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...

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...

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...

xmonad-contrib: Arbitrary code execution

Background xmonad-contrib is a set of third party tiling algorithms, configurations, and scripts for xmonad. Description A vulnerability in the Xmonad.Hooks.DynamicLog module could allow a malicious website with a specially crafted title to inject commands into the title bar which would be execut...

Xfig: Arbitrary code execution

Background Xfig is an interactive drawing tool. Description Xfig contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in processing certain FIG images. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Service...

Cyrus-SASL: Denial of service

Background Cyrus-SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer. Description In the GNU C Library glibc from version 2.17 onwards, the crypt function call can return NULL when the salt violates specifications or the system is in FIPS-140 mode and a DES or MD5 hashed...

libzip: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libzip is a library for manipulating zip archives. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in the "zipreadcdir" function in zipopen.c of libzip: An incorrect loop construct, which could cause a heap-based buffer overflow CVE-2012-1162. An integer overflow, which may not restric...

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...

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...

AMD64 x86 emulation Qt library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI framework, which is used e.g. by KDE. The AMD64 x86 emulation Qt library packages Qt libraries for 32bit x86 emulation on AMD64. Description The Qt versions used by the AMD64 x86 emulation Qt libraries were vulnerable to several flaws GLSA 200708-16, GLSA...

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...

ELinks: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background ELinks is a text-mode web browser. Description Arnaud Giersch discovered that the "addfilenametostring" function in file intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c uses an untrusted relative path, allowing for a format string attack with a malicious .po file. Impact A local attacker could entice a user...

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...

lm_sensors: Insecure temporary file creation

Background lmsensors is a software package that provides drivers for monitoring the temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux systems with hardware monitoring devices. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena has discovered that lmsensors insecurely creates temporary files with predictable...

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...

xine-lib: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities

Background xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. Description Heap overflows have been found in the code handling RealMedia RTSP and Microsoft Media Services streams over TCP MMST. Impact By setting up a malicious server and enticing a user to use i...

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...

multi-gnome-terminal: Information leak

Background multi-gnome-terminal is an enhanced terminal emulator that is derived from gnome-terminal. Description multi-gnome-terminal contains debugging code that has been known to output active keystrokes to a potentially unsafe location. Output has been seen to show up in the '.xsession-errors...

Horde-Chora: Remote code execution

Background Chora is a PHP-based SVN/CVS repository viewer by the HORDE project. Description A vulnerability in the diff viewer of Chora allows an attacker to inject shellcode. An attacker can exploit PHP's file upload functionality to upload a malicious binary to a vulnerable server, chmod it as...

sitecopy: Multiple vulnerabilities in included libneon

Background sitecopy easily maintains remote websites. It makes it simple to keep a remote site synchronized with the local site with one command. Description Multiple format string vulnerabilities and a heap overflow vulnerability were discovered in the code of the neon library GLSA 200405-01 and...

GAIM 0.75 Remote overflows

Background Gaim is a multi-platform and multi-protocol instant messaging client. It is compatible with AIM , ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and the Zephyr networks. Description Yahoo changed the authentication methods to their IM servers, rendering GAIM useless. The GAIM team...

qtsvg: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background qtsvg is a SVG rendering library for the Qt framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in qtsvg. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

NTP: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background NTP contains software for the Network Time Protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NTP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact The first four of these CVEs affect a function in libntp that is only used by ntpq, but not by...

YAML-LibYAML: Shell injection

Background YAML-LibYAML provides YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml for Perl. Description YAML-LibYAML uses the legacy '2-arg' open call which is susceptible to shell injection via malicious filenames. Impact Shell injection may be used to execute arbitrary code using a malicious filename...

glibc: Buffer Overflow

Background glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in glibc. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this...

NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation

Background NVIDIA Drivers are NVIDIA's accelerated graphics driver. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in NVIDIA Drivers. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details. Workaround There is no known...

libvirt: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

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...

Exo: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background Exo is an Xfce library targeted at application development, originally developed by os-cillation. It contains various custom widgets and APIs extending the functionality of GLib and GTK. It also has some helper applications that are used throughout the entire Xfce desktop to manage...

dpkg: Directory Traversal

Background Debian package management system. Description Please review the CVE indentifier referenced below for details. Impact Dpkg::Source::Archive in dpkg, the Debian package management system, is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. When extracting untrusted source packages in v2 and...

Nautilus: Denial of Service

Background Default file manager for the GNOME desktop Description Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact GNOME Nautilus allows a NULL pointer dereference and getbasename application crash via a pasted ZIP archive. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...

RedCloth: ReDoS Vulnerability

Background RedCloth is a module for using Textile in Ruby Description A vulnerability has been discovered in RedCloth. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact RedCloth is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service "ReDoS" attack via the sanitizehtml functio...

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...

Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A Modular Open Source PBX System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the security advisories referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at...

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...

Rasterbar libtorrent: Directory traversal

Background Rasterbar libtorrent is a C++ BitTorrent implementation focusing on efficiency and scalability. Deluge is a BitTorrent client that ships a copy of libtorrent. Description census reported a directory traversal vulnerability in src/torrentinfo.cpp that can be triggered via .torrent files...

Gallery: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Gallery is a PHP based photo album manager. Description Merrick Manalastas and Nicklous Roberts have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the WebDAV and Reupload modules. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions and rename, replace...

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...

Xfce Terminal: Remote arbitrary code execution

Background Xfce Terminal is a console tool for the Xfce desktop environment. Description Lasse Karkkainen discovered that the function terminalhelperexecute in file terminal-helper.c does not properly escape the URIs before processing. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

Squid: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Squid is a multi-protocol proxy server. Description Squid fails to correctly handle ftp:// URI's. There is also an error in the externalacl queue which can cause an infinite looping condition. Impact An attacker could attempt to retrieve a specially crafted URI via a Squid server causi...

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...

wv2: Integer overflow

Background wv2 is a filter library for Microsoft Word files, used in many Office suites. Description A boundary checking error was found in wv2, which could lead to an integer overflow. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the program that uses the...

Dia: Arbitrary code execution through XFig import

Background Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program. Description infamous41md discovered multiple buffer overflows in Dia's XFig file import plugin. Impact By enticing a user to import a specially crafted XFig file into Dia, an attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with...

sudo: Arbitrary command execution

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description The sudoers file is used to define the actions sudo users are permitted to perform. Charles Morris discovered that a specific layout of the sudoers file could cause the results of a...

Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation

Background Sun and Blackdown both provide implementations of the Java Development Kit JDK and Java Runtime Environment JRE. Description Both Sun's and Blackdown's JDK and JRE may allow untrusted applets to elevate privileges. Impact A remote attacker could embed a malicious Java applet in a web...

NASM: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background NASM is a 80x86 assembler that has been created for portability and modularity. NASM supports Pentium, P6, SSE MMX, and 3DNow extensions. It also supports a wide range of objects formats ELF, a.out, COFF, ..., and has its own disassembler. Description Jonathan Rockway discovered that...

vpopmail: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background vpopmail handles virtual mail domains for qmail and Postfix. Description vpopmail is vulnerable to several unspecified SQL injection exploits. Furthermore when using Sybase as the backend database vpopmail is vulnerable to a buffer overflow and format string exploit. Impact These...