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tcpdump: Integer overflow
Background tcpdump is a tool for capturing and inspecting network traffic. Description mu-b from Digital Labs discovered that the return value of a snprintf call is not properly checked before being used. This could lead to an integer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could send specially crafte...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors
Background Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. Description Coverity discovered numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.99.0, including: buffer overflows in the ALCAP CVE-2006-1934, COPS CVE-2006-1935 and telnet CVE-2006-1936 dissectors. buffer overflows in th...
Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities in included ADOdb
Background Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool. ADOdb is a PHP-based database abstraction layer which is included in Cacti. Description Several vulnerabilities have been identified in the copy of ADOdb included in Cacti. Andreas Sandblad discovered a dynamic code evaluation...
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...
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...
dhcpcd: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background dhcpcd is a standards compliant DHCP client daemon. It requests an IP address and other information from the DHCP server, automatically configures the network interface, and tries to renew the lease time. Description infamous42md discovered that dhcpcd can be tricked to read past the e...
MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia. Description MediaWiki incorrectly handles page template inclusions, rendering it vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious...
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...
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...
tnftp: Arbitrary file overwriting
Background tnftp is a NetBSD FTP client with several advanced features. Description The 'mget' function in cmds.c lacks validation of the filenames that are supplied by the server. Impact An attacker running an FTP server could supply clients with malicious filenames, potentially allowing the...
TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution
Background TikiWiki is a web-based groupware and content management system CMS, using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. Description TikiWiki lacks a check on uploaded images in the Wiki edit page. Impact A malicious user could run arbitrary commands on the server by uploading and calling a PHP script...
Vim, gVim: Vulnerable options in modelines
Background Vim is an efficient, highly configurable improved version of the classic 'vi' text editor. gVim is the GUI version of Vim. Description Gentoo's Vim maintainer, Ciaran McCreesh, found several vulnerabilities related to the use of options in Vim modelines. Options like 'termcap',...
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 ...
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...
LHa: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background LHa is a console-based program for packing and unpacking LHarc archives. Description The command line argument as well as the archive parsing code of LHa lack sufficient bounds checking. Furthermore, a shell meta character command execution vulnerability exists in LHa, since it does no...
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...
Two buffer overflows in lftp
Background lftp is a multithreaded command-line based FTP client. It allows you to execute multiple commands simultaneously or in the background. If features mirroring capabilities, resuming downloads, etc. Description Two buffer overflows exist in lftp. Both can occur when the user connects to a...
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...
GCC: Flawed Code Generation
Background The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Ada, Go, D and Modula-2 as well as libraries for these languages libstdc++,.... Description A vulnerability has been discovered in GCC. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impac...
VLC: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...
Slurm: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background Slurm is a highly scalable resource manager. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Slurm. 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...
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...
ncurses: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background Free software emulation of curses in System V. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ncurses. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround ...
Nokogiri: Denial of Service
Background Nokogiri is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser. Description A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in Nokogiri. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Nokogiri fails to check the return value from xmlTextReaderExpand in the method...
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...
qtsvg: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background qtsvg is a SVG rendering library for the Qt framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in qtsvg. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...
D-Bus: Denial of service
Background D-Bus is a message bus system which processes can use to talk to each other. Description It was discovered that D-Bus did not properly handle the situation when two usernames have the same numeric UID. Impact An attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or trigger oth...
VDE: Privilege escalation
Background VDE is an ethernet compliant virtual network that can be spawned over a set of physical computer over the Internet. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default VDE installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script calls an unsafe...
Ansible: Privilege escalation
Background Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform. Description The createscript function in the lxccontainer module of Ansible uses predictable temporary file names, making it vulnerable to a symlink attack. Impact Local attackers could write arbitrary files or gain escalated...
PyPAM: Arbitrary code execution
Background PyPAM is a PAM binding for Python. Description PyPAM does not handle passwords correctly if there is NULL byte in the string. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...
Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service condition via specially...
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...
Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...
CCID: Arbitrary code execution
Background CCID is a generic USB Chip/Smart Card Interface Devices driver. Description CCID contains an integer overflow vulnerability in ccidserial.c. Impact A physically proximate attacker could execute arbitrary code via a smart card with a specially crafted serial number. Workaround There is ...
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 A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, caus...
TPP: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background TPP is an ncurses-based text presentation tool. Description TPP templates may contain a --exec clause, the contents of which are automatically executed without confirmation from the user. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file using TPP, possibly...
fastjar: Directory traversal
Background fastjar is a Java archiver written in C. Description Two directory traversal vulnerabilities have been discovered in fastjar. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted JAR file, possibly...
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 An unspecified heap vulnerability was discovered in stunnel. Impact The vulnerability may possibly be leveraged to perform remote code execution or a Denial o...
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...