Gnumeric: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background The Gnumeric spreadsheet is a versatile application developed as part of the GNOME Office project. Description Multiple integer overflow and signedness errors have been reported in the excelreadHLINK function in file plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c when processing XLS HLINK opcodes. Impa...

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...

wv library: Multiple integer overflows

Background wv is a library for conversion of MS Word DOC and RTF files. Description The wv library fails to do proper arithmetic checks in multiple places, possibly leading to integer overflows. Impact An attacker could craft a malicious file that, when handled with the wv library, could lead to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

phpMyAdmin < 2.5.6-rc1: possible attack against export.php

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databased over the Web. Description One component of the phpMyAdmin software package export.php does not properly verify input that is passed to it from a remote user. Since the input is used to include...

quickjs-ng: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background quickjs-ng is a small and embeddable JavaScript engine. It aims to support the latest ECMAScript specification. It is a fork of QuickJS. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in quickjs-ng. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Pleas...

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...

Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. Google Chrome is one fast, simple, and secure browser for all your devices. Microsoft Edge is a browser that combines a minimal design with...

sudo: Privilege escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker can escalate privileges to root by providin...

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...

OpenSC: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSC contains tools and libraries for smart cards. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

ZNC: Remote Code Execution

Background ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer. Description ZNC's modtcl could allow for remote code execution via a KICK. Impact A vulnerable ZNC with the modtcl module loaded could be exploited for remote code execution. Workaround Unload the modtcl module. Resolution All ZNC users should upgrade to...

MirBSD Korn Shell: Arbitrary code execution

Background MirBSD Korn Shell is an actively developed free implementation of the Korn Shell programming language and a successor to the Public Domain Korn Shell. Description Improper sanitation of environment import allows for appending of values to passed parameters. Impact An attacker who alrea...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Evolution: Format string vulnerability

Background Evolution is a GNOME groupware application. Description Ulf Harnhammar from Secunia Research discovered a format string error in the emfmultipartencrypted function in the file mail/em-format.c when reading certain data e.g. the "Version:" field from an encrypted e-mail. Impact A remote...

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...

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...

Amarok: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Amarok is an advanced music player. Description The Magnatune downloader doesn't quote the "mcurrentAlbumFileName" parameter while calling the "unzip" shell command. Impact A compromised or malicious Magnatune server can remotely execute arbitrary shell code with the rights of the user...

Quagga Routing Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Quagga Routing Suite implements three major routing protocols: RIP v1/v2/v3, OSPF v2/v3 and BGP4. Description Konstantin V. Gavrilenko discovered two flaws in the Routing Information Protocol RIP daemon that allow the processing of RIP v1 packets carrying no authentication even whe...

ClamAV: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Zero Day Initiative ZDI reported a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to an incorrect boundary check of the user-supplied data prior to copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer. The flaw occurs when the...

RAR: Format string and buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Background RAR is a powerful archive manager that can decompress RAR, ZIP and other files, and can create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. Description Tan Chew Keong reported about two vulnerabilities found in RAR: A format string error exists when displaying a diagnostic error message th...

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...

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...

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...

FreeRADIUS: heap exploit and NULL pointer dereference vulnerability

Background FreeRADIUS is a popular open source RADIUS server. Description FreeRADIUS versions below 0.9.3 are vulnerable to a heap exploit, however, the attack code must be in the form of a valid RADIUS packet which limits the possible exploits. Also corrected in the 0.9.3 release is another...

GNU Emacs: Arbitrary code execution

Background GNU Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in GNU Emacs. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could achieve arbitrary code execution by tricking a use...

Qt: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Qt is a cross-platform application development framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Qt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

GTK+ 3: Search path vulnerability

Background GTK+ GIMP Toolkit + is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in GTK+ 3. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details. Workaround There is no kno...

eza: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, written in rust. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in eza. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A buffer overflow vulnerability in eza allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via the...

OpenJDK: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenJDK is an open source implementation of the Java programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround...

libgit2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language that supports C bindings. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovere...

Oracle VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oracle VirtualBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There...

QPDF: Buffer Overflow

Background QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in QPDF. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact QPDF has a heap-based buffer overflow in PlASCII85Decoder::write called from PlAESPDF::flush and...

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...