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Security
Brief items
April 18, 2007
This article was contributed by Jake Edge.
A recent
article
reporting a remotely exploitable bug 'in Linux' has raised the ire of
some in the Linux community for a few reasons, but inaccuracy probably
tops the list. The timeliness of the report is also in question as the
bug, in an out-of-tree Linux driver, was fixed four months
ago in December 2006. When the usual suspects, Slashdot and digg, linked to
the article, it became a rather visible 'failing' of Linux. The truth is
much less damning; there are some interesting wrinkles, though, which are
worth a look.
The bug was found by French security researchers when fuzzing the MadWifi
driver for Atheros Wireless LAN chipsets and was presented at Black Hat
Europe at the end of March. The techniques used are similar to those
used by David Maynor and johnny cache to find the MacOS wireless flaws that
they 'demonstrated' at
Black Hat USA last year. The only new information in the article
(and others like it) was the presentation given by Laurent Butti; the bug
had already been reported as
CVE-2006-6332
and
fixed
in version 0.9.2.1 of MadWifi.
MadWifi (which is an abbreviation for Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless
Fidelity according to the project's website)
is a widely used driver for wireless cards, but
it is not part of the Linux kernel and is unlikely to ever be. The driver
relies on a 'Hardware Abstraction Layer' (HAL) that is only provided in binary
form. The belief is that because the Atheros chips can be instructed
to do various things that regulatory agencies (the FCC in the US for example)
oppose, the code for doing that must be closed source. Rather than make
the whole driver closed source, separating it into two pieces was done
specifically to avoid the closed source portion being considered a
derivative work of the kernel.
Because of the non-firmware binary blob, the driver will not be included in
some 'free' distributions and users will need to find it from other
non-official or less supported repositories. This could lead some users to
not update their driver because the package management system did not
alert them to the change. At some level, any publicity that makes more
people aware of the problem is probably a good thing.
The bug itself is a fairly run-of-the-mill buffer overflow that is
fixed in this changeset.
While the bug was rather straightforward, its result is catastrophically
bad. An attacker could run arbitrary code as root on a vulnerable machine
that has the driver loaded; being connected to a wireless network is not
required. This is the kind of 'drive by' laptop takeover that got so much
attention when Maynor and cache announced their proof of concept exploit.
It is a truly horrifying scenario for anyone worried about laptop or other
wireless device security.
At the time of the original release of information about the bug, the MadWifi
project and various distributions made announcements about it. But, perhaps
because of the impending Christmas holiday or because the seriousness of the
bug was not recognized, there was very little press about it at that time.
Though LWN did publish the announcements, one could certainly argue that a
more detailed look was in order. Coupled with the severity of any exploit,
the lack of coverage magnified the importance of the current articles. Had
there already been a round of articles describing the flaw back in December
(or even January), it is likely that the 'new' reports would have been ignored.
That does not, of course, excuse the inaccuracies in the article. MadWifi
is clearly not 'in' Linux though it will affect some Linux users. The lack
of earlier press coverage and linking from aggregation sites served to
elevate the visibility of the bug, which may have helped some users who
missed it earlier, but overall just fed the 'Linux is buggy' hype machine.
The headline and the way it was presented take an interesting event, the
presentation of some security research, and try to turn it into an
indictment of overall Linux security. This is the kind of article that
tends to make Linux advocates rather cynical about the 'mainstream' technical
press.
Comments (8 posted)
New vulnerabilities
dokuwiki: cross-site scripting vulnerability
| Package(s): | dokuwiki |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-6965
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| Created: | April 12, 2007 |
Updated: | April 18, 2007 |
| Description: |
DokuWiki has a cross-site scripting vulnerability that is caused by
insufficient user input sanitization of the GET variable 'media' in
the fetch.php file. If a user can be tricked into clicking on a
specially crafted link, CRLF characters can be injected into the variable
allowing arbitrary scripts to be executed with the user's permissions. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
dovecot: information exposure
| Package(s): | dovecot |
CVE #(s): | |
| Created: | April 18, 2007 |
Updated: | April 18, 2007 |
| Description: |
Dovecot is vulnerable to a trivial information exposure in which files
outside the user's mail directory could be opened if the zlib plugin is
used. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (2 posted)
file: denial of service
| Package(s): | file |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2026
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| Created: | April 18, 2007 |
Updated: | May 25, 2007 |
| Description: |
The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted
document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well
handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally
reported for AMaViS. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
freeradius: memory leak
| Package(s): | freeradius |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2028
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| Created: | April 17, 2007 |
Updated: | May 15, 2007 |
| Description: |
A memory leak in freeRADIUS 1.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of
EAP-TTLS tunnel connections using malformed Diameter format attributes,
which causes the authentication request to be rejected but does not reclaim
VALUE_PAIR data structures. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1357
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| Created: | April 16, 2007 |
Updated: | November 14, 2007 |
| Description: |
The atalk_sum_skb function in AppleTalk for Linux kernel 2.6.x before
2.6.21, and possibly 2.4.x, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (crash) via an AppleTalk frame that is shorter than the specified
length, which triggers a BUG_ON call when an attempt is made to perform a
checksum. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
lighttpd: denial of service
| Package(s): | lighttpd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1869
CVE-2007-1870
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| Created: | April 18, 2007 |
Updated: | June 11, 2007 |
| Description: |
lighttpd 1.4.12 and 1.4.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (cpu and resource consumption) by disconnecting while lighttpd is
parsing CRLF sequences, which triggers an infinite loop and file descriptor
consumption. (CVE-2007-1869)
lighttpd before 1.4.14 allows attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) via a request to a file whose mtime is 0, which results in a NULL
pointer dereference. (CVE-2007-1870) |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
madwifi: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | madwifi |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-4835
CVE-2006-7177
CVE-2006-7178
CVE-2006-7179
CVE-2006-7180
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| Created: | April 12, 2007 |
Updated: | April 23, 2007 |
| Description: |
Madwifi versions below 0.9.3 have a number of vulnerabilities including:
a denial of service vulnerability in the ath_rate_sample function,
a denial of service vulnerability related to Ad-Hoc mode, a denial of
service caused by improper handling of an AUTH frame by an IBSS node,
a denial of service cause by improper handling of Channel Switch
Announcement Information Elements, and an information disclosure vulnerability caused by the sending of unencrypted packets before
WPA authentication. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
mod_perl: denial of service
| Package(s): | mod_perl |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1349
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| Created: | April 12, 2007 |
Updated: | July 18, 2007 |
| Description: |
Apache mod_perl versions 1.30 and below have a vulnerability in
PerlRun.pm and RegistryCooker.pm. PATH_INFO is not properly
escaped before use in a regular expression, allowing remote attackers
to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted URI. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
php: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | php |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1001
CVE-2007-1285
CVE-2007-1718
CVE-2007-1583
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| Created: | April 16, 2007 |
Updated: | December 4, 2007 |
| Description: |
A denial of service flaw was found in the way PHP processed a deeply nested
array. A remote attacker could cause the PHP interpreter to crash by
submitting an input variable with a deeply nested array. (CVE-2007-1285)
A flaw was found in the way the mbstring extension set global variables. A
script which used the mb_parse_str() function to set global variables could
be forced to enable the register_globals configuration option, possibly
resulting in global variable injection. (CVE-2007-1583)
A flaw was discovered in the way PHP's mail() function processed header
data. If a script sent mail using a Subject header containing a string from
an untrusted source, a remote attacker could send bulk e-mail to unintended
recipients. (CVE-2007-1718)
A heap based buffer overflow flaw was discovered in PHP's gd extension. A
script that could be forced to process WBMP images from an untrusted source
could result in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2007-1001) |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
vixie-cron: weak permissions may cause errors
| Package(s): | vixie-cron |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1856
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| Created: | April 17, 2007 |
Updated: | December 4, 2007 |
| Description: |
During an internal audit, Raphael Marichez of the Gentoo Linux Security
Team found that Vixie Cron has weak permissions set on Gentoo, allowing
for a local user to create hard links to system and users cron files,
while a st_nlink check in database.c will generate a superfluous error. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
Updated vulnerabilities
acroread: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | acroread |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5857
CVE-2007-0045
CVE-2007-0046
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| Created: | January 11, 2007 |
Updated: | October 26, 2009 |
| Description: |
Adobes acrobat reader has the following vulnerabilities:
The Adobe Reader Plugin has a cross site scripting vulnerability that
can be triggered by processes malformed URLs. Arbitrary JavaScript can
be served by a malicious web server, leading to a cross-site scripting
attack.
Maliciously crafted PDF files can be used to trigger two vulnerabilities,
if an attacker can trick a user into viewing the files, arbitrary code
can be executed with the user's privileges. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
apache: cross-site scripting
| Package(s): | apache |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-3918
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| Created: | August 9, 2006 |
Updated: | April 4, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the Red Hat advisory: "A bug was found in Apache where an invalid Expect header sent to the server
was returned to the user in an unescaped error message. This could
allow an attacker to perform a cross-site scripting attack if a victim was
tricked into connecting to a site and sending a carefully crafted Expect
header." |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Asterisk: two SIP denial of service vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | Asterisk |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1561
CVE-2007-1594
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| Created: | April 3, 2007 |
Updated: | August 27, 2007 |
| Description: |
The Madynes research team at INRIA has discovered that Asterisk contains a
null pointer dereferencing error in the SIP channel when handling INVITE
messages. Furthermore qwerty1979 discovered that Asterisk 1.2.x fails to
properly handle SIP responses with return code 0. A remote attacker could
cause an Asterisk server listening for SIP messages to crash by sending a
specially crafted SIP message or answering with a 0 return code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
bluez-utils: hidd vulnerability
| Package(s): | bluez-utils |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-6899
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| Created: | January 16, 2007 |
Updated: | May 14, 2007 |
| Description: |
hidd in BlueZ (bluez-utils) before 2.25 allows remote attackers to obtain
control of the Mouse and Keyboard Human Interface Device (HID) via a
certain configuration of two HID (PSM) endpoints, operating as a server,
aka HidAttack. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
bugzilla: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | bugzilla |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5453
CVE-2006-5454
CVE-2006-5455
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| Created: | November 10, 2006 |
Updated: | August 28, 2007 |
| Description: |
Bugzilla has the following vulnerabilities:
Input data passed to various fields is not properly sanitized before
being passed back to users.
Users can gain unauthorized access to read attachment
descriptions while using diff mode.
HTTP GET and HTTP POST requests can be used to perform unauthorized
actions due to improper verification.
Input that is passed to showdependencygraph.cgi is not properly
sanitized before being returned to users. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
busybox: insecure password generation
| Package(s): | busybox |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-1058
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| Created: | May 5, 2006 |
Updated: | May 2, 2007 |
| Description: |
The BusyBox 1.1.1 passwd command does not use a proper salt when generating
passwords. This would create an instance where a brute force attack could
take very little time. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (2 posted)
cpio: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | cpio |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-4268
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| Created: | January 2, 2006 |
Updated: | March 17, 2010 |
| Description: |
Richard Harms discovered that cpio did not sufficiently validate file
properties when creating archives. Files with e. g. a very large size
caused a buffer overflow. By tricking a user or an automatic backup
system into putting a specially crafted file into a cpio archive, a
local attacker could probably exploit this to execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the target user (which is likely root in an
automatic backup system). |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
vixie-cron: privilege escalation
| Package(s): | cron |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-2607
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| Created: | May 31, 2006 |
Updated: | June 1, 2009 |
| Description: |
The Vixie cron daemon does not check the return code from setuid(); if that call can be made to fail, a local attacker may be able to execute commands as root. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
cscope: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | cscope |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4262
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| Created: | October 2, 2006 |
Updated: | June 16, 2009 |
| Description: |
Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered several buffer overflows
in cscope, a source browsing tool, which might lead to the execution of
arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
cscope: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | cscope |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2004-2541
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| Created: | May 22, 2006 |
Updated: | June 19, 2009 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow in Cscope 15.5, and possibly multiple overflows, allows
remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a C file with a long
#include line that is later browsed by the target. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
cups: denial of service
| Package(s): | cups |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0720
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| Created: | March 26, 2007 |
Updated: | February 7, 2008 |
| Description: |
Previous versions of the cups package could be forced to hang via a client
"partially negotiating" an ssl connection. In this state, cups would not
allow other connections to be made, a denial of service. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Cyrus-SASL: DIGEST-MD5 Pre-Authentication Denial of Service
| Package(s): | cyrus-sasl |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-1721
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| Created: | April 21, 2006 |
Updated: | September 4, 2007 |
| Description: |
Cyrus-SASL contains an unspecified vulnerability in the DIGEST-MD5
process that could lead to a Denial of Service. An attacker could possibly
exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted data stream to the
Cyrus-SASL server, resulting in a Denial of Service even if the attacker is
not able to authenticate. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
dovecot: index cache file handling error
| Package(s): | dovecot |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5973
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| Created: | November 29, 2006 |
Updated: | May 8, 2007 |
| Description: |
The dovecot IMAP server has an error in its index cache file handling code which could be exploited by an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code. Only servers with the (non-default) mmap_disable=yes option setting are vulnerable. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
elinks: arbitrary file access
| Package(s): | elinks |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5925
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| Created: | November 16, 2006 |
Updated: | October 22, 2009 |
| Description: |
The elinks text-mode browser has an arbitrary file access vulnerability
in the Elinks SMB protocol handler. If a user can be tricked into
visiting a specially crafted web page, arbitrary files may be read or
written with the user's permissions. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
evolution: format string error
| Package(s): | evolution |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1002
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| Created: | March 27, 2007 |
Updated: | February 27, 2008 |
| Description: |
A format string error in the "write_html()" function in calendar/gui/
e-cal-component-memo-preview.c when displaying a memo's categories can
potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted
shared memo containing format specifiers. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
fail2ban: denial of service
| Package(s): | fail2ban |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-6302
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| Created: | February 16, 2007 |
Updated: | July 30, 2007 |
| Description: |
fail2ban 0.7.4 and earlier does not properly parse sshd logs file, which
allows remote attackers to add arbitrary hosts to the /etc/hosts.deny file
and cause a denial of service by adding arbitrary IP addresses to the sshd
log file, as demonstrated by logging in to ssh using a login name
containing certain strings with an IP address. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (3 posted)
ffmpeg: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | ffmpeg |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4799
CVE-2006-4800
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| Created: | September 14, 2006 |
Updated: | May 28, 2007 |
| Description: |
the AVI processing code in FFmpeg has a number of buffer overflow
vulnerabilities.
If an attacker can trick a user into loading a specially crafted
crafted AVI, arbitrary code can be executed with the user's privileges. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (2 posted)
file: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | file |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1536
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| Created: | March 22, 2007 |
Updated: | May 30, 2007 |
| Description: |
The "file" utility incorrectly checks the allocated heap memory size.
If a remote attacker can trick a user into looking at specially crafted
files with file, arbitrary code can be executed with the user's privileges. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
firefox: FTP PASV port-scanning
| Package(s): | firefox seamonkey |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1562
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| Created: | March 23, 2007 |
Updated: | June 4, 2007 |
| Description: |
According to this
advisory, the FTP protocol includes the PASV (passive) command which is
used by Firefox to request an alternate data port. The specification of the
FTP protocol allows the server response to include an alternate server
address as well, although this is rarely used in practice. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
freeradius: several vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | freeradius |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-4745
CVE-2005-4746
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| Created: | August 8, 2006 |
Updated: | April 24, 2007 |
| Description: |
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in freeradius, a
high-performance RADIUS server, which may lead to SQL injection or denial
of service. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
freetype: integer overflows
| Package(s): | freetype |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-0747
CVE-2006-1861
CVE-2006-2493
CVE-2006-2661
CVE-2006-3467
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| Created: | June 8, 2006 |
Updated: | June 1, 2010 |
| Description: |
The FreeType library has several integer overflow vulnerabilities.
If a user can be tricked into installing a specially
crafted font file, arbitrary code can be executed with the privilege
of the user. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
gcc: file overwrite vulnerability
| Package(s): | gcc |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-3619
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| Created: | September 6, 2006 |
Updated: | March 14, 2008 |
| Description: |
The fastjar utility found in the GNU compiler collection does not perform adequate file path checking, allowing the creation or overwriting of files outside of the current directory tree. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
gd: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | gd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0455
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| Created: | February 7, 2007 |
Updated: | November 18, 2009 |
| Description: |
The gd graphics library contains a buffer overflow which could enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Note that various other packages include code from gd and could also be vulnerable. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (2 posted)
gdb: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | gdb |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4146
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| Created: | September 15, 2006 |
Updated: | June 12, 2007 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow in dwarfread.c and dwarf2read.c debugging code in GNU
Debugger (GDB) 6.5 allows user-assisted attackers, or restricted users, to
execute arbitrary code via a crafted file with a location block
(DW_FORM_block) that contains a large number of operations. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
gdm: improper file permissions
| Package(s): | gdm |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-1057
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| Created: | April 19, 2006 |
Updated: | May 2, 2007 |
| Description: |
The .ICEauthority file may be created with the wrong ownership and permissions; gdm 2.14.2 fixes the problem. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
gedit: format string vulnerability
| Package(s): | gedit |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1686
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| Created: | June 9, 2005 |
Updated: | February 5, 2009 |
| Description: |
A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit. Calling
the program with specially crafted file names caused a buffer
overflow, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the gedit user. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
grip: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | grip |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-0706
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| Created: | March 10, 2005 |
Updated: | November 19, 2008 |
| Description: |
Grip, a CD ripper, has a buffer overflow vulnerability that can
occur when the CDDB server returns more than 16 matches. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
gzip: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | gzip |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4334
CVE-2006-4335
CVE-2006-4336
CVE-2006-4337
CVE-2006-4338
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| Created: | September 19, 2006 |
Updated: | January 20, 2010 |
| Description: |
Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered two denial of service
flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a
specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to hang or
crash.
Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several code execution
flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a
specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to crash or
execute arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
horde-kronolith: local file inclusion
| Package(s): | horde-kronolith |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-6175
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| Created: | January 17, 2007 |
Updated: | March 7, 2008 |
| Description: |
Kronolith contains a mistake in lib/FBView.php where a raw, unfiltered
string is used instead of a sanitized string to view local files. An
authenticated attacker could craft an HTTP GET request that uses directory
traversal techniques to execute any file on the web server as PHP code,
which could allow information disclosure or arbitrary code execution with
the rights of the user running the PHP application (usually the webserver
user). |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
ImageMagick: integer overflows
| Package(s): | imagemagick |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1797
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| Created: | April 4, 2007 |
Updated: | August 11, 2009 |
| Description: |
Multiple integer overflows in ImageMagick before 6.3.3-5 allow remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted DCM image, which
results in a heap-based overflow in the ReadDCMImage function, or (2) the
(a) colors or (b) comments field in a crafted XWD image, which results in a
heap-based overflow in the ReadXWDImage function, different issues than
CVE-2007-1667. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
imlib2: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | imlib2 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4806
CVE-2006-4807
CVE-2006-4808
CVE-2006-4809
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| Created: | November 6, 2006 |
Updated: | August 13, 2007 |
| Description: |
M. Joonas Pihlaja discovered that imlib2 did not sufficiently verify the
validity of ARGB, JPG, LBM, PNG, PNM, TGA, and TIFF images. If a user
were tricked into viewing or processing a specially crafted image with
an application that uses imlib2, the flaws could be exploited to execute
arbitrary code with the user's privileges. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
inkscape: format string vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | inkscape |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1463
CVE-2007-1464
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| Created: | March 21, 2007 |
Updated: | April 16, 2007 |
| Description: |
Inkscape has a format string vulnerability in its URI handling, possibly
allowing an attacker to execute code with user privileges via a specially
crafted file.
Format string vulnerability in the whiteboard Jabber protocol in Inkscape
before 0.45.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary
code via unspecified vectors. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
ipsec-tools: denial of service
| Package(s): | ipsec-tools |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1841
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| Created: | April 10, 2007 |
Updated: | August 28, 2007 |
| Description: |
A flaw was discovered in the IPSec key exchange server "racoon". Remote
attackers could send a specially crafted packet and disrupt established
IPSec tunnels, leading to a denial of service. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
java: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | java |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4339
CVE-2006-4790
CVE-2006-6731
CVE-2006-6736
CVE-2006-6737
CVE-2006-6745
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| Created: | January 18, 2007 |
Updated: | June 4, 2010 |
| Description: |
java has multiple vulnerabilities, these include:
an RSA exponent padding attack vulnerability, two vulnerabilities
which allow untrusted applets to access data in other applets,
vulnerabilities that involve applets gaining privileges due to
serialization bugs in the JRE and buffer overflows in the java image
handling routines that can give attackers read/write/execute capabilities
for local files. |
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Comments (1 posted)
kdelibs: kate backup file permission leak
| Package(s): | kdelibs kate kwrite |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-1920
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| Created: | July 19, 2005 |
Updated: | September 21, 2010 |
| Description: |
Kate / Kwrite, as shipped with KDE 3.2.x up to including 3.4.0, creates a file backup before saving a modified file. These backup files are created with default permissions, even if the original file had more strict permissions set. See this advisory for more information. |
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kdelibs: cross-site scripting
| Package(s): | kdelibs konqeror |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0537
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| Created: | February 5, 2007 |
Updated: | August 13, 2007 |
| Description: |
Konqueror 3.5.5 does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote
attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS
protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment, a
related issue to CVE-2007-0478. |
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Comments (none posted)
kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4623
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| Created: | October 18, 2006 |
Updated: | November 14, 2007 |
| Description: |
The kernel DVB layer can be caused to crash with maliciously-formatted unidirectional lightweight encapsulation (ULE) data. |
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kernel: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0005
CVE-2007-1000
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| Created: | March 15, 2007 |
Updated: | November 14, 2007 |
| Description: |
The Linux kernel has a boundary error problem with the
Omnikey CardMan 4040 driver read and write functions. This can be used
to cause a buffer overflow and possible execution or arbitrary code with
kernel privileges.
The ipv6_getsockopt_sticky function in
net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference.
Local users can use this to crash the kernel or to disclose kernel
memory. |
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kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-0007
CVE-2007-0006
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| Created: | February 15, 2007 |
Updated: | November 14, 2007 |
| Description: |
Linux kernel versions from 2.6.9 to 2.6.20 have a denial of service
vulnerability. A remote attacker can cause the key_alloc_serial
function's key serial number collision avoidance code to have a
null dereference, resulting in a crash. |
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Comments (1 posted)
kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4535
CVE-2006-4538
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| Created: | September 18, 2006 |
Updated: | January 5, 2009 |
| Description: |
Sridhar Samudrala discovered a local denial of service vulnerability
in the handling of SCTP sockets. By opening such a socket with a
special SO_LINGER value, a local attacker could exploit this to crash
the kernel. (CVE-2006-4535)
Kirill Korotaev discovered that the ELF loader on the ia64 and sparc
platforms did not sufficiently verify the memory layout. By attempting
to execute a specially crafted executable, a local user could exploit
this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4538) |
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kernel: denial of service by memory consumption
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-2936
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| Created: | July 17, 2006 |
Updated: | November 14, 2007 |
| Description: |
The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to
2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial
of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port
than the driver can handle, which causes the data to be queued. |
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kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0772
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| Created: | February 23, 2007 |
Updated: | November 14, 2007 |
| Description: |
The Linux kernel before 2.6.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (oops) via a crafted NFSACL 2 ACCESS request that triggers a free
of an incorrect pointer. |
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Comments (none posted)
kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5757
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| Created: | November 13, 2006 |
Updated: | November 14, 2007 |
| Description: |
From the MOKB-05-11-2006
advisory: "The ISO9660 filesystem handling code of the Linux
2.6.x kernel fails to properly handle corrupted data structures, leading to
an exploitable denial of service condition. This particular vulnerability
seems to be caused by a race condition and a signedness issue. When
performing a read operation on a corrupted ISO9660 fs stream, the
isofs_get_blocks() function will enter an infinite loop when
__find_get_block_slow() callback from sb_getblk() fails ("due to various
races between file io on the block device and getblk")." |
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kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-2935
CVE-2006-4145
CVE-2006-3745
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| Created: | September 1, 2006 |
Updated: | July 30, 2008 |
| Description: |
Previous versions of the kernel package are subject to several
vulnerabilities. Certain malformed UDF filesystems can cause the system to
crash (denial of service). Malformed CDROM firmware or USB storage devices
(such as USB keys) could cause system crash (denial of service), and if
they were intentionally malformed, can cause arbitrary code to run with
elevated privileges. In addition, the SCTP protocol is subject to a remote
system crash (denial of service) attack. |
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Comments (none posted)
kernel: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5749
CVE-2006-4814
CVE-2006-6106
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| Created: | January 5, 2007 |
Updated: | January 8, 2009 |
| Description: |
A security issue has been reported in Linux kernel due to an error in
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c as the "isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_alloc_state()"
function never initializes an event timer before scheduling it with the
"add_timer()" function.
The mincore function in the kernel does not properly lock access to user
space, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors, possibly related to
a deadlock.
Another vulnerability has been reported in Linux kernel caused by a
boundary error within the handling of incoming CAPI messages in
net/bluetooth/cmtp/capi.c. This can be exploited to overwrite certain
Kernel data structures. |
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krb5: uninitialized pointers
| Package(s): | krb5 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-6143
CVE-2006-3084
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| Created: | January 10, 2007 |
Updated: | July 7, 2010 |
| Description: |
The kdamind daemon can, in some situations, perform operations on uninitialized pointers. This bug could conceivably open up the system to a code execution attack by an unauthenticated remote attacker, but it appears to be difficult to exploit. See this advisory for details. |
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Comments (1 posted)
krb5: local privilege escalation
| Package(s): | krb5 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-3083
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| Created: | August 9, 2006 |
Updated: | July 7, 2010 |
| Description: |
Some kerberos applications fail to check the results of setuid() calls, with the result that, if that call fails, they could continue to execute as root after thinking they had switched to a nonprivileged user. A local attacker who can cause these calls to fail (through resource exhaustion, presumably) could exploit this bug to gain root privileges. |
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Comments (none posted)
krb5: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | krb5 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0956
CVE-2007-0957
CVE-2007-1216
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| Created: | April 3, 2007 |
Updated: | March 24, 2008 |
| Description: |
A flaw was found in the username handling of the MIT krb5 telnet daemon
(telnetd). A remote attacker who can access the telnet port of a target
machine could log in as root without requiring a password. MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2007-001
Buffer overflows were found which affect the Kerberos KDC and the kadmin
server daemon. A remote attacker who can access the KDC could exploit this
bug to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the KDC or kadmin server
processes. MIT krb5 Security Advisory
2007-002
A double-free flaw was found in the GSSAPI library used by the kadmin
server daemon. MIT krb5 Security Advisory
2007-003 |
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ktorrent: incorrect validation
| Package(s): | ktorrent |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1384
CVE-2007-1385
CVE-2007-1799
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| Created: | March 13, 2007 |
Updated: | October 24, 2007 |
| Description: |
Bryan Burns of Juniper Networks discovered that KTorrent did not
correctly validate the destination file paths nor the HAVE statements
sent by torrent peers. A malicious remote peer could send specially
crafted messages to overwrite files or execute arbitrary code with user
privileges. |
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Comments (1 posted)
libgadu: memory alignment bug
| Package(s): | libgadu |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2005-2370
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| Created: | July 29, 2005 |
Updated: | June 25, 2007 |
| Description: |
Szymon Zygmunt and Michal Bartoszkiewicz discovered a memory alignment
error in libgadu (from ekg, console Gadu Gadu client, an instant
messaging program) which is included in gaim, a multi-protocol instant
messaging client, as well. This can not be exploited on the x86
architecture but on others, e.g. on Sparc and lead to a bus error,
in other words a denial of service.
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libgtop2: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | libgtop2 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0235
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| Created: | January 15, 2007 |
Updated: | August 9, 2007 |
| Description: |
The /proc parsing routines in libgtop are vulnerable to a buffer overflow.
If an attacker can run a process in a specially crafted long
path then trick a user into running gnome-system-monitor,
arbitrary code can be executed with the user's privileges. |
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Comments (none posted)
libmodplug: boundary errors
| Package(s): | libmodplug |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4192
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| Created: | December 11, 2006 |
Updated: | May 4, 2011 |
| Description: |
Luigi Auriemma has reported various boundary errors in load_it.cpp and
a boundary error in the "CSoundFile::ReadSample()" function in
sndfile.cpp. A remote attacker can entice a user to read crafted modules
or ITP files, which may trigger a buffer overflow resulting in the
execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the
application. |
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Comments (none posted)
libpng: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | libpng |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-3334
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| Created: | July 19, 2006 |
Updated: | December 15, 2008 |
| Description: |
In pngrutil.c, the function png_decompress_chunk() allocates
insufficient space for an error message, potentially overwriting stack
data, leading to a buffer overflow. |
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Comments (none posted)
libpng: heap based buffer overflow
| Package(s): | libpng |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-0481
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| Created: | February 13, 2006 |
Updated: | December 15, 2008 |
| Description: |
A heap based buffer overflow bug was found in the way libpng strips alpha
channels from a PNG image. An attacker could create a carefully crafted PNG
image file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with
libpng to crash or execute arbitrary code when the file is opened by a
victim. |
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Comments (1 posted)
libtiff: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | libtiff |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-2193
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| Created: | June 15, 2006 |
Updated: | September 1, 2008 |
| Description: |
The t2p_write_pdf_string function in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier is vulnerable
to a buffer overflow. Attackers can use a TIFF file with UTF-8 characters
in the DocumentName tag to overflow a buffer, causing a denial of service,
and possibly the execution of arbitrary code. |
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Comments (none posted)
libxml2 - arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | libxml2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0110
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| Created: | February 26, 2004 |
Updated: | August 19, 2009 |
| Description: |
Yuuichi Teranishi discovered a flaw in libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.6.
When fetching a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, libxml2 uses special
parsing routines. These routines can overflow a buffer if passed a very
long URL. If an attacker is able to find an application using libxml2 that
parses remote resources and allows them to influence the URL, then this
flaw could be used to execute arbitrary code. |
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Comments (none posted)
libxml2: multiple buffer overflows
| Package(s): | libxml2 |
CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0989
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| Created: | October 28, 2004 |
Updated: | August 19, 2009 |
| Description: |
libxml2 prior to version 2.6.14 has multiple buffer overflow
vulnerabilities, if a local user passes a specially crafted
FTP URL, arbitrary code may be executed. |
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Comments (none posted)
lookup-el: insecure temporary file
| Package(s): | lookup-el |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0237
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| Created: | March 19, 2007 |
Updated: | December 10, 2007 |
| Description: |
Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that Lookup, a search interface to electronic
dictionaries on emacsen, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion
when the ndeb-binary feature is used, which allows a local attacker to
craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files. |
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Comments (none posted)
lynx: arbitrary command execution
| Package(s): | lynx |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-2929
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| Created: | November 14, 2005 |
Updated: | September 14, 2009 |
| Description: |
An arbitrary command execute bug was found in the lynx "lynxcgi:" URI
handler. An attacker could create a web page redirecting to a malicious URL
which could execute arbitrary code as the user running lynx. |
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Comments (none posted)
man-db: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | man-db |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4250
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| Created: | April 6, 2007 |
Updated: | April 11, 2007 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the man command that could allow an
attacker to execute code as the man user by providing specially crafted
arguments to the -H flag. This is likely to be an issue only on machines
with the man and mandb programs installed setuid. |
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Comments (none posted)
mod_jk: stack overflow
| Package(s): | mod_jk |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0774
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| Created: | March 5, 2007 |
Updated: | May 30, 2007 |
| Description: |
A stack overflow flaw was found in the URI handler of mod_jk. A remote
attacker could visit a carefully crafted URL being handled by mod_jk and
trigger this flaw, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the
'apache' user. |
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Comments (none posted)
mplayer: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | mplayer |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1246
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| Created: | March 8, 2007 |
Updated: | April 1, 2008 |
| Description: |
MPlayer versions up to 1.0rc1 have a buffer overflow in the
loader/dmo/DMO_VideoDecoder.c DMO_VideoDecoder_Open function.
user-assisted remote attackers can use this to create a buffer overflow
and possibly execute arbitrary code. |
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Comments (none posted)
mysql: denial of service
| Package(s): | mysql |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1420
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| Created: | March 22, 2007 |
Updated: | May 21, 2008 |
| Description: |
MySQL subselect queries using "ORDER BY" can be used by an attacker with
access to a MySQL instance in order to create an intermittent denial
of service. |
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Comments (none posted)
mysql: format string bug
| Package(s): | mysql |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-3469
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| Created: | July 21, 2006 |
Updated: | July 30, 2008 |
| Description: |
Jean-David Maillefer discovered a format string bug in the
date_format() function's error reporting. By calling the function with
invalid arguments, an authenticated user could exploit this to crash
the server. |
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Comments (none posted)
MySQL: privilege violations
| Package(s): | mysql |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4031
CVE-2006-4226
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| Created: | August 25, 2006 |
Updated: | July 30, 2008 |
| Description: |
MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 5.0.24 allows a local user to access
a table through a previously created MERGE table, even after the user's
privileges are revoked for the original table, which might violate intended
security policy (CVE-2006-4031).
MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21, 5.0 before 5.0.25, and 5.1 before 5.1.12, when run
on case-sensitive filesystems, allows remote authenticated users to create
or access a database when the database name differs only in case from a
database for which they have permissions (CVE-2006-4226). |
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Comments (none posted)
MySQL: logging bypass
| Package(s): | mysql |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-0903
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| Created: | April 4, 2006 |
Updated: | May 21, 2008 |
| Description: |
MySQL 5.0.18 and earlier allows local users to bypass logging mechanisms
via SQL queries that contain the NULL character, which are not properly
handled by the mysql_real_query function. NOTE: this issue was originally
reported for the mysql_query function, but the vendor states that since
mysql_query expects a null character, this is not an issue for mysql_query. |
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Comments (2 posted)
nas: code execution
Comments (none posted)
nbd: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | nbd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3534
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| Created: | January 6, 2006 |
Updated: | March 7, 2011 |
| Description: |
Kurt Fitzner discovered that the NBD (network block device) server did not
correctly verify the maximum size of request packets. By sending specially
crafted large request packets, a remote attacker who is allowed to access
the server could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root
privileges. |
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Comments (none posted)
ncompress: buffer underflow
| Package(s): | ncompress |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-1168
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| Created: | August 10, 2006 |
Updated: | February 21, 2012 |
| Description: |
The ncompress compression utility has a missing boundary check.
A local user can use a maliciously created file to cause a
a .bss buffer underflow. |
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Comments (none posted)
openldap: security bypass
| Package(s): | openldap |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4600
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| Created: | September 29, 2006 |
Updated: | June 12, 2007 |
| Description: |
slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.25 allows remote authenticated users with
selfwrite Access Control List (ACL) privileges to modify arbitrary
Distinguished Names (DN). |
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Comments (none posted)
OpenOffice.org: buffer overflow and command execution
| Package(s): | openoffice.org |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0238
CVE-2007-0239
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| Created: | March 21, 2007 |
Updated: | April 17, 2007 |
| Description: |
The StarCalc parser in OpenOffice.org suffers from an "easily exploitable" stack overflow which could be exploited (via a malicious document) to execute arbitrary code.
Additionally, there is a failure to escape shell metacharacters in URLs, exposing users to command execution by way of hostile links. |
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Comments (none posted)
OpenSSH: denial of service
| Package(s): | openssh |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4925
CVE-2006-5052
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| Created: | October 6, 2006 |
Updated: | November 15, 2007 |
| Description: |
packet.c in ssh in OpenSSH allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (crash) by sending an invalid protocol sequence with
USERAUTH_SUCCESS before NEWKEYS, which causes newkeys[mode] to be NULL.
An unspecified vulnerability in portable OpenSSH before 4.4, when running
on some platforms, allows remote attackers to determine the validity of
usernames via unknown vectors involving a GSSAPI "authentication abort." |
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Comments (none posted)
openssh: remote denial of service
| Package(s): | openssh |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4924
CVE-2006-5051
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| Created: | September 27, 2006 |
Updated: | September 17, 2008 |
| Description: |
Openssh 4.4 fixes some
security issues, including a pre-authentication denial of service, an
unsafe signal hander and on portable OpenSSH a GSSAPI authentication abort
could be used to determine the validity of usernames on some platforms. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
php: several vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | php |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4481
CVE-2006-4484
CVE-2006-4485
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| Created: | September 8, 2006 |
Updated: | June 13, 2008 |
| Description: |
The file_exists and imap_reopen functions in PHP before 5.1.5 do not check
for the safe_mode and open_basedir settings, which allows local users to
bypass the settings (CVE-2006-4481).
A buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte function in ext/gd/libgd/gd_gif_in.c
in the GD extension in PHP before 5.1.5 allows remote attackers to have an
unknown impact via a GIF file with input_code_size greater than
MAX_LWZ_BITS, which triggers an overflow when initializing the table array
(CVE-2006-4484).
The stripos function in PHP before 5.1.5 has unknown impact and attack
vectors related to an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2006-4485). |
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Comments (1 posted)
php: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | php |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5465
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| Created: | November 3, 2006 |
Updated: | January 18, 2010 |
| Description: |
The Hardened-PHP Project discovered buffer overflows in
htmlentities/htmlspecialchars internal routines to the PHP Project. Of
course the whole purpose of these functions is to be filled with user
input. (The overflow can only be when UTF-8 is used) |
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Comments (none posted)
phpbb2: missing input sanitizing
| Package(s): | phpbb2 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-1896
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| Created: | May 22, 2006 |
Updated: | February 11, 2008 |
| Description: |
It was discovered that phpbb2, a web based bulletin board, insufficiently
sanitizes values passed to the "Font Color 3" setting, which might lead to
the execution of injected code by admin users. |
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Comments (none posted)
phpbb2: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | phpbb2 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3310
CVE-2005-3415
CVE-2005-3416
CVE-2005-3417
CVE-2005-3418
CVE-2005-3419
CVE-2005-3420
CVE-2005-3536
CVE-2005-3537
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| Created: | December 22, 2005 |
Updated: | February 11, 2008 |
| Description: |
The phpbb2 web forum has a number of vulnerabilities including:
a web script injection problem, a protection mechanism bypass, a
security check bypass, a remote global variable bypass, cross site
scripting vulnerabilities, an SQL injection vulnerability,
a remote regular expression modification problem, missing input
sanitizing, and a missing request validation problem. |
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Comments (none posted)
postgresql: SQL injection
| Package(s): | postgresql |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-2313
CVE-2006-2314
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| Created: | May 24, 2006 |
Updated: | June 6, 2007 |
| Description: |
The PostgreSQL team has put out a set of "urgent updates" (in the form of the 7.3.15, 7.4.13, 8.0.8, and 8.1.4 releases) closing a
newly-discovered set of SQL injection issues. Details about the problem
can be found on the
technical information page; in short: multi-byte encodings can be used
to defeat normal string sanitizing techniques. The update fixes one problem
related to invalid multi-byte characters, but punts on another by simply
disallowing the old, unsafe technique of escaping single quotes with a
backslash. |
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Comments (1 posted)
qt: "/../" injection
| Package(s): | qt |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0242
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| Created: | April 4, 2007 |
Updated: | September 13, 2007 |
| Description: |
Andreas Nolden discovered a bug in qt3, where the UTF8 decoder does not
reject overlong sequences, which can cause "/../" injection or (in the case
of konqueror) a "<script>" tag injection. |
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Comments (2 posted)
quake: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | quake3-bin |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-2236
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| Created: | May 10, 2006 |
Updated: | January 12, 2009 |
| Description: |
Games based on the Quake 3 engine are vulnerable to a buffer overflow exploitable by a hostile game server. |
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Comments (none posted)
rpm: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | rpm |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5466
|
| Created: | November 6, 2006 |
Updated: | August 28, 2007 |
| Description: |
An error was found in the RPM library's handling of query reports. In
some locales, certain RPM packages would cause the library to crash. If
a user was tricked into querying a specially crafted RPM package, the
flaw could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's
privileges. |
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Comments (none posted)
Mozilla: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | seamonkey firefox thunderbird |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-6077
CVE-2007-0008
CVE-2007-0009
CVE-2007-0775
CVE-2007-0777
CVE-2007-0778
CVE-2007-0779
CVE-2007-0780
CVE-2007-0800
CVE-2007-0981
CVE-2007-0995
CVE-2007-0996
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| Created: | February 26, 2007 |
Updated: | July 23, 2007 |
| Description: |
Several flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processed certain malformed
JavaScript code. A malicious web page could execute JavaScript code in such
a way that may result in SeaMonkey crashing or executing arbitrary code as
the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2007-0775, CVE-2007-0777)
Several cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey
processed certain malformed web pages. A malicious web page could display
misleading information which may result in a user unknowingly divulging
sensitive information such as a password. (CVE-2006-6077, CVE-2007-0995,
CVE-2007-0996)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey cached web pages on the local disk. A
malicious web page may be able to inject arbitrary HTML into a browsing
session if the user reloads a targeted site. (CVE-2007-0778)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey displayed certain web content. A
malicious web page could generate content which could overlay user
interface elements such as the hostname and security indicators, tricking a
user into thinking they are visiting a different site. (CVE-2007-0779)
Two flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey displayed blocked popup windows.
If a user can be convinced to open a blocked popup, it is possible to read
arbitrary local files, or conduct an XSS attack against the user.
(CVE-2007-0780, CVE-2007-0800)
Two buffer overflow flaws were found in the Network Security Services (NSS)
code for processing the SSLv2 protocol. Connecting to a malicious secure
web server could cause the execution of arbitrary code as the user running
SeaMonkey. (CVE-2007-0008, CVE-2007-0009)
A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled the "location.hostname" value
during certain browser domain checks. This flaw could allow a malicious web
site to set domain cookies for an arbitrary site, or possibly perform an
XSS attack. (CVE-2007-0981) |
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shadow-utils: mailbox creation vulnerability
| Package(s): | shadow-utils |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-1174
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| Created: | May 25, 2006 |
Updated: | June 12, 2007 |
| Description: |
The useradd tool from the shadow-utils package has a potential security
problem. When a new user's mailbox is created, the permissions are
set to random garbage from the stack, potentially allowing the
file to be read or written during the time before fchmod() is called. |
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slocate: information disclosure
| Package(s): | slocate |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0227
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| Created: | February 22, 2007 |
Updated: | September 4, 2012 |
| Description: |
The slocate permission checking code has a local information disclosure
vulnerability. During the reporting of matching files, slocate does not
respect the parent directory's read permissions, resulting in hidden
filenames being viewable by other local users. |
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snort: remote arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | snort |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5276
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| Created: | March 2, 2007 |
Updated: | September 7, 2007 |
| Description: |
The Snort intrusion detection system is vulnerable to a buffer overflow
in the DCE/RPC preprocessor code. Remote attackers can send
specially crafted fragmented SMB or DCE/RPC packets which can be used
to allow the the remote execution of arbitrary code. |
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sun-jdk: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | sun-jdk |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0243
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| Created: | February 19, 2007 |
Updated: | April 25, 2007 |
| Description: |
A anonymous researcher discovered that an error in the handling of a GIF
image with a zero width field block leads to a memory corruption flaw. An
attacker could entice a user to run a specially crafted Java applet or
application that would load a crafted GIF image, which could result in
escalation of privileges and unauthorized access to system resources. |
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tcpdump: denial of service
| Package(s): | tcpdump |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1218
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| Created: | March 5, 2007 |
Updated: | November 15, 2007 |
| Description: |
Off-by-one buffer overflow in the parse_elements function in the 802.11
printer code (print-802_11.c) for tcpdump 3.9.5 and earlier allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted 802.11
frame. NOTE: this was originally referred to as heap-based, but it might be
stack-based. |
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unzip: long file name buffer overflow
| Package(s): | unzip |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-4667
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| Created: | February 6, 2006 |
Updated: | May 2, 2007 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows local users to execute
arbitrary code via a long filename command line argument. NOTE: since the
overflow occurs in a non-setuid program, there are not many scenarios under
which it poses a vulnerability, unless unzip is passed long arguments when
it is invoked from other programs. |
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w3c-libwww: possible stack overflow
| Package(s): | w3c-libwww |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-3183
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| Created: | October 14, 2005 |
Updated: | May 2, 2007 |
| Description: |
xtensive testing of libwww's handling of multipart/byteranges content from
HTTP/1.1 servers revealed multiple logical flaws and bugs in
Library/src/HTBound.c |
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XFree86 X.org: integer overflows
| Package(s): | xfree86 x.org |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1003
CVE-2007-1667
CVE-2007-1351
CVE-2007-1352
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| Created: | April 3, 2007 |
Updated: | August 11, 2009 |
| Description: |
iDefense reported an integer overflow flaw in the XFree86 XC-MISC
extension. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause
a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code with root
privileges on the XFree86 server. (CVE-2007-1003)
iDefense reported two integer overflows in the way X.org handled various
font files. A malicious local user could exploit these issues to
potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.org server.
(CVE-2007-1351, CVE-2007-1352)
An integer overflow flaw was found in the XFree86 XGetPixel() function.
Improper use of this function could cause an application calling it to
function improperly, possibly leading to a crash or arbitrary code
execution. (CVE-2007-1667) |
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xine: format string vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | xine |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0017
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| Created: | January 23, 2007 |
Updated: | August 10, 2007 |
| Description: |
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in (1) the cdio_log_handler function
in modules/access/cdda/access.c in the CDDA (libcdda_plugin) plugin, and
the (2) cdio_log_handler and (3) vcd_log_handler functions in
modules/access/vcdx/access.c in the VCDX (libvcdx_plugin) plugin, in
VideoLAN VLC 0.7.0 through 0.8.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to
execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an invalid URI, as
demonstrated by a udp://-- URI in an M3U file. |
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xine-lib: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | xine-lib |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1387
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| Created: | March 13, 2007 |
Updated: | April 1, 2008 |
| Description: |
Moritz Jodeit discovered that the DirectShow loader of Xine did not
correctly validate the size of an allocated buffer. By tricking a user
into opening a specially crafted media file, an attacker could execute
arbitrary code with the user's privileges. |
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xine-lib: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | xine-lib |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-6172
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| Created: | December 5, 2006 |
Updated: | June 5, 2007 |
| Description: |
A buffer overflow was discovered in the Real Media input plugin in
xine-lib. If a user were tricked into loading a specially crafted stream
from a malicious server, the attacker could execute arbitrary code with the
user's privileges. |
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xine-lib: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | xine-lib |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-1664
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| Created: | April 27, 2006 |
Updated: | February 27, 2008 |
| Description: |
xine-lib does an improper input data boundary check on
MPEG streams. A specially crafted MPEG file can be
created that can cause arbitrary code execution when the
file is accessed. |
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xinit: race condition
| Package(s): | xinit |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-5214
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| Created: | October 17, 2006 |
Updated: | August 9, 2007 |
| Description: |
A race condition allows local users to see error messages generated during
another user's X session. This could allow potentially sensitive
information to be leaked. |
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xmms: BMP handling vulnerability
| Package(s): | xmms |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0653
CVE-2007-0654
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| Created: | March 28, 2007 |
Updated: | July 26, 2011 |
| Description: |
xmms suffers from vulnerabilities in its handling of BMP images. Should a hostile image be included in an xmms skin, it could lead to code execution on the user's system. |
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X.org: local privilege escalations
| Package(s): | xorg-x11 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4447
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| Created: | August 28, 2006 |
Updated: | April 30, 2007 |
| Description: |
Several X.org libraries and X.org itself contain system calls to
set*uid() functions, without checking their result. Local users could
deliberately exceed their assigned resource limits and elevate their
privileges after an unsuccessful set*uid() system call. This requires
resource limits to be enabled on the machine. |
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zziplib: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | zziplib |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1614
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| Created: | April 4, 2007 |
Updated: | September 5, 2007 |
| Description: |
dmcox discovered a boundary error in the zzip_open_shared_io() function
from zzip/file.c . A remote attacker could entice a user to run a zziplib
function with an overly long string as an argument which would trigger the
buffer overflow and may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. |
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