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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...