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nano: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background nano is a GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality. Description Multiple race condition vulnerabilities have been discovered in nano. For further information please consult the CVE entries referenced below. Impact Under certain conditions, a local, user-assisted attacker could...
Fetchmail: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Fetchmail: The sdump function might trigger a heap-based buffer overflow during the escaping of non-printable characters with the high bit set from an X.509 certifica...
SILC: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol Toolkit is a software development kit for use in clients, and SILC Client is an IRSSI-based text client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in SILC Toolkit and SILC Client. For further information please consult the CVE...
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: Glenn Waller and neonsignal reported that sudo does not properly handle access control of the "sudoedit" pseudo-command...
Ruby: Terminal Control Character Injection
Background Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It comes bundled with a HTTP server "WEBrick". Description Giovanni Pellerano, Alessandro Tanasi and Francesco Ongaro reported that WEBrick does not filter terminal control characters, for instanc...
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...
VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The VirtualBox family provides powerful x86 virtualization products. Description Thomas Biege of SUSE discovered multiple vulnerabilities: A shell metacharacter injection in popen CVE-2009-3692 and a possible buffer overflow in strncpy in the VBoxNetAdpCtl configuration tool. An...
SquirrelMail: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were found in SquirrelMail: Niels Teusink reported multiple input sanitation flaws in certain encrypted strings in e-mail headers, related to contrib/decryptheaders.php, PHPSELF and t...
aria2: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background aria2 is a download utility with resuming and segmented downloading with HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent support. Description Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa reported a buffer overflow in DHTRoutingTableDeserializer.cc CVE-2009-3575 and a format string vulnerability in the AbstractCommand::onAbort...
net-snmp: Authorization bypass
Background net-snmp bundles software for generating and retrieving SNMP data. Description The netsnmpudpfmtaddr function snmplib/snmpUDPDomain.c, when using TCP wrappers for client authorization, does not properly parse hosts.allow rules. Impact A remote, unauthenticated attacker could bypass the...
PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below and the associated PHP release notes...
NTP: Denial of service
Background NTP is a set of the Network Time Protocol programs. Description Robin Park and Dmitri Vinokurov discovered that ntprequest.c in ntpd does not handle MODEPRIVATE packets correctly, causing a continuous exchange of MODEPRIVATE error responses between two NTP daemons or causing high CPU...
Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player: An anonymous researcher working with the Zero Day Initiative reported that Adobe Flash...
Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Ruby on Rails is a web-application and persistence framework. Description The following vulnerabilities were discovered: sameer reported that lib/actioncontroller/cgiprocess.rb removes the :cookieonly attribute from the default session options CVE-2007-6077, due to an incomplete fix fo...
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 reported in OpenSSL: Marsh Ray of PhoneFactor and Martin Rex of SAP...
PEAR Net_Traceroute: Command injection
Background PEAR NetTraceroute is an OS independent wrapper class for executing traceroute calls from PHP. Description Pasquale Imperato reported that the $host parameter to the traceroute function in Traceroute.php is not properly sanitized before being passed to exec. Impact A remote attacker...
UW IMAP toolkit: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The UW IMAP toolkit is a daemon for the IMAP and POP3 network mail protocols. The c-client library provides an API for IMAP, POP3 and other protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the UW IMAP toolkit: Aron Andersson and Jan Sahlin of Bitsec reported boundary error...
Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark: Ryan Giobbi reported an integer overflow in wiretap/erf.c CVE-2009-3829. The vendor reported multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth L2CAP, RADIUS,...
dstat: Untrusted search path
Background dstat is a versatile system resource monitor written in Python. Description Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security Team reported that dstat includes the current working directory and subdirectories in the Python module search path sys.path before calling "import". Impact A local attack...
Sun JDK/JRE: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The Sun Java Development Kit JDK and the Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE provide the Sun Java platform. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the Sun Java implementation. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below and the associated Sun Alerts for details...
Horde: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Horde is a web application framework written in PHP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Horde: Stefan Esser of Sektion1 reported an error within the form library when handling image form fields CVE-2009-3236. Martin Geisler and David Wharton reported that an...
Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Adobe Reader formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Adobe Reader. For further information please consult the CVE entries and the Adobe Security Bulletin referenced below. Impact A remote attacker might entice...
Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Pidgin is a client for a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Pidgin: Yuriy Kaminskiy reported that the OSCAR protocol implementation in Pidgin misinterprets the ICQWebMessage message type as the ICQSMS message type, triggering an...
Wget: Certificate validation error
Background GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. Description The vendor reported that Wget does not properly handle Common Name CN fields in X.509 certificates that contain an ASCII NUL \0 character...
cURL: Certificate validation error
Background cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols. Description Scott Cantor reported that cURL does not properly handle fields in X.509 certificates that contain an ASCII NUL \0 character. Specifically, the processing of such fields is...
Dnsmasq: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It includes support for Trivial FTP TFTP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the TFTP functionality included in Dnsmasq: Pablo Jorge and Alberto Solino discovered a heap-based buffer...
nginx: Remote execution of arbitrary code
Background nginx is a robust, small and high performance HTTP and reverse proxy server. Description Chris Ries reported a heap-based buffer underflow in the ngxhttpparsecomplexuri function in http/ngxhttpparse.c when parsing the request URI. Impact A remote attacker might send a specially crafted...
Wireshark: Denial of service
Background Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Wireshark: A buffer overflow in the IPMI dissector related to an array index error CVE-2009-2559. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth L2CAP, RADIUS, and MIOP...
ZNC: Directory traversal
Background ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer. Description The vendor reported a directory traversal vulnerability when processing DCC SEND requests. Impact A remote, authenticated user could send a specially crafted DCC SEND request to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user runnin...
Lynx: Arbitrary command execution
Background Lynx is a fully-featured WWW client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices such as vt100 terminals and terminal emulators. Description Clint Ruoho reported that the fix for CVE-2005-2929 GLSA 200511-09 only disabled the lynxcgi:// handler when not using th...
Horde: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Horde is a web application framework written in PHP. Horde IMP, the "Internet Messaging Program", is a Webmail module and Horde Passwd is a password changing module for Horde. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Horde: Gunnar Wrobel reported an input sanitation...
irssi: Execution of arbitrary code
Background irssi is a modular textUI IRC client with IPv6 support. Description Nemo discovered an off-by-one error leading to a heap overflow in irssi's eventwallops parsing function. Impact A remote attacker might entice a user to connect to a malicious IRC server, use a man-in-the-middle attack...
HTMLDOC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background HTMLDOC is a HTML indexer and HTML to PS and PDF converter. Description ANTHRAX666 reported an insecure call to the sscanf function in the setpagesize function in htmldoc/util.cxx. Nico Golde of the Debian Security Team found two more insecure calls in the writetype1 function in...
GCC-XML: Insecure temporary file usage
Background GCC-XML is an XML output extension to the C++ front-end of GCC. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that findflags in GCC-XML does not handle "/tmp/.cxx" temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges...
Openswan: Denial of service
Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Openswan: Gerd v. Egidy reported a NULL pointer dereference in the Dead Peer Detection of the pluto IKE daemon as included in Openswan CVE-2009-0790. The Orange Labs...
Apache Portable Runtime, APR Utility Library: Execution of arbitrary code
Background The Apache Portable Runtime aka APR provides a set of APIs for creating platform-independent applications. The Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library aka APR-Util provides an interface to functionality such as XML parsing, string matching and databases connections. Description Matt...
C* music player: Insecure temporary file usage
Background The C Music Player cmus is a modular and very configurable ncurses-based audio player. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that cmus-status-display does not handle the "/tmp/cmus-status" temporary file securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite...
TkMan: Insecure temporary file usage
Background TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that TkMan does not handle the "/tmp/tkman" and "/tmp/ll" temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with...
LMBench: Insecure temporary file usage
Background LMBench is a suite of simple, portable benchmarks for UNIX platforms. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the rccs and STUFF scripts do not handle "/tmp/sdiff." temporary files securely. NOTE: There might be further occurances of insecure temporary file usage. Impact A local...
Clam AntiVirus: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Clam AntiVirus short: ClamAV is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ClamAV: The vendor reported a Divide-by-zero error in the PE "Portable Executable"; Windows .exe file handli...
Screenie: Insecure temporary file usage
Background Screenie is a small screen frontend that is designed to be a session handler. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that Screenie does not handle "/tmp/.screenie." temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the...
aMule: Parameter injection
Background aMule is an eMule-like client for the eD2k and Kademlia networks, supporting multiple platforms. Description Sam Hocevar discovered that the aMule preview function does not properly sanitize file names. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to download a file with a specially...
Linux-PAM: Privilege escalation
Background Linux-PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is an architecture allowing the separation of the development of privilege granting software from the development of secure and appropriate authentication schemes. Description Marcus Granado repoted that Linux-PAM does not properly handle user...
libvorbis: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background libvorbis is the reference implementation of the Xiph.org Ogg Vorbis audio file format. It is used by many applications for playback of Ogg Vorbis files. Description Lucas Adamski reported that libvorbis does not correctly process file headers, related to static mode headers and encodi...
Perl Compress::Raw modules: Denial of service
Background Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::Bzip2 are Perl low-level interfaces to the zlib and bzip2 compression libraries. Description Leo Bergolth reported an off-by-one error in the inflate function in Zlib.xs of Compress::Raw::Zlib, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow...
Dillo: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Dillo is a graphical web browser known for its speed and small footprint. Description Tilei Wang reported an integer overflow in the Pngdatainfocallback function, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open an HTML document...
CDF: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background CDF is a library for the Common Data Format which is a self-describing data format for the storage and manipulation of scalar and multidimensional data. It is developed by the NASA. Description Leon Juranic reported multiple heap-based buffer overflows for instance in the ReadAEDRList6...
ISC DHCP: dhcpd Denial of service
Background ISC DHCP is the reference implementation of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol as specified in RFC 2131. Description Christoph Biedl discovered that dhcpd does not properly handle certain DHCP requests when configured both using "dhcp-client-identifier" and "hardware ethernet"...
Subversion: Remote execution of arbitrary code
Background Subversion is a versioning system designed to be a replacement for CVS. Description Matt Lewis of Google reported multiple integer overflows in the libsvndelta library, possibly leading to heap-based buffer overflows. Impact A remote attacker with commit access could exploit this...
DokuWiki: Local file inclusion
Background DokuWiki is a standards compliant Wiki system written in PHP. Description girex reported that data from the "configcascade" parameter in inc/init.php is not properly sanitized before being used. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute PHP code from arbitrar...