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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

mpg123: Buffer overflow

Background mpg123 is a real-time MPEG audio player. Description mpg123 improperly parses frame headers in input streams. Impact By inducing a user to play a malicious file, an attacker may be able to exploit a buffer overflow to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running...

Dillo: Format string vulnerability

Background Dillo is a small and fast multi-platform web browser based on GTK+. Description Gentoo Linux developer Tavis Ormandy found a format string bug in Dillo's handling of messages in aInterfacemsg. Impact An attacker could craft a malicious web page which, when accessed using Dillo, would...

phpGroupWare: Various vulnerabilities

Background phpGroupWare is a web-based suite of group applications including a calendar, todo-list, addressbook, email, wiki, news headlines, and a file manager. Description Several flaws were discovered in phpGroupWare making it vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks, SQL injection, and full...

xine-lib: Multiple overflows

Background xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. Description Ariel Berkman discovered that xine-lib reads specific input data into an array without checking the input size in demuxaiff.c, making it vulnerable to a buffer overflow CAN-2004-1300...

Vilistextum: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Vilistextum is an HTML to text converter. Description Ariel Berkman discovered that Vilistextum unsafely reads data into an array without checking the length. This code vulnerability may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could craft a malicious webpage which, when...

xzgv: Multiple overflows

Background xzgv is a picture viewer for X, with a thumbnail-based file selector. Description Multiple overflows have been found in the image processing code of xzgv, including an integer overflow in the PRF parsing code CAN-2004-0994. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open or browse a...

Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird: Various vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla is a popular web browser that includes a mail and newsreader. Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are respectively the next-generation browser and mail client from the Mozilla project. Description Maurycy Prodeus from isec.pl found a potentially exploitable buffer overflow ...

tiff: New overflows in image decoding

Background The TIFF library contains encoding and decoding routines for the Tag Image File Format. It is called by numerous programs, including GNOME and KDE applications, to interpret TIFF images. Description infamous41md found a potential integer overflow in the directory entry count routines o...

mit-krb5: Heap overflow in libkadm5srv

Background MIT krb5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description The MIT Kerberos 5 administration library libkadm5srv contains a heap overflow in the code handling password changing. Impact Under specific...

Shoutcast Server: Remote code execution

Background Shoutcast Server is Nullsoft's streaming audio server. It runs on a variety of platforms, including Linux, and is extremely popular with Internet broadcasters. Description Part of the Shoutcast Server Linux binary has been found to improperly handle sprintf parsing. Impact A malicious...

LinPopUp: Buffer overflow in message reply

Background LinPopUp is a graphical application that acts as a frontend to Samba client messaging functions, allowing a Linux desktop to communicate with a Microsoft Windows computer that runs Winpopup. Description Stephen Dranger discovered that LinPopUp contains a buffer overflow in string.c,...

a2ps: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background a2ps is an Any to Postscript filter that can convert to Postscript from many filetypes. fixps is a script that fixes errors in Postscript files. psmandup produces a Postscript file for printing in manual duplex mode. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the a2ps...

PHProjekt: Remote code execution vulnerability

Background PHProjekt is a modular groupware web application used to coordinate group activities and share files. Description cYon discovered that the authform.inc.php script allows a remote user to define the global variable $pathpre. Impact A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to for...

CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler, hpgltops is a CUPS filter handling printing of HPGL files and lppasswd is a program used locally to manage spooler passwords. Description CUPS makes use of vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files CAN-2004-1125...

Xpdf, GPdf: New integer overflows

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 A new integer overflow issue was discovered in Xpdf's Gfx::doImage function. Impact An attacker could entice an user to open a...

ViewCVS: Information leak and XSS vulnerabilities

Background ViewCVS is a browser interface for viewing CVS and Subversion version control repositories through a web browser. Description The tar export functions in ViewCVS bypass the 'hidecvsroot' and 'forbidden' settings and therefore expose information that should be kept secret CAN-2004-0915...

mpg123: Playlist buffer overflow

Background mpg123 is a MPEG Audio Player. Description Bartlomiej Sieka discovered that mpg123 contains an unsafe strcat to an array in playlist.c. This code vulnerability may lead to a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could craft a malicious playlist which, when used, would result in the...

Zwiki: XSS vulnerability

Background Zwiki is a Zope wiki-clone for easy-to-edit collaborative websites. Description Due to improper input validation, Zwiki can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting attacks. Impact By enticing a user to read a specially-crafted wiki entry, an attacker can execute arbitrary script...

NASM: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background NASM is a 80x86 assembler that has been created for portability and modularity. NASM supports Pentium, P6, SSE MMX, and 3DNow extensions. It also supports a wide range of objects formats ELF, a.out, COFF, ..., and has its own disassembler. Description Jonathan Rockway discovered that...

MPlayer: Multiple overflows

Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description iDEFENSE, Ariel Berkman and the MPlayer development team found multiple vulnerabilities in MPlayer. These include potential heap overflows in Real RTSP and pnm streaming code, stack overflows in...

kfax: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. kfax part of kdegraphics is the KDE fax file viewer. Description Than Ngo discovered that kfax contains a private copy of the TIFF library and is therefore subject to several known...