PowerDNS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture. Description Daniel Drown reported an error when receiving a HINFO CH query CVE-2008-5277. Brian J. Dowling of Simplicity Communications discovered a previously unknown security...

Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The elaborate standard library includes an HTTP server "WEBRick" and a class for XML parsing "REXML". Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Ruby interpreter and its standard libraries. Drew Yao of...

JasPer: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free software-based reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 jpeg2k standard. Description Marc Espie and Christian Weisgerber have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in JasPer: Multiple integer...

Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server written with security primarily in mind. Description Several vulnerabilities were found in Dovecot: The "k" right in the aclplugin does not work as expected CVE-2008-4577, CVE-2008-4578 The dovecot.conf is world-readable, providing improper protection...

POV-Ray: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background POV-Ray is a well known open-source ray tracer. Description POV-Ray uses a statically linked copy of libpng to view and output PNG files. The version shipped with POV-Ray is vulnerable to CVE-2008-3964, CVE-2008-1382, CVE-2006-3334, CVE-2006-0481, CVE-2004-0768. A bug in POV-Ray's buil...

aview: Insecure temporary file usage

Background aview is an ASCII image viewer and animation player. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that aview uses the "/tmp/aview$$.pgm" file in an insecure manner when processing files. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with th...

OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities

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 Two heap-based buffer overflows when processing WMF files CVE-2008-2237 and EMF files...

Honeyd: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported an insecure temporary file usage within the "test.sh" script. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user...

Archive::Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background Archive::Tar is a Perl module for creation and manipulation of tar files. Description Jonathan Smith of rPath reported that Archive::Tar does not check for ".." in file names. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to extract a specially crafted tar archive,...

CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background CUPS is the Common Unix Printing System. Description Several buffer overflows were found in: The readrle16 function in imagetops CVE-2008-3639, found by regenrecht, reported via ZDI The WriteProlog function in texttops CVE-2008-3640, found by regenrecht, reported via ZDI The...

OpenSC: Insufficient protection of smart card PIN

Background OpenSC is a smart card application that allows reading and writing via PKCS11. Description Chaskiel M Grundman reported that OpenSC uses weak permissions ADMIN file control information of 00 for the 5015 directory on smart cards and USB crypto tokens running Siemens CardOS M4. Impact A...

Mgetty: Insecure temporary file usage

Background Mgetty is a set of fax and voice modem programs. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the "spooldir" directory in fax/faxspool.in is created in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the...

Mantis: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mantis is a PHP/MySQL/Web based bugtracking system. Description Multiple issues have been reported in Mantis: EgiX reported that manageprojpage.php does not correctly sanitize the sort parameter before passing it to createfunction in core/utilityapi.php CVE-2008-4687. Privileges of...

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 A buffer overflow in the BMP reader in OptiPNG has been reported. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted BMP image, possibly...

libsamplerate: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Secret Rabbit Code aka libsamplerate is a Sample Rate Converter for audio. Description Russell O'Connor reported a buffer overflow in src/srcsinc.c related to low conversion ratios. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to process a specially crafted audio fi...

enscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background enscript is a powerful ASCII to PostScript file converter. Description Two stack-based buffer overflows in the readspecialescape function in src/psgen.c have been reported. Ulf Harnhammar of Secunia Research discovered a vulnerability related to the "setfilename" command CVE-2008-3863,...

IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of service

Background IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping, and ping6. Description Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been reported in racoon: The vendor reported a memory leak in...

libxml2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libxml2 is the XML eXtended Markup Language C parser and toolkit initially developed for the Gnome project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were reported in libxml2: Andreas Solberg reported that libxml2 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute...

lighttpd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background lighttpd is a lightweight high-performance web server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in lighttpd: Qhy reported a memory leak in the httprequestparse function in request.c CVE-2008-4298. Gaetan Bisson reported that URIs are not decoded before applying...

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 Several vulnerabilitites were found in PHP: PHP ships a vulnerable version of the PCRE library which allows for the circumvention of security...

Graphviz: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Graphviz is an open source graph visualization software. Description Roee Hay reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the pushsubg function in parser.y when processing a DOT file with a large number of Agrapht elements. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system...

Gallery: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Gallery is an open source web based photo album organizer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Gallery 1 and 2: Digital Security Research Group reported a directory traversal vulnerability in contrib/phpBB2/modules.php in Gallery 1, when registerglobals is...

FAAD2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background FAAD2 is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoder. Description The ICST-ERCIS Peking University reported a heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeMP4file function in frontend/main.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted MPEG-4 MP4 file in an...

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Opera: Opera does not restrict the ability of a framed web page to change the address associated with a different frame CVE-2008-4195. Chris Weber Casaba Security...

libspf2: DNS response buffer overflow

Background libspf2 is a library that implements the Sender Policy Framework, allowing mail transfer agents to make sure that an email is authorized by the domain name that it is coming from. Currently, only the exim MTA uses libspf2 in Gentoo. Description libspf2 uses a fixed-length buffer to...

Portage: Untrusted search path local root vulnerability

Background Portage is Gentoo's package manager which is responsible for installing, compiling and updating all packages on the system through the Gentoo rsync tree. Description The Gentoo Security Team discovered that several ebuilds, such as sys-apps/portage, net-mail/fetchmail or app-editors/le...

WordNet: Execution of arbitrary code

Background WordNet is a large lexical database of English. Description Jukka Ruohonen initially reported a boundary error within the searchwn function in src/wn.c. A thorough investigation by the oCERT team revealed several other vulnerabilities in WordNet: Jukka Ruohonen and Rob Holland oCERT...

Wireshark: Multiple Denials of Service

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end. Description The following vulnerabilities were reported: Multiple buffer overflows in the NCP dissector CVE-2008-3146. Infinite loop in the NCP dissector CVE-2008-3932. Invalid read in the tvbuncompress function when...

ClamAV: Multiple Denials of Service

Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Hanno boeck reported an error in libclamav/chmunpack.c when processing CHM files CVE-2008-1389. Other unspecified vulnerabilities were also reported, including a...

Git: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Git is a distributed version control system. Description Multiple boundary errors in the functions diffaddremove and diffchange when processing overly long repository path names were reported. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to run commands like "git-diff" or "git-grep" on...

GNU ed: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background GNU ed is a basic line editor. red is a restricted version of ed that does not allow shell command execution. Description Alfredo Ortega from Core Security Technologies reported a heap-based buffer overflow in the stripescapes function when processing overly long filenames. Impact A...

BitlBee: Security bypass

Background BitlBee is an IRC to IM gateway that support multiple IM protocols. Description Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities were reported, including a NULL pointer dereference. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to overwrite existing IM accounts. Workaround There is ...

R: Insecure temporary file creation

Background R is a GPL licensed implementation of S, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Description Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the "javareconf" script uses temporary files in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...

Newsbeuter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. Description J.H.M. Dassen reported that the open-in-browser command does not properly escape shell metacharacters in the URL before passing it to system. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a feed with speciall...

Mantis: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mantis is a PHP/MySQL/Web based bugtracking system. Description Antonio Parata and Francesco Ongaro reported a Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in manageusercreate.php CVE-2008-2276, a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in returndynamicfilters.php CVE-2008-3331, and an...

HAVP: Denial of service

Background HAVP is a HTTP AntiVirus Proxy. Description Peter Warasin reported an infinite loop in sockethandler.cpp when connecting to a non-responsive HTTP server. Impact A remote attacker could send requests to unavailable servers, resulting in a Denial of Service. Workaround There is no known...

Postfix: Denial of service

Background Postfix is Wietse Venema's mailer that attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Description It has been discovered than Postfix leaks an epoll file descriptor when executing external commands, e.g. user-controlled...

Amarok: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Amarok is an advanced music player. Description Dwayne Litzenberger reported that the MagnatuneBrowser::listDownloadComplete function in magnatunebrowser/magnatunebrowser.cpp uses the albuminfo.xml temporary file in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could perform a symlink...

libTIFF: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF Tagged Image File Format images. Description Drew Yao Apple Product Security and Clay Wood reported multiple buffer underflows in the LZWDecode and LZWDecodeCompat functions in tiflzw.c when processing TIFF files. Impact A remo...

VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description g reported the following vulnerabilities: An integer overflow leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/tta.c CVE-2008-3732. A signedness error leading to a stack-based buffer...

Courier Authentication Library: SQL injection vulnerability

Background The Courier Authentication Library is a generic authentication API that encapsulates the process of validating account passwords. Description It has been discovered that some input e.g. the username passed to the library are not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. Impa...

yelp: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background yelp is the default help browser for GNOME. Description Aaron Grattafiori reported a format string vulnerability in the windowerror function in yelp-window.c. Impact A remote attacker can entice a user to open specially crafted "man:" or "ghelp:" URIs in yelp, or an application using...

RealPlayer: Buffer overflow

Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description Dyon Balding of Secunia Research reported an unspecified heap-based buffer overflow in the Shockwave Flash SWF frame handling. Impact By enticing a user to open a specially crafted SWF...

dnsmasq: Denial of Service and DNS spoofing

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description Dan Kaminsky of IOActive reported that dnsmasq does not randomize UDP source ports when forwarding DNS queries to a recursing DNS server CVE-2008-1447. Carlos Carvalho reported that dnsmasq in t...

MySQL: Privilege bypass

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description Sergei Golubchik reported that MySQL imposes no restrictions on the specification of "DATA DIRECTORY" or "INDEX DIRECTORY" in SQL "CREATE TABLE" statements. Impact An authenticated remote attacker could create MyISAM...

Postfix: Local privilege escalation vulnerability

Background Postfix is Wietse Venema's mailer that attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Description Sebastian Krahmer of SuSE has found that Postfix allows to deliver mail to root-owned symlinks in an insecure manner under...

UUDeview: Insecure temporary file creation

Background UUdeview is encoder and decoder supporting various binary formats. NZBGet is a command-line based binary newsgrabber supporting .nzb files. Description UUdeview makes insecure usage of the tempnam function when creating temporary files. NZBGet includes a copy of the vulnerable code...

Adobe Reader: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Adobe Reader formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory reported that input to an unspecified JavaScript method is not properly validated. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

stunnel: Security bypass

Background The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between a remote client and a local or remote server. OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol, as described in RFC 2560, is an internet protocol used for obtaining the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate...

OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Description Cameron Hotchkies discovered an error within the parsing of ASN.1 BER encoded packets in the "bergetnext" function in libraries/liblber/io.c. Impact A remote unauthenticated...