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...

DokuWiki: Shell command injection and Denial of service

Background DokuWiki is a wiki targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It does not use a database backend. Description Input validation flaws have been discovered in the image handling of fetch.php if ImageMagick is used, which is not the default method. Impact A remote attack...

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...

AlsaPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows

Background AlsaPlayer is a heavily multithreaded PCM player that tries to utilize ALSA utilities and drivers. As of June 2004, the project is inactive. Description AlsaPlayer contains three buffer overflows: in the function that handles the HTTP connections, the GTK interface, and the CDDB queryi...

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...

Typespeed: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Typespeed is a game to test and practice 10-finger-typing. Network code allows two users to compete head-to-head. Description Niko Tyni discovered a buffer overflow in the addnewword function of Typespeed's network code. Impact By sending specially crafted network packets to a machine...

GDM: Privilege escalation

Background GDM is the GNOME display manager. Description GDM allows a normal user to access the configuration manager. Impact When the "face browser" in GDM is enabled, a normal user can use the "configure login manager" with his/her own password instead of the root password, and thus gain...

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...

libextractor: Two heap-based buffer overflows

Background libextractor is a library used to extract metadata from arbitrary files. Description Luigi Auriemma has found two heap-based buffer overflows in libextractor 0.5.13 and earlier: one of them occurs in the asfreadheader function in the ASF plugin, and the other occurs in the parsetrakato...

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...

NetHack, Slash'EM, Falcon's Eye: Local privilege escalation

Background NetHack is the classic single player dungeon exploration game. Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye are NetHack variants. Description NetHack, Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye have been found to be incompatible with the system used for managing games on Gentoo Linux. As a result, they cannot be played...

GPdf: heap overflows in included Xpdf code

Background GPdf is a Gnome PDF viewer. Description Dirk Mueller found a heap overflow vulnerability in the XPdf codebase when handling splash images that exceed size of the associated bitmap. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file with GPdf, potentially...

Inkscape: Buffer overflow

Background Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics SVG file format. Description Joxean Koret has discovered that Inkscape incorrectly allocates memory when opening an SVG file, creating the possibility of a buffer overflow if the SVG file...

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...

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,...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird: "mozbugra4" and "shutdown" discovered that Thunderbird was improperly cloning base objects MFSA 2005-56. "mozbugra4"...

IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of service

Background IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping, and ping6. Description Sebastian Krahmer has reported a potential remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the ISAKMP header parsing cod...

ImageMagick: Filename handling vulnerability

Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools and libraries for manipulating a wide variety of image formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has identified a flaw in the handling of filenames by the ImageMagick utilities. Impact Successful exploitation may...

ncpfs: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ncpfs is a NCP protocol network filesystem driver that allows access to NetWare services, to mount volumes of NetWare servers or print to NetWare print queues. Description Erik Sjolund discovered two vulnerabilities in the programs bundled with ncpfs: there is a potentially exploitable...

poppassd_pam: Unauthorized password changing

Background poppassdpam is a PAM-enabled server for changing system passwords that can be used to change POP server passwords. Description Gentoo Linux developer Marcus Hanwell discovered that poppassdpam did not check that the old password was valid before changing passwords. Our investigation...

LinPopUp: Buffer overflow in message reply

Background LinPopUp is a graphical application that acts as a frontend to Samba client messaging functions, allowing a Linux desktop to communicate with a Microsoft Windows computer that runs Winpopup. Description Stephen Dranger discovered that LinPopUp contains a buffer overflow in string.c,...

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 Jim Paris has discovered a cross-site scripting...

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...

jabberd 1.x: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Jabber is a set of streaming XML protocols enabling message, presence, and other structured information exchange between two hosts. jabberd is the original implementation of the Jabber protocol server. Description Jose Antonio Calvo found a defect in routines handling XML parsing of...

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...

Opera: Multiple new vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Opera web browser. Opera fails to deny write access to the "location" browser object. An attacker can overwrite methods in this object and gain script access to any page that uses one of...

CVS: malformed module request vulnerability

Background CVS, which stands for Concurrent Versions System, is a client/server application which tracks changes to sets of files. It allows multiple users to work concurrently on files, and then merge their changes back into the main tree which can be on a remote system. It also allows branching...

Spidermonkey: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background SpiderMonkey is Mozilla’s JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine, used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects. It is written in C++, Rust and JavaScript. You can embed it into C++ and Rust projects, and it can be run as a stand-alone shell. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have be...

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...

Freenet: Deanonymization Vulnerability

Background Freenet is an encrypted network without censorship. Description This release fixes a severe vulnerability in path folding that allowed to distinguish between downloaders and forwarders with an adapted node that is directly connected via opennet. Impact This release fixes a severe...

BusyBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background BusyBox is set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

PoDoFo: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background PoDoFo is a free portable C++ library to work with the PDF file format. Description Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All PoDoFo use...

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...

GNU Tar: Out of Bounds Read

Background The GNU Tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. Description A vulnerability have been discovered in GNU Tar. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact GNU Tar has a one-byte out-of-bounds read...

SDDM: Privilege Escalation

Background SDDM is a modern display manager for X11 and Wayland sessions aiming to be fast, simple and beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the designer the ability to create smooth, animated user interfaces. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in...

GOCR: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background GOCR is an OCR Optical Character Recognition program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GOCR. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact...

Leptonica: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Leptonica is a C library for image processing and analysis. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Leptonica. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no...

GNU Libmicrohttpd: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Background GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that makes it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. GNU Libmicrohttpd is free software and part of the GNU project. Description A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in GNU Libmicrohttpd. Please review the CVE...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

ISC DHCP: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background ISC DHCP is ISC's reference implementation of all aspects of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ISC DHCP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifie...

Alpine: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Alpine is an easy to use text-based based mail and news client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Alpine. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

lesspipe: Arbitrary Code Exeecution

Background lesspipe is a preprocessor for less. Description lesspipe has support for parsing Perl storable "PST" files, Impact A crafted Perl storable file which is passed into lesspipe could result in arbitrary code execution. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All...

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...

Deluge: Cross-Site Scripting

Background Deluge is a BitTorrent client. Description Deluge does not sufficiently sanitize crafted torrent file data, leading to the application interpreting untrusted data as HTML. Impact An attacker can achieve XSS via a crafted torrent file. Workaround There is no known workaround at this tim...

ClamAV: Denial of service

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in ClamAV. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause ClamAV to scan a specially crafted file, possibly resulting a Denial of Service condition...

ZNC: Privilege escalation

Background ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer. Description It was discovered that ZNC’s “Modules.cpp” allows remote authenticated non-admin users to escalate privileges. Impact A remote authenticated attacker could escalate privileges and subsequently execute arbitrary code or conduct a Denial of...

mailx: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A utility program for sending and receiving mail, also known as a Mail User Agent program. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mailx. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands...