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...

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...

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...

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...

Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP, and can optionally be installed with SQL support. Description Several unspecified cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities and a well hidden SQL injection vulnerability were found. An XSS attack allows an...

Insecure Temporary File Creation In MySQL

Background MySQL is a popular open-source multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description The MySQL bug reporting utility mysqlbug creates a temporary file to log bug reports to. A malicious local user with write access to the /tmp directory could create a symbolic link of the name...

Buffer Overflow in Firebird

Background Firebird is an open source relational database that runs on Linux, Windows, and various UNIX systems. Description A buffer overflow exists in three Firebird binaries gdsinetserver, gdslockmgr, and gdsdrop that is exploitable by setting a large value to the INTERBASE environment variabl...

Multiple vulnerabilities in metamail

Background Metamail is a program that decodes MIME encoded mail. It is therefore often automatically called when an email is received or read. Description Ulf Harnhammar found two format string bugs and two buffer overflow bugs in Metamail. Impact A remote attacker could send a malicious email...

neon heap-based buffer overflow

Background neon provides an HTTP and WebDAV client library. Description Stefan Esser discovered a vulnerability in the code of the neon library : if a malicious date string is passed to the nerfc1036parse function, it can trigger a string overflow into static heap variables. Impact Depending on t...

cadaver heap-based buffer overflow

Background cadaver is a command-line WebDAV client. Description Stefan Esser discovered a vulnerability in the code of the neon library see GLSA 200405-13. This library is also included in cadaver. Impact When connected to a malicious WebDAV server, this vulnerability could allow remote execution...

Buffer overflow in Subversion

Background Subversion is a version control system intended to eventually replace CVS. Like CVS, it has an optional client-server architecture where the server can be an Apache server running modsvn, or an ssh program as in CVS's :ext: method. In addition to supporting the features found in CVS,...

CVS heap overflow vulnerability

Background CVS Concurrent Versions System is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server. Description Stefan Esser discovered a heap overflow in the CVS server, which can be triggered by sending malicious "Entry" lines and manipulating...

KDE URI Handler Vulnerabilities

Background The K Desktop Environment KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment. KDE makes use of URI handlers to trigger various programs when specific URLs are received. Description The telnet, rlogin, ssh and mailto URI handlers in KDE do not check for '-' at the beginning o...

Icecast denial of service vulnerability

Background Icecast is a program that streams audio data to listeners over the Internet. Description There is an out-of-bounds read error in the web interface of Icecast when handling Basic Authorization requests. This vulnerability can theorically be exploited by sending a specially crafted...

ProFTPD Access Control List bypass vulnerability

Background ProFTPD is an FTP daemon. Description ProFTPD 1.2.9 introduced a vulnerability that allows CIDR-based ACLs such as 10.0.0.1/24 to be bypassed. The CIDR ACLs are disregarded, with the net effect being similar to an "AllowAll" directive. Impact This vulnerability may allow unauthorized...

Pound format string vulnerability

Background Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end. It allows to distribute the load on several web servers and offers a SSL wrapper for web servers that do not support SSL directly. Description A format string flaw in the processing of syslog messages was discovered and...

libpng denial of service vulnerability

Background libpng is a standard library used to process PNG Portable Network Graphics images. Description libpng provides two functions pngchunkerror and pngchunkwarning for default error and warning messages handling. These functions do not perform proper bounds checking on the provided message,...

Exim verify=header_syntax buffer overflow

Background Exim is an highly configurable message transfer agent MTA developed at the University of Cambridge. Description When the option "verify = headersyntax" is used in an ACL in the configuration file, Exim is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack that can be triggered remotely by sending...

Utempter symlink vulnerability

Background Utempter is an application that allows non-privileged apps to write utmp login info, which otherwise needs root access. Description Utempter contains a vulnerability that may allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. Impact This vulnerability may allow...

ClamAV VirusEvent parameter vulnerability

Background From http://www.clamav.net/ : "Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers attachment scanning. The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for...

OpenOffice.org vulnerability when using DAV servers

Background OpenOffice.org is an office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description OpenOffice.org includes code from the Neon library in functions related to publication on WebDAV...

Multiple vulnerabilities in LHa

Background LHa is a console-based program for packing and unpacking LHarc archives. Description Ulf Harnhammar found two stack overflows and two directory traversal vulnerabilities in LHa version 1.14 and 1.17. A stack overflow occurs when testing or extracting archives containing long file or...

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in neon 0.24.4 and earlier

Background neon provides an HTTP and WebDAV client library. Description There are multiple format string vulnerabilities in libneon which may allow a malicious WebDAV server to execute arbitrary code under the context of the process using libneon. Impact An attacker may be able to execute arbitra...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Samba

Background Samba is a package which allows UNIX systems to act as file servers for Windows computers. It also allows UNIX systems to mount shares exported by a Samba/CIFS/Windows server. smbmount is a program in the Samba package which allows normal users on a UNIX system to mount remote shares...

Multiple vulnerabilities in xine

Background xine is a multimedia player allowing to play back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs and decoding multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It is available in Gentoo as a reusable library xine-lib with a standard user...

Buffer overflows and format string vulnerabilities in LCDproc

Background LCDproc is a program that displays various bits of real-time system information on an LCD. It makes use of a local server LCDd to collect information to display on the LCD. Description Due to insufficient checking of client-supplied data, the LCDd server is susceptible to two buffer...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in ssmtp

Background SSMTP is a very simple mail transfer agent MTA that relays mail from the local machine to another SMTP host. It is not designed to function as a full mail server; its sole purpose is to relay mail. Description There are two format string vulnerabilities inside the logevent and die...

ipsec-tools and iputils contain a remote DoS vulnerability

Background From http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.n et/ "IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's IPsec utilities to the Linux-2.6 IPsec implementation." iputils is a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping and ping6. Description When racoon receives an ISAKMP header, it allocates memo...

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in cadaver

Background According to http://www.webdav.org/cadaver, cadaver is a command-line WebDAV client for Unix. It supports file upload, download, on-screen display, namespace operations move/copy, collection creation and deletion, and locking operations. Description Cadaver code includes the neon...

XChat 2.0.x SOCKS5 Vulnerability

Background XChat is a multiplatform IRC client. Description The SOCKS 5 proxy code in XChat is vulnerable to a remote exploit. Users would have to be using XChat through a SOCKS 5 server, enable SOCKS 5 traversal which is disabled by default and also connect to an attacker's custom proxy server...

Multiple new security vulnerabilities in monit

Background Monit is a system administration utility that allows management and monitoring of processes, files, directories and devices on a Unix system. Description Monit has several vulnerabilities in its HTTP interface : a buffer overflow vulnerability in the authentication handling code and a...

CVS Server and Client Vulnerabilities

Background CVS, which stands for Concurrent Versions System, is a client/server application which tracks changes to sets of files. It allows multiple users to work concurrently on files, and then merge their changes back into the main tree which can be on a remote system. It also allows branching...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in pwlib

Background pwlib is a multi-platform library designed for OpenH323. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the implimentation of protocol H.323 contained in pwlib. Most of the vulnerabilies are in the parsing of ASN.1 elements which would allow an attacker to use a maliciously...