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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MIME-tools: Virus detection evasion

Background MIME-tools is a Perl module containing functions to handle MIME attachments. Description MIME-tools doesn't correctly parse attachment boundaries with an empty name boundary="". Impact An attacker could send a carefully crafted email and evade detection on some email virus-scanning...

rssh: Format string vulnerability

Background rssh is a restricted shell, allowing only a few commands like scp or sftp. It is often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide limited access to users. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in rssh syslogging of...

phpMyAdmin: Vulnerability in MIME-based transformation system

Background phpMyAdmin is a popular web-based MySQL administration tool written in PHP. It allows users to browse and administer a MySQL database from a web-browser. Transformations are a phpMyAdmin feature allowing plug-ins to rewrite the contents of any column seen in phpMyAdmin's Browsing mode,...

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...

Nessus: "adduser" race condition vulnerability

Background Nessus is a free and powerful network security scanner. Description A race condition can occur in "nessus-adduser" if the user has not configured their TMPDIR variable. Impact A malicious user could exploit this bug to escalate privileges to the rights of the user running...

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...

Mailman: Member password disclosure vulnerability

Background Mailman is a python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface. Description Mailman contains an unspecified vulnerability in the handling of request emails. Impact By sending a carefully crafted email request to the mailman server an attacker could obtain member password...

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...

iproute local Denial of Service vulnerability

Background iproute is a set of tools for managing linux network routing and advanced features. Description It has been reported that iproute can accept spoofed messages on the kernel netlink interface from local users. This could lead to a local Denial of Service condition. Impact Local users cou...

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...

CVS: malformed module request vulnerability

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...

SSSD: Command Injection

Background SSSD provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms such as LDAP, Kerberos or FreeIPA. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward the system and a pluggable backend system to connect to multiple different account sources. Description A...

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...

e2fsprogs: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background e2fsprogs is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in e2fsprogs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability was found in...

GOCR: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background GOCR is an OCR Optical Character Recognition program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GOCR. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact...

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...

GMP: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Background The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library is a library forarbitrary-precision arithmetic on different types of numbers. Description There is an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow when processing untrusted input via GMP's mpzinpraw function. Impact Untrusted input can cau...

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...

LibreCAD: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background LibreCAD is a generic 2D CAD program. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibreCAD. 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...

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...

Deluge: Cross-Site Scripting

Background Deluge is a BitTorrent client. Description Deluge does not sufficiently sanitize crafted torrent file data, leading to the application interpreting untrusted data as HTML. Impact An attacker can achieve XSS via a crafted torrent file. Workaround There is no known workaround at this tim...

virglrenderer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A virtual 3D GPU library, that allows the guest operating system to use the host GPU to accelerate 3D rendering. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in virglrenderer. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenc...

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...

Qt GUI: Buffer overflow

Background The GUI module and platform plugins for the Qt5 framework. Description It was discovered that Qt GUI’s XBM parser did not properly handle X BitMap files. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution Al...

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...

yaml-cpp: Denial of service

Background yaml-cpp is a YAML parser and emitter in C++. Description The function Scanner::peek in scanner.cpp may have an assertion failure. Impact An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All yaml-cpp users...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code wi...

GNU Libtasn1: Denial of service

Background A library that provides Abstract Syntax Notation One ASN.1, as specified by the X.680 ITU-T recommendation parsing and structures management, and Distinguished Encoding Rules DER, as per X.690 encoding and decoding functions. Description Libtasn1 does not correctly handle certain...

socat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background socat is a multipurpose bidirectional relay, similar to netcat. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in socat. Please review the references below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or obta...