Claws Mail: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Claws Mail is a GTK based e-mail client. Description Nico Golde from Debian reported that the sylprint.pl script that is part of the Claws Mail tools creates temporary files in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink attacks to...

unp: Arbitrary command execution

Background unp is a script for unpacking various file formats. Description Erich Schubert from Debian discovered that unp does not escape file names properly before passing them to calls of the shell. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to unpack a compressed archive...

R: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background R is a GPL licensed implementation of S, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. PCRE is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions. Description R includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows and memory...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer with a graphical front-end. Description Multiple buffer overflows and infinite loops were discovered in multiple dissector and parser components, including those for MP3 and NCP CVE-2007-6111, PPP CVE-2007-6112, DNP CVE-2007-6113, SSL and iSerie...

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast Web browser that is available free of charge. Description David Bloom reported two vulnerabilities where plug-ins CVE-2007-6520 and Rich text editing CVE-2007-6522 could be used to allow cross domain scripting. Alexander Klink Cynops GmbH discovered an issue with TLS...

AMD64 x86 emulation GTK+ library: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Cairo is a 2D vector graphics library with cross-device output support. The AMD64 x86 emulation GTK+ library packages Cairo libraries for 32bit x86 emulation on AMD64. Description The Cairo versions used by the AMD64 x86 emulation GTK+ libraries were vulnerable to integer overflow...

OpenOffice.org: User-assisted arbitrary code execution

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 The HSQLDB engine, as used in Openoffice.org, does not properly enforce restrictions to...

Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform web browser from Mozilla. SeaMonkey is a free, cross-platform Internet suite. Description Jesse Ruderman and Petko D. Petkov reported that the jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey does not properly check MIME types CVE-2007-5947...

Exiv2: Integer overflow

Background Exiv2 is a C++ library and set of tools for parsing, editing and saving Exif and IPTC metadata from images. Exif, the Exchangeable image file format, specifies the addition of metadata tags to JPEG, TIFF and RIFF files. Description Meder Kydyraliev Google Security discovered an integer...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description iDefense reported an integer overflow vulnerability in the cliscanpe function when parsing Portable Executable PE files packed in the MEW format, that could be...

libexif: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif metadata from images. Exif, the Exchangeable image file format, specifies the addition of metadata tags to JPEG, TIFF and RIFF files. Description Meder Kydyraliev Google Security discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in t...

Syslog-ng: Denial of service

Background Syslog-ng is a flexible and scalable system logger. Description Oriol Carreras reported a NULL pointer dereference in the logmsgparse function when processing timestamps without a terminating whitespace character. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted event to a...

exiftags: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background exiftags is a library and set of tools for parsing, editing and saving Exif metadata from images. Exif, the Exchangeable image file format, specifies the addition of metadata tags to JPEG, TIFF and RIFF files. Description Meder Kydyraliev Google Security discovered that Exif metadata i...

Multi-Threaded DAAP Daemon: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Multi-Threaded DAAP Daemon mt-daapd, also known as the Firefly Media Server, is a software to serve digital music to the Roku Soundbridge and Apple's iTunes. Description nnp discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the XML-RPC handler in the file webserver.c. The wsaddarg function contai...

E2fsprogs: Multiple buffer overflows

Background E2fsprogs provides utilities for use with the ext2 and ext3 file systems including the libext2fs library that allows user-level programs to manipulate an ext2 or ext3 file system. Description Rafal Wojtczuk McAfee AVERT Research discovered multiple integer overflows in libext2fs, that...

CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. The alternate pdftops filter is a CUPS filter used to convert PDF files to the Postscript format via Poppler; the filter is installed by default in Gentoo Linux. Description Wei Wang McAfee AVERT Research...

IRC Services: Denial of service

Background IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay Chat networks. Description loverboy reported that the "defaultencrypt" function in file encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords. Impact A remote attacker could provide an overly long password to the...

Portage: Information disclosure

Background Portage is the default Gentoo package management system. Description Mike Frysinger reported that the "etc-update" utility uses temporary files with the standard umask, which results in the files being world-readable when merging configuration files in a default setup. Impact A local...

Samba: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs for UNIX. Description Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research discovered a boundary checking error in the sendmailslot function which could lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted...

Lookup: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Lookup is a search interface to books and dictionnaries for Emacs. Description Tatsuya Kinoshita reported that the ndeb-binary function does not handle temporay files correctly. Impact A local attacker could use a symlink attack to overwrite files with the privileges of the user runnin...

Firebird: Multiple buffer overflows

Background Firebird is a multi-platfrom, open source relational database. Description Adriano Lima and Ramon de Carvalho Valle reported that functions iscattachdatabase and isccreatedatabase do not perform proper boundary checking when processing their input. Impact A remote attacker could send...

AMD64 x86 emulation Qt library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI framework, which is used e.g. by KDE. The AMD64 x86 emulation Qt library packages Qt libraries for 32bit x86 emulation on AMD64. Description The Qt versions used by the AMD64 x86 emulation Qt libraries were vulnerable to several flaws GLSA 200708-16, GLSA...

Cairo: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Cairo is a 2D vector graphics library with cross-device output support. Description Multiple integer overflows were reported, one of which Peter Valchev Google Security found to be leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the cairoimagesurfacecreatefrompng function that processes PNG...

GNU Emacs: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Drake Wilson reported that the hack-local-variables function in GNU Emacs 22 does not properly match assignments of local variables in a file against a list of unsafe or risky variables, allowing to override the...

Ruby-GNOME2: Format string error

Background Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of bindings for using GTK+ within the Ruby programming language. Description Chris Rohlf discovered that the "Gtk::MessageDialog.new" method in the file gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c does not properly sanitize the "message" parameter before passing it to the...

PEAR::MDB2: Information disclosure

Background PEAR::MDB2 is a database abstraction layer for PHP aimed to provide a common API for all supported relational database management systems. A LOB "large object" is a database field holding binary data. Description priyadi discovered that the request to store a URL string as a LOB is...

Hugin: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Hugin is a GUI for creating and processing panoramic images. Description Suse Linux reported that Hugin creates the "hugindebugoptimresults.txt" temporary file in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability with a symlink attack, potentially overwriting...

Cacti: SQL injection

Background Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool. Description It has been reported that the "localgraphid" variable used in the file graph.php is not properly sanitized before being processed in an SQL statement. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to the...

CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background CSTeX is a TeX distribution with Czech and Slovak support. It is used for creating and manipulating LaTeX documents. Description Multiple issues were found in the teTeX 2 codebase that CSTeX builds upon GLSA 200709-17, GLSA 200711-26. CSTeX also includes vulnerable code from the GD...

nss_ldap: Information disclosure

Background nssldap is a Name Service Switch module which allows 'passwd', 'group' and 'host' database information to be pulled from LDAP. Description Josh Burley reported that nssldap does not properly handle the LDAP connections due to a race condition that can be triggered by multi-threaded...

PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PCRE is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions. Description Tavis Ormandy Google Security discovered multiple vulnerabilities in PCRE. He reported an error when processing "\Q\E" sequences with unmatched "\E" codes that can lead to the compiled bytecode...

Samba: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs for UNIX. Description Two vulnerabilities have been reported in nmbd. Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research discovered a boundary checking error in the replynetbiospacket function which could lead to a stack-based buffer overflow...

Net-SNMP: Denial of service

Background Net-SNMP is a collection of tools for generating and retrieving SNMP data. Description The SNMP agent snmpd does not properly handle GETBULK requests with an overly large "max-repetitions" field. Impact A remote unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted SNMP request to th...

Feynmf: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Feynmf is a combined LaTeX and Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman and maybe other diagrams. Description Kevin B. McCarty discovered that the feynmf.pl script creates a temporary "properly list" file at the location "$TMPDIR/feynmf$PID.pl", where $PID is t...

Perl: Buffer overflow

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. Description Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry Google Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the Regular Expression engine regcomp.c that occurs when switching from byte to Unicode UTF-8 character...

Link Grammar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background The Link Grammar parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax. Description Alin Rad Pop from Secunia Research discovered a boundary error in the function separatesentence in file tokenize.c when processing an overly long word whic...

teTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background teTeX is a complete TeX distribution for editing documents. Description Joachim Schrod discovered several buffer overflow vulnerabilities and an insecure temporary file creation in the "dvilj" application that is used by dvips to convert DVI files to printer formats CVE-2007-5937,...

VMware Workstation and Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background VMware Workstation is a virtual machine for developers and system administrators. VMware Player is a freeware virtualization software that can run guests produced by other VMware products. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in several VMware products. Neel Mehta...

MySQL: Denial of service

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description Joe Gallo and Artem Russakovskii reported an error in the convertsearchmodetoinnobase function in hainnodb.cc in the InnoDB engine that is leading to a failed assertion when handling CONTAINS operations. Impact A...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird's HTML browser engine CVE-2007-5339 and JavaScript engine CVE-2007-5340 that can be exploited to cause a memory corruption...

Poppler, KDE: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. KWord is the KOffice word processor. KPDF is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. Description Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research discovered sever...

Bochs: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Bochs is a IA-32 x86 PC emulator written in C++. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a heap-based overflow vulnerability in the NE2000 driver CVE-2007-2893. He also discovered a divide-by-zero error in the emulated floppy disk controller CVE-2007-2894. Impa...

Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ruby on Rails is a free web framework used to develop database-driven web applications. Description candlerb found that ActiveResource, when processing responses using the Hash.fromxml function, does not properly sanitize filenames CVE-2007-5380. The session management functionality...

Cpio: Buffer overflow

Background GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Description A buffer overflow vulnerability in the safernamesuffix function in GNU cpio has been discovered. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted archive file resulting in a stack-based buff...

TikiWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background TikiWiki is an open source content management system written in PHP. Description Stefan Esser reported that a previous vulnerability CVE-2007-5423, GLSA 200710-21 was not properly fixed in TikiWiki 1.9.8.1 CVE-2007-5682. The TikiWiki development team also added several checks to avoid...

Pioneers: Multiple Denials of Service

Background Pioneers formerly gnocatan is a clone of the popular board game "The Settlers of Catan". Description Roland Clobus discovered that the Pioneers server may free sessions objects while they are still in use, resulting in access to invalid memory zones CVE-2007-5933. Bas Wijnen discovered...

FLAC: Buffer overflow

Background The Xiph.org Free Lossless Audio Codec FLAC library is the reference implementation of the FLAC audio file format. It contains encoders and decoders in library and executable form. Description Sean de Regge reported multiple integer overflows when processing FLAC media files that could...

CUPS: Memory corruption

Background CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating systems. Description Alin Rad Pop Secunia Research discovered an off-by-one error in the ippReadIO function when handling Internet Printing Protocol IPP tags that might allow to overwrite one byte on the stack. Impact A...

Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, XULRunner: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform web browser from Mozilla. SeaMonkey is a free, cross-platform Internet suite. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey. Various errors in the browser engine and the Javascript engine can be exploited to...

3proxy: Denial of service

Background 3proxy is a really tiny cross-platform proxy servers set, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SOCKS and POP3 support. Description 3proxy contains a double free vulnerability in the ftpprchild function, which frees param-hostname and calls the parsehostname function, which in turn attempts to...