Motor: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Motor is a text mode based programming environment for Linux, with a syntax highlighting feature, project manager, makefile generator, gcc and gdb front-end, and CVS integration. Description In November 2005, Zone-H Research reported a boundary error in the ktools library in the...

SHOUTcast server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SHOUTcast server is a streaming audio server. Description The SHOUTcast server is vulnerable to a file disclosure when the server receives a specially crafted GET request. Furthermore it also fails to sanitize the input passed to the "Description", "URL", "Genre", "AIM", and "ICQ"...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation web browser from the Mozilla project. Description A number of vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Firefox. For details please consult the references below. Impact By enticing the user to visit a malicious website, a remote attacker can...

shadow: Privilege escalation

Background shadow provides a set of utilities to deal with user accounts. Description When the mailbox is created in useradd, the "open" function does not receive the three arguments it expects while OCREAT is present, which leads to random permissions on the created file, before fchmod is...

zgv, xzgv: Heap overflow

Background xzgv and zgv are picture viewing utilities with a thumbnail based file selector. Description Andrea Barisani of Gentoo Linux discovered xzgv and zgv allocate insufficient memory when rendering images with more than 3 output components, such as images using the YCCK or CMYK colour space...

zoo: Buffer overflow

Background zoo is a file archiving utility for maintaining collections of files, written by Rahul Dhesi. Description zoo is vulnerable to a new buffer overflow due to insecure use of the strcpy function when trying to create an archive from certain directories or filenames. Impact An attacker cou...

Xpdf, GPdf, CUPS, Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Xpdf and GPdf are PDF file viewers that run under the X Window System. Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf code. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler. It makes use of Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Description infamous41md discovered that...

uw-imap: Remote buffer overflow

Background uw-imap is the University of Washington's IMAP and POP server daemons. Description Improper bounds checking of user supplied data while parsing IMAP mailbox names can lead to overflowing the stack buffer. Impact Successful exploitation requires an authenticated IMAP user to request a...

Webmin, Usermin: Remote code execution through PAM authentication

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-mails. Description Keigo Yamazaki discovered that the...

Ruby: Arbitrary command execution through XML-RPC

Background Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. XML-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol encoded in XML. Description Nobuhiro IMAI reported that an invalid default value in "utils.rb" causes the security protections of the XML-RPC server to...

Tor: Information disclosure

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description A bug in Tor allows attackers to view arbitrary memory contents from an exit server's process space. Impact A remote attacker could exploit the memory...

netkit-telnetd: Buffer overflow

Background netkit-telnetd provides standard Linux telnet client and server. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the slcaddreply function of netkit-telnetd client, where a large number of SLC commands can overflow a fixed size buffer. Impact Successful explotation would require a...

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...

KDE dcopidlng: Insecure temporary file creation

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism. dcopidlng is a DCOP helper script. Description Davide Madrisan has discovered that the dcopidlng script creates temporary files in a world-writable...

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 ...

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...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. Description PostgreSQL's contains several vulnerabilities: John Heasman discovered that the LOAD extension is vulnerable to local privilege escalation CAN-2005-0227. It is possible to bypass the...

ClamAV: Multiple issues

Background ClamAV is an antivirus toolkit. It includes a multi-threaded daemon and a command line scanner. Description ClamAV fails to properly scan ZIP files with special headers CAN-2005-0133 and base64 encoded images in URLs. Impact By sending a base64 encoded image file in a URL an attacker...

HylaFAX: hfaxd unauthorized login vulnerability

Background HylaFAX is a software package for sending and receiving facsimile messages. Description The code used by hfaxd to match a given username and hostname with an entry in the hosts.hfaxd file is insufficiently protected against malicious entries. Impact If the HylaFAX installation uses a...

ViewCVS: Information leak and XSS vulnerabilities

Background ViewCVS is a browser interface for viewing CVS and Subversion version control repositories through a web browser. Description The tar export functions in ViewCVS bypass the 'hidecvsroot' and 'forbidden' settings and therefore expose information that should be kept secret CAN-2004-0915...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ed: Insecure temporary file handling

Background ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create or modify text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. Description ed insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Given that ed is used in various system shell scripts, they are by...

Subversion: Metadata information leak

Background Subversion is a versioning system designed to be a replacement for CVS. modauthzsvn is an Apache module to do path-based authentication for Subversion repositories. Description There is a bug in modauthzsvn that causes it to reveal logged metadata regarding commits to protected areas...

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...

Samba: Remote printing non-vulnerability

Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. Description Due to a bug in the printernotifyinfo function, authorized users could potentially crash their smbd process by sending improperly...

Subversion: Remote heap overflow

Background Subversion is a revision control system that aims to be a "compelling replacement for CVS". It enjoys wide use in the open source community. svnserve allows access to Subversion repositories using URIs with the svn://, svn+ssh://, and other tunelled svn+:// protocols. Description The s...

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...

Remote buffer overflow in MPlayer

Background Quote from http://mplayerhq.hu "MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation. It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native,...

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...

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...

nghttp2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Nghttp2 is an implementation of HTTP/2 and its header compression algorithm HPACK in C. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in nghttp2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

podman: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods with a Docker-compatible CLI. 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 Al...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

sudo: Heap-Based Buffer Overread

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description In certain password input handling, sudo incorrectly assumes the password input is at least nine bytes in size, leading to a heap buffer overread. Impact In the worst case, the heap...

libjxl: Denial of Service

Background libjxl is the JPEG XL image format reference implementation. Description libjxl contains an unecessary assertion in jxl::LowMemoryRenderPipeline::Init. Impact An attacker can cause a denial of service of the libjxl process via a crafted input file. Workaround There is no known workarou...

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...

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...

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...

PowerDNS Recursor: Denial of service

Background PowerDNS Recursor is a high-end, high-performance resolving name server. Description It was discovered that it was possible to update the DNSSEC validation state to a bogus state for a cached record via DNS ANY query. Impact A remote attacker could send specially crafted DNS queries to...

targetcli-fb: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tool for managing the Linux LIO kernel target. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in targetcli-fb. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

fwupd, libjcat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background fwupd aims to make updating firmware on Linux automatic, safe and reliable. libjcat is a library and tool for reading and writing Jcat files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in fwupd and libjcat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below 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...

GnuTLS: Information disclosure

Background GnuTLS is an Open Source implementation of the TLS and SSL protocols. Description A flaw was reported in the TLS session ticket key construction in GnuTLS. Impact A remote attacker could recover previous conversations in TLS 1.2 and obtain sensitive information or conduct a...

Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A local attacker could potentially gain privileges on the host system or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround...