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Nagios Plugins: Two buffer overflows
Background The Nagios Plugins are an official set of plugins for Nagios, an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description fabiodds reported a boundary checking error in the "checksnmp" plugin when processing SNMP "GET" replies that could lead to a stack-based buffer overfl...
Tomboy: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Tomboy is a GTK-based desktop note-taking application written in C and the Mono C. Description Jan Oravec reported that the "/usr/bin/tomboy" script sets the "LDLIBRARYPATH" environment variable incorrectly, which might result in the current working directory . to be included when...
MadWifi: Denial of service
Background The MadWifi driver provides support for Atheros based IEEE 802.11 Wireless Lan cards. Description Clemens Kolbitsch and Sylvester Keil reported an error when processing beacon frames with an overly large "length" value in the "xrates" element. Impact A remote attacker could act as an...
Apache: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. Description Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in modstatus and modautoindex CVE-2006-5752, CVE-2007-4465. An error has been discovered in the recallheaders function in...
Python: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description Slythers Bro discovered multiple integer overflows in the imageop module, one of them in the tovideo method, in various locations in files imageop.c, rbgimgmodule.c, and also in other files. Impact...
Mono: Buffer overflow
Background Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on various platforms. Description IOActive discovered an error in the Mono.Math.BigInteger class, in the reduction step of the Montgomery-based Pow methods, that could lead to a buffer overflow...
libpng: Multiple Denials of Service
Background libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG images. Description An off-by-one error when handling ICC profile chunks in the pngsetiCCP function was discovered CVE-2007-5266. George Cook and Jeff Phillips reported several errors in pngrtran.c, the use of logical...
SiteBar: Multiple issues
Background SiteBar is a PHP application that allows users to store their bookmarks on a web server. Description Tim Brown discovered these multiple issues: the translation module does not properly sanitize the value to the "dir" parameter CVE-2007-5491, CVE-2007-5694; the translation module also...
Evolution: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code
Background Evolution is the mail client of the GNOME desktop environment. Camel is the Evolution Data Server module that handles mail functions. Description The imaprescan function of the file camel-imap-folder.c does not properly sanitize the "SEQUENCE" response sent by an IMAP server before bei...
OpenSSH: Security bypass
Background OpenSSH is a complete SSH protocol implementation that includes an SFTP client and server support. Description Jan Pechanec discovered that OpenSSH uses a trusted X11 cookie when it cannot create an untrusted one. Impact An attacker could bypass the SSH client security policy and gain...
gFTP: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background gFTP is an FTP client for the GNOME desktop environment. Description Kalle Olavi Niemitalo discovered two boundary errors in fsplib code included in gFTP when processing overly long directory or file names. Impact A remote attacker could trigger these vulnerabilities by enticing a user...
Gallery: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Gallery is a PHP based photo album manager. Description Merrick Manalastas and Nicklous Roberts have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the WebDAV and Reupload modules. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions and rename, replace...
Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Michael A. Puls II discovered an unspecified flaw when launching external email or newsgroup clients CVE-2007-5541. David Bloom discovered that when displaying frames from different websites, the same-origin policy is not correctly...
OpenSSL: Remote execution of arbitrary code
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 Andy Polyakov reported a vulnerability in the OpenSSL toolkit, that is caused due to an unspecified...
Qt: Buffer overflow
Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI framework, which is used e.g. by KDE. Description Dirk Mueller from the KDE development team discovered a boundary error in file qutfcodec.cpp when processing Unicode strings. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted Unicode string to a...
Sylpheed, Claws Mail: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code
Background Sylpheed and Claws Mail are two GTK based e-mail clients. Description Ulf Harnhammar from Secunia Research discovered a format string error in the incputerror function in file src/inc.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious POP server sending specially...
MLDonkey: Privilege escalation
Background MLDonkey is a peer-to-peer filesharing client that connects to several different peer-to-peer networks, including Overnet and BitTorrent. Description The Gentoo MLDonkey ebuild adds a user to the system named "p2p" so that the MLDonkey service can run under a user with low privileges...
HPLIP: Privilege escalation
Background The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing system HPLIP provides drivers for HP's inkjet and laser printers, scanners and fax machines. It integrates with the Common UNIX Printing System CUPS and Scanner Access Now Easy SANE. Description Kees Cook from the Ubuntu Security team...
ImageMagick: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools and libraries for manipulating various image formats. Description regenrecht reported multiple infinite loops in functions ReadDCMImage and ReadXCFImage CVE-2007-4985, multiple integer overflows when handling certain types of images CVE-2007-4986,...
OpenOffice.org: Heap-based buffer overflow
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 that the TIFF parsing code uses untrusted values to calculate...
Star: Directory traversal vulnerability
Background The Star program provides the ability to create and extract tar archives. Description Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security team discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in the hasdotdot function which does not identify //.. slash slash dot dot sequences in file names inside tar...
TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution
Background TikiWiki is an open source content management system written in PHP. Description ShAnKaR reported that input passed to the "f" array parameter in tiki-graphformula.php is not properly verified before being used to execute PHP functions. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary code...
TRAMP: Insecure temporary file creation
Background TRAMP is a remote file editing package for GNU Emacs, a highly extensible and customizable text editor. Description Stefan Monnier discovered that the tramp-make-tramp-temp-file function creates temporary files in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links ...
PDFKit, ImageKits: Buffer overflow
Background PDFKit is a framework for rendering of PDF content in GNUstep applications. ImageKits is a collection of frameworks to support imaging in GNUstep applications. Description Maurycy Prodeus discovered an integer overflow vulnerability possibly leading to a stack-based buffer overflow in...
The Sleuth Kit: Integer underflow
Background The Sleuth Kit is a collection of file system and media management forensic analysis tools. Description Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux reported an integer underflow in the fileprintf function of the "file" utility which is bundled with The Sleuth Kit CVE-2007-1536, GLSA 200703-26. Note tha...
util-linux: Local privilege escalation
Background util-linux is a suite of Linux programs including mount and umount, programs used to mount and unmount filesystems. Description Ludwig Nussel discovered that the checkspecialmountprog and checkspecialumountprog functions call setuid and setgid in the wrong order and do not check the...
Balsa: Buffer overflow
Background Balsa is a highly configurable email client for GNOME. Description Evil Ninja Squirrel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the irfetchseq function when receiving a long response to a FETCH command CVE-2007-5007. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a...
KDM: Local privilege escalation
Background KDM is the Display Manager for the graphical desktop environment KDE. It is part of the kdebase package. Description Kees Huijgen discovered an error when checking the credentials which can lead to a login without specifying a password. This only occurs when auto login is configured fo...
X.Org X server: Composite local privilege escalation
Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Aaron Plattner discovered a buffer overflow in the compNewPixmap function when copying data from a large pixel depth pixmap into a smaller pixel depth pixmap. Impact A local attacker could...
Ampache: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Ampache is a PHP-based tool for managing, updating and playing audio files via a web interface. Description LT discovered that the "match" parameter in albums.php is not properly sanitized before being processed. The Ampache development team also reported an error when handling user...
DenyHosts: Denial of service
Background DenyHosts is designed to monitor SSH servers for repeated failed login attempts. Description Daniel B. Cid discovered that DenyHosts used an incomplete regular expression to parse failed login attempts, a different issue than GLSA 200701-01. Impact A remote unauthenticated attacker can...
T1Lib: Buffer overflow
Background T1Lib is a library for rasterizing bitmaps from Adobe Type 1 fonts. Description Hamid Ebadi discovered a boundary error in the intT1EnvGetCompletePath function which can lead to a buffer overflow when processing an overly long filename. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...
SKK Tools: Insecure temporary file creation
Background SKK is a Japanese input method for Emacs. Description skkdic-expr.c insecurely writes temporary files to a location in the form $TMPDIR/skkdic$PID.pag,dir,db, where $PID is the process ID. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the directory where the temporary files ar...
X Font Server: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background The X.Org X11 X Font Server provides a standard mechanism for an X server to communicate with a font renderer. Description iDefense reported that the xfs init script does not correctly handle a race condition when setting permissions of a temporary file CVE-2007-3103. Sean Larsson...
NX 2.1: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Background NoMachine's NX establishes remote connections to X11 desktops over small bandwidth links. NX and NX Node are the compression core libraries, whereas NX is used by FreeNX and NX Node by the binary-only NX servers. Description Chris Evans reported an integer overflow within the FreeType...
KOffice, KWord, KPDF, KDE Graphics Libraries: Stack-based buffer overflow
Background 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 KPDF includes code from xpdf that is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the StreamPredictor::StreamPredictor function...
libsndfile: Buffer overflow
Background libsndfile is a library for reading and writing various formats of audio files including WAV and FLAC. Description Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security team discovered that the flacbuffercopy function does not correctly handle FLAC streams with variable block sizes which leads to a...
QGit: Insecure temporary file creation
Background QGit is a graphical interface to git repositories that allows you to browse revisions history, view patch content and changed files. Description Raphael Marichez discovered that the DataLoader::doStart method creates temporary files in an insecure manner and executes them. Impact A loc...
Tk: Buffer overflow
Background Tk is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Description Reinhard Max discovered a boundary error in Tk when processing an interlaced GIF with two frames where the second is smaller than the first one. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted...
OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background OpenSSL is an implementation of the Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols. Description Moritz Jodeit reported an off-by-one error in the SSLgetsharedciphers function, resulting from an incomplete fix of CVE-2006-3738. A flaw has also been reported in 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 Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP. Mattias Bengtsson and Philip Olausson reported integer overflows in the gdImageCreate and...
libvorbis: Multiple vulnerabilities
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 David Thiel of iSEC Partners discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the 01inverse function in res0.c and a boundary...
RPCSEC_GSS library: Buffer overflow
Background librpcsecgss is an implementation of RPCSECGSS for secure RPC communications. Description A stack based buffer overflow has been discovered in the svcauthgssvalidate function in file lib/rpc/svcauthgss.c when processing an overly long string in a RPC message. Impact A remote attacker...
Bugzilla: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Bugzilla is a web application designed to help with managing software development. Description Masahiro Yamada found that from the 2.17.1 version, Bugzilla does not properly sanitize the content of the "buildid" parameter when filing bugs CVE-2007-4543. The next two vulnerabilities onl...
Lighttpd: Buffer overflow
Background Lighttpd is a lightweight HTTP web server. Description Mattias Bengtsson and Philip Olausson have discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the function fcgienvadd in the file modfastcgi.c when processing overly long HTTP headers. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially...
teTeX: Multiple buffer overflows
Background teTeX is a complete TeX distribution for editing documents. Description Mark Richters discovered a buffer overflow in the opensty function in file mkind.c. Other vulnerabilities have also been discovered in the same file but might not be exploitable CVE-2007-0650. Tetex also includes...
BEA JRockit: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background BEA JRockit provides tools, utilities, and a complete runtime environment for developing and running applications using the Java programming language. Description An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the embedded ICC profile image parser CVE-2007-2788, an unspecified vulnerabili...
ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Clam AntiVirus is an open source GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Nikolaos Rangos discovered a vulnerability in ClamAV which exists because the recipient address extracted from email messages is not properly sanitize...
rsync: Two buffer overflows
Background rsync is a file transfer program to keep remote directories synchronized. Description Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE Security Team discovered two off-by-one errors in the function "fname" in file sender.c when processing overly long directory names. Impact A remote attacker could enti...
Poppler: Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities
Background Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. Description Poppler and Xpdf are vulnerable to an integer overflow in the StreamPredictor::StreamPredictor function, and a stack overflow in the StreamPredictor::getNextLine function. The original vulnerability...