Evolution: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Evolution is the mail client of the GNOME desktop environment. Description Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research reported two vulnerabilities in Evolution: A boundary error exists when parsing overly long timezone strings contained within iCalendar attachments and when the ITip formatter is...

Comix: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Comix is a GTK comic book viewer. Description Comix does not properly sanitize filenames containing shell metacharacters when they are passed to the rar, unrar, or jpegtran programs CVE-2008-1568. Comix also creates directories with predictable names CVE-2008-1796. Impact A remote...

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...

MaraDNS: CNAME Denial of service

Background MaraDNS is a package that implements the Domain Name Service DNS with resolver and caching ability. Description Michael Krieger reported that a specially crafted DNS could prevent an authoritative canonical name CNAME record from being resolved because of an "improper rotation of...

CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background CherryPy is a Python-based, object-oriented web development framework. Description CherryPy does not sanitize the session id, provided as a cookie value, in the FileSession.getfilepath function before using it as part of the file name. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this...

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...

GNU Emacs: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Drake Wilson reported that the hack-local-variables function in GNU Emacs 22 does not properly match assignments of local variables in a file against a list of unsafe or risky variables, allowing to override the...

teTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background teTeX is a complete TeX distribution for editing documents. Description Joachim Schrod discovered several buffer overflow vulnerabilities and an insecure temporary file creation in the "dvilj" application that is used by dvips to convert DVI files to printer formats CVE-2007-5937,...

Tk: Buffer overflow

Background Tk is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Description Reinhard Max discovered a boundary error in Tk when processing an interlaced GIF with two frames where the second is smaller than the first one. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted...

MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows

Background MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio and video formats. Description Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Doffinger of Secunia Research discovered several boundary errors in the functions cddbqueryparse, cddbparsematcheslist and cddbreadparse, each allowing for a...

Centericq: Remote buffer overflow in LiveJournal handling

Background Centericq is a text mode menu-driven and window-driven instant messaging interface. Description When interfacing with the LiveJournal service, Centericq does not appropriately allocate memory for incoming data, in some cases creating a buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could entice a...

SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as 'Mozilla Application Suite'. Description The SeaMonkey project is vulnerable to arbitrary JavaScript bytecode execution and arbitrary code execution...

OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related applications and development tools. Description Evgeny Legerov has discovered that the truncation of an incoming authcid longer than 255 characters and ending with a space as the 255th character will lead to an improperly computed name length. This...

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...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is a popular network protocol analyzer. Description Wireshark dissectors have been found vulnerable to a large number of exploits, including off-by-one errors, buffer overflows, format string overflows and an infinite loop. Impact Running an...

MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia. Description MediaWiki fails to decode certain encoded URLs correctly. Impact By supplying specially crafted links, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious HTML or JavaScri...

cURL/libcurl: Buffer overflow in the handling of TFTP URLs

Background cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols. libcurl is the corresponding client-side library. Description Ulf Harnhammar reported a possible buffer overflow in the handling of TFTP URLs in libcurl due to the lack of boundary checks...

Heimdal: rshd privilege escalation

Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. Description An unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability in the rshd server of Heimdal has been reported. Impact Authenticated users could exploit the vulnerability to escalate privileges or to change the ownership and content of...

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 ...

KDE kjs: URI heap overflow vulnerability

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kjs is the javascript interpreter used in Konqueror and other parts of KDE. Description Maksim Orlovich discovered an incorrect bounds check in kjs when handling URIs. Impact By enticing a us...

AbiWord: New RTF import buffer overflows

Background AbiWord is a free and cross-platform word processing program. It allows to import RTF files into AbiWord documents. Description Chris Evans discovered a different set of buffer overflows than the one described in GLSA 200509-20 in the RTF import function in AbiWord. Impact An attacker...

Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. Gecko is the layout engine used in both products. Description The Mozilla Suite and Firefox are both vulnerable to the...

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...

OpenSLP: Multiple buffer overflows

Background OpenSLP is an open-source implementation of Service Location Protocol SLP. Description Multiple buffer overflows have been found in OpenSLP, when handling malformed SLP packets. Impact By sending specially crafted SLP packets, a remote attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code...

curl: NTLM response buffer overflow

Background curl is a command line tool for transferring files via many different protocols. Description curl fails to properly check boundaries when handling NTLM authentication. Impact With a malicious server an attacker could send a carefully crafted NTLM response to a connecting client leading...

mpg123: Buffer overflow

Background mpg123 is a real-time MPEG audio player. Description mpg123 improperly parses frame headers in input streams. Impact By inducing a user to play a malicious file, an attacker may be able to exploit a buffer overflow to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running...

Pavuk: Multiple buffer overflows

Background Pavuk is web spider and website mirroring tool. Description Pavuk contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the code handling digest authentication and HTTP header processing. This issue is similar to GLSA 200407-19, but contains more vulnerabilities. Impact A remote attacker...

ncompress: Buffer overflow

Background ncompress is a utility handling compression and decompression of Lempel-Ziv archives, compatible with the original nix compress and uncompress utilities .Z extensions. Description compress and uncompress do not properly check bounds on command line options, including the filename. Larg...

Gallery: Arbitrary command execution

Background Gallery is a PHP script for maintaining online photo albums. Description The upload handling code in Gallery places uploaded files in a temporary directory. After 30 seconds, these files are deleted if they are not valid images. However, since the file exists for 30 seconds, a carefull...

Squid ACL [url_regex] bypass vulnerability

Background Squid is a fully-featured Web Proxy Cache designed to run on Unix systems that supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features. Description A bug in Squid allows use...

Asterisk: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

Cacti: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Cacti is a web-based network graphing and reporting tool. 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...

Docker: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Docker contains the the core functions you need to create Docker images and run Docker containers Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Docker. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

curl: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background A command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in curl. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no...

file: Stack Buffer Overread

Background The file utility attempts to identify a file’s format by scanning binary data for patterns. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in file. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact File has an stack-based buffer over-read in filecopystr ...

Sofia-SIP: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Sofia-SIP is an RFC3261 compliant SIP User-Agent library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Sofia-SIP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Sofia-SIP. Please review the CVE...

LZ4: Memory Corruption

Background LZ4 is a lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed 500 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems. Description An attacker who...

xar: Unsafe Extraction

Background xar provides an easily extensible archive format. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in xar. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact xar allows for a forward-slash separated path to be specified in the file name property, e.g. x/foo – as long ...

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...

xfce4-settings: Browser Argument Injection

Background xfce4-settings contains the configuration system for the Xfce desktop environment. Description xfce4-settings does not sufficiently sanitize URLs opened via xdg4-mime-helper-tool which is called when a user clicks a link in e.g. Firefox. Impact The vulnerability can be leveraged into...

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...

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...

GNOME File Roller: Directory traversal

Background File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment. Description It was discovered that GNOME File Roller incorrectly handled symlinks. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All...

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...

Antiword: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Antiword is a free MS Word reader. Description A buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in wordole.c in Antiword. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document using Antiword, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privilege...

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...

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...

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...

libsndfile: Arbitrary code execution

Background Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound through one standard library interface. Description An integer overflow flaw has been discovered in Libsndfile. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PAF file using...

Blender: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Blender is a 3D Creation/Animation/Publishing System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Blender. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, ...