LWN.net Logo

Security

Critical Vulnerabilities in Samba

May 16, 2007

This article was contributed by Jake Edge.

The three vulnerabilities in Samba reported this week should have network administrators scrambling to patch vulnerable servers. Most distributors have already done their scrambling to pick up and apply the fixes so they could release updated samba packages. Each of the vulnerabilities could lead to root privileges; two of them are remotely exploitable - just the kinds of security holes that give administrators nightmares. No exploits have yet been reported, but it is probably only a matter of time; unless they run a completely trusted environment, Samba users need to patch these holes.

The Samba project provides a free implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocols that allow file and print sharing on Windows networks. With Samba, Linux (and other free operating systems) can participate as either a client or server in a mixed OS environment. As Microsoft is not known for its ability (or, perhaps more accurately, willingness) to play well with others, the Samba team has reverse engineered the protocols and the way they are used by Windows so that Samba can bridge that gap. Somewhat surprisingly, the project was not singled out in the latest patent saber rattling by Microsoft; it is probably just an oversight as Samba is precisely the kind of package that Microsoft would want to spread patent FUD about.

The vulnerabilities themselves are fairly straightforward bugs, but it is instructive to look at them; understanding security holes helps avoid them in future code. The first is the shortest lived of the three, only affecting versions 3.0.23d through 3.0.25pre2, whereas the other two affected all versions from 3.0.0. An attempt to simplify the handling of transitions to and from root privileges in the smbd server process is the cause. When looking up System Identifiers (SIDs) in a local list of users and groups, it may transition to rather than from the root user allowing a local attacker to perform some operations as root.

The second reported vulnerability appears to be the most serious as it is remotely exploitable without requiring authentication with the Samba server. By sending specifically crafted packets to the server, an attacker could cause the heap to be overwritten, leading to execution of code provided by the attacker. The underlying cause, as shown by this patch, is not checking for NULL as the return value from a memory allocation routine.

The final report concerns unsanitized user input that is passed to /bin/sh to be executed. By using shell metacharacters in the data sent, an attacker could execute code on the server. If the 'username map script' option has been enabled in smb.conf (it is off by default), the remote attacker need not be authenticated with the server to execute the code. In the standard install, a remote user would be required to authenticate to gain access to the file and print sharing management features before being able to exploit this vulnerability.

With the exception of the SID lookup botch, these kinds of bugs are not new and not specific to Samba. Some variant of the user input filtering problem is the root cause of the majority of web-based security problems and forgetting to check for NULL in allocations is as old as the C language itself. It is probably a bit embarrassing to the team, but it is not surprising that these kinds of problems creep in. Programming securely is difficult and there are a lot of ways to go wrong. Based on the timelines, the Samba team responded promptly in getting fixes out and made sure the word got out. This is the right response in the face of these inevitable bugs.

Comments (15 posted)

New vulnerabilities

bind: denial of service

Package(s):bind CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2241
Created:May 10, 2007 Updated:June 8, 2007
Description: ISC BIND 9.4.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. If recursion is enabled a remote attacker can use a special sequence of queries to cause the daemon to exit.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0300 2007-06-08
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.014 2007-05-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:100 2007-05-09

Comments (1 posted)

samba: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):samba CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2444 CVE-2007-2446 CVE-2007-2447
Created:May 14, 2007 Updated:June 5, 2007
Description: Three vulnerabilities have been fixed in Samba 3.0.25:
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1291-4 2007-06-04
Debian-Testing DTSA-41-1 2007-05-31
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:104-1 2007-05-23
Ubuntu USN-460-2 2007-05-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:031 2007-05-21
Fedora FEDORA-2007-518 2007-05-21
Debian DSA-1291-3 2007-05-20
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.012 2007-05-18
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0017 2007-05-17
Debian DSA-1291-2 2007-05-15
Ubuntu USN-460-1 2007-05-16
Foresight FLEA-2007-0017-1 2007-05-15
Gentoo 200705-15 2007-05-15
Debian DSA-1291-1 2007-05-15
Slackware SSA:2007-134-01 2007-05-15
rPath rPSA-2007-0098-1 2007-05-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:104 2007-05-14
Fedora FEDORA-2007-506 2007-05-14
Fedora FEDORA-2007-507 2007-05-14
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0354-01 2007-05-14

Comments (none posted)

squirrelmail: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):squirrelmail CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1262
Created:May 14, 2007 Updated:June 15, 2007
Description: It was discovered that the webmail package Squirrelmail performs insufficient sanitizing inside the HTML filter, which allows the injection of arbitrary web script code during the display of HTML email messages.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2007-0123-1 2007-06-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:106 2007-05-19
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0358-01 2007-05-17
Fedora FEDORA-2007-505 2007-05-14
Debian DSA-1290-1 2007-05-13

Comments (none posted)

Updated vulnerabilities

aircrack-ng: remote execution of arbitrary code

Package(s):aircrack-ng CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2057
Created:April 23, 2007 Updated:May 23, 2007
Description: Jonathan So reported that the airodump-ng module does not correctly check the size of 802.11 authentication packets before copying them into a buffer. A remote attacker could trigger a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted 802.11 authentication packet to a user running airodump-ng with the -w (--write) option. This could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running airodump-ng, which is typically the root user.
Alerts:
Debian-Testing DTSA-35-1 2007-05-16
Debian DSA-1280-1 2007-04-24
Gentoo 200704-16 2007-04-22

Comments (none posted)

apache: cross-site scripting

Package(s):apache CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3918
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:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:021 2008-04-04
Ubuntu USN-575-1 2008-02-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:051 2006-09-08
Debian DSA-1167-1 2005-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0619-01 2006-08-10
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0618-01 2006-08-08

Comments (none posted)

Asterisk: two SIP denial of service vulnerabilities

Package(s):Asterisk CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1561 CVE-2007-1594
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:
Debian DSA-1358-1 2007-08-26
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:034 2007-06-06
Gentoo 200704-01 2007-04-02

Comments (none posted)

bluez-utils: hidd vulnerability

Package(s):bluez-utils CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6899
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0065-01 2007-05-14
Ubuntu USN-413-1 2007-01-24
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:014 2006-01-15

Comments (none posted)

bugzilla: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):bugzilla CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5453 CVE-2006-5454 CVE-2006-5455
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:
Debian DSA-1208-1 2006-11-11
Gentoo 200611-04 2006-11-09

Comments (none posted)

clamav: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):clamav CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1745 CVE-2007-1997
Created:April 20, 2007 Updated:May 9, 2007
Description: The chm_decompress_stream function in libclamav/chmunpack.c leaks file descriptors, which has unknown impact and attack vectors involving a crafted CHM file. (CVE-2007-1745)

Integer signedness error in the (1) cab_unstore and (2) cab_extract functions in libclamav/cab.c might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CHM file that contains a negative integer, which passes a signed comparison and leads to a stack-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2007-1997)

Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:098 2007-05-08
Debian DSA-1281-1 2007-04-25
Gentoo 200704-21 2007-04-24
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0013 2007-04-20
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:026 2007-04-20

Comments (none posted)

cups: denial of service

Package(s):cups CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0720
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:
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:036 2007-02-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:086 2007-04-16
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0123-01 2007-04-16
Gentoo 200703-28 2007-03-31
Foresight FLEA-2007-0003-1 2007-03-25

Comments (none posted)

Cyrus-SASL: DIGEST-MD5 Pre-Authentication Denial of Service

Package(s):cyrus-sasl CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1721
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0878-01 2007-09-04
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0795-01 2007-09-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:025 2006-05-05
Fedora FEDORA-2006-515 2006-05-04
Debian DSA-1042-1 2006-04-25
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:073 2006-04-24
Ubuntu USN-272-1 2006-04-24
Gentoo 200604-09 2006-04-21

Comments (none posted)

dovecot: directory traversal

Package(s):dovecot CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2231
Created:May 8, 2007 Updated:May 21, 2008
Description: Directory traversal vulnerability in index/mbox/mbox-storage.c in Dovecot before 1.0.rc29, when using the zlib plugin, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary gzipped (.gz) mailboxes (mbox files) via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the mailbox name.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0297-02 2008-05-21
Debian DSA-1359-1 2007-08-28
Ubuntu USN-487-1 2007-07-17
Fedora FEDORA-2007-493 2007-05-07

Comments (none posted)

elinks: code execution

Package(s):elinks CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2027
Created:May 7, 2007 Updated:June 7, 2007
Description: Arnaud Giersch discovered that elinks incorrectly attempted to load gettext catalogs from a relative path. If a user were tricked into running elinks from a specific directory, a local attacker could execute code with user privileges.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200706-03 2007-06-06
Ubuntu USN-457-1 2007-05-07

Comments (none posted)

evolution: format string error

Package(s):evolution CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1002
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:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03
Gentoo 200706-02 2007-06-06
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0158-01 2007-05-03
Foresight FLEA-2007-0010-1 2007-04-05
Fedora FEDORA-2007-404 2007-04-04
Fedora FEDORA-2007-393 2007-04-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:070 2007-03-27

Comments (1 posted)

pop mail man-in-the-middle attacks

Package(s):evolution thunderbird mutt fetchmail CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1558
Created:May 8, 2007 Updated:August 7, 2007
Description: The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including (1) Thunderbird, (2) Evolution, (3) mutt, and (4) fetchmail.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1447 2007-08-06
rPath rPSA-2007-0127-1 2007-06-19
Foresight FLEA-2007-0026-1 2007-06-18
rPath rPSA-2007-0122-1 2007-06-14
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0385-01 2007-06-07
rPath rPSA-2007-0114-1 2007-06-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:113 2007-06-04
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0386-01 2007-06-04
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-01
Fedora FEDORA-2007-552 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-552 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-552 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-552 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-550 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-551 2007-05-31
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0401-01 2007-05-30
Fedora FEDORA-2007-539 2007-05-30
Fedora FEDORA-2007-540 2007-05-30
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0344-01 2007-05-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:107 2007-05-19
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:105 2007-05-17
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0353-01 2007-05-17
Fedora FEDORA-2007-484 2007-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2007-485 2007-05-07

Comments (none posted)

fail2ban: denial of service

Package(s):fail2ban CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6302
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:
Gentoo 200702-05 2007-02-16

Comments (3 posted)

ffmpeg: buffer overflows

Package(s):ffmpeg CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4799 CVE-2006-4800
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:
Gentoo 200609-09 2006-09-13

Comments (2 posted)

file: denial of service

Package(s):file CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2026
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:
rPath rPSA-2007-0109-1 2007-05-24
Foresight FLEA-2007-0022-1 2007-05-24
Gentoo 200704-13 2007-04-17

Comments (none posted)

file: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):file CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1536
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0391-01 2007-05-30
Slackware SSA:2007-093-01 2007-04-04
Gentoo 200703-26 2007-03-30
Debian DSA-1274-1 2007-04-02
Fedora FEDORA-2007-391 2007-03-30
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0124-01 2007-03-23
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:067 2007-03-22
rPath rPSA-2007-0059-1 2007-03-22
Ubuntu USN-439-1 2007-03-21

Comments (1 posted)

firefox: FTP PASV port-scanning

Package(s):firefox seamonkey CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1562
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:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0066 2007-06-01
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0050 2007-06-01
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-04
rPath rPSA-2007-0112-1 2007-05-31
Foresight FLEA-2007-0023-1 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-01
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-01
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-01
Fedora FEDORA-2007-554 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-549 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-549 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-549 2007-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2007-549 2007-05-31
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0402-01 2007-05-30
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0400-01 2007-05-30
rPath rPSA-2007-0062-1 2007-04-04
Ubuntu USN-443-1 2007-03-27
Foresight FLEA-2007-0001-1 2007-03-22

Comments (1 posted)

freeradius: memory leak

Package(s):freeradius CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2028
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:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-499 2007-05-14
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0338-01 2007-05-10
Gentoo 200704-14 2007-04-17
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:085 2007-04-16

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
Created:June 8, 2006 Updated:October 10, 2007
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:
Gentoo 200710-09 2007-10-09
Debian DSA-1178-1 2006-09-16
Ubuntu USN-341-1 2006-09-06
Gentoo 200609-04 2006-09-06
rPath rPSA-2006-0157-1 2006-08-25
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:148 2006-08-24
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0635-01 2006-08-21
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0634-01 2006-08-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-912 2006-08-14
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:045 2006-08-01
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.017 2006-07-28
Ubuntu USN-324-1 2006-07-27
Slackware SSA:2006-207-02 2006-07-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:129 2006-07-20
Gentoo 200607-02 2006-07-09
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:037 2006-06-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:099-1 2006-06-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:099 2006-06-12
rPath rPSA-2006-0100-1 2006-06-12
Debian DSA-1095-1 2006-06-10
Ubuntu USN-291-1 2006-06-08

Comments (none posted)

gcc: file overwrite vulnerability

Package(s):gcc CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3619
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:
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:066 2007-03-13
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0473-01 2007-06-11
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0220-02 2007-05-01
Debian DSA-1170-1 2006-09-06

Comments (none posted)

gd: buffer overflow

Package(s):gd CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0455
Created:February 7, 2007 Updated:February 28, 2008
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0146-01 2008-02-28
Ubuntu USN-473-1 2007-06-11
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.016 2007-05-18
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0007 2007-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2007-150 2007-02-12
Fedora FEDORA-2007-149 2007-02-12
rPath rPSA-2007-0028-1 2007-02-08
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:038 2006-02-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:036 2006-02-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:035 2006-02-06

Comments (2 posted)

gdb: buffer overflow

Package(s):gdb CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4146
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0469-01 2007-06-11
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0229-02 2007-05-01
Ubuntu USN-356-1 2006-10-02
Fedora FEDORA-2006-975 2006-09-14

Comments (none posted)

gimp: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):gimp CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2356
Created:May 1, 2007 Updated:June 11, 2007
Description: From this Secunia advisory: "Marsu has discovered a vulnerability in Gimp, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "set_color_table()" function in plug-ins/common/sunras.c. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially crafted .RAS file."
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1301-1 2007-06-09
Ubuntu USN-467-1 2007-05-31
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:108 2007-05-22
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0343-01 2007-05-21
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:011 2007-05-16
Gentoo 200705-08 2007-05-07
rPath rPSA-2007-0090-1 2007-05-03
Foresight FLEA-2007-0015-1 2007-04-30

Comments (3 posted)

gimp: symlink issue

Package(s):gimp CVE #(s):
Created:May 8, 2007 Updated:May 9, 2007
Description: The GIMP package in Fedora includes a helper script /usr/sbin/gimp-plugin-mgr for plugins contained in other packages, for example, xsane-gimp. This script manages symlinks from the GIMP plugin directory (which may change between upgrades) to the actual location of the plugins. A bug has been fixed in this erratum of GIMP that was in all older GIMP packages. The bug concerns the execution order in which the symlinks are installed and removed, causing the symlinks to vanish when the GIMP package is updated.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-491 2007-05-07
Fedora FEDORA-2007-489 2007-05-07

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
Created:September 19, 2006 Updated:June 1, 2007
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:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-557 2007-05-31
Gentoo 200611-24 2006-11-28
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:211760 2006-11-13
Fedora FEDORA-2006-989 2006-10-10
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:056 2006-09-26
Gentoo 200609-13 2006-09-23
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0052 2006-09-22
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:167 2006-09-20
Slackware SSA:2006-262-01 2006-09-20
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.020 2006-09-20
Debian DSA-1181-1 2006-09-19
rPath rPSA-2006-0170-1 2006-09-19
Ubuntu USN-349-1 2006-09-19
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0667-01 2006-09-19

Comments (1 posted)

horde-kronolith: local file inclusion

Package(s):horde-kronolith CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6175
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:
Gentoo 200701-11 2007-01-16

Comments (none posted)

ImageMagick: integer overflows

Package(s):imagemagick CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1797
Created:April 4, 2007 Updated:April 17, 2008
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:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0165-01 2008-04-16
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0145-01 2008-04-16
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1340 2007-07-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:147 2007-07-20
Ubuntu USN-481-1 2007-07-10
Gentoo 200705-13 2007-05-10
Fedora FEDORA-2007-414 2007-04-17
Fedora FEDORA-2007-413 2007-04-05
rPath rPSA-2007-0064-1 2007-04-04

Comments (none posted)

imlib2: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):imlib2 CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4806 CVE-2006-4807 CVE-2006-4808 CVE-2006-4809
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:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:156 2007-08-10
Gentoo 200612-20 2006-12-20
Fedora FEDORA-EXTRAS-2006-004 2006-11-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:198-1 2006-11-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:198 2006-11-06
Ubuntu USN-376-2 2006-11-06
Ubuntu USN-376-1 2006-11-03

Comments (none posted)

ipsec-tools: denial of service

Package(s):ipsec-tools CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1841
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:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-665 2007-08-27
Debian DSA-1299-1 2007-06-07
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0342-01 2007-05-17
Gentoo 200705-09 2007-05-08
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:008 2007-04-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:084 2007-04-16
Ubuntu USN-450-1 2007-04-09

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
Created:January 18, 2007 Updated:June 8, 2007
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.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200705-20 2007-05-26
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0073-01 2007-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0072-01 2007-02-08
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0062-02 2007-02-07
Gentoo 200701-15 2007-01-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:010 2007-01-18

Comments (1 posted)

kdelibs: cross-site scripting

Package(s):kdelibs konqeror CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0537
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.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:157 2007-08-10
Gentoo 200703-10 2007-03-10
rPath rPSA-2007-0052-1 2007-03-07
Ubuntu USN-420-1 2007-02-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:031 2007-02-02

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1357
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:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14
Ubuntu USN-464-1 2007-05-23
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:030 2007-05-10
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:029 2007-05-03
rPath rPSA-2007-0071-1 2007-04-16
Fedora FEDORA-2007-432 2007-04-13
Fedora FEDORA-2007-433 2007-04-13

Comments (none posted)

kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5749 CVE-2006-4814 CVE-2006-6106
Created:January 5, 2007 Updated:May 7, 2008
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.

Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2008:0211 2008-05-07
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0211-01 2008-05-07
Debian DSA-1503 2008-02-22
Debian DSA-1503-2 2008-03-06
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12
Ubuntu USN-416-2 2007-03-01
Ubuntu USN-416-1 2007-02-01
rPath rPSA-2007-0031-1 2007-02-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:040 2007-02-07
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0014-01 2007-01-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:025 2007-01-23
Fedora FEDORA-2007-058 2007-01-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:012 2006-01-12
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0002 2007-01-05

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4623
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.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-489-1 2007-07-19
rPath rPSA-2006-0194-1 2006-10-17

Comments (none posted)

kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0005 CVE-2007-1000
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.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21
Ubuntu USN-489-1 2007-07-19
Ubuntu USN-486-1 2007-07-17
Debian DSA-1286-1 2007-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0169-01 2007-04-30
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:078 2007-04-04
Fedora FEDORA-2007-336 2007-03-14
Fedora FEDORA-2007-335 2007-03-14

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0007 CVE-2007-0006
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.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0099-02 2007-03-14
rPath rPSA-2007-0050-1 2007-03-06
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0085-01 2007-02-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:047 2007-02-21
Fedora FEDORA-2007-226 2007-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2007-225 2007-02-13

Comments (1 posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-4535 CVE-2006-4538
Created:September 18, 2006 Updated:December 3, 2007
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)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:1049-01 2007-12-03
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:182 2006-10-11
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0689-01 2006-10-05
Debian DSA-1184-2 2006-09-26
Debian DSA-1184-1 2006-09-25
Debian DSA-1183-1 2006-09-25
Ubuntu USN-347-1 2006-09-18

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1861 CVE-2007-2242
Created:May 1, 2007 Updated:February 8, 2008
Description: The netlink protocol has an infinite recursion bug that allows users to cause a kernel crash. Also the IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers (IPV6_RTHDR_TYPE_0) that create network amplification between two routers.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:006 2008-02-07
Ubuntu USN-508-1 2007-08-31
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:171 2007-08-28
Ubuntu USN-489-1 2007-07-19
Ubuntu USN-486-1 2007-07-17
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:051 2007-09-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:216 2007-11-13
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0347-01 2007-05-16
Debian DSA-1289-1 2007-05-13
Foresight FLEA-2007-0016-1 2007-05-08
rPath rPSA-2007-0084-1 2007-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2007-483 2007-05-01
Fedora FEDORA-2007-482 2007-05-01

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service by memory consumption

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2936
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.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:151 2006-08-25
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:150 2006-08-25
Ubuntu USN-331-1 2006-08-03
rPath rPSA-2006-0130-1 2006-07-17

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0772
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.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21
Ubuntu USN-451-1 2007-04-10
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:021 2007-03-16
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:060 2006-03-09
Fedora FEDORA-2007-291 2007-03-02
Fedora FEDORA-2007-277 2007-03-02
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:018 2007-02-27
rPath rPSA-2007-0036-1 2007-02-23

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-5757
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")."
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1223 2006-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2006-1221 2006-11-10

Comments (none posted)

kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2935 CVE-2006-4145 CVE-2006-3745
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.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0665-01 2008-07-24
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:064 2006-11-10
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0710-01 2006-10-19
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:057 2006-09-28
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0051 2006-09-15
Ubuntu USN-346-2 2006-09-14
Ubuntu USN-346-1 2006-09-14
rPath rPSA-2006-0162-1 2006-08-31

Comments (none posted)

krb5: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):krb5 CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0956 CVE-2007-0957 CVE-2007-1216
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

Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:077-1 2007-04-10
Foresight FLEA-2007-0008-1 2007-04-05
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:025 2007-04-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:077 2006-04-04
rPath rPSA-2007-0063-1 2007-04-04
Ubuntu USN-449-1 2007-04-04
Gentoo 200704-02 2007-04-03
Fedora FEDORA-2007-409 2007-04-03
Fedora FEDORA-2007-408 2007-04-03
Debian DSA-1276-1 2007-04-03
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0095-01 2007-04-03

Comments (none posted)

ktorrent: incorrect validation

Package(s):ktorrent CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1384 CVE-2007-1385 CVE-2007-1799
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.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1373-2 2007-10-23
Debian DSA-1373-1 2007-09-11
Ubuntu USN-436-2 2007-05-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:095 2007-05-01
Gentoo 200705-01 2007-05-01
Slackware SSA:2007-093-02 2007-04-04
Ubuntu USN-436-1 2007-03-12

Comments (1 posted)

ldap-account-manager: privilege escalation, possible cross-site scripting

Package(s):ldap-account-manager CVE #(s):CVE-2006-7191 CVE-2007-1840
Created:May 7, 2007 Updated:May 9, 2007
Description: An untrusted search path vulnerability in lamdaemon.pl in LDAP Account Manager (LAM) before 1.0.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a modified PATH that points to a malicious rm program. (CVE-2006-7191)

lib/modules.inc in LDAP Account Manager (LAM) before 1.3.0 does not escape HTML special characters in LDAP data, which allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact, probably cross-site scripting (XSS). (CVE-2007-1840)

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1287-1 2007-05-07

Comments (none posted)

lftp: shell command execution

Package(s):lftp CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2348
Created:May 4, 2007 Updated:May 9, 2007
Description: mirror --script in lftp before 3.5.9 does not properly quote shell metacharacters, which might allow remote user-assisted attackers to execute shell commands via a malicious script. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses security boundaries, since the script already supports commands such as "get" which could overwrite executable files.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2007-0085-1 2007-05-03

Comments (none posted)

libgadu: memory alignment bug

Packag