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 ...

Poppler: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. Description Kees Cook from the Ubuntu Security Team reported that the CairoFont::create function in the file CairoFontEngine.cc does not verify the type of an embedded font object inside a PDF file before...

Horde IMP: Security bypass

Background Horde IMP provides a web-based access to IMAP and POP3 mailboxes. Description Ulf Harnhammar, Secunia Research discovered that the "frame" and "frameset" HTML tags are not properly filtered out. He also reported that certain HTTP requests are executed without being checked. Impact A...

ngIRCd: Denial of service

Background ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat IRC. Description The IRCPART function in the file irc-channel.c does not properly check the number of parameters, referencing an invalid pointer if no channel is supplied. Impact A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerabilit...

PEAR::MDB2: Information disclosure

Background PEAR::MDB2 is a database abstraction layer for PHP aimed to provide a common API for all supported relational database management systems. A LOB "large object" is a database field holding binary data. Description priyadi discovered that the request to store a URL string as a LOB is...

libexif: Buffer overflow

Background libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving EXIF metadata from images. Description iDefense Labs have discovered that the exifdataloaddataentry function in libexif/exif-data.c improperly handles integer data while working with an image with many EXIF components, allowing an...

xine-lib: Buffer overflow

Background xine-lib is the core library of xine, a multimedia player. Description There is a stack based overflow in the libmms library included with xine-lib which can be triggered by malicious use of the sendcommand, stringutf16, getdata and getmediapacket functions. Impact A remote attacker...

Hashcash: Possible heap overflow

Background Hashcash is a utility for generating Hashcash tokens, a proof-of-work system to reduce the impact of spam. Description Andreas Seltenreich has reported a possible heap overflow in the arraypush function in hashcash.c, as a result of an incorrect amount of allocated memory for the "ARRA...

libtasn1, GNU TLS: Security flaw in DER decoding

Background Libtasn1 is a library used to parse ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One objects, and perform DER Distinguished Encoding Rules decoding. Libtasn1 is included with the GNU TLS library, which is used by applications to provide a cryptographically secure communications channel. Description...

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...

SELinux PAM: Local password guessing attack

Background PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is an architecture allowing the separation of the development of privilege granting software from the development of secure and appropriate authentication schemes. SELinux is an operating system based on Linux which includes Mandatory Access Control...

Netpbm: Buffer overflow in pnmtopng

Background Netpbm is a package of 220 graphics programs and a programming library, including pnmtopng, a tool to convert PNM image files to the PNG format. Description RedHat reported that pnmtopng is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could craft a malicious PNM file and entice ...

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...

Mailutils: Format string vulnerability in imap4d

Background The GNU Mailutils are a collection of mail-related utilities, including an IMAP4 server imap4d. Description The imap4d server contains a format string bug in the handling of IMAP SEARCH requests. Impact An authenticated IMAP user could exploit the format string error in imap4d to execu...

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...

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...

Shorewall: Security policy bypass

Background Shorewall is a high level tool for configuring Netfilter, the firewall facility included in the Linux Kernel. Description Shorewall fails to enforce security policies if configured with "MACLISTDISPOSITION" set to "ACCEPT" or "MACLISTTTL" set to a value greater or equal to 0. Impact A...

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...

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...

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...

Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities

Background The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail server. Description Possible single byte overflows have been found in the imapd annotate extension and mailbox handling code. Furthermore stack buffer overflows have been found in fetchnews, the backend and imapd. Impac...

mpg123: Buffer overflow

Background mpg123 is a real-time MPEG audio player. Description mpg123 improperly parses frame headers in input streams. Impact By inducing a user to play a malicious file, an attacker may be able to exploit a buffer overflow to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running...

mpg123: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Background mpg123 is a MPEG Audio Player. Description Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the getauthfromURL and httpopen functions have been reported by Carlos Barros. Additionally, the Gentoo Linux Sound Team fixed additional boundary checks which were found to be lacking. Impact By enticing a...

kdelibs: Cross-domain cookie injection vulnerability

Background KDE is a widely-used desktop environment based on the Qt toolkit. kcookiejar in kdelibs is responsible for storing and managing HTTP cookies. Konqueror uses kcookiejar for storing and managing cookies. Description kcookiejar contains a vulnerability which may allow a malicious website ...

gv: Exploitable Buffer Overflow

Background gv is a PostScript and PDF viewer for X which provides a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter. Description gv contains a buffer overflow vulnerability where an unsafe sscanf call is used to interpret PDF and PostScript files. Impact By enticing a user to view a malformed PDF ...

XChat 2.0.x SOCKS5 Vulnerability

Background XChat is a multiplatform IRC client. Description The SOCKS 5 proxy code in XChat is vulnerable to a remote exploit. Users would have to be using XChat through a SOCKS 5 server, enable SOCKS 5 traversal which is disabled by default and also connect to an attacker's custom proxy server...

Scorched 3D server chat box format string vulnerability

Background Scorched 3D is a game based loosely on the classic DOS game "Scorched Earth". Scorched 3D adds amongst other new features a 3D island environment and LAN and internet play. Scorched 3D is totally free and is available for multiple operating systems. Description Scorched 3D build 36.2 a...

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...

Buffer overflow in Midnight Commander

Background Midnight Commander is a visual file manager. Description A stack-based buffer overflow has been found in Midnight Commander's virtual filesystem. Impact This overflow allows an attacker to run arbitrary code on the user's computer during the symlink conversion process. Workaround While...

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...

PostgreSQL: Privilege Escalation

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact An attacker able to create and drop non-temporary objects could inject SQL cod...

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 ...

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 ...

Bitcoin: Denial of Service

Background Bitcoin Core consists of both "full-node" software for fully validating the blockchain as well as a bitcoin wallet. Description Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Bitcoin Core, when debug mode is not used, allows attackers to cause a denial of service...

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...

HarfBuzz: Denial of Service

Background HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HarfBuzz. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos.hh in HarfBuzz allows attackers to trigger On^2 growth via consecutive marks...

KDE Plasma Workspaces: Privilege Escalation

Background KDE Plasma workspace is a widget based desktop environment designed to be fast and efficient. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in KDE Plasma Workspaces. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact KSmserver, KDE's XSMP manager,...

SDL_ttf: Arbitrary Memory Write

Background SDLttf is a wrapper around the FreeType and Harfbuzz libraries, allowing you to use TrueType fonts to render text in SDL applications. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in SDLttf. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact SDLttf was discovered ...

Blender: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Blender is a 3D Creation/Animation/Publishing System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Blender. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

LibreOffice: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background LibreOffice is a powerful office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools let you unleash your creativity and grow your productivity. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibreOffice. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact...

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...

MUNGE: Privilege escalation

Background An authentication service for creating and validating credentials. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default MUNGE installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability munge user to root due to improper permissions and a runscript which called chown on a user...

Smb4K: Arbitrary command execution as root

Background Smb4K is a SMB/CIFS Windows share browser for KDE. Description Smb4k contains a logic flaw in which mount helper binary does not properly verify the mount command it is being asked to run. Impact A local user can execute commands with the root privilege due to the mount helper being...

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...

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...

GMime: Arbitrary code execution

Background GMime is a C/C++ library which may be used for the creation and parsing of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension MIME. Description GMime contains a buffer overflow flaw in the GMIMEUUENCODELEN macro in gmime/gmime-encodings.h. Impact A context-dependent attacker could...

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...

libotr: Arbitrary code execution

Background libotr is a portable off-the-record messaging library. Description Multiple heap-based buffer overflows are present in the Base64 decoder of libotr. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted OTR message, resulting in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the...

ChaSen: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background ChaSen is a Japanese morphological analysis system. Description An error in chalib.c of ChaSen could cause a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted text file using ChaSen or an application using the ChaSen libraries, possibly resulting...