o3read: Buffer overflow during file conversion

Background o3read is a standalone converter for OpenOffice.org files. It allows a user to dump the contents tree o3read and convert to plain text o3totxt or to HTML o3tohtml Writer and Calc files. Description Wiktor Kopec discovered that the parsehtml function in o3read.c copies any number of byt...

Fetchmail 6.2.5 fixes a remote DoS

Background Fetchmail is a utility that retrieves and forwards mail from remote systems using IMAP, POP, and other protocols. Description Fetchmail versions 6.2.4 and earlier can be crashed by sending a specially-crafted email to a fetchmail user. This problem occurs because Fetchmail does not...

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...

Python, PyPy: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Python, PyPy3. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers f...

stb: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background A set of single-file public domain or MIT licensed libraries for C/C++ Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in stb. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is ...

liblouis: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in liblouis. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is...

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...

pypy, pypy3: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background A fast, compliant alternative implementation of the Python language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in pypy. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is n...

re2c: Denial of Service

Background re2c is a tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions. Description Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution...

TigerVNC: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background TigerVNC is a high-performance VNC server/client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in TigerVNC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

Glade: Denial of Service

Background Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit Version 3 only and the GNOME desktop environment. Description A vulnerability has been found in Glade which can lead to a denial of service when working with specific glade files. Impact A...

CUPS filters: Remote Code Execution

Background CUPS filters provides backends, filters, and other software that was once part of the core CUPS distribution. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in cups-filters. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact If you use beh to create an accessible...

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...

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...

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...

Echoping: Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Background Echoping is a small program to test performances of a remote host by sending it TCP packets. Description A boundary error exists within the “TLSreadline” function, which can be exploited to overflow a global buffer by sending an overly long encrypted HTTP reply to Echoping. Also, a...

OptiPNG: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. Description A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the palette reduction functionality of OptiPNG. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted imag...

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...

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 ...

libsndfile: Arbitrary code execution

Background Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound through one standard library interface. Description An integer overflow flaw has been discovered in Libsndfile. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PAF file using...

CTorrent: User-assisted arbitrary code execution

Background CTorrent is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick. Description CTorrent contains a stack-based buffer overflow in the btFiles::BuildFromMI function in trunk/btfiles.cpp. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted torrent file...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Multiple Ralink wireless drivers: Execution of arbitrary code

Background All listed packages are external kernel modules that provide drivers for multiple Ralink devices. ralink-rt61 is released by ralinktech.com, the other packages by the rt2x00.serialmonkey.com project. Description Aviv reported an integer overflow in multiple Ralink wireless card drivers...

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...

Ruby: Denial of service

Background Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The elaborate standard library includes the "BigDecimal" class. Description Tadayoshi Funaba reported that BigDecimal in ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c does not properly handle string arguments containing overly long numbers...

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...

JRockit: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background JRockit is BEA WebLogic's J2SE Development Kit. Description Because of sharing the same codebase, JRockit is affected by the vulnerabilities mentioned in GLSA 200804-20. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to run a specially crafted applet on a website or start an application ...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Links: Arbitrary Samba command execution

Background Links is a web browser running in both graphics and text modes. Description Teemu Salmela discovered that Links does not properly validate "smb://" URLs when it runs smbclient commands. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to browse to a specially crafted "smb://" URL and execu...

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...

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...

KDM: Symlink vulnerability

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. KDM is the KDE Display Manager and is part of the kdebase package. Description Ludwig Nussel discovered that KDM could be tricked into allowing users to read files that would otherwise not be...

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...

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...

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...

KDE kjs: URI heap overflow vulnerability

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kjs is the javascript interpreter used in Konqueror and other parts of KDE. Description Maksim Orlovich discovered an incorrect bounds check in kjs when handling URIs. Impact By enticing a us...

NBD Tools: Buffer overflow in NBD server

Background The NBD Tools are the Network Block Device utilities allowing one to use remote block devices over a TCP/IP network. It includes a userland NBD server. Description Kurt Fitzner discovered that the NBD server allocates a request buffer that fails to take into account the size of the rep...