Scorched 3D: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Scorched 3D is a clone of the classic "Scorched Earth" DOS game, adding features like a 3D island environment and Internet multiplayer capabilities. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered multiple flaws in the Scorched 3D game server, including a format string vulnerability and several...

Lynx: Arbitrary command execution

Background Lynx is a fully-featured WWW client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices such as vt100 terminals and terminal emulators. Description iDefense labs discovered a problem within the feature to execute local cgi-bin programs via the "lynxcgi:" URI handler. D...

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...

RealPlayer, Helix Player: Format string vulnerability

Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Helix Player is an open source media player for Linux. Description "c0ntex" reported that RealPlayer and Helix Player suffer from a heap overflow. Impact By enticing a user to play a specially craft...

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...

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...

Kopete: Vulnerability in included Gadu library

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. Kopete also part of kdenetwork is the KDE Instant Messenger. Description Kopete contains an internal copy of libgadu and is therefore subject to several input validation vulnerabilities in...

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...

Gld: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Gld is a standalone greylisting server for Postfix. Description dong-hun discovered several buffer overflows in server.c, as well as several format string vulnerabilities in cnf.c. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the...

mit-krb5: Multiple buffer overflows in telnet client

Background The MIT Kerberos 5 implementation provides a command line telnet client which is used for remote login via the telnet protocol. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the envoptadd function, where a response requiring excessive escaping can cause a heap-based buffer...

MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description MySQL fails to properly validate input for authenticated users with INSERT and DELETE privileges CAN-2005-0709 and CAN-2005-0710. Furthermore MySQL uses predictable filenames when creating temporary files with...

GProFTPD: gprostats format string vulnerability

Background GProFTPD is a GTK+ administration tool for the ProFTPD server. GProFTPD is distributed with gprostats, a utility to parse ProFTPD transfer logs. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has identified a format string vulnerability in the gprostats utility. Impa...

PostgreSQL: Buffer overflows in PL/PgSQL parser

Background PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. Description PostgreSQL is vulnerable to several buffer overflows in the PL/PgSQL parser. Impact A remote attacker could send a malicious query resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the...

Mailman: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background Mailman is a Python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface. Description Florian Weimer has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the error messages that are produced by Mailman. Impact By enticing a user to visiting a specially-crafted URL, an attacker c...

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...

imlib2: Buffer overflows in image decoding

Background imlib2 is an advanced replacement for image manipulation libraries such as libXpm. It is utilized by numerous programs, including gkrellm and several window managers, to display images. Description Pavel Kankovsky discovered that several buffer overflows found in the libXpm library see...

kfax: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kfax part of kdegraphics is the KDE fax file viewer. Description Than Ngo discovered that kfax contains a private copy of the TIFF library and is therefore subject to several known...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

libXpm: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The X PixMap image format is an extension of the monochrome X BitMap format specified in the X protocol, and is commonly used in traditional X applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXpm. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for...

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...

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...

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...

KTextEditor: Arbitrary Local Code Execution

Background Framework providing a full text editor component for KDE. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in KTextEditor. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact KTextEditor executes binaries without user interaction in a few cases, e.g. KTextEditor will...

libssh: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background libssh is a multiplatform C library implementing the SSHv2 protocol on client and server side. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libssh. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

Fish: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Smart and user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, and the rest of the family. It includes features like syntax highlighting, autosuggest-as-you-type, and fancy tab completions that just work, with no configuration required. Description A vulnerability have been discovered in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apptainer: Lack of Digital Signature Hash Verification

Background Apptainer is the container system for secure high-performance computing. Description The Go module "sif" version 2.8.0 and older, which is a statically linked dependency of Apptainer, does not verify that the hash algorithms used are cryptographically secure when verifying digital...

Open Asset Import Library ("assimp"): Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Open Asset Import Library is a library to import and export various 3d-model-formats including scene-post-processing to generate missing render data. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Fetchmail, the worst of which could result in email disclosure to third...

BlueZ: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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 Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround...

X.Org X Server: Privilege escalation

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description It was discovered that X.Org X Server did not sufficiently check the length of the XInput extension’s ChangeFeedbackControl request. Impact An authorized attacker could possibly escalate...

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...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaroun...

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...

Thin: Privilege escalation

Background Thin is a small and fast Ruby web server. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s Thin ebuild does not properly handle its temporary runtime directories. This only affects OpenRC systems, as the flaw was exploitable via the init script. Impact A local attacker could cause denial of...

QtNetwork: Denial of service

Background QtNetwork provides a set of APIs for programming applications that use TCP/IP. It is part of the Qt framework. Description A flaw was discovered in QtNetwork’s handling of OpenSSL protocol errors. Impact An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service condition. Workaround There i...

Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. 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...

WeeChat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat WeeChat is a light and extensible console IRC client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WeeChat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker, by sending a specially crafted IRC...

glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in glibc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workarou...