Blender: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Blender is a 3D creation, animation and publishing program. Description Stefan Cornelius Secunia Research reported a boundary error within the imbloadhdr function in in the file source/blender/imbuf/intern/radiancehdr.c when processing RGBE images CVE-2008-1102. Multiple vulnerabilitie...

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...

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...

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...

Netkit FTP Server: Denial of service

Background net-ftp/netkit-ftpd is the Linux Netkit FTP server with optional SSL support. Description Venustech AD-LAB discovered that an FTP client connected to a vulnerable server with passive mode and SSL support can trigger an fclose function call on an uninitialized stream in ftpd.c. Impact A...

MadWifi: Denial of service

Background The MadWifi driver provides support for Atheros based IEEE 802.11 Wireless Lan cards. Description Clemens Kolbitsch and Sylvester Keil reported an error when processing beacon frames with an overly large "length" value in the "xrates" element. Impact A remote attacker could act as an...

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...

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...

IPsec-Tools: 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 The isakmpinforecv function in src/racoon/isakmpinf.c does not always check that DELETE ISAKMPNPTYPED and NOTIFY...

Courier-IMAP: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Courier-IMAP is an IMAP server which is part of the Courier mail system. It provides access only to maildirs. Description CJ Kucera has discovered that some Courier-IMAP scripts don't properly handle the XMAILDIR variable, allowing for shell command injection. Impact A remote attacker...

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...

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...

ModPlug: Multiple buffer overflows

Background ModPlug is a library for playing MOD-like music. Description Luigi Auriemma has reported various boundary errors in loadit.cpp and a boundary error in the "CSoundFile::ReadSample" function in sndfile.cpp. Impact A remote attacker can entice a user to read crafted modules or ITP files,...

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...

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...

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...

Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities in included ADOdb

Background Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool. ADOdb is a PHP-based database abstraction layer which is included in Cacti. Description Several vulnerabilities have been identified in the copy of ADOdb included in Cacti. Andreas Sandblad discovered a dynamic code evaluation...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description ClamAV contains format string vulnerabilities in the logging code CVE-2006-1615. Furthermore Damian Put discovered an integer overflow in ClamAV's PE header parser CVE-2006-1614 and David Luyer discovered that ClamAV can be tricked into...

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...

ADOdb: PostgresSQL command injection

Background ADOdb is an abstraction library for PHP creating a common API for a wide range of database backends. Description Andy Staudacher discovered that ADOdb does not properly sanitize all parameters. Impact By sending specifically crafted requests to an application that uses ADOdb and a...

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"...

OpenOffice.Org: DOC document Heap Overflow

Background OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description AD-LAB has discovered a heap overflow in the "StgCompObjStream::Load" function when processing D...

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...

sharutils: Buffer overflows in shar.c and unshar.c

Background sharutils contains utilities to manage shell archives. Description sharutils contains two buffer overflows. Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in shar.c, where the length of data returned by the wc command is not checked. Florian Schilhabel discovered another buffer overflow i...

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...

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,...

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...