Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the popular SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player: The access scope of SystemsetClipboard...

Shadow: Privilege escalation

Background Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts. Description Paul Szabo reported a race condition in the "login" executable when setting up tty permissions. Impact A local attacker belonging to the "utmp" group could use symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly gai...

Ganglia: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for clusters and grids. Description Spike Spiegel reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the processpath function when processing overly long pathnames in gmetad/server.c. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted...

Epiphany: Untrusted search path

Background Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko. Description James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface. Impact A local attacker could entice a user to run Epiphany from a directory containing a specially crafted python...

WebSVN: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background WebSVN is a web-based browsing tool for Subversion repositories written in PHP. Description James Bercegay of GulfTech Security reported a Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the getParameterisedSelfUrl function in index.php CVE-2008-5918 and a directory traversal vulnerability i...

Xerces-C++: Denial of service

Background Xerces-C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. Description Frank Rast reported that the XML parser in Xerces-C++ does not correctly handle an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which triggers excessive memory consumption during the validatio...

OptiPNG: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. Description Roy Tam reported a use-after-free vulnerability in the GIFReadNextExtension function in lib/pngxtern/gif/gifread.c leading to a memory corruption when reading a GIF...

MPFR: Denial of service

Background MPFR is a library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding. Description Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in the mpfrsnprintf and mpfrvsnprintf functions. Impact A remote user could exploit the vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service in an...

PyCrypto: Execution of arbitrary code

Background PyCrypto is the Python Cryptography Toolkit. Description Mike Wiacek of the Google Security Team reported a buffer overflow in the ARC2 module when processing a large ARC2 key length. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to decrypt an ARC2 stream in an...

Openswan: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the IPSEC livetest tool does not handle the ipseclive.conn and ipsec.olts.remote.log temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to execute arbitrary code...

Real VNC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Real VNC is a remote desktop viewer display system. Description An unspecified vulnerability has been discovered int the CMsgReader::readRect function in the VNC Viewer component, related to the encoding type of RFB protocol data. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect...

BIND: Incorrect signature verification

Background ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocol. Description BIND does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL functions to verify DSA CVE-2009-0025 and RSA CVE-2009-0265 certificates. Impact A remote attacker could bypass...

cURL: Arbitrary file access

Background cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols. Description David Kierznowski reported that the redirect implementation accepts arbitrary Location values when CURLOPTFOLLOWLOCATION is enabled. Impact A remote attacker could possibly...

git: Multiple vulnerabilties

Background GIT - the stupid content tracker, the revision control system used by the Linux kernel team. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in gitweb that is part of the git package: Shell metacharacters related to gitsearch are not properly sanitized CVE-2008-5516. Shell...

nfs-utils: Access restriction bypass

Background nfs-utils contains the client and daemon implementations for the NFS protocol. Description Michele Marcionelli reported that nfs-utils invokes the hostsctl function with the wrong order of arguments, which causes TCP Wrappers to ignore netgroups. Impact A remote attacker could bypass...

Irrlicht: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background The Irrlicht Engine is an open source cross-platform high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++. Description An unspecified component of the B3D loader is vulnerable to a buffer overflow due to missing boundary checks. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

Samba: Data disclosure

Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs. Description Samba does not properly check memory boundaries when handling trans, rans2, and nttrans requests. Impact A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests to a Samba daemon, leading to the disclosure of arbitrar...

gEDA: Insecure temporary file creation

Background gEDA is an Electronic Design Automation tool used for electrical circuit design. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the sch2eaglepos.sh script. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the...

PDFjam: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts to edit PDF documents, including pdfnup, pdfjoin and pdf90. Description Martin Vaeth reported multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities CVE-2008-5843. Marcus Meissner of the SUSE Security Team reported that temporary files are created...

OpenTTD: Execution of arbitrary code

Background OpenTTD is a clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Description Multiple buffer overflows have been reported in OpenTTD, when storing long for client names CVE-2008-3547, in the TruncateString function in src/gfx.cpp CVE-2008-3576 and in src/openttd.cpp when processing a large filename...

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...

Vinagre: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Vinagre is a VNC Client for the GNOME Desktop. Description Alfredo Ortega Core Security Technologies reported a format string error in the vinagreutilsshowerror function in src/vinagre-utils.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user into opening a specially crafted .vnc file or...

ZNC: Privilege escalation

Background ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer. Description cnu discovered multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in ZNC's webadmin module. Impact A remote authenticated attacker could modify the znc.conf configuration file and gain privileges via newline characters in e.g. the QuitMessage field, and...

Audacity: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Audacity is a free cross-platform audio editor. Description Houssamix discovered a boundary error in the Stringparse::getnonspacequoted function in lib-src/allegro/strparse.cpp. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user into importing a specially crafted .gro file, resulting in the...

GNU Emacs, XEmacs: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text editors. edit-utils are miscellaneous extensions to XEmacs. Description Morten Welinder reports about GNU Emacs and edit-utils in XEmacs: By shipping a .flc accompanying a source file .c for example and setting...

KTorrent: Multiple vulnerabilitites

Background KTorrent is a BitTorrent program for KDE. Description The web interface plugin does not restrict access to the torrent upload functionality CVE-2008-5905 and does not sanitize request parameters properly CVE-2008-5906 . Impact A remote attacker could send specially crafted parameters t...

Valgrind: Untrusted search path

Background Valgrind is an open-source memory debugger. Description Tavis Ormandy reported that Valgrind loads a .valgrindrc file in the current working directory, executing commands specified there. Impact A local attacker could prepare a specially crafted .valgrindrc file and entice a user to ru...

OpenSSL: Certificate validation error

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 The Google Security Team reported that several functions incorrectly check the result after calling the...

xterm: User-assisted arbitrary commands execution

Background xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window system. Description Paul Szabo reported an insufficient input sanitization when processing Device Control Request Status String DECRQSS sequences. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to display a file containing specially crafted...

sudo: Privilege escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description Harald Koenig discovered that sudo incorrectly handles group specifications in RunasAlias and related entries when a group is specified in the list using %group syntax, to allow a...

Scilab: Insecure temporary file usage

Background Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the scilink, scidoc and scidem scripts. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the...

Net-SNMP: Denial of service

Background Net-SNMP is a collection of tools for generating and retrieving SNMP data. Description Oscar Mira-Sanchez reported an integer overflow in the netsnmpcreatesubtreecache function in agent/snmpagent.c when processing GETBULK requests. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafte...

Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Pidgin formerly Gaim is an instant messaging client for a variety of instant messaging protocols. It is based on the libpurple instant messaging library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin and the libpurple library: A participant to the TippingPoint ZDI...

noip-updater: Execution of arbitrary code

Background noip-updater is a tool used for updating IP addresses of dynamic DNS records at no-ip.com. Description xenomuta found out that the GetNextLine function in noip2.c misses a length check, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability ...

Avahi: Denial of service

Background Avahi is a system that facilitates service discovery on a local network. Description Hugo Dias reported a failed assertion in the originatesfromlocallegacyunicastsocket function in avahi-core/server.c when processing mDNS packets with a source port of 0. Impact A remote attacker could...

GnuTLS: Certificate validation error

Background GnuTLS is an open-source implementation of TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0. Description Martin von Gagern reported that the gnutlsx509verifycertificate function in lib/x509/verify.c trusts certificate chains in which the last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate. Impact A...

Adobe Reader: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Adobe Reader formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description An unspecified vulnerability can be triggered by a malformed PDF document, as demonstrated by 2008-HI2.pdf CVE-2008-2549. Peter Vreugdenhil, Dyon Balding, Will Dormann, Damian Frizza, and Greg MacManu...

MPlayer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MPlayer is a media player including support for a wide range of audio and video formats. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in MPlayer: A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the strreadpacket function in libavformat/psxstr.c when processing crafted STR files...

Online-Bookmarks: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Online-Bookmarks is a web-based bookmark management system to store your bookmarks, favorites and links. Description The following vulnerabilities were reported: Authentication bypass when directly requesting certain pages CVE-2004-2155. Insufficient input validation in the login...

D-Bus: Denial of service

Background D-Bus is a daemon providing a framework for applications to communicate with one another. Description schelte reported that the dbussignaturevalidate function can trigger a failed assertion when processing a message containing a malformed signature. Impact A local user could send a...

pdnsd: Denial of Service and cache poisoning

Background pdnsd is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching that is designed to cope with unreachable DNS servers. Description Two issues have been reported in pdnsd: The pexecquery function in src/dnsquery.c does not properly handle many entries in the answer section of a DNS reply, related to...

NDISwrapper: Arbitrary remote code execution

Background NDISwrapper is a Linux kernel module that enables the use of Microsoft Windows drivers for wireless network devices. Description Anders Kaseorg reported multiple buffer overflows related to long ESSIDs. Impact A physically proximate attacker could send packets over a wireless network...

Tremulous: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Tremulous is a team-based First Person Shooter game. Description It has been reported that Tremulous includes a vulnerable version of the ioQuake3 engine GLSA 200605-12, CVE-2006-2236. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious games server, possibly resulti...

JHead: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background JHead is an exif jpeg header manipulation tool. Description Marc Merlin and John Dong reported multiple vulnerabilities in JHead: A buffer overflow in the DoCommand function when processing the cmd argument and related to potential string overflows CVE-2008-4575. An insecure creation o...

Streamripper: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Streamripper is a tool for extracting and recording mp3 files from a Shoutcast stream. Description Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research reported multiple buffer overflows in the httpparsescheader, httpgetpls and httpgetm3u functions in lib/http.c when parsing overly long HTTP headers...

VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description Tobias Klein reported the following vulnerabilities: A stack-based buffer overflow when processing CUE image files in modules/access/vcd/cdrom.c CVE-2008-5032. A stack-based buffer overflow when processing RealText...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Moritz Jodeit reported an off-by-one error within the getunicodename function in libclamav/vbaextract.c when processing VBA project files CVE-2008-5050. Ilja van...

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...

Ampache: Insecure temporary file usage

Background Ampache is a PHP based tool for managing, updating and playing audio files via a web interface. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the gather-messages.sh script. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary...

phpCollab: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpCollab is a web-enabled groupware and project management software written in PHP. It uses SQL-based database backends. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in phpCollab: rgod reported that data sent to general/sendpassword.php via the loginForm parameter is not...