giflib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background giflib is a library for reading and writing GIF images. Description Chris Evans and Daniel Eisenbud independently discovered two out-of-bounds memory write operations and a NULL pointer dereference in giflib. Impact An attacker could craft a malicious GIF image and entice users to load...

libgda: Format string vulnerabilities

Background libgda is the library handling the data abstraction layer in the Gnome data access architecture GNOME-DB. It can also be used by non-GNOME applications to manage data stored in databases or XML files. Description Steve Kemp discovered two format string vulnerabilities in the gdalogerro...

Dia: Arbitrary code execution through SVG import

Background Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license. Description Joxean Koret discovered that the SVG import plugin in Dia fails to properly sanitise data read from an SVG file. Impact An attacker could create a specially crafted SVG file, which, when imported...

XV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background XV is an interactive image manipulation program for the X Window System. Description Greg Roelofs has reported multiple input validation errors in XV image decoders. Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported insufficient validation in the PDS Planetary Data...

Ringtone Tools: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Ringtone Tools is a program for creating ringtones and logos for mobile phones. Description Qiao Zhang has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the 'parseemelody' function in 'parseemelody.c'. Impact A remote attacker could entice a Ringtone Tools user to open a specially...

Dillo: Format string vulnerability

Background Dillo is a small and fast multi-platform web browser based on GTK+. Description Gentoo Linux developer Tavis Ormandy found a format string bug in Dillo's handling of messages in aInterfacemsg. Impact An attacker could craft a malicious web page which, when accessed using Dillo, would...

Vilistextum: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Vilistextum is an HTML to text converter. Description Ariel Berkman discovered that Vilistextum unsafely reads data into an array without checking the length. This code vulnerability may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could craft a malicious webpage which, when...

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 ...

Opera: Multiple spoofing vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Opera fails to remove illegal characters from an URI of a link and to check that the target frame of a link belongs to the same website as the link. Opera also updates the address bar before loading a page. Additionally, Opera contains...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Samba

Background Samba is a package which allows UNIX systems to act as file servers for Windows computers. It also allows UNIX systems to mount shares exported by a Samba/CIFS/Windows server. smbmount is a program in the Samba package which allows normal users on a UNIX system to mount remote shares...

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...

Insecure sandbox temporary lockfile vulnerabilities in Portage

Background Portage is Gentoo's package management system which is responsible for installing, compiling and updating any ebuilds on the system through the Gentoo rsync tree. Under default configurations, most ebuilds run under a sandbox which prevent the build process writing to the "real" system...

FreeType: Remote Code Execution

Background FreeType is a high-quality and portable font engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeType. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An out of bounds write exists in FreeType when attempting to parse font subglyph structures...

Spidermonkey: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background SpiderMonkey is Mozilla’s JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine, used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects. It is written in C++, Rust and JavaScript. You can embed it into C++ and Rust projects, and it can be run as a stand-alone shell. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have be...

icinga2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Icinga2 is a distributed, general purpose, network monitoring engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Icinga2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There ...

Perl: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Perl is Larry Wall’s Practical Extraction and Report Language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no know...

Portage: Unverified PGP Signatures

Background Portage is the default Gentoo package management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Portage. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact When using the webrsync mechanism to sync the tree the PGP signatures that protect the...

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...

protobuf, protobuf-python: Denial of Service

Background Google's Protocol Buffers are an extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in protobuf and protobuf-python. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type...

AFLplusplus: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background The fuzzer afl++ is afl with community patches, qemu 5.1 upgrade, collision-free coverage, enhanced laf-intel & redqueen, AFLfast++ power schedules, MOpt mutators, unicornmode, and a lot more! Description In AFL++ 4.05c, the CmpLog component uses the current working directory to resolv...

PostgreSQL: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaroun...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

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...

MiniDLNA: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background MiniDLNA is a simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MiniDLNA. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

Binwalk: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Binwalk is a tool for identifying files embedded inside firmware images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Binwalk. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround The...

MPFR: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background MPFR is a library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding. Description MPFR fails to adequately check user-supplied input, which could lead to a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

libwww-perl: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libwww is a collection of Perl modules providing a consistent interface to the World-Wide Web. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libwww-perl. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...

VIPS: Privilege Escalation

Background VIPS is a free image processing system. Description VIPS places a zero-length directory name in the LDLIBRARYPATH, which might result in the current working directory . to be included when searching for dynamically linked libraries. Impact A local attacker could gain escalated privileg...

GEGL: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background GEGL is a graph-based image processing framework. Description Multiple integer overflows in GEGL may cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PPM image using an application linked against GEGL, possibly resulting in...

foomatic-filters: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background The foomatic-filters package contains wrapper scripts which are designed to be used with Foomatic. Description The foomatic-rip filter improperly handles command-line arguments, including those issued by FoomaticRIPCommandLine fields in PPD files. Impact A remote attacker could entice ...

aria2: Directory traversal

Background aria2 is a download utility with resuming and segmented downloading with HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent support. Description A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in aria2. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to download from a specially crafted metalink file, resultin...

Maildrop: privilege escalation

Background maildrop is the mail filter/mail delivery agent that is used by the Courier Mail Server. Description Christoph Anton Mitterer reported that maildrop does not properly drop its privileges when run as root. Impact A local attacker could create a specially crafted .mailfilter file, possib...

Blender: Untrusted search path

Background Blender is a 3D Creation/Animation/Publishing System. Description Steffen Joeris reported that Blender's BPYinterface calls PySysSetArgv in such a way that Python prepends sys.path with an empty string. Impact A local attacker could entice a user to run "blender" from a directory...

NX: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background NoMachine's NX establishes remote connections to X11 desktops over small bandwidth links. NX and NX Node are the compression core libraries, whereas NX is used by FreeNX and NX Node by the binary-only NX servers. Description Multiple integer overflow and buffer overflow vulnerabilities...

PTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PTeX is a TeX distribution with Japanese support. It is used for creating and manipulating LaTeX documents. Description Multiple issues were found in the teTeX 2 codebase that PTeX builds upon GLSA 200709-17, GLSA 200711-26. PTeX also includes vulnerable code from the GD library GLSA...

Speex: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Speex is an audio compression format designed for speech that is free of patent restrictions. Description oCERT reported that the Speex library does not properly validate the "mode" value it derives from Speex streams, allowing for array indexing vulnerabilities inside multiple player...

Boost: Denial of service

Background Boost is a set of C++ libraries, including the Boost.Regex library to process regular expressions. Description Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry from the Google Security Team reported a failed assertion in file regex/v4/perlmatchernonrecursive.hpp CVE-2008-0171 and a NULL pointer dereferen...

Pulseaudio: Privilege escalation

Background Pulseaudio is a networked sound server with an advanced plugin system. Description Marcus Meissner from SUSE reported that the padroproot function does not properly check the return value of the system calls setuid, seteuid, setresuid and setreuid when dropping its privileges. Impact A...

Evolution: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Evolution is the mail client of the GNOME desktop environment. Camel is the Evolution Data Server module that handles mail functions. Description The imaprescan function of the file camel-imap-folder.c does not properly sanitize the "SEQUENCE" response sent by an IMAP server before bei...

Ekiga: Format string vulnerability

Background Ekiga is an open source VoIP and video conferencing application. Description Mu Security has discovered that Ekiga fails to implement formatted printing correctly. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash Ekiga and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending a...

CHMlib: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code

Background CHMlib is a library for the MS CHM Compressed HTML file format plus extracting and HTTP server utils. Description When certain CHM files that contain tables and objects stored in pages are parsed by CHMlib, an unsanitized value is passed to the alloca function resulting in a shift of t...

ClamAV: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Damian Put and an anonymous researcher reported a potential heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in rebuildpe.c responsible for the rebuilding of an unpacked PE file, and a possible crash in chmunpack.c in the CHM unpacker. Impact By sendi...

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...

Netpbm: Arbitrary code execution in pstopnm

Background Netpbm is a package of 220 graphics programs and a programming libraries, including pstopnm. pstopnm is a tool which converts PostScript files to PNM image files. Description Max Vozeler reported that pstopnm calls the GhostScript interpreter on untrusted PostScript files without...

sharutils: Insecure temporary file creation

Background sharutils is a collection of tools to deal with shar archives. Description Joey Hess has discovered that the program unshar, which is a part of sharutils, creates temporary files in a world-writable directory with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links i...

Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Buffer overflow on message display

Background Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed. Description Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle messages containing attachments with MIME-encoded filenames. Impact An attacker can send a malicious email...

UnRTF: Buffer overflow

Background UnRTF is a utility to convert files in the Rich Text Format into other formats. Description An unchecked strcat in unrtf may overflow the bounds of a static buffer. Impact Using a specially crafted file, possibly delivered by e-mail or over the web, an attacker may execute arbitrary co...