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xine-ui: Format string vulnerabilities
Background xine-ui is a skin-based user interface for xine. xine is a free multimedia player. It plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, and can also decode other common multimedia formats. Description Due to the improper handling and use of format strings, the errorscreatewindow function in errors.c does not...
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 Chris Evans has discovered multiple buffer overflows in Sun JDK and Sun JRE possibly related to various AWT or font layout functions. Tom Hawtin has discovered an...
Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe. Description Adobe Acrobat Reader in stand-alone mode is vulnerable to remote code execution via heap corruption when loading a specially crafted PDF file. The browser plugin released with Adobe Acrobat Reader nppdf.so does not...
Fetchmail: Denial of Service and password disclosure
Background Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. Description Neil Hoggarth has discovered that when delivering messages to a message delivery agent by means of the "mda" option, Fetchmail passes a NULL pointer to the ferror and fflush functions when refusing a message. Isaa...
Mod_auth_kerb: Denial of service
Background Modauthkerb is an Apache authentication module using Kerberos. Description Modauthkerb improperly handles component byte encoding in the dergetoid function, allowing for a buffer overflow to occur if there are no components which require more than one byte for encoding. Impact An...
Kronolith: Local file inclusion
Background Kronolith is a web-based calendar which relies on the Horde Framework for integration with other applications. Description Kronolith contains a mistake in lib/FBView.php where a raw, unfiltered string is used instead of a sanitized string to view local files. Impact An authenticated...
Mono: Information disclosure
Background Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on various platforms. Description Jose Ramon Palanco has discovered that the System.Web class in the XSP for the ASP.NET server 1.1 through 2.0 in Mono does not properly validate or sanitize loc...
WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background WordPress is a popular personal publishing platform with a web interface. Description When decoding trackbacks with alternate character sets, WordPress does not correctly sanitize the entries before further modifying a SQL query. WordPress also displays different error messages in...
oftpd: Denial of service
Background oftpd is a small, anonymous only ftp daemon. Description By specifying an unsupported address family in the arguments to a LPRT or LPASV command, an assertion in oftpd will cause the daemon to abort. Impact Remote, unauthenticated attackers may be able to terminate any oftpd process,...
OpenOffice.org: EMF/WMF file handling 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 John Heasman of NGSSoftware has discovered integer overflows in the EMRPOLYPOLYGON and...
KDE kfile JPEG info plugin: Denial of service
Background The KDE kfile-info JPEG plugin provides meta-information about JPEG files. Description Marcus Meissner of the SUSE security team discovered a stack overflow vulnerability in the code processing EXIF information in the kfile JPEG info plugin. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user...
Opera: Two remote code execution vulnerabilities
Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Christoph Deal discovered that JPEG files with a specially crafted DHT marker can be exploited to cause a heap overflow. Furthermore, an anonymous person discovered that Opera does not correctly handle objects passed to the...
w3m: Format string vulnerability
Background w3m is a multi-platform text-based web browser. Description w3m in -dump or -backend mode does not correctly handle printf format string specifiers in the Common Name CN field of an X.509 SSL certificate. Impact An attacker could entice a user to visit a malicious website that would lo...
SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as the 'Mozilla Application Suite'. Description An anonymous researcher found evidence of memory corruption in the way SeaMonkey handles certain types ...
Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project. Description An anonymous researcher found evidence of memory corruption in the way Mozilla Firefox handles certain types of SVG comment DOM nodes. Additionally, Frederik Reiss discovered a heap-based buffer...
Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla Project. Description Georgi Guninski and David Bienvenu discovered buffer overflows in the processing of long "Content-Type:" and long non-ASCII MIME headers. Additionally, Frederik Reiss discovered a heap-based...
DenyHosts: Denial of service
Background DenyHosts is designed to monitor SSH servers for repeated failed login attempts. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that DenyHosts used an incomplete regular expression to parse failed login attempts. Impact A remote unauthenticated attacker ca...
imlib2: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background imlib2 is an advanced replacement for image manipulation libraries such as libXpm. It is utilized by numerous programs, including gkrellm and several window managers, to display images. Description M. Joonas Pihlaja discovered several buffer overflows in loaderargb.c, loaderpng.c,...
Ruby: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. Description The readmultipart function of the CGI library shipped with Ruby cgi.rb does not properly check boundaries in MIME multipart content. This is a different issue than GLSA 200611-1...
pam_ldap: Authentication bypass vulnerability
Background pamldap is a Pluggable Authentication Module which allows authentication against LDAP directories. Description Steve Rigler discovered that pamldap does not correctly handle "PasswordPolicyResponse" control responses from an LDAP directory. This causes the pamauthenticate function to...
ClamAV: Denial of service
Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Hendrik Weimer discovered that ClamAV fails to properly handle deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content. Impact By sending a specially crafted email with deeply nested MIME multipart/mixed content an attacker could cause ClamAV to crash...
Links: Arbitrary Samba command execution
Background Links is a web browser running in both graphics and text modes. Description Teemu Salmela discovered that Links does not properly validate "smb://" URLs when it runs smbclient commands. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to browse to a specially crafted "smb://" URL and execu...
GNU Radius: Format string vulnerability
Background GNU Radius is a GNU version of Radius, a server for remote user authentication and accounting. Description A format string vulnerability was found in the sqllog function from the SQL accounting code for radiusd. That function is only used if one or more of the "postgresql", "mysql" or...
McAfee VirusScan: Insecure DT_RPATH
Background McAfee VirusScan for Linux is a commercial antivirus solution for Linux. Description Jakub Moc of Gentoo Linux discovered that McAfee VirusScan was distributed with an insecure DTRPATH which included the current working directory, rather than $ORIGIN which was probably intended. Impact...
Trac: Cross-site request forgery
Background Trac is a wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Description Trac allows users to perform certain tasks via HTTP requests without performing correct validation on those requests. Impact An attacker could entice an authenticated user to browse to a specially...
libgsf: Buffer overflow
Background The GNOME Structured File Library is an I/O library that can read and write common file types and handle structured formats that provide file-system-in-a-file semantics. Description "infamous41md" has discovered that the "oleinitinfo" function may allocate too little memory for storing...
F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background F-Prot Antivirus is a FRISK Software antivirus program that can used with procmail. Description F-Prot Antivirus version 4.6.7 fixes a heap-based buffer overflow, an infinite loop, and other unspecified vulnerabilities. Impact Among other weaker impacts, a remote attacker could send an...
Tar: Directory traversal vulnerability
Background The Tar program provides the ability to create and manipulate tar archives. Description Tar does not properly extract archive elements using the GNUTYPENAMES record name, allowing files to be created at arbitrary locations using symlinks. Once a symlink is extracted, files after the...
AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries: OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities
Background OpenSSL is a toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer, Transport Layer Security protocols and a general-purpose cryptography library. The x86 emulation base libraries for AMD64 contain a vulnerable version of OpenSSL. Description Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry, both of the Google...
MadWifi: Kernel driver buffer overflow
Background MadWifi Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity provides a Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based Wireless LAN devices. Description Laurent Butti, Jerome Raznieski and Julien Tinnes reported a buffer overflow in the encodeie and the giwscancb functions from...
SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as 'Mozilla Application Suite'. Description The SeaMonkey project is vulnerable to arbitrary JavaScript bytecode execution and arbitrary code execution...
Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project. Description Mozilla Firefox improperly handles Script objects while they are being executed. Mozilla Firefox has also been found to be vulnerable to various possible buffer overflows. Lastly, the binary...
ModPlug: Multiple buffer overflows
Background ModPlug is a library for playing MOD-like music. Description Luigi Auriemma has reported various boundary errors in loadit.cpp and a boundary error in the "CSoundFile::ReadSample" function in sndfile.cpp. Impact A remote attacker can entice a user to read crafted modules or ITP files,...
KOffice shared libraries: Heap corruption
Background KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. koffice-libs is a package containing shared librares used by KOffice programs. Description Kees Cook of Ubuntu discovered that 'KLaola::readBigBlockDepot' in klaola.cc fills 'numofbbdblocks' while reading a .ppt PowerPoint file without...
GnuPG: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Description Hugh Warrington has reported a boundary error in GnuPG, in the "askoutfilename" function from openfile.c: the makeprintablestring function could return a string longer than...
Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla Project. Description It has been identified that Mozilla Thunderbird improperly handles Script objects while they are being executed, allowing them to be modified during execution. JavaScript is disabled in...
xine-lib: Buffer overflow
Background xine is a portable and reusable multimedia playback engine. xine-lib is xine's core engine. Description A possible buffer overflow has been reported in the Real Media input plugin. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user into loading a specially crafted...
wv library: Multiple integer overflows
Background wv is a library for conversion of MS Word DOC and RTF files. Description The wv library fails to do proper arithmetic checks in multiple places, possibly leading to integer overflows. Impact An attacker could craft a malicious file that, when handled with the wv library, could lead to...
ProFTPD: Remote execution of arbitrary code
Background ProFTPD is a highly-configurable FTP server. Description Evgeny Legerov discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the sreplace function in support.c, as well as a buffer overflow in in the modtls module. Additionally, an off-by-two error related to the CommandBufferSize configuration...
Mono: Insecure temporary file creation
Background Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications. Description Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team discovered that the System.CodeDom.Compiler classes of Mono create temporary files with insecure permissions. Impact A local attacker cou...
OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related applications and development tools. Description Evgeny Legerov has discovered that the truncation of an incoming authcid longer than 255 characters and ending with a space as the 255th character will lead to an improperly computed name length. This...
LHa: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background LHa is a console-based program for packing and unpacking LHarc archives. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several vulnerabilities in the LZH decompression component used by LHa. The maketable function of unlzh.c contains an array index error and a buffer...
Kile: Incorrect backup file permission
Background Kile is a TeX/LaTeX editor for KDE. Description Kile fails to set the same permissions on backup files as on the original file. This is similar to CVE-2005-1920. Impact A kile user may inadvertently grant access to sensitive information. Workaround There is no known workaround at this...
Ingo H3: Folder name shell command injection
Background Ingo H3 is a generic frontend for editing Sieve, procmail, maildrop and IMAP filter rules. Description Ingo H3 fails to properly escape shell metacharacters in procmail rules. Impact A remote authenticated attacker could craft a malicious rule which could lead to the execution of...
GNU gv: Stack overflow
Background GNU gv is a viewer for PostScript and PDF documents. Description GNU gv does not properly boundary check user-supplied data before copying it into process buffers. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document with GNU gv and execute arbitrary code with th...
TIN: Multiple buffer overflows
Background TIN is a threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader for a variety of platforms. Description Urs Janssen and Aleksey Salow have reported multiple buffer overflows in TIN. Additionally, the OpenPKG project has reported an allocation off-by-one flaw which can lead to a buffer overflo...
ImageMagick: PALM and DCM buffer overflows
Background ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images, that can also read, write, and convert images in many other formats. Description M. Joonas Pihlaja has reported that a boundary error exists within the ReadDCMImage function of coders/dcm.c, causing the imprope...
fvwm: fvwm-menu-directory fvwm command injection
Background fvwm is a highly configurable virtual window manager for X11 desktops. fvwm-menu-directory allows fvwm users to browse directories from within fvwm. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that fvwm-menu-directory does not sufficiently sanitise...
Texinfo: Buffer overflow
Background Texinfo is the official documentation system of the GNU project. Description Miloslav Trmac from Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow in the "readline" function of texindex.c. The "readline" function is called by the texi2dvi and texindex commands. Impact By enticing a user to open a...
qmailAdmin: Buffer overflow
Background qmailAdmin is a free software package that provides a web interface for managing a qmail system with virtual domains. Description qmailAdmin fails to properly handle the "PATHINFO" variable in qmailadmin.c. The PATHINFO is a standard CGI environment variable filled with user supplied...