Xpdf: Untrusted search path

Background Xpdf is a PDF file viewer that runs under the X Window System. Description Erik Wallin reported that Gentoo's Xpdf attempts to read the "xpdfrc" file from the current working directory if it cannot find a ".xpdfrc" file in the user's home directory. This is caused by a missing definiti...

Muttprint: Insecure temporary file usage

Background Muttprint formats the output of mail clients to a good-looking printing using LaTeX. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure usage of the temporary file "/tmp/muttprint.log" in the muttprint script. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrar...

Ghostscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and the Portable Document Format PDF. Description Jan Lieskovsky from the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered the following vulnerabilities in Ghostscript's ICC Library: Multiple integer overflows CVE-2009-0583. Multiple...

BlueZ: Arbitrary code execution

Background BlueZ is a set of Bluetooth tools and system daemons for Linux. Description It has been reported that the Bluetooth packet parser does not validate string length fields in SDP packets. Impact A physically proximate attacker using a Bluetooth device with an already established trust...

BitlBee: Security bypass

Background BitlBee is an IRC to IM gateway that support multiple IM protocols. Description Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities were reported, including a NULL pointer dereference. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to overwrite existing IM accounts. Workaround There is ...

R: Insecure temporary file creation

Background R is a GPL licensed implementation of S, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the "javareconf" script uses temporary files in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...

Postfix: Denial of service

Background Postfix is Wietse Venema's mailer that attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Description It has been discovered than Postfix leaks an epoll file descriptor when executing external commands, e.g. user-controlled...

ClamAV: Multiple Denials of Service

Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Damian Put has discovered an out-of-bounds memory access while processing Petite files CVE-2008-2713, CVE-2008-3215. Also, please note that the 0.93 ClamAV branch...

Mercurial: Directory traversal

Background Mercurial is a distributed Source Control Management system. Description Jakub Wilk discovered a directory traversal vulnerabilty in the applydiff function in the mercurial/patch.py file. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to import a specially crafted patch, possibly resulti...

Imlib 2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Imlib 2 is an advanced replacement library for libraries like libXpm. Description Stefan Cornelius Secunia Research reported two boundary errors in Imlib2: One of them within the load function in the file src/modules/loaders/loaderpnm.c when processing the header of a PNM image file,...

MoinMoin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible Wiki Engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered: A vulnerability exists in the file wikimacro.py because the macroGetval function does not properly enforce ACLs CVE-2008-1099. A directory traversal vulnerability...

Python: PCRE Integer overflow

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description Python 2.3 includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to an integer overflow vulnerability, leading to a buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a vulnerabl...

Xdg-Utils: Arbitrary command execution

Background Xdg-Utils is a set of tools allowing all applications to easily integrate with the Free Desktop configuration. Description Miroslav Lichvar discovered that the "xdg-open" and "xdg-email" shell scripts do not properly sanitize their input before processing it. Impact A remote attacker...

CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background CherryPy is a Python-based, object-oriented web development framework. Description CherryPy does not sanitize the session id, provided as a cookie value, in the FileSession.getfilepath function before using it as part of the file name. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this...

TikiWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background TikiWiki is an open source content management system written in PHP. Description Jesus Olmos Gonzalez from isecauditors reported insufficient sanitization of the "movies" parameter in file tiki-listmovies.php CVE-2007-6528. Mesut Timur from H-Labs discovered that the input passed to th...

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...

Evolution: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Evolution is the mail client of the GNOME desktop environment. Camel is the Evolution Data Server module that handles mail functions. Description The imaprescan function of the file camel-imap-folder.c does not properly sanitize the "SEQUENCE" response sent by an IMAP server before bei...

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...

DokuWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background DokuWiki is a simple to use wiki aimed at creating documentation. Description DokuWiki does not sanitize user input to the GET variable 'media' in the fetch.php file. Impact An attacker could entice a user to click a specially crafted link and inject CRLF characters into the variable...

Asterisk: SIP Denial of service

Background Asterisk is an open source implementation of a telephone private branch exchange PBX. Description The MU Security Research Team discovered that Asterisk contains a NULL-pointer dereferencing error in the SIP channel when handling request messages. Impact A remote attacker could cause a...

Mono: Information disclosure

Background Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on various platforms. Description Jose Ramon Palanco has discovered that the System.Web class in the XSP for the ASP.NET server 1.1 through 2.0 in Mono does not properly validate or sanitize loc...

DenyHosts: Denial of service

Background DenyHosts is designed to monitor SSH servers for repeated failed login attempts. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that DenyHosts used an incomplete regular expression to parse failed login attempts. Impact A remote unauthenticated attacker ca...

Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background The Tar program provides the ability to create and manipulate tar archives. Description Tar does not properly extract archive elements using the GNUTYPENAMES record name, allowing files to be created at arbitrary locations using symlinks. Once a symlink is extracted, files after the...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla Project. Description It has been identified that Mozilla Thunderbird improperly handles Script objects while they are being executed, allowing them to be modified during execution. JavaScript is disabled in...

Kile: Incorrect backup file permission

Background Kile is a TeX/LaTeX editor for KDE. Description Kile fails to set the same permissions on backup files as on the original file. This is similar to CVE-2005-1920. Impact A kile user may inadvertently grant access to sensitive information. Workaround There is no known workaround at this...

GraphicsMagick: PALM and DCM buffer overflows

Background GraphicsMagick is a collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating images in many major formats. Description M. Joonas Pihlaja has reported that a boundary error exists within the ReadDCMImage function of coders/dcm.c, causing the improper handling o...

Cscope: Multiple buffer overflows

Background Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code. Description Unchecked use of strcpy and scanf leads to several buffer overflows. Impact A user could be enticed to open a carefully crafted file which would allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the...

BIND: Denial of service

Background ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocol. Description Queries for SIG records will cause an assertion error if more than one SIG RRset is returned. Additionally, an INSIST failure can be triggered by sending multiple recursive...

GTetrinet: Remote code execution

Background GTetrinet is a networked Tetris clone for GNOME 2. Description Michael Gehring has found that GTetrinet fails to properly handle array indexes. Impact An attacker can potentially execute arbitrary code by sending a negative number of players to the server. Workaround There is no known...

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...

Warzone 2100 Resurrection: Multiple buffer overflows

Background Warzone 2100 Resurrection is a real-time strategy game, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Warzone 2100 Resurrection. The recvTextMessage function of the Warzone 2100 Resurrection...

SpamAssassin: Execution of arbitrary code

Background SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter used to identify junk email. spamd is the daemonized version of SpamAssassin. Description When spamd is run with both the "--vpopmail" -v and "--paranoid" -P options, it is vulnerable to an unspecified issue. Impact With certain configuration...

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...

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...

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...

Lynx: Buffer overflow in NNTP processing

Background Lynx is a text-mode browser for the World Wide Web. It supports multiple URL types, including HTTP and NNTP URLs. Description When accessing a NNTP URL, Lynx connects to a NNTP server and retrieves information about the available articles in the target newsgroup. Ulf Harnhammar...

MPlayer: Heap overflow in ad_pcm.c

Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description Sven Tantau discovered a heap overflow in the code handling the strf chunk of PCM audio streams. Impact An attacker could craft a malicious video or audio file which, when opened using MPlayer,...

Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.12, including: The SMB dissector could overflow a buffer or exhaust memory CAN-2005-2365. iDEFENSE discovered that several dissectors are vulnerabl...

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...

Smarty: Template vulnerability

Background Smarty is a template engine for PHP. The "template security" feature of Smarty is designed to help reduce the risk of a system compromise when you have untrusted parties editing templates. Description A vulnerability has been discovered within the regexreplace modifier of the Smarty...

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...

Newspost: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Newspost is a Usenet News binary autoposter. Description Niels Heinen has discovered a buffer overflow in the socketgetline function of Newspost, which can be triggered by providing long strings that do not end with a newline character. Impact A remote attacker could setup a malicious...

f2c: Insecure temporary file creation

Background f2c is a Fortran to C translator. Portage uses this package in some ebuilds to build Fortran sources. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Team discovered that f2c creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact...

TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution

Background TikiWiki is a web-based groupware and content management system CMS, using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. Description TikiWiki lacks a check on uploaded images in the Wiki edit page. Impact A malicious user could run arbitrary commands on the server by uploading and calling a PHP script...

xine-lib: Multiple overflows

Background xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. Description Ariel Berkman discovered that xine-lib reads specific input data into an array without checking the input size in demuxaiff.c, making it vulnerable to a buffer overflow CAN-2004-1300...

socat: Format string vulnerability

Background socat is a multipurpose bidirectional relay, similar to netcat. Description socat contains a syslog based format string vulnerablility in the 'msg' function of 'error.c'. Exploitation of this bug is only possible when socat is run with the '-ly' option, causing it to log messages to...

BNC: Input validation flaw

Background BNC is an IRC proxying server Description A flaw exists in the input parsing of BNC where part of the sbufgetmsg function handles the backspace character incorrectly. Impact A remote user could issue commands using fake authentication credentials and possibly gain access to scripts...

Gallery: Arbitrary command execution

Background Gallery is a PHP script for maintaining online photo albums. Description The upload handling code in Gallery places uploaded files in a temporary directory. After 30 seconds, these files are deleted if they are not valid images. However, since the file exists for 30 seconds, a carefull...

MoinMoin: Group ACL bypass

Background MoinMoin is a Python clone of WikiWiki, based on PikiPiki. Description MoinMoin contains two unspecified bugs, one allowing anonymous users elevated access when not using ACLs, and the other in the ACL handling in the PageEditor. Impact Restrictions on anonymous users were not properly...