Bugzilla: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Bugzilla is a bug tracking system used to allow developers to more easily track outstanding bugs in products. Description The vulnerabilities identified in Bugzilla are as follows: Frederic Buclin and Gervase Markham discovered that input passed to various fields throughout Bugzilla we...

ncompress: Buffer Underflow

Background ncompress is a suite of utilities to create and extract Lempel-Ziff-Welch LZW compressed archives. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a static buffer underflow in ncompress. Impact An attacker could create a specially crafted LZW archive, that when...

PHP: Arbitary code execution

Background PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Description The sscanf PHP function contains an array boundary error that can be exploited to dereference a null pointer. This can possibly allow the...

Net::Server: Format string vulnerability

Background Net::Server is an extensible, generic Perl server engine. It is used by several Perl applications like Postgrey. Description The log function of Net::Server does not handle format string specifiers properly before they are sent to syslog. Impact By sending a specially crafted datastrea...

Courier MTA: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Courier MTA is an integrated mail and groupware server based on open protocols. Description Courier MTA has fixed a security issue relating to usernames containing the "=" character, causing high CPU utilization. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a speciall...

Kiax: Arbitrary code execution

Background Kiax is a graphical softphone supporting the IAX protocol Inter Asterisk eXchange, which allows PC users to make VoIP calls to Asterisk servers. Description The iaxnetread function in the iaxclient library fails to properly handle IAX2 packets with truncated full frames or mini-frames...

Asterisk: IAX2 video frame buffer overflow

Background Asterisk is an open source implementation of a telephone private branch exchange PBX. Description Asterisk fails to properly check the length of truncated video frames in the IAX2 channel driver which results in a buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...

Blender: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background Blender is an open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Description Damian Put has reported a flaw due to an integer overflow in the "getbhead" function, leading to a heap overflow when processing malformed ".blend"...

Webmin, Usermin: Format string vulnerability

Background Webmin is a web-based interface for Unix-like systems. Usermin is a simplified version of Webmin designed for use by normal users rather than system administrators. Description Jack Louis discovered that the Webmin and Usermin "miniserv.pl" web server component is vulnerable to a Perl...

phpMyAdmin: Local file inclusion and XSS vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web. Description Stefan Esser discovered that by calling certain PHP files directly, it was possible to workaround the grabglobals.lib.php security model and overwrite the $cfg configuration...

Qt: Buffer overflow in the included zlib library

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE. Description Qt links to a bundled vulnerable version of zlib when emerged with the zlib USE-flag disabled. This may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact By creating a specially crafted compressed data stream, attackers can overwrite data...

AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries: Buffer overflow

Background The x86 emulation base libraries for AMD64 emulate the x86 32-bit architecture on the AMD64 64-bit architecture. Description Earlier versions of emul-linux-x86-baselibs contain a vulnerable version of zlib, which may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact By creating a specially crafted...

GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu, EKG, libgadu: Remote code execution in Gadu library

Background GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu and EKG are instant messaging applications created to support Gadu Gadu instant messaging protocol. libgadu is a library that implements the client side of the Gadu-Gadu protocol. Description GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu, EKG and libgadu are vulnerable to an...

webapp-config: Insecure temporary file handling

Background webapp-config is a Gentoo Linux utility to help manage the installation of web-based applications. Description Eric Romang discovered webapp-config uses a predictable temporary filename while processing certain options, resulting in a race condition. Impact Successful exploitation of t...

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...

gdb: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background gdb is the GNU project's debugger, facilitating the analysis and debugging of applications. The BFD library provides a uniform method of accessing a variety of object file formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered an integer overflow in the B...

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...

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...

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...

KStars: Buffer overflow in fliccd

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. KStars is a desktop planetarium for KDE. It includes support for the Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface INDI. Description Erik Sjolund discovered a buffer overflow in fliccd which is pa...

rssh, scponly: Unrestricted command execution

Background rssh and scponly are two restricted shells, allowing only a few predefined commands. They are often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide access to remote users without providing any remote execution privileges. Description Jason Wies discovered that when receiving an authorized...

SquirrelMail: Encoded text XSS vulnerability

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 headers. Impact By enticing a user to read a...

Davfs2, lvm-user: Insecure tempfile handling

Background Davfs2 is a file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a local disk drive. lvm-user is a package providing userland utilities for LVM Logical Volume Management 1.x features. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found that Davfs2...

Portage, Gentoolkit: Temporary file vulnerabilities

Background Portage is Gentoo's package management tool. The dispatch-conf utility allows for easy rollback of configuration file changes and automatic updates of configurations files never modified by users. Gentoolkit is a collection of Gentoo specific administration scripts, one of which is the...

Squid: Remote DoS vulnerability

Background Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features. Description A parsing error exists in t...

SnipSnap: HTTP response splitting

Background SnipSnap is a user friendly content management system with features such as wiki and weblog. Description SnipSnap contains various HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities that could potentially compromise the sites data. Some of these attacks include web cache poisoning, cross-user...

Webmin, Usermin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Usermin

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-mail. The Usermin functionality, including webmail, is also...

gzip: Insecure creation of temporary files

Background gzip GNU zip is popular compression program. The included gzexe utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them automatically uncompress and execute when you run them. Description The script gzexe included with gzip contains a bug in the code that handles tempfile...

ClamAV RAR Archive Remote Denial Of Service 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...

Libxml2 URI Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Background Description Yuuichi Teranishi discovered a flaw in libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.6. When the libxml2 library fetches a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, libxml2 uses parsing routines that can overflow a buffer caused by improper bounds checking if they are passed a URL longer than 4096...

Libnids: remote code execution vulnerability

Background Libnids is a component of a network intrusion detection system. Description There is a bug in the part of libnids code responsible for TCP reassembly. The flaw probably allows remote code execution. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code. Workaround There is no...

HylaFAX: Remote code exploit in hylafax

Background HylaFAX is a popular client-server fax package. Description During a code review of the hfaxd server, the SuSE Security Team discovered a format bug condition that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user. However, the bug cannot be triggered in the default...

LIVE555 Media Server: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background LIVE555 Media Server is a set of libraries for multimedia streaming. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LIVE555 Media Server. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

GNU Coreutils: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Background The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the Coreutils "split" program that can lead to a heap buffer overflow and possibly arbitrary code execution. Impact Please...

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...

rsync: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background rsync is a server and client utility that provides fast incremental file transfers. It is used to efficiently synchronize files between hosts and is used by emerge to fetch Gentoo's Portage tree. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in rsync. Please review the CVE...

Setuptools: Denial of Service

Background Setuptools is a manager for Python packages. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Setuptools. See the impact field. Impact An inefficiency in a regular expression may end in a denial of service if an user is fetching malicious HTML from a package in PyPI or a custom...

Pillow: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The friendly PIL fork. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pillow. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution...

Opera: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Opera. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no know...

BlueZ: Privilege Escalation

Background BlueZ is the canonical bluetooth tools and system daemons package for Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BlueZ. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker may inject unauthenticated keystrokes via Bluetooth, leadi...

USBView: root privilege escalation via insecure polkit settings

Background USBView is a tool to display the topology of devices on the USB bus. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in usbview. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact USBView allows some local users e.g., ones logged in via SSH to execute arbitrary code ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

schroot: Denial of Service

Background schroot is a utility to execute commands in a chroot environment. Description schroot is unecessarily permissive in rules regarding chroot and session names. Impact A crafted chroot or session name can break the internal state of the schroot service, leading to denial of service...

X.Org X server, XWayland: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org X server and XWayland. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

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...

libmcpp: Denial of service

Background libmcpp is a portable C/C++ preprocessor. Description A buffer overflow and an out-of-bounds read vulnerability have been discovered in libmcpp, which could be exploited for denial of service. Impact An attacker that can provide crafted input to libmcpp could achieve denial of service...