Apache 2, mod_dav: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of most popular web servers on the internet. modssl provides SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1 support for it and moddav is the Apache module for Distributed Authoring and Versioning DAV. Description A potential infinite loop has been found in the input filter of modss...

phpGroupWare: XSS vulnerability in wiki module

Background phpGroupWare is a web-based suite of group applications including calendar, todo-list, addressbook, email, wiki, news headlines, and a file manager. Description Due to an input validation error, the wiki module in the phpGroupWare suite is vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks...

Heimdal: ftpd root escalation

Background Heimdal is an implementation of Kerberos 5. Description Przemyslaw Frasunek discovered several flaws in lukemftpd, which also apply to Heimdal ftpd's out-of-band signal handling code. Additionally, a potential vulnerability that could lead to Denial of Service by the Key Distribution...

mpg123: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background mpg123 is a MPEG Audio Player. Description mpg123 contains a buffer overflow in the code that handles layer2 decoding of media files. Impact An attacker can possibly exploit this bug with a specially-crafted mp3 or mp2 file to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user...

cdrtools: Local root vulnerability in cdrecord if set SUID root

Background The cdrtools package is a set of tools for CD recording, including the popular cdrecord command-line utility. Description Max Vozeler discovered that the cdrecord utility, when set to SUID root, fails to drop root privileges before executing a user-supplied RSH program. By default,...

SUS: Local root vulnerability

Background SUS is a utility that allows regular users to be able to execute certain commands as root. Description Leon Juranic found a bug in the logging functionality of SUS that can lead to local privilege escalation. A format string vulnerability exists in the log function due to an incorrect...

Samba: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. smbd and nmbd are two daemons used by the Samba server. Description There is a defect in smbd's ASN.1 parsing. A bad packet received during t...

Webmin, Usermin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Usermin

Background Webmin and Usermin are web-based system administration consoles. Webmin allows an administrator to easily configure servers and other features. Usermin allows users to configure their own accounts, execute commands, and read e-mail. The Usermin functionality, including webmail, is also...

Samba: Remote printing non-vulnerability

Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. Description Due to a bug in the printernotifyinfo function, authorized users could potentially crash their smbd process by sending improperly...

LHa: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LHa is a console-based program for packing and unpacking LHarc archives. Description The command line argument as well as the archive parsing code of LHa lack sufficient bounds checking. Furthermore, a shell meta character command execution vulnerability exists in LHa, since it does no...

ImageMagick, imlib, imlib2: BMP decoding buffer overflows

Background ImageMagick is a suite of image manipulation utilities and libraries used for a wide variety of image formats. imlib is a general image loading and rendering library. Description Due to improper bounds checking, ImageMagick and imlib are vulnerable to a buffer overflow when decoding...

star: Suid root vulnerability

Background star is an enhanced tape archiver, much like tar, that is recognized for it's speed as well as it's enhanced mt/rmt support. Description A suid root vulnerability exists in versions of star that are configured to use ssh for remote tape access. Impact Attackers with local user level...

MIT krb5: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MIT krb5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description The implementation of the Key Distribution Center KDC and the MIT krb5 library contain double-free vulnerabilities, making client programs as we...

multi-gnome-terminal: Information leak

Background multi-gnome-terminal is an enhanced terminal emulator that is derived from gnome-terminal. Description multi-gnome-terminal contains debugging code that has been known to output active keystrokes to a potentially unsafe location. Output has been seen to show up in the '.xsession-errors...

Ruby: CGI::Session creates files insecurely

Background Ruby is an Object Oriented, interpreted scripting language used for many system scripting tasks. It can also be used for CGI web applications. Description The CGI::Session::FileStore implementation and presumably CGI::Session::PStore, which allow data associated with a particular Sessi...

xv: Buffer overflows in image handling

Background xv is a multi-format image manipulation utility. Description Multiple buffer overflow and integer handling vulnerabilities have been discovered in xv's image processing code. These vulnerabilities have been found in the xvbmp.c, xviris.c, xvpcx.c and xvpm.c source files. Impact An...

Gallery: Arbitrary command execution

Background Gallery is a PHP script for maintaining online photo albums. Description The upload handling code in Gallery places uploaded files in a temporary directory. After 30 seconds, these files are deleted if they are not valid images. However, since the file exists for 30 seconds, a carefull...

eGroupWare: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Background eGroupWare is a suite of web-based group applications including calendar, address book, messenger and email. Description Joxean Koret recently discovered multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities in various modules for the eGroupWare suite. This includes the calendar, address book,...

Squid: Denial of service when using NTLM authentication

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 2.5.x versions contai...

Python 2.2: Buffer overflow in getaddrinfo()

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. Description If IPV6 is disabled in Python 2.2, getaddrinfo is not able to handle IPV6 DNS requests properly and a buffer overflow occurs. Impact An attacker can execute arbitrary code as the us...

MySQL: Insecure temporary file creation in mysqlhotcopy

Background MySQL is a popular open-source multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description Jeroen van Wolffelaar discovered that the MySQL database hot copy utility mysqlhotcopy.sh, when using the scp method, uses temporary files with predictable names. A malicious local user with writ...

vpopmail: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background vpopmail handles virtual mail domains for qmail and Postfix. Description vpopmail is vulnerable to several unspecified SQL injection exploits. Furthermore when using Sybase as the backend database vpopmail is vulnerable to a buffer overflow and format string exploit. Impact These...

zlib: Denial of service vulnerability

Background zlib is a general-purpose data-compression library. Description zlib contains a bug in the handling of errors in the "inflate" and "inflateBack" functions. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a Denial of Service attack on any application using the zlib library...

Gaim: New vulnerabilities

Background Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux which supports many instant messaging protocols. Description Gaim fails to do proper bounds checking when: Handling MSN messages partially fixed with GLSA 200408-12. Handling rich text format messages. Resolving local hostname...

MoinMoin: Group ACL bypass

Background MoinMoin is a Python clone of WikiWiki, based on PikiPiki. Description MoinMoin contains two unspecified bugs, one allowing anonymous users elevated access when not using ACLs, and the other in the ACL handling in the PageEditor. Impact Restrictions on anonymous users were not properly...

Linux Kernel: Multiple information leaks

Background The Linux kernel is responsible for managing the core aspects of a GNU/Linux system, providing an interface for core system applications as well as providing the essential structure and capability to access hardware that is needed for a running system. Description The Linux kernel allo...

kdelibs: Cross-domain cookie injection vulnerability

Background KDE is a widely-used desktop environment based on the Qt toolkit. kcookiejar in kdelibs is responsible for storing and managing HTTP cookies. Konqueror uses kcookiejar for storing and managing cookies. Description kcookiejar contains a vulnerability which may allow a malicious website ...

Cacti: SQL injection vulnerability

Background Cacti is a complete web-based front end to rrdtool. Description Cacti is vulnerable to a SQL injection attack where an attacker may inject SQL into the Username field. Impact An attacker could compromise the Cacti service and potentially execute programs with the permissions of the use...

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

Background Mozilla is a popular web browser that includes a mail and newsreader. Galeon and Epiphany are both web browsers that use gecko, the Mozilla rendering engine. Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from the Mozilla project that incorporates advanced features that are yet to be...

Qt: Image loader overflows

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE. Description There are several unspecified bugs in the QImage class which may cause crashes or allow execution of arbitrary code as the user running the Qt application. These bugs affect the PNG, XPM, BMP, GIF and JPEG image types. Impact ...

courier-imap: Remote Format String Vulnerability

Background Courier-IMAP is an IMAP server which is part of the Courier mail system. It provides access only to maildirs. Description There is a format string vulnerability in the authdebug function which can be exploited remotely, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution as the user runnin...

xine-lib: VCD MRL buffer overflow

Background xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. Description xine-lib contains a bug where it is possible to overflow the vcd:// input source identifier management buffer through carefully crafted playlists. Impact An attacker may construct a...

rsync: Potential information leakage

Background rsync is a utility that provides fast incremental file transfers. It is used to efficiently synchronize files between hosts and is used by emerge to fetch Gentoo's Portage tree. rsyncd is the rsync daemon, which listens to connections from rsync clients. Description The paths sent by t...

glibc: Information leak with LD_DEBUG

Background The GNU C library defines various Unix-like "system calls" and other basic facilities needed for a standard POSIX-like application to operate. Description Silvio Cesare discovered a potential information leak in glibc. It allows LDDEBUG on SUID binaries where it should not be allowed...

Tomcat: Insecure installation

Background Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java Servlets and Java Server Pages. Description The Gentoo ebuild for Tomcat sets the ownership of the Tomcat init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but those scripts are executed with root privileges when the system is started...

acroread: UUDecode filename buffer overflow

Background acroread is Adobe's Acrobat PDF reader for Linux. Description acroread contains two errors in the handling of UUEncoded filenames. First, it fails to check the length of a filename before copying it into a fixed size buffer and, secondly, it fails to check for the backtick shell...

Nessus: "adduser" race condition vulnerability

Background Nessus is a free and powerful network security scanner. Description A race condition can occur in "nessus-adduser" if the user has not configured their TMPDIR variable. Impact A malicious user could exploit this bug to escalate privileges to the rights of the user running...

kdebase, kdelibs: Multiple security issues

Background KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. Description KDE contains three security issues: Insecure handling of temporary files when running KDE applications outside of the KDE environment DCOPServer creates temporary files ...

gv: Exploitable Buffer Overflow

Background gv is a PostScript and PDF viewer for X which provides a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter. Description gv contains a buffer overflow vulnerability where an unsafe sscanf call is used to interpret PDF and PostScript files. Impact By enticing a user to view a malformed PDF ...

Gaim: MSN protocol parsing function buffer overflow

Background Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux which supports many instant messaging protocols. Description Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team has discovered a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in the code handling MSN protocol parsing. Impact By...

Roundup: Filesystem access vulnerability

Background Roundup is a simple to use issue-tracking system with command-line, web, and e-mail interfaces. Description Improper handling of a specially crafted URL allows access to the server's filesystem, which could contain sensitive information. Impact An attacker could view files owned by the...

Cfengine: RSA Authentication Heap Corruption

Background Cfengine is an agent/software robot and a high level policy language for building expert systems to administrate and configure large computer networks. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in cfservd. One is a buffer overflow in the AuthenticationDialogue function and the...

Horde-IMP: Input validation vulnerability for Internet Explorer users

Background Horde-IMP is the Internet Messaging Program. It is written in PHP and provides webmail access to IMAP and POP3 accounts. Description Horde-IMP fails to properly sanitize email messages that contain malicious HTML or script code so that it is not safe for users of Internet Explorer when...

SpamAssassin: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter which is used to identify spam. Description SpamAssassin contains an unspecified Denial of Service vulnerability. Impact By sending a specially crafted message an attacker could cause a Denial of Service attack against the SpamAssassin service...

PuTTY: Pre-authentication arbitrary code execution

Background PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. Description PuTTY contains a vulnerability allowing a malicious server to execute arbitrary code on the connecting client before host key verification. Impact When...

libpng: Numerous vulnerabilities

Background libpng is a standard library used to process PNG Portable Network Graphics images. It is used by several other programs, including web browsers and potentially server processes. Description libpng contains numerous vulnerabilities including null pointer dereference errors and boundary...

Opera: Multiple new vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Opera web browser. Opera fails to deny write access to the "location" browser object. An attacker can overwrite methods in this object and gain script access to any page that uses one of...

Courier: Cross-site scripting vulnerability in SqWebMail

Background Courier is an integrated mail and groupware server based on open protocols. It provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single framework. The webmail functionality included in Courier called SqWebMail allows you to access mailboxes from a web browser...

MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow

Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and at least one in the TranslateFilename function is exploitable. Impact By enticing a user to play a file with a carefull...

SoX: Multiple buffer overflows

Background SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered two buffer overflows in the sox and play commands when handling WAV files with specially crafted header fields. Impact By enticing a user to...