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Trac: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Background Trac is a minimalistic web-based project management, wiki and bug tracking system including a Subversion interface. Description Christophe Truc discovered that Trac fails to properly sanitize input passed in the URL. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this to inject and execute...
KDE kjs: URI heap overflow vulnerability
Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kjs is the javascript interpreter used in Konqueror and other parts of KDE. Description Maksim Orlovich discovered an incorrect bounds check in kjs when handling URIs. Impact By enticing a us...
Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation
Background Sun and Blackdown both provide implementations of the Java Development Kit JDK and Java Runtime Environment JRE. Description Adam Gowdiak discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment's Reflection APIs that may allow untrusted applets to elevate privileges. Impact...
Blender: Heap-based buffer overflow
Background Blender is an open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Description Damian Put has reported a flaw due to an integer overflow in the "getbhead" function, leading to a heap overflow when processing malformed ".blend"...
ClamAV: Remote execution of arbitrary code
Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Zero Day Initiative ZDI reported a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to an incorrect boundary check of the user-supplied data prior to copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer. The flaw occurs when the...
Wine: Windows Metafile SETABORTPROC vulnerability
Background Wine is a free implementation of Windows APIs for Unix-like systems. Description H D Moore discovered that Wine implements the insecure-by-design SETABORTPROC GDI Escape function for Windows Metafile WMF files. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Windows...
mod_auth_pgsql: Multiple format string vulnerabilities
Background modauthpgsql is an Apache2 module that allows user authentication against a PostgreSQL database. Description The error logging functions of modauthpgsql fail to validate certain strings before passing them to syslog, resulting in format string vulnerabilities. Impact An unauthenticated...
xine-lib, FFmpeg: Heap-based buffer overflow
Background xine is a GPL high-performance, portable and reusable multimedia playback engine. xine-lib is xine's core engine. FFmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter and is used in xine-lib. Description Simon Kilvington has reported a vulnerability in FFmpeg libavcodec. The flaw is due to ...
VMware Workstation: Vulnerability in NAT networking
Background VMware Workstation is a powerful virtual machine for developers and system administrators. Description Tim Shelton discovered that vmnet-natd, the host module providing NAT-style networking for VMware guest operating systems, is unable to process incorrect 'EPRT' and 'PORT' FTP request...
HylaFAX: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background HylaFAX is an enterprise-class system for sending and receiving facsimile messages and for sending alpha-numeric pages. Description Patrice Fournier discovered that HylaFAX runs the notify script on untrusted user input. Furthermore, users can log in without a password when HylaFAX is...
KPdf, KWord: Multiple overflows in included Xpdf code
Background KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. KWord is a KDE-based word processor also included in the koffice package. Description KPdf and KWord both include Xpdf code to handle PDF files. This Xpdf code is vulnerable to several heap overflows GLSA 200512-08 as...
pinentry: Local privilege escalation
Background pinentry is a collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that the pinentry ebuild incorrectly sets the permissions of the pinentry binaries upon installation, s...
XnView: Privilege escalation
Background XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter, distributed free for non-commercial use. Description Krzysiek Pawlik of Gentoo Linux discovered that the XnView package for IA32 used the DTRPATH field insecurely, causing the dynamic loader to search for shared libraries...
scponly: Multiple privilege escalation issues
Background scponly is a restricted shell, allowing only a few predefined commands. It is often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide access to remote users without providing any remote execution privileges. Description Max Vozeler discovered that the scponlyc command allows users to chroot...
OpenMotif, AMD64 x86 emulation X libraries: Buffer overflows in libUil library
Background OpenMotif provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications. The OpenMotif libraries are included in the AMD64 x86 emulation X libraries, which emulate the x86 32-bit architecture on the AMD64 64-bit architecture. Description xfocus discovered two potential buff...
rssh: Privilege escalation
Background rssh is a restricted shell, allowing only a few commands like scp or sftp. It is often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide limited access to users. Description Max Vozeler discovered that the rsshchroothelper command allows local users to chroot into arbitrary directories. Impac...
Dropbear: Privilege escalation
Background Dropbear is an SSH server and client with a small memory footprint. Description Under certain conditions Dropbear could fail to allocate a sufficient amount of memory, possibly resulting in a buffer overflow. Impact By sending specially crafted data to the server, authenticated users...
NBD Tools: Buffer overflow in NBD server
Background The NBD Tools are the Network Block Device utilities allowing one to use remote block devices over a TCP/IP network. It includes a userland NBD server. Description Kurt Fitzner discovered that the NBD server allocates a request buffer that fails to take into account the size of the rep...
Mantis: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Mantis is a web-based bugtracking system written in PHP. Description Tobias Klein discovered that Mantis contains several vulnerabilities, including: a file upload vulnerability. an injection vulnerability in filters. an SQL injection vulnerability in the user-management page. a port...
CenterICQ: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background CenterICQ is a text-based instant messaging interface that supports multiple protocols. It includes the ktools library, which provides text-mode user interface controls. Description Gentoo developer Wernfried Haas discovered that when the "Enable peer-to-peer communications" option is...
Opera: Command-line URL shell command injection
Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Peter Zelezny discovered that the shell script used to launch Opera parses shell commands that are enclosed within backticks in the URL provided via the command line. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticin...
cURL: Off-by-one errors in URL handling
Background cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols. Description Stefan Esser from the Hardened-PHP Project has reported a vulnerability in cURL that allows for a local buffer overflow when cURL attempts to parse specially crafted URLs. The...
Xpdf, GPdf, CUPS, Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Xpdf and GPdf are PDF file viewers that run under the X Window System. Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf code. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler. It makes use of Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Description infamous41md discovered that...
OpenLDAP, Gauche: RUNPATH issues
Background OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related application and development tools. Gauche is an R5RS Scheme interpreter. Description Gentoo packaging for OpenLDAP and Gauche may introduce insecure paths into the list of directories that are searched for libraries at runtime. Impact A local attacke...
Ethereal: Buffer overflow in OSPF protocol dissector
Background Ethereal is a feature-rich network protocol analyzer. It provides protocol analyzers for various network flows, including one for Open Shortest Path First OSPF Interior Gateway Protocol. Description iDEFENSE reported a possible overflow due to the lack of bounds checking in the...
Xmail: Privilege escalation through sendmail
Background Xmail is an Internet and intranet mail server. Description iDEFENSE reported that the AddressFromAtPtr function in the sendmail program fails to check bounds on arguments passed from other functions, and as a result an exploitable stack overflow condition occurs when specifying the "-t...
Openswan, IPsec-Tools: Vulnerabilities in ISAKMP Protocol implementation
Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities, including racoon, an Internet Key Exchange daemon. Internet Key Exchange version 1 IKEv1, a derivate of ISAKMP, is an important part of IPsec. IPsec is widely used t...
phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web. Description Stefan Esser from Hardened-PHP reported about multiple vulnerabilties found in phpMyAdmin. The $GLOBALS variable allows modifying the global variable importblacklist to open...
Perl: Format string errors can lead to code execution
Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. It contains printf functions that allows construction of strings from format specifiers and parameters, like the C printf functions. A well-known class of vulnerabilities, called format string errors, result o...
Webmin, Usermin: Format string vulnerability
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 Jack Louis discovered that the Webmin and Usermin "miniserv.pl" web server component is vulnerable to a Perl...
Inkscape: Buffer overflow
Background Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics SVG file format. Description Joxean Koret has discovered that Inkscape incorrectly allocates memory when opening an SVG file, creating the possibility of a buffer overflow if the SVG file...
chmlib, KchmViewer: Stack-based buffer overflow
Background chmlib is a library for dealing with Microsoft ITSS and CHM format files. KchmViewer is a CHM viewer that includes its own copy of the chmlib library. Description Sven Tantau reported about a buffer overflow vulnerability in chmlib. The function "chmdecompressblock" does not properly...
Macromedia Flash Player: Remote 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 When handling a SWF file, the Macromedia Flash Player incorrectly validates the frame type identifier store...
FUSE: mtab corruption through fusermount
Background FUSE Filesystem in Userspace allows implementation of a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program. The fusermount utility is used to mount/unmount FUSE file systems. Description Thomas Biege discovered that fusermount fails to securely handle special characters specified in...
phpSysInfo: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background phpSysInfo displays various system stats via PHP scripts. Description Christopher Kunz from the Hardened-PHP Project discovered that phpSysInfo is vulnerable to local file inclusion, cross-site scripting and a HTTP Response Splitting attacks. Impact A local attacker may exploit the fil...
Horde Application Framework: XSS vulnerability
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 The Horde Team reported a potential XSS vulnerability. Horde fails...
eix: Insecure temporary file creation
Background eix is a small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast results. Description Eric Romang discovered that eix creates a temporary file with a predictable name. eix creates a temporary file in /tmp/eix..sync where is the process ID of the shell running eix. Impact A local...
GNUMP3d: Directory traversal and insecure temporary file creation
Background GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats. Description Ludwig Nussel from SUSE Linux has identified two vulnerabilities in GNUMP3d. GNUMP3d fails to properly check for the existence of /tmp/index.lok before writing to the file, allowing fo...
Smb4k: Local unauthorized file access
Background Smb4K is a SMB/CIFS share browser for KDE. Description A vulnerability leading to unauthorized file access has been found. A pre-existing symlink from /tmp/sudoers and /tmp/super.tab to a textfile will cause Smb4k to write the contents of these files to the target of the symlink, as...
GTK+ 2, GdkPixbuf: Multiple XPM decoding vulnerabilities
Background GTK+ the GIMP Toolkit is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. The GdkPixbuf library provides facilities for image handling. It is available as a standalone library and also packaged with GTK+ 2. Description iDEFENSE reported a possible heap overflow in the XPM loader...
Scorched 3D: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Scorched 3D is a clone of the classic "Scorched Earth" DOS game, adding features like a 3D island environment and Internet multiplayer capabilities. Description Luigi Auriemma discovered multiple flaws in the Scorched 3D game server, including a format string vulnerability and several...
Sylpheed, Sylpheed-Claws: Buffer overflow in LDIF importer
Background Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-Claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed. They both support the import of address books in LDIF Lightweight Directory Interchange Format. Description Colin Leroy reported buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Sylpheed a...
Lynx: Arbitrary command execution
Background Lynx is a fully-featured WWW client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices such as vt100 terminals and terminal emulators. Description iDefense labs discovered a problem within the feature to execute local cgi-bin programs via the "lynxcgi:" URI handler. D...
RAR: Format string and buffer overflow vulnerabilities
Background RAR is a powerful archive manager that can decompress RAR, ZIP and other files, and can create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. Description Tan Chew Keong reported about two vulnerabilities found in RAR: A format string error exists when displaying a diagnostic error message th...
PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background PHP is a general-purpose scripting language widely used to develop web-based applications. It can run inside a web server using the modphp module or the CGI version and also stand-alone in a CLI. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in PHP: a possible $GLOBALS...
linux-ftpd-ssl: Remote buffer overflow
Background linux-ftpd-ssl is the netkit FTP server with encryption support. Description A buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in the linux-ftpd-ssl package. A command that generates an excessively long response from the server may overrun a stack buffer. Impact An attacker that has...
ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ClamAV is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. ClamAV also provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the virus database. Description ClamAV has multiple security flaws: a boundary check was perform...
GNUMP3d: Directory traversal and XSS vulnerabilities
Background GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats. Description Steve Kemp reported about two cross-site scripting attacks that are related to the handling of files CVE-2005-3424, CVE-2005-3425. Also reported is a directory traversal vulnerability...
OpenVPN: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background OpenVPN is a multi-platform, full-featured SSL VPN solution. Description The OpenVPN client contains a format string bug in the handling of the foreignoption in options.c. Furthermore, when the OpenVPN server runs in TCP mode, it may dereference a NULL pointer under specific error...
fetchmail: Password exposure in fetchmailconf
Background fetchmail is a utility that retrieves and forwards mail from remote systems using IMAP, POP, and other protocols. It ships with fetchmailconf, a graphical utility used to create configuration files. Description Thomas Wolff discovered that fetchmailconf opens the configuration file wit...