ProFTPD: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background ProFTPD is a highly-configurable FTP server. Description Evgeny Legerov discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the sreplace function in support.c, as well as a buffer overflow in in the modtls module. Additionally, an off-by-two error related to the CommandBufferSize configuration...

Texinfo: Buffer overflow

Background Texinfo is the official documentation system of the GNU project. Description Miloslav Trmac from Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow in the "readline" function of texindex.c. The "readline" function is called by the texi2dvi and texindex commands. Impact By enticing a user to open a...

Avahi: "netlink" message vulnerability

Background Avahi is a system that facilitates service discovery on a local network. Description Avahi does not check that the netlink messages come from the kernel instead of a user-space process. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting malicious netlink messages and...

CAPI4Hylafax fax receiver: Execution of arbitrary code

Background CAPI4Hylafax makes it possible to send and receive faxes via CAPI and AVM Fritz!Cards. Description Lionel Elie Mamane discovered an error in c2faxrecv, which doesn't properly sanitize TSI strings when handling incoming calls. Impact A remote attacker can send null \0 and shell...

xine-lib: Buffer overflows

Background xine is a high performance, portable and reusable multimedia playback engine. xine-lib is xine's core engine. Description xine-lib contains buffer overflows in the processing of AVI. Additionally, xine-lib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP plugin xinepluginphttp.so via a...

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...

GIMP: Buffer overflow

Background GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. XCF is the native image file format used by GIMP. Description Henning Makholm discovered that the "xcfloadvector" function is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when loading a XCF file with a large "numaxes" value. Impact An attacker could explo...

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...

Crypt::CBC: Insecure initialization vector

Background Crypt::CBC is a Perl module to encrypt data using cipher block chaining CBC. Description Lincoln Stein discovered that Crypt::CBC fails to handle 16 bytes long initializiation vectors correctly when running in the RandomIV mode, resulting in a weaker encryption because the second part ...

GStreamer FFmpeg plugin: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin uses code from the FFmpeg library to provide fast colorspace conversion and multimedia decoders to the GStreamer open source media framework. Description The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin contains derived code from the FFmpeg library, which is vulnerable to a heap...

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...

GTK+ 2, GdkPixbuf: Multiple XPM decoding vulnerabilities

Background GTK+ the GIMP Toolkit is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. The GdkPixbuf library provides facilities for image handling. It is available as a standalone library and also packaged with GTK+ 2. Description iDEFENSE reported a possible heap overflow in the XPM loader...

Squid: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix-like systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other protocols, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many more features. Description Certain malformed...

Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a vulnerability in the Yahoo! file transfer code when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters CAN-2005-1269. Hugo de...

mpg321: Format string vulnerability

Background mpg321 is a GPL replacement for mpg123, a command line audio player with support for ID3. ID3 is a tagging system that allows metadata to be embedded within media files. Description A routine security audit of the mpg321 package revealed a known security issue remained unpatched. The...

Mailman: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background Mailman is a Python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface. Description Mailman contains an error in private.py which fails to properly sanitize input paths. Impact An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files on the web server. Workaround There is n...

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...

f2c: Insecure temporary file creation

Background f2c is a Fortran to C translator. Portage uses this package in some ebuilds to build Fortran sources. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Team discovered that f2c creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact...

GraphicsMagick: PSD decoding heap overflow

Background GraphicsMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. GraphicsMagick is originally derived from ImageMagick 5.5.2. Description Andrei Nigmatulin discovered that handling a Photoshop Document PSD file with more than 24 layers in ImageMagick could...

phpGroupWare: Various vulnerabilities

Background phpGroupWare is a web-based suite of group applications including a calendar, todo-list, addressbook, email, wiki, news headlines, and a file manager. Description Several flaws were discovered in phpGroupWare making it vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks, SQL injection, and full...

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 ...

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...

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...

Go: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Go. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

NASM: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background NASM is a 80x86 assembler that has been created for portability and modularity. NASM supports Pentium, P6, SSE MMX, and 3DNow extensions. It also supports a wide range of objects formats ELF, a.out, COFF, etc, and has its own disassembler. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been...

RenderDoc: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background RenderDoc is a free MIT licensed stand-alone graphics debugger that allows quick and easy single-frame capture and detailed introspection of any application using Vulkan, D3D11, OpenGL & OpenGL ES or D3D12 across Windows, Linux, Android, or Nintendo Switch™. Description Multiple...

libcue: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background libcue is a CUE Sheet Parser Library. Description libcue does not check bounds in a loop and suffers from an integer overflow flaw which can be exploited to take over the program. Impact Untrusted CUE sheet files can lead to arbitrary code execution. app-misc/tracker-minerscue uses...

dav1d: Denial of Service

Background dav1d is an AV1 decoder. Description In some circumstances, dav1d might treat an invalid frame as valid, resulting in a crash. Impact Malformed frame data can result in a denial of service. Workaround Users should avoid parsing untrusted video with dav1d. Resolution All dav1d users...

systemd: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background A system and service manager. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in systemd. 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...

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...

LinuxCIFS: Shell injection

Background The LinuxCIFS utils are a collection of tools for managing Linux CIFS Client Filesystems. Description The mount.cifs utility had a shell injection issue where one can embed shell commands via the username mount option. Those commands will be run via popen in the context of the user...

gpsd: Arbitrary code execution

Background gpsd is a GPS daemon and library for USB/serial GPS devices and GPS/mapping clients. Description A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in gpsd on port 2947/TCP or crafted JSON inputs. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Chromium, Google Chrome: 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. Google Chrome is one fast, simple, and secure browser for all your devices. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and...

Chromium, Google Chrome: 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. Google Chrome is one fast, simple, and secure browser for all your devices. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and...

libksba: Denial of Service and information disclosure

Background Libksba is a X.509 and CMS PKCS7 library. Description It was found that an unproportionate amount of memory is allocated when parsing crafted certificates in libskba, which may lead to Denial of Service condition. Moreover in libksba 1.3.4, allocated memory is uninitialized and could...

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...

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...

Exiv2: Denial of service

Background Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata. Description Exiv2 has a buffer overflow in the RiffVideo::infoTagsHandler function in riffvideo.cpp. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via a specially crafted AVI file...

getmail: Information disclosure

Background getmail is a POP3 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and mbox delivery. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in getmail. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a man-in-the-middle attack via multiple...

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...

SystemTap: Denial of service

Background SystemTap is a kernel profiling and instrumentation tool. Description SystemTap does not properly handle DWARF expressions when unwinding the stack. Impact A local attacker with SystemTap permissions could trigger a kernel panic, causing a Denial of Service condition. Workaround...

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...

libproxy: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libproxy is a library for automatic proxy configuration management. Description A boundary error when processing the proxy.pac file could cause a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact A man-in-the-middle attacker could provide a specially crafted proxy.pac file on a remote server, possib...

Chrony: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chrony is a pair of programs which are used to maintain the accuracy of the system clock on a computer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chrony. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a...

PulseAudio: Insecure temporary file usage

Background PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes. Description The pamakesecuredir function in core-util.c does not handle temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application...

Git: Privilege escalation

Background Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Description Git contains a stack-based buffer overflow in the isgitdirectory function in setup.c. Impact A local attacker could ga...

Nagstamon: Information disclosure

Background Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor application. Description Nagstamon’s automatic request to check for updates includes plaintext username and password information for one of the monitor servers that the Nagstamon instance connects to. Impact A remote attacker could eavesdrop on this...

Win32 Codecs: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Win32 Codecs is a set of Windows audio and video playback codecs. Description A heap-based buffer overflow exists when handling Shockwave Flash files. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Flash file using a package linked against Win32 Codecs, possib...

Vixie cron: Denial of service

Background Paul Vixie’s cron daemon, a fully featured crond implementation. Description Vixie cron contains a race condition relating to atime and mtime values of temporary files. Impact A local attacker could change the modification time of files, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service...

TPTEST: Arbitrary code execution

Background TPTEST is a tool to measure the speed of a user’s Internet connection. Description The GetStatsFromLine function in TPTEST is vulnerable to buffer overflows from STATS lines with long email and pwd fields. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted STATS line, possibly...