Ettercap: Format string vulnerability

Background Ettercap is a suite of tools for content filtering, sniffing and man in the middle attacks on a LAN. Description The cursesmsg function of Ettercap's Ncurses-based user interface insecurely implements formatted printing. Impact A remote attacker could craft a malicious network flow tha...

ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Both ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick are collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the XWD decoder of ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick when...

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...

phpMyAdmin: Insecure SQL script installation

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. phpMyAdmin uses a pma MySQL user to control the linked-tables infrastructure. The SQL install script sets the initial password for the pma user. Description The phpMyAdmin...

Heimdal: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5 that includes a telnet client program. Description Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the slcaddreply and envoptadd functions have been discovered by Gael Delalleau in the telnet client in Heimdal. Impact Successful exploitation would...

eGroupWare: XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities

Background eGroupWare is a suite of web-based group applications including calendar, address book, messenger and email. Description Multiple SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been found in several eGroupWare modules. Impact An attacker could possibly use the SQL injectio...

Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Firefox: Vladimir V...

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...

Squid: Denial of Service through DNS responses

Background Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix-like systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other protocols, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features. Description Handling of certa...

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...

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...

Exim: Two buffer overflows

Background Exim is an highly configurable message transfer agent MTA developed at the University of Cambridge. Description Buffer overflows have been found in the hostaton function CAN-2005-0021 as well as in the spabase64tobits function CAN-2005-0022, which is part of the SPA authentication code...

pdftohtml: Vulnerabilities in included Xpdf

Background pdftohtml is a utility to convert PDF files to HTML or XML formats. It makes use of Xpdf code to decode PDF files. Description Xpdf is vulnerable to integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200412-24. Impact An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF file,...

Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple remote vulnerabilities

Background The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the argument parsers of the 'partial' and 'fetch' commands of the Cyrus IMAP Server CAN-2004-1012, CAN-2004-1013. There are also buffer overflows in t...

Gaim: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handls a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description A possible buffer overflow exists in the code processing MSN SLP messages CAN-2004-0891. memcpy was used without validating the size of the buffer, and an incorrect buffe...

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...

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 ...

gv: Exploitable Buffer Overflow

Background gv is a PostScript and PDF viewer for X which provides a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter. Description gv contains a buffer overflow vulnerability where an unsafe sscanf call is used to interpret PDF and PostScript files. Impact By enticing a user to view a malformed PDF ...

Linux Kernel: Remote DoS vulnerability with IPTables TCP Handling

Background The Linux kernel is responsible for managing the core aspects of a GNU/Linux system, providing an interface for core system applications as well as providing the essential structure and capability to access hardware that is needed for a running system. Description An attacker can utili...

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...

Mailman: Member password disclosure vulnerability

Background Mailman is a python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface. Description Mailman contains an unspecified vulnerability in the handling of request emails. Impact By sending a carefully crafted email request to the mailman server an attacker could obtain member password...

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...

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...

Roundcube: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Free and open source webmail software for the masses, written in PHP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Roundcube. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround Ther...

matio: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background matio is a library for reading and writing matlab files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in matio. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

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...

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 ...

Nettle: Denial of Service

Background Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in almost any context: In cryptographic toolkits for object-oriented languages, such as C++, Python, or Pike, in applications like lsh or GnuPG, or even in kernel space. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been...

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...

Dovecot: Privilege Escalation

Background Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Dovecot. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact When two passdb configuration entries exist in Dovecot configuration, which have the same driver and...

man-db: privilege escalation

Background man-db is a man replacement that utilizes BerkeleyDB instead of flat files. Description A root privilege escalation through setuid executable and cron job has been discovered in man-db. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A local user with access to th...

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...

D-Bus: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background D-Bus is a daemon providing a framework for applications to communicate with one another. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in D-Bus. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

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...

LibreOffice: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background LibreOffice is a powerful office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools let you unleash your creativity and grow your productivity. Description LibreOffice links using the vnd.libreoffice.command scheme could be constructed to call internal macros with arbitrary arguments. Which...

virglrenderer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A virtual 3D GPU library, that allows the guest operating system to use the host GPU to accelerate 3D rendering. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in virglrenderer. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenc...

Mrxvt: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background Mrxvt is a multi-tabbed rxvt clone with XFT, transparent background and CJK support. Description Mrxvt mishandles certain escape sequences, some of which allow for shell command execution. Impact An attacker with sufficient access to write arbitrary text to the Mrxvt terminal could...

isync: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background isync is an IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in isync. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaroun...

GDK-PixBuf: Denial of service

Background GDK-PixBuf is an image loading library for GTK+. Description It was discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle certain GIF images. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted GIF image in an application linked against GDK-PixBuf library,...

Qt GUI: Buffer overflow

Background The GUI module and platform plugins for the Qt5 framework. Description It was discovered that Qt GUI’s XBM parser did not properly handle X BitMap files. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution Al...

Bubblewrap: Arbitrary code execution

Background Bubblewrap is an unprivileged sandboxing tool namespaces-powered chroot-like solution. Description Bubblewrap misuses temporary directories in /tmp as a mount point. Impact This flaw may allow possible execution of code or prevention of running Bubblewrap. Workaround There is no known...

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...

GnuTLS: DTLS protocol regression

Background GnuTLS is an Open Source implementation of the TLS and SSL protocols. Description It was discovered that DTLS client did not contribute any randomness to the DTLS negotiation. Impact Please review the referenced advisory for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...

KDE KConfig: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Provides an advanced configuration system. Description A vulnerability was discovered in KDE KConfig’s handling of .desktop and .directory files. Impact An attacker could entice a user to execute a specially crafted .desktop or .directory file possibly resulting in execution of arbitra...

GKSu: Arbitrary command execution

Background A library that provides a Gtk+ frontend to su and sudo. Description A vulnerability was discovered in GKSu’s gksu-run-helper. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary commands. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution Gentoo has discontinued support for GKSu a...

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...

Nagios: Privilege escalation

Background Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description A vulnerability in Nagios was discovered due to the improper handling of configuration files which can be owned by a non-root user. Impact A local attacker can escalate privileges to root by leveraging...

PostgreSQL: SQL injection

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description A vulnerability was discovered in PostgreSQL’s pgupgrade and pgdump. Impact An attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted trigger definition, can execute arbitrary SQL statements wit...

Evince: Command injection

Background Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats, including PostScript. Description A vulnerability was discovered in Evince’s handling of filenames while printing PDF files. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing the user to process a specially crafted file, could execute...

PySAML2: Security bypass

Background PySAML2 is a pure python implementation of SAML2 Description It was found that the PySAML2 relies on an assert statement to check the user’s password. A python optimizations might remove this assertion. Impact A remote attacker could bypass security restrictions and access any...