cabextract: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background cabextract is free software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cabextract. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted archive ...

Perl Module-Signature module: Arbitrary code execution

Background The Perl Module::Signature module adds signing capabilities to CPAN modules. Description The ‘cpansign verify’ command will automatically download keys and use them to check the signature of CPAN packages via the SIGNATURE file. If an attacker were to replace this SHA1 with a special...

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...

TagLib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background TagLib is a library for reading and editing audio meta data. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in TagLib: The "analyzeCurrent" function in ape/apeproperties.cpp contains a division by zero error CVE-2012-1107. The "parse" function in inogg/xiphcomment.cpp contains an...

NX Server Free Edition, NX Node: Privilege escalation

Background NX Server Free Edition is a remote display technology by No Machine. NX Node provides the shared components for NX Server. Description NX Server Free Edition and NX Node use nxconfigure.sh, a setuid script containing an unspecified vulnerability. Impact A local attacker could gain...

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...

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...

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...

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...

noip-updater: Execution of arbitrary code

Background noip-updater is a tool used for updating IP addresses of dynamic DNS records at no-ip.com. Description xenomuta found out that the GetNextLine function in noip2.c misses a length check, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability ...

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...

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...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end. Description Multiple buffer overflows and infinite loops were discovered in multiple dissector and parser components, including those for MP3 and NCP CVE-2007-6111, PPP CVE-2007-6112, DNP CVE-2007-6113, SSL and iSerie...

Hugin: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Hugin is a GUI for creating and processing panoramic images. Description Suse Linux reported that Hugin creates the "hugindebugoptimresults.txt" temporary file in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability with a symlink attack, potentially overwriting...

Feynmf: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Feynmf is a combined LaTeX and Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman and maybe other diagrams. Description Kevin B. McCarty discovered that the feynmf.pl script creates a temporary "properly list" file at the location "$TMPDIR/feynmf$PID.pl", where $PID is t...

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...

GIMP: Multiple integer overflows

Background GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Description Sean Larsson from iDefense Labs discovered multiple integer overflows in various GIMP plugins CVE-2006-4519. Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research discovered an integer overflow in the seektoandunpackpixeldata function when...

XScreenSaver: Privilege escalation

Background XScreenSaver is a widely used screen saver collection shipped on systems running the X11 Window System. Description XScreenSaver incorrectly handles the results of the getpwuid function in drivers/lock.c when using directory servers during a network outage. Impact A local user can cras...

mgv: Stack overflow in included gv code

Background mgv is a Postscript viewer with a Motif interface, based on Ghostview and GNU gv. Description mgv includes code from gv that does not properly boundary check user-supplied data before copying it into process buffers. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted...

SpamAssassin: Long URI Denial of service

Background SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter used to identify junk email. Description SpamAssassin does not correctly handle very long URIs when scanning emails. Impact An attacker could cause SpamAssassin to consume large amounts of CPU and memory resources by sending one or more emails...

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...

Screen: UTF-8 character handling vulnerability

Background Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Description cstone and Richard Felker discovered a flaw in Screen's UTF-8 combining character handling. Impact The vulnerability can be exploited by...

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...

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 ...

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...

Hashcash: Possible heap overflow

Background Hashcash is a utility for generating Hashcash tokens, a proof-of-work system to reduce the impact of spam. Description Andreas Seltenreich has reported a possible heap overflow in the arraypush function in hashcash.c, as a result of an incorrect amount of allocated memory for the "ARRA...

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...

libtasn1, GNU TLS: Security flaw in DER decoding

Background Libtasn1 is a library used to parse ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One objects, and perform DER Distinguished Encoding Rules decoding. Libtasn1 is included with the GNU TLS library, which is used by applications to provide a cryptographically secure communications channel. Description...

SELinux PAM: Local password guessing attack

Background PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is an architecture allowing the separation of the development of privilege granting software from the development of secure and appropriate authentication schemes. SELinux is an operating system based on Linux which includes Mandatory Access Control...

MPlayer: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities

Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description Heap overflows have been found in the code handling RealMedia RTSP and Microsoft Media Services streams over TCP MMST. Impact By setting up a malicious server and enticing a user to use its...

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...

xv: Filename handling vulnerability

Background xv is an interactive image manipulation package for X11. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the handling of image filenames by xv. Impact Successful exploitation would require a victim to process a specially crafted image with a...

Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities

Background The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail server. Description Possible single byte overflows have been found in the imapd annotate extension and mailbox handling code. Furthermore stack buffer overflows have been found in fetchnews, the backend and imapd. Impac...

gFTP: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background gFTP is a GNOME based, multi-threaded file transfer client. Description gFTP lacks input validation of filenames received by remote servers. Impact An attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious FTP server and conduct a directory traversal attack by making use of specially...

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...

Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix 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 other features. Description Squid contains several...

FireHOL: Insecure temporary file creation

Background FireHOL is an iptables rules generator. Description FireHOL insecurely creates temporary files with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create malicious symbolic links to arbitrary system files. When FireHOL is executed, this could lead to these files being overwritten wit...

TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution

Background TikiWiki is a web-based groupware and content management system CMS, using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. Description TikiWiki does not validate files uploaded to the "temp" directory. Impact A malicious user could run arbitrary commands on the server by uploading and calling a PHP script...

ncpfs: Buffer overflow in ncplogin and ncpmap

Background ncpfs is a NCP protocol network filesystem that allows access to Netware services, for example to mount volumes of NetWare servers or print to NetWare print queues. Description Karol Wiesek discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the '-T' option in the ncplogin and ncpmap...

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,...

Multiple new security vulnerabilities in monit

Background Monit is a system administration utility that allows management and monitoring of processes, files, directories and devices on a Unix system. Description Monit has several vulnerabilities in its HTTP interface : a buffer overflow vulnerability in the authentication handling code and a...

GPL Ghostscript: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workarou...

AFLplusplus: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background The fuzzer afl++ is afl with community patches, qemu 5.1 upgrade, collision-free coverage, enhanced laf-intel & redqueen, AFLfast++ power schedules, MOpt mutators, unicornmode, and a lot more! Description In AFL++ 4.05c, the CmpLog component uses the current working directory to resolv...

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 ...

Blender: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Blender is a 3D Creation/Animation/Publishing System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Blender. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

slixmpp: Insufficient Certificate Validation

Background slixmpp is a Python 3 library for XMPP. Description slixmpp does not validate hostnames in certificates used by connected servers. Impact An attacker could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on users' connections to servers with slixmpp. Workaround There is no known workaround at this...

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...