of Sun's Transport-Independent RPC library to Linux. Description Currently svcrun does not handle poll timeout and rendezvousrequest does not handle EMFILE error returned from accept2 as it used to. These two missing functionality were removed by commit b2c9430f46c4...