Rootkit Hunter: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Rootkit Hunter is a scanning tool to detect rootkits, backdoors and local exploits on a local machine. Rootkit Hunter uses downloaded data files to check file integrity. These files are updated via the checkupdate.sh script. Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen and Tavis Ormandy of th...

eGroupWare: XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities

Background eGroupWare is a suite of web-based group applications including calendar, address book, messenger and email. Description Multiple SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been found in several eGroupWare modules. Impact An attacker could possibly use the SQL injectio...

KDE kimgio: PCX handling buffer overflow

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kimgio is the KDE image handler provided by kdelibs. Description kimgio fails to properly validate input when handling PCX files. Impact By enticing a user to load a specially-crafted PCX ima...

RealPlayer, Helix Player: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Helix Player is the Open Source version of RealPlayer. Description Piotr Bania has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in RealPlayer and Helix Player when processing malicious RAM files. Impa...

Kommander: Insecure remote script execution

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. Kommander is a visual dialog editor and interpreter for KDE applications, part of the kdewebdev package. Description Kommander executes data files from possibly untrusted locations without us...

openMosixview: Insecure temporary file creation

Background The openMosixview package contains several tools used to manage openMosix clusters, including openMosixview the main monitoring and administration application and openMosixcollector a daemon collecting cluster and node information. Description Gangstuck and Psirac from Rexotec discover...

MPlayer: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities

Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. 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 its...

Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities

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 following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Firefox: Vladimir V...

XV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background XV is an interactive image manipulation program for the X Window System. Description Greg Roelofs has reported multiple input validation errors in XV image decoders. Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported insufficient validation in the PDS Planetary Data...

CVS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background CVS Concurrent Versions System is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server. Description Alen Zukich has discovered several serious security issues in CVS, including at least one buffer overflow CAN-2005-0753, memory leaks...

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 of PHP, or can run stand-alone in a CLI. Description An integer overflow and an unbound recursion were discovered in the...

OpenOffice.Org: DOC document Heap Overflow

Background OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description AD-LAB has discovered a heap overflow in the "StgCompObjStream::Load" function when processing D...

monkeyd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background monkeyd is a fast, efficient, small and easy to configure web server for Linux. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a double expansion error in monkeyd, resulting in a format string vulnerability. Ciaran McCreesh of Gentoo Linux discovered a...

Gld: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Gld is a standalone greylisting server for Postfix. Description dong-hun discovered several buffer overflows in server.c, as well as several format string vulnerabilities in cnf.c. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the...

JunkBuster: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background JunkBuster is a filtering HTTP proxy, designed to enhance privacy and remove unwanted content. Description James Ranson reported a vulnerability when JunkBuster is configured to run in single-threaded mode, an attacker can modify the referrer setting by getting a victim to request a...

rsnapshot: Local privilege escalation

Background rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync, allowing local and remote systems backups. Description The copysymlink subroutine in rsnapshot follows symlinks when changing file ownership, instead of changing the ownership of the symlink itself. Impact Under certain...

Axel: Vulnerability in HTTP redirection handling

Background Axel is a console-based FTP/HTTP download accelerator. Description A possible buffer overflow has been reported in the HTTP redirection handling code in conn.c. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by setting up a malicious site and enticing a user to connect to it...

phpMyAdmin: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description Oriol Torrent Santiago has discovered that phpMyAdmin fails to validate input to the "convcharset" variable, rendering it vulnerable to cross-site scripting...

GnomeVFS, libcdaudio: CDDB response overflow

Background GnomeVFS is a filesystem abstraction library for the GNOME desktop environment. libcdaudio is a multi-platform CD player development library. They both include code to query CDDB servers to get Audio CD track titles. Description Joseph VanAndel has discovered a buffer overflow in Grip...

Gaim: Denial of Service issues

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been addressed in the latest release of Gaim: A buffer overread in the gaimmarkupstriphtml function, which is used when logging conversatio...

mit-krb5: Multiple buffer overflows in telnet client

Background The MIT Kerberos 5 implementation provides a command line telnet client which is used for remote login via the telnet protocol. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the envoptadd function, where a response requiring excessive escaping can cause a heap-based buffer...

sharutils: Insecure temporary file creation

Background sharutils is a collection of tools to deal with shar archives. Description Joey Hess has discovered that the program unshar, which is a part of sharutils, creates temporary files in a world-writable directory with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links i...

Dnsmasq: Poisoning and Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description Dnsmasq does not properly detect that DNS replies received do not correspond to any DNS query that was sent. Rob Holland of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit team also discovered two off-by-one...

Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Buffer overflow on message display

Background Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed. Description Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle messages containing attachments with MIME-encoded filenames. Impact An attacker can send a malicious email...

telnet-bsd: Multiple buffer overflows

Background telnet-bsd provides a command line telnet client which is used for remote login using the telnet protocol. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the envoptadd function of telnet-bsd, where a response requiring excessive escaping can cause a heap-based buffer overflow...

LimeWire: Disclosure of sensitive information

Background LimeWire is a Java peer-to-peer client compatible with the Gnutella file-sharing protocol. Description Two input validation errors were found in the handling of Gnutella GET requests CAN-2005-0788 and magnet requests CAN-2005-0789. Impact A remote attacker can craft a specific Gnutella...

netkit-telnetd: Buffer overflow

Background netkit-telnetd provides standard Linux telnet client and server. Description A buffer overflow has been identified in the slcaddreply function of netkit-telnetd client, where a large number of SLC commands can overflow a fixed size buffer. Impact Successful explotation would require a...

Smarty: Template vulnerability

Background Smarty is a template engine for PHP. The "template security" feature of Smarty is designed to help reduce the risk of a system compromise when you have untrusted parties editing templates. Description A vulnerability has been discovered within the regexreplace modifier of the Smarty...

mpg321: Format string vulnerability

Background mpg321 is a GPL replacement for mpg123, a command line audio player with support for ID3. ID3 is a tagging system that allows metadata to be embedded within media files. Description A routine security audit of the mpg321 package revealed a known security issue remained unpatched. The...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape extension 2...

IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of service

Background IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping, and ping6. Description Sebastian Krahmer has reported a potential remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the ISAKMP header parsing cod...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is the popular next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Firefox: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape extension 2...

Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape...

Sun Java: Web Start argument injection vulnerability

Background Sun provides implementations of Java Development Kits JDK and Java Runtime Environments JRE. These implementations provide the Java Web Start technology that can be used for easy client-side deployment of Java applications. Description Jouko Pynnonen discovered that Java Web Start...

GnuPG: OpenPGP protocol attack

Background GnuPG is complete and free replacement for PGP, a tool for secure communication and data storage. Description A flaw has been identified in an integrity checking mechanism of the OpenPGP protocol. Impact An automated system using GnuPG that allows an attacker to repeatedly discover the...

Xzabite dyndnsupdate: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background dyndnsupdate is a dyndns.org data updater written by Fredrik "xzabite" Haglund. Description Toby Dickenson discovered that dyndnsupdate suffers from multiple overflows. Impact A remote attacker, posing as a dyndns.org server, could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user...

OpenSLP: Multiple buffer overflows

Background OpenSLP is an open-source implementation of Service Location Protocol SLP. Description Multiple buffer overflows have been found in OpenSLP, when handling malformed SLP packets. Impact By sending specially crafted SLP packets, a remote attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code...

Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Message reply overflow

Background Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed. Description Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle non-ASCII characters in email headers when composing reply messages. Impact An attacker can send an email...

LTris: Buffer overflow

Background LTris is a Tetris clone. Description LTris is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when reading the global highscores file. Impact By modifying the global highscores file a malicious user could trick another user to execute arbitrary code. Workaround There is no known workaround at this tim...

rxvt-unicode: Buffer overflow

Background rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt. Description Rob Holland of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that rxvt-unicode fails to properly check input length. Impact Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the...

KDE: Local Denial of service

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism. Description Sebastian Krahmer discovered that it is possible to stall the dcopserver of other users. Impact An attacker could exploit this to cause a...

Grip: CDDB response overflow

Background Grip is a GTK+ based audio CD player/ripper. Description Joseph VanAndel has discovered a buffer overflow in Grip when processing large CDDB results. Impact A malicious CDDB server could cause Grip to crash by returning more then 16 matches, potentially allowing the execution of...

curl: NTLM response buffer overflow

Background curl is a command line tool for transferring files via many different protocols. Description curl fails to properly check boundaries when handling NTLM authentication. Impact With a malicious server an attacker could send a carefully crafted NTLM response to a connecting client leading...

MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description MySQL fails to properly validate input for authenticated users with INSERT and DELETE privileges CAN-2005-0709 and CAN-2005-0710. Furthermore MySQL uses predictable filenames when creating temporary files with...

Ringtone Tools: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Ringtone Tools is a program for creating ringtones and logos for mobile phones. Description Qiao Zhang has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the 'parseemelody' function in 'parseemelody.c'. Impact A remote attacker could entice a Ringtone Tools user to open a specially...

Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.10, including: The Etheric, 3GPP2 A11 and IAPP dissectors are vulnerable to buffer overflows CAN-2005-0704, CAN-2005-0699 and CAN-2005-0739. Th...

X.org: libXpm vulnerability

Background libXpm is a pixmap manipulation library for the X Window System, included in X.org. Description Chris Gilbert has discovered potentially exploitable buffer overflow cases in libXpm that weren't fixed in previous libXpm versions. Impact A carefully-crafted XPM file could crash X.org,...

libexif: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving EXIF data. Description libexif contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the EXIF tag validation code. When opening an image with a specially crafted EXIF tag, the lack of validation can cause applications linked to libexif to cras...

KDE dcopidlng: Insecure temporary file creation

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism. dcopidlng is a DCOP helper script. Description Davide Madrisan has discovered that the dcopidlng script creates temporary files in a world-writable...

mlterm: Integer overflow vulnerability

Background mlterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator. Description mlterm is vulnerable to an integer overflow that can be triggered by specifying a large image file as a background. This only effects users that have compiled mlterm with the 'gtk' USE flag, which enables gdk-pixbuf support. Impa...