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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Usermin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Usermin is a web-based administration tool for Unix. It supports a wide range of user applications including configuring mail forwarding, setting up SSH or reading mail. Description Usermin contains two security vulnerabilities. One fails to properly sanitize email messages that contai...
Squid: NTLM authentication helper buffer overflow
Background Squid contains a bug in the function ntlmcheckauth. It fails to do proper bounds checking on the values copyied to the 'pass' variable. Description 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, a...
aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress
Background aspell is a popular spell-checker. Dictionaries are available for many languages. Description aspell includes a utility for handling wordlists called word-list-compress. This utility fails to do proper bounds checking when processing words longer than 256 bytes. Impact If an attacker...
Horde-IMP: Input validation vulnerability
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. Impact By enticing a user to read a specially crafted...
Webmin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Webmin is a web-based administration tool for Unix. It supports a wide range of applications including Apache, DNS, file sharing and others. Description Webmin contains two security vulnerabilities. One allows any user to view the configuration of any module and the other could allow a...
Gallery: Privilege escalation vulnerability
Background Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on other servers. Description There is a vulnerability in the Gallery photo album...
Horde-Chora: Remote code execution
Background Chora is a PHP-based SVN/CVS repository viewer by the HORDE project. Description A vulnerability in the diff viewer of Chora allows an attacker to inject shellcode. An attacker can exploit PHP's file upload functionality to upload a malicious binary to a vulnerable server, chmod it as...
Squirrelmail: Another XSS vulnerability
Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP, and can optionally be installed with SQL support. Description A new cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Squirrelmail-1.4.3rc1 has been discovered. In functions/mime.php Squirrelmail fails to properly...
Subversion: Remote heap overflow
Background Subversion is a revision control system that aims to be a "compelling replacement for CVS". It enjoys wide use in the open source community. svnserve allows access to Subversion repositories using URIs with the svn://, svn+ssh://, and other tunelled svn+:// protocols. Description The s...
CVS: additional DoS and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities
Background CVS Concurrent Versions System is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server. Description A team audit of the CVS source code performed by Stefan Esser and Sebastian Krahmer resulted in the discovery of several remotely...
Apache: Buffer overflow in mod_ssl
Background Apache is the most popular Web server on the Internet. modssl provides Secure Sockets Layer encryption and authentication to Apache 1.3. Apache 2 contains the functionality of modssl. Description A bug in the function sslutiluuencodebinary in sslutil.c may lead to a remote buffer...
Mailman: Member password disclosure vulnerability
Background Mailman is a python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface. Description Mailman contains an unspecified vulnerability in the handling of request emails. Impact By sending a carefully crafted email request to the mailman server an attacker could obtain member password...
sitecopy: Multiple vulnerabilities in included libneon
Background sitecopy easily maintains remote websites. It makes it simple to keep a remote site synchronized with the local site with one command. Description Multiple format string vulnerabilities and a heap overflow vulnerability were discovered in the code of the neon library GLSA 200405-01 and...
Ethereal: Multiple security problems
Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.4, including: A buffer overflow in the MMSE dissector. Under specific conditions a SIP packet could make Ethereal crash. The AIM dissector coul...
tripwire: Format string vulnerability
Background tripwire is an open source file integrity checker. Description The code that generates email reports contains a format string vulnerability in pipedmailmessage.cpp. Impact With a carefully crafted filename on a local filesystem an attacker could cause execution of arbitrary code with...
tla: Multiple vulnerabilities in included libneon
Background GNU Arch tla is a revision control system suited for widely distributed development. Description Multiple format string vulnerabilities and a heap overflow vulnerability were discovered in the code of the neon library GLSA 200405-01 and 200405-13. Current versions of the tla package...
MPlayer, xine-lib: vulnerabilities in RTSP stream handling
Background MPlayer is a movie player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. xine-lib is a multimedia player library used by several graphical user interfaces, including xine-ui. They both use the same code to handle Real-Time Streaming Protocol RTSP streams from RealNetworks server...
Heimdal: Kerberos 4 buffer overflow in kadmin
Background Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos. Description A buffer overflow was discovered in kadmind, a server for administrative access to the Kerberos database. Impact By sending a specially formatted message to kadmind, a remote attacker may be able to crash kadmind causing a denia...
Midnight Commander: Multiple vulnerabilities
Background Midnight Commander is a visual console file manager. Description Numerous security issues have been discovered in Midnight Commander, including several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, multiple vulnerabilities in the handling of temporary file and directory creation, and multiple forma...
Apache 1.3: Multiple vulnerabilities
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 On...
Opera telnet URI handler file creation/truncation vulnerability
Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description The telnet URI handler in Opera does not check for leading '-' characters in the host name. Consequently, a maliciously-crafted telnet:// link may be able to pass options to the telnet program itself. One example would be the following...