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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ncpfs: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background ncpfs is a NCP protocol network filesystem driver that allows access to NetWare services, to mount volumes of NetWare servers or print to NetWare print queues. Description Erik Sjolund discovered two vulnerabilities in the programs bundled with ncpfs: there is a potentially exploitable...
SquirrelMail: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP and can optionally be installed with SQL support. Description SquirrelMail fails to properly sanitize certain strings when decoding specially-crafted strings, which can lead to PHP file inclusion and XSS...
ngIRCd: Buffer overflow
Background ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat IRC. Description Florian Westphal discovered a buffer overflow caused by an integer underflow in the ListsMakeMask function of lists.c. Impact A remote attacker can exploit this buffer overflow to crash the ngIRCd daemon and...
GraphicsMagick: PSD decoding heap overflow
Background GraphicsMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. GraphicsMagick is originally derived from ImageMagick 5.5.2. Description Andrei Nigmatulin discovered that handling a Photoshop Document PSD file with more than 24 layers in ImageMagick could...
Perl: rmtree and DBI tmpfile vulnerabilities
Background Perl is a cross platform programming language. The DBI is the standard database interface module for Perl. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the DBI library creates temporary files in an insecure, predictable way CAN-2005-0077. Paul Szabo found out that...
AWStats: Remote code execution
Background AWStats is an advanced log file analyzer and statistics generator. Description When 'awstats.pl' is run as a CGI script, it fails to validate specific inputs which are used in a Perl open function call. Furthermore, a user could read log file content even when plugin rawlog was not...
Konversation: Various vulnerabilities
Background Konversation is a user-friendly IRC client for KDE. Description Wouter Coekaerts has discovered three vulnerabilities within Konversation: The Server::parseWildcards function, which is used by the "Quick Buttons", does not properly handle variable expansion CAN-2005-0129. Perl scripts...
Evolution: Integer overflow in camel-lock-helper
Background Evolution is a GNOME groupware application similar to Microsoft Outlook. Description Max Vozeler discovered an integer overflow in the camel-lock-helper application, which is installed as setgid mail by default. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute...
MySQL: Insecure temporary file creation
Background MySQL is a fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the 'mysqlaccess' script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact A local...
KPdf, KOffice: Stack overflow in included Xpdf code
Background KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. Description KPdf and KOffice both include Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Xpdf is vulnerable to a new stack overflow, as described in GLSA 200501-28. Impact An attacker cou...
teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background teTeX is a complete and open source TeX distribution. CSTeX is another TeX distribution including Czech and Slovak support. pTeX is another alternative that allows Japanese publishing with TeX. xdvizilla is an auxiliary script used to integrate DVI file viewing in Mozilla-based browser...
CUPS: Stack overflow in included Xpdf code
Background The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler. It makes use of Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Description The Decrypt::makeFileKey2 function in Xpdf's Decrypt.cc insufficiently checks boundaries when processing /Encrypt /Length tags in PDF files GLSA 200501-28...
Mailman: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Background Mailman is a Python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface. Description Florian Weimer has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the error messages that are produced by Mailman. Impact By enticing a user to visiting a specially-crafted URL, an attacker c...
Xpdf, GPdf: Stack overflow in Decrypt::makeFileKey2
Background Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. GPdf is a Gnome-based PDF viewer that includes some Xpdf code. Description iDEFENSE reports that the Decrypt::makeFileKey2 function in Xpdf's Decrypt.cc insufficiently checks boundaries when processing /Encrypt /Leng...
ImageMagick: PSD decoding heap overflow
Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. Description Andrei Nigmatulin discovered that a Photoshop Document PSD file with more than 24 layers could trigger a heap overflow. Impact An attacker could potentially design a mailicous PSD ima...
Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.9, including: The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop CAN-2005-0006. The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion, making Ethereal exi...
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 URLs, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features. Description Squid contains a...
tnftp: Arbitrary file overwriting
Background tnftp is a NetBSD FTP client with several advanced features. Description The 'mget' function in cmds.c lacks validation of the filenames that are supplied by the server. Impact An attacker running an FTP server could supply clients with malicious filenames, potentially allowing the...
Exim: Two buffer overflows
Background Exim is an highly configurable message transfer agent MTA developed at the University of Cambridge. Description Buffer overflows have been found in the hostaton function CAN-2005-0021 as well as in the spabase64tobits function CAN-2005-0022, which is part of the SPA authentication code...
KPdf, KOffice: More vulnerabilities in included Xpdf
Background KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. Description KPdf and KOffice both include Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple new integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200412-24. Impact An...
KDE FTP KIOslave: Command injection
Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. KDE provided KIOslaves for many protocols in the kdelibs package, one of them being FTP. These are used by KDE applications such as Konqueror. Description The FTP KIOslave fails to properly...
poppassd_pam: Unauthorized password changing
Background poppassdpam is a PAM-enabled server for changing system passwords that can be used to change POP server passwords. Description Gentoo Linux developer Marcus Hanwell discovered that poppassdpam did not check that the old password was valid before changing passwords. Our investigation...
o3read: Buffer overflow during file conversion
Background o3read is a standalone converter for OpenOffice.org files. It allows a user to dump the contents tree o3read and convert to plain text o3totxt or to HTML o3tohtml Writer and Calc files. Description Wiktor Kopec discovered that the parsehtml function in o3read.c copies any number of byt...
HylaFAX: hfaxd unauthorized login vulnerability
Background HylaFAX is a software package for sending and receiving facsimile messages. Description The code used by hfaxd to match a given username and hostname with an entry in the hosts.hfaxd file is insufficiently protected against malicious entries. Impact If the HylaFAX installation uses a...
imlib2: Buffer overflows in image decoding
Background imlib2 is an advanced replacement for image manipulation libraries such as libXpm. It is utilized by numerous programs, including gkrellm and several window managers, to display images. Description Pavel Kankovsky discovered that several buffer overflows found in the libXpm library see...
Konqueror: Java sandbox vulnerabilities
Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. Konqueror is the KDE web browser and file manager. Description Konqueror contains two errors that allow JavaScript scripts and Java applets to have access to restricted Java classes. Impact A...
UnRTF: Buffer overflow
Background UnRTF is a utility to convert files in the Rich Text Format into other formats. Description An unchecked strcat in unrtf may overflow the bounds of a static buffer. Impact Using a specially crafted file, possibly delivered by e-mail or over the web, an attacker may execute arbitrary co...
TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution
Background TikiWiki is a web-based groupware and content management system CMS, using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. Description TikiWiki lacks a check on uploaded images in the Wiki edit page. Impact A malicious user could run arbitrary commands on the server by uploading and calling a PHP script...
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 integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200412-24. Impact An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF file,...