xine-lib, FFmpeg: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background xine is a GPL high-performance, portable and reusable multimedia playback engine. xine-lib is xine's core engine. FFmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter and is used in xine-lib. Description Simon Kilvington has reported a vulnerability in FFmpeg libavcodec. The flaw is due to ...

CenterICQ: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background CenterICQ is a text-based instant messaging interface that supports multiple protocols. It includes the ktools library, which provides text-mode user interface controls. Description Gentoo developer Wernfried Haas discovered that when the "Enable peer-to-peer communications" option is...

Opera: Command-line URL shell command injection

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Peter Zelezny discovered that the shell script used to launch Opera parses shell commands that are enclosed within backticks in the URL provided via the command line. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticin...

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...

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...

bluez-utils: Bluetooth device name validation vulnerability

Background bluez-utils are the utilities for use with the BlueZ implementation of the Bluetooth wireless standards for Linux. Description The name of a Bluetooth device is improperly validated by the hcid utility when a remote device attempts to pair itself with a computer. Impact An attacker cou...

SquirrelMail: Several XSS vulnerabilities

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP protocols. Description SquirrelMail is vulnerable to several cross-site scripting issues, most reported by Martijn Brinkers. Impact By enticing a user to read a specially-crafted e-mail or using a manipulated...

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...

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...

KPdf, KOffice: More vulnerabilities in included Xpdf

Background KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. Description KPdf and KOffice both include Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple new integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200412-24. Impact An...

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...

mtink: Insecure tempfile handling

Background mtink is a status monitor and inkjet cartridge changer for some Epson printers. Description Tavis Ormandy from Gentoo Linux discovered that mtink uses insecure permissions on temporary files. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing...

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...

xine-lib: VCD MRL buffer overflow

Background xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. Description xine-lib contains a bug where it is possible to overflow the vcd:// input source identifier management buffer through carefully crafted playlists. Impact An attacker may construct a...

Courier: Cross-site scripting vulnerability in SqWebMail

Background Courier is an integrated mail and groupware server based on open protocols. It provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single framework. The webmail functionality included in Courier called SqWebMail allows you to access mailboxes from a web browser...

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...

Squid: NTLM authentication helper buffer overflow

Background Squid contains a bug in the function ntlmcheckauth. It fails to do proper bounds checking on the values copyied to the 'pass' variable. Description 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, a...

CVS Server and Client Vulnerabilities

Background CVS, which stands for Concurrent Versions System, is a client/server application which tracks changes to sets of files. It allows multiple users to work concurrently on files, and then merge their changes back into the main tree which can be on a remote system. It also allows branching...

XChat: malformed dcc send request denial of service

Background XChat is a multiplatform IRC client. Description There is a remotely exploitable bug in XChat 2.0.6 that could lead to a denial of service attack. Gentoo wishes to thank lloydbates for discovering this bug, as well as jcdutton and rac for submitting patches to fix the bug. Impact A...

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...

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...

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...

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...

GStreamer, GStreamer Plugins: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background GStreamer is an open source multimedia framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GStreamer, GStreamer Plugins. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There...

UltraJSON: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background UltraJSON is an ultra fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.8+. Description Affected versions were found to improperly decode certain characters. JSON strings that contain escaped surrogate characters not part of a proper surrogate pair were decoded...

Thunar: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy to use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive and does not include any confusing or useless options by default. Thunar starts up quickly and navigating...

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...

Wireshark: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

sudo: Memory Manipulation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Stack/register variables can be flipped via fault...

GLib: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background GLib is a library providing a number of GNOME's core objects and functions. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GLib. Please review the referenced CVEs for details. Impact GVariant deserialization is vulnerable to an exponential blowup issue where a crafted...

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...

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...

Wireshark: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

Zabbix: Root privilege escalation

Background Zabbix is software for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s Zabbix ebuild did not properly set permissions or placed the pid file in an unsafe directory. Impact A local attacker could escalate privileges. Workaround There is no kno...

KPMCore: Root privilege escalation

Background KPMcore, the KDE Partition Manager core, is a library for examining and modifying partitions, disk devices, and filesystems on a Linux system. It provides a unified programming interface over top of external system-manipulation tools. Description Improper checks on the D-Bus request...

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...

libetpan: Improper STARTTLS handling

Background libetpan is a portable, efficient middleware for different kinds of mail access. Description It was discovered that libetpan was not properly handling state within the STARTTLS protocol handshake. Impact There may be a breach of integrity or confidentiality in connections made using...

Mutt, Neomutt: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client. NeoMutt is a command line mail reader or MUA. It’s a fork of Mutt with added features. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mutt and Neomutt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below 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...

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...

Zsh: Privilege escalation

Background A shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. Description It was discovered that Zsh was insecure dropping privileges when unsetting PRIVILEGED option. Impact An attacker could escalate privileges. Workaround There is no known workaround at th...

Go: Arbitrary code execution

Background Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Description A vulnerability in Go was discovered which does not validate the import path of remote repositories. Impact Remote attackers, by enticing a user to import from a...

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...

WebkitGTK+: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background WebKitGTK+ is a full-featured port of the WebKit rendering engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WebkitGTK+. Please review the referenced CVE Identifiers for details. Impact An attacker, by enticing a user to visit maliciously crafted web content, may be...

eGroupWare: Remote code execution

Background eGroupWare is a suite of web-based group applications including calendar, address book, messenger and email. Description It was found that eGroupWare contains multiple code injection vulnerabilities in multiple parameters and routes because of improper input sanitization. Impact A remo...

jbig2dec: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background jbig2dec is a decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in jbig2dec. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to process...

ImageWorsener: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ImageWorsener is a cross-platform command-line utility and library for image scaling and other image processing. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ImageWorsener. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could...

Ettercap: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ettercap is a comprehensive suite for man in the middle attacks. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ettercap. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

FreeType: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FreeType is a high-quality and portable font engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeType. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker can cause Denial of Service. Workaround There is no known workaround at...