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...

libsdl2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libsdl2. Please review the CVE...

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...

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...

BladeEnc: Buffer overflow

Background BladeEnc is an mp3 encoder. Description A crafted file could cause a buffer overflow in the iterationloop function in BladeEnc. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted using BladeEnc, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges...

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...

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...

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...

libmicrodns: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libmicrodns is an mDNS library, focused on being simple and cross-platform. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libmicrodns. Please review the CVE identifiers and the upstream advisory referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

Exim: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background Exim is a message transfer agent MTA designed to be a a highly configurable, drop-in replacement for sendmail. Description It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled certain string operations. Impact A remote attacker, able to connect to a vulnerable Exim instance, could possibly...

EDE: Privilege escalation

Background A package that simplifies the task of creating, building, and debugging large programs with Emacs. It provides some of the features of an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, in Emacs. Description An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in EDE. Impact A local...

TigerVNC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background TigerVNC is a high-performance VNC server/client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in TigerVNC. Please review the referenced CVE Identifiers for details. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is...

LibXfont, LibXfont2: Arbitrary file access

Background X.Org Xfont library. Description It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly followed symlinks when opening font files. Impact A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause the X server to access arbitrary files, including special device files. Workaround There is no known...

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...

libfpx: Denial of service

Background A library for manipulating FlashPIX images. Description A double free vulnerability has been discovered in the FreeAllMemory function in jpeg/dectile.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted FPX image using an application linked against libfpx, possib...

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...

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...

sudo: Information disclosure

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Access to commands may also be granted on a range to hosts. Description sudo does not handle the TZ environment variable properly. Impact A local attacker may be able to read arbitrary files or...

grep: Denial of service

Background grep is the GNU regular expression matcher. Description A heap buffer overrun has been fixed in the bmexectrans function in kwset.c. Impact A local user can cause Denial of Service. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All grep users should upgrade to the...

CouchDB: Denial of service

Background Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database. Description CouchDB does not properly sanitize the count parameter for Universally Unique Identifiers UUID requests. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to CouchDB,...

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...

libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF Tagged Image File Format images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libTIFF. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

Gajim: Information disclosure

Background Gajim is a Jabber/XMPP client which uses GTK+. Description The sslverifycallback function in tlsnb.py does not properly validate SSL certificates, causing any certificate to be accepted as valid as long as the root CA is valid. Impact A remote attacker might employ a specially crafted...

LibRaw, libkdcraw: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras. libkdcraw is a wrapper for LibRaw within KDE. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibRaw and libkdcraw. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remot...

Xlockmore: Denial of service

Background Xlockmore is just another screensaver application for X. Description A Denial of Service flaw was found in the way Xlockmore performed the passing of arguments to the underlying localtime call, when the ‘dlock’ mode was used. Impact A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of...

PyCrypto: Weak key generation

Background PyCrypto is the Python Cryptography Toolkit. Description An error in the generate function in ElGamal.py causes PyCrypto to generate weak ElGamal keys. Impact A remote attacker might be able to derive private keys. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All...

tftp-hpa: Remote buffer overflow

Background tftp-hpa is the port of the OpenBSD TFTP server. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in tftp-hpa. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact The vulnerability might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Workaround There is no known...

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...

Asterisk: Denial of service

Background Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit. Description A vulnerability has been found in Asterisk's handling of certain encrypted streams where the ressrtp module has been loaded but video support has not been enabled. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially craft...

Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open source web browser project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review the CVE identifiers and release notes referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web site usi...

Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open source web browser project. V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and V8. Please review the CVE identifiers and release notes referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent...

X.Org X Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description vladz reported the following vulnerabilities in the X.Org X server: The X.Org X server follows symbolic links when trying to access the lock file for a X display, showing a predictable...

BIND: Denial of service

Background ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocol. Description Matthias Urlichs reported that the dnsdbfindrdataset function fails when the prerequisite section of the dynamic update message contains a record of type "ANY" and where at...

sudo: Privilege escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description Harald Koenig discovered that sudo incorrectly handles group specifications in RunasAlias and related entries when a group is specified in the list using %group syntax, to allow a...

GNU ed: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background GNU ed is a basic line editor. red is a restricted version of ed that does not allow shell command execution. Description Alfredo Ortega from Core Security Technologies reported a heap-based buffer overflow in the stripescapes function when processing overly long filenames. Impact A...

Postfix: Local privilege escalation vulnerability

Background Postfix is Wietse Venema's mailer that attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Description Sebastian Krahmer of SuSE has found that Postfix allows to deliver mail to root-owned symlinks in an insecure manner under...

FreeType: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background FreeType is a font rendering library for TrueType Font TTF and Printer Font Binary PFB. Description Regenrecht reported multiple vulnerabilities in FreeType via iDefense: An integer overflow when parsing values in the Private dictionary table in a PFB file, leading to a heap-based buff...

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe. Description SUSE reported that the "acroread" wrapper script does not create temporary files in a secure manner when handling SSL certificates CVE-2008-0883. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrar...

SplitVT: Privilege escalation

Background SplitVT is a program for splitting terminals into two shells. Description Mike Ashton reported that SplitVT does not drop group privileges before executing the xprop utility. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain the "utmp" group privileges. Workaround There ...