Exploiting races in system call wrappers
By Jake Edge
August 15, 2007
A technique that is often used by security software, and has historically
been a source of security holes, has once again been shown to be
exploitable on many systems.
Research
recently presented by Robert N.M. Watson at the USENIX Workshop on Offensive
Technologies
(WOOT07) demonstrates race conditions in software that uses
"system call wrapping" (or "hooking"). The race conditions can be
exploited to circumvent the protections that the software is supposed to
provide. Well behaved Linux software is not vulnerable, but other free
operating systems do allow, and even encourage, the practice.
There are several different ways to implement wrappers, but at
the core, they are kernel code that intercepts system calls from all
applications, running their own code before and after the real system call.
The wrapper code can see and
modify all of the arguments being passed to and from the system call.
This technique can be used to enforce various policies on the use of the
system calls, denying or sharply restricting access. Logging, for audit
trail purposes, all system call activity is another way the wrappers could
be used.
Anti-virus or intrusion detection and prevention are the kinds of applications
that use system call wrapping. Intercepting all calls to open(),
for example, checking the file for viruses or illegal access and if so,
returning an error, are the kinds of tasks that system call wrappers are
used for. Notable users of system call wrappers are the OpenBSD and NetBSD
Systrace facility,
the Generic Software
Wrappers Toolkit and the
CerbNG firewall for FreeBSD.
Thus, intercepting system calls is a technique that is useful, but not without
hazards. These recent vulnerabilities are endemic
to the technique, not tied to a specific implementation. They exploit that
bugaboo of system programmers everywhere: the race condition. Specifically,
they are
time-of-check-to-time-of-use
(TOCTTOU) or other, similar, bugs.
A TOCTTOU exploit abuses the gap in time between the test for a condition
and the use of an object that passes the test. If the object is changed
in that gap, the restrictions that were supposed to be enforced by the test
can be bypassed. The classic example is a setuid() program that
tests a file for legal access by the real user before opening it. If the
user replaces the file with a symlink to a file they can't legally access
after the test, but before the open(), they have circumvented the
security check.
Two similar race conditions have been identified for
applications using system call wrappers: time-of-audit-to-time-of-use
(TOATTOU) and time-of-replacement-to-time-of-use (TORTTOU).
In both cases, the data that gets passed to the system call is manipulated.
For TOATTOU, it is done to obscure the data from any auditing or logging
that might be done, covering the tracks of an exploit from an intrusion
detection application for example. In the TORTTOU case, if the data passed
into the system call is changed by the wrapper, to implement "jail"
functionality for instance, the exploit changes it back before the system
call is made.
In his paper, "Exploiting
Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers" (PDF),
Watson shows techniques to reliably exploit the race conditions
in a variety of packages that use system call wrappers. On both single
and multi-processor systems, mechanisms were found to exploit the
time gap – because system calls, especially with wrappers, are not
atomic operations.
For single processor systems, one of his examples used data
that had its last byte on a swapped-out page. While the kernel is
sleeping, awaiting the page to be swapped in, another process can change
the data that has already been read. For multiprocessor systems, the
windows are typically smaller, but it is not necessary to arrange for the
kernel to sleep, a thread on a different processor can be used to alter the
data. The main problem in that case is synchronizing with the kernel
process so that the exploit knows when to change the data. Watson
found several synchronization methods, one very simple one just spins
waiting for the data to change and changes it back, effecting a TORTTOU
exploit.
For these and other reasons, Linux does not export its system call table
and actively discourages programmers from taking this approach. There are
no real solutions to the problems Watson has identified unless the system
call wrapping technique is abandoned. The two solutions he has suggested
are either moving to a "message passing" architecture for system calls or
to integrate the security checks into the kernel itself. He specifically
mentions the Linux Security Modules approach as one that alleviates the
system call wrapper race.
It is unfortunate that there are still many uses of system call wrapping in
today's free operating systems. While the specific problems that Watson
describes may not have been known, wrappers as a source of security bugs
certainly have been. It is a seductive technique, one that seems simple
to implement and foolproof, but it is clearly fraught with peril. The BSD
family needs to find other ways to implement their security applications as
do any Linux vendors who have ignored the kernel developers and continued
to use the wrapping technique.
Comments (8 posted)
New vulnerabilities
dovecot: privilege escalation
| Package(s): | dovecot |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-4211
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| Created: | August 15, 2007 |
Updated: | May 21, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the rPath advisory: "Previous versions of the dovecot package are vulnerable to a
minor privilege escalation attack in which an authenticated
user may exploit an ACL plugin weakness to save message flags
without having proper permissions." |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
libarchive: pax extension header vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | libarchive |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3641
CVE-2007-3644
CVE-2007-3645
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| Created: | August 9, 2007 |
Updated: | February 27, 2008 |
| Description: |
libarchive, a library for manipulating different streaming archive
formats, has a number of pax extension header vulnerabilities.
These may be used to cause a denial of service or for the execution
of arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
qtpfsgui: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | qtpfsgui |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2956
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| Created: | August 13, 2007 |
Updated: | August 15, 2007 |
| Description: |
There is a boundary error in Qtpfsgui and pfstools when reading the
header of a Radiance RGBE (*.hdr) file within the "readRadianceHeader()"
function in src/fileformat/rgbeio.cpp (Qtpfsgui) or
src/Fileformat/rgbeio.cpp (pfstools) which can lead to arbitrary code execution. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
squirrelmail: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | squirrelmail |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2005-1924
CVE-2006-4169
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| Created: | August 13, 2007 |
Updated: | August 15, 2007 |
| Description: |
There is a vulnerability in the squirrelmail G/PGP plugin:
An authenticated user could use the plugin to execute arbitrary code on
the server, or a remote attacker could send a specially crafted e-mail
to a SquirrelMail user, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running the underlying web server.
Note that the G/PGP plugin is disabled by default. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 posted)
terminal: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | terminal |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3770
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| Created: | August 13, 2007 |
Updated: | December 19, 2007 |
| Description: |
A vulnerability was found in the Xfce terminal program:
Lasse Karkkainen discovered that the function terminal_helper_execute()
in file terminal-helper.c does not properly escape the URIs before
processing.
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Comments (none posted)
xvid: array indexing vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | xvid |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3329
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| Created: | August 9, 2007 |
Updated: | August 15, 2007 |
| Description: |
The Xvid video codec has a number of
array indexing vulnerabilities. It may be
possible for an attacker to maliciously create a video that
causes the execution of arbitrary code. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
Updated vulnerabilities
apache2: information disclosure
| Package(s): | apache |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1862
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| 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: |
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Comments (2 posted)
apache: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | apache |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3304
CVE-2006-5752
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| 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: |
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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." |
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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)
avahi: denial of service
| Package(s): | avahi |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3372
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| Created: | June 28, 2007 |
Updated: | September 18, 2007 |
| Description: |
Avahi is vulnerable to a local denial of service that can be caused by
making an erroneous call to the assert() function. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
bind: DNS cache poisoning
| Package(s): | bind |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2926
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| Created: | July 24, 2007 |
Updated: | August 20, 2007 |
| Description: |
A flaw was found in the way BIND generates outbound DNS query ids. If an
attacker is able to acquire a finite set of query IDs, it becomes possible
to accurately predict future query IDs. Future query ID prediction may
allow an attacker to conduct a DNS cache poisoning attack, which can result
in the DNS server returning incorrect client query data. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
bochs: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | bochs |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2893
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| Created: | July 20, 2007 |
Updated: | November 19, 2007 |
| Description: |
A heap-based buffer overflow in the bx_ne2k_c::rx_frame function in
iodev/ne2k.cc in the emulated NE2000 device in Bochs 2.3 allows local users
of the guest operating system to write to arbitrary memory locations and
gain privileges on the host operating system via vectors that cause TXCNT
register values to exceed the device memory size, aka "RX Frame heap
overflow." |
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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)
centericq: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | centericq |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3713
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| Created: | July 20, 2007 |
Updated: | December 17, 2007 |
| Description: |
Multiple buffer overflows in Konst CenterICQ 4.9.11 through 4.21 allow
remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE:
the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained
solely from third party information. NOTE: this might overlap
CVE-2007-0160. |
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Comments (none posted)
clamav: denial of service
| Package(s): | clamav |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3725
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| Created: | July 24, 2007 |
Updated: | February 27, 2008 |
| Description: |
A NULL pointer dereference has been discovered in the RAR VM of Clam
Antivirus (ClamAV) which allows user-assisted remote attackers to
cause a denial of service via a specially crafted RAR archives. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none 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)
gpdf: integer overflow
| Package(s): | cups poppler xpdf |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3387
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| Created: | July 31, 2007 |
Updated: | November 28, 2007 |
| Description: |
The gpdf library contains an integer overflow which can be exploited via a malicious PDF file. This code finds its way into multiple packages, including xpdf, kpdf, poppler, cups, and more. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (1 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: directory traversal
| Package(s): | dovecot |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2231
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| 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: |
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Comments (none posted)
emacs21: denial of service
| Package(s): | emacs21 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2833
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| 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: |
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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. |
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Comments (1 posted)
evolution-data-server: malicious server arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | evolution-data-server |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3257
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| 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." |
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Comments (1 posted)
file: integer overflow
| Package(s): | file |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2799
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| 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. |
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Comments (3 posted)
firebird: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | firebird |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3181
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| Created: | July 2, 2007 |
Updated: | March 27, 2008 |
| Description: |
The Firebird DBMS has a buffer overflow vulnerability involving
the processing of connect requests with an overly large p_cnct_count
value. Remote attackers can send a specially crafted
request to the server in order to potentially execute arbitrary code with
the permissions of the Firebird user. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
firefox: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | firefox |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3844
CVE-2007-3845
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| Created: | August 1, 2007 |
Updated: | February 20, 2008 |
| Description: |
A flaw was discovered in handling of "about:blank" windows used by
addons. A malicious web site could exploit this to modify the contents,
or steal confidential data (such as passwords), of other web pages.
(CVE-2007-3844)
Jesper Johansson discovered that spaces and double-quotes were
not correctly handled when launching external programs. In rare
configurations, after tricking a user into opening a malicious web page,
an attacker could execute helpers with arbitrary arguments with the
user's privileges. (CVE-2007-3845) |
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Comments (none 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
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| 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: |
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Comments (3 posted)
firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3738
CVE-2007-3656
CVE-2007-3670
CVE-2007-3285
CVE-2007-3737
CVE-2007-3089
CVE-2007-3736
CVE-2007-3734
CVE-2007-3735
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| Created: | July 18, 2007 |
Updated: | May 12, 2008 |
| Description: |
shutdown and moz_bug_r_a4 reported two separate ways to modify an
XPCNativeWrapper such that subsequent access by the browser would result in
executing user-supplied code. (CVE-2007-3738)
Michal Zalewski reported that it was possible to bypass the same-origin
checks and read from cached (wyciwyg) documents It is possible to access
wyciwyg:// documents without proper same domain policy checks through the
use of HTTP 302 redirects. This enables the attacker to steal sensitive
data displayed on dynamically generated pages; perform cache poisoning; and
execute own code or display own content with URL bar and SSL certificate
data of the attacked page (URL spoofing++). (CVE-2007-3656)
Internet Explorer calls registered URL protocols without escaping quotes
and may be used to pass unexpected and potentially dangerous data to the
application that registers that URL Protocol. (CVE-2007-3670)
Ronald van den Heetkamp reported that a filename URL containing %00
(encoded null) can cause Firefox to interpret the file extension
differently than the underlying Windows operating system potentially
leading to unsafe actions such as running a program. This is only
accessible locally. (CVE-2007-3285)
An attacker can use an element outside of a document to call an event
handler allowing content to run arbitrary code with chrome
privileges. (CVE-2007-3737)
Ronen Zilberman and Michal Zalewski both reported that it was possible to
exploit a timing issue to inject content into about:blank frames in a
page. When opening a window from a script, it is possible to spoof the
content of the newly opened window's frames within a short time frame,
while the window is loading. (CVE-2007-3089)
Mozilla contributor moz_bug_r_a4 demonstrated that the methods
addEventListener and setTimeout could be used to inject script into another
site in violation of the browser's same-origin policy. This could be used
to access or modify private or valuable information from that other
site. (CVE-2007-3736)
As part of the Firefox 2.0.0.5 update releases Mozilla developers fixed
many bugs to improve the stability of the product. Some of these crashes
that showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and
we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be
exploited to run arbitrary code. Note: Thunderbird shares the browser
engine with Firefox and could be vulnerable if JavaScript were to be
enabled in mail. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage
users from running JavaScript in mail. Without further investigation we
cannot rule out the possibility that for some of these an attacker might be
able to prepare memory for exploitation through some means other than
JavaScript, such as large images. (CVE-2007-3734, CVE-2007-3735) |
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Comments (none posted)
flac123: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | flac123 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3507
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| Created: | July 13, 2007 |
Updated: | October 22, 2007 |
| Description: |
A stack-based buffer overflow in the local__vcentry_parse_value function in
vorbiscomment.c in flac123 (aka flac-tools or flac) before 0.0.10 allows
user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large
comment value_length. |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
flash-plugin: input validation flaw
| Package(s): | flash-plugin |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3456
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| Created: | July 12, 2007 |
Updated: | August 10, 2007 |
| Description: |
The Firefox flash-plugin module has an input validation flaw
involving the display of certain content. If a user can be tricked
into opening a specially crafted Adobe Flash file, it may be possible
to execute arbitrary code. |
| 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: | 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: |
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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: | 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: |
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Comments (2 posted)
gd: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | gd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3472
CVE-2007-3473
CVE-2007-3474
CVE-2007-3475
CVE-2007-3476
CVE-2007-3477
CVE-2007-3478
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| Created: | August 6, 2007 |
Updated: | July 22, 2008 |
| Description: |
Integer overflow in gdImageCreateTrueColor function in the GD Graphics
Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers
to have unspecified remote attack vectors and impact. (CVE-2007-3472)
The gdImageCreateXbm function in the GD Graphics Library (libgd)
before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving a gdImageCreate
failure. (CVE-2007-3473)
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the GIF reader in the
GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allow user-assisted
remote attackers to have unspecified attack vectors and
impact. (CVE-2007-3474)
The GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a GIF image
that has no global color map. (CVE-2007-3475)
Array index error in gd_gif_in.c in the GD Graphics Library (libgd)
before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (crash and heap corruption) via large color
index values in crafted image data, which results in a segmentation
fault. (CVE-2007-3476)
The (a) imagearc and (b) imagefilledarc functions in GD Graphics
Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows attackers to cause a denial
of service (CPU consumption) via a large (1) start or (2) end angle
degree value. (CVE-2007-3477)
Race condition in gdImageStringFTEx (gdft_draw_bitmap) in gdft.c in the
GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors,
possibly involving truetype font (TTF) support. (CVE-2007-3478) |
| Alerts: |
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Comments (none posted)
gd: denial of service
| Package(s): | gd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2756
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| 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. |
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Comments (none posted)
gdm: denial of service
| Package(s): | gdm |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3381
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| Created: | August 1, 2007 |
Updated: | September 20, 2007 |
| Description: |
JLANTHEA reported a denial of service flaw in the way that gdm listens on its Unix domain socket.
Any local user can crash the locally running X session. |
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gimp: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | gimp |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2949
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| Created: | June 28, 2007 |
Updated: | February 27, 2008 |
| Description: |
The gimp image editor has several vulnerabilities, including
a problem where it can open PSD files with excessive dimensions
and a possible stack overflow in the Sunras loader. |
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Comments (none posted)
gimp: integer overflows
| Package(s): | gimp |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2006-4519
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| Created: | August 2, 2007 |
Updated: | August 8, 2007 |
| Description: |
The Gimp has multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities. If a user can be
tricked into opening specially crafted DICOM, PNM, PSD, PSP, RAS, XBM,
or XWD images, integer overflows can occur and arbitrary code can be
executed with the user's privileges. |
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Comments (1 posted)
HelixPlayer: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | HelixPlayer |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3410
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| 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) |
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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). |
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ImageMagick: integer overflows
| Package(s): | imagemagick |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1797
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Comments (none posted)
jasper: denial of service
| Package(s): | jasper |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2721
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| 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. |
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