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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a popular, web-based MySQL administration tool written in PHP. It allows users to administer a MySQL database from a web-browser. Description Two serious vulnerabilities exist in phpMyAdmin. The first allows any user to alter the server configuration variables including...

Samba: Multiple buffer overflows

Background Samba is a package which allows nix systems to act as file servers for Windows computers. It also allows nix systems to mount shares exported by a Samba/CIFS/Windows server. The Samba Web Administration Tool SWAT is a web-based configuration tool part of the Samba package. Description...

Subversion: Vulnerability in mod_authz_svn

Background Subversion is an advanced version control system, similar to CVS, which supports additional functionality such as the ability to move, copy and delete files and directories. A Subversion server may be run as an Apache module, a standalone server svnserve, or on-demand over ssh a la CVS...

Pavuk: Digest authentication helper buffer overflow

Background Pavuk is web spider and website mirroring tool. Description Pavuk contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the code handling digest authentication. Impact An attacker could cause a buffer overflow, leading to arbitrary code execution with the rights of the user running Pavuk...

l2tpd: Buffer overflow

Background l2tpd is a GPL implentation of the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol. Description Thomas Walpuski discovered a buffer overflow that may be exploitable by sending a specially crafted packet. In order to exploit the vulnerable code, an attacker would need to fake the establishment of an L2TP...

mod_ssl: Format string vulnerability

Background modssl provides Secure Sockets Layer encryption and authentication to Apache 1.3. Description A bug in sslengineext.c makes modssl vulnerable to a ssllog related format string vulnerability in the modproxy hook functions. Impact Given the right server configuration, an attacker could...

Linux Kernel: Multiple DoS and permission vulnerabilities

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...

Opera: Multiple spoofing vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Opera fails to remove illegal characters from an URI of a link and to check that the target frame of a link belongs to the same website as the link. Opera also updates the address bar before loading a page. Additionally, Opera contains...

Unreal Tournament 2003/2004: Buffer overflow in 'secure' queries

Background Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 are popular first-person-shooter games. They are both based on the Unreal engine, and can be used in a game server / client setup. Description The Unreal-based game servers support a specific type of query called 'secure'. Part of the Gamespy protocol,...

PHP: Multiple security 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 Several security vulnerabilities were found and fixed in version 4.3...

wv: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background The wv library allows access to MS Word files. It can parse Word files and allow other applications, such as abiword, to import those files into their native formats. Description A use of strcat without proper bounds checking leads to an exploitable buffer overflow. The vulnerable code...

Linux Kernel: Remote DoS vulnerability with IPTables TCP Handling

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 An attacker can utili...

rsync: Directory traversal in rsync daemon

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 When rsyncd is used...

MoinMoin: Group ACL bypass

Background MoinMoin is a Python clone of WikiWiki, based on PikiPiki. Description MoinMoin contains a bug in the code handling administrative group ACLs. A user created with the same name as an administrative group gains the privileges of the administrative group. Impact If an administrative grou...

Ethereal: Multiple security problems

Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.5, including: In some cases the iSNS dissector could cause Ethereal to abort. If there was no policy name for a handle for SMB SID snooping it...

libpng: Buffer overflow on row buffers

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 Due to a wrong calculation of loop offset values, libpng contains a buffer overflow vulnerabilit...

Shorewall : Insecure temp file handling

Background Shorewall is a high level tool for configuring Netfilter, the firewall facility included in the Linux Kernel. Description Shorewall uses temporary files and directories in an insecure manner. A local user could create symbolic links at specific locations, eventually overwriting other...

XFree86, X.org: XDM ignores requestPort setting

Background The X Display Manager XDM is a program which provides a graphical login prompt to users on the console or on remote X terminals. It has largely been superseded by programs such as GDM and KDM. Description XDM will open TCP sockets for its chooser, even if the DisplayManager.requestPort...

Apache 2: Remote denial of service attack

Background The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides services in tune with the current HTTP standards. Description A bu...

Pure-FTPd: Potential DoS when maximum connections is reached

Background Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality and standards-compliant FTP server. Description Pure-FTPd contains a bug in the acceptclient function handling the setup of new connections. Impact When the maximum number of connections is reached an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...

Linux Kernel: Multiple vulnerabilities

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 Multiple flaws have...

Esearch: Insecure temp file handling

Background Esearch is a replacement for the Portage command "emerge search". It uses an index to speed up searching of the Portage tree. Description The eupdatedb utility uses a temporary file /tmp/esearchdb.py.tmp to indicate that the eupdatedb process is running. When run, eupdatedb checks to s...

Pavuk: Remote buffer overflow

Background Pavuk is web spider and website mirroring tool. Description When Pavuk connects to a web server and the server sends back the HTTP status code 305 Use Proxy, Pavuk copies data from the HTTP Location header in an unsafe manner. Impact An attacker could cause a stack-based buffer overflo...

mit-krb5: Multiple buffer overflows in krb5_aname_to_localname

Background mit-krb5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description The library function krb5anametolocalname contains multiple buffer overflows. This is only exploitable if explicit mapping or rules-based mappin...

FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan: Vulnerabilities in certificate handling

Background FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan and Super-FreeS/WAN are Open Source implementations of IPsec for the Linux operating system. They are all based on the discontinued FreeS/WAN project. Description All these IPsec implementations have several bugs in the verifyx509cert function, which...

giFT-FastTrack: remote denial of service attack

Background giFT-FastTrack is a plugin for the giFT file-sharing application. It allows giFT users to connect to the fasttrack network to share files. Description Alan Fitton found a vulnerability in the giFT-FastTrack plugin in version 0.8.6 and earlier. It can be used to remotely crash the giFT...

gzip: Insecure creation of temporary files

Background gzip GNU zip is popular compression program. The included gzexe utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them automatically uncompress and execute when you run them. Description The script gzexe included with gzip contains a bug in the code that handles tempfile...

IPsec-Tools: authentication bug in racoon

Background IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping, and ping6. Description The KAME IKE daemon racoon is used to authenticate peers during Phase 1 when using either preshared keys, GSS-API,...

Apache 1.3: Buffer overflow in mod_proxy

Background The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides services in tune with the current HTTP standards. Description A bu...