cups-filters: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background cups-filters is an OpenPrinting CUPS Filters. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cups-filters. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted print job using cups-filters...

e2fsprogs: Arbitrary code execution

Background e2fsprogs is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Description e2fsprogs has a heap-based buffer overflow in closefs.c in the libext2fs library. Impact A local attacker could execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted block group descriptor...

libXfont: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libXfont is an X11 font rasterisation library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libXfont. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition...

Ettercap: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ettercap is a comprehensive suite for man in the middle attacks. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ettercap. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

OpenVPN: Denial of service

Background OpenVPN is a multi-platform, full-featured SSL VPN solution. Description OpenVPN does not properly handle control channel packets that are too small. Impact A remote authenticated attacker could send a specially crafted control channel packet, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service...

MuPDF: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MuPDF. Please review the CVE identifier and Secunia Research referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially...

QtGui: Denial of service

Background QtGui is the GUI module and platform plugins for the Qt5 framework. Description A NULL pointer dereference has been found in QtGui. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted GIF image, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known...

Django: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Django is a Python-based web framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Django. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to create a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, or...

Xfig: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Xfig is an interactive drawing tool. Description A stack-based buffer overflow and a stack consumption vulnerability have been found in Xfig. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution or a Denial of...

Net-SNMP: Denial of service

Background Net-SNMP bundles software for generating and retrieving SNMP data. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Net-SNMP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could create a Denial of Service condition. Workaround Ther...

lib3ds: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background lib3ds is a library for managing 3D-Studio Release 3 and 4 .3DS files. Description An array index error has been discovered in lib3ds. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted 3DS file using an application linked against lib3ds, possibly resulting in...

libSRTP: Denial of service

Background libSRTP is an Open-source implementation of the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol. Description A flaw was found in how the cryptopolicysetfromprofileforrtp function applies cryptographic profiles to an srtppolicy in libSRTP. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability t...

file: Denial of service

Background file is a utility that guesses a file format by scanning binary data for patterns. Description A flaw was found in the way the file utility determines the type of a file. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in a Denial of...

Gnash: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Gnash is a GNU flash movie player that supports many SWF features. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gnash: The "nsPluginInstance::setupCookies" function in plugin.cpp creates world-readable cookies with predictable file names CVE-2011-4328. The "GnashImage::size"...

TeX Live: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background TeX Live is a complete TeX distribution. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in texlive-core. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact These vulnerabilities might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a...

Wicd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in Wicd: Passwords and passphrases are written to /var/log/wicd CVE-2012-0813. Input from the daemon's D-Bus interface is not properly sanitized CVE-2012-2095. Impact A...

Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Pidgin is an GTK Instant Messenger client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact These vulnerabilities allow for arbitrary file retrieval, Denial of Service and arbitrary code executio...

InspIRCd: Arbitrary code execution

Background InspIRCd Inspire IRCd is a modular C++ IRC daemon Description A vulnerability in InspIRCd allows DNS compression features to control the number of overflowed bytes sent to the heap-based buffer "res" in dns.cpp. Impact A remote attacker could send specially crafted DNS responses,...

Logwatch: Arbitrary code execution

Background Logwatch analyzes and reports on system logs. Description logwatch.pl does not properly sanitize log filenames against shell metacharacters before passing them to the "system" function. Impact A remote attacker could pass a specially crafted log filename to Logwatch, possibly resulting...

Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open source web browser project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review the CVE identifiers and release notes referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web site usi...

Audacious Plugins: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Plugins for the Audacious music player. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Audacious Plugins: The "CSoundFile::ReadWav" function in loadwav.cpp contains an integer overflow which could cause a heap-based buffer overflow CVE-2011-2911. The "CSoundFile::ReadS3M"...

Logsurfer: Arbitrary code execution

Background Logsurfer is a real time log monitoring and analysis tool. Description Logsurfer log files may contain substrings used for executing external commands. The prepareexec function in src/exec.c contains a double-free vulnerability. Impact A remote attacker could inject specially-crafted...

Avahi: Denial of service

Background Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Avahi. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service. Workaround There is no...

vsftpd: Denial of service

Background vsftpd is a very secure FTP daemon written with speed, size and security in mind. Description A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in vsftpd. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote authenticated attacker could cause a Denial of Servic...

sudo: Privilege escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description The command matching functionality does not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH...

aria2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background aria2 is a download utility with resuming and segmented downloading with HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent support. Description Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa reported a buffer overflow in DHTRoutingTableDeserializer.cc CVE-2009-3575 and a format string vulnerability in the AbstractCommand::onAbort...

UW IMAP toolkit: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The UW IMAP toolkit is a daemon for the IMAP and POP3 network mail protocols. The c-client library provides an API for IMAP, POP3 and other protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the UW IMAP toolkit: Aron Andersson and Jan Sahlin of Bitsec reported boundary error...

ZNC: Directory traversal

Background ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer. Description The vendor reported a directory traversal vulnerability when processing DCC SEND requests. Impact A remote, authenticated user could send a specially crafted DCC SEND request to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user runnin...

HTMLDOC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background HTMLDOC is a HTML indexer and HTML to PS and PDF converter. Description ANTHRAX666 reported an insecure call to the sscanf function in the setpagesize function in htmldoc/util.cxx. Nico Golde of the Debian Security Team found two more insecure calls in the writetype1 function in...

Lynx: Arbitrary command execution

Background Lynx is a fully-featured WWW client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices such as vt100 terminals and terminal emulators. Description Clint Ruoho reported that the fix for CVE-2005-2929 GLSA 200511-09 only disabled the lynxcgi:// handler when not using th...

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...

udev: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background udev is the device manager used in the Linux 2.6 kernel series. Description Sebastian Krahmer of SUSE discovered the following two vulnerabilities: udev does not verify the origin of NETLINK messages properly CVE-2009-1185. A buffer overflow exists in the utilpathencode function in...

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...

Vinagre: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Vinagre is a VNC Client for the GNOME Desktop. Description Alfredo Ortega Core Security Technologies reported a format string error in the vinagreutilsshowerror function in src/vinagre-utils.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user into opening a specially crafted .vnc file or...

Online-Bookmarks: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Online-Bookmarks is a web-based bookmark management system to store your bookmarks, favorites and links. Description The following vulnerabilities were reported: Authentication bypass when directly requesting certain pages CVE-2004-2155. Insufficient input validation in the login...

JasPer: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free software-based reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 jpeg2k standard. Description Marc Espie and Christian Weisgerber have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in JasPer: Multiple integer...

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...

Roundup: Permission bypass

Background Roundup is an issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. Description Philipp Gortan reported that the xml-rpc server in Roundup does not check property permissions CVE-2008-1475. Furthermore, Roland Meister discovered multiple vulnerabilities caused by...

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...

Paramiko: Information disclosure

Background Paramiko is a Secure Shell Server implementation written in Python. Description Dwayne C. Litzenberger reported that the file "common.py" does not properly use RandomPool when using threads or forked processes. Impact A remote attacker could predict the values generated by applications...

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 ...

Cairo: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Cairo is a 2D vector graphics library with cross-device output support. Description Multiple integer overflows were reported, one of which Peter Valchev Google Security found to be leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the cairoimagesurfacecreatefrompng function that processes PNG...

PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PCRE is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions. Description Tavis Ormandy Google Security discovered multiple vulnerabilities in PCRE. He reported an error when processing "\Q\E" sequences with unmatched "\E" codes that can lead to the compiled bytecode...

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...

TRAMP: Insecure temporary file creation

Background TRAMP is a remote file editing package for GNU Emacs, a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Stefan Monnier discovered that the tramp-make-tramp-temp-file function creates temporary files in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links ...

DenyHosts: Denial of service

Background DenyHosts is designed to monitor SSH servers for repeated failed login attempts. Description Daniel B. Cid discovered that DenyHosts used an incomplete regular expression to parse failed login attempts, a different issue than GLSA 200701-01. Impact A remote unauthenticated attacker can...

Evolution: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Evolution is the mail client of the GNOME desktop environment. Description Ulf Harnhammar from Secunia Research has discovered a format string error in the writehtml function in the file calendar/gui/e-cal-component-memo-preview.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

libexif: Integer overflow vulnerability

Background libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif data. Description Victor Stinner reported an integer overflow in the exifdataloaddataentry function from file exif-data.c while handling Exif data. Impact An attacker could entice a user to process a file with specially crafted...

BEAST: Denial of service

Background BEdevilled Audio SysTem is an audio compositor, supporting a wide range of audio formats. Description BEAST, which is installed as setuid root, fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if seteuid fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource limits. Impact A...

NAS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background NAS is a network transparent, client/server audio transport system. Description Luigi Auriemma has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in NAS, some of which include a buffer overflow in the function acceptattlocal, an integer overflow in the function ProcAuWriteElement, and a null...