GnuTLS: RSA Signature Forgery

Background GnuTLS is an implementation of SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0. Description verify.c fails to properly handle excess data in digestAlgorithm.parameters field while generating a hash when using an RSA key with exponent 3. RSA keys that use exponent 3 are commonplace. Impact Remote attackers could...

LibXfont: Multiple integer overflows

Background libXfont is the X.Org Xfont library, some parts are based on the FreeType code base. Description Several integer overflows have been found in the PCF font parser. Impact A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code or crash the Xserver by enticing a user to load a specially...

Heartbeat: Denial of service

Background Heartbeat is a component of the High-Availability Linux project. It is used to perform death-of-node detection, communications and cluster management. Description Yan Rong Ge discovered that the peelnetstring function in clnetstring.c does not validate the "length" parameter of user...

Heimdal: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. Description The ftpd and rcp applications provided by Heimdal fail to check the return value of calls to seteuid. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Workaround Ther...

Net::Server: Format string vulnerability

Background Net::Server is an extensible, generic Perl server engine. It is used by several Perl applications like Postgrey. Description The log function of Net::Server does not handle format string specifiers properly before they are sent to syslog. Impact By sending a specially crafted datastrea...

Courier MTA: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Courier MTA is an integrated mail and groupware server based on open protocols. Description Courier MTA has fixed a security issue relating to usernames containing the "=" character, causing high CPU utilization. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a speciall...

JPEG library: Denial of service

Background The JPEG library is able to load, handle and manipulate images in the JPEG format. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Auditing Team discovered that the vulnerable JPEG library ebuilds compile JPEG without the --maxmem feature which is not recommended. Impact By enticing a us...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Crossfire server: Denial of Service and potential arbitrary code execution

Background Crossfire is a cooperative multiplayer graphical adventure and role-playing game. The Crossfire game server allows various compatible clients to connect to participate in a cooperative game. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered a vulnerability in the Crossfire game server, in the...

RealPlayer: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing malicious SWF files. Impact By enticing a user to open a specially crafted SWF file an attacker could execute arbitrary code...

Macromedia Flash Player: Arbitrary code execution

Background The Macromedia Flash Player is a renderer for the popular SWF filetype which is commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Description The Macromedia Flash Player contains multiple unspecified vulnerabilities. Impact An attacker serving a...

GraphicsMagick: Format string vulnerability

Background GraphicsMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. Description The SetImageInfo function was found vulnerable to a format string mishandling. Daniel Kobras discovered that the handling of "%"-escaped sequences in filenames passed to the functi...

Gallery: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on other servers. Description Peter Schumacher discovered that Gallery fails to...

PHP: Vulnerabilities in included PCRE and XML-RPC libraries

Background PHP is a general-purpose scripting language widely used to develop web-based applications. It can run inside a web server using the modphp module or the CGI version of PHP, or can run stand-alone in a CLI. Description PHP makes use of a private copy of libpcre which is subject to an...

PhpWiki: Arbitrary command execution through XML-RPC

Background PhpWiki is an application that creates a web site where anyone can edit the pages through HTML forms. Description Earlier versions of PhpWiki contain an XML-RPC library that improperly handles XML-RPC requests and responses with malformed nested tags. Impact A remote attacker could...

Clam AntiVirus: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AntiVirus also provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the virus database. Description Andrew Toller and Stefan Kanthak discovered that...

JunkBuster: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background JunkBuster is a filtering HTTP proxy, designed to enhance privacy and remove unwanted content. Description James Ranson reported a vulnerability when JunkBuster is configured to run in single-threaded mode, an attacker can modify the referrer setting by getting a victim to request a...

LimeWire: Disclosure of sensitive information

Background LimeWire is a Java peer-to-peer client compatible with the Gnutella file-sharing protocol. Description Two input validation errors were found in the handling of Gnutella GET requests CAN-2005-0788 and magnet requests CAN-2005-0789. Impact A remote attacker can craft a specific Gnutella...

Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow

Background Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed. Description Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle non-ASCII characters in email headers when composing reply messages. Impact An attacker can send an email...

Grip: CDDB response overflow

Background Grip is a GTK+ based audio CD player/ripper. Description Joseph VanAndel has discovered a buffer overflow in Grip when processing large CDDB results. Impact A malicious CDDB server could cause Grip to crash by returning more then 16 matches, potentially allowing the execution of...

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...

OpenMotif, LessTif: New libXpm buffer overflows

Background LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is a standard user interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux. OpenMotif also provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications. Description Chris Gilbert discovered potentially exploitable buffer overflow cases in libXp...

MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia. Description A security audit of the MediaWiki project discovered that MediaWiki is vulnerable to several cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks, and that the image deletion code doe...

VMware Workstation: Untrusted library search path

Background VMware Workstation is a powerful virtual machine for developers and system administrators. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that VMware Workstation searches for gdk-pixbuf loadable modules in an untrusted, world-writable directory. Impact...

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...

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...

Xpdf, GPdf: New integer overflows

Background Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. GPdf is a Gnome-based PDF viewer that includes some Xpdf code. Description A new integer overflow issue was discovered in Xpdf's Gfx::doImage function. Impact An attacker could entice an user to open a...

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Adobe Acrobat Reader is a utility used to view PDF files. Description A buffer overflow has been discovered in the email processing of Adobe Acrobat Reader. This flaw exists in the mailListIsPdf function, which checks if the input file is an email message containing a PDF file. Impact ...

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...

pdftohtml: Vulnerabilities in included Xpdf

Background pdftohtml is a utility to convert PDF files to HTML or XML formats. It makes use of Xpdf code to decode PDF files. Description Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200410-20. Impact An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF fil...

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...

Heimdal: ftpd root escalation

Background Heimdal is an implementation of Kerberos 5. Description Przemyslaw Frasunek discovered several flaws in lukemftpd, which also apply to Heimdal ftpd's out-of-band signal handling code. Additionally, a potential vulnerability that could lead to Denial of Service by the Key Distribution...

Pound format string vulnerability

Background Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end. It allows to distribute the load on several web servers and offers a SSL wrapper for web servers that do not support SSL directly. Description A format string flaw in the processing of syslog messages was discovered and...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in ssmtp

Background SSMTP is a very simple mail transfer agent MTA that relays mail from the local machine to another SMTP host. It is not designed to function as a full mail server; its sole purpose is to relay mail. Description There are two format string vulnerabilities inside the logevent and die...

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...

KDE Personal Information Management Suite Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Background KDE-PIM is an application suite designed to manage mail, addresses, appointments, and contacts. Description A buffer overflow may occur in KDE-PIM's VCF file reader when a maliciously crafted VCF file is opened by a user on a vulnerable system. Impact A remote attacker may unauthorized...

XFree86 Font Information File Buffer Overflow

Background XFree86, provides a client/server interface between display hardware and the desktop environment while also providing both the windowing infrastructure and a standardized API. XFree86 is platform independent, network-transparent and extensible. Description Exploitation of a buffer...

HashiCorp Consul: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background HashiCorp Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HashiCorp Consul. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

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...

cpio: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background cpio is a file archival tool which can also read and write tar files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cpio. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact GNU cpio allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file...

mujs: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background mujs is an embeddable Javascript interpreter in C. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mujs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround...

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...

android-tools: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background android-tools contains Android platform tools adb, fastboot, and mkbootimg. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in android-tools. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

rclone: Weak random number generation

Background rclone is a problem to sync files to and from various cloud storage providers. Description Passwords generated with rclone were insecurely generated and are vulnerable to brute force attacks. Impact Data kept secret with a password generated by rclone may be disclosed to a local...

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...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

Newsbeuter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. Description Newsbeuter does not properly escape shell meta-characters in the title and description of RSS feeds when bookmarking. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a feed with specially crafted URLs, could...