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...

Cacti: Remote code execution

Background Cacti is a complete frontend to rrdtool. Description The sideid parameter in datadebug.php does not properly verify input allowing SQL injection. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition...

Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...

icoutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A set of command-line programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft WindowsR icon and cursor files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in icoutils. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice ...

OptiPNG: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that re-compresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OptiPNG. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...

Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote...

irssi: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background irssi is a modular textUI IRC client with IPv6 support. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in irssi. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process ...

Varnish: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Varnish is a web application accelerator. Description Varnish fails to properly validate input from HTTP headers, and does not deny requests with multiple Content-Length headers. Impact Remote attackers could conduct an HTTP response splitting attack, which may further enable them to...

gdk-pixbuf: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background gdk-pixbuf is an image loading library for GTK+. Description Three heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in gdk-pixbuf. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted ima...

FreeRDP: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background FreeRDP is a free implementation of the remote desktop protocol. Description FreeRDP does not properly validate user-supplied input, which could lead to an integer overflow in the xfPointerNew function. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

mod_wsgi: Privilege escalation

Background modwsgi is an Apache2 module for running Python WSGI applications. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in modwsgi: Error codes returned by setuid are not properly handled CVE-2014-0240 A memory leak exists via the “Content-Type” header CVE-2014-0242 Impact A local attacker...

Openswan: Denial of service

Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. Description A NULL pointer dereference has been found in Openswan. Impact A remote attacker could create a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution Gentoo has discontinued support for...

Catfish: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Catfish is a versatile file searching tool. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Catfish. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted shared library. Workaround...

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 context-dependent attacker could use a specially crafted file to gain privileges, cause a Denia...

Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...

OpenConnect: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background OpenConnect is a free client for Cisco AnyConnect SSL VPN software. Description A stack-based buffer overflow error has been discovered in OpenConnect. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious VPN server, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code...

MCrypt: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background MCrypt is a replacement of the old unix crypt1 utility. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MCrypt: A boundary error in MCrypt could cause a stack-based buffer overflow CVE-2012-4409. MCrypt contains multiple format string errors CVE-2012-4426. MCrypt does not...

pidgin-knotify: Arbitrary code execution

Background pidgin-knotify is a Pidgin plug-in to display message notifications in KDE. Description pidgin-knotify does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters from received messages. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted instant message, possibly resulting in execution of...

FreeType: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FreeType is a high-quality and portable font engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeType. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted font, possibly...

GNU TeXmacs: Privilege escalation

Background GNU TeXmacs is a free WYSIWYG editing platform with special features for scientists. Description The texmacs and tmmupadhelp scripts in TeXmacs place a zero-length directory name in the LDLIBRARYPATH, which might result in the current working directory . to be included when searching f...

HAProxy: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HAProxy. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact ...

Pidgin: Arbitrary code execution

Background Pidgin is a GTK Instant Messenger client for a variety of instant messaging protocols. libpurple is the core library for Pidgin. Description A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in the MXit protocol plug-in for libpurple. Impact A remote attacker could 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...

libvpx: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libvpx is the VP8 codec SDK used to encode and decode video streams, typically within a WebM format media file. Description libvpx is vulnerable to an integer overflow vulnerability when processing crafted VP8 video streams. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

TkMan: Insecure temporary file usage

Background TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that TkMan does not handle the "/tmp/tkman" and "/tmp/ll" temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with...

Avahi: Denial of service

Background Avahi is a system that facilitates service discovery on a local network. Description Hugo Dias reported a failed assertion in the originatesfromlocallegacyunicastsocket function in avahi-core/server.c when processing mDNS packets with a source port of 0. Impact A remote attacker could...

Ampache: Insecure temporary file usage

Background Ampache is a PHP based tool for managing, updating and playing audio files via a web interface. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the gather-messages.sh script. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Moritz Jodeit reported an off-by-one error within the getunicodename function in libclamav/vbaextract.c when processing VBA project files CVE-2008-5050. Ilja van...

libsamplerate: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Secret Rabbit Code aka libsamplerate is a Sample Rate Converter for audio. Description Russell O'Connor reported a buffer overflow in src/srcsinc.c related to low conversion ratios. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to process a specially crafted audio fi...

yelp: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background yelp is the default help browser for GNOME. Description Aaron Grattafiori reported a format string vulnerability in the windowerror function in yelp-window.c. Impact A remote attacker can entice a user to open specially crafted "man:" or "ghelp:" URIs in yelp, or an application using...

xine-lib: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background xine-lib is the core library package for the xine media player, and other players such as Amarok, Codeine/Dragon Player and Kaffeine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in xine-lib: Alin Rad Pop of Secunia reported an array indexing vulnerability in the...

PeerCast: Buffer overflow

Background PeerCast is a client and server for P2P-radio networks. Description Nico Golde reported a boundary error in the HTTP::getAuthUserPass function when processing overly long HTTP Basic authentication requests. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP request to the...

Poppler: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. Description Felipe Andres Manzano reported a memory management issue in the Page class constructor/destructor. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file with a...

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...

CUPS: Integer overflow vulnerability

Background CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. Description Thomas Pollet reported a possible integer overflow vulnerability in the PNG image handling in the file filter/image-png.c. Impact A malicious user might be able to execute arbitrary code with the...

ssl-cert eclass: Certificate disclosure

Background The ssl-cert eclass is a code module used by Gentoo ebuilds to generate SSL certificates. Description Robin Johnson reported that the docert function provided by ssl-cert.eclass can be called by source building stages of an ebuild, such as srccompile or srcinstall, which will result in...

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...

libcdio: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libcdio is a library for accessing CD-ROM and CD images. Description Devon Miller reported a boundary error in the "printiso9660recurse" function in files cd-info.c and iso-info.c when processing long filenames within Joliet images. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open ...

Syslog-ng: Denial of service

Background Syslog-ng is a flexible and scalable system logger. Description Oriol Carreras reported a NULL pointer dereference in the logmsgparse function when processing timestamps without a terminating whitespace character. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted event to a...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird's HTML browser engine CVE-2007-5339 and JavaScript engine CVE-2007-5340 that can be exploited to cause a memory corruption...

Pioneers: Multiple Denials of Service

Background Pioneers formerly gnocatan is a clone of the popular board game "The Settlers of Catan". Description Roland Clobus discovered that the Pioneers server may free sessions objects while they are still in use, resulting in access to invalid memory zones CVE-2007-5933. Bas Wijnen discovered...

T1Lib: Buffer overflow

Background T1Lib is a library for rasterizing bitmaps from Adobe Type 1 fonts. Description Hamid Ebadi discovered a boundary error in the intT1EnvGetCompletePath function which can lead to a buffer overflow when processing an overly long filename. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...

libvorbis: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libvorbis is the reference implementation of the Xiph.org Ogg Vorbis audio file format. It is used by many applications for playback of Ogg Vorbis files. Description David Thiel of iSEC Partners discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the 01inverse function in res0.c and a boundary...

RPCSEC_GSS library: Buffer overflow

Background librpcsecgss is an implementation of RPCSECGSS for secure RPC communications. Description A stack based buffer overflow has been discovered in the svcauthgssvalidate function in file lib/rpc/svcauthgss.c when processing an overly long string in a RPC message. Impact A remote attacker...

NVClock: Insecure file usage

Background NVClock is an utility for changing NVidia graphic chipsets internal frequency. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team discovered that NVClock makes usage of an insecure temporary file in the /tmp directory. Impact A local attacker could create a specially crafted...

MPlayer: Two buffer overflows

Background MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio and video formats. Description A buffer overflow has been reported in the DMOVideoDecoderOpen function in file loader/dmo/DMOVideoDecoder.c. Another buffer overflow has been reported in the DSVideoDecoderOpen function...

PostgreSQL: Privilege escalation

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description An error involving insecure searchpath settings in the SECURITY DEFINER functions has been reported in PostgreSQL. Impact If allowed to call a SECURITY DEFINER function, an attacker could gain the SQ...

ImageMagick: Multiple buffer overflows

Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools allowing various manipulations on image files. Description iDefense Labs has discovered multiple integer overflows in ImageMagick in the functions ReadDCMImage and ReadXWDImage, that are used to process DCM and XWD files. Impact An attacker could...

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...

Quagga: Denial of service

Background Quagga is a free routing daemon, supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP protocols. Description The Quagga development team reported a vulnerability in the BGP routing deamon when processing NLRI attributes inside UPDATE messages. Impact A malicious peer inside a BGP area could send a specially...