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...

Charybdis, ShadowIRCd: Denial of service

Background Charybdis is the Atheme Project’s IRC daemon based on ratbox. ShadowIRCd is an IRC daemon based on Charybdis that adds several useful features. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Charybdis and ShadowIRCd. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details...

QtCore: Denial of service

Background The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application development framework. Description A vulnerability in QXmlSimpleReader’s XML entity parsing has been discovered. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted XML file using an application linked against QtCor...

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 local attacker could use a specially crafted file to gain privileges or cause a Denial of Servi...

Apache mod_fcgid: Arbitrary code execution

Background Apache modfcgid is a binary-compatible alternative to modfastcgi with better process management. Description Apache modfcgid fails to perform a boundary check on user-supplied input, potentially resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker can supply a crafted...

libsmi: Arbitrary code execution

Background libsmi is a library that allows management applications to access SMI MIB module definitions. Description libsmi contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the smiGetNode function in lib/smi.c. Impact A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code by way of a...

Setuptools: Man-in-the-Middle attack

Background Setuptools is a manager for Python packages. Description Setuptools does not check the integrity of downloaded Python packages. Impact A remote attacker could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process. Workaround There is no known...

isync: Man-in-the-Middle attack

Background isync is an IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer. Description isync does not properly verify the server’s hostname against the CN field in the SSL certificate. Impact A remote server could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to disclose passwords or obtain other sensitive information...

Snack: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Snack is a sound toolkit for creating multi-platform audio applications with scripting languages. Description The GetWavHeader function in jkSoundFile.c does not have boundary checks when parsing format sub-chunks or unknown sub-chunks. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...

GIMP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GIMP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a...

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...

Puppet: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Puppet is a system configuration management tool written in Ruby. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet: Puppet uses predictable file names for temporary files CVE-2012-1906. REST requests for a file in a remote filebucket are not handled properly by overriding...

OpenJPEG: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 library. Description An error in jp2.c of OpenJPEG could allow an out-of-bounds write error. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted JPEG file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service...

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"...

Logsurfer: Arbitrary code execution

Background Logsurfer is a real time log monitoring and analysis tool. Description Logsurfer log files may contain substrings used for executing external commands. The prepareexec function in src/exec.c contains a double-free vulnerability. Impact A remote attacker could inject specially-crafted...

radvd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background radvd is an IPv6 router advertisement daemon for Linux and BSD. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in radvd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges, escalat...

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...

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...

Perl Compress::Raw modules: Denial of service

Background Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::Bzip2 are Perl low-level interfaces to the zlib and bzip2 compression libraries. Description Leo Bergolth reported an off-by-one error in the inflate function in Zlib.xs of Compress::Raw::Zlib, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow...

udev: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background udev is the device manager used in the Linux 2.6 kernel series. Description Sebastian Krahmer of SUSE discovered the following two vulnerabilities: udev does not verify the origin of NETLINK messages properly CVE-2009-1185. A buffer overflow exists in the utilpathencode function in...

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...

Shadow: Privilege escalation

Background Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts. Description Paul Szabo reported a race condition in the "login" executable when setting up tty permissions. Impact A local attacker belonging to the "utmp" group could use symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly gai...

xterm: User-assisted arbitrary commands execution

Background xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window system. Description Paul Szabo reported an insufficient input sanitization when processing Device Control Request Status String DECRQSS sequences. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to display a file containing specially crafted...

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...

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 Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been reported in racoon: The vendor reported a memory leak in...

libspf2: DNS response buffer overflow

Background libspf2 is a library that implements the Sender Policy Framework, allowing mail transfer agents to make sure that an email is authorized by the domain name that it is coming from. Currently, only the exim MTA uses libspf2 in Gentoo. Description libspf2 uses a fixed-length buffer to...

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...

Courier Authentication Library: SQL injection vulnerability

Background The Courier Authentication Library is a generic authentication API that encapsulates the process of validating account passwords. Description It has been discovered that some input e.g. the username passed to the library are not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. Impa...

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...

OpenAFS: Denial of service

Background OpenAFS is a distributed network filesystem. Description Russ Allbery, Jeffrey Altman, Dan Hyde and Thomas Mueller discovered a race condition due to an improper handling of the clients callbacks lists. Impact A remote attacker could construct cases which trigger the race condition,...

Perl: Buffer overflow

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. Description Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry Google Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the Regular Expression engine regcomp.c that occurs when switching from byte to Unicode UTF-8 character...

Balsa: Buffer overflow

Background Balsa is a highly configurable email client for GNOME. Description Evil Ninja Squirrel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the irfetchseq function when receiving a long response to a FETCH command CVE-2007-5007. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a...

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...

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...

MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol. kadmind is the MIT Kerberos 5 administration daemon. Description A stack buffer overflow CVE-2007-3999 has been reported in svcauthgssvalidate of the RPC library of kadmind. Another vulnerability...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end. Description Wireshark doesn't properly handle chunked encoding in HTTP responses CVE-2007-3389, iSeries capture files CVE-2007-3390, certain types of DCP ETSI packets CVE-2007-3391, and SSL or MMS packets CVE-2007-339...

Fail2ban: Denial of service

Background Fail2ban is a tool for parsing log files and banning IP addresses which make too many password failures. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Fail2ban when parsing log files. Impact A remote attacker could send specially crafted SSH login banners to the vulnerable host,...

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...

Vixie Cron: Denial of service

Background Vixie Cron is a command scheduler with extended syntax over cron. Description During an internal audit, Raphael Marichez of the Gentoo Linux Security Team found that Vixie Cron has weak permissions set on Gentoo, allowing for a local user to create hard links to system and users cron...

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...

Evince: Stack overflow in included gv code

Background Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats, including PostScript. Description Evince includes code from GNU gv that does not properly boundary check user-supplied data before copying it into process buffers. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially...

zziplib: Buffer Overflow

Background The zziplib library is a lightweight library for extracting data from files archived in a single zip file. Description dmcox dmcox discovered a boundary error in the zzipopensharedio function from zzip/file.c . Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to run a zziplib function with...

STLport: Possible remote execution of arbitrary code

Background STLport is a multi-platform C++ Standard Library implementation. Description Two buffer overflows have been discovered, one in "print floats" and one in the rope constructor. Impact Both of the buffer overflows could result in the remote execution of arbitrary code. Please note that th...

AMD64 x86 emulation Qt library: Integer overflow

Background The AMD64 x86 emulation Qt library for AMD64 emulates the x86 32-bit Qt library on the AMD64 64-bit architecture. Description An integer overflow flaw has been found in the pixmap handling of Qt, making the AMD64 x86 emulation Qt library vulnerable as well. Impact By enticing a user to...

MPlayer: Buffer overflow

Background MPlayer is a media player capable of playing multiple media formats. Description When checking for matching asm rules in the asmrp.c code, the results are stored in a fixed-size array without boundary checks which may allow a buffer overflow. Impact An attacker can entice a user to...

Fail2ban: Denial of service

Background Fail2ban monitors log files for failed authentication attempts and can block hosts responsible for repeated attacks. Description A flaw in the method used to parse log entries allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to forge authentication attempts from other hosts. Impact A remote...

ELinks: Arbitrary Samba command execution

Background ELinks is a text mode web browser. Description Teemu Salmela discovered an error in the validation code of "smb://" URLs used by ELinks, the same issue as reported in GLSA 200612-16 concerning Links. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to browse to a specially crafted "smb://"...

VLC media player: Format string vulnerability

Background VLC media player is a multimedia player for various audio and video formats. Description Kevin Finisterre has discovered that when handling media locations, various functions throughout VLC media player make improper use of format strings. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open...

w3m: Format string vulnerability

Background w3m is a multi-platform text-based web browser. Description w3m in -dump or -backend mode does not correctly handle printf format string specifiers in the Common Name CN field of an X.509 SSL certificate. Impact An attacker could entice a user to visit a malicious website that would lo...