Motor: Execution of arbitrary code

Background Motor is a text mode based programming environment for Linux, with a syntax highlighting feature, project manager, makefile generator, gcc and gdb front-end, and CVS integration. Description In November 2005, Zone-H Research reported a boundary error in the ktools library in the...

PHP: Arbitary code execution

Background PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Description The sscanf PHP function contains an array boundary error that can be exploited to dereference a null pointer. This can possibly allow the...

X.org and some X.org libraries: Local privilege escalations

Background X.org is an implementation of the X Window System. Description Several X.org libraries and X.org itself contain system calls to setuid functions, without checking their result. Impact Local users could deliberately exceed their assigned resource limits and elevate their privileges afte...

AlsaPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows

Background AlsaPlayer is a heavily multithreaded PCM player that tries to utilize ALSA utilities and drivers. As of June 2004, the project is inactive. Description AlsaPlayer contains three buffer overflows: in the function that handles the HTTP connections, the GTK interface, and the CDDB queryi...

Heartbeat: Denial of service

Background Heartbeat is a component of the High-Availability Linux project. It is used to perform death-of-node detection, communications and cluster management. Description Yan Rong Ge discovered that the peelnetstring function in clnetstring.c does not validate the "length" parameter of user...

fbida: Arbitrary command execution

Background fbida is a collection of image viewers and editors for the framebuffer console and X11. fbgs is a PostScript and PDF viewer for the linux framebuffer console. Description Toth Andras has discovered a typographic mistake in the "fbgs" script, shipped with fbida if the "fbcon" and "pdf"...

Heimdal: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. Description The ftpd and rcp applications provided by Heimdal fail to check the return value of calls to seteuid. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Workaround Ther...

Ruby on Rails: Several vulnerabilities

Background Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework. Description The Ruby on Rails developers have corrected some weaknesses in actioncontroller/, relative to the handling of the user input and the LOADPATH variable. A remote attacker could inject arbitrary entries into the LOADPATH variable...

WordPress: Privilege escalation

Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based multiuser blogging system. Description The WordPress developers have confirmed a vulnerability in capability checking for plugins. Impact By exploiting a flaw, a user can circumvent WordPress access restrictions when using plugins. The actual impact...

libwmf: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background libwmf is a library for reading and converting vector images in Microsoft's native Windows Metafile Format WMF. Description infamous41md discovered that libwmf fails to do proper bounds checking on the MaxRecordSize variable in the WMF file header. This could lead to an head-based buff...

Net::Server: Format string vulnerability

Background Net::Server is an extensible, generic Perl server engine. It is used by several Perl applications like Postgrey. Description The log function of Net::Server does not handle format string specifiers properly before they are sent to syslog. Impact By sending a specially crafted datastrea...

MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Background MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. Description Unchecked calls to setuid in krshd and v4rcp, as well as unchecked calls ...

Warzone 2100 Resurrection: Multiple buffer overflows

Background Warzone 2100 Resurrection is a real-time strategy game, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Warzone 2100 Resurrection. The recvTextMessage function of the Warzone 2100 Resurrection...

ClamAV: Heap buffer overflow

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Damian Put has discovered a boundary error in the pefromupx function used by the UPX extraction module, which unpacks PE Windows executable files. Both the "clamscan" command-line utility and the "clamd" daemon are affected. Impact By sending ...

DUMB: Heap buffer overflow

Background DUMB Dynamic Universal Music Bibliotheque is an IT, XM, S3M and MOD player library. Description Luigi Auriemma found a heap-based buffer overflow in the itreadenvelope function which reads the envelope values for volume, pan and pitch of the instruments referenced in a ".it" Impulse...

x11vnc: Authentication bypass in included LibVNCServer code

Background x11vnc provides VNC servers for X displays. Description x11vnc includes vulnerable LibVNCServer code, which fails to properly validate protocol types effectively letting users decide what protocol to use, such as "Type 1 - None" GLSA-200608-05. x11vnc will accept this security type, ev...

pike: SQL injection vulnerability

Background Pike is a general purpose programming language, able to be used for multiple tasks. Description Some input is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL statement in the underlying PostgreSQL database. Impact A remote attacker could provide malicious input to a pike program, whi...

MySQL: Denial of service

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description Jean-David Maillefer discovered a format string vulnerability in time.cc where MySQL fails to properly handle specially formatted user input to the dateformat function. Impact By specifying a format string as the fir...

Webmin, Usermin: File Disclosure

Background Webmin is a web-based interface for Unix-like systems. Usermin is a simplified version of Webmin designed for use by normal users rather than system administrators. Description A vulnerability in both Webmin and Usermin has been discovered by Kenny Chen, wherein simplifypath is called...

GnuPG: Integer overflow vulnerability

Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Description Evgeny Legerov discovered a vulnerability in GnuPG that when certain packets are handled an integer overflow may occur. Impact By sending a specially crafted email to a user...

libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF images. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several heap and stack buffer overflows and other flaws in libTIFF. The affected parts include the TIFFFetchShortPair, TIFFScanLineSize and...

LibVNCServer: Authentication bypass

Background LibVNCServer is a GPL'ed library for creating VNC servers. Description LibVNCServer fails to properly validate protocol types effectively letting users decide what protocol to use, such as "Type 1 - None". LibVNCServer will accept this security type, even if it is not offered by the...

Courier MTA: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Courier MTA is an integrated mail and groupware server based on open protocols. Description Courier MTA has fixed a security issue relating to usernames containing the "=" character, causing high CPU utilization. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a speciall...

Mozilla SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla 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 following vulnerabilities have been reported: Benjamin Smedberg discovered that chrome URL's...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a redesign of the Mozilla Navigator component. The goal is to produce a cross-platform stand-alone browser application. Description The following vulnerabilities have been reported: Benjamin Smedberg discovered that chrome URL's could be made to reference remote file...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla Thunderbird mail client is a redesign of the Mozilla Mail component. The goal is to produce a cross-platform stand-alone mail application using XUL XML User Interface Language. Description The following vulnerabilities have been reported: Benjamin Smedberg discovered that...

Apache: Off-by-one flaw in mod_rewrite

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. The Apache module modrewrite provides a rule-based engine to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. Description An off-by-one flaw has been found in Apache's modrewrite module by Mark Dowd of McAfee Avert Labs...

Audacious: Multiple heap and buffer overflows

Background Audacious is a media player that has been forked from Beep Media Player. Description Luigi Auriemma has found that the adplug library fails to verify the size of the destination buffers in the unpacking instructions, resulting in various possible heap and buffer overflows. Impact An...

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 Internal security audits by OpenOffice.org have discovered three security vulnerabiliti...

TunePimp: Buffer overflow

Background The TunePimp library also referred to as libtunepimp is a development library geared towards developers who wish to create MusicBrainz enabled tagging applications. Description Kevin Kofler has reported a vulnerability where three stack variables are allocated with 255, 255 and 100 byt...

Samba: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. Description During an internal audit the Samba team discovered that a flaw in the way Samba stores share connection requests could lead to a...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is a popular network protocol analyzer. Description Wireshark dissectors have been found vulnerable to a large number of exploits, including off-by-one errors, buffer overflows, format string overflows and an infinite loop. Impact Running an...

GIMP: Buffer overflow

Background GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. XCF is the native image file format used by GIMP. Description Henning Makholm discovered that the "xcfloadvector" function is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when loading a XCF file with a large "numaxes" value. Impact An attacker could explo...

xine-lib: Buffer overflow

Background xine-lib is the core library of xine, a multimedia player. Description There is a stack based overflow in the libmms library included with xine-lib which can be triggered by malicious use of the sendcommand, stringutf16, getdata and getmediapacket functions. Impact A remote attacker...

libpng: Buffer overflow

Background libpng is an open, extensible image format library, with lossless compression. Description In pngrutil.c, the function pngdecompresschunk allocates insufficient space for an error message, potentially overwriting stack data, leading to a buffer overflow. Impact By enticing a user to lo...

SHOUTcast server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SHOUTcast server is a streaming audio server. Description The SHOUTcast server is vulnerable to a file disclosure when the server receives a specially crafted GET request. Furthermore it also fails to sanitize the input passed to the "Description", "URL", "Genre", "AIM", and "ICQ"...

libTIFF: Multiple buffer overflows

Background libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF images. Description A buffer overflow has been found in the t2pwritepdfstring function in tiff2pdf, which can been triggered with a TIFF file containing a DocumentName tag with UTF-8 characters. An additional buffer overflow ha...

PostgreSQL: SQL injection

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description PostgreSQL contains a flaw in the string parsing routines that allows certain backslash-escaped characters to be bypassed with some multibyte character encodings. This vulnerability was discovered by...

FreeType: Multiple integer overflows

Background FreeType is a portable font engine. Description Multiple integer overflows exist in a variety of files bdf/bdflib.c, sfnt/ttcmap.c, cff/cffgload.c, base/ftmac.c. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these buffer overflows by enticing a user to load a specially crafted font, which cou...

mpg123: Heap overflow

Background mpg123 is a real time audio player designed for the MPEG format. Description In httpdget.c, a variable is assigned to the heap, and is supposed to receive a smaller allocation. As this variable was not terminated properly, strncpy will overwrite the data assigned next in memory. Impact...

Kiax: Arbitrary code execution

Background Kiax is a graphical softphone supporting the IAX protocol Inter Asterisk eXchange, which allows PC users to make VoIP calls to Asterisk servers. Description The iaxnetread function in the iaxclient library fails to properly handle IAX2 packets with truncated full frames or mini-frames...

Horde Web Application Framework: XSS vulnerability

Background The Horde Web 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 Michael Marek discovered that the Horde Web Application...

Tikiwiki: SQL injection and multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Background Tikiwiki is a web-based groupware and content management system CMS, using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. Description Tikiwiki fails to properly sanitize user input before processing it, including in SQL statements. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary SQL statements on the underlying...

Mutt: Buffer overflow

Background Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client. Description TAKAHASHI Tamotsu has discovered that Mutt contains a boundary error in the "browsegetnamespace" function in browse.c, which can be triggered when receiving an overly long namespace from an IMAP server. Impact A...

EnergyMech: Denial of service

Background EnergyMech is an IRC bot programmed in C. Description A bug in EnergyMech fails to handle empty CTCP NOTICEs correctly, and will cause a crash from a segmentation fault. Impact By sending an empty CTCP NOTICE, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of...

Hashcash: Possible heap overflow

Background Hashcash is a utility for generating Hashcash tokens, a proof-of-work system to reduce the impact of spam. Description Andreas Seltenreich has reported a possible heap overflow in the arraypush function in hashcash.c, as a result of an incorrect amount of allocated memory for the "ARRA...

wv2: Integer overflow

Background wv2 is a filter library for Microsoft Word files, used in many Office suites. Description A boundary checking error was found in wv2, which could lead to an integer overflow. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the program that uses the...

aRts: Privilege escalation

Background aRts is a real time modular system for synthesizing audio used by KDE. artswrapper is a helper application used to start the aRts daemon. Description artswrapper fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if setuid fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource...

KDM: Symlink vulnerability

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. KDM is the KDE Display Manager and is part of the kdebase package. Description Ludwig Nussel discovered that KDM could be tricked into allowing users to read files that would otherwise not be...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project. Description Several vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird. For details, please consult the references below. Impact A remote attacker could craft malicious emails that would leverage...