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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

Typespeed: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Typespeed is a game to test and practice 10-finger-typing. Network code allows two users to compete head-to-head. Description Niko Tyni discovered a buffer overflow in the addnewword function of Typespeed's network code. Impact By sending specially crafted network packets to a machine...

OpenLDAP: Buffer overflow

Background OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related applications and development tools. It includes slapd the standalone LDAP server, slurpd the standalone LDAP replication server, various LDAP libraries, utilities and example clients. Description slurpd contains a buffer overflow when reading very lo...

PAM-MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PAM-MySQL is a PAM module used to authenticate users against a MySQL backend. Description A flaw in handling the result of pamgetitem as well as further unspecified flaws were discovered in PAM-MySQL. Impact By exploiting the mentioned flaws an attacker can cause a Denial of Service an...

Sendmail: Denial of service

Background Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent MTA. Description Frank Sheiness discovered that the mime8to7 function can recurse endlessly during the decoding of multipart MIME messages until the stack of the process is filled and the process crashes. Impact By sending specially crafted...

DokuWiki: PHP code injection

Background DokuWiki is a simple to use wiki targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. Description Stefan Esser discovered that the DokuWiki spell checker fails to properly sanitize PHP's "complex curly syntax". Impact A unauthenticated remote attacker may execute arbitrary PHP...

Asterisk: IAX2 video frame buffer overflow

Background Asterisk is an open source implementation of a telephone private branch exchange PBX. Description Asterisk fails to properly check the length of truncated video frames in the IAX2 channel driver which results in a buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...

GDM: Privilege escalation

Background GDM is the GNOME display manager. Description GDM allows a normal user to access the configuration manager. Impact When the "face browser" in GDM is enabled, a normal user can use the "configure login manager" with his/her own password instead of the root password, and thus gain...

JPEG library: Denial of service

Background The JPEG library is able to load, handle and manipulate images in the JPEG format. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Auditing Team discovered that the vulnerable JPEG library ebuilds compile JPEG without the --maxmem feature which is not recommended. Impact By enticing a us...

MySQL: SQL Injection

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description MySQL is vulnerable to an injection flaw in mysqlrealescape when used with multi-byte characters. Impact Due to a flaw in the multi-byte character process, an attacker is still able to inject arbitary SQL statements...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation web browser from the Mozilla project. Description A number of vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Firefox. For details please consult the references below. Impact By enticing the user to visit a malicious website, a remote attacker can...

SpamAssassin: Execution of arbitrary code

Background SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter used to identify junk email. spamd is the daemonized version of SpamAssassin. Description When spamd is run with both the "--vpopmail" -v and "--paranoid" -P options, it is vulnerable to an unspecified issue. Impact With certain configuration...

Cscope: Many buffer overflows

Background Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code. Description Cscope does not verify the length of file names sourced in include statements. Impact A user could be enticed to source a carefully crafted file which will allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissio...

WordPress: Arbitrary command execution

Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. Description rgod discovered that WordPress insufficiently checks the format of cached username data. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands by sending a specially...

Vixie Cron: Privilege Escalation

Background Vixie Cron is a command scheduler with extended syntax over cron. Description Roman Veretelnikov discovered that Vixie Cron fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if setuid in docommand.c fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource limits. Impact Local...

Tor: Several vulnerabilities

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Some integer overflows exist when adding elements to the smartlists. Non-printable characters received from the network are not properly sanitised before...

Pound: HTTP request smuggling

Background Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end. It allows to distribute the load on several web servers and offers a SSL wrapper for web servers that do not support SSL directly. Description Pound fails to handle HTTP requests with conflicting "Content-Length" and...

Opera: Buffer overflow

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description SEC Consult has discovered a buffer overflow in the code processing style sheet attributes. It is caused by an integer signedness error in a length check followed by a call to a string function. It seems to be hard to exploit this buff...

Dia: Format string vulnerabilities

Background Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program. Description KaDaL-X discovered a format string error within the handling of filenames. Hans de Goede also discovered several other format string errors in the processing of dia files. Impact By enticing a user to open a specially crafted...

shadow: Privilege escalation

Background shadow provides a set of utilities to deal with user accounts. Description When the mailbox is created in useradd, the "open" function does not receive the three arguments it expects while OCREAT is present, which leads to random permissions on the created file, before fchmod is...

AWStats: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background AWStats is an advanced log file analyzer and statistics generator. Description Hendrik Weimer has found that if updating the statistics via the web frontend is enabled, it is possible to inject arbitrary code via a pipe character in the "migrate" parameter. Additionally, r0t has...

libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities, ranging from integer overflows and NULL pointer dereferences to double frees, were reported in libTIFF. Impact An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by enticing a user to...

CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background CherryPy is a Python-based, object-oriented web development framework. Description Ivo van der Wijk discovered that the "staticfilter" component of CherryPy fails to sanitize input correctly. Impact An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files from the web server...

libextractor: Two heap-based buffer overflows

Background libextractor is a library used to extract metadata from arbitrary files. Description Luigi Auriemma has found two heap-based buffer overflows in libextractor 0.5.13 and earlier: one of them occurs in the asfreadheader function in the ASF plugin, and the other occurs in the parsetrakato...

Quagga Routing Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Quagga Routing Suite implements three major routing protocols: RIP v1/v2/v3, OSPF v2/v3 and BGP4. Description Konstantin V. Gavrilenko discovered two flaws in the Routing Information Protocol RIP daemon that allow the processing of RIP v1 packets carrying no authentication even whe...

MySQL: Information leakage

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description The processing of the COMTABLEDUMP command by a MySQL server fails to properly validate packets that arrive from the client via a network socket. Impact By crafting specific malicious packets an attacker cou...

Quake 3 engine based games: Buffer Overflow

Background Quake 3 is a multiplayer first person shooter. Description landser discovered a vulnerability within the "remapShader" command. Due to a boundary handling error in "remapShader", there is a possibility of a buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could set up a malicious game server and...

Ruby: Denial of service

Background Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It comes bundled with HTTP "WEBrick" and XMLRPC server objects. Description Ruby uses blocking sockets for WEBrick and XMLRPC servers. Impact An attacker could send large amounts of data to an...

pdnsd: Denial of Service and potential arbitrary code execution

Background pdnsd is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching that is designed to cope with unreachable DNS servers. Description The pdnsd team has discovered an unspecified buffer overflow vulnerability. The PROTOS DNS Test Suite, by the Oulu University Secure Programming Group OUSPG, has also...

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. Impact A remote attacker could craft malicious emails that would leverage these issues to inject and execute arbitrary scrip...