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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...
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...
Vim, gVim: Remote execution of arbitrary code
Background Vim is an efficient, highly configurable improved version of the classic ‘vi’ text editor. gVim is the GUI version of Vim. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Vim and gVim. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker...
Zabbix: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Zabbix is software for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Zabbix. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges...
polkit: Heap-corruption on duplicate IDs
Background polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged processes communicating with privileged processes. Description A vulnerability was discovered in polkit’s polkitbackendactionpoolinit function due to duplicate action IDs in action descriptions. Impact Local attackers a...
cups-filters: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background cups-filters is an OpenPrinting CUPS Filters. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cups-filters. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted print job using cups-filters...
Perl: Denial of service
Background Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language. Description Sregmatch function lacks proper checks before passing arguments to atoi Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted input, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no...
Xfig: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Xfig is an interactive drawing tool. Description A stack-based buffer overflow and a stack consumption vulnerability have been found in Xfig. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution or a Denial of...
ModPlug XMMS Plugin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ModPlug XMMS Plugin is a library for playing MOD-like music files Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ModPlug XMMS Plugin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the...
KDirStat: Arbitrary command execution
Background KDirStat is a graphical disk usage utility for KDE. Description Missing escape of executable shell command in KDirStat can be used to insert malicious shell commands. Impact A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary shell command with the privileges of the process. Workaround...
Symfony: Information disclosure
Background Symfony is a professional, open-source PHP5 web development framework. Description Symfony does not properly sanitize input for upload requests. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted file upload request, possibly resulting in disclosure of sensitive information...
GnuPG, Libgcrypt: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Libgcrypt is a cryptographic library based on GnuPG. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GnuPG and Libgcrypt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for...
cpio: Arbitrary code execution
Background GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Description Cpio contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the rmtread function in lib/rtapelib.c. Impact A remote server could sending more data than was requested, related to archive filenames that contain a : colon character...
OpenVPN: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background OpenVPN is a multi-platform, full-featured SSL VPN solution. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenVPN. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to recover plaintext from an encrypted communication...
Quagga: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Quagga is a free routing daemon replacing Zebra supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Quagga. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution or a...
strongSwan: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongSwan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could use ECDSA to authenticate as another user with an invalid signature...
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...
Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...
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...
OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities
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 Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL: Timing differences for decryption are exposed by CBC...
Heimdal: Arbitrary code execution
Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. Description A boundary error in the "encryptkeyid" function in appl/telnet/libtelnet/encrypt.c of the telnet daemon and client could cause a buffer overflow. Impact An unauthenticated remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code...
Perl Safe module: Arbitrary Perl code injection
Background Safe is a Perl module to compile and execute code in restricted compartments. Description Unsafe code evaluation prevents the Safe module from properly restricting the code of implicitly called methods on implicitly blessed objects. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to load ...
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...
Avahi: Denial of service
Background Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Avahi. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service. Workaround There is no...
vsftpd: Denial of service
Background vsftpd is a very secure FTP daemon written with speed, size and security in mind. Description A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in vsftpd. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote authenticated attacker could cause a Denial of Servic...
Smarty: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Smarty is a template engine for PHP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smarty: The vendor reported that the modifier.regexreplace.php plug-in contains an input sanitation flaw related to the ASCII NUL character CVE-2008-1066. The vendor reported that the...
Ruby: Terminal Control Character Injection
Background Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It comes bundled with a HTTP server "WEBrick". Description Giovanni Pellerano, Alessandro Tanasi and Francesco Ongaro reported that WEBrick does not filter terminal control characters, for instanc...
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 Bulletin referenced below. Impact A remote attacker might entice...
aMule: Parameter injection
Background aMule is an eMule-like client for the eD2k and Kademlia networks, supporting multiple platforms. Description Sam Hocevar discovered that the aMule preview function does not properly sanitize file names. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to download a file with a specially...
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...
ISC DHCP: dhcpclient Remote execution of arbitrary code
Background ISC DHCP is the reference implementation of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol as specified in RFC 2131. Description The Mandriva Linux Engineering Team has reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the subnet-mask handling of dhclient. Impact A remote attacker might set up a rogu...
Cscope: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code. Description James Peach of Apple discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in cscope's handling of long file system paths CVE-2009-0148. Multiple stack-based buffer overflows were reported in the putstring function when processing a...
LittleCMS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background LittleCMS, or short lcms, is a color management system for working with ICC profiles. It is used by many applications including GIMP and Firefox. Description RedHat reported a null-pointer dereference flaw while processing monochrome ICC profiles CVE-2009-0793. Chris Evans of Google...
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...
cURL: Arbitrary file access
Background cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols. Description David Kierznowski reported that the redirect implementation accepts arbitrary Location values when CURLOPTFOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. Impact A remote attacker could possibly...
OpenSSL: Certificate validation error
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 The Google Security Team reported that several functions incorrectly check the result after calling the...
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...
enscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background enscript is a powerful ASCII to PostScript file converter. Description Two stack-based buffer overflows in the readspecialescape function in src/psgen.c have been reported. Ulf Harnhammar of Secunia Research discovered a vulnerability related to the "setfilename" command CVE-2008-3863,...
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...
PCRE: Buffer overflow
Background PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. GLib includes a copy of PCRE. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security team reported a heap-based buffer overflow when compiling regular expression patterns containing "Internal Option Settings" such as "?i ". Impact A remot...
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...
International Components for Unicode: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background International Components for Unicode is a set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. Description Will Drewry Google Security reported a vulnerability in the regular expression engine when using back references to capture \0...
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 ...
ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description iDefense reported an integer overflow vulnerability in the cliscanpe function when parsing Portable Executable PE files packed in the MEW format, that could be...
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...