cbrPager: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background cbrPager is a comic book pager. Description Mamoru Tasaka discovered that filenames of the image archives are not properly sanitized before being passed to decompression utilities like unrar and unzip, which use the system libc library call. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user...

rdesktop: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background rdesktop is an open source Remote Desktop Protocol RDP client. Description An anonymous researcher reported multiple vulnerabilities in rdesktop via iDefense Labs: An integer underflow error exists in the function isorecvmsg in the file iso.c which can be triggered via a specially...

Imlib 2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Imlib 2 is an advanced replacement library for libraries like libXpm. Description Stefan Cornelius Secunia Research reported two boundary errors in Imlib2: One of them within the load function in the file src/modules/loaders/loaderpnm.c when processing the header of a PNM image file,...

libxslt: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT itself is an XML language to define transformations for XML. Description Anthony de Almeida Lopes reported a vulnerability in libxslt when handling XSL style-sheet files, which could be exploited to trigger the use of...

mtr: Stack-based buffer overflow

Background mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool. Description Adam Zabrocki reported a boundary error within the splitredraw function in the file split.c, possibly leading to a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attack...

MPlayer: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background MPlayer is a media player including support for a wide range of audio and video formats. Description ksOSe reported an integer overflow vulnerability in the sdpplinparse function in the file stream/realrtsp/sdpplin.c, which can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary memory regions via an...

Samba: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs. Description Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research reported a vulnerability in Samba within the receivesmbraw function in the file lib/utilsock.c when parsing SMB packets, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow via an overly lar...

Roundup: Permission bypass

Background Roundup is an issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. Description Philipp Gortan reported that the xml-rpc server in Roundup does not check property permissions CVE-2008-1475. Furthermore, Roland Meister discovered multiple vulnerabilities caused by...

GnuTLS: Execution of arbitrary code

Background GnuTLS is an implementation of Secure Sockets Layer SSL 3.0 and Transport Layer Security TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. Description Ossi Herrala and Jukka Taimisto of Codenomicon reported three vulnerabilities in libgnutls of GnuTLS: "Client Hello" messages containing an invalid server name can...

Mozilla products: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird an open-source email client, both from the Mozilla Project. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as the 'Mozilla...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: Damian Put reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing PeSpin packed PE binaries CVE-2008-0314. Alin Rad Po...

Perl: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. Description Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team have reported a double free vulnerability when processing a crafted regular expression containing UTF-8 characters. Impact A remote attacker could possibly explo...

libid3tag: Denial of service

Background libid3tag is an ID3 tag manipulation library. Description Kentaro Oda reported an infinite loop in the file field.c when parsing an MP3 file with an ID3FIELDTYPESTRINGLIST field that ends in '\0'. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted MP3 file, possib...

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 iDefense Labs reported multiple vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org: multiple heap-based...

Common Data Format library: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background The Common Data Format library is a scientific data management package which allows programmers and application developers to manage and manipulate scalar, vector, and multi-dimensional data arrays in a platform independent fashion. Description Alfredo Ortega Core Security Technologies...

Blender: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Blender is a 3D creation, animation and publishing program. Description Stefan Cornelius Secunia Research reported a boundary error within the imbloadhdr function in in the file source/blender/imbuf/intern/radiancehdr.c when processing RGBE images CVE-2008-1102. Multiple vulnerabilitie...

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...

Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chicken is a Scheme interpreter and native Scheme to C compiler. Description Chicken includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows and memory corruption vulnerabilities GLSA 200711-30. Impact An attacker could entice a user to process specially crafted regula...

MoinMoin: Privilege escalation

Background MoinMoin is an advanced and extensible Wiki Engine. Description It has been reported that the user form processing in the file userform.py does not properly manage users when using Access Control Lists or a non-empty superusers list. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this...

Pngcrush: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Pngcrush is a multi platform optimizer for PNG Portable Network Graphics files. Description It has been reported that Pngcrush includes a copy of libpng that is vulnerable to a memory corruption GLSA 200804-15. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted...

InspIRCd: Denial of service

Background InspIRCd Inspire IRCd is a modular C++ IRC daemon. Description The "namesx" and "uhnames" modules do not properly validate network input, leading to a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker can send specially crafted IRC commands to the server, causing a Denial of Service. Workaroun...

Linux Terminal Server Project: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Linux Terminal Server Project adds thin-client support to Linux servers. Description LTSP version 4.2, ships prebuilt copies of programs such as the Linux Kernel, the X.org X11 server GLSA 200705-06, GLSA 200710-16, GLSA 200801-09, libpng GLSA 200705-24, GLSA 200711-08, Freetype GL...

Firebird: Data disclosure

Background Firebird is a multi-platform, open source relational database. Description Viesturs reported that the default configuration for Gentoo's init script "/etc/conf.d/firebird" sets the "ISCPASSWORD" environment variable when starting Firebird. It will be used when no password is supplied b...

eGroupWare: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background eGroupWare is a suite of web-based group applications including calendar, address book, messenger and email. Description A vulnerability has been reported in FCKEditor due to the way that file uploads are handled in the file editor/filemanager/upload/php/upload.php when a filename has...

Wireshark: Denial of service

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end. Description Errors exist in: the X.509sat dissector because of an uninitialized variable and the Roofnet dissector because a NULL pointer may be passed to the gvsnprintf function CVE-2008-1561. the LDAP dissector...

Multiple X11 terminals: Local privilege escalation

Background Aterm, Eterm, Mrxvt, multi-aterm, RXVT, rxvt-unicode, and wterm are X11 terminal emulators. Description Bernhard R. Link discovered that RXVT opens a terminal on :0 if the "-display" option is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set. Further research by the Gentoo...

phpMyAdmin: Information disclosure

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description Cezary Tomczak reported that an undefined UploadDir variable exposes an information disclosure vulnerability when running on shared hosts. Impact A remote attack...

Horde Application Framework: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Horde Application Framework is a general-purpose web application framework written in PHP, providing classes for handling preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME and more. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the Horde Applicatio...

KDE start_kdeinit: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. startkdeinit is a wrapper for kdeinit. Description Vulnerabilities have been reported in the processing of user-controlled data by startkdeinit, which is setuid root by default. Impact A loca...

Comix: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Comix is a GTK comic book viewer. Description Comix does not properly sanitize filenames containing shell metacharacters when they are passed to the rar, unrar, or jpegtran programs CVE-2008-1568. Comix also creates directories with predictable names CVE-2008-1796. Impact A remote...

SILC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol Toolkit is a software development kit for use in clients, SILC Server is a communication server, and SILC Client is an IRSSI-based text client. Description Nathan G. Grennan reported a boundary error in SILC Toolkit within the...

JRockit: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background JRockit is BEA WebLogic's J2SE Development Kit. Description Because of sharing the same codebase, JRockit is affected by the vulnerabilities mentioned in GLSA 200804-20. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to run a specially crafted applet on a website or start an application ...

Openfire: Denial of service

Background Openfire formerly Wildfire is a Java implementation of a complete Jabber server. Description Openfire's connection manager in the file ConnectionManagerImpl.java cannot handle clients that fail to read messages, and has no limit on their session's send buffer. Impact Remote authenticat...

VLC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC: Luigi Auriemma discovered that the stack-based buffer overflow when reading subtitles, which has been reported as CVE-2007-6681 in GLSA 200803-13, was not properly fixed...

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: Secunia Research and Zero Day Initiative...

PowerDNS Recursor: DNS Cache Poisoning

Background The PowerDNS Recursor is an advanced recursing nameserver. Description Amit Klein of Trusteer reported that insufficient randomness is used to calculate the TRXID values and the UDP source port numbers CVE-2008-1637. Thomas Biege of SUSE pointed out that a prior fix to resolve this iss...

DBmail: Data disclosure

Background DBMail is a mail storage and retrieval daemon that uses SQL databases as its data store. IMAP and POP3 can be used to retrieve mails from the database. Description A vulnerability in DBMail's authldap module when used in conjunction with an Active Directory server has been reported by...

CUPS: Integer overflow vulnerability

Background CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. Description Thomas Pollet reported a possible integer overflow vulnerability in the PNG image handling in the file filter/image-png.c. Impact A malicious user might be able to execute arbitrary code with the...

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 discovered in Sun Java: Daniel Soeder discovered that a long codebase attribute string in a JNLP file will overflow a stack variable...

Poppler: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. Description Kees Cook from the Ubuntu Security Team reported that the CairoFont::create function in the file CairoFontEngine.cc does not verify the type of an embedded font object inside a PDF file before...

rsync: Execution of arbitrary code

Background rsync is a file transfer program to keep remote directories synchronized. Description Sebastian Krahmer of SUSE reported an integer overflow in the expanditemlist function in the file util.c which might lead to a heap-based buffer overflow when extended attribute xattr support is...

PHP Toolkit: Data disclosure and Denial of service

Background PHP Toolkit is a utility to manage parallel installations of PHP within Gentoo. It is executed by the PHP ebuilds at setup. Description Toni Arnold, David Sveningsson, Michal Bartoszkiewicz, and Joseph reported that php-select does not quote parameters passed to the "tr" command, which...

Speex: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Speex is an audio compression format designed for speech that is free of patent restrictions. Description oCERT reported that the Speex library does not properly validate the "mode" value it derives from Speex streams, allowing for array indexing vulnerabilities inside multiple player...

libpng: Execution of arbitrary code

Background libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG images. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered that libpng does not handle zero-length unknown chunks in PNG files correctly, which might lead to memory corruption in applications that call...

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge. Description Michal Zalewski reported two vulnerabilities, memory corruption when adding news feed sources from a website CVE-2008-1761 as well as when processing HTML CANVAS elements to use scaled images CVE-2008-1762...

Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and tool kit. Description Asterisk upstream developers reported multiple vulnerabilities: The Call Detail Record Postgres logging engine cdrpgsql does not correctly escape the ANI and DNIS arguments before using them in SQL statements...

gnome-screensaver: Privilege escalation

Background gnome-screensaver is a screensaver, designed to integrate with the Gnome desktop, that can replace xscreensaver. Description gnome-screensaver incorrectly handles the results of the getpwuid function in the file src/setuid.c when using directory servers like NIS during a network outage...

policyd-weight: Insecure temporary file creation

Background policyd-weight is a Perl policy daemon for the Postfix MTA intended to eliminate forged envelope senders and HELOs. Description Chris Howells reported that policyd-weight creates and uses the "/tmp/.policyd-weight/" directory in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could exploit...

Tomcat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java Servlets and Java Server Pages. Description The following vulnerabilities were reported: Delian Krustev discovered that the JULI logging component does not properly enforce access restrictions, allowing web...

lighttpd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background lighttpd is a lightweight high-performance web server. Description Julien Cayzax discovered that an insecure default setting exists in moduserdir in lighttpd. When userdir.path is not set the default value used is $HOME. It should be noted that the "nobody" user's $HOME is "/"...