phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description Nicolas Gregoire exaprobe.com has discovered two vulnerabilities that exist only on a webserver where PHP safemode is off. These vulnerabilities could lead to...

Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.8, including: Bug in DICOM dissection discovered by Bing could make Ethereal crash CAN 2004-1139. An invalid RTP timestamp could make Ethereal...

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 Stefan Esser and Marcus Boerger reported several different issues in...

abcm2ps: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background abcm2ps is a utility used to convert ABC music sheet files into PostScript format. Description Limin Wang has located a buffer overflow inside the putwords function in the abcm2ps code. Impact A remote attacker could convince the victim to download a specially-crafted ABC file. Upon...

kdelibs, kdebase: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. The KDE core libraries kdebase and kdelibs provide native support for many protocols. Konqueror is the KDE web browser and filemanager. Description Daniel Fabian discovered that the KDE core...

Samba: Integer overflow

Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. Description Samba contains a bug when unmarshalling specific MS-RPC requests from clients. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute...

Cscope: Insecure creation of temporary files

Background Cscope is a developer utility used to browse and manage source code. Description Cscope creates temporary files in world-writable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere...

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Adobe Acrobat Reader is a utility used to view PDF files. Description A buffer overflow has been discovered in the email processing of Adobe Acrobat Reader. This flaw exists in the mailListIsPdf function, which checks if the input file is an email message containing a PDF file. Impact ...

Vim, gVim: Vulnerable options in modelines

Background Vim is an efficient, highly configurable improved version of the classic 'vi' text editor. gVim is the GUI version of Vim. Description Gentoo's Vim maintainer, Ciaran McCreesh, found several vulnerabilities related to the use of options in Vim modelines. Options like 'termcap',...

ncpfs: Buffer overflow in ncplogin and ncpmap

Background ncpfs is a NCP protocol network filesystem that allows access to Netware services, for example to mount volumes of NetWare servers or print to NetWare print queues. Description Karol Wiesek discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the '-T' option in the ncplogin and ncpmap...

nfs-utils: Multiple remote vulnerabilities

Background nfs-utils is a package containing the client and daemon implementations for the NFS protocol. Description Arjan van de Ven has discovered a buffer overflow on 64-bit architectures in 'rquotaserver.c' of nfs-utils CAN-2004-0946. A remotely exploitable flaw on all architectures also exis...

file: Arbitrary code execution

Background file is a utility used to identify the type of a file. Description A possible stack overflow has been found in the ELF header parsing code of file. Impact An attacker may be able to create a specially crafted ELF file which, when processed with file, may allow the execution of arbitrar...

PHProjekt: setup.php vulnerability

Background PHProjekt is a modular groupware web application used to coordinate group activities and share files. Description Martin Muench, from it.sec, found a flaw in the setup.php file. Impact Successful exploitation of the flaw allows a remote attacker without admin rights to make unauthorize...

mirrorselect: Insecure temporary file creation

Background mirrorselect is a tool to help select distfiles mirrors for Gentoo. Description Ervin Nemeth discovered that mirrorselect creates temporary files in world-writable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory,...

Perl: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. Description Some Perl modules create temporary files in world-writable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a...

imlib: Buffer overflows in image decoding

Background imlib is an advanced replacement library for image manipulation libraries like libXpm. It is called by numerous programs, including gkrellm and several window managers, to help in displaying images. Description Pavel Kankovsky discovered that several overflows found in the libXpm libra...

PDFlib: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library

Background PDFlib is a library providing functions to handle PDF files. It includes a modified TIFF library used to process TIFF images. Description The TIFF library is subject to several known vulnerabilities see GLSA 200410-11. Most of these overflows also apply to PDFlib. Impact A remote...

rssh, scponly: Unrestricted command execution

Background rssh and scponly are two restricted shells, allowing only a few predefined commands. They are often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide access to remote users without providing any remote execution privileges. Description Jason Wies discovered that when receiving an authorized...

Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation

Background Sun and Blackdown both provide implementations of Java Development Kits JDK and Java Runtime Environments JRE. All these implementations provide a Java plug-in that can be used to execute Java applets in a restricted environment for web browsers. Description All Java plug-ins are subje...

Open DC Hub: Remote code execution

Background Open DC Hub is the hub software for the Direct Connect file sharing network. Description Donato Ferrante discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the RedirectAll command of the Open DC Hub. Impact Upon exploitation, a remote user with administrative privileges can execute arbitrar...

phpMyAdmin: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser. Description Cedric Cochin has discovered multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin. These vulnerabilities can be exploited through the PmaAbsoluteUri...

phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability

Background phpWebSite is a web site content management system. Description Due to lack of proper input validation, phpWebSite has been found to be vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks. Impact A malicious user could inject arbitrary response data, leading to content spoofing, web cache...

Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple remote vulnerabilities

Background The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the argument parsers of the 'partial' and 'fetch' commands of the Cyrus IMAP Server CAN-2004-1012, CAN-2004-1013. There are also buffer overflows in t...

phpBB: Remote command execution

Background phpBB is an Open Source bulletin board package. Description phpBB contains a vulnerability in the highlighting code and several vulnerabilities in the username handling code. Impact An attacker can exploit the highlighting vulnerability to access the PHP exec function without...

TWiki: Arbitrary command execution

Background TWiki is a Web-based groupware tool based around the concept of wiki pages that can be edited by anybody with a Web browser. Description The TWiki search function, which uses a shell command executed via the Perl backtick operator, does not properly escape shell metacharacters in the...

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 multiple integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200410-20. Impact An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF fil...

ProZilla: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ProZilla is a download accelerator for Linux. Description ProZilla contains several exploitable buffer overflows in the code handling the network protocols. Impact A remote attacker could setup a malicious server and entice a user to retrieve files from that server using ProZilla. This...

X.Org, XFree86: libXpm vulnerabilities

Background libXpm is a pixmap manipulation library for the X Window System, included in both X.Org and XFree86. Description Several issues were discovered in libXpm, including integer overflows, out-of-bounds memory accesses, insecure path traversal and an endless loop. Impact An attacker could...

unarj: Long filenames buffer overflow and a path traversal vulnerability

Background unarj is an ARJ archive decompressor. Description unarj has a bounds checking vulnerability within the handling of long filenames in archives. It also fails to properly sanitize paths when extracting an archive if the "x" option is used to preserve paths. Impact An attacker could trigg...

Fcron: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Fcron is a command scheduler with extended capabilities over cron and anacron. Description Due to design errors in the fcronsighup program, Fcron may allow a local user to bypass access restrictions CAN-2004-1031, view the contents of root owned files CAN-2004-1030, remove arbitrary...

SquirrelMail: Encoded text XSS vulnerability

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 headers. Impact By enticing a user to read a...

GIMPS, SETI@home, ChessBrain: Insecure installation

Background GIMPS is a client for the distributed Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. SETI@home is the client for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI project. ChessBrain is the client for the distributed chess supercomputer. Description GIMPS, SETI@home and ChessBrain ebuilds insta...

Ruby: Denial of Service issue

Background Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. Ruby's CGI module can be used to build web applications. Description Ruby's developers found and fixed an issue in the CGI module that can be triggered remotely and cause an infinite loop. Impact ...

BNC: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background BNC BouNCe is an IRC proxy server. Description Leon Juranic discovered that BNC fails to do proper bounds checking when checking server response. Impact An attacker could exploit this to cause a Denial of Service and potentially execute arbitary code with the permissions of the user...

ez-ipupdate: Format string vulnerability

Background ez-ipupdate is a utility for updating host name information for a large number of dynamic DNS services. Description Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in ez-ipupdate. Impact An attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary...

Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. Description Samba fails to do proper bounds checking when handling TRANSACT2QFILEPATHINFO replies. Additionally an input validation flaw exis...

Davfs2, lvm-user: Insecure tempfile handling

Background Davfs2 is a file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a local disk drive. lvm-user is a package providing userland utilities for LVM Logical Volume Management 1.x features. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found that Davfs2...

Pavuk: Multiple buffer overflows

Background Pavuk is web spider and website mirroring tool. Description Pavuk contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the code handling digest authentication and HTTP header processing. This issue is similar to GLSA 200407-19, but contains more vulnerabilities. Impact A remote attacker...

Apache 2.0: Denial of Service by memory consumption

Background The Apache HTTP Server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. Description Chintan Trivedi discovered a vulnerability in Apache httpd 2.0 that is caused by improper enforcing of the field length limit in the header-parsing code. Impact By sending a large amount of...

mtink: Insecure tempfile handling

Background mtink is a status monitor and inkjet cartridge changer for some Epson printers. Description Tavis Ormandy from Gentoo Linux discovered that mtink uses insecure permissions on temporary files. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing...

zip: Path name buffer overflow

Background zip is a compression and file packaging utility. Description zip does not check the resulting path length when doing recursive folder compression. Impact An attacker could exploit this by enticing another user or web application to create an archive including a specially-crafted path...

OpenSSL, Groff: Insecure tempfile handling

Background OpenSSL is a toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols as well as a general-purpose cryptography library. It includes the derchop script, which is used to convert DER-encoded certificates to PEM format. Groff GNU Troff is a typesetting package...

Kaffeine, gxine: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow

Background Kaffeine and gxine are graphical front-ends for xine-lib multimedia library. Description KF of Secure Network Operations has discovered an overflow that occurs during the Content-Type header processing of Kaffeine. The vulnerable code in Kaffeine is reused from gxine, making gxine...

zgv: Multiple buffer overflows

Background zgv is a console image viewer based on svgalib. Description Multiple arithmetic overflows have been detected in the image processing code of zgv. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted image file, potentially resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the...

Portage, Gentoolkit: Temporary file vulnerabilities

Background Portage is Gentoo's package management tool. The dispatch-conf utility allows for easy rollback of configuration file changes and automatic updates of configurations files never modified by users. Gentoolkit is a collection of Gentoo specific administration scripts, one of which is the...

ImageMagick: EXIF buffer overflow

Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. Description ImageMagick fails to do proper bounds checking when handling image files with EXIF information. Impact An attacker could use an image file with specially-crafted EXIF information to...

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 Jim Paris has discovered a cross-site scripting...

shadow: Unauthorized modification of account information

Background shadow provides a set of utilities to deal with user accounts. Description Martin Schulze reported a flaw in the passwdcheck function in "libmisc/pwdcheck.c" which is used by chfn and chsh. Impact A logged-in local user with an expired password may be able to use chfn and chsh to chang...

Proxytunnel: Format string vulnerability

Background Proxytunnel is a program that tunnels connections to a remote server through a standard HTTPS proxy. Description Florian Schilhabel of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit project found a format string vulnerability in Proxytunnel. When the program is started in daemon mode -a port, it...

GD: Integer overflow

Background The GD graphics library is an open source library which allows programmers to easily generate PNG, JPEG, GIF and WBMP images from many different programming languages. Description infamous41md found an integer overflow in the memory allocation procedure of the GD routine that handles...