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...

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...

ez-ipupdate: Format string vulnerability

Background ez-ipupdate is a utility for updating host name information for a large number of dynamic DNS services. Description Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in ez-ipupdate. Impact An attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary...

Ruby: CGI::Session creates files insecurely

Background Ruby is an Object Oriented, interpreted scripting language used for many system scripting tasks. It can also be used for CGI web applications. Description The CGI::Session::FileStore implementation and presumably CGI::Session::PStore, which allow data associated with a particular Sessi...

Cross-realm trust vulnerability in Heimdal

Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. Description Heimdal does not properly perform certain consistency checks for cross-realm requests, which allows remote attackers with control of a realm to impersonate others in the cross-realm trust path. Impact Remote attackers with...

UUDeview MIME Buffer Overflow

Background UUDeview is a program which is used to transmit binary files over the Internet in a text-only format. It is commonly used for email and Usenet attachments. It supports multiple encoding formats, including Base64, BinHex and UUEncoding. Description By decoding a MIME archive with...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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

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 ...

Emacs, org-mode: Command Execution Vulnerability

Background Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. org-mode is an Emacs mode for notes and project planning. Description %... link abbreviations could specify unsafe functions. Impact Opening a malicious org-mode file could result in arbitrary code...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tinyproxy: Memory Disclosure

Background Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. Description Tinyproxy's request processing does not sufficiently null-initialize variables used in error pages. Impact Contents of the Tinyproxy server's memory could be disclosed via generated error pages...

libapreq2: Buffer Overflow

Background libapreq is a shared library with associated modules for manipulating client request data via the Apache API. Description A buffer overflow could occur when processing multipart form uploads. Impact An attacker could submit a crafted multipart form to trigger the buffer overflow and...

dhcpcd: Arbitrary code execution

Background dhcpcd is a fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP client. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in dhcpcd. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact The vulnerability might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the DHCP...

GDM: Local Denial of service

Background GDM is the GNOME display manager. Description The result of a gstrsplit call is incorrectly parsed in the files daemon/gdm.c, daemon/gdmconfig.c, gui/gdmconfig.c and gui/gdmflexiserver.c, allowing for a null pointer dereference. Impact A local user could send a crafted message to...

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...

Sylpheed, Sylpheed-Claws: Buffer overflow in LDIF importer

Background Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-Claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed. They both support the import of address books in LDIF Lightweight Directory Interchange Format. Description Colin Leroy reported buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Sylpheed a...

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...

BidWatcher: Format string vulnerability

Background BidWatcher is a free auction tool for eBay users to keep track of their auctions. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string vulnerability in "netstuff.cpp". Impact Remote attackers can potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted responses via an eBay...

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...

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...

Exiv2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Exiv2 is a C++ library and set of tools for parsing, editing and saving Exif and IPTC metadata from images. Description The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in Exiv2: 2 out of bounds reads, an integer overflow, and an uncaught exception. The worst of which can lead to a...

GnuPG: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in GnuPG's armor parser. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to process a specially crafted signature file,...

sysstat: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background sysstat is a package containing a number of performance monitoring utilities for Linux, including sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in sysstat. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. This CVE improves on an...

Emacs: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. org-mode is an Emacs mode for notes and project planning. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Emacs, org-mode. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impa...

QtWebEngine: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background QtWebEngine is a library for rendering dynamic web content in Qt5 and Qt6 C++ and QML applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QtWebEngine. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

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...

X.Org X server, XWayland: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org X server and XWayland. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

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...

MediaInfo, MediaInfoLib: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about media files. MediaInfoLib contains MediaInfo libraries. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MediaInfo and MediaInfoLib. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review t...

FlightGear, SimGear: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator. It supports a variety of popular platforms Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. and is developed by skilled volunteers from around the world. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License. SimGear i...

udisks: Arbitrary code execution

Background udisks is an abstraction for enumerating block devices and performing operations on them. Description A stack-based buffer overflow can be triggered when udisks is given a long path name as a mount point. Impact A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges...

ldns: Arbitrary code execution

Background ldns is a fast DNS library with the goal to simplify DNS programming and to allow developers to easily create software conforming to current RFCs and Internet drafts. Description ldns contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the ldnsrrnewfrmstrinternal function. Impact A remote attacke...

python-updater: Untrusted search path

Background python-updater is a script used to remerge python packages when changing Python version. Description Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security Team reported that python-updater includes the current working directory and subdirectories in the Python module search path sys.path before calli...

DevIL: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Developer's Image Library DevIL is a cross-platform image library. Description Stefan Cornelius Secunia Research discovered two boundary errors within the iGetHdrHeader function in src-IL/src/ilhdr.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Radiance RGB...

Imlib2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Imlib2 is replacement library from the Enlightenment project for libraries like libXpm. Description Julien Danjou reported a pointer arithmetic error and a heap-based buffer overflow within the load function of the XPM image loader. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to proce...

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...

CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

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

OpenOffice.org: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description iDefense Labs reported that the TIFF parsing code uses untrusted values to calculate...

ClamAV: Denial of service

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Metaeye Security Group reported a NULL pointer dereference in ClamAV when processing RAR archives. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted RAR archive to the clamd daemon, resulting in a crash and a Denial of Service. Workaroun...

Dnsmasq: Poisoning and Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description Dnsmasq does not properly detect that DNS replies received do not correspond to any DNS query that was sent. Rob Holland of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit team also discovered two off-by-one...

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...

Proxytunnel: Format string vulnerability

Background Proxytunnel is a program that tunnels connections to a remote server through a standard HTTPS proxy. Description Florian Schilhabel of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit project found a format string vulnerability in Proxytunnel. When the program is started in daemon mode -a port, it...

glFTPd: Local buffer overflow vulnerability

Background glFTPd is a highly configurable FTP server with many features. Description The glFTPd server is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the 'dupescan' program. This vulnerability is due to an unsafe strcpy call which can cause the program to crash when a large argument is passed. Impact A...