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JHead: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background JHead is an exif jpeg header manipulation tool. Description Marc Merlin and John Dong reported multiple vulnerabilities in JHead: A buffer overflow in the DoCommand function when processing the cmd argument and related to potential string overflows CVE-2008-4575. An insecure creation o...
Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation
Background Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the "test.sh" script. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user...
CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background CUPS is the Common Unix Printing System. Description Several buffer overflows were found in: The readrle16 function in imagetops CVE-2008-3639, found by regenrecht, reported via ZDI The WriteProlog function in texttops CVE-2008-3640, found by regenrecht, reported via ZDI The...
libvorbis: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background libvorbis is the reference implementation of the Xiph.org Ogg Vorbis audio file format. It is used by many applications for playback of Ogg Vorbis files. Description Will Drewry of the Google Security Team reported multiple vulnerabilities in libvorbis: A zero value for "codebook.dim" ...
Samba: Heap-based buffer overflow
Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs. Description Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research reported a vulnerability in Samba within the receivesmbraw function in the file lib/utilsock.c when parsing SMB packets, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow via an overly lar...
lighttpd: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background lighttpd is a lightweight high-performance web server. Description Julien Cayzax discovered that an insecure default setting exists in moduserdir in lighttpd. When userdir.path is not set the default value used is $HOME. It should be noted that the "nobody" user's $HOME is "/"...
Wireshark: Denial of service
Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end. Description Multiple unspecified errors exist in the SCTP, SNMP, and TFTP dissectors. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service by sending a malformed packet. Workaround Disable the SCTP, SNMP, and TFTP...
X Font Server: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background The X.Org X11 X Font Server provides a standard mechanism for an X server to communicate with a font renderer. Description iDefense reported that the xfs init script does not correctly handle a race condition when setting permissions of a temporary file CVE-2007-3103. Sean Larsson...
GNU Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability
Background The GNU Tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. Description Dmitry V. Levin discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in the containsdotdot function in file src/names.c. Impact By enticing a user to extract a special...
KVIrc: Remote arbitrary code execution
Background KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on Qt. Description Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research discovered that the "parseIrcUrl" function in file src/kvirc/kernel/kviircurl.cpp does not properly sanitise parts of the URI when building the command for KVIrc's internal script system...
GNU C Library: Integer overflow
Background The GNU C library is the standard C library used by Gentoo Linux systems. It provides programs with basic facilities and interfaces to system calls. ld.so is the dynamic linker which prepares dynamically linked programs for execution by resolving runtime dependencies and related...
emul-linux-x86-java: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background emul-linux-x86-java is the 32 bit version of the Sun's J2SE Development Kit. Description Chris Evans of the Google Security Team has discovered an integer overflow in the ICC parser, and another vulnerability in the BMP parser. An unspecified vulnerability involving an "incorrect use o...
ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description iDefense Labs have reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the cabunstore function when processing negative values in .cab files. Multiple file descriptor leaks have also been reported in chmunpack.c, pdf.c and dblock.c when processing .chm...
libwpd: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background libwpd is a library used to convert Wordperfect documents into other formats. Description libwpd contains heap-based overflows in two functions that convert WordPerfect document tables. In addition, it contains an integer overflow in a text-conversion function. Impact An attacker could...
OpenPBS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background OpenPBS is the original version of the Portable Batch System. It is a flexible batch queueing system developed for NASA in the early to mid-1990s. Description SUSE reported vulnerabilities due to unspecified errors in OpenPBS. Impact By unspecified attack vectors an attacker might be...
CUPS: Denial of service
Background CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. Description CUPS does not properly handle partially-negotiated SSL connections. Upon receiving a partially-negotiated SSL connection, CUPS no longer accepts further incoming connections, as the initial connection...
KSirc: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background KSirc is the default KDE IRC client. Description KSirc fails to check the size of an incoming PRIVMSG string sent from an IRC server during the connection process. Impact A malicious IRC server could send a long PRIVMSG string to the KSirc client causing an assertion failure and the...
X.Org X server: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities have been found in the ProcDbeGetVisualInfo and the ProcDbeSwapBuffers of the DBE extension, and ProcRenderAddGlyphs in the Render extension. Impac...
RPM: Buffer overflow
Background The Red Hat Package Manager RPM is a command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating computer software packages. Description Vladimir Mosgalin has reported that when processing certain packages, RPM incorrectly...
AdPlug: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background AdPlug is a free, cross-platform, and hardware-independent AdLib sound player library. Description AdPlug is vulnerable to buffer and heap overflows when processing the following types of files: CFF, MTK, DMO, U6M, DTM, and S3M. Impact By enticing a user to load a specially crafted fil...
Mozilla SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The Mozilla SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Description The following vulnerabilities have been reported: Benjamin Smedberg discovered that chrome URL's...
Opera: Buffer overflow
Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description SEC Consult has discovered a buffer overflow in the code processing style sheet attributes. It is caused by an integer signedness error in a length check followed by a call to a string function. It seems to be hard to exploit this buff...
Mozilla Firefox: Potential remote code execution
Background Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation web browser from the Mozilla project. Description Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott discovered a vulnerability when rendering malformed JavaScript content. The Mozilla Firefox 1.0 line is not affected. Impact If JavaScript is enabled, by tricking a us...
phpWebSite: Local file inclusion
Background phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. Description rgod has reported that the "hubdir" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly verified. When "magicquotesgpc" is disabled, this can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local ressources. Impact If...
MPlayer: Heap-based buffer overflow
Background MPlayer is a media player that supports many multimedia file types. Description Xfocus Team discovered multiple integer overflows that may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could entice a user to play a specially crafted multimedia file, potentially resulting in...
NetHack, Slash'EM, Falcon's Eye: Local privilege escalation
Background NetHack is the classic single player dungeon exploration game. Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye are NetHack variants. Description NetHack, Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye have been found to be incompatible with the system used for managing games on Gentoo Linux. As a result, they cannot be played...
Freeciv: Denial of service
Background Freeciv is an open source turn-based multiplayer strategy game, similar to the famous Civilization series. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered that Freeciv could be tricked into the allocation of enormous chunks of memory when trying to uncompress malformed data packages, possibly...
zoo: Stack-based buffer overflow
Background zoo is a file archiving utility for maintaining collections of files, written by Rahul Dhesi. Description Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux discovered a boundary error in the fullpath function in misc.c when processing overly long file and directory names in ZOO archives. Impact An attacker...
noweb: Insecure temporary file creation
Background noweb is a simple, extensible, and language independent literate programming tool. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino has discovered that the lib/toascii.nw and shell/roff.mm scripts insecurely create temporary files with predictable filenames. Impact A local attacker could create...
OpenLDAP, Gauche: RUNPATH issues
Background OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related application and development tools. Gauche is an R5RS Scheme interpreter. Description Gentoo packaging for OpenLDAP and Gauche may introduce insecure paths into the list of directories that are searched for libraries at runtime. Impact A local attacke...
Horde Application Framework: XSS vulnerability
Background The Horde Application Framework is a general-purpose web application framework written in PHP, providing classes for handling preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME, and more. Description The Horde Team reported a potential XSS vulnerability. Horde fails...
eix: Insecure temporary file creation
Background eix is a small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast results. Description Eric Romang discovered that eix creates a temporary file with a predictable name. eix creates a temporary file in /tmp/eix..sync where is the process ID of the shell running eix. Impact A local...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Qt: Untrusted library search path
Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that Qt searches for shared libraries in an untrusted, world-writable directory. Impact A local attacker could create a malicious shared object that would be...
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: 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...
ncpfs: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ncpfs is a NCP protocol network filesystem driver that allows access to NetWare services, to mount volumes of NetWare servers or print to NetWare print queues. Description Erik Sjolund discovered two vulnerabilities in the programs bundled with ncpfs: there is a potentially exploitable...
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...
xzgv: Multiple overflows
Background xzgv is a picture viewer for X, with a thumbnail-based file selector. Description Multiple overflows have been found in the image processing code of xzgv, including an integer overflow in the PRF parsing code CAN-2004-0994. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open or browse a...
X.Org, XFree86: libXpm vulnerabilities
Background libXpm is a pixmap manipulation library for the X Window System, included in both X.Org and XFree86. Description Several issues were discovered in libXpm, including integer overflows, out-of-bounds memory accesses, insecure path traversal and an endless loop. Impact An attacker could...
GIMPS, SETI@home, ChessBrain: Insecure installation
Background GIMPS is a client for the distributed Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. SETI@home is the client for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI project. ChessBrain is the client for the distributed chess supercomputer. Description GIMPS, SETI@home and ChessBrain ebuilds insta...
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...
Cherokee: Format string vulnerability
Background Cherokee is an extra-light web server. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in the cherokeeloggerncsawritestring function. Impact Using a specially crafted URL when authenticating via authpam, a malicious user may ...
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...
Pavuk: Digest authentication helper buffer overflow
Background Pavuk is web spider and website mirroring tool. Description Pavuk contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the code handling digest authentication. Impact An attacker could cause a buffer overflow, leading to arbitrary code execution with the rights of the user running Pavuk...
cadaver heap-based buffer overflow
Background cadaver is a command-line WebDAV client. Description Stefan Esser discovered a vulnerability in the code of the neon library see GLSA 200405-13. This library is also included in cadaver. Impact When connected to a malicious WebDAV server, this vulnerability could allow remote execution...