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Finding bugs lurking in the DOM
By Jake Edge January 30, 2008
The Document Object Model (DOM) for
HTML is quite useful for handling a variety of dynamic effects for web
pages, but it is complex. It interacts with Javascript and CSS (or they
with it) in ways
that are sometimes surprising—the DOM has often been the source of browser
bugs. A new project, from well-known DOM bug finder
Michal Zalewski, seeks to systematically exercise the DOM in browsers to
eliminate as many holes as it can.
The project, with the unassuming name of DOM access checker (or
dom-checker) was just announced
on the full-disclosure mailing list (along with Bugtraq and others).
Zalewski and colleague Filipe Almeida, both of Google, describe their tool
as follows:
DOM access checker is a tool designed to
automatically validate numerous aspects of domain security policy
enforcement (cross-domain DOM access, Javascript cookies, XMLHttpRequest
calls, event and transition handling) to detect common security attack or
information disclosure vectors.
The checker consists of a three HTML files and a Javascript configuration
file that can be loaded from the internet via HTTP (a live version is available from
the project website) or from the local disk, using the file://
protocol. Ideally, they should be loaded from both places and give the
same results. The screenshot for a sample run using Firefox 3
(Fedora/3.0b3pre-0.beta2.12.nightly20080121.fc9 for the curious) is at left.
After pressing the "Click here to begin tests" button, the Javascript test
harness runs 15 major tests, each with many separate subtests. Each
subtest reports success or failure to the screen as it runs. Firefox 3
failed 15 of the 1500 or so checks in the standard set of tests.
According
to the announcement, "DOM Checker had been used to find a number of
major security bypass and information disclosure problems in several
popular browsers." Zalewski and Almeida worked with the browser
teams to resolve the most serious issues.
But, common browsers will still fail up to 30 of the
less important tests—for privacy, rather than
security, holes.
The hope is that the browser vendors pick up these tests to use as part of
their quality assurance process. They could also be used for regression
testing to find problems that have crept in while fixing other bugs or
adding new features. The checker is a framework that could easily be
extended with additional tests covering other areas of DOM functionality.
With the advent of AJAX, DOM
manipulations via Javascript
are being used more and more by web sites, so tools to discover these kinds
of bugs are welcome.
Comments (5 posted)
New vulnerabilities
gforge: cross-site scripting
| Package(s): | gforge |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-0176
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| Created: | January 28, 2008 |
Updated: | January 30, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the NVD entry:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in search/advanced_search.php in GForge 4.5.11 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the words parameter. |
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icu: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | icu |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-4770
CVE-2007-4771
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| Created: | January 25, 2008 |
Updated: | May 15, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the Red Hat advisory:
Will Drewry reported multiple flaws in the way libicu processed certain
malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against ICU, such
as OpenOffice.org, processed a carefully crafted regular expression, it may
be possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running the application.
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kernel: several vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | linux-2.6 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2878
CVE-2007-6151
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| Created: | January 29, 2008 |
Updated: | July 8, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the Debian advisory: Bart Oldeman reported a denial of service (DoS) issue in the VFAT filesystem that allows local users to corrupt a kernel structure resulting in a system crash. This is only an issue for systems which make use of the VFAT compat ioctl interface, such as systems running an 'amd64' flavor kernel. ADLAB discovered a possible memory overrun in the ISDN subsystem that may permit a local user to overwrite kernel memory leading by issuing ioctls with unterminated data.
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mysql: buffer overflows
| Package(s): | mysql-dfsg-5.0 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0226
CVE-2008-0227
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| Created: | January 29, 2008 |
Updated: | April 3, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the Debian advisory: Luigi Auriemma discovered two buffer overflows in YaSSL, an SSL implementation included in the MySQL database package, which could lead to denial of service and possibly the execution of arbitrary code. |
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netkit-ftpd: denial of service
| Package(s): | netkit-ftpd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6263
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| Created: | January 30, 2008 |
Updated: | January 30, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the Gentoo advisory:
A remote attacker can send specially crafted FTP data to a server with
passive mode and SSL support, causing the ftpd daemon to crash.
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ngircd: denial of service
| Package(s): | ngircd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0285
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| Created: | January 28, 2008 |
Updated: | January 30, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the NVD entry:
ngIRCd 0.10.x before 0.10.4 and 0.11.0 before 0.11.0-pre2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted IRC PART message, which triggers an invalid dereference. |
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pulseaudio: ignores setuid() return value
| Package(s): | pulseaudio |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0008
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| Created: | January 25, 2008 |
Updated: | February 14, 2008 |
| Description: |
Pulseaudio ignores setuid() return value. A user can cause the call to
fail by exhausting the resources in some cases. |
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Comments (none posted)
tikiwiki: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | tikiwiki |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6528
CVE-2007-6526
CVE-2007-6529
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| Created: | January 24, 2008 |
Updated: | January 30, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the Gentoo alert:
Jesus Olmos Gonzalez from isecauditors reported insufficient
sanitization of the "movies" parameter in file tiki-listmovies.php
(CVE-2007-6528).
Mesut Timur from H-Labs discovered that the input passed to the
"area_name" parameter in file tiki-special_chars.php is not properly
sanitised before being returned to the user (CVE-2007-6526).
redflo reported multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in files
tiki-edit_css.php, tiki-list_games.php, and
tiki-g-admin_shared_source.php (CVE-2007-6529). |
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yarssr: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | yarssr |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-5837
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| Created: | January 28, 2008 |
Updated: | January 30, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the NVD entry:
GUI.pm in yarssr 0.2.2, when Gnome default URL handling is disabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a link element in a feed. |
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Updated vulnerabilities
cairo: integer overflow
| Package(s): | Cairo |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-5503
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| Created: | November 29, 2007 |
Updated: | April 10, 2008 |
| Description: |
Cairo has an integer overflow vulnerability in the PNG image processing
code. If a user processes a specially crafted PNG image with an
application that is linked against cairo, arbitrary code can be executed
with the user's privileges. |
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Django: denial of service
| Package(s): | Django |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-5712
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| Created: | November 12, 2007 |
Updated: | May 21, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the CVE notice:
The internationalization (i18n) framework in Django 0.91, 0.95, 0.95.1, and 0.96, and as used in other products such as PyLucid, when the USE_I18N option and the i18n component are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many HTTP requests with large Accept-Language headers. |
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MySQL: privilege escalation
| Package(s): | MySQL |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3781
CVE-2007-5969
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| Created: | December 11, 2007 |
Updated: | May 21, 2008 |
| Description: |
MySQL Community Server before 5.0.51, when a table relies on symlinks created through explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite system table information and gain privileges via a RENAME TABLE statement that changes the symlink to point to an existing file. (CVE-2007-5969)
MySQL Community Server before 5.0.45 does not require privileges such as SELECT for the source table in a CREATE TABLE LIKE statement, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information such as the table structure. (CVE-2007-3781) |
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Sun JDK/JRE: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | Sun JDK/JRE |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-2435
CVE-2007-2788
CVE-2007-2789
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| Created: | June 1, 2007 |
Updated: | April 18, 2008 |
| Description: |
An unspecified vulnerability involving an "incorrect use of system
classes" was reported by the Fujitsu security team. Additionally, Chris
Evans from the Google Security Team reported an integer overflow
resulting in a buffer overflow in the ICC parser used with JPG or BMP
files, and an incorrect open() call to /dev/tty when processing certain
BMP files. |
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Xorg: multiple vulnerabilities
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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." |
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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) |
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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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apache: several vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | apache |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-5000
CVE-2007-6388
CVE-2008-0005
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| Created: | January 15, 2008 |
Updated: | April 4, 2008 |
| Description: |
A flaw was found in the mod_imap module. On sites where mod_imap was
enabled and an imagemap file was publicly available, a cross-site scripting
attack was possible. (CVE-2007-5000)
A flaw was found in the mod_status module. On sites where mod_status was
enabled and the status pages were publicly available, a cross-site
scripting attack was possible. (CVE-2007-6388)
A flaw was found in the mod_proxy_ftp module. On sites where mod_proxy_ftp
was enabled and a forward proxy was configured, a cross-site scripting
attack was possible against Web browsers which did not correctly derive the
response character set following the rules in RFC 2616. (CVE-2008-0005) |
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httpd: denial of service, cross-site scripting
| Package(s): | apache httpd |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3847
CVE-2007-4465
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| Created: | September 25, 2007 |
Updated: | February 15, 2008 |
| Description: |
A flaw was found in the mod_proxy module. On sites where a reverse proxy is
configured, a remote attacker could send a carefully crafted request that
would cause the Apache child process handling that request to crash. On
sites where a forward proxy is configured, an attacker could cause a
similar crash if a user could be persuaded to visit a malicious site using
the proxy. This could lead to a denial of service if using a threaded
Multi-Processing Module. (CVE-2007-3847)
A flaw was found in the mod_autoindex module. On sites where directory
listings are used, and the AddDefaultCharset directive has been removed
from the configuration, a cross-site-scripting attack may be possible
against browsers which do not correctly derive the response character set
following the rules in RFC 2616. (CVE-2007-4465) |
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apache2: denial of service
| Package(s): | apache2 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-1863
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| Created: | November 19, 2007 |
Updated: | February 18, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the CVE entry:
cache_util.c in the mod_cache module in Apache HTTP Server (httpd), when caching is enabled and a threaded Multi-Processing Module (MPM) is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child processing handler crash) via a request with the (1) s-maxage, (2) max-age, (3) min-fresh, or (4) max-stale Cache-Control headers without a value. |
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apt-listchanges: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | apt-listchanges |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0302
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| Created: | January 17, 2008 |
Updated: | January 23, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the Debian alert: Felipe Sateler discovered that apt-listchanges, a package change history
notification tool, used unsafe paths when importing its python libraries.
This could allow the execution of arbitrary shell commands if the root user
executed the command in a directory which other local users may write
to. |
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asterisk: possible SQL injection
| Package(s): | asterisk |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6170
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| Created: | December 3, 2007 |
Updated: | April 15, 2008 |
| Description: |
Tilghman Lesher discovered that the logging engine of Asterisk, a free
software PBX and telephony toolkit, performs insufficient sanitizing of
call-related data, which may lead to SQL injection. |
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bind: insecure permissions
| Package(s): | bind |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6283
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| Created: | December 21, 2007 |
Updated: | July 10, 2008 |
| Description: |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Fedora install the Bind /etc/rndc.key file
with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to perform
unauthorized named commands, such as causing a denial of service by
stopping named. |
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Comments (1 posted)
bind: off-by-one error
| Package(s): | bind |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0122
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| Created: | January 22, 2008 |
Updated: | July 10, 2008 |
| Description: |
Off-by-one error in the inet_network function in libc in FreeBSD 6.2, 6.3,
and 7.0-PRERELEASE and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause
a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted
input that triggers memory corruption. |
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boost: denial of service
| Package(s): | boost |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0171
CVE-2008-0172
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| Created: | January 17, 2008 |
Updated: | March 14, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the Ubuntu alert:
Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy discovered that the boost library
did not properly perform input validation on regular expressions.
An attacker could send a specially crafted regular expression to
an application linked against boost and cause a denial of service
via application crash. |
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cacti: SQL injection vulnerability
| Package(s): | cacti |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6035
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| Created: | November 22, 2007 |
Updated: | February 18, 2008 |
| Description: |
Versions of Cacti prior to 0.8.7a have an SQL injection vulnerability.
Remote attackers can execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors. |
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cacti: denial of service
| Package(s): | cacti |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3112
CVE-2007-3113
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| Created: | September 18, 2007 |
Updated: | February 18, 2008 |
| Description: |
A vulnerability in Cacti 0.8.6i and earlier versions allows remote
authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via
large values of the graph_start, graph_end, graph_height, or graph_width
parameters. |
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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. |
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clamav: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | clamav |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-4510
CVE-2007-4560
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| Created: | September 3, 2007 |
Updated: | February 13, 2008 |
| Description: |
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus
toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
CVE-2007-4510:
It was discovered that the RTF and RFC2397 parsers can be tricked
into dereferencing a NULL pointer, resulting in denial of service.
CVE-2007-4560:
It was discovered clamav-milter performs insufficient input
sanitizing, resulting in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
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clamav: integer overflow and off-by-one
| Package(s): | clamav |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6335
CVE-2007-6336
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| Created: | December 19, 2007 |
Updated: | February 13, 2008 |
| Description: |
ClamAV contains integer overflow and off-by-one errors which could be exploited (via specially-crafted email) to execute arbitrary code. |
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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. |
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cups: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | cups |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-5848
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| Created: | January 7, 2008 |
Updated: | February 27, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the CVE entry:
Buffer overflow in CUPS in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows local admin users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URI to the CUPS service.
From the rPath advisory:
Previous versions of the cups package contain a buffer-overflow
weakness. It is not believed that this weakness can be exploited
to execute malicious code. |
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Comments (1 posted)
cups: multiple vulnerabilities
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debian-goodies: privilege escalation
| Package(s): | debian-goodies |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-3912
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| Created: | October 5, 2007 |
Updated: | March 24, 2008 |
| Description: |
Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart program included
in debian-goodies did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local
attacker could exploit this to gain the privileges of the user running
checkrestart. |
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dovecot: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | dovecot |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6598
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| Created: | January 3, 2008 |
Updated: | May 21, 2008 |
| Description: |
Dovecot has multiple vulnerabilities including an issue involving the
confusion between LDAP-authenticated logins across users with the
same password and a denial of service involving a connecting user. |
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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." |
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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. |
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e2fsprogs: integer overflows
| Package(s): | e2fsprogs |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-5497
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| Created: | December 7, 2007 |
Updated: | February 12, 2008 |
| Description: |
Rafal Wojtczuk of McAfee AVERT Research discovered that e2fsprogs,
ext2 file system utilities and libraries, contained multiple
integer overflows in memory allocations, based on sizes taken directly
from filesystem information. These could result in heap-based
overflows potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code. |
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emacs: buffer overflow
| Package(s): | emacs |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6109
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| Created: | December 10, 2007 |
Updated: | May 6, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the National Vulnerability Database:
Buffer overflow in emacs allows attackers to have an unknown impact, as demonstrated via a vector involving the command line. |
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emacs: command execution via local variables
| Package(s): | emacs |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-5795
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| Created: | November 14, 2007 |
Updated: | February 5, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the original Debian problem report: "In Debian's version of GNU Emacs 22.1+1-2, the `hack-local-variables'
function does not behave correctly when `enable-local-variables' is
set to :safe. The documentation of `enable-local-variables' states
that the value :safe means to set only safe variables, as determined
by `safe-local-variable-p' and `risky-local-variable-p' (and the data
driving them), but Emacs ignores this and instead sets all the local
variables." When this setting (which is not the default) is in effect, opening a hostile file could lead to the execution of arbitrary commands. |
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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)
exiftags: multiple vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | exiftags |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6354
CVE-2007-6355
CVE-2007-6356
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| Created: | December 31, 2007 |
Updated: | April 1, 2008 |
| Description: |
From the Gentoo advisory: Meder Kydyraliev (Google Security) discovered that Exif metadata is not
properly sanitized before being processed, resulting in illegal memory
access in the postprop() and other functions (CVE-2007-6354). He also
discovered integer overflow vulnerabilities in the parsetag() and other
functions (CVE-2007-6355) and an infinite recursion in the readifds()
function caused by recursive IFD references (CVE-2007-6356). |
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exiv2: integer overflow
| Package(s): | exiv2 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6353
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| Created: | December 21, 2007 |
Updated: | June 23, 2008 |
| Description: |
Integer overflow in exif.cpp in exiv2 library allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted EXIF file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. |
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Comments (none 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. |
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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 seamonkey |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-5947
CVE-2007-5959
CVE-2007-5960
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| Created: | November 27, 2007 |
Updated: | March 3, 2008 |
| Description: |
A cross-site scripting flaw was found in the way Firefox handled the
jar: URI scheme. It was possible for a malicious website to leverage this
flaw and conduct a cross-site scripting attack against a user running
Firefox. (CVE-2007-5947)
Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain malformed web
content. A webpage containing malicious content could cause Firefox to
crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2007-5959)
A race condition existed when Firefox set the "window.location" property
for a webpage. This flaw could allow a webpage to set an arbitrary Referer
header, which may lead to a Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack
against websites that rely only on the Referer header for protection.
(CVE-2007-5960)
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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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flac: arbitrary code execution
| Package(s): | flac |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2007-6277
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| Created: | January 21, 2008 |
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