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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
C* music player: Insecure temporary file usage
Background The C Music Player cmus is a modular and very configurable ncurses-based audio player. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that cmus-status-display does not handle the "/tmp/cmus-status" temporary file securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite...
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...
Irrlicht: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background The Irrlicht Engine is an open source cross-platform high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++. Description An unspecified component of the B3D loader is vulnerable to a buffer overflow due to missing boundary checks. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...
OpenSC: Insufficient protection of smart card PIN
Background OpenSC is a smart card application that allows reading and writing via PKCS11. Description Chaskiel M Grundman reported that OpenSC uses weak permissions ADMIN file control information of 00 for the 5015 directory on smart cards and USB crypto tokens running Siemens CardOS M4. Impact A...
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...
Linux Terminal Server Project: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The Linux Terminal Server Project adds thin-client support to Linux servers. Description LTSP version 4.2, ships prebuilt copies of programs such as the Linux Kernel, the X.org X11 server GLSA 200705-06, GLSA 200710-16, GLSA 200801-09, libpng GLSA 200705-24, GLSA 200711-08, Freetype GL...
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...
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...
rsync: Two buffer overflows
Background rsync is a file transfer program to keep remote directories synchronized. Description Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE Security Team discovered two off-by-one errors in the function "fname" in file sender.c when processing overly long directory names. Impact A remote attacker could enti...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FreeRADIUS: Authentication bypass in EAP-MSCHAPv2 module
Background FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server implementation. Description FreeRADIUS suffers from insufficient input validation in the EAP-MSCHAPv2 state machine. Impact An attacker could cause the server to bypass authentication checks by manipulating the EAP-MSCHAPv2 clie...
BomberClone: Remote execution of arbitrary code
Background BomberClone is a remake of the classic game "BomberMan". It supports multiple players via IP network connection. Description Stefan Cornelius of the Gentoo Security team discovered multiple missing buffer checks in BomberClone's code. Impact By sending overly long error messages to 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...
gtkdiskfree: Insecure temporary file creation
Background gtkdiskfree is a GTK-based GUI to show free disk space. Description Eric Romang discovered that gtkdiskfree insecurely creates a predictable temporary file to handle command output. Impact A local attacker could create a symbolic link in the temporary files directory, pointing to a val...
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...
Heartbeat: Insecure temporary file creation
Background Heartbeat is a component of the High-Availability Linux project. It it used to perform death-of-node detection, communications and cluster management. Description Eric Romang has discovered that Heartbeat insecurely creates temporary files with predictable filenames. Impact A local...
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...
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...
gedit: Format string vulnerability
Background gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environement. Description A format string vulnerability exists when opening files with names containing format specifiers. Impact A specially crafted file with format specifiers in the filename can cause arbitrary code execution...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...