Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...

gif2png: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background gif2png converts images from GIF format to PNG format. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in gif2png: A boundary error in gif2png.c could cause a buffer overflow CVE-2010-4694. The patch for CVE-2009-5018 causes gif2png to truncate GIF pathnames CVE-2010-4695. Impact A...

PowerDNS: Denial of service

Background The PowerDNS nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture. Description A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS which could cause a packet loop of DNS responses. Impact A remote attacker could send specially crafted DNS response packets,...

fence: Multiple symlink vulnerabilities

Background fence is an I/O group fencing system. Description The fenceapc, fenceapcsnmp CVE-2008-4579 and fencemanual CVE-2008-4580 programs contain symlink vulnerabilities. Impact These vulnerabilities may allow arbitrary files to be overwritten with root privileges. Workaround There is no known...

wxGTK: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background wxGTK is the GTK+ version of wxWidgets, a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit. Description wxGTK is prone to an integer overflow error in the wxImage::Create function in src/common/image.cpp, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker might entice a user to...

lighttpd: Denial of service

Background lighttpd is a lightweight high-performance web server. Description Li Ming reported that lighttpd does not properly process packets that are sent overly slow. Impact A remote attacker might send specially crafted packets to a server running lighttpd, possibly resulting in a Denial of...

Apache Portable Runtime, APR Utility Library: Execution of arbitrary code

Background The Apache Portable Runtime aka APR provides a set of APIs for creating platform-independent applications. The Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library aka APR-Util provides an interface to functionality such as XML parsing, string matching and databases connections. Description Matt...

DokuWiki: Local file inclusion

Background DokuWiki is a standards compliant Wiki system written in PHP. Description girex reported that data from the "configcascade" parameter in inc/init.php is not properly sanitized before being used. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute PHP code from arbitrar...

mpg123: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background mpg123 is a realtime MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player for layers 1, 2 and 3. Description The vendor reported a signedness error in the storeid3text function in id3.c, allowing for out-of-bounds memory access. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open an MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 MP3...

OpenSSL: Certificate validation error

Background OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 as well as a general purpose cryptography library. Description The Google Security Team reported that several functions incorrectly check the result after calling the...

Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the "test.sh" script. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user...

enscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background enscript is a powerful ASCII to PostScript file converter. Description Two stack-based buffer overflows in the readspecialescape function in src/psgen.c have been reported. Ulf Harnhammar of Secunia Research discovered a vulnerability related to the "setfilename" command CVE-2008-3863,...

Wireshark: Multiple Denials of Service

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end. Description The following vulnerabilities were reported: Multiple buffer overflows in the NCP dissector CVE-2008-3146. Infinite loop in the NCP dissector CVE-2008-3932. Invalid read in the tvbuncompress function when...

Courier Authentication Library: SQL injection vulnerability

Background The Courier Authentication Library is a generic authentication API that encapsulates the process of validating account passwords. Description It has been discovered that some input e.g. the username passed to the library are not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. Impa...

libxslt: Execution of arbitrary code

Background libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT is an XML language to define transformations for XML. Description Chris Evans Google Security reported that the libexslt library that is part of libxslt is affected by a heap-based buffer overflow in the RC4...

PCRE: Buffer overflow

Background PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. GLib includes a copy of PCRE. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security team reported a heap-based buffer overflow when compiling regular expression patterns containing "Internal Option Settings" such as "?i ". Impact A remot...

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...

International Components for Unicode: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background International Components for Unicode is a set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. Description Will Drewry Google Security reported a vulnerability in the regular expression engine when using back references to capture \0...

Cacti: SQL injection

Background Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool. Description It has been reported that the "localgraphid" variable used in the file graph.php is not properly sanitized before being processed in an SQL statement. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to the...

Qt: Buffer overflow

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI framework, which is used e.g. by KDE. Description Dirk Mueller from the KDE development team discovered a boundary error in file qutfcodec.cpp when processing Unicode strings. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted Unicode string to a...

Balsa: Buffer overflow

Background Balsa is a highly configurable email client for GNOME. Description Evil Ninja Squirrel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the irfetchseq function when receiving a long response to a FETCH command CVE-2007-5007. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a...

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...

OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description John Heasman of NGSSoftware has discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the StarCal...

LTSP: Authentication bypass in included LibVNCServer code

Background The Linux Terminal Server Project adds thin-client support to Linux servers. Description The LTSP server includes vulnerable LibVNCServer code, which fails to properly validate protocol types effectively letting users decide what protocol to use, such as "Type 1 - None" GLSA-200608-05...

RAR, UnRAR: Buffer overflow

Background RAR and UnRAR provide command line interfaces for compressing and decompressing RAR files. Description RAR and UnRAR contain a boundary error when processing password-protected archives that could result in a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...

Kronolith: Local file inclusion

Background Kronolith is a web-based calendar which relies on the Horde Framework for integration with other applications. Description Kronolith contains a mistake in lib/FBView.php where a raw, unfiltered string is used instead of a sanitized string to view local files. Impact An authenticated...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

TunePimp: Buffer overflow

Background The TunePimp library also referred to as libtunepimp is a development library geared towards developers who wish to create MusicBrainz enabled tagging applications. Description Kevin Kofler has reported a vulnerability where three stack variables are allocated with 255, 255 and 100 byt...

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...

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...

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...

GNU tar: Buffer overflow

Background GNU tar is the standard GNU utility for creating and manipulating tar archives, a common format used for creating backups and distributing files on UNIX-like systems. Description Jim Meyering discovered a flaw in the handling of certain header fields that could result in a buffer...

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...

Opera: Command-line URL shell command injection

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Peter Zelezny discovered that the shell script used to launch Opera parses shell commands that are enclosed within backticks in the URL provided via the command line. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticin...

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...

Zope: File inclusion through RestructuredText

Background Zope is an application server that can be used to build content management systems, intranets, portals or other custom applications. Description Zope honors file inclusion directives in RestructuredText objects by default. Impact An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending...

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...

util-linux: umount command validation error

Background util-linux is a suite of useful Linux programs including umount, a program used to unmount filesystems. Description When a regular user mounts a filesystem, they are subject to restrictions in the /etc/fstab configuration file. David Watson discovered that when unmounting a filesystem...

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...

sandbox: Insecure temporary file handling

Background sandbox is a Gentoo Linux utility used by the Portage package management system. Description The Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the sandbox utility was vulnerable to multiple TOCTOU Time of Check, Time of Use file creation race conditions. Impact Local users may be ab...

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...

Hashcash: Format string vulnerability

Background Hashcash is a utility for generating Hashcash tokens, a proof-of-work system to reduce the impact of spam. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the Hashcash utility that an attacker could expose by specifying a malformed reply address...

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...

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,...

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...