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...

BIND: Denial of service

Background ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocol. Description An unspecified improper usage of an already freed context has been reported. Additionally, an assertion error could be triggered in the DNSSEC validation of some responses to...

Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs for UNIX. Description A format string vulnerability exists in the VFS module when handling AFS file systems and an infinite loop has been discovered when handling file rename operations. Impact A user with permission to write to a...

Mono: Information disclosure

Background Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on various platforms. Description Jose Ramon Palanco has discovered that the System.Web class in the XSP for the ASP.NET server 1.1 through 2.0 in Mono does not properly validate or sanitize loc...

Trac: Cross-site request forgery

Background Trac is a wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Description Trac allows users to perform certain tasks via HTTP requests without performing correct validation on those requests. Impact An attacker could entice an authenticated user to browse to a specially...

Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background The Tar program provides the ability to create and manipulate tar archives. Description Tar does not properly extract archive elements using the GNUTYPENAMES record name, allowing files to be created at arbitrary locations using symlinks. Once a symlink is extracted, files after the...

Ingo H3: Folder name shell command injection

Background Ingo H3 is a generic frontend for editing Sieve, procmail, maildrop and IMAP filter rules. Description Ingo H3 fails to properly escape shell metacharacters in procmail rules. Impact A remote authenticated attacker could craft a malicious rule which could lead to the execution of...

GraphicsMagick: PALM and DCM buffer overflows

Background GraphicsMagick is a collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating images in many major formats. Description M. Joonas Pihlaja has reported that a boundary error exists within the ReadDCMImage function of coders/dcm.c, causing the improper handling o...

Cheese Tracker: Buffer Overflow

Background Cheese Tracker is a Qt-based portable Impulse Tracker clone, a music tracker for the CT, IT, XM and S3M file formats. Description Luigi Auriemma reported that the XM loader of Cheese Tracker contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the loaderXM::loadintrumentinternal function from...

Adobe Flash Player: Arbitrary code execution

Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for Flash files - commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Description The Adobe Flash Player contains multiple unspecified vulnerabilities. Impact An attacker could entice a user to view a malicious Fla...

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...

LibVNCServer: Authentication bypass

Background LibVNCServer is a GPL'ed library for creating VNC servers. Description LibVNCServer fails to properly validate protocol types effectively letting users decide what protocol to use, such as "Type 1 - None". LibVNCServer will accept this security type, even if it is not offered by the...

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...

PEAR-Auth: Potential authentication bypass

Background PEAR-Auth is a PEAR package that provides methods to create a PHP based authentication system. Description Matt Van Gundy discovered that PEAR-Auth did not correctly validate data passed to the DB and LDAP containers. Impact A remote attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability t...

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...

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...

Ethereal: Buffer overflow in OSPF protocol dissector

Background Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. It provides protocol analyzers for various network flows, including one for Open Shortest Path First OSPF Interior Gateway Protocol. Description iDEFENSE reported a possible overflow due to the lack of bounds checking in the...

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...

Smb4k: Local unauthorized file access

Background Smb4K is a SMB/CIFS share browser for KDE. Description A vulnerability leading to unauthorized file access has been found. A pre-existing symlink from /tmp/sudoers and /tmp/super.tab to a textfile will cause Smb4k to write the contents of these files to the target of the symlink, as...

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...

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...

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...

CUPS: Stack overflow in included Xpdf code

Background The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler. It makes use of Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Description The Decrypt::makeFileKey2 function in Xpdf's Decrypt.cc insufficiently checks boundaries when processing /Encrypt /Length tags in PDF files GLSA 200501-28...

Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background 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, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features. Description Squid contains a...

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...

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...

mit-krb5: Heap overflow in libkadm5srv

Background MIT krb5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description The MIT Kerberos 5 administration library libkadm5srv contains a heap overflow in the code handling password changing. Impact Under specific...

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 ...

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...

Foomatic: Arbitrary command execution in foomatic-rip filter

Background Foomatic is a system for connecting printer drivers with spooler systems such as CUPS and LPD. The foomatic-filters package contains wrapper scripts which are designed to be used with Foomatic. Description There is a vulnerability in the foomatic-filters package. This vulnerability is...

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...

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...

Samba: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. smbd and nmbd are two daemons used by the Samba server. Description There is a defect in smbd's ASN.1 parsing. A bad packet received during t...

MySQL: Insecure temporary file creation in mysqlhotcopy

Background MySQL is a popular open-source multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description Jeroen van Wolffelaar discovered that the MySQL database hot copy utility mysqlhotcopy.sh, when using the scp method, uses temporary files with predictable names. A malicious local user with writ...

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...

Shorewall : Insecure temp file handling

Background Shorewall is a high level tool for configuring Netfilter, the firewall facility included in the Linux Kernel. Description Shorewall uses temporary files and directories in an insecure manner. A local user could create symbolic links at specific locations, eventually overwriting other...

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...

Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP, and can optionally be installed with SQL support. Description Several unspecified cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities and a well hidden SQL injection vulnerability were found. An XSS attack allows an...

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...

ClamAV VirusEvent parameter 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Setuptools: Denial of Service

Background Setuptools is a manager for Python packages. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Setuptools. See the impact field. Impact An inefficiency in a regular expression may end in a denial of service if an user is fetching malicious HTML from a package in PyPI or a custom...

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...

BlueZ: Privilege Escalation

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 An attacker may inject unauthenticated keystrokes via Bluetooth, leadi...