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...

mit-krb5: Multiple buffer overflows in krb5_aname_to_localname

Background mit-krb5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description The library function krb5anametolocalname contains multiple buffer overflows. This is only exploitable if explicit mapping or rules-based mappin...

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...

Dnsmasq: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dnsmasq. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

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...

Mbed TLS: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Mbed TLS previously PolarSSL is an “easy to understand, use, integrate and expand” implementation of the TLS and SSL protocols and the respective cryptographic algorithms and support code required. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mbed TLS. Please review the...

Freenet: Deanonymization Vulnerability

Background Freenet is an encrypted network without censorship. Description This release fixes a severe vulnerability in path folding that allowed to distinguish between downloaders and forwarders with an adapted node that is directly connected via opennet. Impact This release fixes a severe...

GLib: Privilege Escalation

Background GLib is a library providing a number of GNOME's core objects and functions. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in GLib. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact When a GDBus-based client subscribes to signals from a trusted system service such ...

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 ...

e2fsprogs: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background e2fsprogs is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in e2fsprogs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability was found in...

TACACS+: Remote Code Execution

Background An updated version of Cisco's TACACS+ server. Description A vulnerabilitiy has been discovered in TACACS+. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A lack of input validation exists in tacplus which, when pre or post auth commands are enabled, allows an...

libspf2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libspf2 is a library that implements the Sender Policy Framework, allowing mail transfer agents to make sure that an email is authorized by the domain name that it is coming from. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libspf2. Please review the CVE identifiers...

Ceph: Root Privilege Escalation

Background Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Ceph. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact The ceph-crash.service runs the ceph-crash...

uptimed: Root Privilege Escalation

Background uptimed is a system uptime record daemon that keeps track of your highest uptimes. Description Via unnecessary file ownership modifications in the pkgpostinst ebuild phase, the uptimed user could change arbitrary files to be owned by the uptimed user at emerge-time. Impact The uptimed...

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...

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...

JHead: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background JHead is an exif jpeg header manipulation tool. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in JHead. 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...

Ming: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A library for generating Macromedia Flash files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ming. 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...

Teeworlds: Remote execution of arbitrary code on client

Background Teeworlds is an online multi-player platform 2D shooter. Description Teeworlds client contains a vulnerability allowing a malicious server to execute arbitrary code, or write to arbitrary physical memory via the CClient::ProcessServerPacket method. Impact A remote malicious server can...

Background FUSE provides an interface for filesystems implemented in userspace. Description The fusermount binary calls setuidgeteuid to reset the RUID when it invokes /bin/mount so that it can use privileged mount options that are normally restricted if RUID != EUID. FUSE does not properly clear...

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...

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...

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...

Links: Denial of service

Background Links is a web browser which runs in both graphics and text modes. Description An integer overflow vulnerability was found in the parsing of HTML tables in the Links web browser when running in graphical mode. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition...

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...

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 possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via a speciall...

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, ...

GNU ZRTP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU ZRTP is a C++ implementation of the ZRTP protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU ZRTP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the proces...

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...

NUT: Arbitrary code execution

Background The Network UPS Tools NUT provide support for power devices. Description An error in the addchar function in parseconf.c may cause a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted string to upsd, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the...

SquidClamav: Denial of service

Background SquidClamav is a HTTP anti-virus for Squid based on ClamAV and ICAP. Description SquidClamav does not properly escape URLs before passing them to the system command call. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted URL to SquidClamav, possibly resulting in a Denial of Servi...

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...

usbmuxd: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background usbmuxd is a USB multiplex daemon for use with Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Description The "receivepacket" function in libusbmuxd.c contains a boundary error when parsing the "SerialNumber" field of a USB device, which could cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact An attack...

FontForge: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background FontForge is a PostScript font editor and converter. Description FontForge is vulnerable to an error when processing the "CHARSETREGISTRY" header in font files, which could cause a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted BDF...

MaraDNS: Arbitrary code execution

Background MaraDNS is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching. Description A long DNS hostname with a large number of labels could trigger a buffer overflow in the compressadddlabelpoints function of dns/Compress.c. Impact A remote unauthenticated attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause ...

rgmanager: Privilege escalation

Background rgmanager is a clustered resource group manager. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in rgmanager. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could gain escalated privileges. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...

Tor: Remote heap-based buffer overflow

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Tor contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the processing of user or attacker supplied data. No additional information is available. Impact Successful...

irssi: Execution of arbitrary code

Background irssi is a modular textUI IRC client with IPv6 support. Description Nemo discovered an off-by-one error leading to a heap overflow in irssi's eventwallops parsing function. Impact A remote attacker might entice a user to connect to a malicious IRC server, use a man-in-the-middle attack...

GCC-XML: Insecure temporary file usage

Background GCC-XML is an XML output extension to the C++ front-end of GCC. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that findflags in GCC-XML does not handle "/tmp/.cxx" temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges...

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...

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...

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...

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...

WordNet: Execution of arbitrary code

Background WordNet is a large lexical database of English. Description Jukka Ruohonen initially reported a boundary error within the searchwn function in src/wn.c. A thorough investigation by the oCERT team revealed several other vulnerabilities in WordNet: Jukka Ruohonen and Rob Holland oCERT...

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...

PeerCast: Buffer overflow

Background PeerCast is a client and server for P2P-radio network Description Luigi Auriemma reported a heap-based buffer overflow within the "handshakeHTTP" function when processing HTTP requests. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to the vulnerable server, possibly...

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...

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...

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,...