teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple overflows in included XPdf code

Background teTex is a complete TeX distribution. It is used for creating and manipulating LaTeX documents. CSTeX is a TeX distribution with Czech and Slovak support. pTeX is and ASCII publishing TeX distribution. Description CSTeX, teTex, and pTeX include XPdf code to handle PDF files. This XPdf...

WordPress: SQL injection vulnerability

Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. Description Patrik Karlsson reported that WordPress 1.5.2 makes use of an insufficiently filtered User Agent string in SQL queries related to comments posting. This vulnerability was already fixed in the...

GraphicsMagick: Format string vulnerability

Background GraphicsMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. Description The SetImageInfo function was found vulnerable to a format string mishandling. Daniel Kobras discovered that the handling of "%"-escaped sequences in filenames passed to the functi...

noweb: Insecure temporary file creation

Background noweb is a simple, extensible, and language independent literate programming tool. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino has discovered that the lib/toascii.nw and shell/roff.mm scripts insecurely create temporary files with predictable filenames. Impact A local attacker could create...

GPdf: heap overflows in included Xpdf code

Background GPdf is a Gnome PDF viewer. Description Dirk Mueller found a heap overflow vulnerability in the XPdf codebase when handling splash images that exceed size of the associated bitmap. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file with GPdf, potentially...

OpenSSH, Dropbear: Insecure use of system() call

Background OpenSSH is a free application suite consisting of server and clients that replace tools like telnet, rlogin, rcp and ftp with more secure versions offering additional functionality. Dropbear is an SSH server and client designed with a small memory footprint that includes OpenSSH scp...

GnuPG: Incorrect signature verification

Background GnuPG The GNU Privacy Guard is a free replacement for PGP Pretty Good Privacy. As GnuPG does not rely on any patented algorithms, it can be used without any restrictions. gpgv is the OpenPGP signature verification tool provided by the GnuPG system. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gent...

BomberClone: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background BomberClone is a remake of the classic game "BomberMan". It supports multiple players via IP network connection. Description Stefan Cornelius of the Gentoo Security team discovered multiple missing buffer checks in BomberClone's code. Impact By sending overly long error messages to the...

libtasn1, GNU TLS: Security flaw in DER decoding

Background Libtasn1 is a library used to parse ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One objects, and perform DER Distinguished Encoding Rules decoding. Libtasn1 is included with the GNU TLS library, which is used by applications to provide a cryptographically secure communications channel. Description...

Sun JDK/JRE: Applet privilege escalation

Background Sun's JDK and JRE provide interpreters for Java Applets in a sandboxed environment. These implementations provide the Java Web Start technology that can be used for easy client-side deployment of Java applications. Description Applets executed using JRE or JDK can use "reflection" APIs...

ImageMagick: Format string vulnerability

Background ImageMagick is an application suite to manipulate and convert images. It is often used as a utility backend by web applications like forums, content management systems or picture galleries. Description The SetImageInfo function was found vulnerable to a format string mishandling. Danie...

Xpdf, Poppler: Heap overflow

Background Xpdf is a PDF file viewer that runs under the X Window System. Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the Xpdf 3.0 code base. Description Dirk Mueller has reported a vulnerability in Xpdf. It is caused by a missing boundary check in the splash rasterizer engine when handling PDF...

KPdf: Heap based overflow

Background KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. Description KPdf includes Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Dirk Mueller discovered that the Xpdf code is vulnerable a heap based overflow in the splash rasterizer engine. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a...

ADOdb: PostgresSQL command injection

Background ADOdb is an abstraction library for PHP creating a common API for a wide range of database backends. Description Andy Staudacher discovered that ADOdb does not properly sanitize all parameters. Impact By sending specifically crafted requests to an application that uses ADOdb and a...

Apache: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. modimap provides support for server-side image maps; modssl provides secure HTTP connections. Description Apache's modimap fails to properly sanitize the "Referer" directive of imagemaps in some cases, leavi...

GStreamer FFmpeg plugin: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin uses code from the FFmpeg library to provide fast colorspace conversion and multimedia decoders to the GStreamer open source media framework. Description The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin contains derived code from the FFmpeg library, which is vulnerable to a heap...

MyDNS: Denial of service

Background MyDNS is a DNS server using a MySQL database as a backend. It is designed to allow for fast updates and small resource usage. Description MyDNS contains an unspecified flaw that may allow a remote Denial of Service. Impact An attacker could cause a Denial of Service by sending malforme...

Xpdf, Poppler, GPdf, libextractor, pdftohtml: Heap overflows

Background Xpdf is a PDF file viewer that runs under the X Window System. Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the Xpdf 3.0 code base. GPdf is a PDF file viewer for the GNOME 2 platform, also based on Xpdf. libextractor is a library which includes Xpdf code to extract arbitrary meta-data...

Paros: Default administrator password

Background Paros is an intercepting proxy between a web server and a client meant to be used for security assessments. It allows the user to watch and modify the HTTPS traffic. Description Andrew Christensen discovered that in older versions of Paros the database component HSQLDB is installed wit...

LibAST: Privilege escalation

Background LibAST is a utility library that was originally intended to accompany Eterm, but may be used by various other applications. Description Michael Jennings discovered an exploitable buffer overflow in the configuration engine of LibAST. Impact The vulnerability can be exploited to gain...

Gallery: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on other servers. Description Peter Schumacher discovered that Gallery fails to...

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...

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...

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...

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...