Esteban Martinez Fayo reports:
The FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 (included in Windows Sever 2003 IIS 6.0 and available as a separate download for Windows 2000 and XP) has a web page /_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fpadmdll.dll that is used for administrative purposes. This web page is vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks allowing an attacker to run client-side script on behalf of an FPSE user. If the victim is an administrator, the attacker could take complete control of a Front Page Server Extensions 2002 server.
To exploit the vulnerability an attacker can send a specially crafted e-mail message to a FPSE user and then persuade the user to click a link in the e-mail message.
In addition, this vulnerability can be exploited if an attacker hosts a malicious website and persuade the user to visit it.
Jason Duell reports:
Cscope contains an alarming number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities. By a rough count, there are at least 48 places where we blindly sprintf() a file name into a fixed-length buffer of size PATHLEN without checking to see if the file's name is <= PATHLEN. We do similar things with environment variable values.
Secunia reports:
Coppermine Photo Gallery have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of file uploads where a filename has multiple file extensions. This can be exploited to upload malicious script files inside the web root (e.g. a PHP script).
Successful exploitation may allow execution of script code depending on the HTTP server configuration (it requires e.g. an Apache server with the "mod_mime" module installed).
Secunia reports:
Coppermine Photo Gallery have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
Input passed to the "file" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.
Example: http://[host]/index.php?file=.//././/././/././/./[file]%00
Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
Secunia reports:
Coppermine Photo Gallery have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people and by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.
1) Input passed to the "lang" parameter in include/init.inc.php isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources. The vulnerability can be further exploited by users who are allowed to upload image files to execute arbitrary PHP code.
2) Input passed to the "f" parameter in docs/showdoc.php isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources on the Windows platform, and remote files from Windows shared folders.
phpMyAdmin security team reports:
It was possible to inject arbitrary SQL commands by forcing an authenticated user to follow a crafted link.
Such issue is quite common in many PHP applications and users should take care what links they follow. We consider these vulnerabilities to be quite dangerous.
RealVNC is susceptible to an authentication-bypass vulnerability. A malicious VNC client can cause a VNC server to allow it to connect without any authentication regardless of the authentication settings configured in the server. Exploiting this issue allows attackers to gain unauthenticated, remote access to the VNC servers.
Secunia reports:
phpLDAPadmin have some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Some input isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
2) Input passed to the "Container DN", "Machine Name", and "UID Number" parameters in "template_engine.php" isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed.
JVN reports:
FreeStyleWiki has XSS vulnerability.
Stefano Di Paola reports:
An authenticated user could remotely execute arbitrary commands by taking advantage of a stack overflow.
To take advantage of these flaws an attacker should have direct access to MySQL server communication layer (port 3306 or unix socket). But if used in conjuction with some web application flaws (i.e. php code injection) an attacker could use socket programming (i.e. php sockets) to gain access to that layer.
OS Reviews reports:
If the update of the stats via web front-end is allowed, a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on the server using a specially crafted request involving the migrate parameter. Input starting with a pipe character ("|") leads to an insecure call to Perl's open function and the rest of the input being executed in a shell. The code is run in the context of the process running the AWStats CGI.
Arbitrary code can be executed by uploading a specially crafted configuration file if an attacker can put a file on the server with chosen file name and content (e.g. by using an FTP account on a shared hosting server). In this configuration file, the LogFile directive can be used to execute shell code following a pipe character. As above, an open call on unsanitized input is the source of this vulnerability.
Secunia reports:
phpWebFTP have a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
Input passed to to the "language" parameter in index.php isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.
Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports for deleted object reference when designMode="on"
Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott each described crashes that were discovered to ultimately stem from the same root cause: attempting to use a deleted controller context when designMode was turned on. This generally results in crashing the browser, but in theory references to deleted objects can be abused to run malicious code.
"splices" reported the same crash at the fan site MozillaZine and on Bugtraq, incorrectly describing it as a buffer overflow.
Secunia reports:
A vulnerability has been reported, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed using the wiki macro isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed.
Secunia reports:
A vulnerability has been reported in ClamAV, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the HTTP client in the Freshclam command line utility. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when the HTTP headers received from a web server exceeds 8KB.
Successful exploitation requires that Freshclam is used to download virus signature updates from a malicious mirror web server e.g. via DNS poisoning.
Secunia reports:
A vulnerability has been reported in jabberd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of SASL negotiation. This can be exploited to cause a crash by sending a "response" stanza before an "auth" stanza.
Secunia reports:
Cacti have a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary SQL code and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
The problem is caused due to the presence of the insecure "server.php" test script.
Secunia reports:
Amaya have two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the parsing of various attribute values. This can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when a user opens a specially crafted HTML document containing certain tags with overly long attribute values.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
Secunia reports:
A security issue has been discovered in LifeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary SQL code and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
The problem is caused due to the presence of the insecure "server.php" test script.
Secunia reports:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Ethereal, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to various types of errors including boundary errors, an off-by-one error, an infinite loop error, and several unspecified errors in a multitude of protocol dissectors.
Successful exploitation causes Ethereal to stop responding, consume a large amount of system resources, crash, or execute arbitrary code.
Emmanouel Kellenis reports a denial of service vulnerability within asterisk. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in "format_jpeg.c". A large JPEG image could trigger this bug, potentially allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Gentoo reports:
Andrea Barisani of Gentoo Linux discovered xzgv and zgv allocate insufficient memory when rendering images with more than 3 output components, such as images using the YCCK or CMYK colour space. When xzgv or zgv attempt to render the image, data from the image overruns a heap allocated buffer.
An attacker may be able to construct a malicious image that executes arbitrary code with the permissions of the xzgv or zgv user when attempting to render the image.
FRSIRT reports:
A vulnerability has been identified in CrossFire, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "oldsocketmode" module that fails to properly handle overly large requests, which could be exploited by a malicious client to crash or compromise a vulnerable system.
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña reports:
The DBI library, the Perl5 database interface, creates a temporary PID file in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the person executing the parts of the library.
Dedi Dwianto reports:
A remote user can access the file directly to cause the system to display an error message that indicates the installation path. The resulting error message will disclose potentially sensitive installation path information to the remote attacker.
c0ntexb reports:
There are 2 format string bugs in the latest version of Xine that could be exploited by a malicious person to execute code on the system of a remote user running the media player against a malicious playlist file. By passing a format specifier in the path of a file that is embedded in a remote playlist, it is possible to trigger this bug.
Unspecified vulnerability in the CMU Cyrus Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) library, has unknown impact and remote unauthenticated attack vectors, related to DIGEST-MD5 negotiation.
On "7th generation" and "8th generation" processors manufactured by AMD, including the AMD Athlon, Duron, Athlon MP, Athlon XP, Athlon64, Athlon64 FX, Opteron, Turion, and Sempron, the fxsave and fxrstor instructions do not save and restore the FOP, FIP, and FDP registers unless the exception summary bit (ES) in the x87 status word is set to 1, indicating that an unmasked x87 exception has occurred.
This behaviour is consistent with documentation provided by AMD, but is different from processors from other vendors, which save and restore the FOP, FIP, and FDP registers regardless of the value of the ES bit. As a result of this discrepancy remaining unnoticed until now, the FreeBSD kernel does not restore the contents of the FOP, FIP, and FDP registers between context switches.
On affected processors, a local attacker can monitor the execution path of a process which uses floating-point operations. This may allow an attacker to steal cryptographic keys or other sensitive information.
No workaround is available, but systems which do not use AMD Athlon, Duron, Athlon MP, Athlon XP, Athlon64, Athlon64 FX, Opteron, Turion, or Sempron processors are not vulnerable.
Secunia reports:
The vulnerability is caused due to missing security declarations in "changeMemberPortrait" and "deletePersonalPortrait". This can be exploited to manipulate or delete another user's portrait via the "member_id" parameter.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues. Several of which can be used to run arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running the program.
- MFSA 2006-29 Spoofing with translucent windows
- MFSA 2006-28 Security check of js_ValueToFunctionObject() can be circumvented
- MFSA 2006-26 Mail Multiple Information Disclosure
- MFSA 2006-25 Privilege escalation through Print Preview
- MFSA 2006-24 Privilege escalation using crypto.generateCRMFRequest
- MFSA 2006-23 File stealing by changing input type
- MFSA 2006-22 CSS Letter-Spacing Heap Overflow Vulnerability
- MFSA 2006-20 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.2)
- MFSA 2006-19 Cross-site scripting using .valueOf.call()
- MFSA 2006-18 Mozilla Firefox Tag Order Vulnerability
- MFSA 2006-17 cross-site scripting through window.controllers
- MFSA 2006-16 Accessing XBL compilation scope via valueOf.call()
- MFSA 2006-15 Privilege escalation using a JavaScript function's cloned parent
- MFSA 2006-14 Privilege escalation via XBL.method.eval
- MFSA 2006-13 Downloading executables with "Save Image As..."
- MFSA 2006-12 Secure-site spoof (requires security warning dialog)
- MFSA 2006-11 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8)
- MFSA 2006-10 JavaScript garbage-collection hazard audit
- MFSA 2006-09 Cross-site JavaScript injection using event handlers
Secunia reports:
A vulnerability has been reported in Mailman, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Unspecified input passed to the private archive script is not properly sanitised before being returned to users. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena reports two temporary file vulnerability within f2c. The vulnerabilities are caused due to weak temporary file handling. An attacker could create an symbolic link, causing a local user running f2c to overwrite the symlinked file. This could give the attacker elevated privileges.
Secunia reports:
The vulnerabilities are caused due to integer overflow errors in "libmpdemux/asfheader.c" within the handling of an ASF file, and in "libmpdemux/aviheader.c" when parsing the "indx" chunk in an AVI file. This can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via a malicious ASF file, or via a AVI file with specially-crafted "wLongsPerEntry" and "nEntriesInUse" values in the "indx" chunk.
The KDE team reports:
Kaffeine can produce a buffer overflow in http_peek() while creating HTTP request headers for fetching remote playlists, which under certain circumstances could be used to crash the application and/or execute arbitrary code.
Renaud Lifchitz reports a vulnerability within thunderbird. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of javascript scripts. This could lead to javascript code execution which can lead to information disclosure or a denial of service (application crash). This vulnerability is present even if javascript had been disabled in the preferences.
phpMyAdmin security announcement:
It was possible to conduct an XSS attack with a direct call to some scripts under the themes directory.
Secunia reports:
A vulnerability has been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "set_theme" parameter isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
Secunia reports:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in ClamAV, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and compromise a vulnerable system.
An unspecified integer overflow error exists in the PE header parser in "libclamav/pe.c". Successful exploitation requires that the ArchiveMaxFileSize option is disabled.
Some format string errors in the logging handling in "shared/output.c" may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
An out-of-bounds memory access error in the "cli_bitset_test()" function in "ibclamav/others.c" may be exploited to cause a crash.
The mediawiki development team reports a vulnerability within the mediawiki application. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of inline style attributes. This could result in the execution of arbitrary javascript code in Microsoft Internet Explorer. It appears that other browsers are not affected by this vulnerability.
Ubuntu reports:
A buffer overflow was found in the "pnmtopng" conversion program. By tricking an user (or automated system) to process a specially crafted PNM image with pnmtopng, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pnmtopng.
Jean-Sébastien Guay-Leroux report a vulnerability within the zoo archiver. The vulnerability which is present in the fullpath() function (from the misc.c file) is caused by improper checking of user supplied data. The data returned to the buffer can be up to 512 bytes, while the buffer is created to hold 256 bytes. This could result in a buffer overflow which could allow remote code execution.
The mediawiki development team reports that there is an site scripting vulnerability within mediawiki. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of encoded links which could allow the injection of html in the output generated by mediawiki. This could lead to cross site scripting attacks against mediawiki installations.
Secunia reports:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Dia, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the XFig import plugin. This can be exploited to cause buffer overflows and may allow arbitrary code execution when a specially-crafted FIG file is imported.
Hendrik Weimer reports:
OpenVPN clients are a bit too generous when accepting configuration options from a server. It is possible to transmit environment variables to client-side shell scripts. There are some filters in place to prevent obvious nonsense, however they don't catch the good old LD_PRELOAD trick. All we need is to put a file onto the client under a known location (e.g. by returning a specially crafted document upon web access) and we have a remote root exploit. But since the attack may only come from authenticated servers, this threat is greatly reduced.
Samba Security Advisory:
The machine trust account password is the secret shared between a domain controller and a specific member server. Access to the member server machine credentials allows an attacker to impersonate the server in the domain and gain access to additional information regarding domain users and groups.
The winbindd daemon writes the clear text of server's machine credentials to its log file at level 5. The winbindd log files are world readable by default and often log files are requested on open mailing lists as tools used to debug server misconfigurations.
This affects servers configured to use domain or ads security and possibly Samba domain controllers as well (if configured to use winbindd).
Nathan Dors of the Pubcookie Project reports:
Non-persistent XSS vulnerabilities were found in the Pubcookie Apache module (mod_pubcookie) and ISAPI filter. These components mishandle untrusted data when printing responses to the browser. This makes them vulnerable to carefully crafted requests containing script or HTML. If an attacker can lure an unsuspecting user to visit carefully staged content, the attacker can use it to redirect the user to a vulnerable Pubcookie application server and attempt to exploit the XSS vulnerabilities.
These vulnerabilities are classified as *high* due to the nature and purpose of Pubcookie application servers for user authentication and Web Single Sign-on (SSO). An attacker who injects malicious script through the vulnerabilities might steal private Pubcookie data including a user's authentication assertion ("granting") cookies and application session cookies.
Nathan Dors of the Pubcookie Project reports:
Multiple non-persistent XSS vulnerabilities were found in the Pubcookie login server's compiled binary "index.cgi" CGI program. The CGI program mishandles untrusted data when printing responses to the browser. This makes the program vulnerable to carefully crafted requests containing script or HTML. If an attacker can lure an unsuspecting user to visit carefully staged content, the attacker can use it to redirect the user to his or her local Pubcookie login page and attempt to exploit the XSS vulnerabilities.
These vulnerabilities are classified as *critical* due to the nature and purpose of the Pubcookie login server for user authentication and Web Single Sign-on (SSO). Specific threats include:
- An attacker who injects malicious script through the vulnerabilities might steal senstive user data including a user's authentication credentials (usernames and passwords);
- An attacker who injects malicious script through the vulnerabilities might steal private Pubcookie data including a user's authentication assertion ("granting") cookies and SSO ("login") session cookies;
- An attacker who injects HTML tags through the vulnerabilities might deface a site's Pubcookie login page for a single visit by a single user (i.e. a non-persistent defacement).
At the heart of these threats lies a violation of the user's trust in the Pubcookie login server.
Freeradius Security Contact reports:
Insufficient input validation was being done in the EAP-MSCHAPv2 state machine. A malicious attacker could manipulate their EAP-MSCHAPv2 client state machine to potentially convince the server to bypass authentication checks. This bypassing could also result in the server crashing.
Horde 3.1.1 release announcement:
Major changes compared to Horde 3.1 are:
- Fix for remote code execution vulnerability in the help viewer, discovered by Jan Schneider from the Horde team.
Secunia Advisories Reports:
A boundary error when processing SWF files can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. This may allow execution of arbitrary code on the user's system.
iDefense Reports:
Remote exploitation of a heap-based buffer overflow in RealNetwork Inc's RealPlayer could allow the execution of arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged in user.
In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to entice a user to follow a link to a malicious server. Once the user visits a website under the control of an attacker, it is possible in a default install of RealPlayer to force a web-browser to use RealPlayer to connect to an arbitrary server, even when it is not the default application for handling those types, by the use of embedded object tags in a webpage. This may allow automated exploitation when the page is viewed.
A race condition has been reported to exist in the handling by sendmail of asynchronous signals.
A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running sendmail, typically root.
There is no known workaround other than disabling sendmail.
The opiepasswd(1) program uses getlogin(2) to identify the user calling opiepasswd(1). In some circumstances getlogin(2) will return "root" even when running as an unprivileged user. This causes opiepasswd(1) to allow an unpriviled user to configure OPIE authentication for the root user.
In certain cases an attacker able to run commands as a non privileged users which have not explicitly logged in, for example CGI scripts run by a web server, is able to configure OPIE access for the root user. If the attacker is able to authenticate as root using OPIE authentication, for example if "PermitRootLogin" is set to "yes" in sshd_config or the attacker has access to a local user in the "wheel" group, the attacker can gain root privileges.
Disable OPIE authentication in PAM:
# sed -i "" -e /opie/s/^/#/ /etc/pam.d/*
or
Remove the setuid bit from opiepasswd:
# chflags noschg /usr/bin/opiepasswd
# chmod 555 /usr/bin/opiepasswd
# chflags schg /usr/bin/opiepasswd
IPsec provides an anti-replay service which when enabled prevents an attacker from successfully executing a replay attack. This is done through the verification of sequence numbers. A programming error in the fast_ipsec(4) implementation results in the sequence number associated with a Security Association not being updated, allowing packets to unconditionally pass sequence number verification checks.
An attacker able to to intercept IPSec packets can replay them. If higher level protocols which do not provide any protection against packet replays (e.g., UDP) are used, this may have a variety of effects.
No workaround is available.
Daniel Stone of X.Org reports:
During the analysis of results from the Coverity code review of X.Org, we discovered a flaw in the server that allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, or cause a denial of service by overwriting files on the system, again with root privileges.
A Project heimdal Security Advisory reports:
The telnet client program in Heimdal has buffer overflows in the functions slc_add_reply() and env_opt_add(), which may lead to remote code execution.
The telnetd server program in Heimdal has buffer overflows in the function getterminaltype, which may lead to remote code execution.
The rshd server in Heimdal has a privilege escalation bug when storing forwarded credentials. The code allowes a user to overwrite a file with its credential cache, and get ownership of the file.
A Project cURL Security Advisory reports:
libcurl uses the given file part of a TFTP URL in a manner that allows a malicious user to overflow a heap-based memory buffer due to the lack of boundary check.
This overflow happens if you pass in a URL with a TFTP protocol prefix ("tftp://"), using a valid host and a path part that is longer than 512 bytes.
The affected flaw can be triggered by a redirect, if curl/libcurl is told to follow redirects and an HTTP server points the client to a tftp URL with the characteristics described above.
Drupal reports:
Mail header injection vulnerability.
Linefeeds and carriage returns were not being stripped from email headers, raising the possibility of bogus headers being inserted into outgoing email.
This could lead to Drupal sites being used to send unwanted email.
Session fixation vulnerability.
If someone creates a clever enough URL and convinces you to click on it, and you later log in but you do not log off then the attacker may be able to impersonate you.
XSS vulnerabilities.
Some user input sanity checking was missing. This could lead to possible cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
XSS can lead to user tracking and theft of accounts and services.
Security bypass in menu.module.
If you use menu.module to create a menu item, the page you point to will be accessible to all, even if it is an admin page.
Secunia advisory SA19246:
Paul Craig has discovered a vulnerability in Horde, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information. Input passed to the "url" parameter in "services/go.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used in a "readfile()" call. This can be exploited to disclose the content of arbitrary files via e.g. the "php://" protocol wrapper.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 3.0.9 and has also been reported in prior versions.
Provided and/or discovered by: Paul Craig, Security-Assessment.com.
Adobe reports:
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Flash Player that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious SWF must be loaded in Flash Player by the user for an attacker to exploit these vulnerabilities.
Flash Player 8 update (8.0.24.0), and Flash Player 7 update (7.0.63.0) address security vulnerabilities in previous versions of Flash Player, which could lead to the potential execution of arbitrary code. These vulnerabilities could be accessed through content delivered from a remote location via the users web browser, email client, or other applications that include or reference the Flash Player.
A part of the NFS server code charged with handling incoming RPC messages via TCP had an error which, when the server received a message with a zero-length payload, would cause a NULL pointer dereference which results in a kernel panic. The kernel will only process the RPC messages if a userland nfsd daemon is running.
The NULL pointer deference allows a remote attacker capable of sending RPC messages to an affected FreeBSD system to crash the FreeBSD system.
Disable the NFS server: set the nfs_server_enable variable to "NO" in /etc/rc.conf, and reboot.
Alternatively, if there are no active NFS clients (as listed by the showmount(8) utility), simply killing the mountd and nfsd processes should suffice.
Add firewall rules to block RPC traffic to the NFS server from untrusted hosts.
Because OpenSSH and OpenPAM have conflicting designs (one is event- driven while the other is callback-driven), it is necessary for OpenSSH to fork a child process to handle calls to the PAM framework. However, if the unprivileged child terminates while PAM authentication is under way, the parent process incorrectly believes that the PAM child also terminated. The parent process then terminates, and the PAM child is left behind.
Due to the way OpenSSH performs internal accounting, these orphaned PAM children are counted as pending connections by the master OpenSSH server process. Once a certain number of orphans has accumulated, the master decides that it is overloaded and stops accepting client connections.
By repeatedly connecting to a vulnerable server, waiting for a password prompt, and closing the connection, an attacker can cause OpenSSH to stop accepting client connections until the system restarts or an administrator manually kills the orphaned PAM processes.
The following command will show a list of orphaned PAM processes:
# pgrep -lf 'sshd.*\[pam\]'
The following command will kill orphaned PAM processes:
# pkill -f 'sshd.*\[pam\]'
To prevent OpenSSH from leaving orphaned PAM processes behind, perform one of the following:
Disable PAM authentication in OpenSSH. Users will still be able to log in using their Unix password, OPIE or SSH keys.
To do this, execute the following commands as root:
# echo 'UsePAM no' >>/etc/ssh/sshd_config
# echo 'PasswordAuthentication yes' >>/etc/ssh/sshd_config
# /etc/rc.d/sshd restart
If disabling PAM is not an option - if, for instance, you use RADIUS authentication, or store user passwords in an SQL database - you may instead disable privilege separation. However, this may leave OpenSSH vulnerable to hitherto unknown bugs, and should be considered a last resort.
To do this, execute the following commands as root:
# echo 'UsePrivilegeSeparation no' >>/etc/ssh/sshd_config
# /etc/rc.d/sshd restart
Werner Koch reports:
In the aftermath of the false positive signature verfication bug (announced 2006-02-15) more thorough testing of the fix has been done and another vulnerability has been detected. This new problem affects the use of *gpg* for verification of signatures which are _not_ detached signatures. The problem also affects verification of signatures embedded in encrypted messages; i.e. standard use of gpg for mails.
The Mplayer team reports:
A potential buffer overflow was found in the ASF demuxer. Arbitrary remote code execution is possible (under the user ID running the player) when streaming an ASF file from a malicious server or local code execution (under the user ID running the player) if a malicious ASF file is played locally.
SSH Communications Security Corp reports a format string vulnerability in their SFTP server. This vulnerability could cause a user with SCP/SFTP access only to get permission to execute also other commands. It could also allow user A to create a special file that when accessed by user B allows user A to execute commands as user B.
GNU tar is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking of the PAX extended headers. By tricking an user into processing a specially crafted tar archive, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Bugzilla, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks, and by malicious people to disclose sensitive information and conduct script insertion attacks.
Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered since 1.4.5, including IMAP injection as well as some XSS issues.
Yan Feng reports a format string vulnerability in gedit. This vulnerability could cause a denial of service with a binary file that contains format string characters within the filename. It had been reported that web browsers and email clients can be configured to provide a filename as an argument to gedit.:
SecurityFocus reports that WebCalendar is affected by an unauthorized access vulnerability. The vulnerability is caused by improper checking of the authentication mechanism before access is being permitted to the "assistant_edit.php" file.
Chris Evans reports that AbiWord is vulnerable to multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities. This is caused by improper checking of the user-supplied data before it is being copied to an too small buffer. The vulnerability is triggered when someone is importing RTF files.
The PostgreSQL team reports:
Due to inadequate validity checking, a user could exploit the special case that SET ROLE normally uses to restore the previous role setting after an error. This allowed ordinary users to acquire superuser status, for example.
Werner Koch reports:
The Gentoo project identified a security related bug in GnuPG. When using any current version of GnuPG for unattended signature verification (e.g. by scripts and mail programs), false positive signature verification of detached signatures may occur.
This problem affects the tool *gpgv*, as well as using "gpg --verify" to imitate gpgv, if only the exit code of the process is used to decide whether a detached signature is valid. This is a plausible mode of operation for gpgv.
If, as suggested, the --status-fd generated output is used to decide whether a signature is valid, no problem exists. In particular applications making use of the GPGME library[2] are not affected.
Pizzashack reports:
Max Vozeler has reported a problem whereby rssh can allow users who have shell access to systems where rssh is installed (and rssh_chroot_helper is installed SUID) to gain root access to the system, due to the ability to chroot to arbitrary locations. There are a lot of potentially mitigating factors, but to be safe you should upgrade immediately.
Roger Dingledine reports:
If you offer a Tor hidden service, an adversary who can run a fast Tor server and who knows some basic statistics can find the location of your hidden service in a matter of minutes to hours.
Tavis Ormandy reports:
The bash shell uses the value of the PS4 environment variable (after expansion) as a prefix for commands run in execution trace mode. Execution trace mode (xtrace) is normally set via bash's -x command line option or interactively by running "set -o xtrace". However, it may also be enabled by placing the string "xtrace" in the SHELLOPTS environment variable before bash is started.
A malicious user with sudo access to a shell script that uses bash can use this feature to run arbitrary commands for each line of the script.
The Secure Science Corporation reports that libtomcrypt is vulnerable to a weak signature scheme. This allows an attacker to create a valid random signature and use that to sign arbitrary messages without requiring the private key.
r0t reports:
Mantis contains a flaw that allows a remote cross site scripting attack. This flaw exists because input passed to "target_field" parameter in "view_filters_page.php" is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This could allow a user to create a specially crafted URL that would execute arbitrary code in a user's browser within the trust relationship between the browser and the server, leading to a loss of integrity.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported within phpbb. phpbb is proven vulnerable to:
The postgresql development team reports:
The more severe of the two errors is that the functions that support client-to-server character set conversion can be called from SQL commands by unprivileged users, but these functions are not designed to be safe against malicious choices of argument values. This problem exists in PostgreSQL 7.3.* through 8.0.*. The recommended fix is to disable public EXECUTE access for these functions. This does not affect normal usage of the functions for character set conversion, but it will prevent misuse.
The other error is that the contrib/tsearch2 module misdeclares several functions as returning type "internal" when they do not have any "internal" argument. This breaks the type safety of "internal" by allowing users to construct SQL commands that invoke other functions accepting "internal" arguments. The consequences of this have not been investigated in detail, but it is certainly at least possible to crash the backend.
Eric Romang reports a temporary file creation vulnerability within heartbeat. The vulnerability is caused by hardcoded temporary file usage. This can cause an attacker to create an arbitrary symlink causing the application to overwrite the symlinked file with the permissions of the user executing the application.
The KDE team reports:
kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains a heap based buffer overflow in the splash rasterizer engine that can crash kpdf or even execute arbitrary code.
The Perl Development page reports:
Dyad Security recently released a security advisory explaining how in certain cases, a carefully crafted format string passed to sprintf can cause a buffer overflow. This buffer overflow can then be used by an attacker to execute code on the machine. This was discovered in the context of a design problem with the Webmin administration package that allowed a malicious user to pass unchecked data into sprintf.
Francesco Ongaro reports that phpicalendar is vulnerable for a cross site scripting attack. The vulnerability is caused by improper validation of the index.php file allowing attackers to include an arbitrary file with the .php extension
The phpicalendar team reports that there is an unspecified vulnerability within phpicalendar. This seems to be a file disclosure vulnerability caused by improper checking of the template parsing function. This would allow an attacker to disclose any file readable by the user under which the webserver runs.
Problem description:
When insufficient memory is available to handle an incoming selective acknowledgement, the TCP/IP stack may enter an infinite loop.
Impact:
By opening a TCP connection and sending a carefully crafted series of packets, an attacker may be able to cause a denial of service.
Workaround:
On FreeBSD 5.4, the net.inet.tcp.sack.enable sysctl can be used to disable the use of SACK:
# sysctl net.inet.tcp.sack.enable=0
No workaround is available for FreeBSD 5.3.
Problem description:
A logic bug in pf's IP fragment cache may result in a packet fragment being inserted twice, violating a kernel invariant.
Impact:
By sending carefully crafted sequence of IP packet fragments, a remote attacker can cause a system running pf with a ruleset containing a 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' rule to crash.
Workaround:
Do not use 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' rules on systems running pf. In most cases, such rules can be replaced by 'scrub fragment reassemble' rules; see the pf.conf(5) manual page for more details.
Systems which do not use pf, or use pf but do not use the aforementioned rules, are not affected by this issue.
Problem description:
A buffer allocated from the kernel stack may not be completely initialized before being copied to userland. [CVE-2006-0379]
A logic error in computing a buffer length may allow too much data to be copied into userland. [CVE-2006-0380]
Impact:
Portions of kernel memory may be disclosed to local users. Such memory might contain sensitive information, such as portions of the file cache or terminal buffers. This information might be directly useful, or it might be leveraged to obtain elevated privileges in some way. For example, a terminal buffer might include a user-entered password.
Workaround:
No workaround is available.
Problem description:
An integer overflow in the handling of corrupt IEEE 802.11 beacon or probe response frames when scanning for existing wireless networks can result in the frame overflowing a buffer.
Impact:
An attacker able broadcast a carefully crafted beacon or probe response frame may be able to execute arbitrary code within the context of the FreeBSD kernel on any system scanning for wireless networks.
Workaround:
No workaround is available, but systems without IEEE 802.11 hardware or drivers loaded are not vulnerable.
Problem description:
The firewall maintains a pointer to layer 4 header information in the event that it needs to send a TCP reset or ICMP error message to discard packets. Due to incorrect handling of IP fragments, this pointer fails to get initialized.
Impact:
An attacker can cause the firewall to crash by sending ICMP IP fragments to or through firewalls which match any reset, reject or unreach actions.
Workaround:
Change any reset, reject or unreach actions to deny. It should be noted that this will result in packets being silently discarded.
Mitre CVE reports:
Format string vulnerability in main.cpp in kpopup 0.9.1-0.9.5pre2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in command line arguments.
misc.cpp in KPopup 0.9.1 trusts the PATH variable when executing killall, which allows local users to elevate their privileges by modifying the PATH variable to reference a malicious killall program.
SecurityFocus credits "b0f" b0fnet@yahoo.com
Problem description:
A number of issues has been discovered in cpio:
When creating a new file, cpio closes the file before setting its permissions. (CVE-2005-1111)
When extracting files cpio does not properly sanitize file names to filter out ".." components, even if the --no-absolute-filenames option is used. (CVE-2005-1229)
When adding large files (larger than 4 GB) to a cpio archive on 64-bit platforms an internal buffer might overflow. (CVE-2005-4268)
Impact
The first problem can allow a local attacker to change the permissions of files owned by the user executing cpio providing that they have write access to the directory in which the file is being extracted. (CVE-2005-1111)
The lack of proper file name sanitation can allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary local files when extracting files from a cpio archive. (CVE-2005-1229)
The buffer-overflow on 64-bit platforms could lead cpio to a Denial-of-Service situation (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running cpio. (CVE-2005-4268)
Workaround
Use a different utility to create and extract cpio archives, for example pax(1) or (on FreeBSD 5.3 or later) tar(1). If this is not possible, do not extract untrusted archives and when running on 64-bit platforms do not add untrusted files to cpio archives.
Problem description
The ispell_op function used by ee(1) while executing spell
check operations employs an insecure method of temporary file
generation. This method produces predictable file names based
on the process ID and fails to confirm which path will be over
written with the user.
It should be noted that ispell does not have to be installed
in order for this to be exploited. The option simply needs to
be selected.
Impact
These predictable temporary file names are problematic because they allow an attacker to take advantage of a race condition in order to execute a symlink attack, which could allow them to overwrite files on the system in the context of the user running the ee(1) editor.
Workaround
Instead of invoking ispell through ee(1), invoke it directly.
Problem description
The "sort_offline" function used by texindex(1) employs the "maketempname" function, which produces predictable file names and fails to validate that the paths do not exist.
Impact
These predictable temporary file names are problematic because they allow an attacker to take advantage of a race condition in order to execute a symlink attack, which could enable them to overwrite files on the system in the context of the user running the texindex(1) utility.
Workaround
No workaround is available, but the problematic code is only executed if the input file being processed is 500kB or more in length; as a result, users working with documents of less than several hundred pages are very unlikely to be affected.
Problem description
A temporary file is created, used, deleted, and then
re-created with the same name. This creates a window during
which an attacker could replace the file with a link to
another file. While cvsbug(1) is based on the send-pr(1)
utility, this problem does not exist in the version of
send-pr(1) distributed with FreeBSD.
In FreeBSD 4.10 and 5.3, some additional problems exist
concerning temporary file usage in both cvsbug(1) and
send-pr(1).
Impact
A local attacker could cause data to be written to any file to which the user running cvsbug(1) (or send-pr(1) in FreeBSD 4.10 and 5.3) has write access. This may cause damage in itself (e.g., by destroying important system files or documents) or may be used to obtain elevated privileges.
Workaround
Do not use the cvsbug(1) utility on any system with untrusted
users.
Do not use the send-pr(1) utility on a FreeBSD 4.10 or 5.3
system with untrusted users.
Sun Microsystems reports:
The SGE 6.0u7_1 release fixes a security bug which can allow malicious users to gain root access.
Matthias Andree reports:
Fetchmail contains a bug that causes itself to crash when bouncing a message to the originator or to the local postmaster. The crash happens after the bounce message has been sent, when fetchmail tries to free the dynamic array of failed addresses, and calls the free() function with an invalid pointer.
The Zero Day Initiative reports:
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Clam AntiVirus installations. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
This specific flaw exists within libclamav/upx.c during the unpacking of executable files compressed with UPX. Due to an invalid size calculation during a data copy from the user-controlled file to heap allocated memory, an exploitable memory corruption condition is created.
Juan J. Marítnez reports:
The milter crashes while processing a headerless message
Impact: bogom crashes and sendmail moves it to error state
Matthias Andree reports:
Bogofilter's/bogolexer's input handling in version 0.96.2 was not keeping track of its output buffers properly and could overrun a heap buffer if the input contained words whose length exceeded 16,384 bytes, the size of flex's input buffer. A "word" here refers to a contiguous run of input octets that was not '_' and did not match at least one of ispunct(), iscntrl() or isspace().
Matthias Andree reports:
When using Unicode databases (default in more recent bogofilter installations), upon encountering invalid input sequences, bogofilter or bogolexer could overrun a malloc()'d buffer, corrupting the heap, while converting character sets. Bogofilter would usually be processing untrusted data received from the network at that time.
This problem was aggravated by an unrelated bug that made bogofilter process binary attachments as though they were text, and attempt charset conversion on them. Given the MIME default character set, US-ASCII, all input octets in the range 0x80...0xff were considered invalid input sequences and could trigger the heap corruption.
A rxvt-unicode changelog reports:
SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt, too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs). Found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley.
The Apache HTTP Server Project reports:
A flaw in mod_imap when using the Referer directive with image maps. In certain site configurations a remote attacker could perform a cross-site scripting attack if a victim can be forced to visit a malicious URL using certain web browsers.
Kurt Fitzner reports a buffer overflow vulnerability within nbd. This could potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code on the nbd server.
Max Vozeler reports:
If ALL the following conditions are true, administrators using scponly-4.1 or older may be at risk of a local privilege escalation exploit:
- the chrooted setuid scponlyc binary is installed
- regular non-scponly users have interactive shell access to the box
- a user executable dynamically linked setuid binary (such as ping) exists on the same file system mount as the user's home directory
- the operating system supports an LD_PRELOAD style mechanism to overload dynamic library loading
Pekka Pessi also reports:
If ANY the following conditions are true, administrators using scponly-4.1 or older may be at risk of a local privilege escalation exploit:
- scp compatibility is enabled
- rsync compatibility is enabled
The fetchmail team reports:
Fetchmail contains a bug that causes an application crash when fetchmail is configured for multidrop mode and the upstream mail server sends a message without headers. As fetchmail does not record this message as "previously fetched", it will crash with the same message if it is re-executed, so it cannot make progress. A malicious or broken-into upstream server could thus cause a denial of service in fetchmail clients.
Secunia Research reports:
Input passed to the "t_core_path" parameter in "bug_sponsorship_list_view_inc.php" isn't properly verified, before it used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local resources.
r0t reports:
Mantis contains a flaw that allows a remote cross site scripting attack. This flaw exists because input passed to "target_field" parameter in "view_filters_page.php" isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This could allow a user to create a specially crafted URL that would execute arbitrary code in a user's browser within the trust relationship between the browser and the server, leading to a loss of integrity.
Announce of Mnemo H3 (2.0.3) (final):
This [2.0.3] is a security release that fixes cross site scripting vulnerabilities in several of the notepad name and note data fields. None of the vulnerabilities can be exploited by unauthenticated users; however, we strongly recommend that all users of Mnemo 2.0.2 upgrade to 2.0.3 as soon as possible.
Announce of Nag H3 (2.0.4) (final):
This [2.0.4] is a security release that fixes cross site scripting vulnerabilities in several of the tasklist name and task data fields. None of the vulnerabilities can be exploited by unauthenticated users; however, we strongly recommend that all users of Nag 2.0.3 upgrade to 2.0.4 as soon as possible.
Announce of Turba H3 (2.0.5) (final):
This [2.0.5] is a security release that fixes cross site scripting vulnerabilities in several of the address book name and contact data fields. None of the vulnerabilities can be exploited by unauthenticated users; however, we strongly recommend that all users of Turba 2.0.4 upgrade to 2.0.5 as soon as possible.
Announce of Kronolith H3 (2.0.6) (final):
This [2.0.6] is a security release that fixes cross site scripting vulnerabilities in several of the calendar name and event data fields. None of the vulnerabilities can be exploited by unauthenticated users; however, we strongly recommend that all users of Kronolith 2.0.5 upgrade to 2.0.6 as soon as possible.
Announce of Horde H3 3.0.8 (final):
This [3.0.8] is a security release that fixes cross site scripting vulnerabilities in several of Horde's templates. None of the vulnerabilities can be exploited by unauthenticated users; however, we strongly recommend that all users of Horde 3.0.7 upgrade to 3.0.8 as soon as possible.
A Project cURL Security Advisory reports:
libcurl's URL parser function can overflow a malloced buffer in two ways, if given a too long URL.
1 - pass in a URL with no protocol (like "http://") prefix, using no slash and the string is 256 bytes or longer. This leads to a single zero byte overflow of the malloced buffer.
2 - pass in a URL with only a question mark as separator (no slash) between the host and the query part of the URL. This leads to a single zero byte overflow of the malloced buffer.
Both overflows can be made with the same input string, leading to two single zero byte overwrites.
The affected flaw cannot be triggered by a redirect, but the long URL must be passed in "directly" to libcurl. It makes this a "local" problem. Of course, lots of programs may still pass in user-provided URLs to libcurl without doing much syntax checking of their own, allowing a user to exploit this vulnerability.
Secunia reports:
Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, disclose sensitive information, and compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the register_globals emulation layer in "grab_globals.php" where the "import_blacklist" variable is not properly protected from being overwritten. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site, and include arbitrary files from external and local resources.
A phpMyAdmin security advisory reports:
It was possible to conduct an XSS attack via the HTTP_HOST variable; also, some scripts in the libraries directory that handle header generation were vulnerable to XSS.
Secunia reports:
Simon Kilvington has reported a vulnerability in FFmpeg libavcodec, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "avcodec_default_get_buffer()" function of "utils.c" in libavcodec. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow when a specially-crafted 1x1 ".png" file containing a palette is read.
Secunia reports:
A vulnerability has been reported in Trac, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Some unspecified input passed in the search module isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Secunia reports:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, and conduct script insertion and HTTP response splitting attacks.
1) An input validation error in the filtering of HTML code can be exploited to inject arbitrary JavaScript code in submitted content, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed. Successful exploitation requires that the user has access to the full HTML input format. Ref: sa-2005-007
2) An input validation error in the attachment handling can be exploited to upload a malicious image with embedded HTML and script content, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when viewed directly with the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. This can also be exploited to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will be included in the response sent to the user. Ref: sa-2005-008
3) The problem is that it is possible to bypass the "access user profile" permission. However, this cannot be exploited to modify data. Successful exploitation requires that the server runs PHP 5. Ref: sa-2005-009
Opera reports:
It is possible to make a form input that looks like an image link. If the form input has a "title" attribute, the status bar will show the "title". A "title" which looks like a URL can mislead the user, since the title can say http://nice.familiar.com/, while the form action can be something else.
Opera's tooltip says "Title:" before the title text, making a spoof URL less convincing. A user who has enabled the status bar and disabled tooltips can be affected by this. Neither of these settings are Opera's defaults.
This exploit is mostly of interest to users who disable JavaScript. If JavaScript is enabled, any link target or form action can be overridden by the script. The tooltip and the statusbar can only be trusted to show the true location if JavaScript is disabled.
Java code using LiveConnect methods to remove a property of a JavaScript object may in some cases use null pointers that can make Opera crash. This crash is not exploitable and such code is rare on the web.
An Opera Advisory reports:
Opera for UNIX uses a wrapper shell script to start up Opera. This shell script reads the input arguments, like the file names or URLs that Opera is to open. It also performs some environment checks, for example whether Java is available and if so, where it is located.
This wrapper script can also run commands embedded in the URL, so that a specially crafted URL can make arbitrary commands run on the recipient's machine. Users who have other programs set up to use Opera to open Web links are vulnerable to this flaw. For these users, clicking a Web link in for example OpenOffice.org or Evolution can run a command that was put into the link.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
peter MC tachatte has discovered a vulnerability in Mambo, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain information and compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "register_globals" emulation layer in "globals.php" where certain arrays used by the system can be overwritten. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local resources via the "mosConfig_absolute_path" parameter.
Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is disabled.
Ghostscript is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is likely due to a design error that causes the application to fail to verify the existence of a file before writing to it.
An attacker may leverage this issue to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of an unsuspecting user that activates the vulnerable application. Reportedly this issue is unlikely to facilitate privilege escalation.
Announce of Horde 3.0.7 (final):
This [3.0.7] is a security release that fixes cross site scripting vulnerabilities in two of Horde's MIME viewers. These holes could for example be exploited by an attacker sending specially crafted emails to Horde's webmail client IMP. The attack could be used to steal users' identity information, taking over users' sessions, or changing users' settings.
As a hotfix the css and tgz MIME drivers can be disabled by removing their entries from the $mime_drivers_map['horde']['registered'] list in horde/config/mime_drivers.php.
A phpMyAdmin security advisory reports:
Some scripts in phpMyAdmin are vulnerable to an HTTP Response Splitting attack.
Severity:
We consider these vulnerabilities to be serious. However, they can only be triggered on systems running with register_globals = on.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Christopher Kunz has reported a vulnerability in phpSysInfo, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain information.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "register_globals" emulation layer where certain arrays used by the system can be overwritten. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session and include arbitrary files from local resources.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
A vulnerability has been reported in Macromedia Flash Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to missing validation of the frame type identifier that is read from a SWF file. This value is used as an index in Flash.ocx to reference an array of function pointers. This can be exploited via a specially crafted SWF file to cause the index to reference memory that is under the attacker's control, which causes Flash Player to use attacker supplied values as function pointers.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Lostmon has reported some vulnerabilities in Flyspray, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Some input isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
A vulnerability has been reported in SpamAssassin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to the use of an inefficient regular expression in "/SpamAssassin/Message.pm" to parse email headers. This can cause perl to crash when it runs out of stack space and can be exploited via a malicious email that contains a large number of recipients.
Jens Steube reports that qpopper is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability. qpopper does not properly drop root privileges so that user supplied configuration and trace files can be processed with root privileges. This could allow a local attacker to create or modify arbitrary files.
qpopper is also affected by improper umask settings which could allow users to create group or world-writeable files, possibly allowing an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files.
Gregory Beaver reports:
A standard feature of the PEAR installer implemented in all versions of PEAR can lead to the execution of arbitrary PHP code upon running the "pear" command or loading the Web/Gtk frontend.
To be vulnerable, a user must explicitly install a publicly released malicious package using the PEAR installer, or explicitly install a package that depends on a malicious package.
James Yonan reports:
If the TCP server accept() call returns an error status, the resulting exception handler may attempt to indirect through a NULL pointer, causing a segfault. Affects all OpenVPN 2.0 versions.
James Yonan reports:
A format string vulnerability in the foreign_option function in options.c could potentially allow a malicious or compromised server to execute arbitrary code on the client. Only non-Windows clients are affected. The vulnerability only exists if (a) the client's TLS negotiation with the server succeeds, (b) the server is malicious or has been compromised such that it is configured to push a maliciously crafted options string to the client, and (c) the client indicates its willingness to accept pushed options from the server by having "pull" or "client" in its configuration file (Credit: Vade79).
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Skype, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS or to compromise a user's system.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
M.A.Young has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in handling certain FTP server responses. This can be exploited to crash Squid by visiting a malicious FTP server via the proxy.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Remco Verhoef has discovered a vulnerability in Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE), which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.
The fetchmail team reports:
The fetchmailconf program before and excluding version 1.49 opened the run control file, wrote the configuration to it, and only then changed the mode to 0600 (rw-------). Writing the file, which usually contains passwords, before making it unreadable to other users, can expose sensitive password information.
Ulf Härnhammar reports:
When Lynx connects to an NNTP server to fetch information about the available articles in a newsgroup, it will call a function called HTrjis() with the information from certain article headers. The function adds missing ESC characters to certain data, to support Asian character sets. However, it does not check if it writes outside of the char array buf, and that causes a remote stack-based buffer overflow.
Ruby home page reports:
The Object Oriented Scripting Language Ruby supports safely executing an untrusted code with two mechanisms: safe level and taint flag on objects.
A vulnerability has been found that allows bypassing these mechanisms.
By using the vulnerability, arbitrary code can be executed beyond the restrictions specified in each safe level. Therefore, Ruby has to be updated on all systems that use safe level to execute untrusted code.
Ariel Berkman reports:
Unlike most of the supported image formats in xloadimage, the NIFF image format can store a title name of arbitrary length as part of the image file.
When xloadimage is processing a loaded image, it is creating a new Image object and then writing the processed image to it. At that point, it will also copy the title from the old image to the newly created image.
The 'zoom', 'reduce', and 'rotate' functions are using a fixed length buffer to construct the new title name when an image processing is done. Since the title name in a NIFF format is of varying length, and there are insufficient buffer size validations, the buffer can be overflowed.
Jennifer Steffens reports:
The Back Orifice preprocessor contains a stack-based buffer overflow. This vulnerability could be leveraged by an attacker to execute code remotely on a Snort sensor where the Back Orifice preprocessor is enabled. However, there are a number of factors that make remote code execution difficult to achieve across different builds of Snort on different platforms, even on the same platform with different compiler versions, and it is more likely that an attacker could use the vulnerability as a denial of service attack.
The Back Orifice preprocessor can be disabled by commenting out the line "preprocessor bo" in snort.conf. This can be done in any text editor using the following procedure:
- Locate the line "preprocessor bo"
- Comment out this line by preceding it with a hash (#). The new line will look like "#preprocessor bo"
- Save the file
- Restart snort
WebCalendar is proven vulnerable to a remote file inclusion vulnerability. The send_reminders.php does not properly verify the "includedir" parameter, giving remote attackers the possibility to include local and remote files. These files can be used by the attacker to gain access to the system.
Michael Dipper wrote:
A vulnerability has been discovered in gallery, which allows remote users unauthorized access to files on the webserver.
A remote user accessing gallery over the web may use specially crafted HTTP parameters to access arbitrary files located on the webserver. All files readable by the webserver process are subject to disclosure. The vulnerability is *not* restricted to the webserver's document root but extends to the whole server file space.
The vulnerabilty may be used by any anonymous user, there is no login to the application required.
Vulnerability:
Such applications are affected if they use the option SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING. This option is implied by use of SSL_OP_ALL, which is intended to work around various bugs in third-party software that might prevent interoperability. The SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING option disables a verification step in the SSL 2.0 server supposed to prevent active protocol-version rollback attacks. With this verification step disabled, an attacker acting as a "man in the middle" can force a client and a server to negotiate the SSL 2.0 protocol even if these parties both support SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0. The SSL 2.0 protocol is known to have severe cryptographic weaknesses and is supported as a fallback only.
Applications using neither SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING nor SSL_OP_ALL are not affected. Also, applications that disable use of SSL 2.0 are not affected.
A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports:
In libraries/grab_globals.lib.php, the $__redirect parameter was not correctly validated, opening the door to a local file inclusion attack.
We consider this vulnerability to be serious.
A Zope Hotfix Alert reports:
This hotfix resolves a security issue with docutils.
Affected are possibly all Zope instances that expose RestructuredText functionalies to untrusted users through the web.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string bug in the routines handling CDDB server response contents.
An attacker could submit malicious information about an audio CD to a public CDDB server (or impersonate a public CDDB server). When the victim plays this CD on a multimedia frontend relying on xine-lib, it could end up executing arbitrary code.
FrSIRT reports:
A vulnerability has been identified in UW-IMAP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a stack overflow error in the "mail_valid_net_parse_work()" [src/c-client/mail.c] function that does not properly handle specially crafted mailbox names containing a quote (") character, which could be exploited by authenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the IMAP server.
Emanuel Haupt reports:
Someone who controls an FTP server that weex will log in to can set up malicious data in the account that weex will use, and that will cause a format string bug that will allow remote code execution. It will only happen when weex is first run or when its cache files are rebuilt with the -r option, though. The vulnerability was found by Ulf Harnhammar.
Shaun Colley reports:
When generating error and warning messages, picasm copies strings into fixed length buffers without bounds checking.
If an attacker could trick a user into assembling a source file with a malformed 'error' directive, arbitrary code could be executed with the privileges of the user. This could result in full system compromise.
The uim developers reports:
Masanari Yamamoto discovered that incorrect use of environment variables in uim. This bug causes privilege escalation if setuid/setgid applications was linked to libuim.
This bug appears in 'immodule for Qt' enabled Qt. (Normal Qt is also safe.) In some distribution, mlterm is also an setuid/setgid application.
A Debian Security Advisory reports:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered several insecure temporary file uses in cfengine, a tool for configuring and maintaining networked machines, that can be exploited by a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user executing cfengine, which is probably root.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in "libclamav/upx.c" when processing malformed UPX-packed executables. It can also be sent into an infinite loop in "libclamav/fsg.c" when processing specially-crafted FSG-packed executables.
By sending a specially-crafted file an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Clam AntiVirus, or cause a Denial of Service.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues:
Heap overrun in XBM image processing
jackerror reports that an improperly terminated XBM image ending with space characters instead of the expected end tag can lead to a heap buffer overrun. This appears to be exploitable to install or run malicious code on the user's machine.
Thunderbird does not support the XBM format and is not affected by this flaw.
Crash on "zero-width non-joiner" sequence
Mats Palmgren discovered that a reported crash on Unicode sequences with "zero-width non-joiner" characters was due to stack corruption that may be exploitable.
XMLHttpRequest header spoofing
It was possible to add illegal and malformed headers to an XMLHttpRequest. This could have been used to exploit server or proxy flaws from the user's machine, or to fool a server or proxy into thinking a single request was a stream of separate requests. The severity of this vulnerability depends on the value of servers which might be vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling and similar attacks, or which share an IP address (virtual hosting) with the attacker's page.
For users connecting to the web through a proxy this flaw could be used to bypass the same-origin restriction on XMLHttpRequests by fooling the proxy into handling a single request as multiple pipe-lined requests directed at arbitrary hosts. This could be used, for example, to read files on intranet servers behind a firewall.
Object spoofing using XBL <implements>
moz_bug_r_a4 demonstrated a DOM object spoofing bug similar to MFSA 2005-55 using an XBL control that <implements> an internal interface. The severity depends on the version of Firefox: investigation so far indicates Firefox 1.0.x releases don't expose any vulnerable functionality to interfaces spoofed in this way, but that early Deer Park Alpha 1 versions did.
XBL was changed to no longer allow unprivileged controls from web content to implement XPCOM interfaces.
JavaScript integer overflow
Georgi Guninski reported an integer overflow in the JavaScript engine. We presume this could be exploited to run arbitrary code under favorable conditions.
Privilege escalation using about: scheme
heatsync and shutdown report two different ways to bypass the restriction on loading high privileged "chrome" pages from an unprivileged "about:" page. By itself this is harmless--once the "about" page's privilege is raised the original page no longer has access--but should this be combined with a same-origin violation this could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Chrome window spoofing
moz_bug_r_a4 demonstrates a way to get a blank "chrome" canvas by opening a window from a reference to a closed window. The resulting window is not privileged, but the normal browser UI is missing and can be used to construct a spoof page without any of the safety features of the browser chrome designed to alert users to phishing sites, such as the address bar and the status bar.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Peter Zelezny has discovered a vulnerability in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to the shell script used to launch Firefox parsing shell commands that are enclosed within backticks in the URL provided via the command line. This can e.g. be exploited to execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into following a malicious link in an external application which uses Firefox as the default browser.
Marc Stern reports an off-by-one vulnerability in within mod_ssl. The vulnerability lies in mod_ssl's Certificate Revocation List (CRL). If Apache is configured to use a CRL this could allow an attacker to crash a child process causing a Denial of Service.
A Squirrelmail Advisory reports:
An extract($_POST) was done in options_identities.php which allowed for an attacker to set random variables in that file. This could lead to the reading (and possible writing) of other people's preferences, cross site scripting or writing files in webserver-writable locations.
Allocating large pixmaps by a client can trigger an integer overflow in the X server, potentially leading to execution of arbitrary code with elevated (root) privileges.
Imran Ghory reports a vulnerability within unzip. The vulnerability is caused by a race condition between extracting an archive and changing the permissions of the extracted files. This would give an attacker enough time to remove a file and hardlink it to another file owned by the user running unzip. When unzip changes the permissions of the file it could give the attacker access to files that normally would not have been accessible for others.
Tom Ferris reports:
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists within Firefox version 1.0.6 and all other prior versions which allows for an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on an affected host.
The problem seems to be when a hostname which has all dashes causes the NormalizeIDN call in nsStandardURL::BuildNormalizedSpec to return true, but is sets encHost to an empty string. Meaning, Firefox appends 0 to approxLen and then appends the long string of dashes to the buffer instead.
Note: It is possible to disable IDN support as a workaround to protect against this buffer overflow. How to do this is described on the What Firefox and Mozilla users should know about the IDN buffer overflow security issue web page.
Michael Krax reports a vulnerability within htdig. The vulnerability lies within an unsanitized config parameter, allowing a malicious attacker to execute arbitrary scripting code on the target's browser. This might allow the attacker to obtain the user's cookies which are associated with the site, including cookies used for authentication.
The squid patches page notes:
After certain slightly odd requests Squid crashes with a segmentation fault in sslConnectTimeout.
The squid patches page notes:
Squid crashes with the above assertion failure [assertion failed: store.c:523: "e->store_status == STORE_PENDING"] in certain conditions involving aborted requests.
Problem description
A DNSSEC-related validator function in BIND 9.3.0 contains an inappropriate internal consistency test. When this test is triggered, named(8) will exit.
Impact
On systems with DNSSEC enabled, a remote attacker may be able to inject a specially crafted packet that will cause the internal consistency test to trigger, and named(8) to terminate. As a result, the name server will no longer be available to service requests.
Workaround
DNSSEC is not enabled by default, and the "dnssec-enable" directive is not normally present. If DNSSEC has been enabled, disable it by changing the "dnssec-enable" directive to "dnssec-enable no;" in the named.conf(5) configuration file.
An ISC advisory reports a buffer overrun vulnerability within bind. The vulnerability could result in a Denial of Service. A workaround is available by disabling recursion and glue fetching.
Several filename-related stack overflow bugs allow a local attacker to elevate its privileges to the games group, since urban is installed setgid games.
Issue discovered and fixed by <shaun@rsc.cx>.
There is a command injection vulnerability in admin page of fswiki.
A SITIC Vulnerability Advisory reports:
Evolution suffers from several format string bugs when handling data from remote sources. These bugs lead to crashes or the execution of arbitrary assembly language code.
- The first format string bug occurs when viewing the full vCard data attached to an e-mail message.
- The second format string bug occurs when displaying contact data from remote LDAP servers.
- The third format string bug occurs when displaying task list data from remote servers.
- The fourth, and least serious, format string bug occurs when the user goes to the Calendars tab to save task list data that is vulnerable to problem 3 above. Other calendar entries that do not come from task lists are also affected.
Luke Howard reports:
If a pam_ldap client authenticates against an LDAP server that returns a passwordPolicyResponse control, but omits the optional "error" field of the PasswordPolicyResponseValue, then the LDAP authentication result will be ignored and the authentication step will always succeed.
The pcre library is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of quantifier values. This could lead execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the program using pcre by way of a specially crated regular expression.
Ulf Harnhammar has discovered a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in Elm e-mail client when parsing the Expires header of an e-mail message:
The attacker only needs to send the victim an e-mail message. When the victim with that message in his or her inbox starts Elm or simply views the inbox in an already started copy of Elm, the buffer overflow will happen immediately. The overflow is stack-based, and it gives full control over EIP, EBP and EBX. It is caused by a bad sscanf(3) call, using a format string containing "%s" to copy from a long char array to a shorter array.
James Yonan reports:
If two or more client machines try to connect to the server at the same time via TCP, using the same client certificate, and when --duplicate-cn is not enabled on the server, a race condition can crash the server with "Assertion failed at mtcp.c:411"
James Yonan reports:
A malicious [authenticated] client in "dev tap" ethernet bridging mode could theoretically flood the server with packets appearing to come from hundreds of thousands of different MAC addresses, causing the OpenVPN process to deplete system virtual memory as it expands its internal routing table.
James Yonan reports:
If the client sends a packet which fails to decrypt on the server, the OpenSSL error queue is not properly flushed, which can result in another unrelated client instance on the server seeing the error and responding to it, resulting in disconnection of the unrelated client.
James Yonan reports:
DoS attack against server when run with "verb 0" and without "tls-auth". If a client connection to the server fails certificate verification, the OpenSSL error queue is not properly flushed, which can result in another unrelated client instance on the server seeing the error and responding to it, resulting in disconnection of the unrelated client.
A tor advisory reports
Tor clients can completely loose anonymity, confidentiality, and data integrity if the first Tor server in their path is malicious. Specifically, if the Tor client chooses a malicious Tor server for her first hop in the circuit, that server can learn all the keys she negotiates for the rest of the circuit (or just spoof the whole circuit), and then read and/or modify all her traffic over that circuit.
A Adobe Security Advisory reports:
The identified vulnerability is a buffer overflow within a core application plug-in, which is part of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. If a malicious file were opened it could trigger a buffer overflow as the file is being loaded into Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. A buffer overflow can cause the application to crash and increase the risk of malicious code execution.
A Hardened-PHP Project Security Advisory reports:
When the library parses XMLRPC requests/responses, it constructs a string of PHP code, that is later evaluated. This means any failure to properly handle the construction of this string can result in arbitrary execution of PHP code.
This new injection vulnerability is cause by not properly handling the situation, when certain XML tags are nested in the parsed document, that were never meant to be nested at all. This can be easily exploited in a way, that user-input is placed outside of string delimiters within the evaluation string, which obviously results in arbitrary code execution.
Note that several applications contains an embedded version on XML_RPC, therefor making them the vulnerable to the same code injection vulnerability.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability in AWStats allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
The problem specifically exists because of insufficient input filtering before passing user-supplied data to an
eval()function. As part of the statistics reporting function, AWStats displays information about the most common referrer values that caused users to visit the website. The referrer data is used without proper sanitation in aneval()statement, resulting in the execution of arbitrary perl code.Successful exploitation results in the execution of arbitrary commands with permissions of the web service. Exploitation will not occur until the stats page has been regenerated with the tainted referrer values from the http access log. Note that AWStats is only vulnerable in situations where at least one URLPlugin is enabled.
Wojtek Kaniewski reports:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libgadu, a library for handling Gadu-Gadu instant messaging protocol. It is a part of ekg, a Gadu-Gadu client, but is widely used in other clients. Also some of the user contributed scripts were found to behave in an insecure manner.
- integer overflow in libgadu (CVE-2005-1852) that could be triggered by an incomming message and lead to application crash and/or remote code execution
- insecure file creation (CVE-2005-1850) and shell command injection (CVE-2005-1851) in other user contributed scripts (discovered by Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski)
- several signedness errors in libgadu that could be triggered by an incomming network data or an application passing invalid user input to the library
- memory alignment errors in libgadu that could be triggered by an incomming message and lead to bus errors on architectures like SPARC
- endianness errors in libgadu that could cause invalid behaviour of applications on big-endian architectures
The GAIM team reports:
A remote user could cause Gaim to crash on some systems by sending the Gaim user a file whose filename contains certain invalid characters. It is unknown what combination of systems are affected, but it is suspected that Windows users and systems with older versions of GTK+ are especially susceptible.
The GAIM team reports:
A remote AIM or ICQ user can cause a buffer overflow in Gaim by setting an away message containing many AIM substitution strings (such as %t or %n).
xpdf is vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability which can cause xpdf to create an infinitely large file, thereby filling up the /tmp partition, when opening a specially crafted PDF file.
Note that several applications contains an embedded version of xpdf, therefor making them the vulnerable to the same DoS. In CUPS this vulnerability would cause the pdftops filter to crash.
Jose Antonio Coret reports that GForge contains multiple Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities and an e-mail flood vulnerability:
The login form is also vulnerable to XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attacks. This may be used to launch phising attacks by sending HTML e-mails (i.e.: saying that you need to upgrade to the latest GForge version due to a security problem) and putting in the e-mail an HTML link that points to an specially crafted url that inserts an html form in the GForge login page and when the user press the login button, he/she send the credentials to the attackers website.
The 'forgot your password?' feature allows a remote user to load a certain URL to cause the service to send a validation e-mail to the specified user's e-mail address. There is no limit to the number of messages sent over a period of time, so a remote user can flood the target user's secondary e-mail address. E-Mail Flood, E-Mail bomber.
Postnuke Security Announcementss reports of the following vulnerabilities:
- missing input validation within /modules/Messages/readpmsg.php
- possible path disclosure within /user.php
- possible path disclosure within /modules/News/article.php
- possible remote code injection within /includes/pnMod.php
- possible cross-site-scripting in /index.php
- remote code injection via xml rpc library
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mambo, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing and SQL injection attacks.
- Input passed to the "user_rating" parameter when voting isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
- Some unspecified vulnerabilities in the "mosDBTable" class and the "DOMIT" library have an unknown impact.
- An unspecified error in the "administrator/index3.php" script can be exploited to spoof session IDs.
A programming error in the implementation of the AES-XCBC-MAC algorithm for authentication resulted in a constant key being used instead of the key specified by the system administrator.
If the AES-XCBC-MAC algorithm is used for authentication in the absence of any encryption, then an attacker may be able to forge packets which appear to originate from a different system and thereby succeed in establishing an IPsec session. If access to sensitive information or systems is controlled based on the identity of the source system, this may result in information disclosure or privilege escalation.
A fixed-size buffer is used in the decompression of data streams. Due to erronous analysis performed when zlib was written, this buffer, which was belived to be sufficiently large to handle any possible input stream, is in fact too small.
A carefully constructed compressed data stream can result in zlib overwriting some data structures. This may cause applications to halt, resulting in a denial of service; or it may result in an attacker gaining elevated privileges.
Due to insufficient parameter checking of the node type during device creation, any user can expose hidden device nodes on devfs mounted file systems within their jail. Device nodes will be created in the jail with their normal default access permissions.
Jailed processes can get access to restricted resources on the host system. For jailed processes running with superuser privileges this implies access to all devices on the system. This level of access can lead to information leakage and privilege escalation.
The ProFTPD release notes states:
sean <infamous42md at hotpop.com> found two format string vulnerabilities, one in mod_sql's SQLShowInfo directive, and one involving the 'ftpshut' utility. Both can be considered low risk, as they require active involvement on the part of the site administrator in order to be exploited.
These vulnerabilities could potentially lead to information disclosure, a denial-of-server situation, or execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running ProFTPD.
When nbsmtp is executed in debug mode, server messages will be printed to stdout and logged via syslog. Syslog is used insecurely and user-supplied format characters are directly fed to the syslog function, which results in a format string vulnerability.
Under some circumstances, an SMTP server may be able to abuse this vulnerability in order to alter the nbsmtp process and execute malicious code.
Sylpheed is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when displaying emails with attachments that have MIME-encoded file names. This could be used by a remote attacker to crash sylpheed potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running sylpheed.
A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports:
The convcharset parameter was not correctly validated, opening the door to a XSS attack.
Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato reports that the OpenPGP protocol is vulnerable to a cryptographic attack when using symmetric encryption in an automated way.
David Shaw reports about the impact:
This attack, while very significant from a cryptographic point of view, is not generally effective in the real world. To be specific, unless you have your OpenPGP program set up as part of an automated system to accept encrypted messages, decrypt them, and then provide a response to the submitter, then this does not affect you at all.
Note that the fix
in GnuPG does note completely
eliminate the potential problem:
These patches disable a portion of the OpenPGP protocol that the attack is exploiting. This change should not be user visible. With the patch in place, this attack will not work using a public-key encrypted message. It will still work using a passphrase-encrypted message.
Georgi Guninski discovered a way to construct Vim modelines that execute arbitrary shell commands. The vulnerability can be exploited by including shell commands in modelines that call the glob() or expand() functions. An attacker could trick an user to read or edit a trojaned file with modelines enabled, after which the attacker is able to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user.
Note: It is generally recommended that VIM
users use set nomodeline in
~/.vimrc to avoid the possibility of trojaned
text files.
A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag.
Successful exploitation would require the victim to open a specially crafted TIFF image, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and retrieve a user's files.
The vulnerability is caused due to Opera allowing a user to drag e.g. an image, which is actually a "javascript:" URI, resulting in cross-site scripting if dropped over another site. This may also be used to populate a file upload form, resulting in uploading of arbitrary files to a malicious web site.
Successful exploitation requires that the user is tricked into dragging and dropping e.g. an image or a link.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into executing malicious files.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of extended ASCII codes in the download dialog. This can be exploited to spoof the file extension in the file download dialog via a specially crafted "Content-Disposition" HTTP header.
Successful exploitation may result in users being tricked into executing a malicious file via the download dialog, but requires that the "Arial Unicode MS" font (ARIALUNI.TTF) has been installed on the system.
An Ethreal Security Advisories reports:
Our testing program has turned up several more security issues:
- The LDAP dissector could free static memory and crash.
- The AgentX dissector could crash.
- The 802.3 dissector could go into an infinite loop.
- The PER dissector could abort.
- The DHCP dissector could go into an infinite loop.
- The BER dissector could abort or loop infinitely.
- The MEGACO dissector could go into an infinite loop.
- The GIOP dissector could dereference a null pointer.
- The SMB dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow.
- The WBXML could dereference a null pointer.
- The H1 dissector could go into an infinite loop.
- The DOCSIS dissector could cause a crash.
- The SMPP dissector could go into an infinite loop.
- SCTP graphs could crash.
- The HTTP dissector could crash.
- The SMB dissector could go into a large loop.
- The DCERPC dissector could crash.
- Several dissectors could crash while reassembling packets.
Steve Grubb at Red Hat found the following issues:
- The CAMEL dissector could dereference a null pointer.
- The DHCP dissector could crash.
- The CAMEL dissector could crash.
- The PER dissector could crash.
- The RADIUS dissector could crash.
- The Telnet dissector could crash.
- The IS-IS LSP dissector could crash.
- The NCP dissector could crash.
iDEFENSE found the following issues:
- Several dissectors were susceptible to a format string overflow.
Impact:
It may be possible to make Ethereal crash, use up available memory, or run arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
A Watchfire whitepaper reports an vulnerability in the Apache webserver. The vulnerability can be exploited by malicious people causing cross site scripting, web cache poisoining, session hijacking and most importantly the ability to bypass web application firewall protection. Exploiting this vulnerability requires multiple carefully crafted HTTP requests, taking advantage of an caching server, proxy server, web application firewall etc. This only affects installations where Apache is used as HTTP proxy in combination with the following web servers:
An Secunia Advisory reports:
Neel Mehta and Alex Wheeler have reported some vulnerabilities in Clam AntiVirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
- Two integer overflow errors in "libclamav/tnef.c" when processing TNEF files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted TNEF file with a length value of -1 in the header.
- An integer overflow error in "libclamav/chmunpack.c" can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted CHM file with a chunk entry that has a filename length of -1.
- A boundary error in "libclamav/fsg.c" when processing a FSG compressed file can cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
The ISC DHCP programs are vulnerable to several format string vulnerabilities which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the DHCP programs, typically root for the DHCP server.
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in eGroupware before 1.0.0.007 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) ab_id, (2) page, (3) type, or (4) lang parameter to index.php or (5) category_id parameter.
Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in index.php in eGroupware before 1.0.0.007 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) filter or (2) cats_app parameter.
In fetchmail 6.2.5.1, the the remote code injection via POP3 UIDL was fixed, but a denial of service attack was introduced:
Two possible NULL-pointer dereferences allow a malicous POP3 server to crash fetchmail by respondig with UID lines containing only the article number but no UID (in violation of RFC-1939), or a message without Message-ID when no UIDL support is available.
Natanael Copa reports that dnrd is vulnerable to a remote buffer overflow and a remote stack overflow. These vulnerabilities can be triggered by sending invalid DNS packets to dnrd.
The buffer overflow could potentially be used to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the dnrd daemon. Note that dnrd runs in an chroot environment and runs as non-root.
The stack overflow vulnerability can cause dnrd to crash.
The LDAP backend in PowerDNS has issues with escaping queries which could cause connection errors. This would make it possible for a malicious user to temporarily blank domains.
This is known to affect all releases prior to 2.9.18.
fetchmail's POP3/UIDL code does not truncate received UIDs properly. A malicious or compromised POP3 server can thus corrupt fetchmail's stack and inject code when fetchmail is using UIDL, either through configuration, or as a result of certain server capabilities. Note that fetchmail is run as root on some sites, so an attack might compromise the root account and thus the whole machine.
A KDE Security Advisory explains:
Kate / Kwrite create a file backup before saving a modified file. These backup files are created with default permissions, even if the original file had more strict permissions set.
Depending on the system security settings, backup files might be readable by other users. Kate / Kwrite are network transparent applications and therefore this vulnerability might not be restricted to local users.
The Mozilla Foundation reports of multiple security vulnerabilities in Firefox and Mozilla:
- MFSA 2005-56 Code execution through shared function objects
- MFSA 2005-55 XHTML node spoofing
- MFSA 2005-54 Javascript prompt origin spoofing
- MFSA 2005-53 Standalone applications can run arbitrary code through the browser
- MFSA 2005-52 Same origin violation: frame calling top.focus()
- MFSA 2005-51 The return of frame-injection spoofing
- MFSA 2005-50 Possibly exploitable crash in InstallVersion.compareTo()
- MFSA 2005-49 Script injection from Firefox sidebar panel using data:
- MFSA 2005-48 Same-origin violation with InstallTrigger callback
- MFSA 2005-47 Code execution via "Set as Wallpaper"
- MFSA 2005-46 XBL scripts ran even when Javascript disabled
- MFSA 2005-45 Content-generated event vulnerabilities
Kuba Zygmunt discovered a flaw in the input validation routines of Drupal's filter mechanism. An attacker could execute arbitrary PHP code on a target site when public comments or postings are allowed.
A Securityreason.com advisory reports that various cross site scripting vulnerabilities have been found in phpSysInfo. Input is not properly sanitised before it is returned to the user. A malicious person could exploit this to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a users browser session. Also it is possible to view the full path of certain scripts by accessing them directly.
A Zataz advisory reports that MySQL contains a security flaw which could allow a malicious local user to inject arbitrary SQL commands during the initial database creation process.
The problem lies in the mysql_install_db script which creates temporary files based on the PID used by the script.
A Gentoo advisory reports:
Net-SNMP creates temporary files in an insecure manner, possibly allowing the execution of arbitrary code.
A malicious local attacker could exploit a race condition to change the content of the temporary files before they are executed by fixproc, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code. A local attacker could also create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem. When fixproc is executed, this would result in the file being overwritten.
phpBB is vulnerable to remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability allows attackers to read the contents of arbitrary system files under the privileges of the webserver. This also allows remote attackers to unlink arbitrary system files under the privileges of the webserver.
A Zataz advisory reports that shtool contains a security flaw which could allow a malicious local user to create or overwrite the contents of arbitrary files. The attacker could fool a user into executing the arbitrary file possibly executing arbitrary code.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
A vulnerability has been reported in phpPgAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
Input passed to the "formLanguage" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.
Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
The pear-XML_RPC release notes reports that the following issues has been fixed:
Eliminate path disclosure vulnerabilities by suppressing error messages when eval()'ing.
Eliminate path disclosure vulnerability by catching bogus parameters submitted to
XML_RPC_Value::serializeval().
Eric Romang reports that ekg creates temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited by an attacker using a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly execute arbitrary commands with the permissions of the user running ekg.
A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports:
Any user can change any flag on any bug, even if they don't have access to that bug, or even if they can't normally make bug changes. This also allows them to expose the summary of a bug.
Bugs are inserted into the database before they are marked as private, in Bugzilla code. Thus, MySQL replication can lag in between the time that the bug is inserted and when it is marked as private (usually less than a second). If replication lags at this point, the bug summary will be accessible to all users until replication catches up. Also, on a very slow machine, there may be a pause longer than a second that allows users to see the title of the newly-filed bug.
Insecure file permissions, network access control and DNS usage put systems that use Legato NetWorker at risk.
When the software is running, several files that contain sensitive information are created with insecure permissions. The information exposed include passwords and can therefore be used for privilege elevation.
An empty "servers" file, which should normally contain hostnames of authorized backup servers, may allow unauthorized backups to be made. Sensitive information can be extracted from these backups.
When reverse DNS fails for the Legato client IP a weak authorization scheme, containing a flaw that allows unauthorized access, is used. This may allow unauthorized access.
Secunia Research reports:
Secunia has discovered a security issue in Adobe Reader for Linux, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of sensitive information.
The problem is caused due to temporary files being created with permissions based on a user's umask in the "/tmp" folder under certain circumstances when documents are opened.
Successful exploitation allows an unprivileged user to read arbitrary users' documents.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of an input validation error in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV allows attackers to cause a denial of service condition.
The vulnerability specifically exists due to insufficient validation on cabinet file header data. The
ENSURE_BITS()macro fails to check for zero length reads, allowing a carefully constructed cabinet file to cause an infinite loop.ClamAV is used in a number of mail gateway products. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to send a specially constructed CAB file through a mail gateway or personal anti-virus client utilizing the ClamAV scanning engine. The infinate loop will cause the ClamAV software to use all available processor resources, resulting in a denial of service or severe degradation to system performance. Remote exploitation can be achieved by sending a malicious file in an e-mail message or during an HTTP session.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of an input validation error in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV allows attackers to cause a denial of service condition.
The vulnerability specifically exists due to improper behavior during exceptional conditions.
Successful exploitation allows attackers to exhaust file descriptors pool and memory. Anti-virus detection functionality will fail if there is no file descriptors available with which to open files. Remote exploitation can be achieved by sending a malicious file in an e-mail message or during an HTTP session.
An error in the handling of corrupt compressed data streams can result in a buffer being overflowed.
By carefully crafting a corrupt compressed data stream, an attacker can overwrite data structures in a zlib-using application. This may cause the application to halt, causing a denial of service; or it may result in the attacker gaining elevated privileges.
An Adobe Security Advisory reports:
A vulnerability within Adobe Reader has been identified. Under certain circumstances, remote exploitation of a buffer overflow in Adobe Reader could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
If exploited, it could allow the execution of arbitrary code under the privileges of the local user. Remote exploitation is possible if the malicious PDF document is sent as an email attachment or if the PDF document is accessed via a web link.
A Net-SNMP release announcement reports:
A security vulnerability has been found in Net-SNMP releases that could allow a denial of service attack against Net-SNMP agent's which have opened a stream based protocol (EG, TCP but not UDP; it should be noted that Net-SNMP does not by default open a TCP port).
Stefan Esser reports:
Wrongly implemented user input filters lead to multiple SQL Injection vulnerabilities which can lead f.e. to disclosure of the admin password hash.
Wrongly implemented user input filters allows injection of user input into executed commandline.
Alberto Trivero posted his Remote Command Execution Exploit for Cacti <= 0.8.6d to Bugtraq on the 22th June. Having analysed his bug we come to the conclusion, that the malfunctioning input filters, which were already mentioned in the previous advisory are also responsible for this bug still being exploitable.
A HTTP headers bypass switch can also be used to completely bypass the authentification system of Cacti. As admin it is possible to execute shell commands with the permission of the webserver.
While looking at the source of Cacti a HTTP headers bypass switch was discovered, that also switches off a call to
session_start()and the manual application ofaddslashes()in case ofmagic_quotes_gpc=Off.When register_globals is turned on* an attacker can use this switch to disables Cacti's use of PHP's session support and therefore supply the session variables on his own through f.e. the URL. Additionally using the switch renders several SQL statements vulnerable to SQL Injections attacks, when magic_quotes_gpc is turned off, which is the recommended setting.
Logged in as an admin it is possible to issue shell commands.
(*) register_globals is turned off by default since PHP 4.2 but is activated on most servers because of older scripts requiring it.
GulfTech Security Research reports:
There are a number of vulnerabilities in WordPress that may allow an attacker to ultimately run arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. These vulnerabilities include SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, and also issues that may aid an attacker in social engineering.
A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Due to a lack of input validation, WordPress is vulnerable to SQL injection and XSS attacks.
An attacker could use the SQL injection vulnerabilites to gain information from the database. Furthermore the cross-site scripting issues give an attacker the ability to inject and execute malicious script code or to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, potentially compromising the victim's browser.
FrSIRT Advisory reports:
A vulnerability was identified in phpBB, which may be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "viewtopic.php" script that does not properly filter the "highlight" parameter before calling the "preg_replace()" function, which may be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands with the privileges of the web server.
GulfTech Security Research Team reports:
PEAR XML_RPC is vulnerable to a very high risk php code injection vulnerability due to unsanatized data being passed into an eval() call.
The ipfw tables lookup code caches the result of the last query. The kernel may process multiple packets concurrently, performing several concurrent table lookups. Due to an insufficient locking, a cached result can become corrupted that could cause some addresses to be incorrectly matched against a lookup table.
When lookup tables are used with ipfw, packets may on very rare occasions incorrectly match a lookup table. This could result in a packet being treated contrary to the defined packet filtering ruleset. For example, a packet may be allowed to pass through when it should have been discarded.
The problem can only occur on Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) systems, or on Uni Processor (UP) systems with the PREEMPTION kernel option enabled (not the default).
a) Do not use lookup tables.
OR
b) Disable concurrent processing of packets in the network stack by setting the "debug.mpsafenet=0" tunable:
# echo "debug.mpsafenet=0" << /boot/loader.conf
Two problems have been discovered relating to the extraction of bzip2-compressed files. First, a carefully constructed invalid bzip2 archive can cause bzip2 to enter an infinite loop. Second, when creating a new file, bzip2 closes the file before setting its permissions.
The first problem can cause bzip2 to extract a bzip2 archive to an infinitely large file. If bzip2 is used in automated processing of untrusted files this could be exploited by an attacker to create an denial-of-service situation by exhausting disk space or by consuming all available cpu time.
The second problem can allow a local attacker to change the permissions of local files owned by the user executing bzip2 providing that they have write access to the directory in which the file is being extracted.
Do not uncompress bzip2 archives from untrusted sources and do not uncompress files in directories where untrusted users have write access.
Two problems have been discovered in the FreeBSD TCP stack.
First, when a TCP packets containing a timestamp is received, inadequate checking of sequence numbers is performed, allowing an attacker to artificially increase the internal "recent" timestamp for a connection.
Second, a TCP packet with the SYN flag set is accepted for established connections, allowing an attacker to overwrite certain TCP options.
Using either of the two problems an attacker with knowledge of the local and remote IP and port numbers associated with a connection can cause a denial of service situation by stalling the TCP connection. The stalled TCP connection my be closed after some time by the other host.
In some cases it may be possible to defend against these attacks by blocking the attack packets using a firewall. Packets used to effect either of these attacks would have spoofed source IP addresses.
An Ethreal Security Advisories reports:
An aggressive testing program as well as independent discovery has turned up a multitude of security issues:
- The ANSI A dissector was susceptible to format string vulnerabilities. Discovered by Bryan Fulton.
- The GSM MAP dissector could crash.
- The AIM dissector could cause a crash.
- The DISTCC dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow. Discovered by Ilja van Sprundel
- The FCELS dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow. Discovered by Neil Kettle
- The SIP dissector was susceptible to a buffer overflow. Discovered by Ejovi Nuwere.
- The KINK dissector was susceptible to a null pointer exception, endless looping, and other problems.
- The LMP dissector was susceptible to an endless loop.
- The Telnet dissector could abort.
- The TZSP dissector could cause a segmentation fault.
- The WSP dissector was susceptible to a null pointer exception and assertions.
- The 802.3 Slow protocols dissector could throw an assertion.
- The BER dissector could throw assertions.
- The SMB Mailslot dissector was susceptible to a null pointer exception and could throw assertions.
- The H.245 dissector was susceptible to a null pointer exception.
- The Bittorrent dissector could cause a segmentation fault.
- The SMB dissector could cause a segmentation fault and throw assertions.
- The Fibre Channel dissector could cause a crash.
- The DICOM dissector could attempt to allocate large amounts of memory.
- The MGCP dissector was susceptible to a null pointer exception, could loop indefinitely, and segfault.
- The RSVP dissector could loop indefinitely.
- The DHCP dissector was susceptible to format string vulnerabilities, and could abort.
- The SRVLOC dissector could crash unexpectedly or go into an infinite loop.
- The EIGRP dissector could loop indefinitely.
- The ISIS dissector could overflow a buffer.
- The CMIP, CMP, CMS, CRMF, ESS, OCSP, PKIX1Explitit, PKIX Qualified, and X.509 dissectors could overflow buffers.
- The NDPS dissector could exhaust system memory or cause an assertion, or crash.
- The Q.931 dissector could try to free a null pointer and overflow a buffer.
- The IAX2 dissector could throw an assertion.
- The ICEP dissector could try to free the same memory twice.
- The MEGACO dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop and a buffer overflow.
- The DLSw dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop.
- The RPC dissector was susceptible to a null pointer exception.
- The NCP dissector could overflow a buffer or loop for a large amount of time.
- The RADIUS dissector could throw an assertion.
- The GSM dissector could access an invalid pointer.
- The SMB PIPE dissector could throw an assertion.
- The L2TP dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop.
- The SMB NETLOGON dissector could dereference a null pointer.
- The MRDISC dissector could throw an assertion.
- The ISUP dissector could overflow a buffer or cause a segmentation fault.
- The LDAP dissector could crash.
- The TCAP dissector could overflow a buffer or throw an assertion.
- The NTLMSSP dissector could crash.
- The Presentation dissector could overflow a buffer.
- Additionally, a number of dissectors could throw an assertion when passing an invalid protocol tree item length.
Roger Dingledine reports:
The Tor 0.1.0.10 release from a few days ago includes a fix for a bug that might allow an attacker to read arbitrary memory (maybe even keys) from an exit server's process space. We haven't heard any reports of exploits yet, but hey.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the RealText file format parser within various versions of RealNetworks Inc.'s RealPlayer could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Nobuhiro IMAI reports:
the default value modification on Module#public_instance_methods (from false to true) breaks s.add_handler(XMLRPC::iPIMethods("sample"), MyHandler.new) style security protection.
This problem could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on XMLRPC server of libruby.
iDEFENSE security group disclosed potential SQL injection attacks from unchecked user input and two security holes regarding potential cross site scripting attacks
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to steal content or to perform actions on other web sites with the privileges of the user.
Normally, it should not be possible for the
XMLHttpRequestobject to access resources from outside the domain of which the object was opened. However, due to insufficient validation of server side redirects, it is possible to circumvent this restriction.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and to read local files.
The vulnerability is caused due to Opera not properly restricting the privileges of "javascript:" URLs when opened in e.g. new windows or frames.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks against users.
The vulnerability is caused due to input not being sanitised, when Opera generates a temporary page for displaying a redirection when "Automatic redirection" is disabled (not default setting).
Todd C. Miller reports:
A race condition in Sudo's command pathname handling prior to Sudo version 1.6.8p9 that could allow a user with Sudo privileges to run arbitrary commands.
Exploitation of the bug requires that the user be allowed to run one or more commands via Sudo and be able to create symbolic links in the filesystem. Furthermore, a sudoers entry giving another user access to the ALL pseudo-command must follow the user's sudoers entry for the race to exist.
Stefan Esser reports:
Trac's wiki and ticket systems allows to add attachments to wiki entries and bug tracker tickets. These attachments are stored within directories that are determined by the id of the corresponding ticket or wiki entry.
Due to a missing validation of the id parameter it is possible for an attacker to supply arbitrary paths to the upload and attachment viewer scripts. This means that a potential attacker can retrieve any file accessible by the webserver user.
Additionally it is possible to upload arbitrary files (up to a configured file length) to any place the webserver has write access too.
For obvious reasons this can lead to the execution of arbitrary code if it possible to upload files to the document root or it's subdirectories. One example of a configuration would be f.e. running Trac and s9y/wordpress with writeable content directories on the same webserver.
Another potential usage of this exploit would be to abuse Trac powered webservers as storage for f.e. torrent files.
A Secunia security advisory reports:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Razor-agents, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
- An unspecified error in the preprocessing of certain HTML messages can be exploited to crash the application.
- A bug in the discovery logic causes Razor-agents to go into an infinite loop and consume a large amount of memory when discovery fails.
Apache SpamAssassin Security Team reports:
Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.4 was recently released, and fixes a denial of service vulnerability in versions 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3. The vulnerability allows certain misformatted long message headers to cause spam checking to take a very long time.
While the exploit has yet to be seen in the wild, we are concerned that there may be attempts to abuse the vulnerability in the future. Therefore, we strongly recommend all users of these versions upgrade to Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.4 as soon as possible.
A SquirrelMail Security Advisory reports:
Several cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities have been discovered in SquirrelMail versions 1.4.0 - 1.4.4.
The vulnerabilities are in two categories: the majority can be exploited through URL manipulation, and some by sending a specially crafted email to a victim. When done very carefully, this can cause the session of the user to be hijacked.
Sverre H. Huseby discovered a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. Under certain circumstances, using XML scripts it is possible to discover the existence of local files.
Two problems related to extraction of files exist in gzip:
The first problem is that gzip does not properly sanitize filenames containing "/" when uncompressing files using the -N command line option.
The second problem is that gzip does not set permissions on newly extracted files until after the file has been created and the file descriptor has been closed.
The first problem can allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary local files when uncompressing a file using the -N command line option.
The second problem can allow a local attacker to change the permissions of arbitrary local files, on the same partition as the one the user is uncompressing a file on, by removing the file the user is uncompressing and replacing it with a hardlink before the uncompress operation is finished.
Do not use the -N command line option on untrusted files and do not uncompress files in directories where untrusted users have write access.
Several tcpdump protocol decoders contain programming errors which can cause them to go into infinite loops.
An attacker can inject specially crafted packets into the network which, when processed by tcpdump, could lead to a denial-of-service. After the attack, tcpdump would no longer capture traffic, and would potentially use all available processor time.
Jacopo Ottaviani reports that Gaim can be crashed by being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters via the Yahoo! protocol.
The GAIM team reports:
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed MSN message that leads to a memory allocation of a large size, possibly due to an integer signedness error.
A web server running Gallery can be exploited for arbitrary PHP code execution through the use of a maliciously crafted URL.
Gallery includes several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that could allow malicious content to be injected.
A KDE Security Advisory explains:
Overview
KStars includes support for the Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface (INDI). The build system of this extra 3rd party software contained an installation hook to install fliccd (part of INDI) as SUID root application.
Erik Sjölund discovered that the code contains several vulnerabilities that allow stack based buffer overflows.
Impact
If the fliccd binary is installed as suid root, it enables root privilege escalation for local users, or, if the daemon is actually running (which it does not by default) and is running as root, remote root privilege escalation.
3APA3A reports:
If programmer fails to check socket number before using select() or fd_set macros, it's possible to overwrite memory behind fd_set structure. Very few select() based application actually check FD_SETSIZE value. [...]
Depending on vulnerable application it's possible to overwrite portions of memory. Impact is close to off-by-one overflows, code execution doesn't seems exploitable.
Matthias Andree reports:
A vulnerability was found in the fetchnews program (the NNTP client) that may under some circumstances cause a wait for input that never arrives, fetchnews "hangs". [...]
As only one fetchnews program can run at a time, subsequently started fetchnews and texpire programs will terminate. [...]
Upgrade your leafnode package to version 1.11.3.
An STG Security Advisory reports:
GForge CVS module made by Dragos Moinescu and another module made by Ronald Petty have a directory traversal vulnerability. [...] malicious attackers can read arbitrary directory lists.
The CRAM-MD5 authentication support of the University of Washington IMAP and POP3 servers contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to bypass authentication and impersonate arbitrary users. Only installations with CRAM-MD5 support configured are affected.
The Squid team reported several denial-of-service vulnerabilities related to the handling of DNS responses and NT Lan Manager messages. These may allow an attacker to crash the Squid cache.
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the racoon ISAKMP daemon could be crashed with a maliciously crafted UDP packet. No authentication is required in order to perform the attack.
Tavis Ormandy discovered several integer overflows in xli's image size handling. A maliciously crafted image may be able to cause a heap buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code.
Tavis Ormandy discovered that xli and xloadimage attempt to
decompress images by piping them through gunzip
or similar decompression tools. Unfortunately, the
unsanitized file name is included as part of the command.
This is dangerous, as in some situations, such as mailcap
processing, an attacker may control the input file name. As a
result, an attacker may be able to cause arbitrary command
execution.
In 2001, zen-parse discovered a buffer overflow in xloadimage's FACES image loader. A maliciously crafted image could cause xloadimage to execute arbitrary code. A published exploit exists for this vulnerability.
In 2005, Rob Holland discovered that the same vulnerability was present in xli.
Stanislav Brabec discovered errors in yamt's path name handling that lead to buffer overflows and directory traversal issues. When processing a file with a maliciously crafted ID3 tag, yamt might overwrite arbitrary files or possibly execute arbitrary code.
The SuSE package ChangeLog contains:
- Several security fixes (#49337):
- directory traversal in rename
- directory traversal in sort
- buffer overflow in sort
- buffer overflow in rename
A Debian Security Advisory reports:
Erik Sjölund discovered that programs linked against xview are vulnerable to a number of buffer overflows in the XView library. When the overflow is triggered in a program which is installed setuid root a malicious user could perhaps execute arbitrary code as privileged user.
The X display locking program xtrlock contains
an integer overflow bug. It is possible for an attacker with
physical access to the system to bypass the display lock.
Trevor Johnson reported that the Red Hat Linux RPMs used by linux_base contained multiple older vulnerabilities, such as a DNS resolver issue and critical bugs in X font handling and XPM image handling.
A SquirrelMail Security Advisory reports:
SquirrelMail 1.4.4 has been released to resolve a number of security issues disclosed below. It is strongly recommended that all running SquirrelMail prior to 1.4.4 upgrade to the latest release.
Remote File Inclusion
Manoel Zaninetti reported an issue in src/webmail.php which would allow a crafted URL to include a remote web page. This was assigned CAN-2005-0103 by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.
Cross Site Scripting Issues
A possible cross site scripting issue exists in src/webmail.php that is only accessible when the PHP installation is running with register_globals set to On. This issue was uncovered internally by the SquirrelMail Development team. This isssue was assigned CAN-2005-0104 by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.
A second issue which was resolved in the 1.4.4-rc1 release was uncovered and assigned CAN-2004-1036 by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. This issue could allow a remote user to send a specially crafted header and cause execution of script (such as javascript) in the client browser.
Local File Inclusion
A possible local file inclusion issue was uncovered by one of our developers involving custom preference handlers. This issue is only active if the PHP installation is running with register_globals set to On.
Erik Sjölund discovered a vulnerabilitiy in Sympa. The
queue application processes messages received via
aliases. It contains a buffer overflow in the usage of
sprintf. In some configurations, it may allow an
attacker to execute arbitrary code as the sympa
user.
Florian Weimer wrote:
Mailman 2.1.5 uses weak auto-generated passwords for new subscribers. These passwords are assigned when members subscribe without specifying their own password (either by email or the web frontend). Knowledge of this password allows an attacker to gain access to the list archive even though she's not a member and the archive is restricted to members only. [...]
This means that only about 5 million different passwords are ever generated, a number that is in the range of brute force attacks -- you only have to guess one subscriber address (which is usually not that hard).
Barry Warsaw reports:
Today I am releasing Mailman 2.1.5, a bug fix release [...] This version also contains a fix for an exploit that could allow 3rd parties to retrieve member passwords. It is thus highly recommended that all existing sites upgrade to the latest version.
Oliver Karow discovered cross-site scripting issues in
the Apache Jakarta Tomcat manager. The developers refer to
the issues as minor
.
A Secunia security advisory reports:
A vulnerability has been reported in FreeStyle Wiki and FSWikiLite, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed in uploaded attachments is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious attachment is viewed.
A Gentoo Advisory reports:
The FreeRADIUS server is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack and a buffer overflow, possibly resulting in disclosure and modification of data and Denial of Service.
A Debian Advisory reports:
Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening potentially user supplied log files. This can be tricked into opening a root shell.
A RST/GHC Advisory reports that there is an format string vulnerability in oops. The vulnerability can be found in the MySQL/PgSQL authentication module. Succesful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The developers of cdrdao report that there is a potential root exploit in the software. In order to be able to succesfully exploit this vulnerability cdrdao must be installed setuid root. When succesfully exploited a local user might get escalated privileges. By default this port is not installed setuid root.
The GAIM team reports:
Potential remote denial of service bug resulting from not checking a pointer for non-NULL before passing it to strncmp, which results in a crash. This can be triggered by a remote client sending an SLP message with an empty body.
The GAIM team reports that GAIM is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability which can cause GAIM to crash:
It is possible for a remote user to overflow a static buffer by sending an IM containing a very large URL (greater than 8192 bytes) to the Gaim user. This is not possible on all protocols, due to message length restrictions. Jabber are SILC are known to be vulnerable.
When running on processors supporting Hyper-Threading Technology, it is possible for a malicious thread to monitor the execution of another thread.
Information may be disclosed to local users, allowing in many cases for privilege escalation. For example, on a multi-user system, it may be possible to steal cryptographic keys used in applications such as OpenSSH or SSL-enabled web servers.
NOTE: Similar problems may exist in other simultaneous multithreading implementations, or even some systems in the absence of simultaneous multithreading. However, current research has only demonstrated this flaw in Hyper-Threading Technology, where shared memory caches are used.
Systems not using processors with Hyper-Threading Technology support are not affected by this issue. On systems which are affected, the security flaw can be eliminated by setting the "machdep.hlt_logical_cpus" tunable:
# echo "machdep.hlt_logical_cpus=1" >> /boot/loader.conf
The system must be rebooted in order for tunables to take effect.
Use of this workaround is not recommended on "dual-core" systems, as this workaround will also disable one of the processor cores.
When an upstream server aborts the transmission or stops sending data after the fetchnews program has requested an article header or body, fetchnews may crash, without querying further servers that are configured. This can prevent articles from being fetched.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
Additional checks were added to make sure Javascript eval and Script objects are run with the privileges of the context that created them, not the potentially elevated privilege of the context calling them in order to protect against an additional variant of MFSA 2005-41.
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory MFSA 2005-41 reports:
moz_bug_r_a4 reported several exploits giving an attacker the ability to install malicious code or steal data, requiring only that the user do commonplace actions like click on a link or open the context menu.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
Some security checks intended to prevent script injection were incorrect and could be bypassed by wrapping a javascript: url in the view-source: pseudo-protocol. Michael Krax demonstrated that a variant of his favicon exploit could still execute arbitrary code, and the same technique could also be used to perform cross-site scripting.
Georgi Guninski demonstrated the same flaw wrapping javascript: urls with the jar: pseudo-protocol.
L. David Baron discovered a nested variant that defeated checks in the script security manager.
Workaround: Disable Javascript
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a user's system.
- The problem is that "IFRAME" JavaScript URLs are not properly protected from being executed in context of another URL in the history list. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an arbitrary site.
- Input passed to the "IconURL" parameter in "InstallTrigger.install()" is not properly verified before being used. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with escalated privileges via a specially crafted JavaScript URL.
Successful exploitation requires that the site is allowed to install software (default sites are "update.mozilla.org" and "addons.mozilla.org").
A combination of vulnerability 1 and 2 can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
The eqn2graph and pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
The groffer script in the groff package 1.18 and later versions allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
An Ubuntu Advisory reports:
Joey Hess discovered that "unshar" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
An rsnapshot Advisory reports:
The copy_symlink() subroutine in rsnapshot incorrectly changes file ownership on the files pointed to by symlinks, not on the symlinks themselves. This would allow, under certain circumstances, an arbitrary user to take ownership of a file on the main filesystem.
GHC team reports about coppermine
The lack of sanitizing of user defined variables may result in undesirable consequences such as IP spoofing or XSS attack.
Generally users of Coppermine Gallery can post comments. Remote address & x-forwarded-for variables are logged for admin's eyes. X-Forwarded-for variable does not pass throu any filtration before logging into database. User can define/redefine this variable.
Damian Put reports about ImageMagick:
Remote exploitation of a heap overflow vulnerability could allow execution of arbitrary code or course denial of service.
A heap overflow exists in ReadPNMImage() function, that is used to decode a PNM image files.
A xine security announcement reports:
By a user receiving data from a malicious network streaming server, an attacker can overrun a heap buffer, which can, on some systems, lead to or help in executing attacker-chosen malicious code with the permissions of the user running a xine-lib based media application.
Both the MMS and Real RTSP streaming client code made some too-strong assumptions on the transferred data. Several critical bounds checks were missing, resulting in the possibility of heap overflows, should the remote server not adhere to these assumptions. In the MMS case, a remote server could present content with too many individual streams; in the RTSP case, a remote server's reply could have too many lines.
An attacker can set up a server delivering malicious data to the users. This can be used to overflow a heap buffer, which can, with certain implementations of heap management, lead to attacker chosen data written to the stack. This can cause attacker-chosen code being executed with the permissions of the user running the application. By tricking users to retrieve a stream, which can be as easy as providing a link on a website, this vulnerability can be exploited remotely.
The GAIM team reports that GAIM is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability which can cause GAIM to freeze:
Certain malformed SNAC packets sent by other AIM or ICQ users can trigger an infinite loop in Gaim when parsing the SNAC. The remote user would need a custom client, able to generate malformed SNACs.
The GAIM team reports:
Receiving malformed HTML can result in an invalid memory access causing Gaim to crash.
A KDE Security Advisory reports:
Kommander executes without user confirmation data files from possibly untrusted locations. As they contain scripts, the user might accidentally run arbitrary code.
Impact: Remotly supplied kommander files from untrusted sources are executed without confirmation.
A Debian advisory reports:
James Ranson discovered that an attacker can modify the referrer setting with a carefully crafted URL by accidently overwriting a global variable.
Tavis Ormandy from the Gentoo Security Team discovered several heap corruptions due to inconsistent use of an internal function that can crash the daemon or possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
A KDE Security Advisory reports:
kimgio contains a PCX image file format reader that does not properly perform input validation. A source code audit performed by the KDE security team discovered several vulnerabilities in the PCX and other image file format readers, some of them exploitable to execute arbitrary code.
Impact: Remotely supplied, specially crafted image files can be used to execute arbitrary code.
Gld has been found vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows as well as multiple format string vulnerabilities.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Gld, the default user being root.
The FreeBSD port defaults to running gld as the root user. The risk of exploitation can be minimized by making gld listen on the loopback address only, or configure it to only accept connections from trusted smtp servers.
A Debian Security Advisory reports:
Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a buffer overflow in axel, a light download accelerator. When reading remote input the program did not check if a part of the input can overflow a buffer and maybe trigger the execution of arbitrary code.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
When a webpage requires a plugin that is not installed the user can click to launch the Plugin Finder Service (PFS) to find an appropriate plugin. If the service does not have an appropriate plugin the EMBED tag is checked for a PLUGINSPAGE attribute, and if one is found the PFS dialog will contain a "manual install" button that will load the PLUGINSPAGE url.
Omar Khan reported that if the PLUGINSPAGE attribute contains a javascript: url then pressing the button could launch arbitrary code capable of stealing local data or installing malicious code.
Doron Rosenberg reported a variant that injects script by appending it to a malformed URL of any protocol.
Pluf has discovered a vulnerability in Sun Java JDK/SDK, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The jar tool does not check properly if the files to be extracted have the string "../" on its names, so it's possible for an attacker to create a malicious jar file in order to overwrite arbitrary files within the filesystem.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
moz_bug_r_a4 reported several exploits giving an attacker the ability to install malicious code or steal data, requiring only that the user do commonplace actions like click on a link or open the context menu. The common cause in each case was privileged UI code ("chrome") being overly trusting of DOM nodes from the content window. Scripts in the web page can override properties and methods of DOM nodes and shadow the native values, unless steps are taken to get the true underlying values.
We found that most extensions also interacted with content DOM in a natural, but unsafe, manner. Changes were made so that chrome code using this natural DOM coding style will now automatically use the native DOM value if it exists without having to use cumbersome wrapper objects.
Most of the specific exploits involved tricking the privileged code into calling eval() on an attacker-supplied script string, or the equivalent using the Script() object. Checks were added in the security manager to make sure eval and Script objects are run with the privileges of the context that created them, not the potentially elevated privileges of the context calling them.
Workaround: Disable Javascript
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
Firefox and the Mozilla Suite support custom "favicons" through the <LINK rel="icon"> tag. If a link tag is added to the page programmatically and a javascript: url is used, then script will run with elevated privileges and could run or install malicious software.
Workaround: Disable Javascript
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
A bug in javascript's regular expression string replacement when using an anonymous function as the replacement argument allows a malicious script to capture blocks of memory allocated to the browser. A web site could capture data and transmit it to a server without user interaction or knowledge.
Workaround: Disable Javascript
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
Sites can use the _search target to open links in the Firefox sidebar. Two missing security checks allow malicious scripts to first open a privileged page (such as about:config) and then inject script using a javascript: url. This could be used to install malicious code or steal data without user interaction.
Workaround: Disable Javascript
AD-LAB reports that a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in OpenOffice's handling of DOC documents. When reading a DOC document 16 bit from a 32 bit integer is used for memory allocation, but the full 32 bit is used for further processing of the document. This can allow an attacker to crash OpenOffice, or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running OpenOffice, by tricking an user into opening a specially crafted DOC document.
Simon L. Nielsen discovered that portupgrade handles temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow an unprivileged local attacker to execute arbitrary commands or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running portupgrade, typically root, by way of a symlink attack.
The following issues exist where the temporary files are created, by default in the world writeable directory /var/tmp, with the permissions of the user running portupgrade:
toucha temporary temporary file with a constant filename (pkgdb.fixme) allowing an attacker to create arbitrary zero-byte files via a symlink attack.
A workaround for these issues is to set the
PKG_TMPDIR environment variable to a directory
only write-able by the user running portupgrade.
The GAIM team reports:
A remote jabber user can cause Gaim to crash by sending a specific file transfer request.
The GAIM team reports:
The IRC protocol plugin in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows (1) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via irc_msg_kick, irc_msg_mode, irc_msg_part, irc_msg_quit, (2) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via irc_msg_invite, or (3) malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by injecting certain Pango markup into irc_msg_badmode, irc_msg_banned, irc_msg_unknown, irc_msg_nochan functions.
The GAIM team reports:
The gaim_markup_strip_html function in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that contains malformed HTML, which causes an out-of-bounds read.
A SUSE Security advisory reports:
A bug in the readfile() function of php4 could be used to to crash the httpd running the php4 code when accessing files with a multiple of the architectures page size leading to a denial of service.
The squid patches page notes:
An inconsistent state is entered on a failed PUT/POST request making a high risk for segmentation faults or other strange errors
Secunia Advisory: SA14730
A vulnerability has been reported in Horde, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed when setting the parent frame's page title via JavaScript is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 3.0.4-RC2. Prior versions may also be affected.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability in version 2.6.2 of WU-FPTD could allow for a denial of service of the system by resource exhaustion.
The vulnerability specifically exists in the
wu_fnmatch()function in wu_fnmatch.c. When a pattern containing a '*' character is supplied as input, the function calls itself recursively on a smaller substring. By supplying a string which contains a large number of '*' characters, the system will take a long time to return the results, during which time it will be using a large amount of CPU time.
A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the Hashcash utility that an attacker could expose by specifying a malformed reply address.
Successful exploitation would permit an attacker to disrupt Hashcash users, and potentially execute arbitrary code.
The clamav daemon is vulnerable to a DoS vulnerability due to insufficient handling of malformed zip files which can crash the clamav daemon.
Due to insecure temporary file creation in the Wine Windows emulator, it is possible for any user to read potentially sensitive information from temporary registry files.
When a Win32 application is launched by wine, wine makes a dump of the Windows registry in /tmp with name regxxxxyyyy.tmp , where xxxxxx is the pid in hexadecimal value of the current wine process and yyyy is an integer value usually equal to zero.
regxxxxyyyy.tmp is created with 0644 (-rw-r--r--) permissions. This could represent a security problem in a multi-user environment. Indeed, any local user could access to windows regstry's dump and get sensitive information, like passwords and other private data.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory states:
If a user bookmarked a malicious page as a Firefox sidebar panel that page could execute arbitrary programs by opening a privileged page and injecting javascript into it.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory states:
An (sic) GIF processing error when parsing the obsolete Netscape extension 2 can lead to an exploitable heap overrun, allowing an attacker to run arbitrary code on the user's machine.
The Sylpheed web site states:
A buffer overflow which occurred when replying to a message with certain headers which contain non-ascii characters was fixed.
A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the handling of image filenames by xv.
Successful exploitation would require a victim to process a specially crafted image with a malformed filename, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
A KDE Security Advisory reports:
Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE LINUX Security Team reported a local denial of service vulnerability in KDE's Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP) daemon better known as dcopserver.
A local user can lock up the dcopserver of arbitrary other users on the same machine. This can cause a significant reduction in desktop functionality for the affected users including, but not limited to, the inability to browse the internet and the inability to start new applications.
The phpMyAdmin team reports:
Escaping of the "_" character was not properly done, giving a wildcard privilege when editing db-specific privileges with phpMyAdmin.
An Ethreal Security Advisories reports:
Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors:
- Matevz Pustisek discovered a buffer overflow in the Etheric dissector. CVE: CAN-2005-0704
- The GPRS-LLC dissector could crash if the "ignore cipher bit" option was enabled. CVE: CAN-2005-0705
- Diego Giago discovered a buffer overflow in the 3GPP2 A11 dissector. This flaw was later reported by Leon Juranic. CVE: CAN-2005-0699
- Leon Juranic discovered a buffer overflow in the IAPP dissector. CVE: CAN-2005-0739
- A bug in the JXTA dissector could make Ethereal crash.
- A bug in the sFlow dissector could make Ethereal crash.
Joseph VanAndel reports that grip is vulnerability to a buffer overflow vulnerability when receiving more than 16 CDDB responses. This could lead to a crash in grip and potentially execution arbitrary code.
A workaround is to disable CDDB lookups.
SecurityFocus reports:
MySQL is reported prone to an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability.
Reports indicate that an attacker that has 'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE' privileges on an affected installation may leverage this vulnerability to corrupt files with the privileges of the MySQL process.
MySQL is reported prone to an input validation vulnerability that can be exploited by remote users that have INSERT and DELETE privileges on the 'mysql' administrative database.
Reports indicate that this issue may be leveraged to load an execute a malicious library in the context of the MySQL process.
Finally, MySQL is reported prone to a remote arbitrary code execution vulnerability. It is reported that the vulnerability may be triggered by employing the 'CREATE FUNCTION' statement to manipulate functions in order to control sensitive data structures.
This issue may be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the context of the database process.
A rxvt-unicode changelog reports:
Fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports:
By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way (especially scripts in the libraries subdirectory), it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed.
Mitigation factor: This path disclosure is possible on servers where the recommended setting of the PHP configuration directive
display_errorsis set to on, which is against the recommendations given in the PHP manual.
A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports:
We received two bug reports by Maksymilian Arciemowicz about those vulnerabilities and we wish to thank him for his work. The vulnerabilities apply to those points:
- css/phpmyadmin.css.php was vulnerable against
$cfgandGLOBALSvariable injections. This way, a possible attacker could manipulate any configuration parameter. Using phpMyAdmin's theming mechanism, he was able to include arbitrary files. This is especially dangerous if php is not running in safe mode.- A possible attacker could manipulate phpMyAdmin's localized strings via the URL and inject harmful JavaScript code this way, which could be used for XSS attacks.
Sylvain Defresne reports that libexif is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient input checking. This could lead crash of applications using libexif.
Neo Security Team reports:
If we specify a variable in the html code (any type: hidden, text, radio, check, etc) with the name allowhtml, allowbbcode or allowsmilies, is going to be on the html, bbcode and smilies in our signature.
This is a low risk vulnerability that allows users to bypass forum-wide configuration.
Two separate SQL injection vulnerabilites have been identified in the PostNuke PHP content management system. An attacker can use this vulnerability to potentially insert executable PHP code into the content management system (to view all files within the PHP scope, for instance). Various other SQL injection vulnerabilities exist, which give attackers the ability to run SQL queries on any tables within the database.
A cross-site scripting vulnerability is present in the PostNuke PHP content management system. By passing data injected through exploitable errors in input validation, an attacker can insert code which will run on the machine of anybody viewing the page. It is feasible that this attack could be used to retrieve session information from cookies, thereby allowing the attacker to gain administrative access to the CMS.
Two exploits have been identified in the Linux RealPlayer client. RealNetworks states:
RealNetworks, Inc. has addressed recently discovered security vulnerabilities that offered the potential for an attacker to run arbitrary or malicious code on a customer's machine. RealNetworks has received no reports of machines compromised as a result of the now-remedied vulnerabilities. RealNetworks takes all security vulnerabilities very seriously.
The specific exploits were:
- Exploit 1: To fashion a malicious WAV file to cause a buffer overflow which could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a customer's machine.
- Exploit 2: To fashion a malicious SMIL file to cause a buffer overflow which could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a customer's machine.
Tavis Ormandy reports:
magemagick-6.2.0-3 fixes an potential issue handling malformed filenames, the flaw may affect webapps or scripts that use the imagemagick utilities for image processing, or applications linked with libMagick.
This vulnerability could crash ImageMagick or potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running ImageMagick.
The uim developers reports:
Takumi ASAKI discovered that uim always trusts environment variables. But this is not correct behavior, sometimes environment variables shouldn't be trusted. This bug causes privilege escalation when libuim is linked against setuid/setgid application. Since GTK+ prohibits setuid/setgid applications, the bug appears only in 'immodule for Qt' enabled Qt. (Normal Qt is also safe.)
The lighttpd website reports:
In lighttpd 1.3.7 and below it is possible to fetch the source files which should be handled by CGI or FastCGI applications.
The vulnerability is in the handling of urlencoded trailing NUL bytes. Installations that do not use CGI or FastCGI are not affected.
The phpbb developer group reports:
phpBB Group announces the release of phpBB 2.0.13, the "Beware of the furries" edition. This release addresses two recent security exploits, one of them critical. They were reported a few days after .12 was released and no one is more annoyed than us, having to release a new version ini such a short period of time. Fortunately both fixes are easy and in each case just one line needs to be edited.
Two iDEFENSE Security Advisories reports:
An exploitable stack-based buffer overflow condition exists when using NT Lan Manager (NTLM) authentication. The problem specifically exists within
Curl_input_ntlm()defined in lib/http_ntlm.c.Successful exploitation allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the target user. Exploitation requires that an attacker either coerce or force a target to connect to a malicious server using NTLM authentication.
An exploitable stack-based buffer overflow condition exists when using Kerberos authentication. The problem specifically exists within the functions
Curl_krb_kauth()andkrb4_auth()defined in lib/krb4.c.Successful exploitation allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the target user. Exploitation requires that an attacker either coerce or force a target to connect to a malicious server using Kerberos authentication.
The Cyrus IMAP Server ChangeLog states:
- Fix possible single byte overflow in mailbox handling code.
- Fix possible single byte overflows in the imapd annotate extension.
- Fix stack buffer overflows in fetchnews (exploitable by peer news server), backend (exploitable by admin), and in imapd (exploitable by users though only on platforms where a filename may be larger than a mailbox name).
The 2.1.X series are reportedly only affected by the second issue.
These issues may lead to execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the Cyrus IMAP Server.
Debian Security Advisory reports:
jaguar@felinemenace.org discovered a format string vulnerability in sup, a set of programs to synchronize collections of files across a number of machines, whereby a remote attacker could potentially cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the supfilesrv process (this process does not run automatically by default).
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
A predictable name is used for the plugin temporary directory. A malicious local user could symlink this to the victim's home directory and wait for the victim to run Firefox. When Firefox shuts down the victim's directory would be erased.
A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports:
Plugins (such as flash) can be used to load privileged content into a frame. Once loaded various spoofs can be applied to get the user to interact with the privileged content. Michael Krax's "Fireflashing" example demonstrates that an attacker can open about:config in a frame, hide it with an opacity setting, and if the attacker can get the victim to click at a particular spot (design some kind of simple game) you could toggle boolean preferences, some of which would make further attacks easier.
The "firescrolling" example demonstrates arbitrary code execution (in this case downloading a file) by convincing the user to scroll twice.
Workaround: Disable JavaScript.
The version 0.06_1 and prior have a format string vulnerability which can be triggered by using a carefully-crafted BDF font file.
psoTFX reports:
phpBB Group are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 2.0.12 the "Horray for Furrywood" release. This release addresses a number of bugs and a couple of potential exploits. [...] one of the potential exploits addressed in this release could be serious in certain situations and thus we urge all users, as always, to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. Mostly this release is concerned with eliminating disclosures of information which while useful in debug situations may allow third parties to gain information which could be used to do harm via unknown or unfixed exploits in this or other applications.
The ChangeLog for phpBB 2.0.12 states:
- Prevented full path display on critical messages
- Fixed full path disclosure in username handling caused by a PHP 4.3.10 bug - AnthraX101
- Added exclude list to unsetting globals (if register_globals is on) - SpoofedExistence
- Fixed arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability in avatar handling functions - AnthraX101
- Fixed arbitrary file unlink vulnerability in avatar handling functions - AnthraX101
- Fixed path disclosure bug in search.php caused by a PHP 4.3.10 bug (related to AnthraX101's discovery)
- Fixed path disclosure bug in viewtopic.php caused by a PHP 4.3.10 bug - matrix_killer
Ulf Härnhammar reports multiple security vulnerabilities in unace-1.2b:
Simon Tatham reports:
This version fixes a security hole in previous versions of PuTTY, which can allow a malicious SFTP server to attack your client. If you use either PSCP or PSFTP, you should upgrade. Users of the main PuTTY program are not affected. (However, note that the server must have passed host key verification before this attack can be launched, so a man-in-the-middle shouldn't be able to attack you if you're careful.)
Davide Madrisan reports:
The `dcopidlng' script in the KDE library package (kdelibs-3.3.2/dcop/dcopidlng/dcopidlng) creates temporary files in a unsecure manner.
Note: dcopidlng is only used at build time, so only users installing KDE are vulnerable, not users already running KDE.
A Debian Security Advisory reports:
Ulf Härnhammer from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in bidwatcher, a tool for watching and bidding on eBay auctions. This problem can be triggered remotely by a web server of eBay, or someone pretending to be eBay, sending certain data back.
A Debian Security Advisory reports:
Albert Puigsech Galicia discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in a proprietary FTP client (CAN-2004-1376) which is also present in gftp, a GTK+ FTP client. A malicious server could provide a specially crafted filename that could cause arbitrary files to be overwritten or created by the client.
A Secunia Advisory reports:
Michael Holzt has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into executing malicious files.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of "data:" URIs, causing wrong information to be shown in a download dialog. This can be exploited by e.g. a malicious website to trick users into executing a malicious file by supplying a specially crafted "data:" URI.
Giovanni Delvecchio reports:
Opera for linux uses "kfmclient exec" as "Default Application" to handle saved files. This could be used by malicious remote users to execute arbitrary shell commands on a target system.
The PL/PgSQL parser in postgresql is vulnerable to several buffer overflows. These could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the postgresql server by running a specially crafted query.
Several input validation errors exist in AWStats that allow a
remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands
with the priviliges of the web server. These programming
errors involve CGI parameters including
loadplugin, logfile,
pluginmode, update, and possibly
others.
Additionally, the debug and other CGI parameters
may be used to cause AWStats to disclose AWStats and system
configuration information.
PowerDNS is vulnerable to a temporary denial-of-service vulnerability that can be triggered using a random stream of bytes.
Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs. They can be exploited when connecting to a malicious POP server and can allow an attacker can execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the user running Emacs.
A No System Group security advisory reports that ngircd is
vulnerable to a format string vulnerability in the
Log_Resolver() function of log.c, if IDENT
support is enabled. This could allow a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the ngircd
daemon, which is root
by default.
Note: By default the FreeBSD ngircd port does not enable IDENT support.
Florian Westphal discovered a buffer overflow in ngircd which can be used remotely crash the server and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Mark J Cox reports:
Graham Dumpleton discovered a flaw which can affect anyone using the publisher handle of the Apache Software Foundation mod_python. The publisher handle lets you publish objects inside modules to make them callable via URL. The flaw allows a carefully crafted URL to obtain extra information that should not be visible (information leak).
A directory traversal vulnerability in mailman allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files due to inadequate input sanitizing. This could, among other things, lead remote attackers to gaining access to the mailman configuration database (which contains subscriber email addresses and passwords) or to the mail archives for private lists.
Erik Sjölund discovered several issues in enscript: it suffers from several buffer overflows, quotes and shell escape characters are insufficiently sanitized in filenames, and it supported taking input from an arbitrary command pipe, with unwanted side effects.
John Heasman and others disovered that non-privileged users
could use the LOAD
extension to load arbitrary
libraries into the postgres server process space. This
could be used by non-privileged local users to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the postgresql
server.
An Ethreal Security Advisories reports:
Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors:
- The COPS dissector could go into an infinite loop. CVE: CAN-2005-0006
- The DLSw dissector could cause an assertion. CVE: CAN-2005-0007
- The DNP dissector could cause memory corruption. CVE: CAN-2005-0008
- The Gnutella dissector could cuase an assertion. CVE: CAN-2005-0009
- The MMSE dissector could free statically-allocated memory. CVE: CAN-2005-0010
- The X11 dissector is vulnerable to a string buffer overflow. CVE: CAN-2005-0084
Impact: It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
The squid patches page notes:
This patch addresses a HTTP protocol mismatch related to oversized reply headers. In addition it enhances the cache.log reporting on reply header parsing failures to make it easier to track down which sites are malfunctioning.
It is believed that this bug may lead to cache pollution or allow access controls to be bypassed.
According to Python Security Advisory PSF-2005-001,
The Python development team has discovered a flaw in the
SimpleXMLRPCServerlibrary module which can give remote attackers access to internals of the registered object or its module or possibly other modules. The flaw only affects Python XML-RPC servers that use theregister_instance()method to register an object without a_dispatch()method. Servers using onlyregister_function()are not affected.On vulnerable XML-RPC servers, a remote attacker may be able to view or modify globals of the module(s) containing the registered instance's class(es), potentially leading to data loss or arbitrary code execution. If the registered object is a module, the danger is particularly serious. For example, if the registered module imports the
osmodule, an attacker could invoke theos.system()function.
Note: This vulnerability affects your
system only if you're running
SimpleXMLRPCServer-based server. This isn't
harmful at all if you don't run any internet server written
in Python or your server doesn't serve in XML-RPC protocol.
Kevin Finisterre discovered bugs in perl's I/O debug support:
sperl or suidperl). As a
result, a local attacker may be able to gain elevated
privileges. (CVE-2005-0155)Note: By default, no set-user-ID perl
binary is installed. An administrator must enable it
manually at build time with the ENABLE_SUIDPERL
port flag.
The newsgrab script uses insecure permissions during the creation of the local output directory and downloaded files.
After a file is created, permissions on it are set using the mode value of the newsgroup posting. This can potentially be a problem when the mode is not restrictive enough. In addition, the output directory is created with world writable permissions allowing other users to drop symlinks or other files at that location.
The newsgrab script creates files by using the names provided in the newsgroup messages in a perl open() call. This is done without performing any security checks to prevent a directory traversal. A specially crafted newsgroup message could cause newsgrab to drop an attachment anywhere on the file system using the permissions of the user running the script.
The newspost program uses a function named socket_getline to read server responses from the network socket. Unfortunately this function does not check the length of the buffer in which the read data is stored and only stops reading when a newline character is found.
A malicious NNTP server could use this bug to cause a buffer overflow by sending an overly long response. Such an overflow allows arbitrary code to be executed, with the privileges of the newspost process, on the affected systems.
The newsfetch program uses the sscanf function to read information from server responses into static memory buffers. Unfortunately this is done without any proper bounds checking. As a result long server responses may cause an overflow when a newsgroup listing is requested from an NNTP server.
According to the Squid Proxy Cache Security Update Advisory SQUID-2005:3,
The WCCP recvfrom() call accepts more data than will fit in the allocated buffer. An attacker may send a larger-than-normal WCCP message to Squid and overflow this buffer.
Severity:
The bug is important because it allows remote attackers to crash Squid, causing a disription in service. However, the bug is exploitable only if you have configured Squid to send WCCP messages to, and expect WCCP replies from, a router.
Sites that do not use WCCP are not vulnerable.
Note that while the default configuration of the FreeBSD squid port enables WCCP support in general, the default configuration supplied does not actually configure squid to send and receive WCCP messages.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the xpdf PDF viewer included in multiple Unix and Linux distributions could allow for arbitrary code execution as the user viewing a PDF file.
The vulnerability specifically exists due to insufficient bounds checking while processing a PDF file that provides malicious values in the /Encrypt /Length tag. The offending code can be found in the
Decrypt::makeFileKey2function in the source file xpdf/Decrypt.cc.
Martin Joey
Schulze reports:
Erik Sjöund discovered that zhcon, a fast console CJK system using the Linux framebuffer, accesses a user-controlled configuration file with elevated privileges. Thus, it is possible to read arbitrary files.
When installed from the FreeBSD Ports Collection, zhcon is installed set-user-ID root.
Martin Joey
Schulze reports:
Max Vozeler discovered an integer overflow in the helper application camel-lock-helper which runs setuid root or setgid mail inside of Evolution, a free groupware suite. A local attacker can cause the setuid root helper to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges via a malicious POP server.
An LSS Security Advisory reports:
When a denial of service attack is detected, mod_dosevasive will, among other things, create a temporary file which it will use to trace actions from the offensive IP address. This file is insecurely created in /tmp and it's name is easily predictable.
It is then easy for an attacker to create arbitrary files in any directory that the user under which apache runs has privileges to write.
[...] once the target file is opened, there is a race attack (although difficult to exploit) which can lead to mod_dosevasive overwriting any file that the user under which apache runs has privileges to write.
The squid patches page notes:
This patch makes Squid considerably stricter while parsing the HTTP protocol.
- A Content-length header should only appear once in a valid request or response. Multiple Content-length headers, in conjunction with specially crafted requests, may allow Squid's cache to be poisoned with bad content in certain situations.
- CR characters is only allowed as part of the CR NL line terminator, not alone. This to ensure that all involved agrees on the structure of HTTP headers.
- Rejects requests/responses that have whitespace in an HTTP header name.
To enable these strict parsing rules, update to at least
squid-2.5.7_9 and specify relaxed_header_parser
off in squid.conf.
A Bugzilla advisory states:
This advisory covers a single cross-site scripting issue that has recently been discovered and fixed in the Bugzilla code: If a malicious user links to a Bugzilla site using a specially crafted URL, a script in the error page generated by Bugzilla will display the URL unaltered in the page, allowing scripts embedded in the URL to execute.
A Secunia Research advisory reports:
Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability in multiple browsers, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
The problem is that a website can inject content into another site's window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted website.
Secunia has constructed a test, which can be used to check if your browser is affected by this issue: http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_injection_vulnerability_test/
A workaround for Mozilla-based browsers is available.
Manigandan Radhakrishnan discovered a security
vulnerability in YAMT which can lead to execution of
arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running
YAMT when sorting based on MP3 tags. The problem exist in
the id3tag_sort() routine which does not
properly sanitize the artist tag from the MP3 file before
using it as an argument to the mv command.
According to a whitepaper published by Sanctum, Inc., it is possible to mount cache poisoning attacks against, among others, squid proxies by inserting false replies into the HTTP stream.
The squid patches page notes:
This patch additionally strengthens Squid from the HTTP response attack described by Sanctum.
A Hyperdose Security Advisory reports:
Horde contains two XSS attacks that can be exploited through GET requests. Once exploited, these requests could be used to execute any javascript commands in the context of that user, potentially including but not limited to reading and deleting email, and stealing auth tokens.
Andrew V. Samoilov reported several vulnerabilities that were corrected in MidnightCommand 4.6.0:
Jeroen van Wolffelaar reports that the Perl module File::Path contains a race condition wherein traversed directories and files are temporarily made world-readable/writable.
Marc Schoenefeld reports:
Opera 7.54 is vulnerable to leakage of the java sandbox, allowing malicious applets to gain unacceptable privileges. This allows them to be used for information gathering (spying) of local identity information and system configurations as well as causing annoying crash effects.
Opera 754 [sic] which was released Aug 5,2004 is vulnerable to the XSLT processor covert channel attack, which was corrected with JRE 1.4.2_05 [released in July 04], but in disadvantage to the users the opera packaging guys chose to bundle the JRE 1.4.2_04 [...]
Internal pointer DoS exploitation: Opera.jar contains the opera replacement of the java plugin. It therefore handles communication between javascript and the Java VM via the liveconnect protocol. The public class EcmaScriptObject exposes a system memory pointer to the java address space, by constructing a special variant of this type an internal cache table can be polluted by false entries that infer proper function of the JSObject class and in the following proof-of-concept crash the browser.
Exposure of location of local java installation Sniffing the URL classpath allows to retrieve the URLs of the bootstrap class path and therefore the JDK installation directory.
Exposure of local user name to an untrusted applet An attacker could use the sun.security.krb5.Credentials class to retrieve the name of the currently logged in user and parse his home directory from the information which is provided by the thrown java.security.AccessControlException.
A sudo bug report says:
sudo doesn't unset the CDPATH variable, which leads to possible security problems.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory states:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Fcron.
- File contents disclosure
- Configuration Bypass Vulnerability
- File Removal and Empty File Creation Vulnerability
- Information Disclosure Vulnerability
An NGSSoftware Insight Security Research Advisory reports:
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in RealPlayer which may potentially be leveraged to allow remote code execution, or may used in combination with the Real Metadata Package File Deletion vulnerability to reliably delete files from a users system.
Pavel Kankovsky reports:
Imlib affected by a variant of CAN-2004-0782 too.
I've discovered more vulnerabilities in Imlib (1.9.13). In particular, it appears to be affected by a variant of Chris Evans' libXpm flaw #1 (CAN-2004-0782, see http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2004-003.txt). Look at the attached image, it kills ee on my 7.3.
The flaws also affect imlib2.
eGroupWare contains a bug in the JiNN component that allows a remote attacker to download arbitrary files.
An advisory published by Richard Stanway describes numerous critical vulnerabilities in the Quake II engine:
Due to unchecked input at various stages in the server, remote users are able to cause the server to crash, reveal sensitive information or potentially execute arbitrary code.
Konversation comes with Perl scripts that do not properly escape shell characters on executing a script. This makes it possible to attack Konversation with shell script command injection.
The LDAP authentication helper did not strip leading or trailing spaces from the login name. According to the squid patches page:
LDAP is very forgiving about spaces in search filters and this could be abused to log in using several variants of the login name, possibly bypassing explicit access controls or confusing accounting.
Workaround: Block logins with spaces
acl login_with_spaces proxy_auth_regex [:space:] http_access deny login_with_spaces
Kenshi Muto discovered that the CUPS server would enter an
infinite loop when processing a URL containing
./..
A US-CERT vulnerability note reports:
An Integer overflow in the LibTIFF library may allow a remote attacker to cause a divide-by-zero error that results in a denial-of-service condition.
infamous41md reports:
zgv uses malloc() frequently to allocate memory for storing image data. When calculating how much to allocate, user supplied data from image headers is multiplied and/or added without any checks for arithmetic overflows. We can overflow numerous calculations, and cause small buffers to be allocated. Then we can overflow the buffer, and eventually execute code. There are a total of 11 overflows that are exploitable to execute arbitrary code.
These bugs exist in both zgv and xzgv.
In a Mozilla bug report, Daniel Kleinsinger writes:
I was comparing treatment of attachments opened directly from emails on different platforms. I discovered that Linux builds save attachments in /tmp with world readable rights. This doesn't seem like a good thing. Couldn't someone else logged onto the same machine read your attachments?
This could expose the contents of downloaded files or email attachments to other users on a multi-user system.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability in AWStats allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands under the privileges of the web server.
The problem specifically exists when the application is running as a CGI script on a web server. The "configdir" parameter contains unfiltered user-supplied data that is utilized in a call to the Perl routine open()...
Successful exploitation allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands under the privileges of the web server. This can lead to further compromise as it provides remote attackers with local access.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow vulnerability in The ImageMagick's Project's ImageMagick PSD image-decoding module could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Exploitation may allow attackers to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer if the victim opens a specially formatted image. Such images could be delivered by e-mail or HTML, in some cases, and would likely not raise suspicion on the victim's part. Exploitation is also possible when a web-based application uses ImageMagick to process user-uploaded image files.
D. J. Bernstein reports that Bartlomiej Sieka has discovered several security vulnerabilities in lppasswd, which is part of CUPS. In the following excerpt from Bernstein's email, CVE names have been added for each issue:
First, lppasswd blithely ignores write errors in fputs(line,outfile) at lines 311 and 315 of lppasswd.c, and in fprintf(...) at line 346. An attacker who fills up the disk at the right moment can arrange for /usr/local/etc/cups/passwd to be truncated. (CAN-2004-1268)
Second, if lppasswd bumps into a file-size resource limit while writing passwd.new, it leaves passwd.new in place, disabling all subsequent invocations of lppasswd. Any local user can thus disable lppasswd... (CAN-2004-1269)
Third, line 306 of lppasswd.c prints an error message to stderr but does not exit. This is not a problem on systems that ensure that file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are open for setuid programs, but it is a problem on other systems; lppasswd does not check that passwd.new is different from stderr, so it ends up writing a user-controlled error message to passwd if the user closes file descriptor 2. (CAN-2004-1270)
Note: The third issue, CVE-2004-1270, does not affect FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE or later systems, as these systems ensure that the file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are always open for set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs.
Ariel Berkman has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in CUPS's HPGL input driver. This vulnerability could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the permission of the CUPS server by printing a specially crated HPGL file.
The Debian Security Team reports:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlaccess script of MySQL that could allow an unprivileged user to let root overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and could also could unveil the contents of a temporary file which might contain sensitive information.
Yosef Klein and Limin Wang have found a buffer overflow vulnerability in unrtf that can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running unrtf, by running unrtf on a specially crafted rtf document.
Maurycy Prodeus reports a critical vulnerability in Mozilla-based browsers:
Mozilla browser supports NNTP urls. Remote side is able to trigger news:// connection to any server. I found a flaw in NNTP handling code which may cause heap overflow and allow remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on client machine.
Yuri D'Elia has found a buffer overflow vulnerability in mpg123's parsing of frame headers in input streams. This vulnerability can potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running mpg123, if the user runs mpg123 on a specially crafted MP2 or MP3 file.
The squid patches page notes:
WCCP_I_SEE_YOU messages contain a 'number of caches' field which should be between 1 and 32. Values outside that range may crash Squid if WCCP is enabled, and if an attacker can spoof UDP packets with the WCCP router's IP address.
The squid patches page notes:
A malicious gopher server may return a response with very long lines that cause a buffer overflow in Squid.
Workaround: Since gopher is very obscure these days, do not allow Squid to any gopher servers. Use an ACL rule like:
acl Gopher proto gopher http_access deny Gopher
A xine security announcement states:
A heap overflow has been found in the DVD subpicture decoder of xine-lib. This can be used for a remote heap overflow exploit, which can, on some systems, lead to or help in executing malicious code with the permissions of the user running a xine-lib based media application.
A xine security announcement states:
Several string overflows on the stack have been fixed in xine-lib, some of them can be used for remote buffer overflow exploits leading to the execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running a xine-lib based media application.
Stack-based string overflows have been found:
- in the code which handles VideoCD MRLs
- in VideoCD code reading the disc label
- in the code which parses text subtitles and prepares them for display
A xine security announcement states:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in the Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) client for RealNetworks servers, including a series of potentially remotely exploitable buffer overflows. This is a joint advisory by the MPlayer and xine teams as the code in question is common to these projects.
Severity: High (arbitrary remote code execution under the user ID running the player) when playing Real RTSP streams. At this time, there is no known exploit for these vulnerabilities.
A flaw in HylaFAX may allow an attacker to bypass normal authentication by spoofing their DNS PTR records.
Steve Kemp has found buffer overflows in the handling of the command line flag -KCONV and the XSHISENLIB environment variable. Ulf Härnhammer has detected an unbounded copy from the GECOS field to a char array. All overflows can be exploited to gain group games privileges.
The setuid root elvprsv utility, used to preserve recovery helvis files, can be abused by local users to delete with root privileges.
The problem is that elvprsv deletes files when it thinks they have become corrupt. When elvprsv is pointed to a normal file then it will almost always think the file is corrupt and deletes it. This behavior may be exploited by local attackers to delete critical files.
Once a recovery file has been preserved by the setuid root elvprsv utility it is placed in a worldreadable directory with worldreadable permissions. This possibly allows sensitive information to leak.
In addition to this information leak, it is possible for users to recover files that belong to other users by using elvrec, another setuid root binary.
dillo contains a format string vulnerability which could lead to execution of arbitrary code simply by viewing a web page or opening a HTML file.
When downloading a batch of files from an FTP server the mget command does not check for directory escapes. A specially crafted file on the FTP server could then potentially overwrite an existing file of the user.
Dmitry V. Levin found a potential integer overflow in the tiffdump utility which could lead to execution of arbitrary code. This could be exploited by tricking an user into executing tiffdump on a specially crafted tiff image.
In an iDEFENSE Security Advisory infamous41md reports:
Remote exploitation of a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability within the LibTIFF package could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability specifically exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied data when calculating the size of a directory entry. A TIFF file includes a number of directory entry header fields that describe the data in the file. Included in these entries is an entry count and offset value that are calculated to determine the size and location of the data for that entry.
Ciaran McCreesh discovered news ways in which a VIM modeline can be used to trojan a text file. The patch by Bram Moolenaar reads:
Problem: Unusual characters in an option value may cause unexpected behavior, especially for a modeline. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Solution: Don't allow setting termcap options or 'printdevice' or 'titleold' in a modeline. Don't list options for "termcap" and "all" in a modeline. Don't allow unusual characters in 'filetype', 'syntax', 'backupext', 'keymap', 'patchmode' and 'langmenu'.
Note: It is generally recommended that VIM
users use set nomodeline in
~/.vimrc to avoid the possibility of trojaned
text files.
Danny Lungstrom has found two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in pcal which can lead to execution of arbitrary code by making a user run pcal on a specially crafted calendar file.
1. The function host_aton() can overflow a buffer if it is presented with an illegal IPv6 address that has more than 8 components.
2. The second report described a buffer overflow in the function spa_base64_to_bits(), which is part of the code for SPA authentication.
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the playlist processing of mpg123. A specially crafted playlist entry can cause a stack overflow that can be used to inject arbitrary code into the mpg123 process
Note that a malicious playlist, demonstrating this vulnerability, was released by the bug finder and may be used as a template by attackers.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been detected in the greed URL handling code. This bug can especially be a problem when greed is used to process GRX (GetRight) files that originate from untrusted sources.
The bug finder, Manigandan Radhakrishnan, gave the following description:
Here are the bugs. First, in main.c, DownloadLoop() uses strcat() to copy an input filename to the end of a 128-byte COMMAND array. Second, DownloadLoop() passes the input filename to system() without checking for special characters such as semicolons.
Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities where detected. Both issues can be used by local users to gain group games privileges on affected systems.
The first overflow exists in the map name handling and can be triggered when a very long name is given to the program during command-line execution
The second overflow exists in the username processing while writing the players score to disk. Excessivly long usernames, set via the USER environment variable, are stored without any length checks in a memory buffer.
Timo Sirainen reports:
There are various bugs in up-imapproxy which can crash it. Since up-imapproxy runs in a single process with each connection handled in a separate thread, any crash kills all the connections and stops listening for new ones.
In 64bit systems it might be possible to make it leak data (mails, passwords, ..) from other connections to attacker's connection. However I don't think up-imapproxy actually works in any 64bit system so this is just a theoretical problem.
Albert Puigsech Galicia reports that Konqueror (more specifically kio_ftp) and Microsoft Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a FTP command injection vulnerability which can be exploited by tricking an user into clicking a specially crafted FTP URI.
It is also reported by Ian Gulliver and Emanuele Balla that this vulnerability can be used to tricking a client into sending out emails without user interaction.
A Secunia Security Advisory reports that Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña has found temporary file creation vulnerabilities in the fixps and psmandup scripts which are part of a2ps. These vulnerabilities could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the credentials of the user running the vulnerable scripts.
Due to a buffer overflow in the open_aiff_file function in demux_aiff.c, a remote attacker is able to execute arbitrary code via a modified AIFF file.
José Antonio Calvo discovered a bug in the Jabber 1.x server. According to Matthias Wimmer:
Without this patch, it is possible to remotly crash jabberd14, if there is access to one of the following types of network sockets:
- Socket accepting client connections
- Socket accepting connections from other servers
- Socket connecting to an other Jabber server
- Socket accepting connections from server components
- Socket connecting to server components
This is any socket on which the jabberd server parses XML!
The problem existed in the included expat XML parser code. This patch removes the included expat code from jabberd14 and links jabberd against an installed version of expat.
Applying an empty ACL list results in unexpected behavior: anything will match an empty ACL list. For example,
The meaning of the configuration gets very confusing when we encounter empty ACLs such as
acl something src "/path/to/empty_file.txt"
http_access allow something somewheregets parsed (with warnings) as
http_access allow somwhereAnd similarily if you are using proxy_auth acls without having any auth schemes defined.
An Ethreal Security Advisories reports:
Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors:
- Matthew Bing discovered a bug in DICOM dissection that could make Ethereal crash.
- An invalid RTP timestamp could make Ethereal hang and create a large temporary file, possibly filling available disk space.
- The HTTP dissector could access previously-freed memory, causing a crash.
- Brian Caswell discovered that an improperly formatted SMB packet could make Ethereal hang, maximizing CPU utilization.
Impact: It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or run arbitrary code by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the xpdf PDF viewer, as included in multiple Linux distributions, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code as the user viewing a PDF file. The offending code can be found in the Gfx::doImage() function in the source file xpdf/Gfx.cc.
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow in version 5.09 of Adobe Acrobat Reader for Unix could allow for execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability specifically exists in a the function mailListIsPdf(). This function checks if the input file is an email message containing a PDF. It unsafely copies user supplied data using strcat into a fixed sized buffer.
A Debian security advisory reports:
A problem has been discovered in ecartis, a mailing-list manager, which allows an attacker in the same domain as the list admin to gain administrator privileges and alter list settings.
iDEFENSE and the MPlayer Team have found multiple vulnerabilities in MPlayer:
These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the user running MPlayer. The problem in the pnm streaming code also affects xine.
A MIT krb5 Security Advisory reports:
The MIT Kerberos 5 administration library (libkadm5srv) contains a heap buffer overflow in password history handling code which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a Key Distribution Center (KDC) host. The overflow occurs during a password change of a principal with a certain password history state. An administrator must have performed a certain password policy change in order to create the vulnerable state.
An authenticated user, not necessarily one with administrative privileges, could execute arbitrary code on the KDC host, compromising an entire Kerberos realm.
Greg MacManus, iDEFENSE Labs reports:
Remote exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in the smbd daemon included in Samba 2.0.x, Samba 2.2.x, and Samba 3.0.x prior to and including 3.0.9 could allow an attacker to cause controllable heap corruption, leading to execution of arbitrary commands with root privileges.
Successful remote exploitation allows an attacker to gain root privileges on a vulnerable system. In order to exploit this vulnerability an attacker must possess credentials that allow access to a share on the Samba server. Unsuccessful exploitation attempts will cause the process serving the request to crash with signal 11, and may leave evidence of an attack in logs.
Secunia reports:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP, which can be exploited to gain escalated privileges, bypass certain security restrictions, gain knowledge of sensitive information, or compromise a vulnerable system.
When a user is granted access to a database with a name containing an underscore and the underscore is not escaped then that user might also be able to access other, similarly named, databases on the affected system.
The problem is that the underscore is seen as a wildcard by MySQL and therefore it is possible that an admin might accidently GRANT a user access to multiple databases.
Dean Ellis reported a denial of service vulnerability in the MySQL server:
Multiple threads ALTERing the same (or different) MERGE tables to change the UNION eventually crash the server or hang the individual threads.
Note that a script demonstrating the problem is included in the MySQL bug report. Attackers that have control of a MySQL account can easily use a modified version of that script during an attack.
A special crafted MySQL FTS request can cause the server to crash. Malicious MySQL users can abuse this bug in a denial of service attack against systems running an affected MySQL daemon.
Note that because this bug is related to the parsing of requests, it may happen that this bug is triggered accidently by a user when he or she makes a typo.
The mysql_real_connect function doesn't properly handle DNS replies by copying the IP address into a buffer without any length checking. A specially crafted DNS reply may therefore be used to cause a buffer overflow on affected systems.
Note that whether this issue can be exploitable depends on the system library responsible for the gethostbyname function. The bug finder, Lukasz Wojtow, explaines this with the following words:
In glibc there is a limitation for an IP address to have only 4 bytes (obviously), but generally speaking the length of the address comes with a response for dns query (i know it sounds funny but read rfc1035 if you don't believe). This bug can occur on libraries where gethostbyname function takes length from dns's response
A Red Hat advisory reports:
Oleksandr Byelkin discovered that "ALTER TABLE ... RENAME" checked the CREATE/INSERT rights of the old table instead of the new one.
Table access restrictions, on the affected MySQL servers, may accidently or intentially be bypassed due to this bug.
A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports:
Command execution: since phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-pl2, on a system where external MIME-based transformations are activated, an attacker can put into MySQL data an offensive value that starts a shell command when browsed.
Enabling PHP safe mode
on the server can be used as
a workaround for this vulnerability.
A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports:
File disclosure: on systems where the UploadDir mecanism is active, read_dump.php can be called with a crafted form; using the fact that the sql_localfile variable is not sanitized can lead to a file disclosure.
Enabling PHP safe mode
on the server can be used as
a workaround for this vulnerability.
Jan Minar reports that there exists multiple vulnerabilities in wget:
Wget erroneously thinks that the current directory is a fair game, and will happily write in any file in and below it. Malicious HTTP response or malicious HTML file can redirect wget to a file that is vital to the system, and wget will create/append/overwrite it.
Wget apparently has at least two methods of ``sanitizing'' the potentially malicious data it receives from the HTTP stream, therefore a malicious redirects can pass the check. We haven't find a way to trick wget into writing above the parent directory, which doesn't mean it's not possible.
Malicious HTTP response can overwrite parts of the terminal so that the user will not notice anything wrong, or will believe the error was not fatal.
When browsing SMB shares with Konqueror, shares with authentication show up with hidden password in the browser bar. It is possible to store the URL as a shortcut on the desktop where the password is then available in plain text.
A malformed Referer
header field causes the Apache
ap_parse_uri_components function to discard it with the
result that a pointer is not initialized. The
mod_access_referer module does not take this into account
with the result that it may use such a pointer.
The null pointer vulnerability may possibly be used in a remote denial of service attack against affected Apache servers.
The squid-2.5 patches pages notes:
In certain conditions Squid returns random data as error messages in response to malformed host name, possibly leaking random internal information which may come from other requests.
The hide_cvsroot and forbidden
configuration options are not properly honored by viewcvs
when exporting to a tar file which can lead to information
leakage.
cscope is vulnerable to a symlink attack which could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running cscope.
A LSS Security Advisory reports:
There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in getnickuserhost() function that is called when BNC is processing response from IRC server.
Vulnerability can be exploited if attacker tricks user to connect to his fake IRC server that will exploit this vulnerability. If the attacker has access to BNC proxy server, this vulnerability can be used to gain shell access on machine where BNC proxy server is set.
Jason Wies identified both rssh & scponly have a vulnerability that allows arbitrary command execution. He reports:
The problem is compounded when you recognize that the main use of rssh and scponly is to allow file transfers, which in turn allows a malicious user to transfer and execute entire custom scripts on the remote machine.
The environment variable HOME is copied without regard to buffer size, which can be used to gain elevated privilege if the binary is installed setgid games, and a string is read from the high score file without bounds check.
The port installs the binary without setgid, but with a world-writable high score file.
A HexView security advisory reports:
When zip performs recursive folder compression, it does not check for the length of resulting path. If the path is too long, a buffer overflow occurs leading to stack corruption and segmentation fault. It is possible to exploit this vulnerability by embedding a shellcode in directory or file name. While the issue is not of primary concern for regular users, it can be critical for environments where zip archives are re-compressed automatically using Info-Zip application.
If non-root access is enabled in sudoscript, any member of the ssers group can send a SIGHUP signal to any process.
Caused by improper bounds-checking of username and password in the C2S module, it is possible for an attacker to cause a remote buffer overflow. The server directly handles the userinput with SQL backend functions - malicious input may lead to buffer overflow.
Donato Ferrante reported an exploitable buffer overflow in this software package. Any user that can login with 'admin' privileges can abuse it, trough the $RedirectAll command, to execute arbitrary code.
Ludwig Nussel has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in unarj's handling of long filenames which could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running unarj.
unarj has insufficient checks for filenames that contain
..
. This can allow an attacker to overwrite
arbitrary files with the permissions of the user running
unarj.
The Sun Java Plugin capability in Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_04, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly restrict access between Javascript and Java applets during data transfer, which allows remote attackers to load unsafe classes and execute arbitrary code.
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been reported to exist in this software package. The vulnerabilities can be triggered by a remote server and can be used to inject malicious code in the ProZilla process.
To support MULTIAPPENDS the cmd_append handler uses the global stage array. This array is one of the things that gets destructed when the fatal() function is triggered. When the Cyrus IMAP code adds new entries to this array this is done with the help of the postfix increment operator in combination with memory allocation functions. The increment is performed on a global variable counting the number of allocated stages. Because the memory allocation function can fail and therefore internally call fatal() this construct is undefined arcording to ANSI C. This means that it is not clearly defined if the numstage counter is already increased when fatal() is called or not. While older gcc versions increase the counter after the memory allocation function has returned, on newer gcc versions (3.x) the counter gets actually increased before. In such a case the stage destructing process will try to free an uninitialised and maybe attacker supplied pointer. Which again could lead to remote code execution. (Because it is hard for an attacker to let the memory allocation functions fail in the right moment no PoC code for this problem was designed)
The argument parser of the fetch command suffers a bug very similiar to the partial command problem. Arguments like "body[p", "binary[p" or "binary[p" will be wrongly detected and the bufferposition can point outside of the allocated buffer for the rest of the parsing process. When the parser triggers the PARSE_PARTIAL macro after such a malformed argument was received this can lead to a similiar one byte memory corruption and allows remote code execution, when the heap layout was successfully controlled by the attacker.
Due to a bug within the argument parser of the partial command an argument like "body[p" will be wrongly detected as "body.peek". Because of this the bufferposition gets increased by 10 instead of 5 and could therefore point outside the allocated memory buffer for the rest of the parsing process. In imapd versions prior to 2.2.7 the handling of "body" or "bodypeek" arguments was broken so that the terminating ']' got overwritten by a '\0'. Combined the two problems allow a potential attacker to overwrite a single byte of malloc() control structures, which leads to remote code execution if the attacker successfully controls the heap layout.
When the option imapmagicplus is activated on a server the PROXY and LOGIN commands suffer a standard stack overflow, because the username is not checked against a maximum length when it is copied into a temporary stack buffer. This bug is especially dangerous because it can be triggered before any kind of authentification took place.
Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, caused by improper input parameter sanitizing, were detected in phpMyAdmin, which may enable an attacker to do cross-site scripting attacks.
An integer overflow condition in fetch(1) in the processing of HTTP headers can result in a buffer overflow.
A malicious server or CGI script can respond to an HTTP or HTTPS request in such a manner as to cause arbitrary portions of the client's memory to be overwritten, allowing for arbitrary code execution.
Caused by improper bounds checking of certain trans2 requests, there is a possible buffer overrun in smbd. The attacker needs to be able to create files with very specific Unicode filenames on the share to take advantage of this issue.
Hans Ulrich Niedermann reports:
The TWiki search function uses a user supplied search string to compose a command line executed by the Perl backtick (``) operator.
The search string is not checked properly for shell metacharacters and is thus vulnerable to search string containing quotes and shell commands.
IMPACT: An attacker is able to execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the TWiki process.
A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:
Florian Schilhabel of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit project found a format string vulnerability in Proxytunnel. When the program is started in daemon mode (-a [port]), it improperly logs invalid proxy answers to syslog.
A malicious remote server could send specially-crafted invalid answers to exploit the format string vulnerability, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code on the tunnelling host with the rights of the Proxytunnel process.
A Sudo Security Alerts reports:
A flaw in exists in sudo's environment sanitizing prior to sudo version 1.6.8p2 that could allow a malicious user with permission to run a shell script that utilized the bash shell to run arbitrary commands.
The Ruby CGI.rb module contains a bug which can cause the CGI module to go into an infinite loop, thereby causing a denial-of-service situation on the web server by using all available CPU time.
Karol Wiesek at iDEFENSE reports:
A remote attacker could cause an smbd process to consume abnormal amounts of system resources due to an input validation error when matching filenames containing wildcard characters.
Although samba.org classifies this as a DoS vulnerability, several members of the security community believe it may be exploitable for arbitrary code execution.
Gnats suffers from a format string bug, which may enable an attacker to execute arbitary code.
A SquirrelMail Security Notice reports:
There is a cross site scripting issue in the decoding of encoded text in certain headers. SquirrelMail correctly decodes the specially crafted header, but doesn't sanitize the decoded strings.
A siyahsapka.org advisory reads:
Hafiye-1.0 doesnt filter the payload when printing it to the terminal. A malicious attacker can send packets with escape sequence payloads to exploit this vulnerability.
If Hafiye has been started with -n packet count option , the vulnerability could allow remote code execution. For remote code execution the victim must press Enter after program exit.
Note that it appears that this bug can only be exploited in conjunction with a terminal emulator that honors the appropriate escape sequences.
Data supplied by a remote server is used as the format string instead of as parameters in a syslog() call. This may lead to crashes or potential running of arbitrary code. It is only a problem when running in daemon mode (very common) and when using some service types.
There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in ImageMagick's EXIF parsing code which may lead to execution of arbitrary code.
It is possible for remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service scenario on Apache 2.0.52 and earlier by sending an HTTP GET request with a MIME header containing multiple lines full of whitespaces.
Socat Security Advisory 1 states:
socat up to version 1.4.0.2 contains a syslog() based format string vulnerability. This issue was originally reported by CoKi on 19 Oct.2004 http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-07.txt. Further investigation showed that this vulnerability could under some circumstances lead to local or remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the socat process.
infamous41md
reports that libxml contains multiple
buffer overflows in the URL parsing and DNS name resolving
functions. These vulnerabilities could lead to execution of
arbitrary code.
An AMaViS Security Announcement reports that a vulnerability exist in the Archive::Zip Perl module which may lead to bypass of malicious code in anti-virus programs by creating specially crafted ZIP files.
There is a buffer overflow in a function used by mod_include that may enable a local user to gain privileges of a httpd child. Only users that are able to create SSI documents can take advantage of that vulnerability.
The make_oidjoins_check script in the PostgreSQL RDBMS has insecure handling of temporary files, which could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the credentials of the user running the make_oidjoins_check script.
infamous41md reports about the GD Graphics Library:
There is an integer overflow when allocating memory in the routine that handles loading PNG image files. This later leads to heap data structures being overwritten. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious PNG image, they could leverage this into executing arbitrary code in the context of the user opening image.
There is a bug in SSH2 support that allows a server to execute malicious code on a connecting PuTTY client. This attack can be performed before host key verification happens, so a different machine -- man in the middle attack -- could fake the machine you are connecting to.
wzdftpd contains a potential remote Denial-of-Service.
There is a format string bug in rssh that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code from an account configured to use rssh. On FreeBSD it is only possible to compromise the rssh running account, not root.
A Horde Team announcement states that a potential cross-site
scripting vulnerability in the help window has been
corrected. The vulnerability appears to involve the handling
of the topic and module parameters
of the help window template.
The bogofilter team has been provided with a test case of a malformatted (non-conformant) RFC-2047 encoded word that can cause bogofilter versions 0.92.7 and prior to try to write a NUL byte into a memory location that is either one byte past the end of a flex buffer or to a location that is the negative of the encoded word's start of payload data, causing a segmentation fault.
Chris Evans discovered several integer arithmetic overflows in the xpdf 2 and xpdf 3 code bases. The flaws have impacts ranging from denial-of-service to arbitrary code execution.
The Gaim team discovered denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the MSN protocol handler:
After accepting a file transfer request, Gaim will attempt to allocate a buffer of a size equal to the entire filesize, this allocation attempt will cause Gaim to crash if the size exceeds the amount of available memory.
Gaim allocates a buffer for the payload of each message received based on the size field in the header of the message. A malicious peer could specify an invalid size that exceeds the amount of available memory.
Sean infamous42md
reports:
When a remote server provides a large "content-length" header value, Gaim will attempt to allocate a buffer to store the content, however this allocation attempt will cause Gaim to crash if the length exceeds the amount of possible memory. This happens when reading profile information on some protocols. It also happens when smiley themes are installed via drag and drop.
Sean infamous42md
reports several situations in gaim
that may result in exploitable buffer overflows:
Sean infamous42md
reports that a malicous GroupWise
messaging server may be able to exploit a heap buffer
overflow in gaim, leading to arbitrary code execution.
The Gaim Security Issues page documents a problem with installing smiley themes from an untrusted source:
To install a new smiley theme, a user can drag a tarball from a graphical file manager, or a hypertext link to one from a web browser. When a tarball is dragged, Gaim executes a shell command to untar it. However, it does not escape the filename before sending it to the shell. Thus, a specially crafted filename could execute arbitrary commands if the user could be convinced to drag a file into the smiley theme selector.
Due to a buffer overflow in the MSN protocol support for gaim 0.79 to 1.0.1, it is possible for remote clients to do a denial-of-service attack on the application. This is caused by an unbounded copy operation, which writes to the wrong buffer.
It is possible for clients to use any cipher suite configured by the virtual host, whether or not a certain cipher suite is selected for a specific directory. This might result in clients using a weaker encryption than originally configured.
Carlos Barros reports that mpg123 contains two buffer overflows. These vulnerabilities can potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code.
The first buffer overflow can occur when mpg123 parses a URL with a user-name/password field that is more than 256 characters long. This problem can be triggered either locally or remotely via a specially crafted play list. The second potential buffer overflow may be triggered locally by a specially crafted symlink to the mpg123 binary. This problem is not as serious, since mpg123 is not installed setuid by default.
The Apache HTTP Server 2.0.51 release notes report that the following issues have been fixed:
A segfault in mod_ssl which can be triggered by a malicious remote server, if proxying to SSL servers has been configured. [CAN-2004-0751]
A potential infinite loop in mod_ssl which could be triggered given particular timing of a connection abort. [CAN-2004-0748]
From the phpMyAdmin 2.6.0p2 release notes:
If PHP is not running in safe mode, a problem in the MIME-based transformation system (with an "external" transformation) allows to execute any command with the privileges of the web server's user.
cabextract has insufficient checks for file names that
contain ../
. This can cause files to be extracted to
the parent directory.
Rudolf Polzer reports:
a2ps builds a command line for file() containing an unescaped version of the file name, thus might call external programs described by the file name. Running a cronjob over a public writable directory a2ps-ing all files in it - or simply typing "a2ps *.txt" in /tmp - is therefore dangerous.
Niels Heinen reports that ifmail allows one to specify a configuration file. Since ifmail runs set-user-ID `news', this may allow a local attacker to write to arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands as the `news' user.
A Computer Academic Underground advisory describes the consequences of imwheel's handling of the process ID file (PID file):
imwheel exclusively uses a predictably named PID file for management of multiple imwheel processes. A race condition exists when the -k command-line option is used to kill existing imwheel processes. This race condition may be used by a local user to Denial of Service another user using imwheel, lead to resource exhaustion of the host system, or append data to arbitrary files.
A remote attacker is able to cause a denial-of-service situation, when NTLM authentication is enabled in squid. NTLM authentication uses two functions which lack correct offset checking.
Fernando Quintero reports that Cacti 0.8.5a suffers from a SQL injection attack where an attacker can change the password for any Cacti user. This attack is not possible if the PHP option magic_quotes_gpc is set to On, which is the default for PHP in FreeBSD.
A OpenPKG Security Advisory reports:
Triggered by a report to Packet Storm from Virulent, a format string vulnerability was found in mod_ssl, the Apache SSL/TLS interface to OpenSSL, version (up to and including) 2.8.18 for Apache 1.3. The mod_ssl in Apache 2.x is not affected. The vulnerability could be exploitable if Apache is used as a proxy for HTTPS URLs and the attacker established a own specially prepared DNS and origin server environment.
Tor has various remote crashes which could lead to a remote denial-of-service and be used to defeat clients anonymity. It is not expected that these vulnerabilities are exploitable for arbitrary code execution.
Caused by improper filtering of HTML code in the status display, it is possible for a remote user to execute scripting code in the target user's browser.
It is possible to execute remote code simply using HTTP request plus 31 headers followed by a shellcode that will be executed directly.
A remote attacker may be able to crash the freeRADIUS Server due to three independant bugs in the function which does improper checking values while processing RADIUS attributes.
Amit Klein reports about Xerces-C++:
An attacker can craft a malicious XML document, which uses XML attributes in a way that inflicts a denial of service condition on the target machine (XML parser). The result of this attack is that the XML parser consumes all the CPU.
Pages in the administration panel of Wordpress are vulnerable for XSS attacks.
Dmitry V. Levin discovered numerous integer overflow bugs in libtiff. Most of these bugs are related to memory management, and are believed to be exploitable for arbitrary code execution.
Certain methods of authenticated remote printing in CUPS can disclose user names and passwords in the log files.
A workaround for this problem is to set more strict access permissions on the CUPS logfiles.
The audio player Zinf is vulnerable to a buffer-overflow bug in the management of the playlist files.
Chris Evans discovered several heap buffer overflows in libtiff's RLE decoder. These overflows could be triggered by a specially-crafted TIFF image file, resulting in an application crash and possibly arbitrary code execution.
From Gentoo advisory GLSA 200410-01:
sharutils contains two buffer overflows. Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in shar.c, where the length of data returned by the wc command is not checked. Florian Schilhabel discovered another buffer overflow in unshar.c.
An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code as the user running one of the sharutils programs.
Caused by an untested return value, and a resulting null pointer dereference, it is possible for an attacker to crash the application. However, the attacker must first hijack the connection between Mail Notification and the Gmail or IMAP server.
The Squid-2.5 patches page notes:
If a certain malformed SNMP request is received squid restarts with a Segmentation Fault error.
This only affects squid installations where SNMP is explicitly enabled via "make config". As a workaround, SNMP can be disabled by defining "snmp_port 0" in squid.conf.
The Cyrus SASL DIGEST-MD5 plugin contains a potential buffer overflow when quoting is required in the output.
The Cyrus SASL library, libsasl, contains functions which may load dynamic libraries. These libraries may be loaded from the path specified by the environmental variable SASL_PATH, which in some situations may be fully controlled by a local attacker. Thus, if a set-user-ID application (such as chsh) utilizes libsasl, it may be possible for a local attacker to gain superuser privileges.
The script vulnerabilities can only be exposed with certain browsers and allow XSS attacks when viewing HTML messages with the HTML MIME viewer
Jon Nistor reported that the FreeBSD port of bmon was installed set-user-ID root, and executes commands using relative paths. This could allow local user to easily obtain root privileges.
Patric Hornik reports on a problem in the certificate chain verification procedures of GnuTLS that may result in a denial-of-service vulnerability:
The certificate chain should be verified from last root certificate to the first certificate. Otherwise a lot of unauthorized CPU processing can be forced to check certificate signatures signed with arbitrary RSA/DSA keys chosen by attacker.
In GnuTLS the signatures are checked from first to last certificate, there is no limit on size of keys and no limit on length of certificate chain.
Stefano Di Paola discovered an issue with PHP that could allow someone to upload a file to any directory writeable by the httpd process. Any sanitizing performed on the prepended directory path is ignored. This bug can only be triggered if the $_FILES element name contains an underscore.
Stefano Di Paola reports:
Bad array parsing in php_variables.c could lead to show arbitrary memory content such as pieces of php code and other data. This affects all GET, POST or COOKIES variables.
In a Bugtraq posting, infamous41md(at)hotpop.com reported:
there are at least 5 exploitable buffer and heap overflows in the image handling code. this allows someone to craft a malicious image, trick a user into viewing the file in xv, and upon viewing that image execute arbitrary code under privileges of the user viewing image. note the AT LEAST part of the above sentence. there is such a plethora of bad code that I just stopped reading after a while. there are at least 100 calls to sprintf() and strcpy() with no regards for bounds of buffers. 95% of these deal with program arguments or filenames, so they are of no interest to exploit. however I just got sick of reading this code after not too long. so im sure there are still other overflows in the image handling code for other image types.
The posting also included an exploit.
David Watson reports a symlink vulnerability in getmail. If run as root (not the recommended mode of operation), a local user may be able to cause getmail to write files in arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on subdirectories of the maildir.
The syscons CONS_SCRSHOT ioctl(2) does insufficient validation of its input arguments. In particular, negative coordinates or large coordinates may cause unexpected behavior.
It may be possible to cause the CONS_SCRSHOT ioctl to return portions of kernel memory. Such memory might contain sensitive information, such as portions of the file cache or terminal buffers. This information might be directly useful, or it might be leveraged to obtain elevated privileges in some way. For example, a terminal buffer might include a user-entered password.
This bug may be exploitable by users who have access to the physical console or can otherwise open a /dev/ttyv* device node.
Thomas Walpuski noted when OpenSSL would detect an error condition for a peer certificate, racoon mistakenly ignored the error. This could allow five invalid certificate states to properly be used for authentication.
Fix bug that might cause IP-based access control rules not to be interpreted correctly on 64-bit platforms.
Several scripting vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in Mozilla:
javascript; links dragged onto another frame or page allows an attacker to steal or modify sensitive information from other sites. The user could be convinced to drag obscurred links in the context of a game or even a fake scrollbar. If the user could be convinced to drag two links in sequence into a separate window (not frame) the attacker would be able to run arbitrary programs.
Untrusted javascript code can read and write to the clipboard, stealing any sensitive data the user might have copied. Workaround: disable javascript
Signed scripts requesting enhanced abilities could construct the request in a way that led to a confusing grant dialog, possibly fooling the user into thinking the privilege requested was inconsequential while actually obtaining explicit permission to run and install software. Workaround: Never grant enhanced abilities of any kind to untrusted web pages.
According to the Mozilla project:
An attacker who could lure users into clicking in particular places, or typing specific text, could cause a security permission or software installation dialog to pop up under the user's mouse click, clicking on the grant (or install) button.
When processing URIs that contain an unqualified host name-- specifically, a domain name of only one component-- Mozilla will perform matching against the first component of the domain name in SSL certificates. In other words, in some situations, a certificate issued to "www.example.com" will be accepted as matching "www".
According to a Samba Team security notice:
A security vulnerability has been located in Samba 2.2.x <= 2.2.11 and Samba 3.0.x <= 3.0.5. A remote attacker may be able to gain access to files which exist outside of the share's defined path. Such files must still be readable by the account used for the connection.
The original notice for CAN-2004-0815 indicated that Samba 3.0.x <= 3.0.5 was vulnerable to the security issue. After further research, Samba developers have confirmed that only Samba 3.0.2a and earlier releases contain the exploitable code.
Gael Delalleau discovered several integer overflows in Mozilla's BMP decoder that can result in denial-of-service or arbitrary code execution.
Georgi Guninski discovered a stack buffer overflow which may be triggered when viewing email messages with vCard attachments.
Several heap buffer overflows were discovered and fixed in the most recent versions of Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird. These overflows may occur when:
Each of these vulnerabilities may be exploited for remote code execution.
Stefan Esser of e-matters discovered that PHP's strip_tags() function would ignore certain characters during parsing of tags, allowing these tags to pass through. Select browsers could then parse these tags, possibly allowing cross-site scripting attacks.
Stefan Esser of e-matters discovered a condition within PHP that may lead to remote execution of arbitrary code. The memory_limit facility is used to notify functions when memory contraints have been met. Under certain conditions, the entry into this facility is able to interrupt functions such as zend_hash_init() at locations not suitable for interruption. The result would leave these functions in a vulnerable state.
An attacker that is able to trigger the memory_limit abort within zend_hash_init() and is additionally able to control the heap before the HashTable itself is allocated, is able to supply his own HashTable destructor pointer. [...]
All mentioned places outside of the extensions are quite easy to exploit, because the memory allocation up to those places is deterministic and quite static throughout different PHP versions. [...]
Because the exploit itself consist of supplying an arbitrary destructor pointer this bug is exploitable on any platform.
In some situations, subversion metadata may be unexpectedly disclosed via WebDAV. A subversion advisory states:
mod_authz_svn, the Apache httpd module which does path-based authorization on Subversion repositories, is not correctly protecting all metadata on unreadable paths.
This security issue is not about revealing the contents of protected files: it only reveals metadata about protected areas such as paths and log messages. This may or may not be important to your organization, depending on how you're using path-based authorization, and the sensitivity of the metadata.
Source code reviews of lha by Lukasz Wojtow, Thomas Biege, and others uncovered a number of vulnerabilities affecting lha:
There is a buffer overflow in the prepared statements API (libmysqlclient) when a statement containing thousands of placeholders is executed.
Under certain situations it is possible for the security icon which Mozilla displays when connected to a site using SSL to be spoofed. This could be used to make so-called "phishing attacks" more difficult to detect.
When handling FTP URLs containing NULL bytes, Mozilla will interpret the file content as HTML. This may allow unexpected execution of Javascript when viewing plain text or other file types via FTP.
A malicious web page can cause an automated file upload from the victim's machine when viewed with Mozilla with Javascript enabled. This is due to a bug permitting default values for type="file" <input> elements in certain situations.
Under some situations, Mozilla will automatically import a certificate from an email message or web site. This behavior can be used as a denial-of-service attack: if the certificate has a distinguished name (DN) identical to one of the built-in Certificate Authorities (CAs), then Mozilla will no longer be able to certify sites with certificates issued from that CA.
rssh expands command line paramters before invoking chroot. This could result in the disclosure to the client of file names outside of the chroot directory. A posting by the rssh author explains:
The cause of the problem identified by Mr. McCaw is that rssh expanded command-line arguments prior to entering the chroot jail. This bug DOES NOT allow a user to access any of the files outside the jail, but can allow them to discover what files are in a directory which is outside the jail, if their credentials on the server would normally allow them read/execute access in the specified directory.
An iDEFENSE security advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of an input validation error in version 1.2 of GNU radiusd could allow a denial of service.
The vulnerability specifically exists within the asn_decode_string() function defined in snmplib/asn1.c. When a very large unsigned number is supplied, it is possible that an integer overflow will occur in the bounds-checking code. The daemon will then attempt to reference unallocated memory, resulting in an access violation that causes the process to terminate.
A new feature of sudo 1.6.8 called "sudoedit" (a safe editing facility) may allow users to read files to which they normally have no access.
A buffer overflow exists in mod_proxy which may allow an attacker to launch local DoS attacks and possibly execute arbitrary code.
A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in CVS by Stefan Esser, Sebastian Krahmer, and Derek Price.
Additionally, iDEFENSE reports an undocumented command-line flag used in debugging does not perform input validation on the given path names.
CVS servers ("cvs server" or :pserver: modes) are affected by these vulnerabilities. They vary in impact but include information disclosure (the iDEFENSE-reported bug), denial-of-service (CVE-2004-0414, CVE-2004-0416, CVE-2004-0417 and other bugs), or possibly arbitrary code execution (CVE-2004-0418). In very special situations where the attacker may somehow influence the contents of CVS configuration files in CVSROOT, additional attacks may be possible.
Chris Evans discovered several flaws in the gdk-pixbuf XPM image decoder:
Some of these flaws are believed to be exploitable.
Chris Evans discovered several vulnerabilities in the libXpm image decoder:
The X11R6.8.1 release announcement reads:
This version is purely a security release, addressing multiple integer and stack overflows in libXpm, the X Pixmap library; all known versions of X (both XFree86 and X.Org) are affected, so all users of X are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
If the CUPS server (cupsd) receives a zero-length UDP message, it will disable its print queue browser service.
The Apache Software Foundation Security Team discovered a programming error in the apr-util library function apr_uri_parse. When parsing IPv6 literal addresses, it is possible that a length is incorrectly calculated to be negative, and this value is passed to memcpy. This may result in an exploitable vulnerability on some platforms, including FreeBSD.
A malicious user with DAV write privileges can trigger a null pointer dereference in the Apache mod_dav module. This could cause the server to become unavailable.
SITIC discovered a vulnerability in Apache 2's handling of environmental variable settings in the httpd configuration files (the main `httpd.conf' and `.htaccess' files). According to a SITIC advisory:
The buffer overflow occurs when expanding ${ENVVAR} constructs in .htaccess or httpd.conf files. The function ap_resolve_env() in server/util.c copies data from environment variables to the character array tmp with strcat(3), leading to a buffer overflow.
The Webmin developers documented a security issue in the release notes for version 1.160:
Fixed a security hole in the maketemp.pl script, used to create the /tmp/.webmin directory at install time. If an un-trusted user creates this directory before Webmin is installed, he could create in it a symbolic link pointing to a critical file on the system, which would be overwritten when Webmin writes to the link filename.
Code found in nmbd and smbd may allow a remote attacker to effectively crash the nmbd server or use the smbd server to exhaust the system memory.
zen-parse discovered a heap buffer overflow in Mozilla's POP client implementation. A malicious POP server could exploit this vulnerability to cause Mozilla to execute arbitrary code.
zen-parse discovered and iDEFENSE reported an exploitable integer overflow in a scriptable Mozilla component `SOAPParameter':
Improper input validation to the SOAPParameter object constructor in Netscape and Mozilla allows execution of arbitrary code. The SOAPParameter object's constructor contains an integer overflow which allows controllable heap corruption. A web page can be constructed to leverage this into remote execution of arbitrary code.
OpenOffice creates a working directory in /tmp on startup, and uses this directory to temporarily store document content. However, the permissions of the created directory may allow other user on the system to read these files, potentially exposing information the user likely assumed was inaccessible.
The mpg123 software version 0.59r contains a buffer overflow vulnerability which may permit the execution of arbitrary code as the owner of the mpg123 process.
Marcus Meissner discovered that ImageMagick's BMP decoder would crash when loading the test BMP file created by Chris Evans for testing the previous Qt vulnerability.
A class of bugs affecting many web browsers in the same way was discovered. A Secunia advisory reports:
The problem is that the browsers don't check if a target frame belongs to a website containing a malicious link, which therefore doesn't prevent one browser window from loading content in a named frame in another window.
Successful exploitation allows a malicious website to load arbitrary content in an arbitrary frame in another browser window owned by e.g. a trusted site.
A KDE Security Advisory reports:
A malicious website could abuse Konqueror to insert its own frames into the page of an otherwise trusted website. As a result the user may unknowingly send confidential information intended for the trusted website to the malicious website.
Secunia has provided a demonstration of the vulnerability at http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_frame_injection_vulnerability_test/.
Numerous errors in isakmpd's input packet validation lead to denial-of-service vulnerabilities. From the Rapid7 advisory:
The ISAKMP packet processing functions in OpenBSD's isakmpd daemon contain multiple payload handling flaws that allow a remote attacker to launch a denial of service attack against the daemon.
Carefully crafted ISAKMP packets will cause the isakmpd daemon to attempt out-of-bounds reads, exhaust available memory, or loop endlessly (consuming 100% of the CPU).
Marcus Meissner discovered that imlib's BMP decoder would crash when loading the test BMP file created by Chris Evans for testing the previous Qt vulnerability. It is believed that this bug could be exploited for arbitrary code execution.
An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says:
The MIT Kerberos 5 implementation's Key Distribution Center (KDC) program contains a double-free vulnerability that potentially allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Compromise of a KDC host compromises the security of the entire authentication realm served by the KDC. Additionally, double-free vulnerabilities exist in MIT Kerberos 5 library code, making client programs and application servers vulnerable.
Double-free vulnerabilities of this type are not believed to be exploitable for code execution on FreeBSD systems. However, the potential for other ill effects may exist.
An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says:
The ASN.1 decoder library in the MIT Kerberos 5 distribution is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack causing an infinite loop in the decoder. The KDC is vulnerable to this attack.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a KDC or application server to hang inside an infinite loop.
An attacker impersonating a legitimate KDC or application server may cause a client program to hang inside an infinite loop.
Marcus Meissner discovered that imlib2's BMP decoder would crash when loading the test BMP file created by Chris Evans for testing the previous Qt vulnerability. There appears to be both a stack-based and a heap-based buffer overflow that are believed to be exploitable for arbitrary code execution.
According to the SpamAssassin 2.64 release announcement:
Security fix prevents a denial of service attack open to certain malformed messages; this DoS affects all SpamAssassin 2.5x and 2.6x versions to date.
The issue appears to be triggered by overly long message headers.
lukemftpd(8) is an enhanced BSD FTP server produced within the NetBSD project. The sources for lukemftpd are shipped with some versions of FreeBSD, however it is not built or installed by default. The build system option WANT_LUKEMFTPD must be set to build and install lukemftpd. [NOTE: An exception is FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, wherein lukemftpd was installed, but not enabled, by default.]
Przemyslaw Frasunek discovered several vulnerabilities in lukemftpd arising from races in the out-of-band signal handling code used to implement the ABOR command. As a result of these races, the internal state of the FTP server may be manipulated in unexpected ways.
A remote attacker may be able to cause FTP commands to be executed with the privileges of the running lukemftpd process. This may be a low-privilege `ftp' user if the `-r' command line option is specified, or it may be superuser privileges if `-r' is *not* specified.
By submitting a carefully crafted authentication packet, it is possible for an attacker to bypass password authentication in MySQL 4.1. Using a similar method, a stack buffer used in the authentication mechanism can be overflowed.
According to a Debian Security Advisory:
Andres Salomon noticed a problem in the CGI session management of Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language. CGI::Session's FileStore (and presumably PStore [...]) implementations store session information insecurely. They simply create files, ignoring permission issues. This can lead an attacker who has also shell access to the webserver to take over a session.
ISS X-Force reports that a remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Netscape Security Services (NSS) library's implementation of SSLv2. From their advisory:
The NSS library contains a flaw in SSLv2 record parsing that may lead to remote compromise. When parsing the first record in an SSLv2 negotiation, the client hello message, the server fails to validate the length of a record field. As a result, it is possible for an attacker to trigger a heap-based overflow of arbitrary length.
Note that the vulnerable NSS library is also present in Mozilla-based browsers. However, it is not believed that browsers are affected, as the vulnerability is present only in code used by SSLv2 *servers*.
ripMIME may prematurely terminate decoding Base64 encoded messages when it encounters multiple blank lines or other non-standard Base64 constructs. Virus scanning and content filtering tools that use ripMIME may therefore be bypassed.
The ripMIME CHANGELOG file says:
There's viruses going around exploiting the ability to hide the majority of their data in an attachment by using blank lines and other tricks to make scanning systems prematurely terminate their base64 decoding.
The moinmoin package contains two bugs with ACLs and anonymous users. Both bugs may permit anonymous users to gain access to administrative functions; for example the delete function.
There is no known workaround, the vulnerability exists regardless if a site is using ACLs or not.
An rsync security advisory reports:
There is a path-sanitizing bug that affects daemon mode in all recent rsync versions (including 2.6.2) but only if chroot is disabled.
The bug may allow a remote user to access files outside of an rsync module's configured path with the privileges configured for that module.
Alexander Larsson reports that some versions of gnome-vfs and MidnightCommander contain a number of `extfs' scripts that do not properly validate user input. If an attacker can cause her victim to process a specially-crafted URI, arbitrary commands can be executed with the privileges of the victim.
Ulf Härnhammar discovered a pair of buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code of SoX. If an attacker can cause her victim to process a specially-crafted WAV file with SoX (e.g. through social engineering or through some other program that relies on SoX), arbitrary code can be executed with the privileges of the victim.
According to a KDE Security Advisory:
WESTPOINT internet reconnaissance services alerted the KDE security team that the KDE web browser Konqueror allows websites to set cookies for certain country specific secondary top level domains.
Web sites operating under the affected domains can set HTTP cookies in such a way that the Konqueror web browser will send them to all other web sites operating under the same domain. A malicious website can use this as part of a session fixation attack. See e.g. http://www.acros.si/papers/session_fixation.pdf
Affected are all country specific secondary top level domains that use more than 2 characters in the secondary part of the domain name and that use a secondary part other than com, net, mil, org, gov, edu or int. Examples of affected domains are .ltd.uk, .plc.uk and .firm.in
It should be noted that popular domains such as .co.uk, .co.in and .com are NOT affected.
Neils Heinen reports that the setuid `news' binaries installed as part of fidogate may be used to create files or append to file with the privileges of the `news' user by setting the LOGFILE environmental variable.
The log functions in jftpgw may allow remotely authenticated user to execute arbitrary code via the format string specifiers in certain syslog messages.
Qt contains several vulnerabilities related to image loading, including possible crashes when loading corrupt GIF, BMP, or JPEG images. Most seriously, Chris Evans reports that the BMP crash is actually due to a heap buffer overflow. It is believed that an attacker may be able to construct a BMP image that could cause a Qt-using application to execute arbitrary code when it is loaded.
An iDEFENSE security advisory describes a format string vulnerability that could be exploited when Courier-IMAP is run in debug mode (DEBUG_LOGIN set).
According to Christian Hammers:
[mysqlhotcopy created] temporary files in /tmp which had predictable filenames and such could be used for a tempfile run attack.
Jeroen van Wolffelaar is credited with discovering the issue.
Evgeny Demidov discovered that the Samba server has a buffer overflow in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) on decoding Base64 data during HTTP Basic Authentication. Versions 3.0.2 through 3.0.4 are affected.
Another buffer overflow bug has been found in the code used to support the "mangling method = hash" smb.conf option. The default setting for this parameter is "mangling method = hash2" and therefore not vulnerable. Versions between 2.2.0 through 2.2.9 and 3.0.0 through 3.0.4 are affected.
The Mozilla project's family of browsers contain a design flaw that can allow a website to spoof almost perfectly any part of the Mozilla user interface, including spoofing web sites for phishing or internal elements such as the "Master Password" dialog box. This achieved by manipulating "chrome" through remote XUL content. Recent versions of Mozilla have been fixed to not allow untrusted documents to utilize "chrome" in this way.
Chris Evans has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in libpng, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
According to a KDE Security Advisory, KDE may sometimes create temporary files without properly checking the ownership and type of the target path. This could allow a local attacker to cause KDE applications to overwrite arbitrary files.
Sebastian Krahmer discovered several remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the MSN component of gaim.
In two places in the MSN protocol plugins (object.c and slp.c), strncpy was used incorrectly; the size of the array was not checked before copying to it. Both bugs affect MSN's MSNSLP protocol, which is peer-to-peer, so this could potentially be easy to exploit.
An iDEFENSE security advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of an input validation error in the uudecoding feature of Adobe Acrobat Reader (Unix) 5.0 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The Unix and Linux versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 automatically attempt to convert uuencoded documents back into their original format. The vulnerability specifically exists in the failure of Acrobat Reader to check for the backtick shell metacharacter in the filename before executing a command with a shell. This allows a maliciously constructed filename to execute arbitrary programs.
John Graham-Cumming reports that certain configurations of POPFile may allow the retrieval of any files with the extensions .gif, .png, .ico, .css, as well as some files with the extension .html.
A buffer overflow exists in the logging functionality of the DHCP daemon which could lead to Denial of Service attacks and has the potential to allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Steve Grubb reports a buffer read overrun in libpng's png_format_buffer function. A specially constructed PNG image processed by an application using libpng may trigger the buffer read overrun and possibly result in an application crash.
Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to spoof SSL certification.
Glenn Randers-Pehrson has contributed a fix for the png vulnerabilities discovered by Chris Evans.
The Courier set of mail services use a common Unicode library. This library contains buffer overflows in the converters for two popular Japanese character encodings. These overflows may be remotely exploitable, triggered by a maliciously formatted email message that is later processed by one of the Courier mail services. From the release notes for the corrected versions of the Courier set of mail services:
iso2022jp.c: Converters became (upper-)compatible with ISO-2022-JP (RFC1468 / JIS X 0208:1997 Annex 2) and ISO-2022-JP-1 (RFC2237). Buffer overflow vulnerability (when Unicode character is out of BMP range) has been closed. Convert error handling was implemented.
shiftjis.c: Broken SHIFT_JIS converters has been fixed and became (upper-)compatible with Shifted Encoding Method (JIS X 0208:1997 Annex 1). Buffer overflow vulnerability (when Unicode character is out of BMP range) has been closed. Convert error handling was implemented.
Stefan Esser of e-matters Security discovered a baker's dozen of buffer overflows in Ethereal's decoders, including:
In addition, a vulnerability in the RADIUS decoder was found by Jonathan Heusser.
Finally, there is one uncredited vulnerability described by the Ethereal team as:
A zero-length Presentation protocol selector could make Ethereal crash.
Issues have been discovered in multiple protocol dissectors.
Issues have been discovered in multiple protocol dissectors.
SSLtelnet contains a format string vulnerability that could allow remote code execution and privilege escalation.
Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez did a survey which other webmail systems where vulnerable to a bug he discovered in SquirrelMail. This advisory summarizes the results.
When pavuk sends a request to a web server and the server sends back the HTTP status code 305 (Use Proxy), pavuk copies data from the HTTP Location header in an unsafe manner. This leads to a stack-based buffer overflow with control over EIP.
Janek Vind "waraxe" reports that several issues in the PHPNuke software may be exploited via carefully crafted URL requests. These URLs will permit the injection of SQL code, cookie theft, and the readability of the PHPNuke administrator account.
This vulnerability would allow remote user to inject PHP code to be executed by eval() function. This vulnerability is only exploitable if variable $cfg['LeftFrameLight'] is set to FALSE (in file config.inc.php).
GNATS 3.113.1 contains multiple buffer overflows, through which a local attacker could gain elevated privileges on the system.
A programming error in the handling of some Linux system calls may result in memory locations being accessed without proper validation.
It may be possible for a local attacker to read and/or overwrite portions of kernel memory, resulting in disclosure of sensitive information or potential privilege escalation. A local attacker can cause a system panic.
giFT-FastTrack is susceptible to a remote Denial of Service attack which could allow a remote attacker to render HTTP services unusable. According to the developers, no code execution is possible; however, they recommend an immediate upgrade.
When the IPv6 code was added to xdm a critical test to disable xdmcp was accidentally removed. This caused xdm to create the chooser socket regardless if DisplayManager.requestPort was disabled in xdm-config or not.
A serious flaw exists in the MoinMoin software which may allow a malicious user to gain access to unauthorized privileges.
In December 2002, Timo Sirainen reported:
Cyrus IMAP server has a a remotely exploitable pre-login buffer overflow. [...] Note that you don't have to log in before exploiting this, and since Cyrus runs everything under one UID, it's possible to read every user's mail in the system.
It is unknown whether this vulnerability is exploitable for code execution on FreeBSD systems.
The Cyrus team reported multiple vulnerabilities in older versions of Cyrus IMSPd:
These releases correct a recently discovered buffer overflow vulnerability, as well as clean up a significant amount of buffer handling throughout the code.
A remotely exploitable heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer's URL decoding code. If an attacker can cause MPlayer to visit a specially crafted URL, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running MPlayer may occur. A `visit' might be caused by social engineering, or a malicious web server could use HTTP redirects which MPlayer would then process.
Timo Sirainen reports multiple buffer overflows that may be triggered while parsing messages, as well as input validation errors that could result in disclosure of mailing list passwords.
These bugs were resolved in the August 2003 snapshot of ecartis.
When the directive "SecFilterScanPost" is enabled, the Apache 2.x version of ModSecurity is vulnerable to an off-by-one overflow
clamav will exit when a programming assertion is not met. A malformed uuencoded message can trigger this assertion, allowing an attacker to trivially crash clamd or other components of clamav.
Stefan Esser reports:
A vulnerability within a libneon date parsing function could cause a heap overflow which could lead to remote code execution, depending on the application using libneon.
The vulnerability is in the function ne_rfc1036_parse, which is in turn used by the function ne_httpdate_parse. Applications using either of these neon functions may be vulnerable.
Greuff reports that the neon WebDAV client library contains several format string bugs within error reporting code. A malicious server may exploit these bugs by sending specially crafted PROPFIND or PROPPATCH responses.
Although several applications include neon, such as cadaver and subversion, the FreeBSD Ports of these applications are not impacted. They are specifically configured to NOT use the included neon. Only packages listed as affected in this notice are believed to be impacted.
A flaw exists in Gallery versions previous to 1.4.3-pl1 and post 1.2 which may give an attacker the potential to log in under the "admin" account. Data outside of the gallery is unaffected and the attacker cannot modify any data other than the photos or photo albums.
Jakub Jelinek reports several security related bugs in Midnight Commander, including:
Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the NTLM authentication helper routine of the Squid Web Proxy Cache could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. A remote attacker can compromise a target system if the Squid Proxy is configured to use the NTLM authentication helper. The attacker can send an overly long password to overflow the buffer and execute arbitrary code.
The NISCC and the OUSPG developed a test suite for the H.323 protocol. This test suite has uncovered vulnerabilities in several H.323 implementations with impacts ranging from denial-of-service to arbitrary code execution.
In the FreeBSD Ports Collection, `pwlib' is directly affected. Other applications such as `asterisk' and `openh323' incorporate `pwlib' statically and so are also independently affected.
A programming error resulting in a failure to verify that an attempt to manipulate routing tables originated from a non-jailed process.
Jailed processes running with superuser privileges could modify host routing tables. This could result in a variety of consequences including packets being sent via an incorrect network interface and packets being discarded entirely.
Programming errors in the implementation of the msync(2) system call involving the MS_INVALIDATE operation lead to cache consistency problems between the virtual memory system and on-disk contents.
In some situations, a user with read access to a file may be able to prevent changes to that file from being committed to disk.
The leafnode NNTP server may go into an unterminated loop with 100% CPU use when an article is requested by Message-ID that has been crossposted to several news groups when one of the group names is the prefix of another group name that the article was cross-posted to. Found by Jan Knutar.
Fetchnews could hang when a news article to be downloaded lacked one of the mandatory headers. Found by Joshua Crawford.
When a downloaded news article ends prematurely, i. e. when the server sends [CR]LF.[CR]LF before sending a blank line, fetchnews may wait indefinitely for data that never arrives. Workaround: configure "minlines=1" (or use a bigger value) in the configuration file. Found by Toni Viemerö.
Shaun Colley reports that the script `mysqlbug' included with MySQL sometimes creates temporary files in an unsafe manner. As a result, an attacker may create a symlink in /tmp so that if another user invokes `mysqlbug' and quits without making any changes, an arbitrary file may be overwritten with the bug report template.
Stefan Esser reports:
Subversion versions up to 1.0.2 are vulnerable to a date parsing vulnerability which can be abused to allow remote code execution on Subversion servers and therefore could lead to a repository compromise.
NOTE: This vulnerability is similar to the date parsing issue that affected neon. However, it is a different and distinct bug.
Due to a programming error in code used to parse data received from the client, malformed data can cause a heap buffer to overflow, allowing the client to overwrite arbitrary portions of the server's memory.
A malicious CVS client can exploit this to run arbitrary code on the server at the privilege level of the CVS server software.
Joe Orton reports a memory leak in Apache 2's mod_ssl. A remote attacker may issue HTTP requests on an HTTPS port, causing an error. Due to a bug in processing this condition, memory associated with the connection is not freed. Repeated requests can result in consuming all available memory resources, probably resulting in termination of the Apache process.
Karol Wiesek and Greg MacManus reported via iDEFENSE that the Opera web browser contains a flaw in the handling of certain URIs. When presented with these URIs, Opera would invoke external commands to process them after some validation. However, if the hostname component of a URI begins with a `-', it may be treated as an option by an external command. This could have undesirable side-effects, from denial-of-service to code execution. The impact is very dependent on local configuration.
After the iDEFENSE advisory was published, the KDE team discovered similar problems in KDE's URI handlers.
The Debian security team reported a pair of vulnerabilities in fsp:
A vulnerability was discovered in fsp, client utilities for File Service Protocol (FSP), whereby a remote user could both escape from the FSP root directory (CAN-2003-1022), and also overflow a fixed-length buffer to execute arbitrary code (CAN-2004-0011).
Jindrich Makovicka reports a regression in proftpd's handling of IP address access control lists (IP ACLs). Due to this regression, some IP ACLs are treated as ``allow all''.
Some scripts installed with xine create temporary files insecurely. It is recommended that these scripts (xine-check, xine-bugreport) not be used. They are not needed for normal operation.
A remote exploitable buffer overflow has been discovered in exim when verify = header_syntax is used in the configuration file. This does not affect the default configuration.
The includes/sessions.php unnecessarily adds session item into session table and therefore vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack.
An input validation error was discovered in the kadmind code that handles the framing of Kerberos 4 compatibility administration requests. The code assumed that the length given in the framing was always two or more bytes. Smaller lengths will cause kadmind to read an arbitrary amount of data into a minimally-sized buffer on the heap.
A remote attacker may send a specially formatted message to kadmind, causing it to crash or possibly resulting in arbitrary code execution.
The kadmind daemon is part of Kerberos 5 support. However, this bug will only be present if kadmind was built with additional Kerberos 4 support. Thus, only systems that have *both* Heimdal Kerberos 5 and Kerberos 4 installed might be affected.
NOTE: On FreeBSD 4 systems, `kadmind' may be installed as `k5admind'.
Two programming errors were discovered in which path names handled by CVS were not properly validated. In one case, the CVS client accepts absolute path names from the server when determining which files to update. In another case, the CVS server accepts relative path names from the client when determining which files to transmit, including those containing references to parent directories (`../').
These programming errors generally only have a security impact when dealing with remote CVS repositories.
A malicious CVS server may cause a CVS client to overwrite arbitrary files on the client's system.
A CVS client may request RCS files from a remote system other than those in the repository specified by $CVSROOT. These RCS files need not be part of any CVS repository themselves.
The kernel interface for creating a snapshot of a filesystem is the same as that for changing the flags on that filesystem. Due to an oversight, the mksnap_ffs(8) command called that interface with only the snapshot flag set, causing all other flags to be reset to the default value.
A regularly scheduled backup of a live filesystem, or any other process that uses the mksnap_ffs command (for instance, to provide a rough undelete functionality on a file server), will clear any flags in effect on the filesystem being snapshot. Possible consequences depend on local usage, but can include disabling extended access control lists or enabling the use of setuid executables stored on an untrusted filesystem.
The mksnap_ffs command is normally only available to the superuser and members of the `operator' group. There is therefore no risk of a user gaining elevated privileges directly through use of the mksnap_ffs command unless it has been intentionally made available to unprivileged users.
A programming error in the shmat(2) system call can result in a shared memory segment's reference count being erroneously incremented.
It may be possible to cause a shared memory segment to reference unallocated kernel memory, but remain valid. This could allow a local attacker to gain read or write access to a portion of kernel memory, resulting in sensitive information disclosure, bypass of access control mechanisms, or privilege escalation.
A programming error has been found in the jail_attach(2) system call which affects the way that system call verifies the privilege level of the calling process. Instead of failing immediately if the calling process was already jailed, the jail_attach system call would fail only after changing the calling process's root directory.
A process with superuser privileges inside a jail could change its root directory to that of a different jail, and thus gain full read and write access to files and directories within the target jail.
FreeBSD does not limit the number of TCP segments that may be held in a reassembly queue. A remote attacker may conduct a low-bandwidth denial-of-service attack against a machine providing services based on TCP (there are many such services, including HTTP, SMTP, and FTP). By sending many out-of-sequence TCP segments, the attacker can cause the target machine to consume all available memory buffers (``mbufs''), likely leading to a system crash.
From the FreeBSD Security Advisory:
A programming error in the handling of some IPv6 socket options within the setsockopt(2) system call may result in memory locations being accessed without proper validation.
It may be possible for a local attacker to read portions of kernel memory, resulting in disclosure of sensitive information. A local attacker can cause a system panic.
A remote attacker could cause an application using OpenSSL to crash by performing a specially crafted SSL/TLS handshake.
A programming error in BIND 8 named can result in a DNS message being incorrectly cached as a negative response. As a result, an attacker may arrange for malicious DNS messages to be delivered to a target name server, and cause that name server to cache a negative response for some target domain name. The name server would thereafter respond negatively to legitimate queries for that domain name, resulting in a denial-of-service for applications that require DNS.
Heimdal does not correctly validate the `transited' field of Kerberos tickets when computing the authentication path. This could allow a rogue KDC with which cross-realm relationships have been established to impersonate any KDC in the authentication path.
Ulf Härnhammar discovered several vulnerabilities in LHa for UNIX's path name handling code. Specially constructed archive files may cause LHa to overwrite files or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking LHa. This could be particularly harmful for automated systems that might handle archives such as virus scanning processes.
A straightforward stack buffer overflow exists in XChat's Socks5 proxy support.
The XChat developers report that `tsifra' discovered this issue.
NOTE: XChat Socks5 support is disabled by support in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.
When running rsync in daemon mode, no checks were made to prevent clients from writing outside of a module's `path' setting.
From the xinehq advisory:
By opening a malicious MRL in any xine-lib based media player, an attacker can write arbitrary content to an arbitrary file, only restricted by the permissions of the user running the application.
The flaw is a result of a feature that allows MRLs (media resource locator URIs) to specify arbitrary configuration options.
An unknown remotely exploitable vulnerability was disclosed. Robert Segall writes:
a security vulnerability was brought to my attention (many thanks to Akira Higuchi). Everyone running any previous version should upgrade to 1.6 immediately - the vulnerability may allow a remote exploit. No exploits are currently known and none have been observed in the wild till now. The danger is minimised if you run Pound in a root jail and/or you run Pound as non-root user.
The common.php script always trusts the `X-Forwarded-For' header in the client's HTTP request. A remote user could forge this header in order to bypass any IP address access control lists (ACLs).
NISCC / UNIRAS has published an advisory that re-visits the long discussed spoofed TCP RST denial-of-service vulnerability. This new look emphasizes the fact that for some applications such attacks are practically feasible.
Jack of RaptureSecurity reported a double byte buffer overflow in ident2. The bug may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of the ident2 daemon. The daemon typically runs as user-ID `nobody', but with group-ID `wheel'.
A buffer overflow is present in some versions of the KDE personal information manager (kdepim) which may be triggered when processing a specially crafted VCF file.
When racoon receives an ISAKMP header, it will attempt to allocate sufficient memory for the entire ISAKMP message according to the header's length field. If an attacker crafts an ISAKMP header with a ridiculously large value in the length field, racoon may exceed operating system resource limits and be terminated, resulting in a denial of service.
When racoon receives an IKE message with an incorrectly constructed Generic Payload Header, it may behave erratically, going into a tight loop and dropping connections.
Chad Loder has discovered vulnerabilities in tcpdump's ISAKMP protocol handler. During an audit to repair these issues, Bill Fenner discovered some related problems.
These vulnerabilities may be used by an attacker to crash a running `tcpdump' process. They can only be triggered if the `-v' command line option is being used.
NOTE: the racoon ISAKMP/IKE daemon incorporates the ISAKMP protocol handler from tcpdump, and so is also affected by this issue.
Midnight Commander uses a fixed sized stack buffer while resolving symbolic links within file archives (tar or cpio). If an attacker can cause a user to process a specially crafted file archive with Midnight Commander, the attacker may be able to obtain the privileges of the target user.
Ralf Spenneberg discovered a serious flaw in racoon. When using Phase 1 main or aggressive mode, racoon does not verify the client's RSA signature. Any installations using X.509 authentication are strongly urged to upgrade.
Installations using pre-shared keys are believed to be unaffected.
Stefan Esser of e-matters found almost a dozen remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in Gaim. From the e-matters advisory:
While developing a custom add-on, an integer overflow in the handling of AIM DirectIM packets was revealed that could lead to a remote compromise of the IM client. After disclosing this bug to the vendor, they had to make a hurried release because of a change in the Yahoo connection procedure that rendered GAIM useless. Unfourtunately at the same time a closer look onto the sourcecode revealed 11 more vulnerabilities.
The 12 identified problems range from simple standard stack overflows, over heap overflows to an integer overflow that can be abused to cause a heap overflow. Due to the nature of instant messaging many of these bugs require man-in-the-middle attacks between client and server. But the underlying protocols are easy to implement and MIM attacks on ordinary TCP sessions is a fairly simple task.
In combination with the latest kernel vulnerabilities or the habit of users to work as root/administrator these bugs can result in remote root compromises.
Philippe Oechslin reported a denial-of-service vulnerability in oftpd. The oftpd server can be crashed by sending a PORT command containing an integer over 8 bits long (over 255).
From the Squid advisory:
Squid versions 2.5.STABLE4 and earlier contain a bug in the "%xx" URL decoding function. It may insert a NUL character into decoded URLs, which may allow users to bypass url_regex ACLs.
A remote attacker could cause zebra/quagga to crash by sending a malformed telnet command to their management port.
Users with admin rights can severly damage an phpBB installation, potentially triggered by viewing a page with a malicious link sent by an attacker.
A security hole exists that can be used to crash the proxy and execute arbitrary code. An exploit is circulating that takes advantage of this, and in some cases succeeds in obtaining a login shell on the machine.
A remote attacker may use specially crafted IKE/ISAKMP messages to cause racoon to delete security associations. This could result in denial-of-service or possibly cause sensitive traffic to be transmitted in plaintext, depending upon configuration.
Glenn Stewart reports a bug in wu-ftpd's ftpaccess `restricted-uid'/`restricted-gid' directives:
Users can get around the restriction to their home directory by issuing a simple chmod command on their home directory. On the next ftp log in, the user will have '/' as their root directory.
Matt Zimmerman discovered that the cause of the bug was a missing check for a restricted user within a code path that is executed only when a certain error is encountered.
Ulf Härnhammar discovered several vulnerabilities in GNU Anubis.
Ulf notes that these vulnerabilities can be exploited by a malicious IDENT server as a denial-of-service attack.
A number of buffer overflows were recently discovered in XFree86, prompted by initial discoveries by iDEFENSE. These buffer overflows are present in the font alias handling. An attacker with authenticated access to a running X server may exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain root privileges on the machine running the X server.
Steve Kemp reports (in a Debian bug submission):
Due to improper bounds checking it is possible for a malicious user to gain a shell with membership group 'games'. (The binary is installed setgid games).
Environmental variables are used without being bounds-checked in any way, from the source code:
highscore.c: /* Use the environment variable if it exists */ if ((str = getenv("XBOING_SCORE_FILE")) != NULL) strcpy(filename, str); else strcpy(filename, HIGH_SCORE_FILE); misc.c: if ((ptr = getenv("HOME")) != NULL) (void) strcpy(dest, ptr);Neither of these checks are boundschecked, and will allow arbitary shell code to be run.
Ulf Härnhammar reported four bugs in metamail: two are format string bugs and two are buffer overflows. The bugs are in SaveSquirrelFile(), PrintHeader(), and ShareThisHeader().
These vulnerabilities could be triggered by a maliciously formatted email message if `metamail' or `splitmail' is used to process it, possibly resulting in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user reading mail.
Ulf Härnhammar reports multiple buffer overflows in Emil, some of which are triggered during the parsing of attachment filenames. In addition, some format string bugs are present in the error reporting code.
Depending upon local configuration, these vulnerabilities may be exploited using specially crafted messages in order to execute arbitrary code running with the privileges of the user invoking Emil.
Anyone can get admin's username and password's md5 hash via a single web request. A working example is provided in the advisory.
The authors of UUDeview report repairing two buffer overflows in their software.
Henning Brauer discovered a programming error in Apache 1.3's mod_access that results in the netmasks in IP address access control rules being interpreted incorrectly on 64-bit, big-endian platforms. In some cases, this could cause a `deny from' IP address access control rule including a netmask to fail.
An attacker may cause Apache with mod_python to crash by using a specially constructed query string.
In 2003, two vulnerabilities were discovered in mpg123 that could result in remote code execution when using untrusted input or streaming from an untrusted server.
Dave Jones discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in fetchmail. An email message containing a very long line could cause fetchmail to segfault due to missing NUL termination in transact.c.
Eric Raymond decided not to mention this issue in the release notes for fetchmail 6.2.5, but it was fixed there.
A malformed message could cause mailman to crash.
Dirk Mueller reports:
I've found a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the admin interface of mailman 2.1.3 that allows, under certain circumstances, for anyone to retrieve the (valid) session cookie.
From the 2.1.3 release notes:
Closed a cross-site scripting exploit in the create cgi script.
From the 2.1.1 release notes:
Closed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the user options page.
Multiple researchers have discovered multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in some versions of Php-Nuke. These vulnerabilities may lead to information disclosure, compromise of the Php-Nuke site, or compromise of the back-end database.
Ulf Härnhammar discovered an exploitable vulnerability in lbreakout2's environmental variable handling. In several instances, the contents of the HOME environmental variable are copied to a stack or global buffer without range checking. A local attacker may use this vulnerability to acquire group-ID `games' privileges.
An exploit for this vulnerability has been published by ``Li0n7 voila fr''.
Ulf Härnhammar discovered a format string bug in hsftp's file listing code may allow a malicious server to cause arbitrary code execution by the client.
An attacker can cause an assertion to trigger by sending a long User-Agent field in a request.
Yuuichi Teranishi reported a crash in libxml2's URI handling when a long URL is supplied. The implementation in nanohttp.c and nanoftp.c uses a 4K stack buffer, and longer URLs will overwrite the stack. This could result in denial-of-service or arbitrary code execution in applications using libxml2 to parse documents.
Lack of proper input validation in phpMyAdmin may allow an attacker to obtain the contents of any file on the target system that is readable by the web server.
Jedi/Sector One <j@pureftpd.org> reported the following on the full-disclosure list:
Every document is stored in multiple parts according to its sections (description, body, etc) in databases. And when the content has to be sent to the client, UdmDocToTextBuf() concatenates those parts together and skips metadata.
Unfortunately, that function lacks bounds checking and a buffer overflow can be triggered by indexing a large enough document.
'len' is fixed to 10K [in UdmDocToTextBuf] in searchd.c . S->val length depends on the length of the original document and on the indexer settings (the sample configuration file has low limits that work around the bug, though).
Exploitation should be easy, moreover textbuf points to the stack.
libtool attempts to create a temporary directory in which to write scratch files needed during processing. A malicious user may create a symlink and then manipulate the directory so as to write to files to which she normally has no permissions.
This has been reported as a ``symlink vulnerability'', although I do not think that is an accurate description.
This vulnerability could possibly be used on a multi-user system to gain elevated privileges, e.g. root builds some packages, and another user successfully exploits this vulnerability to write to a system file.
The seti@home client contains a buffer overflow in the HTTP response handler. A malicious, spoofed seti@home server can exploit this buffer overflow to cause remote code execution on the client. Exploit programs are widely available.
icecast 1.3.11 and earlier contained numerous security vulnerabilities, the most severe allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as root.
According to the author:
Fixed security loophole which allowed remote clients to access arbitrary files on our system.
The Chinese Console Environment contains exploitable buffer overflows.
Niels Heinen reports that ChiTeX installs set-user-id root executables that invoked system(3) without setting up the environment, trivially allowing local root compromise.
Kris Kennaway reports a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in newmail.c. Mike Silbersack submitted the fix.
An attacker may send an email message containing a specially constructed URL that will execute arbitrary commands when viewed.
An attacker may send a specially-formatted email message that will cause pine to crash.
Pine versions prior to 4.58 are affected by two vulnerabilities discovered by iDEFENSE, a buffer overflow in mailview.c and an integer overflow in strings.c. Both vulnerabilities can result in arbitrary code execution when processing a malicious message.
When rsync is run in server mode, a buffer overflow could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the rsync server. Anonymous rsync servers are at the highest risk.
From the Samba 3.0.2 release notes:
Security Announcement: It has been confirmed that previous versions of Samba 3.0 are susceptible to a password initialization bug that could grant an attacker unauthorized access to a user account created by the mksmbpasswd.sh shell script.
Mutt 1.4 contains a buffer overflow that could be exploited with a specially formed message, causing Mutt to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
From the Apache-SSL security advisory:
If configured with SSLVerifyClient set to 1 or 3 (client certificates optional) and SSLFakeBasicAuth, Apache-SSL 1.3.28+1.52 and all earlier versions would permit a client to use real basic authentication to forge a client certificate.
All the attacker needed is the "one-line DN" of a valid user, as used by faked basic auth in Apache-SSL, and the fixed password ("password" by default).
Jonathan Heusser discovered vulnerabilities in tcpdump's L2TP, ISAKMP, and RADIUS protocol handlers. These vulnerabilities may be used by an attacker to crash a running `tcpdump' process.
A small, fixed-size stack buffer is used to construct a filename based on a received control message. This could result in a stack buffer overflow.
A buffer overflow exists in the ProFTPD code that handles translation of newline characters during ASCII-mode file uploads. An attacker may exploit this buffer overflow by uploading a specially crafted file, resulting in code execution and ultimately a remote root compromise.
Any ElGamal sign+encrypt keys created by GnuPG contain a cryptographic weakness that may allow someone to obtain the private key. These keys should be considered unusable and should be revoked.
The following summary was written by Werner Koch, GnuPG author:
Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure which can lead to a compromise of almost all ElGamal keys used for signing. Note that this is a real world vulnerability which will reveal your private key within a few seconds.
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Please take immediate action and revoke your ElGamal signing keys. Furthermore you should take whatever measures necessary to limit the damage done for signed or encrypted documents using that key.
Note that the standard keys as generated by GnuPG (DSA and ElGamal encryption) as well as RSA keys are NOT vulnerable. Note also that ElGamal signing keys cannot be generated without the use of a special flag to enable hidden options and even then overriding a warning message about this key type. See below for details on how to identify vulnerable keys.
Mathopd contains a buffer overflow in the prepare_reply() function that may be remotely exploitable.
A buffer overflow exists in lftp which may be triggered when requesting a directory listing from a malicious server over HTTP.
An authenticated user may trigger a format string vulnerability present in qpopper's UIDL code, resulting in arbitrary code execution with group ID `mail' privileges.
Fetchmail can be crashed by a malicious email message.
Applications utilizing pam_smb can be compromised by any user who can enter a password. In many cases, this is a remote root compromise.
libmcrypt does incomplete input validation, leading to several buffer overflows. Additionally, a memory leak is present. Both of these problems may be exploited in a denial-of-service attack.
The ChangeLog for phpBB 2.0.11 states:
Changes since 2.0.10
- Fixed vulnerability in highlighting code (very high severity, please update your installation as soon as possible)
- Fixed unsetting global vars - Matt Kavanagh
- Fixed XSS vulnerability in username handling - AnthraX101
- Fixed not confirmed sql injection in username handling - warmth
- Added check for empty topic id in topic_review function
- Added visual confirmation mod to code base
Additionally, a US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert reports:
phpBB contains an user input validation problem with regard to the parsing of the URL. An intruder can deface a phpBB website, execute arbitrary commands, or gain administrative privileges on a compromised bulletin board.
The squid patches page notes:
This patch adds access controls to the cachemgr.cgi script, preventing it from being abused to reach other servers than allowed in a local configuration file.
The squid patches page notes:
Malicious users may spoof DNS lookups if the DNS client UDP port (random, assigned by OS as startup) is unfiltered and your network is not protected from IP spoofing.
There are 3 buffer overflows in jid.c that are triggered during parsing of JID strings when components (user, host or resource) are too long.
strcpy() when "user" part is too long.strcpy() when "host" part is too long.strcpy() when "resource" part is too
long.These overflows can be used to perform a DoS attack on the server (sm process segfaults) and can possible be used for arbitrary code execution.
The squid patches page notes:
Squid may crash with the above error [FATAL: Incorrect scheme in auth header] when given certain request sentences.
Workaround: disable NTLM authentication.
If magic quotes are off there's a SQL injection when sending a forgotten password. It's possible to overwrite the admin password and to take over the whole system. In some files in the admin section there are some cross site scripting vulnerabilities. In the public frontend it's possible to include arbitrary php files.