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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ImageMagick: Filename handling vulnerability

Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools and libraries for manipulating a wide variety of image formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has identified a flaw in the handling of filenames by the ImageMagick utilities. Impact Successful exploitation may...

Hashcash: Format string vulnerability

Background Hashcash is a utility for generating Hashcash tokens, a proof-of-work system to reduce the impact of spam. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the Hashcash utility that an attacker could expose by specifying a malformed reply address...

Mozilla Firefox: Various 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: Michael Krax reported that plugins can be used to load privileged content and trick the user to interact with it...

OpenMotif, LessTif: New libXpm buffer overflows

Background LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is a standard user interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux. OpenMotif also provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications. Description Chris Gilbert discovered potentially exploitable buffer overflow cases in libXp...

xv: Filename handling vulnerability

Background xv is an interactive image manipulation package for X11. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the handling of image filenames by xv. Impact Successful exploitation would require a victim to process a specially crafted image with a...

phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description phpMyAdmin contains several security issues: Maksymilian Arciemowicz has discovered multiple variable injection vulnerabilities that can be exploited through...

BidWatcher: Format string vulnerability

Background BidWatcher is a free auction tool for eBay users to keep track of their auctions. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string vulnerability in "netstuff.cpp". Impact Remote attackers can potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted responses via an eBay...

xli, xloadimage: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background xli and xloadimage are X11 utilities for displaying and manipulating a wide range of image formats. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported that xli and xloadimage contain a flaw in the handling of compressed images, where shell meta-characters ar...

phpWebSite: Arbitrary PHP execution and path disclosure

Background phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. Description NST discovered that, when submitting an announcement, uploaded files aren't correctly checked for malicious code. They also found out that phpWebSite is vulnerable to a path disclosure. Impact A remote...

phpBB: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpBB is an Open Source bulletin board package. Description It was discovered that phpBB contains a flaw in the session handling code and a path disclosure bug. AnthraX101 discovered that phpBB allows local users to read arbitrary files, if the "Enable remote avatars" and "Enable avata...

Qt: Untrusted library search path

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that Qt searches for shared libraries in an untrusted, world-writable directory. Impact A local attacker could create a malicious shared object that would be...

Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Specially crafted SNAC packets sent by other instant-messaging users can cause Gaim to loop endlessly CAN-2005-0472. Malformed HTML code could lead to invalid memory...

uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability

Background uim is a simple, secure and flexible input method library. Description Takumi Asaki discovered that uim insufficiently checks environment variables. setuid/setgid applications linked against libuim could end up executing arbitrary code. This vulnerability only affects immodule-enabled ...

MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software, used by big projects like Wikipedia. Description A security audit of the MediaWiki project discovered that MediaWiki is vulnerable to several cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks, and that the image deletion code doe...

UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities

Background UnAce is an utility to extract, view and test the contents of an ACE archive. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered that UnAce suffers from buffer overflows when testing, unpacking or listing specially crafted ACE archives CAN-2005-0160. He also found out that UnAce is vulnerable to...

cmd5checkpw: Local password leak vulnerability

Background cmd5checkpw is a checkpassword compatible authentication program that uses CRAM-MD5 authentication mode. Description Florian Westphal discovered that cmd5checkpw is installed setuid cmd5checkpw but does not drop privileges before calling execvp, so the invoked program retains the...

Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities

Background The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail server. Description Possible single byte overflows have been found in the imapd annotate extension and mailbox handling code. Furthermore stack buffer overflows have been found in fetchnews, the backend and imapd. Impac...

PuTTY: Remote code execution

Background PuTTY is a popular SSH client, PSCP is a secure copy implementation, and PSFTP is a SSH File Transfer Protocol client. Description Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the PSCP and PSFTP clients, which can be triggered by the SFTP server itself. These issues are caused by the...

gFTP: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background gFTP is a GNOME based, multi-threaded file transfer client. Description gFTP lacks input validation of filenames received by remote servers. Impact An attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious FTP server and conduct a directory traversal attack by making use of specially...

Squid: Denial of Service through DNS responses

Background Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix-like systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other protocols, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features. Description Handling of certa...

GProFTPD: gprostats format string vulnerability

Background GProFTPD is a GTK+ administration tool for the ProFTPD server. GProFTPD is distributed with gprostats, a utility to parse ProFTPD transfer logs. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has identified a format string vulnerability in the gprostats utility. Impa...

Midnight Commander: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Midnight Commander is a visual console file manager. Description Midnight Commander contains several format string vulnerabilities CAN-2004-1004, buffer overflows CAN-2004-1005, a memory deallocation error CAN-2004-1092 and a buffer underflow CAN-2004-1176. Impact An attacker could...

wpa_supplicant: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background wpasupplicant is a WPA Supplicant with support for WPA and WPA2 IEEE 802.11i / RSN. Description wpasupplicant contains a possible buffer overflow due to the lacking validation of received EAPOL-Key frames. Impact An attacker could cause the crash of wpasupplicant using a specially...

KStars: Buffer overflow in fliccd

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. KStars is a desktop planetarium for KDE. It includes support for the Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface INDI. Description Erik Sjolund discovered a buffer overflow in fliccd which is pa...

Emacs, XEmacs: Format string vulnerabilities in movemail

Background GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text editors. movemail is an Emacs utility that can fetch mail on remote mail servers. Description Max Vozeler discovered that the movemail utility contains several format string errors. Impact An attacker could set up a...

lighttpd: Script source disclosure

Background lighttpd is a small-footprint, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which is optimized for high-performance environments. Description lighttpd uses file extensions to determine which elements are programs that should be executed and which are static pages that should be sent...

VMware Workstation: Untrusted library search path

Background VMware Workstation is a powerful virtual machine for developers and system administrators. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that VMware Workstation searches for gdk-pixbuf loadable modules in an untrusted, world-writable directory. Impact...

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Opera contains several vulnerabilities: fails to properly validate Content-Type and filename. fails to properly validate date: URIs. uses kfmclient exec as the Default Application to handle downloaded files when integrated with KDE...

PostgreSQL: Buffer overflows in PL/PgSQL parser

Background PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. Description PostgreSQL is vulnerable to several buffer overflows in the PL/PgSQL parser. Impact A remote attacker could send a malicious query resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the...