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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 discovered on PHP4 and PHP5 by Infigo, Tonu Samuel and Maksymilian Arciemowicz. These included a buffer overflow...
Nagios: Buffer overflow
Background Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE security team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of a negative HTTP Content-Length header. Impact A buffer overflow in Nagios CGI scripts under certa...
Mozilla Firefox: Potential remote code execution
Background Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation web browser from the Mozilla project. Description Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott discovered a vulnerability when rendering malformed JavaScript content. The Mozilla Firefox 1.0 line is not affected. Impact If JavaScript is enabled, by tricking a us...
rsync: Potential integer overflow
Background rsync is a server and client utility that provides fast incremental file transfers. It is used to efficiently synchronize files between hosts and is used by emerge to fetch Gentoo's Portage tree. Description An integer overflow was found in the receivexattr function from the extended...
phpWebSite: Local file inclusion
Background phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. Description rgod has reported that the "hubdir" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly verified. When "magicquotesgpc" is disabled, this can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local ressources. Impact If...
ClamAV: Buffer overflow in Freshclam
Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Freshclam is a utility to download virus signature updates. Description Ulf Harnhammar and an anonymous German researcher discovered that Freshclam fails to check the size of the header data returned by a webserver. Impact By enticing a user to connect to...
X.Org: Buffer overflow in XRender extension
Background X.Org is X.Org Foundation's public implementation of the X Window System. Description X.Org miscalculates the size of a buffer in the XRender extension. Impact An X.Org user could exploit this issue to make the X server execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Workaround There ...
MPlayer: Heap-based buffer overflow
Background MPlayer is a media player that supports many multimedia file types. Description Xfocus Team discovered multiple integer overflows that may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact An attacker could entice a user to play a specially crafted multimedia file, potentially resulting in...
Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Description Several vulnerabilities were found in Mozilla Suite. Version 1.7.13 was released to fix them. Impact A remote attacker could craft malicious web pages or emails that would leverage...
Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities in protocol dissectors
Background Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. Description Coverity discovered numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.99.0, including: buffer overflows in the ALCAP CVE-2006-1934, COPS CVE-2006-1935 and telnet CVE-2006-1936 dissectors. buffer overflows in th...
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 Ludwig Nussel discovered that xine-ui incorrectly implements formatted printing. Impact By constructing a...
xine-lib: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Background xine-lib is the xine core engine. xine is a free multimedia player. It plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, and can also decode other common multimedia formats. Description Federico L. Bossi Bonin discovered that when handling MPEG streams xine-lib fails to make a proper boundary check of the...
fbida: Insecure temporary file creation
Background fbida is a collection of image viewers and editors for the framebuffer console and X11. Description Jan Braun has discovered that the "fbgs" script provided by fbida insecurely creates temporary files in the "/var/tmp" directory. Impact A local attacker could create links in the...
Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation web browser from the Mozilla project. Description Several vulnerabilities were found in Mozilla Firefox. Versions 1.0.8 and 1.5.0.2 were released to fix them. Impact A remote attacker could craft malicious web pages that would leverage these issue...
Dia: Arbitrary code execution through XFig import
Background Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program. Description infamous41md discovered multiple buffer overflows in Dia's XFig file import plugin. Impact By enticing a user to import a specially crafted XFig file into Dia, an attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with...
Crossfire server: Denial of Service and potential arbitrary code execution
Background Crossfire is a cooperative multiplayer graphical adventure and role-playing game. The Crossfire game server allows various compatible clients to connect to participate in a cooperative game. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered a vulnerability in the Crossfire game server, in the...
Cyrus-SASL: DIGEST-MD5 Pre-Authentication Denial of service
Background Cyrus-SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer. Description Cyrus-SASL contains an unspecified vulnerability in the DIGEST-MD5 process that could lead to a Denial of Service. Impact An attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability by sending...
zgv, xzgv: Heap overflow
Background xzgv and zgv are picture viewing utilities with a thumbnail based file selector. Description Andrea Barisani of Gentoo Linux discovered xzgv and zgv allocate insufficient memory when rendering images with more than 3 output components, such as images using the YCCK or CMYK colour space...
libapreq2: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background libapreq is a shared library with associated modules for manipulating client request data via the Apache API. Description A vulnerability has been reported in the apreqparseheaders and apreqparseurlencoded functions of Apache2::Request. Impact A remote attacker could possibly exploit t...
Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities in included ADOdb
Background Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool. ADOdb is a PHP-based database abstraction layer which is included in Cacti. Description Several vulnerabilities have been identified in the copy of ADOdb included in Cacti. Andreas Sandblad discovered a dynamic code evaluation...
ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description ClamAV contains format string vulnerabilities in the logging code CVE-2006-1615. Furthermore Damian Put discovered an integer overflow in ClamAV's PE header parser CVE-2006-1614 and David Luyer discovered that ClamAV can be tricked into...
Doomsday: Format string vulnerability
Background Doomsday is a modern gaming engine for popular ID games like Doom, Heretic and Hexen. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered that Doomsday incorrectly implements formatted printing. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the rights of...
Kaffeine: Buffer overflow
Background Kaffeine is a graphical front-end for the xine-lib multimedia library. Description Kaffeine uses an unchecked buffer when fetching remote RAM playlists via HTTP. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to play a specially-crafted RAM playlist resulting in the execution of arbitrar...
MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia. Description MediaWiki fails to decode certain encoded URLs correctly. Impact By supplying specially crafted links, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious HTML or JavaScri...
Horde Application Framework: Remote code execution
Background The Horde 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 Jan Schneider of the Horde team discovered a vulnerability in the...
FreeRADIUS: Authentication bypass in EAP-MSCHAPv2 module
Background FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server implementation. Description FreeRADIUS suffers from insufficient input validation in the EAP-MSCHAPv2 state machine. Impact An attacker could cause the server to bypass authentication checks by manipulating the EAP-MSCHAPv2 clie...
bsd-games: Local privilege escalation in tetris-bsd
Background bsd-games is a collection of NetBSD games ported to Linux. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the checkscores function in scores.c reads in the data from the /var/games/tetris-bsd.scores file without validation, rendering it vulnerable to...
OpenOffice.org: Heap overflow in included libcurl
Background OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, data charting, formula editing and file conversion facilities. libcurl, which is included in OpenOffice.org, is a free and easy-to-use client-side library for transferring files with U...
RealPlayer: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description RealPlayer is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing malicious SWF files. Impact By enticing a user to open a specially crafted SWF file an attacker could execute arbitrary code...
NetHack, Slash'EM, Falcon's Eye: Local privilege escalation
Background NetHack is the classic single player dungeon exploration game. Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye are NetHack variants. Description NetHack, Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye have been found to be incompatible with the system used for managing games on Gentoo Linux. As a result, they cannot be played...
Sendmail: Race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals
Background Sendmail is a popular mail transfer agent MTA. Description ISS discovered that Sendmail is vulnerable to a race condition in the handling of asynchronous signals. Impact An attacker could exploit this via certain crafted timing conditions. Workaround There is no known workaround at thi...
PHP: Format string and XSS vulnerabilities
Background PHP is a general-purpose scripting language widely used to develop web-based applications. It can run on a web server with the modphp module or the CGI version and also stand-alone in a CLI. Description Stefan Esser of the Hardened PHP project has reported a few vulnerabilities found i...
cURL/libcurl: Buffer overflow in the handling of TFTP URLs
Background cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols. libcurl is the corresponding client-side library. Description Ulf Harnhammar reported a possible buffer overflow in the handling of TFTP URLs in libcurl due to the lack of boundary checks...
Macromedia Flash Player: Arbitrary code execution
Background The Macromedia Flash Player is a renderer for the popular SWF filetype which is commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Description The Macromedia Flash Player contains multiple unspecified vulnerabilities. Impact An attacker serving a...
PeerCast: Buffer overflow
Background PeerCast is a Peer to Peer broadcasting technology for listening to radio and watching video on the Internet. Description INFIGO discovered a problem in the URL handling code. Buffers that are allocated on the stack can be overflowed inside of nextCGIarg function. Impact By sending a...
Pngcrush: Buffer overflow
Background Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG files. Description Carsten Lohrke of Gentoo Linux reported that Pngcrush contains a vulnerable version of zlib GLSA 200507-19. Impact By creating a specially crafted data stream, attackers can overwrite data structures for applications that use Pngcrush...
PEAR-Auth: Potential authentication bypass
Background PEAR-Auth is a PEAR package that provides methods to create a PHP based authentication system. Description Matt Van Gundy discovered that PEAR-Auth did not correctly validate data passed to the DB and LDAP containers. Impact A remote attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability t...
Metamail: Buffer overflow
Background Metamail is a program that decodes MIME encoded mail. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in Metamail when processing mime boundraries. Impact By sending a specially crafted email, attackers could potentially exploit this vulnerability to crash Metamail or to execut...
Heimdal: rshd privilege escalation
Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. Description An unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability in the rshd server of Heimdal has been reported. Impact Authenticated users could exploit the vulnerability to escalate privileges or to change the ownership and content of...
Crypt::CBC: Insecure initialization vector
Background Crypt::CBC is a Perl module to encrypt data using cipher block chaining CBC. Description Lincoln Stein discovered that Crypt::CBC fails to handle 16 bytes long initializiation vectors correctly when running in the RandomIV mode, resulting in a weaker encryption because the second part ...
Freeciv: Denial of service
Background Freeciv is an open source turn-based multiplayer strategy game, similar to the famous Civilization series. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered that Freeciv could be tricked into the allocation of enormous chunks of memory when trying to uncompress malformed data packages, possibly...
zoo: Buffer overflow
Background zoo is a file archiving utility for maintaining collections of files, written by Rahul Dhesi. Description zoo is vulnerable to a new buffer overflow due to insecure use of the strcpy function when trying to create an archive from certain directories or filenames. Impact An attacker cou...
Cube: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Cube is an open source first person shooter game engine supporting multiplayer via LAN or internet. Description Luigi Auriemma reported that Cube is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the sgetstr function CVE-2006-1100 and that the sgetstr and getint functions fail to verify the length...
SquirrelMail: Cross-site scripting and IMAP command injection
Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP protocols. Description SquirrelMail does not validate the rightframe parameter in webmail.php, possibly allowing frame replacement or cross-site scripting CVE-2006-0188. Martijn Brinkers and Scott Hughes...
GNU tar: Buffer overflow
Background GNU tar is the standard GNU utility for creating and manipulating tar archives, a common format used for creating backups and distributing files on UNIX-like systems. Description Jim Meyering discovered a flaw in the handling of certain header fields that could result in a buffer...
flex: Potential insecure code generation
Background flex is a programming tool used to generate scanners programs which recognize lexical patterns in text. Description Chris Moore discovered a buffer overflow in a special class of lexicographical scanners generated by flex. Only scanners generated by grammars which use either REJECT, or...
GnuPG: Incorrect signature verification
Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software that may be used without restriction, as it does not rely on any patented algorithms. GnuPG can be used to digitally sign messages, a method of ensuring the authenticity of a message using...
IMAP Proxy: Format string vulnerabilities
Background IMAP Proxy also known as up-imapproxy proxies IMAP transactions between an IMAP client and an IMAP server. Description Steve Kemp discovered two format string errors in IMAP Proxy. Impact A remote attacker could design a malicious IMAP server and entice someone to connect to it using...
zoo: Stack-based buffer overflow
Background zoo is a file archiving utility for maintaining collections of files, written by Rahul Dhesi. Description Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux discovered a boundary error in the fullpath function in misc.c when processing overly long file and directory names in ZOO archives. Impact An attacker...
MPlayer: Multiple integer overflows
Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description MPlayer makes use of the FFmpeg library, which is vulnerable to a heap overflow in the avcodecdefaultgetbuffer function discovered by Simon Kilvington see GLSA 200601-06. Furthermore, AFI Securi...