MIME-tools: Virus detection evasion

Background MIME-tools is a Perl module containing functions to handle MIME attachments. Description MIME-tools doesn't correctly parse attachment boundaries with an empty name boundary="". Impact An attacker could send a carefully crafted email and evade detection on some email virus-scanning...

Speedtouch USB driver: Privilege escalation vulnerability

Background The speedtouch package contains a driver for the ADSL SpeedTouch USB modem. Description The Speedtouch USB driver contains multiple format string vulnerabilities in modemrun, pppoa2 and pppoa3. This flaw is due to an improperly made syslog system call. Impact A malicious local user cou...

libxml2: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow

Background libxml2 is an XML parsing library written in C. Description Multiple buffer overflows have been detected in the nanoftp and nanohttp modules. These modules are responsible for parsing URLs with ftp information, and resolving names via DNS. Impact An attacker could exploit an applicatio...

Apache 1.3: Buffer overflow vulnerability in mod_include

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the internet. modinclude is an Apache module to handle Server Side Includes SSI. Description A possible buffer overflow exists in the gettag function of modinclude.c. Impact If Server Side Includes SSI are enabled, a loca...

ppp: No denial of service vulnerability

Background ppp is a Unix implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol. Description The pppd server improperly verifies header fields, potentially leading to a crash of the pppd process handling the connection. However, since a separate pppd process handles each ppp connection, this would not...

Cherokee: Format string vulnerability

Background Cherokee is an extra-light web server. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in the cherokeeloggerncsawritestring function. Impact Using a specially crafted URL when authenticating via authpam, a malicious user may ...

Archive::Zip: Virus detection evasion

Background Archive::Zip is a Perl module containing functions to handle ZIP archives. Description Archive::Zip can be used by email scanning software like amavisd-new to uncompress attachments before virus scanning. By modifying the uncompressed size of archived files in the global header of the...

GPdf, KPDF, KOffice: Vulnerabilities in included xpdf

Background GPdf is a Gnome-based PDF viewer. KPDF, part of the kdegraphics package, is a KDE-based PDF viewer. KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE. Description GPdf, KPDF and KOffice all include xpdf code to handle PDF files. xpdf is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows, as describe...

rssh: Format string vulnerability

Background rssh is a restricted shell, allowing only a few commands like scp or sftp. It is often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide limited access to users. Description Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in rssh syslogging of...

PuTTY: Pre-authentication buffer overflow

Background PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. Description PuTTY fails to do proper bounds checking on SSH2MSGDEBUG packets. The "stringlen" parameter value is incorrectly checked due to signedness issues. Note that...

mpg123: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Background mpg123 is a MPEG Audio Player. Description Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the getauthfromURL and httpopen functions have been reported by Carlos Barros. Additionally, the Gentoo Linux Sound Team fixed additional boundary checks which were found to be lacking. Impact By enticing a...

Netatalk: Insecure tempfile handling in etc2ps.sh

Background Netatalk is a kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, which allows Unix hosts to act as file, print, and time servers for Apple computers. It includes several script utilities, including etc2ps.sh. Description The etc2ps.sh script creates temporary files in...

socat: Format string vulnerability

Background socat is a multipurpose bidirectional relay, similar to netcat. Description socat contains a syslog based format string vulnerablility in the 'msg' function of 'error.c'. Exploitation of this bug is only possible when socat is run with the '-ly' option, causing it to log messages to...

MIT krb5: Insecure temporary file use in send-pr.sh

Background MIT krb5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol written by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description The send-pr.sh script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could creat...

MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a popular open-source, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in MySQL: Oleksandr Byelkin found that ALTER TABLE ... RENAME checks CREATE/INSERT rights of the old table instead of the new one CAN-2004-0835...

Gaim: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handls a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description A possible buffer overflow exists in the code processing MSN SLP messages CAN-2004-0891. memcpy was used without validating the size of the buffer, and an incorrect buffe...

glibc: Insecure tempfile handling in catchsegv script

Background glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library. Description The catchsegv script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere o...

Apache 2, mod_ssl: Bypass of SSLCipherSuite directive

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the internet. modssl provides SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1 support for Apache 1.3 and is also included in Apache 2. Description A flaw has been found in modssl where the "SSLCipherSuite" directive could be bypassed in certain...

Xpdf, CUPS: Multiple integer overflows

Background Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler that includes some Xpdf code. Description Chris Evans discovered multiple integer overflow issues in Xpdf. Impact An attacker could entice an use...

Ghostscript: Insecure temporary file use in multiple scripts

Background Ghostscript is a software package providing an interpreter for the PostScript language and the PDF file format. It also provides output drivers for various file formats and printers. Description The pj-gs.sh, ps2epsi, pv.sh and sysvlp.sh scripts create temporary files in world-writeabl...

OpenOffice.org: Temporary files disclosure

Background OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description On start-up, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 creates a temporary directory with insecure permissions. When ...

Squid: Remote DoS vulnerability

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 A parsing error exists in t...

phpMyAdmin: Vulnerability in MIME-based transformation system

Background phpMyAdmin is a popular web-based MySQL administration tool written in PHP. It allows users to browse and administer a MySQL database from a web-browser. Transformations are a phpMyAdmin feature allowing plug-ins to rewrite the contents of any column seen in phpMyAdmin's Browsing mode,...

PostgreSQL: Insecure temporary file use in make_oidjoins_check

Background PostgreSQL is an open source database based on the POSTGRES database management system. It includes several contributed scripts including the makeoidjoinscheck script. Description The makeoidjoinscheck script insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with...

BNC: Input validation flaw

Background BNC is an IRC proxying server Description A flaw exists in the input parsing of BNC where part of the sbufgetmsg function handles the backspace character incorrectly. Impact A remote user could issue commands using fake authentication credentials and possibly gain access to scripts...

WordPress: HTTP response splitting and XSS vulnerabilities

Background WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. Description Due to the lack of input validation in the administration panel scripts, WordPress is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting attacks. Impact A malicious user could inject...

tiff: Buffer 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, to help in displaying TIFF images. xv is a multi-format image manipulation utility that is statically linked to the tiff library...

gettext: Insecure temporary file handling

Background gettext is a set of utilities for the GNU Translation Project which provides a set of tools and documentation to help produce multi-lingual messages in programs. Description gettext insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact A local...

LessTif: Integer and stack overflows in libXpm

Background LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is the standard user interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux. Description Chris Evans has discovered various integer and stack overflows in libXpm, which is shipped as a part of the X Window System. LessTif, an application that includes this...

ncompress: Buffer overflow

Background ncompress is a utility handling compression and decompression of Lempel-Ziv archives, compatible with the original nix compress and uncompress utilities .Z extensions. Description compress and uncompress do not properly check bounds on command line options, including the filename. Larg...

CUPS: Leakage of sensitive information

Background The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler. Description When printing to a SMB-shared printer requiring authentication, CUPS leaks the user name and password to a logfile. Impact A local user could gain knowledge of sensitive authentication data. Workaround...

ed: Insecure temporary file handling

Background ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create or modify text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. Description ed insecurely creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Given that ed is used in various system shell scripts, they are by...

Cyrus-SASL: Buffer overflow and SASL_PATH vulnerabilities

Background Cyrus-SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer. Description Cyrus-SASL contains a remote buffer overflow in the digestmda5.c file. Additionally, under certain conditions it is possible for a local user to exploit a vulnerability in the way the SASLPATH...

PHP: Memory disclosure and arbitrary location file upload

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 Stefano Di Paola discovered two bugs in PHP. The first is a parse...

NetKit-telnetd: buffer overflows in telnet and telnetd

Background NetKit-telnetd is a standard Linux telnet client and server from the NetKit utilities. Description A possible buffer overflow exists in the parsing of option strings by the telnet daemon, where proper bounds checking is not applied when writing to a buffer. Additionaly, another possibl...

Netpbm: Multiple temporary file issues

Background Netpbm is a toolkit containing more than 200 separate utilities for manipulation and conversion of graphic images. Description Utilities contained in the Netpbm package prior to the 9.25 version contain defects in temporary file handling. They create temporary files with predictable...

sharutils: Buffer overflows in shar.c and unshar.c

Background sharutils contains utilities to manage shell archives. Description sharutils contains two buffer overflows. Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in shar.c, where the length of data returned by the wc command is not checked. Florian Schilhabel discovered another buffer overflow i...

Subversion: Metadata information leak

Background Subversion is a versioning system designed to be a replacement for CVS. modauthzsvn is an Apache module to do path-based authentication for Subversion repositories. Description There is a bug in modauthzsvn that causes it to reveal logged metadata regarding commits to protected areas...

X.org, XFree86: Integer and stack overflows in libXpm

Background XFree86 and X.org are both implementations of the X Window System. Description Chris Evans has discovered multiple integer and stack overflow vulnerabilities in the X Pixmap library, libXpm, which is a part of the X Window System. These overflows can be exploited by the execution of a...

Apache: Exposure of protected directories

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of most popular web servers on the Internet. Description A bug in the way Apache handles the Satisfy directive, which is used to require that certain conditions client host, client authentication, etc be met before access to a certain directory is granted,...

getmail: Filesystem overwrite vulnerability

Background getmail is a reliable fetchmail replacement that supports Maildir, Mboxrd and external MDA delivery. Description David Watson discovered a vulnerability in getmail when it is configured to run as root and deliver mail to the maildirs/mbox files of untrusted local users. A malicious loc...

jabberd 1.x: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background Jabber is a set of streaming XML protocols enabling message, presence, and other structured information exchange between two hosts. jabberd is the original implementation of the Jabber protocol server. Description Jose Antonio Calvo found a defect in routines handling XML parsing of...

xine-lib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. Description xine-lib contains two stack-based overflows and one heap-based overflow. In the code reading VCD disc labels, the ISO disc label is copied into an unprotected stack buffer of fixed size...

FreeRADIUS: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server implementation. Description There are undisclosed defects in the way FreeRADIUS handles incorrect received packets. Impact A remote attacker could send specially-crafted packets to the FreeRADIUS server to deny service to other...

GTK+ 2, gdk-pixbuf: Multiple image decoding vulnerabilities

Background GTK+ GIMP Toolkit + is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. The GdkPixbuf library provides facilities for image handling. It is available as a standalone library as well as shipped with GTK+ 2. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the BMP image preprocessor...

glFTPd: Local buffer overflow vulnerability

Background glFTPd is a highly configurable FTP server with many features. Description The glFTPd server is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the 'dupescan' program. This vulnerability is due to an unsafe strcpy call which can cause the program to crash when a large argument is passed. Impact A...

CUPS: Denial of service vulnerability

Background The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a cross-platform print spooler. Description Alvaro Martinez Echevarria discovered a hole in the CUPS Internet Printing Protocol IPP implementation that allows remote attackers to cause CUPS to stop listening on the IPP port. Impact A remote user...

Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Epiphany: New releases fix vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla is a popular web browser that includes a mail and newsreader. Epiphany is a web browser that uses Gecko, the Mozilla rendering engine. Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are respectively the next-generation browser and mail client from the Mozilla project. Description...

Foomatic: Arbitrary command execution in foomatic-rip filter

Background Foomatic is a system for connecting printer drivers with spooler systems such as CUPS and LPD. The foomatic-filters package contains wrapper scripts which are designed to be used with Foomatic. Description There is a vulnerability in the foomatic-filters package. This vulnerability is...

SnipSnap: HTTP response splitting

Background SnipSnap is a user friendly content management system with features such as wiki and weblog. Description SnipSnap contains various HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities that could potentially compromise the sites data. Some of these attacks include web cache poisoning, cross-user...