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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...
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...
MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background MIT Kerberos 5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description Daniel Wachdorf discovered that MIT Kerberos 5 could corrupt the heap by freeing unallocated memory when receiving a special TCP request...
mit-krb5: Multiple buffer overflows in telnet client
Background The MIT Kerberos 5 implementation provides a command line telnet client which is used for remote login via the telnet protocol. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the envoptadd function, where a response requiring excessive escaping can cause a heap-based buffer...
Grip: CDDB response overflow
Background Grip is a GTK+ based audio CD player/ripper. Description Joseph VanAndel has discovered a buffer overflow in Grip when processing large CDDB results. Impact A malicious CDDB server could cause Grip to crash by returning more then 16 matches, potentially allowing the execution of...
mpg123: Playlist buffer overflow
Background mpg123 is a MPEG Audio Player. Description Bartlomiej Sieka discovered that mpg123 contains an unsafe strcat to an array in playlist.c. This code vulnerability may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could craft a malicious playlist which, when used, would result in the...
ProZilla: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ProZilla is a download accelerator for Linux. Description ProZilla contains several exploitable buffer overflows in the code handling the network protocols. Impact A remote attacker could setup a malicious server and entice a user to retrieve files from that server using ProZilla. This...
Cherokee: Format string vulnerability
Background Cherokee is an extra-light web server. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in the cherokeeloggerncsawritestring function. Impact Using a specially crafted URL when authenticating via authpam, a malicious user may ...
PuTTY: Pre-authentication buffer overflow
Background PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. Description PuTTY fails to do proper bounds checking on SSH2MSGDEBUG packets. The "stringlen" parameter value is incorrectly checked due to signedness issues. Note that...
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...
SUS: Local root vulnerability
Background SUS is a utility that allows regular users to be able to execute certain commands as root. Description Leon Juranic found a bug in the logging functionality of SUS that can lead to local privilege escalation. A format string vulnerability exists in the log function due to an incorrect...
star: Suid root vulnerability
Background star is an enhanced tape archiver, much like tar, that is recognized for it's speed as well as it's enhanced mt/rmt support. Description A suid root vulnerability exists in versions of star that are configured to use ssh for remote tape access. Impact Attackers with local user level...
Heimdal: Kerberos 4 buffer overflow in kadmin
Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos. Description A buffer overflow was discovered in kadmind, a server for administrative access to the Kerberos database. Impact By sending a specially formatted message to kadmind, a remote attacker may be able to crash kadmind causing a denia...
Insecure Temporary File Creation In MySQL
Background MySQL is a popular open-source multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description The MySQL bug reporting utility mysqlbug creates a temporary file to log bug reports to. A malicious local user with write access to the /tmp directory could create a symbolic link of the name...
Buffer overflow in Subversion
Background Subversion is a version control system intended to eventually replace CVS. Like CVS, it has an optional client-server architecture where the server can be an Apache server running modsvn, or an ssh program as in CVS's :ext: method. In addition to supporting the features found in CVS,...
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...
ExifTool: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ExifTool. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for...
Rebar3: Command Injection
Background A sophisticated build-tool for Erlang projects that follows OTP principles. Description Rebar3 is vulnerable to OS command injection via the URL parameter of a dependency specification. Impact A vulnerability has been discovered in Rebar3. Please review the CVE identifier referenced...
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...
exif: Denial of Service
Background libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif metadata from images. exif is a small command line interface for libexif. Description There is a bug in exif's XML output format which can result in a null pointer dereference when outputting crafted JPEG EXIF data. Impact A...
libass: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha subtitle format. Description It was discovered that libass did not properly handle Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha subtitle format files. Impact A remote attacker could entice a...
chrony: Symlink vulnerability
Background chrony is a versatile implementation of the Network Time Protocol NTP. Description It was found that chrony did not check whether its PID file was a symlink. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges. Workaround There is no...
X.Org X11 library: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background X.Org is an implementation of the X Window System. The X.Org X11 library provides the X11 protocol library files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.org X11 library. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the...
PLIB: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background PLIB includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font rendering, a simple Windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI, networking, 3D math library and a collection of handy utility functions. Description A stack-based buffer overflow within the error function of...
LibXcursor: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background X.Org X11 libXcursor runtime library. Description It was discovered that libXcursor is prone to several heap overflows when parsing malicious files. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted cursor file, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the...
dhcpcd: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background A fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP client Description A heap overflow can be triggered via malformed DHCP responses in the printoption via dhcpenvoption1 due to incorrect option length values. These vulnerabilities could also allow remote attackers to trigger an...
GnuPG: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GnuPG and libgcrypt, please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could possibly caus...
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...
libCapsiNetwork: Denial of service
Background libCapsiNetwork is a C++ network library to allow fast development of server daemon processes. Description An off-by-one buffer overflow in libcapsinetwork network handling code is discovered. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to application, that is linke...
libxml2: Denial of service
Background libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. Description libxml2 returns the empty string when the allocation limit is encountered while constructing the attribute value string. Impact A remote attacker may be able to cause Denial of Service via a specially...
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...
tcpdump: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background tcpdump is a tool for capturing and inspecting network traffic. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump: The olsrprint function function contains an integer underflow error CVE-2014-8767 The geonetprint function function contains multiple integer underflow...
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...
grep: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background grep is the GNU regular expression matcher. Description An integer overflow flaw has been discovered in grep. Impact An attacker could entice a user to run grep on a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial...
ArgyllCMS: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background ArgyllCMS is an ICC compatible color management system that supports accurate ICC profile creation for scanners, cameras and film recorders. Description Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ICC Format Library in ArgyllCMS. Impact A remote attacker could...
KVIrc: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on Qt. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in KVIrc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause ...
Freeciv: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Freeciv is an open-source empire building strategy game. Description The Lua component of Freeciv does not restrict which modules may be loaded by scenario scripts. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted scenario file, possibly resulting in execution o...
acpid2: Privilege escalation
Background acpid2 is a daemon for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. Description acpid2 does not properly use the pidof program in powerbtn.sh. Impact A local attacker could gain escalated privileges. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All acpid2 users shoul...
TPTEST: Arbitrary code execution
Background TPTEST is a tool to measure the speed of a user’s Internet connection. Description The GetStatsFromLine function in TPTEST is vulnerable to buffer overflows from STATS lines with long email and pwd fields. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted STATS line, possibly...
Perl Config-IniFiles Module: Insecure temporary file usage
Background Config-IniFiles is a Perl module for reading .ini-style configuration files. Description The Perl Config-IniFiles module uses predicatable temporary file names. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running th...
msmtp: X.509 NULL spoofing vulnerability
Background msmtp is an SMTP client and SMTP plugin for mail user agents such as Mutt. Description A vulnerability have been discovered in msmtp. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker might employ a specially crafted certificate to conduct...
ModPlug: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background ModPlug is a library for playing MOD-like music. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ModPlug: The ReadS3M method in loads3m.cpp fails to validate user-supplied information, which could cause a stack-based buffer overflow CVE-2011-1574. The "CSoundFile::ReadWav"...
Openswan: Denial of service
Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in Openswan: Improper permissions are used on /var/run/starter.pid and /var/lock/subsys/ipsec CVE-2011-2147. Openswan contains a use-after-free error in the cryptographic helper handler...
MaraDNS: Denial of service
Background MaraDNS is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching. Description MaraDNS does not properly randomize hash functions to protect against hash collision attacks. Impact A remote attacker could send many specially crafted DNS recursive queries, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service...
bip: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background bip is a multi-user IRC proxy with SSL support. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in bip: Uli Schlachter reported that bip does not properly handle invalid data during authentication, resulting in a daemon crash CVE-2010-3071. Julien Tinnes reported that bip doe...
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...
nano: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background nano is a GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality. Description Multiple race condition vulnerabilities have been discovered in nano. For further information please consult the CVE entries referenced below. Impact Under certain conditions, a local, user-assisted attacker could...
multipath-tools: World-writeable socket
Background multipath-tools are used to drive the Device Mapper multipathing driver. Description multipath-tools uses world-writable permissions for the socket file /var/run/multipathd.sock. Impact Local users could send arbitrary commands to the multipath daemon, causing cluster failures and data...
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...
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...