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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...
ClamAV: Heap buffer overflow
Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Damian Put has discovered a boundary error in the pefromupx function used by the UPX extraction module, which unpacks PE Windows executable files. Both the "clamscan" command-line utility and the "clamd" daemon are affected. Impact By sending ...
mpg123: Heap overflow
Background mpg123 is a real time audio player designed for the MPEG format. Description In httpdget.c, a variable is assigned to the heap, and is supposed to receive a smaller allocation. As this variable was not terminated properly, strncpy will overwrite the data assigned next in memory. Impact...
EnergyMech: Denial of service
Background EnergyMech is an IRC bot programmed in C. Description A bug in EnergyMech fails to handle empty CTCP NOTICEs correctly, and will cause a crash from a segmentation fault. Impact By sending an empty CTCP NOTICE, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of...
MyDNS: Denial of service
Background MyDNS is a DNS server using a MySQL database as a backend. It is designed to allow for fast updates and small resource usage. Description MyDNS contains an unspecified flaw that may allow a remote Denial of Service. Impact An attacker could cause a Denial of Service by sending malforme...
Dropbear: Privilege escalation
Background Dropbear is an SSH server and client with a small memory footprint. Description Under certain conditions Dropbear could fail to allocate a sufficient amount of memory, possibly resulting in a buffer overflow. Impact By sending specially crafted data to the server, authenticated users...
cURL: NTLM username stack overflow
Background cURL is a command line tool and library for transferring files via many different protocols. It supports NTLM authentication to retrieve files from Windows-based systems. Description iDEFENSE reported that insufficient bounds checking on a memcpy of the supplied NTLM username can resul...
KOffice, KWord: RTF import buffer overflow
Background KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. KWord is the KOffice word processor. Description Chris Evans discovered that the KWord RTF importer was vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted RTF file, potentially...
nbSMTP: Format string vulnerability
Background nbSMTP is an SMTP client suitable to run in chroot jails, in embedded systems, laptops and workstations. Description Niels Heinen discovered a format string vulnerability. Impact An attacker can setup a malicious SMTP server and exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with...
Binutils, elfutils: Buffer overflow
Background The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation. Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse ELF objects. Description Tavis...
Ethereal: Numerous vulnerabilities
Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.11, including: The ANSI A and DHCP dissectors are vulnerable to format string vulnerabilities. The DISTCC, FCELS, SIP, ISIS, CMIP, CMP, CMS, CRMF,...
CVS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background CVS Concurrent Versions System is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server. Description Alen Zukich has discovered several serious security issues in CVS, including at least one buffer overflow CAN-2005-0753, memory leaks...
libexif: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Background libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving EXIF data. Description libexif contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the EXIF tag validation code. When opening an image with a specially crafted EXIF tag, the lack of validation can cause applications linked to libexif to cras...
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...
PHProjekt: Remote code execution vulnerability
Background PHProjekt is a modular groupware web application used to coordinate group activities and share files. Description cYon discovered that the authform.inc.php script allows a remote user to define the global variable $pathpre. Impact A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to for...
mpg123: Playlist buffer overflow
Background mpg123 is a MPEG Audio Player. Description Bartlomiej Sieka discovered that mpg123 contains an unsafe strcat to an array in playlist.c. This code vulnerability may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could craft a malicious playlist which, when used, would result in the...
Vim, gVim: Vulnerable options in modelines
Background Vim is an efficient, highly configurable improved version of the classic 'vi' text editor. gVim is the GUI version of Vim. Description Gentoo's Vim maintainer, Ciaran McCreesh, found several vulnerabilities related to the use of options in Vim modelines. Options like 'termcap',...
imlib: Buffer overflows in image decoding
Background imlib is an advanced replacement library for image manipulation libraries like libXpm. It is called by numerous programs, including gkrellm and several window managers, to help in displaying images. Description Pavel Kankovsky discovered that several overflows found in the libXpm libra...
ProZilla: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ProZilla is a download accelerator for Linux. Description ProZilla contains several exploitable buffer overflows in the code handling the network protocols. Impact A remote attacker could setup a malicious server and entice a user to retrieve files from that server using ProZilla. This...
Apache 2.0: Denial of Service by memory consumption
Background The Apache HTTP Server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. Description Chintan Trivedi discovered a vulnerability in Apache httpd 2.0 that is caused by improper enforcing of the field length limit in the header-parsing code. Impact By sending a large amount of...
ImageMagick: EXIF buffer overflow
Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. Description ImageMagick fails to do proper bounds checking when handling image files with EXIF information. Impact An attacker could use an image file with specially-crafted EXIF information to...
Cherokee: Format string vulnerability
Background Cherokee is an extra-light web server. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in the cherokeeloggerncsawritestring function. Impact Using a specially crafted URL when authenticating via authpam, a malicious user may ...
PuTTY: Pre-authentication buffer overflow
Background PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. Description PuTTY fails to do proper bounds checking on SSH2MSGDEBUG packets. The "stringlen" parameter value is incorrectly checked due to signedness issues. Note that...
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...
gettext: Insecure temporary file handling
Background gettext is a set of utilities for the GNU Translation Project which provides a set of tools and documentation to help produce multi-lingual messages in programs. Description gettext insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact A local...
mpg123: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Background mpg123 is a MPEG Audio Player. Description mpg123 contains a buffer overflow in the code that handles layer2 decoding of media files. Impact An attacker can possibly exploit this bug with a specially-crafted mp3 or mp2 file to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user...
SpamAssassin: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter which is used to identify spam. Description SpamAssassin contains an unspecified Denial of Service vulnerability. Impact By sending a specially crafted message an attacker could cause a Denial of Service attack against the SpamAssassin service...
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,...
GNU Coreutils: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Background The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the Coreutils "split" program that can lead to a heap buffer overflow and possibly arbitrary code execution. Impact Please...
GNU Emacs, Org Mode: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Emacs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no...
Kubelet: Privilege Escalation
Background Kubelet is a Kubernetes Node Agent. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Kubelet. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods and persistent volumes on Windows nodes...
U-Boot tools: double free vulnerability
Background U-Boot tools provides utiiities for working with Das U-Boot. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in U-Boot tools. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact In Das U-Boot a double free has been found in the cmd/gpt.c dorenamegptparts function...
Epiphany: Buffer Overflow
Background Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Epiphany. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact In GNOME Epiphany an HTML document can trigger a client buffer overflow in...
e2fsprogs: Arbitrary Code Execution
Background e2fsprogs is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in e2fsprogs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability was found in...
libaom: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background libaom is the Alliance for Open Media's AV1 Codec SDK. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libaom. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...
libuv: Buffer Overread
Background libuv is a multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O. Description libuv fails to ensure that a pointer lies within the bounds of a defined buffer in the uvidnatoascii function before reading and manipulating the memory at that address. Impact The overread can resu...
Wireshark: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...
Mechanize: Command injection
Background Mechanize is a Ruby library used for automating interaction with websites. Description Mechanize does not neutralize filename input and could allow arbitrary code execution if an attacker can control filenames used by Mechanize. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...
Asterisk: Root privilege escalation
Background A Modular Open Source PBX System. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s Asterisk ebuild does not properly set permissions on its data directories. This only affects OpenRC systems, as the flaw was exploitable via the init script. Impact A local attacker could escalate privileges...
Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Cacti is a complete frontend to rrdtool. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti. 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...
SPICE VDAgent: Arbitrary command injection
Background Provides a complete open source solution for remote access to virtual machines in a seamless way so you can play videos, record audio, share USB devices and share folders without complications. Description SPICE VDAgent does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell...
Mutt: Heap-based buffer overflow
Background Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client. Description A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in Mutt’s muttsubstrdup function. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All...
Pixman: Buffer overflow
Background Pixman is a pixel manipulation library. Description In pixman-general, careless computations done with the ‘destbuffer’ pointer may overflow, failing the buffer upper limit check. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition, or execute arbitrary code wit...
libksba: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Libksba is a X.509 and CMS PKCS7 library. Description libksba is vulnerable to two integer overflows and a Denial of Service vulnerability. Please read the references for additional details. Impact Remote attackers could cause Denial of Service or unspecified other vectors through...
OSC: Shell command injection
Background OSC is the command line tool and API for the Open Build Service. Description A vulnerability has been discovered that may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a service file. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with...
KDE Systemsettings: Privilege escalation
Background KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. Description KDE Systemsettings fails to properly validate user input before passing it as argument in context of higher privilege. Impact A local attacker...
hivex: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background hivex is a library for reading and writing Windows Registry ‘hive’ binary files. Description Manipulating a short or truncated hive file may trigger an out-of-bounds read or write in hivex. Impact A context-dependent attacker could cause an application linked against hivex to pass a...
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...
rxvt-unicode: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background rxvt-unicode urxvt is a clone of the rxvt terminal emulator. Description rxvt-unicode does not properly handle OSC escape sequences, including those used to read and write X window properties. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to run a specially crafted file using...
Mutt: Arbitrary code execution
Background Mutt is a small but powerful text-based mail client. Description A heap-based buffer overflow has been discovered in the muttcopyhdr function. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the...