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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

mod_python: Publisher Handler vulnerability

Background modpython is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server allowing Python-based web-applications to be created. Description Graham Dumpleton discovered a vulnerability in modpython's Publisher Handler. Impact By requesting a specially crafted URL for a publishe...

ht://Dig: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

Background ht://Dig is an HTTP/HTML indexing and searching system. Description Michael Krax discovered that ht://Dig fails to validate the 'config' parameter before displaying an error message containing the parameter. This flaw could allow an attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks...

PowerDNS: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture. Description A vulnerability has been reported in the DNSPacket::expand method of dnspacket.cc. Impact An attacker could cause a temporary Denial of Service by sending a random stream...

Webmin: Information leak in Gentoo binary package

Background Webmin is a web-based system administration console allowing an administrator to easily configure servers and other features. Using the 'buildpkg' FEATURE, or the -b/-B emerge options, Portage can build reusable binary packages for any of the packages available through the Portage tree...

Perl: Vulnerabilities in perl-suid wrapper

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. The perl-suid wrapper allows the use of setuid perl scripts, i.e. user-callable Perl scripts which have elevated privileges. This function is enabled only if you have the perlsuid USE flag set. Description...

Mailman: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background Mailman is a Python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface. Description Mailman contains an error in private.py which fails to properly sanitize input paths. Impact An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files on the web server. Workaround There is n...

pdftohtml: Vulnerabilities in included Xpdf

Background pdftohtml is a utility to convert PDF files to HTML or XML formats. It makes use of Xpdf code to decode PDF files. Description Xpdf is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, as described in GLSA 200501-28. Impact An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF file,...

Python: Arbitrary code execution through SimpleXMLRPCServer

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. Description Graham Dumpleton discovered that XML-RPC servers making use of the SimpleXMLRPCServer library that use the registerinstance method to register an object without a dispatch method ar...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. Description PostgreSQL's contains several vulnerabilities: John Heasman discovered that the LOAD extension is vulnerable to local privilege escalation CAN-2005-0227. It is possible to bypass the...

OpenMotif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm

Background OpenMotif provides a free version of the Motif toolkit for open source applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows, out of bounds memory access or directory traversals, have been discovered in libXpm that is shipped as a part of the X Window System see...

LessTif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm

Background LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is a standard user interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities, including buffer overflows, out of bounds memory access and directory traversals, have been discovered in libXpm, which is shipped as a part of...

Newspost: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Newspost is a Usenet News binary autoposter. Description Niels Heinen has discovered a buffer overflow in the socketgetline function of Newspost, which can be triggered by providing long strings that do not end with a newline character. Impact A remote attacker could setup a malicious...

enscript: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background enscript is a powerful ASCII to PostScript file converter. Description Erik Sjolund discovered several issues in enscript: it suffers from several buffer overflows CAN-2004-1186, quotes and shell escape characters are insufficiently sanitized in filenames CAN-2004-1185, and it supporte...

Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix 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 Squid contains several...

UW IMAP: CRAM-MD5 authentication bypass

Background UW IMAP is the University of Washington IMAP toolkit which includes POP3 and IMAP daemons. Description A logic bug in the code handling CRAM-MD5 authentication incorrectly specifies the condition for successful authentication. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...

FireHOL: Insecure temporary file creation

Background FireHOL is an iptables rules generator. Description FireHOL insecurely creates temporary files with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create malicious symbolic links to arbitrary system files. When FireHOL is executed, this could lead to these files being overwritten wit...

ClamAV: Multiple issues

Background ClamAV is an antivirus toolkit. It includes a multi-threaded daemon and a command line scanner. Description ClamAV fails to properly scan ZIP files with special headers CAN-2005-0133 and base64 encoded images in URLs. Impact By sending a base64 encoded image file in a URL an attacker...

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 Rafel Ivgi has discovered a cross-site scripting...

VDR: Arbitrary file overwriting issue

Background Video Disk Recorder VDR is a Linux-based digital video recorder. The VDR program handles the On Screen Menu system that offers complete control over channel settings, timers and recordings. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Team discovered that V...

f2c: Insecure temporary file creation

Background f2c is a Fortran to C translator. Portage uses this package in some ebuilds to build Fortran sources. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Team discovered that f2c creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact...

TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution

Background TikiWiki is a web-based groupware and content management system CMS, using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. Description TikiWiki does not validate files uploaded to the "temp" directory. Impact A malicious user could run arbitrary commands on the server by uploading and calling a PHP script...