Apache Tomcat JK Connector: Information disclosure

Background The Apache Tomcat JK Connector aka modjk connects the Tomcat application server with the Apache HTTP Server. Description The Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that modjk does not properly handle 1 requests setting the "Content-Length" header while not providing data and 2 clien...

ProFTPD: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ProFTPD is an advanced and very configurable FTP server. Description The following vulnerabilities were reported: Percent characters in the username are not properly handled, which introduces a single quote character during variable substitution by modsql CVE-2009-0542. Some invalid,...

Audacity: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Audacity is a free cross-platform audio editor. Description Houssamix discovered a boundary error in the Stringparse::getnonspacequoted function in lib-src/allegro/strparse.cpp. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user into importing a specially crafted .gro file, resulting in the...

Mgetty: Insecure temporary file usage

Background Mgetty is a set of fax and voice modem programs. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the "spooldir" directory in fax/faxspool.in is created in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the...

lighttpd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background lighttpd is a lightweight high-performance web server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in lighttpd: Qhy reported a memory leak in the httprequestparse function in request.c CVE-2008-4298. Gaetan Bisson reported that URIs are not decoded before applying...

HAVP: Denial of service

Background HAVP is a HTTP AntiVirus Proxy. Description Peter Warasin reported an infinite loop in sockethandler.cpp when connecting to a non-responsive HTTP server. Impact A remote attacker could send requests to unavailable servers, resulting in a Denial of Service. Workaround There is no known...

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...

Wireshark: Denial of service

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end. Description Errors exist in: the X.509sat dissector because of an uninitialized variable and the Roofnet dissector because a NULL pointer may be passed to the gvsnprintf function CVE-2008-1561. the LDAP dissector...

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...

scponly: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background scponly is a shell for restricting user access to file transfer only using sftp and scp. Description Joachim Breitner reported that Subversion and rsync support invokes subcommands in an insecure manner CVE-2007-6350. It has also been discovered that scponly does not filter the -o and ...

Mono: Buffer overflow

Background Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on various platforms. Description IOActive discovered an error in the Mono.Math.BigInteger class, in the reduction step of the Montgomery-based Pow methods, that could lead to a buffer overflow...

KDM: Local privilege escalation

Background KDM is the Display Manager for the graphical desktop environment KDE. It is part of the kdebase package. Description Kees Huijgen discovered an error when checking the credentials which can lead to a login without specifying a password. This only occurs when auto login is configured fo...

T1Lib: Buffer overflow

Background T1Lib is a library for rasterizing bitmaps from Adobe Type 1 fonts. Description Hamid Ebadi discovered a boundary error in the intT1EnvGetCompletePath function which can lead to a buffer overflow when processing an overly long filename. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...

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 David Thiel of iSEC Partners discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the 01inverse function in res0.c and a boundary...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Clam AntiVirus is an open source GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Nikolaos Rangos discovered a vulnerability in ClamAV which exists because the recipient address extracted from email messages is not properly sanitize...

Streamripper: Buffer overflow

Background Streamripper is a tool for extracting and recording mp3 files from a Shoutcast stream. Description Chris Rohlf discovered several boundary errors in the httplibparsescheader function when processing HTTP headers. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious...

MPlayer: Two buffer overflows

Background MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio and video formats. Description A buffer overflow has been reported in the DMOVideoDecoderOpen function in file loader/dmo/DMOVideoDecoder.c. Another buffer overflow has been reported in the DSVideoDecoderOpen function...

PPTPD: Denial of Service attack

Background PPTPD is a Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol Daemon for Linux. Description James Cameron from HP has reported a vulnerability in PPTPD caused by malformed GRE packets. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service on the PPTPD connection...

Quagga: Denial of service

Background Quagga is a free routing daemon, supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP protocols. Description The Quagga development team reported a vulnerability in the BGP routing deamon when processing NLRI attributes inside UPDATE messages. Impact A malicious peer inside a BGP area could send a specially...

Ruby: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. Description The readmultipart function of the CGI library shipped with Ruby cgi.rb does not properly check boundaries in MIME multipart content. This is a different issue than GLSA 200611-1...

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...

qmailAdmin: Buffer overflow

Background qmailAdmin is a free software package that provides a web interface for managing a qmail system with virtual domains. Description qmailAdmin fails to properly handle the "PATHINFO" variable in qmailadmin.c. The PATHINFO is a standard CGI environment variable filled with user supplied...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla Thunderbird mail client is a redesign of the Mozilla Mail component. Description A number of vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird. For details please consult the references below. Impact The most severe vulnerabilities might lead to the execution...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a redesign of the Mozilla Navigator component. The goal is to produce a cross-platform, stand-alone browser application. Description A number of vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Firefox. For details please consult the references below. Impact The most...

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...

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 ...

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...

Pound: HTTP request smuggling

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 Pound fails to handle HTTP requests with conflicting "Content-Length" and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird: Various vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla is a popular web browser that includes a mail and newsreader. Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are respectively the next-generation browser and mail client from the Mozilla project. Description Maurycy Prodeus from isec.pl found a potentially exploitable buffer overflow ...

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...

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...

OpenOffice.org: Temporary files disclosure

Background OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description On start-up, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 creates a temporary directory with insecure permissions. When ...

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,...

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...