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OpenMotif, AMD64 x86 emulation X libraries: Buffer overflows in libUil library
Background OpenMotif provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications. The OpenMotif libraries are included in the AMD64 x86 emulation X libraries, which emulate the x86 32-bit architecture on the AMD64 64-bit architecture. Description xfocus discovered two potential buff...
Xmail: Privilege escalation through sendmail
Background Xmail is an Internet and intranet mail server. Description iDEFENSE reported that the AddressFromAtPtr function in the sendmail program fails to check bounds on arguments passed from other functions, and as a result an exploitable stack overflow condition occurs when specifying the "-t...
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...
xli, xloadimage: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background xli and xloadimage are X11 utilities for displaying and manipulating a wide range of image formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported that xli and xloadimage contain a flaw in the handling of compressed images, where shell meta-characters ar...
ht://Dig: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Background ht://Dig is an HTTP/HTML indexing and searching system. Description Michael Krax discovered that ht://Dig fails to validate the 'config' parameter before displaying an error message containing the parameter. This flaw could allow an attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks...
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...
UW IMAP: CRAM-MD5 authentication bypass
Background UW IMAP is the University of Washington IMAP toolkit which includes POP3 and IMAP daemons. Description A logic bug in the code handling CRAM-MD5 authentication incorrectly specifies the condition for successful authentication. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...
mirrorselect: Insecure temporary file creation
Background mirrorselect is a tool to help select distfiles mirrors for Gentoo. Description Ervin Nemeth discovered that mirrorselect creates temporary files in world-writable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory,...
Ruby: Denial of Service issue
Background Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. Ruby's CGI module can be used to build web applications. Description Ruby's developers found and fixed an issue in the CGI module that can be triggered remotely and cause an infinite loop. Impact ...
eGroupWare: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities
Background eGroupWare is a suite of web-based group applications including calendar, address book, messenger and email. Description Joxean Koret recently discovered multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities in various modules for the eGroupWare suite. This includes the calendar, address book,...
PuTTY: Pre-authentication arbitrary code execution
Background PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. Description PuTTY contains a vulnerability allowing a malicious server to execute arbitrary code on the connecting client before host key verification. Impact When...
wv: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Background The wv library allows access to MS Word files. It can parse Word files and allow other applications, such as abiword, to import those files into their native formats. Description A use of strcat without proper bounds checking leads to an exploitable buffer overflow. The vulnerable code...
Multiple vulnerabilities in metamail
Background Metamail is a program that decodes MIME encoded mail. It is therefore often automatically called when an email is received or read. Description Ulf Harnhammar found two format string bugs and two buffer overflow bugs in Metamail. Impact A remote attacker could send a malicious email...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in pwlib
Background pwlib is a multi-platform library designed for OpenH323. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the implimentation of protocol H.323 contained in pwlib. Most of the vulnerabilies are in the parsing of ASN.1 elements which would allow an attacker to use a maliciously...
SDL_ttf: Arbitrary Memory Write
Background SDLttf is a wrapper around the FreeType and Harfbuzz libraries, allowing you to use TrueType fonts to render text in SDL applications. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in SDLttf. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact SDLttf was discovered ...
strongSwan: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongSwan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...
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 Switchâ„¢. 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...
Kitty: Arbitrary Code Execution
Background Kitty is a fast, feature-rich, GPU-based terminal. Description Carter Sande discovered that maliciously constructed control sequences can cause Kitty to display a notification that, when clicked, can cause Kitty to execute arbitrary commands. Impact Kitty can produce notifications that...
HarfBuzz: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HarfBuzz. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround a...
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...
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...
BeanShell: Arbitrary code execution
Background BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java. Description An application that includes BeanShell on the classpath may be vulnerable if another part of the application uses Java serialization or XStream to...
arpwatch: Privilege escalation
Background The ethernet monitor program; for keeping track of ethernet/ip address pairings. Description Arpwatch does not properly drop supplementary groups. Impact Attackers, if able to exploit arpwatch, could escalate privileges outside of the running process. Workaround There is no known...
kwalletd: Information disclosure
Background Kwalletd is is a credentials management application for KDE. Description Kwalletd in KWallet uses Blowfish with ECB mode instead of CBC mode when encrypting the password store. Impact Local attackers, with access to the password store, could conduct a codebook attack in order to obtain...
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...
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...
FreeType: Arbitrary code execution
Background FreeType is a high-quality and portable font engine. Description A stack-based buffer overflow exists in Freetype’s cf2hintmapbuild function in cff/cf2hints.c. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition via specially crafted fo...
Mumble: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Mumble is low-latency voice chat software intended for use with gaming. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mumble: A crafted length prefix value can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow or NULL pointer dereference in the opuspacketgetsamplesperframe function...
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...
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...
OpenSC: Arbitrary code execution
Background OpenSC is a tools and libraries for smart cards. Description Multiple stack-based buffer overflow errors have been discovered in OpenSC. Impact A physically proximate attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code using a specially crafted smart card. Workaround There is no known...
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...
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...
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...
rdesktop: Directory Traversal
Background rdesktop is a Remote Desktop Protocol RDP Client. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in rdesktop. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Remote RDP servers may be able to read or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. dot dot in a pathname...
Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Asterisk: An error in manager.c allows shell access CVE-2012-2186. An error in Asterisk could cause all RTP ports to be exhausted CVE-2012-3812. A double-free error could...
MaraDNS: Denial of service
Background MaraDNS is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching. Description MaraDNS does not properly randomize hash functions to protect against hash collision attacks. Impact A remote attacker could send many specially crafted DNS recursive queries, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service...
Wget: User-assisted file creation or overwrite
Background GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. Description It was discovered that Wget was unsafely trusting server-provided filenames. This allowed attackers to overwrite or create files on the user's system...
Openswan: Denial of service
Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Openswan: Gerd v. Egidy reported a NULL pointer dereference in the Dead Peer Detection of the pluto IKE daemon as included in Openswan CVE-2009-0790. The Orange Labs...
LMBench: Insecure temporary file usage
Background LMBench is a suite of simple, portable benchmarks for UNIX platforms. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the rccs and STUFF scripts do not handle "/tmp/sdiff." temporary files securely. NOTE: There might be further occurances of insecure temporary file usage. Impact A local...
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...
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...
Wicd: Information disclosure
Background Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux. Description Tiziano Mueller of Gentoo discovered that the DBus configuration file for Wicd allows arbitrary users to own the org.wicd.daemon object. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to receive...
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...
Valgrind: Untrusted search path
Background Valgrind is an open-source memory debugger. Description Tavis Ormandy reported that Valgrind loads a .valgrindrc file in the current working directory, executing commands specified there. Impact A local attacker could prepare a specially crafted .valgrindrc file and entice a user to ru...