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PEAR XML-RPC, phpxmlrpc: PHP script injection vulnerability
Background The PEAR XML-RPC and phpxmlrpc libraries are both PHP implementations of the XML-RPC protocol. Description James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research discovered that the PEAR XML-RPC and phpxmlrpc libraries fail to sanatize input sent using the "POST" method. Impact A remote attacker...
Heimdal: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities
Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5 that includes a telnetd server. Description It has been reported that the "getterminaltype" function of Heimdal's telnetd server is vulnerable to buffer overflows. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary co...
Clam AntiVirus: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. Clam AntiVirus also provides a command line scanner and a tool for fetching updates of the virus database. Description Andrew Toller and Stefan Kanthak discovered that...
sudo: Arbitrary command execution
Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description The sudoers file is used to define the actions sudo users are permitted to perform. Charles Morris discovered that a specific layout of the sudoers file could cause the results of a...
Trac: File upload vulnerability
Background Trac is a minimalistic web-based project management, wiki and bug tracking system including a Subversion interface. Description Stefan Esser of the Hardened-PHP project discovered that Trac fails to validate the "id" parameter when uploading attachments to the wiki or the bug tracking...
Cacti: Several vulnerabilities
Background Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool. Description Cacti fails to properly sanitize input which can lead to SQL injection, authentication bypass as well as PHP file inclusion. Impact An attacker could potentially exploit the file inclusion to execute arbitrary code with the...
SpamAssassin 3, Vipul's Razor: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter which is used to identify junk email. Vipul's Razor is a client for a distributed, collaborative spam detection and filtering network. Description SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor contain a Denial of Service vulnerability when handling special...
SquirrelMail: Several XSS vulnerabilities
Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP protocols. Description SquirrelMail is vulnerable to several cross-site scripting issues, most reported by Martijn Brinkers. Impact By enticing a user to read a specially-crafted e-mail or using a manipulated...
Tor: Information disclosure
Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description A bug in Tor allows attackers to view arbitrary memory contents from an exit server's process space. Impact A remote attacker could exploit the memory...
cpio: Directory traversal vulnerability
Background cpio is a file archival tool which can also read and write tar files. Description A vulnerability has been found in cpio that can potentially allow a cpio archive to extract its files to an arbitrary directory of the creator's choice. Impact An attacker could create a malicious cpio...
PeerCast: Format string vulnerability
Background PeerCast is a media streaming system based on P2P technology. Description James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that PeerCast insecurely implements formatted printing when receiving a request with a malformed URL. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this...
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 Both Sun's and Blackdown's JDK and JRE may allow untrusted applets to elevate privileges. Impact A remote attacker could embed a malicious Java applet in a web...
webapp-config: Insecure temporary file handling
Background webapp-config is a Gentoo Linux utility to help manage the installation of web-based applications. Description Eric Romang discovered webapp-config uses a predictable temporary filename while processing certain options, resulting in a race condition. Impact Successful exploitation of t...
MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia. Description MediaWiki incorrectly handles page template inclusions, rendering it vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious...
Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a vulnerability in the Yahoo! file transfer code when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters CAN-2005-1269. Hugo de...
Ettercap: Format string vulnerability
Background Ettercap is a suite of tools for content filtering, sniffing and man in the middle attacks on a LAN. Description The cursesmsg function of Ettercap's Ncurses-based user interface insecurely implements formatted printing. Impact A remote attacker could craft a malicious network flow tha...
LutelWall: Insecure temporary file creation
Background LutelWall is a high-level Linux firewall configuration tool. Description Eric Romang has discovered that the newversioncheck function in LutelWall insecurely creates a temporary file when updating to a new version. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary fi...
GNU shtool, ocaml-mysql: Insecure temporary file creation
Background GNU shtool is a compilation of small shell scripts into a single shell tool. The ocaml-mysql package includes the GNU shtool code. Description Eric Romang has discovered that GNU shtool insecurely creates temporary files with predictable filenames CAN-2005-1751. On closer inspection,...
gedit: Format string vulnerability
Background gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environement. Description A format string vulnerability exists when opening files with names containing format specifiers. Impact A specially crafted file with format specifiers in the filename can cause arbitrary code execution...
libextractor: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities
Background libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files. It makes use of Xpdf code to extract information from PDF files. Description Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple overflows, as described in GLSA 200501-28. Also, integer overflows were discovered in Real and PNG extractors...
SilverCity: Insecure file permissions
Background SilverCity provides lexical analysis for over 20 programming and markup languages. Description The SilverCity package installs three executable files with insecure permissions. Impact A local attacker could modify the executable files, causing arbitrary code to be executed with the...
Mailutils: SQL Injection
Background GNU Mailutils is a collection of mail-related utilities. Description When GNU Mailutils is built with the "mysql" or "postgres" USE flag, the sqlescapestring function of the authentication module fails to properly escape the "" character, rendering it vulnerable to a SQL command...
Dzip: Directory traversal vulnerability
Background Dzip is a compressor and uncompressor especially made for demo recordings of id's Quake. Description Dzip is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack when extracting archives. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specially crafted archive to extract files...
Wordpress: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. Description Due to a lack of input validation, WordPress is vulnerable to SQL injection and XSS attacks. Impact An attacker could use the SQL injection vulnerabilities to gain information from the database...
Binutils, elfutils: Buffer overflow
Background The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation. Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse ELF objects. Description Tavis...
Mailutils: Multiple vulnerabilities in imap4d and mail
Background GNU Mailutils is a collection of mail-related utilities, including an IMAP4 server imap4d and a Mail User Agent mail. Description infamous41d discovered several vulnerabilities in GNU Mailutils. imap4d does not correctly implement formatted printing of command tags CAN-2005-1523, fails...
gxine: Format string vulnerability
Background gxine is a GTK+ and xine-lib based media player. Description Exworm discovered that gxine insecurely implements formatted printing in the hostname decoding function. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a carefully crafted file with gxine, possibly leading to the...
Qpopper: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Background Qpopper is a widely used server for the POP3 protocol. Description Jens Steube discovered that Qpopper doesn't drop privileges to process local files from normal users CAN-2005-1151. The upstream developers discovered that Qpopper can be forced to create group or world writeable files...
Net-SNMP: fixproc insecure temporary file creation
Background Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement the Simple Network Management Protocol. Description The fixproc application of Net-SNMP creates temporary files with predictable filenames. Impact A malicious local attacker could exploit a race condition to change the content of th...
ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background Both ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick are collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the XWD decoder of ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick when...
gdb: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background gdb is the GNU project's debugger, facilitating the analysis and debugging of applications. The BFD library provides a uniform method of accessing a variety of object file formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered an integer overflow in the B...
Cheetah: Untrusted module search path
Background Cheetah is a Python powered template engine and code generator. Description Brian Bird discovered that Cheetah searches for modules in the world-writable /tmp directory. Impact A malicious local user could place a module containing arbitrary code in /tmp, which when imported would run...
FreeRADIUS: SQL injection and Denial of Service vulnerability
Background FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server implementation. Description Primoz Bratanic discovered that the sqlescapefunc function of FreeRADIUS may be vulnerable to a buffer overflow BID 13541. He also discovered that FreeRADIUS fails to sanitize user-input before using ...
Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox: Remote compromise
Background The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. Description The Mozilla Suite and Firefox do not properly protect "IFRAME" JavaScript URLs from being executed in context...
PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. Description PostgreSQL gives public EXECUTE access to a number of character conversion routines, but doesn't validate the given arguments CAN-2005-1409. It has also been reported that the...
phpBB: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Background phpBB is an Open Source bulletin board package. Description phpBB is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to improper sanitization of user supplied input. Coupled with poor validation of BBCode URLs which may be included in a forum post, an unsuspecting user may follo...
Gaim: Denial of Service and buffer overflow vulnerabilties
Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Stu Tomlinson discovered that Gaim is vulnerable to a remote stack based buffer overflow when receiving messages in certain protocols, like Jabber and SILC, with a very...
libTIFF: Buffer overflow
Background libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF Tag Image File Format images. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag. Impac...
HT Editor: Multiple buffer overflows
Background HT is a hex editor, designed to help analyse and modify executable files. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team discovered an integer overflow in the ELF parser, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. The vendor has reported that an unrelated buffer overflow has...
gzip: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background gzip GNU zip is a popular compression program. The included zgrep utility allows you to grep gzipped files in place. Description The gzip and gunzip programs are vulnerable to a race condition when setting file permissions CAN-2005-0988, as well as improper handling of filename...
GnuTLS: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background GnuTLS is a free TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 implementation for the GNU project. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the record packet parsing in the GnuTLS library. Additionally, a flaw was also found in the RSA key export functionality. Impact A remote attacker could exploit...
TCPDump: Decoding routines Denial of Service vulnerability
Background TCPDump is a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. Description TCPDump improperly handles and decodes ISIS CAN-2005-1278, BGP CAN-2005-1267, CAN-2005-1279, LDP CAN-2005-1279 and RSVP CAN-2005-1280 packets. TCPDump might loop endlessly after receiving malformed packets. Impa...
Ethereal: Numerous vulnerabilities
Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are numerous vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.11, including: The ANSI A and DHCP dissectors are vulnerable to format string vulnerabilities. The DISTCC, FCELS, SIP, ISIS, CMIP, CMP, CMS, CRMF,...
Oops!: Remote code execution
Background Oops! is an advanced, multithreaded caching web proxy. Description A format string flaw has been detected in the myxlog function of the Oops! proxy, which is called by the passwdmysql and passwdpgsql module's auth functions. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted HTTP...
Horde Framework: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities
Background The Horde Framework is a PHP based framework for building web applications. It provides many modules including calendar, address book, CVS viewer and Internet Messaging Program. Description Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in various modules of the Horde...
Pound: Buffer overflow vulnerability
Background Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end. Description Steven Van Acker has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the "addport" function in Pound. Impact A remote attacker could send a request for an overly long hostname parameter, which could lead to the remo...
phpMyAdmin: Insecure SQL script installation
Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. phpMyAdmin uses a pma MySQL user to control the linked-tables infrastructure. The SQL install script sets the initial password for the pma user. Description The phpMyAdmin...
Heimdal: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities
Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5 that includes a telnet client program. Description Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the slcaddreply and envoptadd functions have been discovered by Gael Delalleau in the telnet client in Heimdal. Impact Successful exploitation would...
Convert-UUlib: Buffer overflow
Background Convert-UUlib provides a Perl interface to the uulib library, allowing Perl applications to access data encoded in a variety of formats. Description A vulnerability has been reported in Convert-UUlib where a malformed parameter can be provided by an attacker allowing a read operation t...
xine-lib: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities
Background xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. Description Heap overflows have been found in the code handling RealMedia RTSP and Microsoft Media Services streams over TCP MMST. Impact By setting up a malicious server and enticing a user to use i...