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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...