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Scanning for PHP vulnerabilities with Pixy

Pixy is a source code scanner for PHP 4 that tries to detect two major types of web application vulnerabilities. Cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection are two of the most commonly reported security problems in web applications; any help in detecting and fixing them is welcome. In addition, for those who want to try before they install, the project offers a web interface to upload PHP code for XSS checking.

Pixy is a java program written by folks at the Secure Systems Lab at the Vienna University of Technology. It is roughly a year old, with at least one vulnerability report attributed to it. The project homepage has extensive documentation that will get the impatient going quickly but also satisfy the curiosity of those interested in the guts of the tool.

Once you get past the "quick start", the Pixy documentation guides you through the concept of "tainted" values, which underly both XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities. The basic idea is that unfiltered input can enter the program in various ways, which is considered to be a tainted value. In order to determine if the tainted value is used in a way that could be exploited, you must follow the data through assignments and function calls. If the data is then used in a way that could cause an XSS (via echo() for example), Pixy will flag it. Similarly, if it is used in a mysql_query(), a possible SQL injection will be flagged.

Using htmlentities() on data that is eventually output, will remove the taint on that data for the purposes of XSS analysis. Using addslashes() on arguments to SQL queries, changes their status to "weakly tainted", which means they are not a problem when used inside single quotes in the query, but are still dangerous when just interpolated into the string.

The program produces two kinds of output, a textual report that lists the line numbers as well as output that can be used with graphviz. The graphical output shows a dependency graph describing the flow from the taint source to the dangerous use.

Pixy is geared towards the most common usage of PHP and currently only analyzes PHP 4. If a program uses its own, specialized filtering that is even more cautious than the PHP built-ins, Pixy will not see that filtering and will still consider the data to be tainted. In addition, checking for SQL injection in any database other than MySQL seems to be lacking.

There are endless arguments about the PHP language and whether its constructs and practices foster secure programs, but it is clear that many, if not most, PHP projects have had security problems along the way. Removing XSS and SQL injection problems would take care of a significant fraction of the problems reported daily on BugTraq. Anyone working with PHP code, especially when using MySQL via the mysql_query() call, should seriously consider running Pixy while giving a careful look at anything suspicious that it reports.

Comments (1 posted)

Security news

Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report

Jeff Jones has updated his report on security in Windows Vista vs. Linux and MacOSX for a 6 month period. LWN analyzes the original 90 day report in this week's issue (subscribers only). He has changed his methodology somewhat, this time around, to try and address some concerns expressed over the original report. "The results of the analysis show that Windows Vista continues to show a trend of fewer total and fewer High severity vulnerabilities at the 6 month mark compared to its predecessor product Windows XP (which did not benefit from the SDL) and compared to other modern competitive workstation OSes (which also did not benefit from an SDL-like process). If you share the opinion that Windows and applications ported to Windows get a higher level of researcher scrutiny than other OSes, then the 6-month results are even more positive. If you don't share that opinion, then they still stand on their own ..."

Comments (42 posted)

New vulnerabilities

apache: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):apache CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3304 CVE-2006-5752
Created:June 27, 2007 Updated:February 18, 2008
Description: The Apache HTTP Server did not verify that a process was an Apache child process before sending it signals. A local attacker who has the ability to run scripts on the Apache HTTP Server could manipulate the scoreboard and cause arbitrary processes to be terminated, which could lead to a denial of service. (CVE-2007-3304)

A flaw was found in the Apache HTTP Server mod_status module. Sites with the server-status page publicly accessible and ExtendedStatus enabled were vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux the server-status page is not enabled by default and it is best practice to not make this publicly available. (CVE-2006-5752)

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1711 2008-02-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:061 2007-11-19
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2214 2007-09-18
rPath rPSA-2007-0182-1 2007-09-14
Ubuntu USN-499-1 2007-08-16
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0662-01 2007-07-13
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0557-01 2007-07-13
Fedora FEDORA-2007-615 2007-07-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:142 2007-07-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:141 2007-07-04
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:140 2007-07-04
Fedora FEDORA-2007-617 2007-07-02
rPath rPSA-2007-0136-1 2007-06-27
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0556-01 2007-06-26
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0534-01 2007-06-26
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0533-01 2007-06-27
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0532-01 2007-06-26

Comments (1 posted)

denyhosts: denial of service

Package(s):denyhosts CVE #(s):
Created:June 21, 2007 Updated:June 27, 2007
Description: Version 2.6 of Denyhosts has a problem in the way it scans for "User from .." messages in the log. The message is detected anywhere in the log, not just in the middle of the "bad protocol version" log where it belongs. This can be used to cause a denial of service.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0589 2007-06-20

Comments (none posted)

ekg: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):ekg CVE #(s):CVE-2005-2448 CVE-2007-1663 CVE-2007-1664 CVE-2007-1665
Created:June 25, 2007 Updated:July 2, 2007
Description: Several endianess errors may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service. A memory leak in handling image messages may lead to denial of service. A null pointer deference in the token OCR code may lead to denial of service. A memory leak in the token OCR code may lead to denial of service.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0791 2007-07-02
Debian DSA-1318-1 2007-06-22

Comments (none posted)

emacs21: denial of service

Package(s):emacs21 CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2833
Created:June 21, 2007 Updated:August 29, 2007
Description: The emacs21 editor has a denial of service vulnerability. emacs21 can be made to crash by viewing "certain types of images".
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-504-1 2007-08-28
rPath rPSA-2007-0133-1 2007-06-25
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:133 2007-06-21
Debian DSA 1316-1 2007-06-21

Comments (none posted)

fail2ban: log injection vulnerability

Package(s):fail2ban CVE #(s):
Created:June 22, 2007 Updated:July 30, 2007
Description: fail2ban 0.8 is susceptible to a log injection vulnerability. See this ossec.net entry for more information.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200707-13 2007-07-28
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0621 2007-06-21

Comments (none posted)

HelixPlayer: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):HelixPlayer CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3410
Created:June 27, 2007 Updated:September 17, 2007
Description: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way HelixPlayer processed Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) files. It was possible for a malformed SMIL file to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running HelixPlayer. (CVE-2007-3410)
Alerts:
Gentoo 200709-05 2007-09-14
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0841-01 2007-08-17
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0756 2007-06-29
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0605-01 2007-06-27

Comments (1 posted)

krb5: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):krb5 CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2442 CVE-2007-2443 CVE-2007-2798
Created:June 27, 2007 Updated:March 24, 2008
Description: David Coffey discovered an uninitialized pointer free flaw in the RPC library used by kadmind. A remote unauthenticated attacker who could access kadmind could trigger the flaw causing kadmind to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2007-2442).

David Coffey also discovered an overflow flaw in the same RPC library. A remote unauthenticated attacker who could access kadmind could trigger the flaw causing kadmind to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2007-2443).

Finally, a stack buffer overflow vulnerability was found in kadmind that allowed an unauthenticated user able to access kadmind the ability to trigger the vulnerability and possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2007-2798).

Alerts:
Gentoo 200707-11 2007-07-25
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:038 2007-07-03
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0021 2007-06-29
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0740 2007-06-27
Debian DSA-1323-1 2007-06-28
rPath rPSA-2007-0135-1 2007-06-27
Foresight FLEA-2007-0029-1 2007-06-27
Fedora FEDORA-2007-621 2007-06-28
Fedora FEDORA-2007-620 2007-06-28
Ubuntu USN-477-1 2007-06-26
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0562-01 2007-06-26
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0384-01 2007-06-26
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:137 2007-06-26

Comments (none posted)

maradns: memory leaks

Package(s):maradns CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3114 CVE-2007-3115 CVE-2007-3116
Created:June 25, 2007 Updated:June 27, 2007
Description: Memory leak in server/MaraDNS.c in MaraDNS before 1.2.12.05, and 1.3.x before 1.3.03, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2007-3114)

Multiple memory leaks in server/MaraDNS.c in MaraDNS before 1.2.12.06, and 1.3.x before 1.3.05, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via reverse lookups or requests for records in a class other than Internet. (CVE-2007-3115)

Memory leak in server/MaraDNS.c in MaraDNS 1.2.12.06 and 1.3.05 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2007-3116)

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1319-1 2007-06-23

Comments (none posted)

perl-Net-DNS: predictable id sequence

Package(s):perl-Net-DNS CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3377
Created:June 26, 2007 Updated:March 12, 2008
Description: Net::DNS before 0.60 uses an id sequence that is predictable and the same in all child processes.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1515-1 2008-03-11
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:017 2007-08-17
Gentoo 200708-06 2007-08-11
rPath rPSA-2007-0142-1 2007-07-17
Ubuntu USN-483-1 2007-07-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:146 2007-07-12
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0675-01 2007-07-12
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0674-01 2007-07-12
Fedora FEDORA-2007-609 2007-07-02
Fedora FEDORA-2007-612 2007-07-02
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0668 2007-06-25

Comments (none posted)

proftpd: authentication bypass

Package(s):proftpd CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2165
Created:June 21, 2007 Updated:November 5, 2007
Description: The ProFTPD Auth API has an authentication bypass vulnerability. When multiple simultaneous authentication modules are configured, the ProFTPD module that checks authentication is not necessarily the same module that retrieves authentication data. This can be used by remote attackers to bypass the authentication system.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2613 2007-11-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:130 2007-06-20

Comments (none posted)

redhat-cluster-suite: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):redhat-cluster-suite CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3374
Created:June 25, 2007 Updated:June 28, 2007
Description: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto discovered that cman did not correctly validate the size of client messages. A local user could send a specially crafted message and execute arbitrary code with cluster manager privileges or crash the manager, leading to a denial of service.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0559-01 2007-06-28
Ubuntu USN-476-1 2007-06-22

Comments (2 posted)

tinymux: buffer overflow

Package(s):tinymux CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1655
Created:June 25, 2007 Updated:June 27, 2007
Description: duskwave discovered that tinymux, a text-based multi-user virtual world server, performs insufficient boundary checks when working with user-supplied data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1317-1 2007-06-23

Comments (none posted)

webmin: cross-site scripting

Package(s):webmin CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3156
Created:June 25, 2007 Updated:July 6, 2007
Description: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities were discovered in pam_login.cgi in webmin prior to version 1.350, which could allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200707-05 2007-07-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:135 2007-06-23

Comments (none posted)

xfsdump: insecure temp dir

Package(s):xfsdump CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2654
Created:June 22, 2007 Updated:September 21, 2007
Description: xfs_fsr in xfsdump creates a .fsr temporary directory with insecure permissions, which allows local users to read or overwrite arbitrary files on xfs filesystems.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-516-1 2007-09-20
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:134 2007-06-21

Comments (none posted)

Updated vulnerabilities

apache2: information disclosure

Package(s):apache CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1862
Created:June 20, 2007 Updated:February 18, 2008
Description: From the Mandriva advisory: "The recall_headers function in mod_mem_cache in Apache 2.2.4 does not properly copy all levels of header data, which can cause Apache to return HTTP headers containing previously-used data, which could be used to obtain potentially sensitive information by unauthorized users."
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1711 2008-02-15
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0704 2007-06-26
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:127 2007-06-19

Comments (2 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)

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: denial of service

Package(s):clamav CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2650
Created:June 5, 2007 Updated:July 20, 2007
Description: A vulnerability in the OLE2 parser in ClamAV was found that could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via resource consumption with a carefully crafted OLE2 file.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1154 2007-07-19
Debian DSA-1320-1 2007-06-23
Gentoo 200706-05 2007-06-15
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0020 2007-06-08
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:033 2007-06-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:115 2007-06-04

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)

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)

evolution-data-server: malicious server arbitrary code execution

Package(s):evolution-data-server CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3257
Created:June 18, 2007 Updated:November 7, 2007
Description: From the GNOME bugzilla: "The "SEQUENCE" value in the GData of the IMAP code (camel-imap-folder.c) is converted from a string using strtol. This allows for negative values. The imap_rescan uses this value as an int. It checks for !seq and seq>summary.length. It doesn't check for seq < 0. Although seq is used as the index of an array."
Alerts:
Gentoo 200711-04 2007-11-06
Gentoo 200707-03 2007-07-02
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:042 2007-07-05
Debian DSA-1325-1 2007-06-29
Fedora FEDORA-2007-594 2007-06-27
Fedora FEDORA-2007-595 2007-06-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:136 2007-06-26
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0510-01 2007-06-25
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0509-01 2007-06-25
Debian DSA-1321-1 2007-06-23
Ubuntu USN-475-1 2007-06-21
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0464 2007-06-16

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)

file: integer overflow

Package(s):file CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2799
Created:June 1, 2007 Updated:October 19, 2007
Description: Colin Percival from FreeBSD reported that the previous fix for the file_printf() buffer overflow introduced a new integer overflow. A remote attacker could entice a user to run the file program on an overly large file (more than 1Gb) that would trigger an integer overflow on 32-bit systems, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running file.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200710-19 2007-10-18
Debian DSA-1343-2 2007-09-25
Debian DSA-1343-1 2007-07-31
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:040 2007-07-04
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0836 2007-07-03
Fedora FEDORA-2007-538 2007-06-11
Fedora FEDORA-2007-541 2007-06-11
Ubuntu USN-439-2 2007-06-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:114 2007-06-05
Gentoo 200705-25 2007-05-31

Comments (3 posted)

firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox mozilla seamonkey thunderbird CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1362 CVE-2007-2867 CVE-2007-2868 CVE-2007-2869 CVE-2007-2870 CVE-2007-2871
Created:June 4, 2007 Updated:August 29, 2007
Description: Various flaws were discovered in the layout and JavaScript engines. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2007-2867, CVE-2007-2868)

A flaw was discovered in the form autocomplete feature. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could cause a persistent denial of service. (CVE-2007-2869)

Nicolas Derouet discovered flaws in cookie handling. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could force the browser to consume large quantities of disk or memory while processing long cookie paths. (CVE-2007-1362)

A flaw was discovered in the same-origin policy handling of the addEventListener JavaScript method. A malicious web site could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as passwords), of other web pages. (CVE-2007-2870) Chris Thomas discovered a flaw in XUL popups. A malicious web site could exploit this to spoof or obscure portions of the browser UI, such as the location bar. (CVE-2007-2871)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-469-2 2007-08-29
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:036 2007-06-27
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:131 2007-06-20
Gentoo 200706-06 2007-06-19
Foresight FLEA-2007-0027-1 2007-06-20
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0544 2007-06-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:126-1 2007-06-16
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:126 2007-06-15
Slackware SSA:2007-165-01 2007-06-15
Debian DSA-1308-1 2007-06-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:120 2007-06-12
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:119 2007-06-12
Debian DSA-1305-1 2007-06-13
Debian DSA-1306-1 2007-06-12
Debian DSA-1300-1 2007-06-07
Ubuntu USN-469-1 2007-06-05
Slackware SSA:2007-152-02 2007-06-04
Ubuntu USN-468-1 2007-06-01

Comments (3 posted)

freetype: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):freetype CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2754
Created:May 24, 2007 Updated:July 19, 2007
Description: The Freetype font rendering library versions 2.3.4 and below has an integer sign error. Remote attackers may be able to create a specially crafted TrueType Font file with a negative n_points value that will cause an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow, allowing the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1334 2007-07-18
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:041 2007-07-04
Fedora FEDORA-2007-561 2007-06-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:121 2007-06-13
Foresight FLEA-2007-0025-1 2007-06-13
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0403-01 2007-06-11
Debian DSA-1302-1 2007-06-10
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0033 2007-06-01
Ubuntu USN-466-1 2007-05-30
Gentoo 200705-22 2007-05-30
Trustix TSLSA-2007-0019 2007-05-25
rPath rPSA-2007-0108-1 2007-05-23
Foresight FLEA-2007-0020-1 2007-05-21
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.018 2007-05-24

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)

gd: denial of service

Package(s):gd CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2756
Created:June 14, 2007 Updated:February 28, 2008
Description: Libgd2 has a denial of service vulnerability involving the incorrect validation of PNG callback results. If an application that is linked against libgd2 is used to process a specially-crafted PNG file, a denial of service involving CPU resource consumption can be caused.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0146-01 2008-02-28
Slackware SSA:2007-178-01 2007-06-27
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:013 2007-06-22
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:124 2007-06-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:123 2007-06-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:122 2007-06-13

Comments (none 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)

iscsi-initiator-utils: denial of service

Package(s):iscsi-initiator-utils CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3099 CVE-2007-3100
Created:June 14, 2007 Updated:June 20, 2007
Description: The iscsid SCSI management daemon has two denial of service vulnerabilities. The first involves checking the client's uid on the listening socket instead of the newly accepted connection, this allows anyone to to perform management operations on the iSCSI initiator and crash iscsid. The second vulnerability involves the iscsid logging mechanism. Logs are sent to a shared memory area and a child process feeds them to syslog. The memory is protected by a semaphore wet to mode 0666, allowing arbitrary access to the semaphore. Random users can lock up the semaphore and iscsid will block and hang on the next attempt to send a log message.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1314-1 2007-06-19
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0543 2007-06-18
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0497-01 2007-06-14
Fedora FEDORA-2007-590 2007-06-13
Fedora FEDORA-2007-589 2007-06-13

Comments (none posted)

jasper: denial of service

Package(s):jasper CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2721
Created:June 1, 2007 Updated:November 6, 2007
Description: The jpc_qcx_getcompparms function in jpc/jpc_cs.c could allow remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly corrupt the heap via malformed image files.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:209 2007-11-05
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:208 2007-11-05
Ubuntu USN-501-2 2007-10-22
Ubuntu USN-501-1 2007-08-20
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:129 2007-06-19
Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-01

Comments (none posted)

kdebase: information leak

Package(s):kdebase CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2022
Created:June 13, 2007 Updated:September 19, 2007
Description: A problem with the interaction between the Flash Player and the Konqueror web browser was found. The problem could lead to key presses leaking to the Flash Player applet instead of the browser. NOTE: CVE number may be incorrect, see CVE entry
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2007-0190-1 2007-09-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:138 2007-07-03
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0494-01 2007-06-13

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