PLIB: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background PLIB includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font rendering, a simple Windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI, networking, 3D math library and a collection of handy utility functions. Description A buffer overflow in PLIB allows user-assisted remote attackers t...

Firebird: Buffer Overflow

Background Firebird is a multi-platform, open source relational database. Description The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing requests from remote clients. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of...

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...

t1utils: Arbitrary code execution

Background t1utils is a collection of simple Type 1 font manipulation programs. Description t1utils has a buffer overflow in the setcsstart function in t1disasm.c. Impact A remote attacker could cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file. Workaround Ther...

libevent: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libevent is a library to execute a function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor. Description Multiple integer overflow errors in libevent could cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A context-dependent attacker could cause an application linked against libevent to pa...

Aircrack-ng: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Aircrack-ng. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local...

libtar: Arbitraty code execution

Background libtar is a C library for manipulating POSIX tar files. Description An integer overflow error within the “thread” function when processing long names or link extensions can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted archive. Impact A remote attacker coul...

stunnel: Arbitrary code execution

Background The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between a client and a local or remote server. Description A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in stunnel. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could...

libexif, exif: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif metadata from images. exif is a small command line interface for libexif. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libexif and exif. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A...

Openswan: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. Description A buffer overflow flaw has been discovered in Openswan when using Opportunistic Encryption. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DNS TXT record, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the...

Festival: Arbitrary code execution

Background Festival is a Text to Speech Engine from The Centre for Speech Technology Research. Description A vulnerability in Festival Server has an incorrect path in LDLIBRARYPATH, which allows local users to place a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory. Impact A local...

SWI-Prolog : Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SWI-Prolog is a free, small, and standard compliant Prolog compiler. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SWI-Prolog: An error in the canoniseFileName function could cause a stack-based buffer overflow CVE-2012-6089. An error in the expand function could cause a...

socat: Arbitrary code execution

Background socat is a multipurpose bidirectional relay, similar to netcat. Description A vulnerability in the "xioscanreadline" function in xio-readline.c could cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the socat...

libgdata: Man-in-the-Middle attack

Background libgdata is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using the GData protocol. Description An error in the "gdataservicebuildsession" function of gdata-service.c prevents libgdata from properly validating certificates. Impact A remote attacker could perform...

pidgin-otr: Arbitrary code execution

Background pidgin-otr messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging. Description A format string vulnerability has been found in the "logmessagecb" function in otr-plugin.c. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the proce...

Perl DBD-Pg Module: Arbitrary code execution

Background DBD-Pg is a PostgreSQL interface module for Perl. Description Format string vulnerabilities have been found in the the "pgwarn" and "dbdstprepare" functions in dbdimp.c. Impact A remote PostgreSQL server could send specially crafted database warnings or DBD statements, possibly resulti...

Unbound: Denial of service

Background Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in unbound. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service. Workaround There is no known...

sudo: Privilege Escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in sudo: Evan Broder and Anders Kaseorg of Ksplice, Inc. reported that the sudo 'secure path' feature does not properly handle multiple...

Newt: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Newt is a library for displaying text mode user interfaces. Description Miroslav Lichvar reported that Newt is prone to a heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to enter a specially crafted string into a text dialog box rendered by Newt,...

Dillo: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Dillo is a graphical web browser known for its speed and small footprint. Description Tilei Wang reported an integer overflow in the Pngdatainfocallback function, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open an HTML document...

GStreamer plug-ins: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background The GStreamer plug-ins provide decoders to the GStreamer open source media framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in several GStreamer plug-ins: Tobias Klein reported two heap-based buffer overflows and an array index error in the qtdemuxparsesamples functio...

Multiple Ralink wireless drivers: Execution of arbitrary code

Background All listed packages are external kernel modules that provide drivers for multiple Ralink devices. ralink-rt61 is released by ralinktech.com, the other packages by the rt2x00.serialmonkey.com project. Description Aviv reported an integer overflow in multiple Ralink wireless card drivers...

libwmf: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libwmf is a library for converting WMF files. Description The embedded fork of the GD library introduced a "use-after-free" vulnerability in a modification which is specific to libwmf. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted WMF file, possibly resulting...

Ruby: Denial of service

Background Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The elaborate standard library includes the "BigDecimal" class. Description Tadayoshi Funaba reported that BigDecimal in ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c does not properly handle string arguments containing overly long numbers...

IPSec Tools: Denial of service

Background The IPSec Tools are a port of KAME's IPsec utilities to the Linux-2.6 IPsec implementation. They include racoon, an Internet Key Exchange daemon for automatically keying IPsec connections. Description The following vulnerabilities have been found in the racoon daemon as shipped with...

Avahi: Denial of service

Background Avahi is a system that facilitates service discovery on a local network. Description Rob Leslie reported that the originatesfromlocallegacyunicastsocket function in avahi-core/server.c does not account for the network byte order of a port number when processing incoming multicast...

Analog: Denial of service

Background Analog is a a webserver log analyzer. Description Diego E. Petteno reported that the Analog package in Gentoo is built with its own copy of bzip2, making it vulnerable to CVE-2008-1372 GLSA 200804-02. Impact A local attacker could place specially crafted log files into a log directory...

nfs-utils: Access restriction bypass

Background nfs-utils contains the client and daemon implementations for the NFS protocol. Description Michele Marcionelli reported that nfs-utils invokes the hostsctl function with the wrong order of arguments, which causes TCP Wrappers to ignore netgroups. Impact A remote attacker could bypass...

PDFjam: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts to edit PDF documents, including pdfnup, pdfjoin and pdf90. Description Martin Vaeth reported multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities CVE-2008-5843. Marcus Meissner of the SUSE Security Team reported that temporary files are created...

Streamripper: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Streamripper is a tool for extracting and recording mp3 files from a Shoutcast stream. Description Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research reported multiple buffer overflows in the httpparsescheader, httpgetpls and httpgetm3u functions in lib/http.c when parsing overly long HTTP headers...

FAAD2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background FAAD2 is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoder. Description The ICST-ERCIS Peking University reported a heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeMP4file function in frontend/main.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted MPEG-4 MP4 file in an...

GNU ed: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background GNU ed is a basic line editor. red is a restricted version of ed that does not allow shell command execution. Description Alfredo Ortega from Core Security Technologies reported a heap-based buffer overflow in the stripescapes function when processing overly long filenames. Impact A...

HAVP: Denial of service

Background HAVP is a HTTP AntiVirus Proxy. Description Peter Warasin reported an infinite loop in sockethandler.cpp when connecting to a non-responsive HTTP server. Impact A remote attacker could send requests to unavailable servers, resulting in a Denial of Service. Workaround There is no known...

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...

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...

Ghostscript: Buffer overflow

Background Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for PostScript and PDF. Description Chris Evans Google Security discovered a stack-based buffer overflow within the zseticcspace function in the file zicc.c when processing a PostScript file containing a long "Range" array in a...

Audacity: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Audacity is a free cross-platform audio editor. Description Viktor Griph reported that the "AudacityApp::OnInit" method in file src/AudacityApp.cpp does not handle temporary files properly. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink attacks to delete...

libxml2: Denial of service

Background libxml2 is the XML eXtended Markup Language C parser and toolkit initially developed for the Gnome project. Description Brad Fitzpatrick reported that the xmlCurrentChar function does not properly handle some UTF-8 multibyte encodings. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to op...

Exiv2: Integer overflow

Background Exiv2 is a C++ library and set of tools for parsing, editing and saving Exif and IPTC metadata from images. Exif, the Exchangeable image file format, specifies the addition of metadata tags to JPEG, TIFF and RIFF files. Description Meder Kydyraliev Google Security discovered an integer...

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...

nss_ldap: Information disclosure

Background nssldap is a Name Service Switch module which allows 'passwd', 'group' and 'host' database information to be pulled from LDAP. Description Josh Burley reported that nssldap does not properly handle the LDAP connections due to a race condition that can be triggered by multi-threaded...

libsndfile: Buffer overflow

Background libsndfile is a library for reading and writing various formats of audio files including WAV and FLAC. Description Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security team discovered that the flacbuffercopy function does not correctly handle FLAC streams with variable block sizes which leads to a...

Net::DNS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Net::DNS is a Perl implementation of a DNS resolver. Description hjp discovered an error when handling DNS query IDs which make them partially predictable. Steffen Ullrich discovered an error in the dnexpand function which could lead to an endless loop. Impact A remote attacker could...

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...

pam_ldap: Authentication bypass vulnerability

Background pamldap is a Pluggable Authentication Module which allows authentication against LDAP directories. Description Steve Rigler discovered that pamldap does not correctly handle "PasswordPolicyResponse" control responses from an LDAP directory. This causes the pamauthenticate function to...

TikiWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background TikiWiki is an open source content management system written in PHP. Description In numerous files TikiWiki provides an empty sortmode parameter, causing TikiWiki to display additional information, including database authentication credentials, in certain error messages. TikiWiki also...

Qt: Integer overflow

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit, which is used e.g. by KDE. Description An integer overflow flaw has been found in the pixmap handling of Qt. Impact By enticing a user to open a specially crafted pixmap image in an application using Qt, e.g. Konqueror, a remote attacker could be abl...

Python: Buffer Overflow

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. Description Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler discovered a buffer overflow in Python's "repr" function when handling UTF-32/UCS-4 encoded strings. Impact If a Python application processes...

GnuPG: Integer overflow vulnerability

Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Description Evgeny Legerov discovered a vulnerability in GnuPG that when certain packets are handled an integer overflow may occur. Impact By sending a specially crafted email to a user...

Horde Web Application Framework: XSS vulnerability

Background The Horde Web Application Framework is a general-purpose web application framework written in PHP, providing classes for handling preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME, and more. Description Michael Marek discovered that the Horde Web Application...