Summary of Security Items from November 17 through November 23, 2005
Information in the US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin is a compilation and includes information published by outside sources, therefore the information should not be considered the result of US-CERT analysis. Software vulnerabilities are categorized in the appropriate section reflecting the operating system on which the vulnerability was reported; however, this does not mean that the vulnerability only affects the operating system reported since this information is obtained from open-source information.
This bulletin provides a summary of new or updated vulnerabilities, exploits, trends, viruses, and trojans. Updates to vulnerabilities that appeared in previous bulletins are listed in bold text. The text in the Risk column appears in red for vulnerabilities ranking High. The risks levels applied to vulnerabilities in the Cyber Security Bulletin are based on how the "system" may be impacted. The Recent Exploit/Technique table contains a "Workaround or Patch Available" column that indicates whether a workaround or patch has been published for the vulnerability which the script exploits.
The table below summarizes vulnerabilities that have been identified, even if they are not being exploited. Complete details about patches or workarounds are available from the source of the information or from the URL provided in the section. CVE numbers are listed where applicable. Vulnerabilities that affect both Windows and Unix Operating Systems are included in the Multiple Operating Systems section.
Note: All the information included in the following tables has been discussed in newsgroups and on web sites.
The Risk levels defined below are based on how the system may be impacted:
Note: Even though a vulnerability may allow several malicious acts to be performed, only the highest level risk will be defined in the Risk column.
High - A high-risk vulnerability is defined as one that will allow an intruder to immediately gain privileged access (e.g., sysadmin or root) to the system or allow an intruder to execute code or alter arbitrary system files. An example of a high-risk vulnerability is one that allows an unauthorized user to send a sequence of instructions to a machine and the machine responds with a command prompt with administrator privileges.
Medium - A medium-risk vulnerability is defined as one that will allow an intruder immediate access to a system with less than privileged access. Such vulnerability will allow the intruder the opportunity to continue the attempt to gain privileged access. An example of medium-risk vulnerability is a server configuration error that allows an intruder to capture the password file.
Low - A low-risk vulnerability is defined as one that will provide information to an intruder that could lead to further compromise attempts or a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. It should be noted that while the DoS attack is deemed low from a threat potential, the frequency of this type of attack is very high. DoS attacks against mission-critical nodes are not included in this rating and any attack of this nature should instead be considered to be a "High" threat.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Winmail Server that could let remote malicious users conduct Cross-Site Scripting and arbitrarily manipulate files.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this vulnerability.
Cerberus FTP Server Denial of Service
Low
Secunia Advisory: SA17650, November 23, 2005
Costal Data Management
e-Quick Cart
An input validation vulnerability has been reported in e-Quick Cart that could let remote malicious user conduct Cross-Site Scripting, perform SQL injection, or execute arbitrary code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
Security Tracker, Alert ID: 1015236, November 17, 2005
Hitachi
Cosminexus Collaboration, Groupmax Collaboration
A vulnerability has been reported in Cosminexus Collaboration and Groupmax Collaboration that could let remote malicious users conduct Cross-Site Scripting or cause a Denial of Service.
Cosminexus Collaboration and Groupmax Collaboration Cross-Site Scripting or Denial of Service
Medium
Hitachi, Software Vulnerability Information HS05-023, November 18, 2005
MailEnable Professional 1.6, Enterprise 1.1
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in MailEnable that could let remote malicious users execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service.
A vulnerability has been reported when validating the ownership of the cache directory, which could let a remote malicious user obtain elevated privileges.
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 811-1, September 14, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 811-2, November 21, 2005
Eric S Raymond
Fetchmail 6.x
A vulnerability has been reported in the 'fetchmailconf' configuration utility due to a race condition, which could let a malicious user obtain sensitive information.
A vulnerability has been reported due to a security weakness when extracting an archive to a world or group writeable directory, which could let a malicious user modify file permissions.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15523, November 22, 2005
libpng
pnmtopng 2.38, 2.37.3-2.37.6
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in 'Alphas_Of
_Color' due to insufficient bounds checking of user-supplied data prior to copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15427, November 15, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 904-1, November 21, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-218-1, November 21, 2005
Lite Speed Technologies
LiteSpeed Web Server 2.1.5
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in 'admin'/config'confMgr.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'm' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, a Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported in the 'index.lok' lock file when indexing music files due to the insecure creation of temporary files, which could let a remote malicious user overwrite arbitrary files; and a Directory Traversal vulnerability was reported when processing certain CGI parameters and cookie values due to an input validation error, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information.
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-192-1, September 30, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 828-1, September 30, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory, MDKSA-2005:181, October 11, 2005
SCO Security Advisory, SCOSA-2005.44, November 1, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:025, November 4, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:027, November 18, 2005
Multiple Vendors
Ubuntu Linux 5.10 powerpc, i386, amd64, 5.0 4 powerpc, i386, amd64, 4.1 ppc, ia64, ia32;
TouchTunes Rhapsody,
TouchTunes Maestro;
SuSE UnitedLinux 1.0, Novell Linux Desktop 9.0, Linux Professional 10.0 OSS, 10.0, 9.3 x86_64, 9.3, 9.2 x86_64, 9.2, 9.1 x86_64, 9.1, 9.0 x86_64, 9.0, Linux Personal 10.0 OSS, 9.3 x86_64, 9.3, 9.2 x86_64, 9.2, 9.1 x86_64, 9.1, 9.0 x86_64, 9.0, Linux Enterprise Server 9, 8, Linux Desktop 1.0;
RedHat Fedora Core4, Core3, Enterprise Linux WS 4, WS 3, WS 2.1 IA64, WS 2.1, ES 4, ES 3, 2.1 IA64, 2.1, AS 4, AS 3, AS 2.1 IA64, 2.1, Desktop 4.0, 3.0, Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1 IA64, 2.1; GTK+ 2.8.6, 2.6.4, 2.4.14, 2.4.13, 2.4.10, 2.4.9, 2.4.1, 2.2.4, 2.2.3;
GNOME GdkPixbuf 0.22;
Gentoo Linux ; Ardour 0.99
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: an integer overflow vulnerability was reported in '/gtk+/gdk-pixbuf/io-xpm.c' due to the insufficient validation of the 'n_col' value before using to allocate memory, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code; a remote Denial of Service vulnerability was reported in '/gtk+/gdk-pixbuf/io-xpm.c' when processing an XPM file that contains a large number of colors; and an integer overflow vulnerability was reported in '/gtk+/gdk-pixbuf/io-xpm.c' when performing calculations using the height, width, and colors of a XPM file, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service.
Format string vulnerabilities have been reported in 'gda-log.c' due to format string errors in the 'gda_log_error()' and 'gda_
log_message()' functions, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Security Focus Bugtraq IDs: 15226 & 15228, October 28, 2005
Debian Security Advisory DSA 877-1, October 28, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:025, November 4, 2005
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200511-05, November 6, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:027, November 18, 2005
Multiple Vendors
GNU gnump3d 2.9-2.9.5;
Gentoo Linux
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-05, November 7, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:027, November 18, 2005
Multiple Vendors
Linux Kernel 2.4.x, 2.6 prior to 2.6.11.11
A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux kernel in the Radionet Open Source Environment (ROSE) implementation in the 'rose_rt_ioctl()' function due to insufficient validation of a new routes' ndigis argument. The impact was not specified.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15528, November 22, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-219-1, November 22, 2005
Multiple Vendors
Linux kernel 2.6-2.6.14
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a Denial of Service vulnerability was reported due to a memory leak in '/security/keys/
request_key_auth.c;' a Denial of Service vulnerability was reported due to a memory leak in '/fs/namei.c' when the 'CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL' option is enabled; and a vulnerability was reported because the orinoco wireless driver fails to pad data packets with zeroes when increasing the length, which could let a malicious user obtain sensitive information.
Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory, TSLSA-2005-0057, October 14, 2005
Fedora Update Notifications,
FEDORA-2005-1013, October 20, 2005
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2005:808-14, October 27, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-219-1, November 22, 2005
Multiple Vendors
Linux kernel 2.6-2.6.14
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been in 'sysctl.c' due to an error when handling the un-registration of interfaces in '/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/.'
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-219-1, November 22, 2005
Multiple Vendors
Linux kernel 2.6-2.6.14
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a Denial of Service vulnerability was reported when handling asynchronous USB access via usbdevio; and a Denial of Service vulnerability was reported in the 'ipt_recent.c' netfilter module due to an error in jiffies comparison.
A vulnerability has been reported because fusermount fails to securely handle special characters specified in mount points, which could let a malicious user cause a Denial of Service or add arbitrary mount points.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200511-17, November 22, 2005
Multiple Vendors
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4, WS 3, 2.1, IA64, ES 4, ES 3, 2.1, IA64, AS 4, AS 3, AS 2.1, IA64, Desktop 4.0, 3.0, Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1, IA64; OpenSSL Project OpenSSL 0.9.3-0.9.8, 0.9.2 b, 0.9.1 c; FreeBSD 6.0 -STABLE, -RELEASE, 5.4 -RELENG, -RELEASE, 5.3 -STABLE, -RELENG, -RELEASE, 5.3, 5.2.1 -RELEASE, -RELENG, 5.2 -RELEASE, 5.2, 5.1 -RELENG, -RELEASE/Alpha, 5.1 -RELEASE-p5, -RELEASE, 5.1, 5.0 -RELENG, 5.0, 4.11 -STABLE, -RELENG, 4.10 -RELENG, -RELEASE, 4.10
A vulnerability has been reported due to the implementation of the 'SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_
RSA_PADDING' option that maintains compatibility with third party software, which could let a remote malicious user bypass security.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient bounds checking of user-supplied data prior to copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Trustix Secure
Linux Security Advisory, TSLSA-2005-0034,
July 8, 2005
Fedora Update Notifications,
FEDORA-2005
-561 & 562, July 13, 2005
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2005:720-04, August 9, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory, MDKSA-2005:137, August 11, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-190-1, September 29, 2005
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2005:395-18, October 5, 2005
Conectiva Linux Announcement, CLSA-2005:1032, October 13, 2005
Avaya Security Advisory, ASA-2005-225, October 18, 200
SUSE Security Summary Report, Announcement ID: SUSE-SR:2005:024, October 21, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 873-1, October 26, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-190-2, November 21, 2005
Openswan
Openswan 2.2-2.4, 2.1.4-2.1.6, 2.1.2, 2.1.1
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a remote Denial of Service vulnerability was reported when handling IKE packets that have an invalid 3DES key length; and a remote Denial of Service vulnerability was reported when handling certain specially crafted IKE packets.
CERT-FI & NISCC Joint Vulnerability Advisory, November 15, 2005
Astaro Security Linux Update, November 16, 2005
Fedora Update Notifications,
FEDORA-2005-1092 & 1093, November 21, 2005
Opera Software
Opera Web Browser 8.5, 8.0-8.0 2
A vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed through a URI, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
A vulnerability has been reported in 'pcre_compile.c' due to an integer overflow, which could let a remote/local malicious user potentially execute arbitrary code.
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in 'libraries/auth/cookie.
auth.lib.php' due to insufficient sanitization, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code; and a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in 'error.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'error' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 880-1, November 2, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:025, November 4, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:066, November 18, 2005
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin 2.x
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported due to insufficient verification of certain configuration parameters, which could let a remote malicious user include arbitrary files; and a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was reported in 'left.php,' 'queryframe.php,' and 'server_databases.php' due to insufficient sanitization of unspecified input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
Fedora Update Notifications,
FEDORA-2005-1009 & 1010, October 20, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory, MDKSA-2005:195, October 26, 2005
SCO Security Advisory, SCOSA-2005.44, November 1, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:025, November 4, 2005
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15157, November 10, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:027, November 18, 2005
Sylpheed
Sylpheed 2.0-2.0.3, 1.0.0-1.0.5
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in 'ldif.c' due to a boundary error in the 'ldif_
get_line()' function when importing a LDIF file into the address book, which could let a remote malicious user obtain unauthorized access.
Fedora Update Notification,
FEDORA-2005-1063, November 9, 2005
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200511-13, November 15, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 906-1, November 22, 2005
Todd Miller
Sudo 1.x
A vulnerability has been reported in the environment cleaning due to insufficient sanitization, which could let a malicious user obtain elevated privileges.
A vulnerability has been reported due to a failure to ensure that cancellation requests from users are performed only by authorized users, which could let a remote malicious user issue cancel requests and potentially cause a Denial of Service.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15483, November 17, 2005
Zope
Zope 2.6-2.8.1
A vulnerability has been reported in 'docutils' due to an unspecified error and affects all instances which exposes 'Restructured
Text' functionality via the web. The impact was not specified.
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in 'popup.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'poll_ident' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, Proof of Concept exploits have been published.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15506, November 21, 2005
Almond
Soft.Com
Almond Classifieds
A vulnerability has been reported due to a failure to verify that the password supplied matches the given entry, which could let a remote malicious user obtain unauthorized access.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15505, November 21, 2005
Apache Software Foundation
Struts 1.2.7
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in error response due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15512, November 21, 2005
APBoard
APBoard
An SQL injection vulnerability was reported in 'thread.php' due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, a Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15513, November 21, 2005
Arki-DB
Arki-DB 2.0, 1.0
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in 'index.php' due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, a Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15467, November 16, 2005
Check Point Software
VPN-1/Firewall-1 NG with AI R55W, VPN-1/Firewall-1 NG with AI R55P, VPN-1/Firewall-1 NG with AI R55, VPN-1/Firewall-1 NG with AI R54, VPN-1 Pro NGX R60, FireWall-1 GX 3.0, Express CI R57
A remote Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported due to unspecified vulnerabilities in the IPSec implementation.
Check Point has addressed these issues in the latest Hotfix Accumulators.
Vulnerability can be reproduced with the PROTOS IPSec Test Suite.
Check Point Firewall-1 & VPN-1 ISAKMP IKE Remote Denial of Service
Arhont Ltd.- Information Security Advisory, November 22, 2005
Digital Dominion
PHP-Fusion 6.00.206 & prior
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: an SQL injection vulnerability was reported in 'options.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'forum_id' and 'thread_id' parameters and in 'viewforum.php' and 'index.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'lastvisite' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code; and a path disclosure vulnerability was reported in 'subheader.php.'
Exponent Content Management System 0.96.4, 0.96.1, 0.95, 0.94
Several vulnerabilities have been reported because file permissions on user files are incorrectly set, which could let a remote malicious obtain sensitive information or execute arbitrary script code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required.
Exponent Content Management System Multiple Improper File Permission
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15503, November 19, 2005
Google
Google Search Appliance, Mini Search Appliance
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported in the 'proxystyle
sheet' parameter due to insufficient sanitization before returned to the user in an error message, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code; a vulnerability was reported in 'XSLT style sheets due to insufficient sanitization of the 'proxystylesheet' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary Java class methods; and a vulnerability was reported because it is possible to enumerate open ports on other systems by providing the full URL containing hostname and port number.
A patch is reportedly available from the vendor.
There is no exploit code required; however, Proof of Concept exploits and an exploit script have been published.
Google Mini Search Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported because the SNMP service allows read-write access using any credentials, which could let a remote/local malicious user retrieve and modify the device configuration; a vulnerability was reported due to an undocumented open port 3390/tcp that allows access to the Unidata Shell upon connection, which could let a remote/local malicious user obtain sensitive information and cause a Denial of Service; a vulnerability was reported due to a hardcoded administrative password, which could let a remote/local malicious user obtain unauthorized access; and a vulnerability was reported because the default index page of the phone's HTTP server (8080/tcp) discloses sensitive information.
Users are advised to contact the vendor for details on obtaining the appropriate updates.
There is no exploit code required.
Hitachi WirelessIP5000 IP Phone Multiple Vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: an SQL injection vulnerability was reported in 'query_results.jsp' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'query' parameter before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code; a vulnerability was reported in 'conf/revize.xml' because configuration data is stored inside the web root; a vulnerability was reported because a remote malicious user can obtain sensitive information by accessing 'debug/,' and a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was reported in 'HTTPTranslator
Servlet' due to insufficient sanitization, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, Proof of Concept exploits have been published.
Revize CMS Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, & Information Disclosure
Security Tracker Alert ID: 1015231, November 16, 2005
Ilia Alshanetsky
FUDForum 2.6.15
A vulnerability has been reported in the 'mid' parameter due to insufficient validation before retrieving a forum post, which could let a remote malicious user bypass certain security restrictions and obtain sensitive information.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 14556, August 25, 2005
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200508-20, August 30, 2005
Debian Security Advisory , DSA 798-1, September 2, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 899-1, November 17, 2005
Interspire
ArticleLive NX 0.3, ArticleLive NX
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient sanitization of the 'Query' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was reported due to insufficient sanitization of certain unspecified input before returning to the user, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code; an SQL injection vulnerability was reported in the 'mod_poll' module due to insufficient sanitization of the 'Itemid' parameter before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code; and an SQL injection vulnerability was reported due to insufficient sanitization of several methods in the in 'mosDBTable' class before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
A vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient validation of the frame type identifier that is read from a SWF file, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:027, November 18, 2005
Macromedia
Flash 7.0.19 .0 & prior
An input validation vulnerability has been reported in 'ActionDefineFunction' due to an error for a critical array index value, which could let a remote malicious user cause a Denial of Service or execute arbitrary code.
Macromedia Security Bulletin, MPSB05-07, November 7, 2005
Microsoft Security Advisory (910550), November 10, 2005
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15334, November 21, 2005
Mambo
Mambo Site Server 4.0.14, 4.0.12 RC1-RC3, BETA & BETA 2, 4.0.10-4.0.12, 4.0
A remote file include vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary remote PHP code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15461, November 16, 2005
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15461, November 21, 2005
Mantis
Mantis 1.0.0RC2, 0.19.2
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported in 'bug_
sponsorship_list_view_inc.php' due to insufficient verification before used to include files, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary files; an SQL injection vulnerability was reported due to insufficient sanitization of unspecified input before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code; several Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities were reported in JavaScript and 'mantis/view
_all_set.php' due to insufficient sanitization, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code; an unspecified vulnerability was reported when using reminders, which could lead to the disclosure of sensitive information; and a vulnerability was reported because the User ID is cached longer than necessary.
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in inline style attributes due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15024, October 6, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:027, November 18, 2005
Multiple Vendors
Ubuntu Linux 5.10 powerpc, i386, amd64;
Inkscape 0.42, 0.41
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the SVG importer due to a boundary error, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Security Tracker Alert ID: 1015195, November 11, 2005
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2005:839-3, November 11, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory, MDKSA-2005:211, November 12, 2005
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200511-09, November 13, 2005
Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory, TSLSA-2005-0066, November 22, 2005
Multiple Vendors
IETF RFC 793: TCP
A remote Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in the TCP congestion control mechanism when the remote peer forges acknowledgment packets prior to actually receiving packets from the sending host.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this vulnerability.
Multiple Vendor TCP Acknowledgements Remote Denial of Service
Multiple input validation vulnerabilities have been reported due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user conduct Cross-Site Scripting attacks, phishing style attacks, and retrieve privileged or sensitive information.
Fedora Update Notifications,
FEDORA-2005-1061 & 1062, November 8, 2005
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2005:831-15, November 10, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory, MDKSA-2005:213, November 16, 2005
Novell
NetMail 3.52 D
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the IMAP server when parsing certain long verb arguments, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
A vulnerability has been reported due to a failure to show the correct URL in the status bar if an image control with a 'title' attribute has been enclosed in a hyperlink and uses a form to specify the destination URL, which could let a remote malicious user trick users into visiting a malicious website.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, a Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in 'files.php' due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required.; however a Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15470, November 16, 2005
PHP Group
PHP 5.0.5, 4.4.0
A vulnerability has been reported in the 'open_basedir' directive due to the way PHP handles it, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 14957, September 27, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-207-1, October 17, 2005
Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory, TSLSA-2005-0059, October 21, 2005
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 14957, October 31, 2005
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200511-08, November 13, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory, MDKSA-2005:213, November 16, 2005
Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory, TSLSA-2005-0062, November 22, 2005
PHP
PHP 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, 4.4.x, 5.0.x
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported due to insufficient protection of the 'GLOBALS' array, which could let a remote malicious user define global variables; a vulnerability was reported in the 'parse_str()' PHP function when handling an unexpected termination, which could let a remote malicious user enable the 'register_
globals' directive; a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was reported in the 'phpinfo()' PHP function due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code; and an integer overflow vulnerability was reported in 'pcrelib' due to an error, which could let a remote malicious user corrupt memory.
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:025, November 4, 2005
Turbolinux Security Advisory TLSA-2005-97, November 5, 2005
Fedora Update Notifications,
FEDORA-2005-1061 & 1062, November 8, 2005
RedHat Security Advisories, RHSA-2005:838-3 & RHSA-2005:831-15, November 10, 2005
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200511-08, November 13, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory, MDKSA-2005:213, November 16, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:027, November 18, 2005
Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory, TSLSA-2005-0062, November 22, 2005
phpComasy
phpComasy 0.7.5, 0.7.4
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in 'index.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'id' parameter before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15511, November 21, 2005
phpldap
admin
phpldapadmin 0.9.6 - 0.9.7/alpha5
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was reported due to insufficient user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code; a Directory Traversal vulnerability was reported which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information; and a file include vulnerability was reported, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary PHP script code.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 14695, August 30, 2005
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 14695, September 7, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory, MDKSA-2005:212, November 16, 2005
phpMyFAQ Team
phpmyFAQ 1.5.3 & prior
Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities have been reported in the 'add content' page due to insufficient sanitization of the 'thema,' 'username,' and 'usermail' parameters, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities have been reported due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, a Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15524, November 22, 2005
phpSysInfo
phpSysInfo 2.3
Multiple Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities have been reported due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code. It is also possible to obtain the full path to certain scripts.
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 897-1, November 15, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory, MDKSA-2005:212, November 16, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 898-1, November 17, 2005
PMachine
PMachine Pro 2.4
A vulnerability has been reported in 'mail_autocheck.
php' due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary PHP code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, a Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15473, November 16, 2005
Saturn Innovation
Saturn Innovation Mailing system
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required.
Saturn Innovation Mailing System SQL Injection
Medium
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15518, November 21, 2005
Senao
SI-680H VOIP WIFI Phone 0.3 .0839
A vulnerability has been reported because connections from VxWorks debugger on port 17185/udp are allowed, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information or cause a Denial of Service.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required.
Senao SI-680H VOIP WIFI Phone VxWorks Remote Debugger Access
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in 'results.php' due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, a Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
A remote Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported due to a failure of the product's IPSec implementation to properly handle malformed IKE packets.
Symantec Security Advisory, SYM05-025,
November 21, 2005
Tru-Zone
NukeET 3.0-3.2
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in the 'search' module due to insufficient sanitization of the 'query' variable before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15519, November 21, 2005
Unclassified NewsBoard
Unclassified NewsBoard 1.5.3 a, 1.5.3
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in 'forum.php' due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, an exploit script has been published.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15469, November 16, 2005
UTStarcom
F1000 VOIP WIFI Phone s2.0
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported because the SNMP service that runs on the IP phone allows read access using default public credential, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information; and a vulnerability was reported in the rlogin service due to insufficient access controls, which could let a remote malicious user obtain unauthorized access.
Users of affected packages should contact the vendor for further information on obtaining fixes.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the 'AddressFromAtPtr()' function due to a boundary error when copying the hostname portion of an e-mail address to a 256-byte buffer, which could let a malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Security Tracker Alert ID: 1015055, October 13, 2005
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15103, October 22, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 902-1, November 21, 2005
XMB Forum
XMB Forum, 1.9.3, 1.9.2
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported in 'member.php' due to insufficient sanitization of 'Your Current Mood' field when registering for an account, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code; and a vulnerability was reported because a remote malicious user can submit a specially crafted URL to cause the system to display an error message that
discloses sensitive information.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, a Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
A vulnerability has been reported due to an unspecified error when processing the certification chain, which could allow improper certificates to be used when authenticating connections.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15487, November 17, 2005
ZyXEL
Prestige 2000W v.1VoIP Wi-Fi Phone
An information disclosure vulnerability was reported, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information to perform a Denial of Service.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required.
Zyxel P2000W v.1 VOIP WIFI Phone Information Disclosure
The section below contains wireless vulnerabilities, articles, and viruses/trojans identified during this reporting period.
Mobile phones growing faster than ever: According to a principal analyst for mobile terminals research at Gartner, the international mobile phone market is experiencing its largest ever growth period. The third quarter of 2005 saw 205.4 million mobiles sold around the world, a 22 per cent increase on the same period of last year. Source: http://www.pcw.co.uk/computing/news/2146448/mobile-sales-biggest-ever.
Panelists Weigh Potential RFID Security Threats:
TechBix Connection panelists that participated in a discussion on Radio Frequency identification technology (RFID) agree there are security risks for companies that don't secure their RFID network by using equipment with built in protocols such as secure shell and secure socket layer. Source: http://www.informationweek.com/story/
showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174400968&tid=6004.
Hitachi WirelessIP5000 IP Phone Multiple Vulnerabilities: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain access to potentially sensitive information, to modify certain information, and to cause a DoS.
The table below contains a sample of exploit scripts and "how to" guides identified during this period. The "Workaround or Patch Available" column indicates if vendors, security vulnerability listservs, or Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) have published workarounds or patches.
Note: At times, scripts/techniques may contain names or content that may be considered offensive.
Date of Script
(Reverse Chronological Order)
Script name
Workaround or Patch Available
Script Description
November 22, 2005
IEWindow0day.txt
Yes
Exploit for the Microsoft Internet Explorer Unauthorized Access vulnerability.
November 21, 2005
FileZillaDoS.cpp
No
Exploit for the FileZilla Server Terminal Privilege Elevation or Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability.
November 21, 2005
freeftpd_user.pm
No
Proof of Concept exploit for the FreeFTPD User Command Buffer Overflow vulnerability.
November 21, 2005
mailenable_imap_w3c.pm
mailenable154.pm.txt
Yes
Exploits for the MailEnable Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability.
November 21, 2005
df.swf
flash_dos_poc.c
Flashosx.c
Yes
Proof of Concept exploit scripts for the Macromedia Flash Input Validation vulnerability.
November 21, 2005
Inkscape.svg
Yes
Proof of Concept Denial of Service exploit for the Inkscape SVG Image Buffer Overflow vulnerability.
November 21, 2005
google_proxystylesheet_exec.pm
Yes
Exploit for the Google Mini Search Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities.
November 20, 2005
TKADV2005-11-004.txt
Yes
Exploit details for the PHPMyFAQ Multiple Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.
November 20, 2005
nestea.tgz
N/A
A CGI scanner that also looks for forbidden files and directories and has a database of 2097 vulnerabilities.
November 20, 2005
phpwcms.txt
No
Exploit details for the phpwcms File Include, Information Disclosure & Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.
November 20, 2005
SA027.txt
No
Exploit details for the PHPNuke SQL Injection vulnerability.
November 20, 2005
revizeSQL.txt
No
Exploit details for the Revize CMS Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, & Information Disclosure vulnerabilities.
November 20, 2005
FTGate-expl.pl.txt
No
Proof of Concept exploit for the FTGate Denial of Service or Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability.
November 20, 2005
ekin103_xpl.html
No
Exploit for the ekinboard Cross-Site Scripting & Script Injection vulnerabilities.
November 20, 2005
XH-FreeFTPD_remote_bof.c
No
Exploit for the freeFTPd Buffer Overflow vulnerability.
November 20, 2005
google.pm.txt
Yes
Exploit for the Google Mini Search Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities.
November 20, 2005
11.17.05.txt
No
Exploit details for the Qualcomm WorldMail IMAP Server Information Disclosure vulnerability.
November 20, 2005
eQuickSQLXSS.txt
No
Exploit details for the e-Quick Cart Multiple Vulnerabilities.
November 20, 2005
db-sec-tokens.pdf
N/A
"Snagging Security Tokens to Elevate Privileges" is a brief that details how a database server running as a low privileged user on Windows can still provide an attacker with the ability to gain elevated privilege.
November 20, 2005
mamboRumor.txt
No
Exploit for the Mambo Open Source Remote File Include vulnerability.
November 18, 2005
XH-freeFTPD_remote_bof.c
No
Exploit for the FreeFTPD Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities.
November 16, 2005
UNB153pl3_xpl.php
No
Exploit for the Unclassified NewsBoard SQL Injection Vulnerability.
US-CERT VU#226364: Numerous vulnerabilities have been reported in various Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) implementations. The impacts of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or cause an IKEv1 implementation to behave in an unstable/unpredictable manner.
W32/Sober Revisited: US-CERT is aware of several new variants of the W32/Sober virus that propagate via email. As with many viruses, these variants rely on social engineering to propagate. Specifically, the user must click on a link or open an attached file. Source: http://www.us-cert.gov/current/.
Exploit for Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer window() object: US-CERT is aware of a vulnerability in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer handles requests to the window() object. Source: http://www.us-cert.gov/current/.
The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated) ~ The Experts Consensus: The top 20 list is compiled by the SANS Institute in co-operation with security vendors has been released. It highlights the 20 most critical vulnerabilities currently facing organizations. In addition to identifying vulnerabilities in Windows and UNIX systems, this year's Top-20 list also includes cross-platform applications and networking products for the first time. Source: http://www.sans.org/top20/.
Computer hackers target security products: According to research, computer hackers have stepped up efforts to exploit flaws in information security software. According to the SANS Institute Top 20 security vulnerability report, over the past 12 months cyber criminals have shifted their attention from targeting holes in Windows and Unix software to attacking data back-up, recovery and antivirus products. Source: http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2146422/computer-hackers-target.
Web giants crack down on spyware: Several Internet firms, including Yahoo, AOL, and Verizon have joined together to reduce the spread of adware and spyware that is distributed by 'piggybacking' on legitimate downloads.
They have agreed to establish industry standards for monitoring and enforcing good behavior on websites which offer downloadable software.
Source: http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2146346/web-giants-crack-spyware.
A list of high threat viruses, as reported to various anti-virus vendors and virus incident reporting organizations, has been ranked and categorized in the table below. For the purposes of collecting and collating data, infections involving multiple systems at a single location are considered a single infection. It is therefore possible that a virus has infected hundreds of machines but has only been counted once. With the number of viruses that appear each month, it is possible that a new virus will become widely distributed before the next edition of this publication. To limit the possibility of infection, readers are reminded to update their anti-virus packages as soon as updates become available. The table lists the viruses by ranking (number of sites affected), common virus name, type of virus code (i.e., boot, file, macro, multi-partite, script), trends (based on number of infections reported since last week), and approximate date first found.
Rank
Common Name
Type of Code
Trend
Date
Description
1
Netsky-P
Win32 Worm
Stable
March 2004
A mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to the email addresses it finds when scanning the hard drives and mapped drives. The worm also tries to spread through various file-sharing programs by copying itself into various shared folders.
2
Mytob-BE
Win32 Worm
Stable
June 2005
A slight variant of the mass-mailing worm that utilizes an IRC backdoor, LSASS vulnerability, and email to propagate. Harvesting addresses from the Windows address book, disabling anti virus, and modifying data.
3
Netsky-D
Win32 Worm
Stable
March 2004
A simplified variant of the Netsky mass-mailing worm in that it does not contain many of the text strings that were present in NetSky.C and it does not copy itself to shared folders. Netsky.D spreads itself in e-mails as an executable attachment only.
4
Mytob-GH
Win32 Worm
Stable
November 2005
A variant of the mass-mailing worm that disables security related programs and allows other to access the infected system. This version sends itself to email addresses harvested from the system, forging the sender’s address.
5
Mytob-AS
Win32 Worm
Stable
June 2005
A slight variant of the mass-mailing worm that disables security related programs and processes, redirection various sites, and changing registry values. This version downloads code from the net and utilizes its own email engine.
6
Netsky-Z
Win32 Worm
Stable
April 2004
A mass-mailing worm that is very close to previous variants. The worm spreads in e-mails, but does not spread to local network and P2P and does not uninstall Bagle worm. The worm has a backdoor that listens on port 665.
7
Lovgate.w
Win32 Worm
Stable
April 2004
A mass-mailing worm that propagates via by using MAPI as a reply to messages, by using an internal SMTP, by dropping copies of itself on network shares, and through peer-to-peer networks. Attempts to access all machines in the local area network.
8
Zafi-D
Win32 Worm
Stable
December 2004
A mass-mailing worm that sends itself to email addresses gathered from the infected computer. The worm may also attempt to lower security settings, terminate processes, and open a back door on the compromised computer.
9
Zafi-B
Win32 Worm
Stable
June 2004
A mass-mailing worm that spreads via e-mail using several different languages, including English, Hungarian and Russian. When executed, the worm makes two copies of itself in the %System% directory with randomly generated file names.
10
Mytob.C
Win32 Worm
Stable
March 2004
A mass-mailing worm with IRC backdoor functionality which can also infect computers vulnerable to the Windows LSASS (MS04-011) exploit. The worm will attempt to harvest email addresses from the local hard disk by scanning files.
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