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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...
Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Chromium is an open-source web browser project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Chromium. For further information please consult the release notes referenced below. Impact A remote attacker could trick a user to perform a set of UI actions that trigger a possibly...
XEmacs: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background XEmacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Tielei Wang reported multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in the tiffinstantiate, pnginstantiate and jpeginstantiate functions in glyphs-eimage.c, all possibly leading to heap-based buffer overflows. Impact A...
PEAR Net_Traceroute: Command injection
Background PEAR NetTraceroute is an OS independent wrapper class for executing traceroute calls from PHP. Description Pasquale Imperato reported that the $host parameter to the traceroute function in Traceroute.php is not properly sanitized before being passed to exec. Impact A remote attacker...
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...
aview: Insecure temporary file usage
Background aview is an ASCII image viewer and animation player. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that aview uses the "/tmp/aview$$.pgm" file in an insecure manner when processing files. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with th...
PECL APC: Buffer Overflow
Background PECL Alternative PHP Cache PECL APC is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. Description Daniel Papasian discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the apcsearchpaths function in the file apc.c when processing long filenames. Impact A...
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...
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...
FLAC: Buffer overflow
Background The Xiph.org Free Lossless Audio Codec FLAC library is the reference implementation of the FLAC audio file format. It contains encoders and decoders in library and executable form. Description Sean de Regge reported multiple integer overflows when processing FLAC media files that could...
Nagios Plugins: Two buffer overflows
Background The Nagios Plugins are an official set of plugins for Nagios, an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description fabiodds reported a boundary checking error in the "checksnmp" plugin when processing SNMP "GET" replies that could lead to a stack-based buffer overfl...
Tomboy: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Tomboy is a GTK-based desktop note-taking application written in C and the Mono C. Description Jan Oravec reported that the "/usr/bin/tomboy" script sets the "LDLIBRARYPATH" environment variable incorrectly, which might result in the current working directory . to be included when...
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...
RealPlayer: Buffer overflow
Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the SmilTimeValue::parseWallClockValue function in smlprstime.cpp when handling HH:mm:ss.f type time formats. Impact By...
ClamAV: Denial of service
Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Hendrik Weimer discovered that ClamAV fails to properly handle deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content. Impact By sending a specially crafted email with deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content an attacker could cause ClamAV to crash...
libgsf: Buffer overflow
Background The GNOME Structured File Library is an I/O library that can read and write common file types and handle structured formats that provide file-system-in-a-file semantics. Description "infamous41md" has discovered that the "oleinitinfo" function may allocate too little memory for storing...
TORQUE: Insecure temporary file creation
Background TORQUE is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. Description TORQUE creates temporary files with predictable names. Please note that the TORQUE package shipped in Gentoo Portage is not vulnerable in the default configuration. Only systems wi...
NVIDIA binary graphics driver: Privilege escalation vulnerability
Background The NVIDIA binary graphics driver from NVIDIA Corporation provides the kernel module and the GL modules for graphic acceleration on the NVIDIA based graphic cards. Description Rapid7 reported a boundary error in the NVIDIA binary graphics driver that leads to a buffer overflow in the...
libmusicbrainz: Multiple buffer overflows
Background libmusicbrainz is a client library used to access MusicBrainz music meta data. Description Luigi Auriemma reported a possible buffer overflow in the MBHttp::Download function of lib/http.cpp as well as several possible buffer overflows in lib/rdfparse.c. Impact A remote attacker could ...
DUMB: Heap buffer overflow
Background DUMB Dynamic Universal Music Bibliotheque is an IT, XM, S3M and MOD player library. Description Luigi Auriemma found a heap-based buffer overflow in the itreadenvelope function which reads the envelope values for volume, pan and pitch of the instruments referenced in a ".it" Impulse...
Audacious: Multiple heap and buffer overflows
Background Audacious is a media player that has been forked from Beep Media Player. Description Luigi Auriemma has found that the adplug library fails to verify the size of the destination buffers in the unpacking instructions, resulting in various possible heap and buffer overflows. Impact An...
Tor: Several vulnerabilities
Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Some integer overflows exist when adding elements to the smartlists. Non-printable characters received from the network are not properly sanitised before...
fbida: Insecure temporary file creation
Background fbida is a collection of image viewers and editors for the framebuffer console and X11. Description Jan Braun has discovered that the "fbgs" script provided by fbida insecurely creates temporary files in the "/var/tmp" directory. Impact A local attacker could create links in the...
mod_auth_pgsql: Multiple format string vulnerabilities
Background modauthpgsql is an Apache2 module that allows user authentication against a PostgreSQL database. Description The error logging functions of modauthpgsql fail to validate certain strings before passing them to syslog, resulting in format string vulnerabilities. Impact An unauthenticated...
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...
Xpdf, Kpdf, GPdf: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background Xpdf, Kpdf and GPdf are PDF file viewers that run under the X Window System. Kpdf and GPdf both contain Xpdf code. Kpdf is also part of kdegraphics. Description Xpdf, Kpdf and GPdf do not handle a broken table of embedded TrueType fonts correctly. After detecting such a table, Xpdf, Kp...
Clam AntiVirus: Integer overflows
Background Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AntiVirus also provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the virus database. Description Neel Mehta and Alex Wheeler discovered that Clam...
RealPlayer: Heap overflow vulnerability
Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description RealPlayer is vulnerable to a heap overflow when opening RealMedia files which make use of RealText. Impact By enticing a user to play a specially crafted RealMedia file an attacker coul...
SpamAssassin 3, Vipul's Razor: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter which is used to identify junk email. Vipul's Razor is a client for a distributed, collaborative spam detection and filtering network. Description SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor contain a Denial of Service vulnerability when handling special...
Xzabite dyndnsupdate: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background dyndnsupdate is a dyndns.org data updater written by Fredrik "xzabite" Haglund. Description Toby Dickenson discovered that dyndnsupdate suffers from multiple overflows. Impact A remote attacker, posing as a dyndns.org server, could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user...
mlterm: Integer overflow vulnerability
Background mlterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator. Description mlterm is vulnerable to an integer overflow that can be triggered by specifying a large image file as a background. This only effects users that have compiled mlterm with the 'gtk' USE flag, which enables gdk-pixbuf support. Impa...
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...
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...
shadow: Unauthorized modification of account information
Background shadow provides a set of utilities to deal with user accounts. Description Martin Schulze reported a flaw in the passwdcheck function in "libmisc/pwdcheck.c" which is used by chfn and chsh. Impact A logged-in local user with an expired password may be able to use chfn and chsh to chang...
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...
oftpd DoS vulnerability
Background Quote from http://www.time-travellers .org/oftpd/ "oftpd is designed to be as secure as an anonymous FTP server can possibly be. It runs as non-root for most of the time, and uses the Unix chroot command to hide most of the systems directories from external users - they cannot change...
Apache mod_python Denial of Service vulnerability
Background Modpython is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server allowing Python-based web-applications to be created. Description The Apache Foundation has reported that modpython may be prone to Denial of Service attacks when handling a malformed query. Modpython...
Linux kernel do_mremap() local privilege escalation vulnerability
Background The Linux kernel is responsible for memory management in a working system - to allow this, processes are allowed to allocate and unallocate memory. Description The memory subsystem allows for shrinking, growing, and moving of chunks of memory along any of the allocated memory areas whi...
PJSIP: Heap Buffer Overflow
Background PJSIP is a free and open source multimedia communication library written in C language implementing standard based protocols such as SIP, SDP, RTP, STUN, TURN, and ICE. Description Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Please review the CVE identifier...
X.Org X11 library: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background X.Org is an implementation of the X Window System. The X.Org X11 library provides the X11 protocol library files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org X11 library. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the...
Liferea: Remote Code Execution
Background Liferea is a feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds. Its GUI is similar to a desktop mail/news client, with an embedded web browser. Description A...
RDoc: Remote Code Execution
Background RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in RDoc. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact When parsing .rdocoptions used for configuration in RDoc as a YAML file, object injection...
CGAL: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background CGAL is a C++ library for geometric algorithms and data structures. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in CGAL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no...
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...
Transmission: Remote code execution
Background Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client. Description Transmission mishandles some memory management which may allow manipulation of the heap. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted torrent file using Transmission, possibly resulting in...
Portage: Man-in-the-middle
Background Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo. Description A vulnerability was discovered in emerge-delta-webrsync and Portage that did not properly validate the revocation status of GPG keys. Impact A remote attacker could conduct a man-in-the-middle attack...
Bundler: Insecure installation
Background Bundler provides a consistent environment for Ruby projects by tracking and installing the exact gems and versions that are needed. Description Bundler, allows the installation of gems from different sources with the same names, when multiple top-level gem sources are used. Impact Remo...
UnRTF: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background UnRTF is a command-line program which converts RTF documents to other formats. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in UnRTF. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the...
chrony: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background chrony is a versatile implementation of the Network Time Protocol NTP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in chrony. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker can cause arbitrary remote code execution or Denial of...
Pixman: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Pixman is a pixel manipulation library. Description The trapezoid handling code in Pixman contains an integer underflow vulnerability. Impact A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file using an application linked against Pixman, possibly resulting...