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GnuPG: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Description Hugh Warrington has reported a boundary error in GnuPG, in the "askoutfilename" function from openfile.c: the makeprintablestring function could return a string longer than...
libwmf: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Background libwmf is a library for reading and converting vector images in Microsoft's native Windows Metafile Format WMF. Description infamous41md discovered that libwmf fails to do proper bounds checking on the MaxRecordSize variable in the WMF file header. This could lead to an head-based buff...
MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities
Background MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. Description Unchecked calls to setuid in krshd and v4rcp, as well as unchecked calls ...
Samba: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. Description During an internal audit the Samba team discovered that a flaw in the way Samba stores share connection requests could lead to a...
Sendmail: Denial of service
Background Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent MTA. Description Frank Sheiness discovered that the mime8to7 function can recurse endlessly during the decoding of multipart MIME messages until the stack of the process is filled and the process crashes. Impact By sending specially crafted...
Cscope: Many buffer overflows
Background Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code. Description Cscope does not verify the length of file names sourced in include statements. Impact A user could be enticed to source a carefully crafted file which will allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissio...
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...
X.Org: Buffer overflow in XRender extension
Background X.Org is X.Org Foundation's public implementation of the X Window System. Description X.Org miscalculates the size of a buffer in the XRender extension. Impact An X.Org user could exploit this issue to make the X server execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Workaround There ...
xine-lib: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Background xine-lib is the xine core engine. xine is a free multimedia player. It plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, and can also decode other common multimedia formats. Description Federico L. Bossi Bonin discovered that when handling MPEG streams xine-lib fails to make a proper boundary check of the...
GPdf: heap overflows in included Xpdf code
Background GPdf is a Gnome PDF viewer. Description Dirk Mueller found a heap overflow vulnerability in the XPdf codebase when handling splash images that exceed size of the associated bitmap. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file with GPdf, potentially...
LibAST: Privilege escalation
Background LibAST is a utility library that was originally intended to accompany Eterm, but may be used by various other applications. Description Michael Jennings discovered an exploitable buffer overflow in the configuration engine of LibAST. Impact The vulnerability can be exploited to gain...
pinentry: Local privilege escalation
Background pinentry is a collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that the pinentry ebuild incorrectly sets the permissions of the pinentry binaries upon installation, s...
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...
AbiWord: RTF import stack-based buffer overflow
Background AbiWord is a free and cross-platform word processing program. It allows to import RTF files into AbiWord documents. Description Chris Evans discovered that the RTF import function in AbiWord is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could design a malicious RTF...
Adobe Reader: Buffer Overflow
Background Adobe Reader is a utility used to view PDF files. Description A buffer overflow has been reported within a core application plug-in, which is part of Adobe Reader. Impact An attacker may create a specially-crafted PDF file, enticing a user to open it. This could trigger a buffer overfl...
Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird: "mozbugra4" and "shutdown" discovered that Thunderbird was improperly cloning base objects MFSA 2005-56. "mozbugra4"...
pam_ldap and nss_ldap: Plain text authentication leak
Background pamldap is a Pluggable Authentication Module which allows authentication against an LDAP directory. nssldap is a Name Service Switch module which allows 'passwd', 'group' and 'host' database information to be pulled from LDAP. TLS is Transport Layer Security, a protocol that allows...
Dzip: Directory traversal vulnerability
Background Dzip is a compressor and uncompressor especially made for demo recordings of id's Quake. Description Dzip is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack when extracting archives. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specially crafted archive to extract files...
phpBB: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Background phpBB is an Open Source bulletin board package. Description phpBB is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to improper sanitization of user supplied input. Coupled with poor validation of BBCode URLs which may be included in a forum post, an unsuspecting user may follo...
gzip: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background gzip GNU zip is a popular compression program. The included zgrep utility allows you to grep gzipped files in place. Description The gzip and gunzip programs are vulnerable to a race condition when setting file permissions CAN-2005-0988, as well as improper handling of filename...
GnomeVFS, libcdaudio: CDDB response overflow
Background GnomeVFS is a filesystem abstraction library for the GNOME desktop environment. libcdaudio is a multi-platform CD player development library. They both include code to query CDDB servers to get Audio CD track titles. Description Joseph VanAndel has discovered a buffer overflow in Grip...
phpWebSite: Arbitrary PHP execution and path disclosure
Background phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. Description NST discovered that, when submitting an announcement, uploaded files aren't correctly checked for malicious code. They also found out that phpWebSite is vulnerable to a path disclosure. Impact A remote...
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...
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 a buffer overflow, as described in GLSA 200501-28. Impact An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF file,...
Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.9, including: The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop CAN-2005-0006. The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exi...
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...
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...
MIT krb5: Insecure temporary file use in send-pr.sh
Background MIT krb5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol written by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description The send-pr.sh script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could creat...
glibc: Insecure tempfile handling in catchsegv script
Background glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library. Description The catchsegv script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere o...
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,...
PostgreSQL: Insecure temporary file use in make_oidjoins_check
Background PostgreSQL is an open source database based on the POSTGRES database management system. It includes several contributed scripts including the makeoidjoinscheck script. Description The makeoidjoinscheck script insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with...
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...
Webmin, Usermin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Usermin
Background Webmin and Usermin are web-based system administration consoles. Webmin allows an administrator to easily configure servers and other features. Usermin allows users to configure their own accounts, execute commands, and read e-mail. The Usermin functionality, including webmail, is also...
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...
rsync: Directory traversal in rsync daemon
Background rsync is a utility that provides fast incremental file transfers. It is used to efficiently synchronize files between hosts and is used by emerge to fetch Gentoo's Portage tree. rsyncd is the rsync daemon, which listens to connections from rsync clients. Description When rsyncd is used...
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...
neon heap-based buffer overflow
Background neon provides an HTTP and WebDAV client library. Description Stefan Esser discovered a vulnerability in the code of the neon library : if a malicious date string is passed to the nerfc1036parse function, it can trigger a string overflow into static heap variables. Impact Depending on t...
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...
LIVE555 Media Server: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background LIVE555 Media Server is a set of libraries for multimedia streaming. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LIVE555 Media Server. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...
BusyBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background BusyBox is set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...
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...
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...
Eclipse Mosquitto: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background Eclipse Mosquitto is an open source MQTT v3 broker. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Eclipse Mosquitto. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no kno...
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...
LibRaw: Heap Buffer Overflow
Background LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in LibRaw. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A heap-buffer-overflow in raw2imageex caused by a maliciously crafted file may...
Tor: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CV...
Twisted: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background Twisted is an asynchronous networking framework written in Python. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Twisted. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is ...
sysstat: Arbitrary Code Execution
Background sysstat is a package containing a number of performance monitoring utilities for Linux, including sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools. Description On 32 bit systems, an integer overflow can be triggered when displaying activity data files. Impact Arbitrary code execution can be achieved v...
lesspipe: Arbitrary Code Exeecution
Background lesspipe is a preprocessor for less. Description lesspipe has support for parsing Perl storable "PST" files, Impact A crafted Perl storable file which is passed into lesspipe could result in arbitrary code execution. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All...