Openswan: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. Description A buffer overflow flaw has been discovered in Openswan when using Opportunistic Encryption. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DNS TXT record, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the...

NTP: Traffic amplification

Background NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network. The net-misc/ntp package contains the official reference implementation by the NTP Project. Description ntpd is susceptible to a reflected Denial of Service attack. Please review the CVE identifiers and...

Git: Privilege escalation

Background Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Description Git contains a stack-based buffer overflow in the isgitdirectory function in setup.c. Impact A local attacker could ga...

libxslt: Denial of service

Background libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT is an XML language to define transformations for XML. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libxslt: Multiple errors exist in pattern.c and functions.c CVE-2012-2870, CVE-2012-6139. A double-free erro...

Nagstamon: Information disclosure

Background Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor application. Description Nagstamon’s automatic request to check for updates includes plaintext username and password information for one of the monitor servers that the Nagstamon instance connects to. Impact A remote attacker could eavesdrop on this...

Gajim: Information disclosure

Background Gajim is a Jabber/XMPP client which uses GTK+. Description The sslverifycallback function in tlsnb.py does not properly validate SSL certificates, causing any certificate to be accepted as valid as long as the root CA is valid. Impact A remote attacker might employ a specially crafted...

ISC DHCP: Denial of service

Background ISC DHCP is a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP client/server. Description ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion attack involving regular expressions sent by DHCP clients. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request from a malicious or spoofed client,...

Python: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Python. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition ...

Libgdiplus: Arbitrary code execution

Background Libgdiplus is the Mono library that provide a GDI+ comptible API on non-Windows operating systems. Description An integer overflow flaw has been discovered in Libgdiplus. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted TIFF/JPEG/BMP file, potentially resulting ...

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...

Tinyproxy: Denial of service

Background Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the way how Tinyproxy works with headers. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request with too many headers, possibly resulting in a...

libsndfile: Arbitrary code execution

Background Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound through one standard library interface. Description An integer overflow flaw has been discovered in Libsndfile. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PAF file using...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process ...

Win32 Codecs: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Win32 Codecs is a set of Windows audio and video playback codecs. Description A heap-based buffer overflow exists when handling Shockwave Flash files. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Flash file using a package linked against Win32 Codecs, possib...

MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Key Distribution Center in MIT Kerberos 5. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker...

libsmi: Arbitrary code execution

Background libsmi is a library that allows management applications to access SMI MIB module definitions. Description libsmi contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the smiGetNode function in lib/smi.c. Impact A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code by way of a...

cabextract: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background cabextract is free software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cabextract. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted archive ...

WebP: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background WebP is a lossy image compression format. Description An integer overflow flaw has been found in WebP. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted image in an application linked against WebP, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the...

OpenEXR: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range HDR image file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic for use in computer imaging applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenEXR. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A...

Festival: Arbitrary code execution

Background Festival is a Text to Speech Engine from The Centre for Speech Technology Research. Description A vulnerability in Festival Server has an incorrect path in LDLIBRARYPATH, which allows local users to place a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory. Impact A local...

SWI-Prolog : Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SWI-Prolog is a free, small, and standard compliant Prolog compiler. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SWI-Prolog: An error in the canoniseFileName function could cause a stack-based buffer overflow CVE-2012-6089. An error in the expand function could cause a...

libtheora: Arbitrary code execution

Background libtheora is the reference implementation of Theora, a free and open video compression format from the Xiph.org Foundation. Description An integer overflow flaw has been discovered in libtheora. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service conditio...

BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background BusyBox is set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DHCP reques...

GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The GNU C library is the standard C library used by Gentoo Linux systems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU C Library. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could trigger vulnerabilities in dynamic library...

OpenSSL: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 as well as a general purpose cryptography library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

rssh: Access restriction bypass

Background rssh is a restricted shell, allowing only a few commands like scp or sftp. It is often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide limited access to users. Description Multiple command line parsing and validation vulnerabilities have been discovered in rssh. Please review the CVE...

Namazu: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Namazu is a full-text search engine intended for easy use. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Namazu. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition...

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 A local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or perform symlink attacks...

cpio: Arbitrary code execution

Background GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Description Cpio contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the rmtread function in lib/rtapelib.c. Impact A remote server could sending more data than was requested, related to archive filenames that contain a : colon character...

Okular: Arbitrary code execution

Background Okular is a universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4. Description Okular contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the RLE decompression functionality in the TranscribePalmImageToJPEG function in generators/plucker/inplug/image.cpp. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user ...

Unbound: Denial of service

Background Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Unbound. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via a speciall...

fcron: Information disclosure

Background fcron is a periodic command scheduler for Unix-based systems Description The fcrontab function contains a race condition relating to symlinks. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to read arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application. Workarou...

Zabbix: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Zabbix is software for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Zabbix. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary SQL statements, cause a...

QtCore, QtGui: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application development framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QtCore and QtGui. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially craft...

Open DC Hub: Arbitrary code execution

Background Open DC Hub is the hub software for the Direct Connect file sharing network. Description A stack-based buffer overflow flaw has been discovered in the way Open DC Hub sanitized content of a user’s MyINFO message. Impact A remote authenticated user may be able to execute arbitrary code ...

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...

OpenVPN: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenVPN is a multi-platform, full-featured SSL VPN solution. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenVPN. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to recover plaintext from an encrypted communication...

GraphicsMagick: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GraphicsMagick is the Swiss army knife of image processing. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GraphicsMagick. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted image file,...

FreeRADIUS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeRADIUS. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Blender: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Blender is a 3D Creation/Animation/Publishing System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Blender. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, ...

Netpbm: User-assisted arbitrary code execution

Background Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including conversion of images between a variety of different formats. Description A stack-based buffer overflow exists in converter/ppm/xpmtoppm.c in Netpbm. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafte...

libxml2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libxml2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted docume...

GIMP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GIMP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted KiSS palette, GIF image or XWD file...

Vixie cron: Denial of service

Background Paul Vixie’s cron daemon, a fully featured crond implementation. Description Vixie cron contains a race condition relating to atime and mtime values of temporary files. Impact A local attacker could change the modification time of files, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service...

Quassel: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Quassel is a Qt4/KDE4 IRC client suppporting a remote daemon for 24/7 connectivity. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in Quassel: Quassel does not properly handle multiple CTCP requests CVE-2010-3443. Quassel, when used with certain versions of Qt and PostgreSQL, does not...

Mednafen: Arbitrary code execution

Background Mednafen is an advanced NES, GB/GBC/GBA, TurboGrafx 16/CD, NGPC and Lynx emulator. Description An unspecified vulnerability has been discovered in Mednafen when using network play. Impact A remote server could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process. Workaround There ...

phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a web-based management tool for MySQL databases. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote authenticated attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute...

X2Go Server: Arbitrary code execution

Background X2Go is an open source terminal server project. Description A vulnerability in the setgid wrapper x2gosqlitewrapper.c does not hardcode an internal path to x2gosqlitewrapper.pl, allowing a remote attacker to change that path. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary co...

MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The MediaWiki wiki web application as used on wikipedia.org. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MediaWiki. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code, perform man-in-the-middle...

GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GnuTLS is an Open Source implementation of the TLS 1.2 and SSL 3.0 protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GnuTLS. Please review the CVE identifiers and Lucky Thirteen research paper referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could sent a...