Summary of Security Items from January 19 through January 25, 2006
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new and updated vulnerabilities, exploits, trends, and malicious code that have recently been openly reported. Information in the Cyber Security Bulletin is a compilation of open source and US-CERT vulnerability information. As such, the Cyber Security Bulletin includes information published by sources outside of US-CERT and should not be considered the result of US-CERT analysis or as an official report of US-CERT. Although this information does reflect open source reports, it is not an official description and should be used for informational purposes only. The intention of the Cyber Security Bulletin is to serve as a comprehensive directory of pertinent vulnerability reports, providing brief summaries and additional sources for further investigation.
The tables below summarize vulnerabilities that have been reported by various open source organizations or presented in newsgroups and on web sites. Items in bold designate updates that have been made to past entries. Entries are grouped by the operating system on which the reported software operates, and vulnerabilities which affect both Windows and Unix/ Linux Operating Systems are included in the Multiple Operating Systems table. Note, entries in each table are not necessarily vulnerabilities in that operating system, but vulnerabilities in software which operate on some version of that operating system.
Entries may contain additional US-CERT sponsored information, including Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) numbers, National Vulnerability Database (NVD) links, Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) values, Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) definitions, or links to US-CERT Vulnerability Notes. Metrics, values, and information included in the Cyber Security Bulletin which has been provided by other US-CERT sponsored programs, is prepared, managed, and contributed by those respective programs. CVSS values are managed and provided by the US-CERT/ NIST National Vulnerability Database. Links are also provided to patches and workarounds that have been provided by the product’s vendor.
The Risk levels are defined below:
High - Vulnerabilities will be labeled “High” severity if they have a CVSS base score of 7.0-10.0.
Medium - Vulnerabilities will be labeled “Medium” severity if they have a base CVSS score of 4.0-6.9.
Low - Vulnerabilities will be labeled “Low” severity if they have a CVSS base score of 0.0-3.9.
Note that scores provided prior to 11/9/2005 are approximated from only partially available CVSS metric data. Such scores are marked as "Approximated" within NVD. In particular, the following CVSS metrics are only partially available for these vulnerabilities and NVD assumes certain values based on an approximation algorithm: AccessComplexity, Authentication, ConfImpact of 'partial', IntegImpact of 'partial', AvailImpact of 'partial', and the impact biases.
Windows Operating Systems Only
Vendor & Software Name
Description
Common Name
CVSS
Resources
BitComet Client 0.6
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in BitComet Client that could let remote malicious users execute arbitrary code.
An input validation vulnerability has been reported in FIleCOPA FTP Server that could let remote malicious users disclose information or obtain arbitrary file controls.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in MailSite Email Server that could let local malicious user to conduct cross site scripting or cause a denial of service.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported when attempting to handle compressed UPX files due to an unspecified boundary error in "libclamav/upx.c, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2006:001, January 13, 2006
Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory, 2006-0002, January 13, 2006
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200601-07, January 13, 2006
Mandriva Security Advisory, MDKSA-2006:016, January 16, 2006
Debian Security Advisory, DSA-947-1, January 21, 2006
Ecartis
Ecartis 1.0.0 snapshot 20050909
A vulnerability has been reported when the PantoMIME functionality has been enabled because unauthorized users who are not subscribed to a mailing list can send email attachments that will be saved in the PantoMIME directory.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in the search module 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.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15720, December 5, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA-951-1, January 23, 2006
Edgewall Software
Trac 0.9.2
An HTML injection vulnerability has been reported in the WikiProcessor Wiki Content due to insufficient sanitization, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 16198, January 10, 2006
Debian Security Advisory, DSA-951-1, January 23, 2006
Erik S. Raymond
Fetchmail 6.3.0 - prior to 6.3.2
A remote Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported due to incorrect freeing of an invalid pointer when bouncing a message to the originator or to the local postmaster.
Fetchmail Security Advisory, fetchmail-SA-2006-01, January 22, 2006
ETERM
LibAST prior to 0.7
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in 'conf.c' due to a boundary error in the 'conf_find_file()' function, which could let a malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Several information disclosure vulnerabilities have been reported due to a failure of the kernel to properly clear previously used memory buffers prior to copying these buffers to user-space and too much data copied to user memory, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information.
HP Security Bulletin, HPSBUX02092, January 18, 2006
Image
Magick
ImageMagick 6.2.4 .5
A vulnerability has been reported in the delegate code that is used by various ImageMagick utilities when handling an image filename due to an error, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary commands.
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-246-1, January 24, 2006
KDE
KDE 3.2.0 up to including 3.5.0
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in 'kjs' in the decoding of UTF-8 encoded URI sequences, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0184-11, January 19, 2006
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-245-1, January 20, 2006
Debian Security Advisory, DSA-948-1, January 20, 2006
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2006:003, January 20, 2006
Mandriva Security Advisory, MDKSA-2006:019, January 20, 2006
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200601-11, January 22, 2006
Linley Henzel
Crawl 4.0, BETA 26, BETA 23,
A vulnerability has been reported when saving and loading games due to the insecure execution of external programs, which could let a malicious user obtain elevated privileges.
Debian Security Advisory, DSA-949-1, January 20, 2006
LSH
LSH 2.0.1
A vulnerability has been reported in 'unix_random.c' because file descriptors that are related to the randomness generator are leaked, which could let a malicious user obtain sensitive information or cause a Denial of Service.
Xpdf 3.0 pl2 & pl3, 3.0 1, 3.00, 2.0-2.03, 1.0 0, 1.0 0a, 0.90-0.93; RedHat Fedora Core4, Core3, Enterprise Linux WS 4, WS 3, WS 2.1 IA64, WS 2.1, ES 4, ES 3, ES 2.1 IA64, 2.1, Enterprise Linux AS 4, AS 3, 2.1 IA64, 2.1, Desktop 4.0, 3.0, Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1 IA64, 2.1; teTeX 2.0.1, 2.0; Poppler poppler 0.4.2;
KDE kpdf 0.5, KOffice 1.4.2 ; PDFTOHTML DFTOHTML 0.36
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was reported in the 'DCTStream::read
BaselineSOF()' function in 'xpdf/Stream.cc' when copying data from a PDF file, which could let a remote malicious user potentially execute arbitrary code; a buffer overflow vulnerability was reported in the 'DCTStream::read
ProgressiveSOF()' function in 'xpdf/Stream.cc' when copying data from a PDF file, which could let a remote malicious user potentially execute arbitrary code; a buffer overflow vulnerability was reported in the 'StreamPredictor::
StreamPredictor()' function in 'xpdf/Stream.cc' when using the 'numComps' value to calculate the memory size, which could let a remote malicious user potentially execute arbitrary code; and a vulnerability was reported in the 'JPXStream:
:readCodestream()' function in 'xpdf/JPXStream.cc' when using the 'nXTiles' and 'nYTiles' values from a PDF file to copy data from the file into allocated memory, which could let a remote malicious user potentially execute arbitrary code.
Fedora Update Notifications,
FEDORA-2005-1121 & 1122, December 6, 2005
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2005:840-5, December 6, 2005
KDE Security Advisory, advisory-20051207-1, December 7, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:029, December 9, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-227-1, December 12, 2005
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory, GLSA 200512-08, December 16, 2005
RedHat Security Advisories, RHSA-2005:868-4, RHSA-2005:867-5 & RHSA-2005:878-4, December 20, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisories MDKSA-2006:003-003-006, January 6, 2006
Debian Security Advisory,
DSA-936-1, January 11, 2006
Debian Security Advisory, DSA-937-1, January 12, 2006
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 938-1, January 12, 2006
Fedora Update Notifications,
FEDORA-2005-028 & 029, January 12, 2006
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2006:001, January 13, 2006
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0160-14, January 19, 2006
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2006:002, January 20, 2006
SGI Security Advisory, 20051201-01-U, January 20, 2006
Debian Security Advisory, DSA-950-1, January 23, 2006
Multiple Vendors
Linux Kernel 2.4- 2.4.32
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient validation of the return code of a function call in the 'search_binary_handler()' function.
Fedora Update Notifications,
FEDORA-2005-1007 & 1013, October 20, 2005
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15156, October 31, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-219-1, November 22, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:067, December 6, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:068, December 14, 2005
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0140-9, January 19, 2006
Multiple Vendors
Linux kernel 2.6-2.6.15
An integer overflow vulnerability has been reported in 'INVALIDATE_INODE_
PAGES2' which could lead to a Denial of Service and possibly execution of arbitrary code.
Fedora Update Notification,
FEDORA-2005-1138, December 13, 2005
Mandriva Security Advisory, MDKSA-2006:018, January 20, 2006
Multiple Vendors
OpenSSH 3.x, 4.x; RedHat Fedora Core3 & Core4
A vulnerability has been reported in 'scp' when performing copy operations that use filenames due to the insecure use of the 'system()' function, which could let a malicious user obtain elevated privileges.
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:067, December 6, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:068, December 14, 2005
Mandriva Security Advisory, MDKSA-2006:018, January 20, 2006
Multiple Vendors
Ubuntu Linux 5.10 powerpc, i386, amd64, 5.0 4 powerpc, i386, amd64, 4.1 ppc, ia64, ia32;
Todd Miller Sudo 1.6-1.6.8, 1.5.6-1.5.9
A vulnerability has been reported in the 'PYTHONINSPECT' variable, which could let a malicious user bypass security restrictions and obtain elevated privileges.
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-219-1, November 22, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisories, MDKSA-2005:218, 219 & 220, November 30, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:068, December 14, 2005
Conectiva Linux Announcement, CLSA-2006:1059, January 2, 2006
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0140-9, January 19, 2006
Multiple Vendors
Linux kernel 2.6-2.6.13.1
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported due to an omitted call to the 'sockfd_put()' function in the 32-bit compatible 'routing_ioctl()' function.
Security Tracker Alert ID: 1014944, September 21, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-187-1, September 25, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisories, MDKSA-2005:218, 219, 220, November 30, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:067, December 6, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:068, December 14, 2005
Conectiva Linux Announcement, CLSA-2006:1059, January 2, 2006
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0101-9, January 17, 2006
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0140-9, January 19, 2006
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
Mandriva Linux Security Advisories, MDKSA-2005:218, 219 & 220, November 30, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:067, December 6, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:068, December 14, 2005
Conectiva Linux Announcement, CLSA-2006:1059, January 2, 2006
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0140-9, January 19, 2006
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
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0101-9, January 17, 2006
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0140-9, January 19, 2006
Multiple Vendors
Linux kernel 2.6-2.6.14; SuSE Linux Professional 10.0 OSS, Linux Personal 10.0 OSS;
RedHat Fedora Core4
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in 'ptrace.c' when 'CLONE_THREAD' is used due to a missing check of the thread's group ID when trying to determine whether the process is attempting to attach to itself.
Fedora Update Notification,
FEDORA-2005-1104, November 28, 2005
SuSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:067, December 6, 2005
SUSE Security Announcement, SUSE-SA:2005:068, December 14, 2005
Mandriva Security Advisory, MDKSA-2006:018, January 20, 2006
Multiple Vendors
Linux kernel 2.6-2.6.15
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in the 'time_out_leases()' function because 'printk()' can consume large amounts of kernel log space.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15762, December 7, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-225-1, December 06, 2005
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0159-8, January 5, 2006
Fedora Security Advisory, FEDORA-2006-052, January 23, 2006
Multiple Vendors
Ubuntu Linux 5.10 powerpc, i386, amd64, 5.0 4 powerpc, i386, amd64, 4.1 ppc, ia64, ia32;
Linux kernel 2.6-2.6.15
A vulnerability has been reported in the 'cm-crypt' driver due to a failure to clear memory, which could let a malicious user obtain sensitive information.
Security Tracker Alert ID: 1015521, January 20, 2006
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) prior to 6.0u7_1
A vulnerability has been reported in 'utilbin/<arch>/rsh' due to an error, which could let a malicious user obtain elevated privileges or execute arbitrary code.
Security Tracker Alert ID: 1015531, January 24, 2006
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.
Debian Security Advisory, DSA 870-1, October 25, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory, MDKSA-2005:201, October 27, 2005
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-213-1, October 28, 2005
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2005:025, November 4, 2005
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 15191, November 10, 2005
Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory, TSLSA-2005-0062, November 22, 2005
Conectiva Linux Announcement, CLSA-2006:1057, January 2, 2006
SUSE Security Summary Report, SUSE-SR:2006:002, January 20, 2006
Todd Miller
Sudo prior to 1.6.8p12
A vulnerability has been reported due to an error when handling the 'PERLLIB,' 'PERL5LIB,' and 'PERL5OPT' environment variables when tainting is ignored, which could let a malicious user bypass security restrictions and include arbitrary library files.
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient sanitization of certain parameters before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
A vulnerability has been reported in the 'data/userlist.txt' file due to insufficient protection, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
A Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
Text Rider Information Disclosure
Not Available
Security Tracker Alert ID: 1015533, January 24, 2006
Apache Software Foundation
Apache prior to 1.3.35-dev, 2.0.56-dev
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in the 'Referer' directive in 'mod_imap' due to insufficient sanitization before returning to the user, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.3.35-dev, and 2.0.56-dev.
Security Tracker Alert ID: 1015344, December 13, 2005
OpenPKG Security Advisory, OpenPKG-SA-2005.029, December 14, 2005
Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory, TSLSA-2005-0074, December 23, 2005
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory, MDKSA-2006:007, January 6, 2006
Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-241-1, January 12, 2006
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0158-4, January 17, 2006
Fedora Security Advisory, FEDORA-2006-052, January 23, 2006
AZ Bulletin Board
AZbb 1.0-1.0.8
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in 'post.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'topic' and 'nickname' parameters before returning to the user, 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 MBean protection due to an error, which could let a remote malicious user access protected MBean attributes or cause a Denial of Service; a vulnerability was reported due to insufficient protection of the server log, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information; a vulnerability was reported in the 'DefaultAuditRecorder.log' file when a password change occurs, because the WebLogic Auditing provider writes the old and new password in clear-text, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information; a vulnerability was reported due to insufficient protection of system passwords, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information; a vulnerability was reported because a new configured security provider is not activated until the server reboots, which could let a remote malicious user add/remove security policies and users; a vulnerability was reported because the usage of connection filters in certain situations cause the server performance to decrease; a vulnerability was reported due to an error in the protection of the server's SSL identity, which could lead to the disclosure of sensitive information; and a vulnerability was reported because certain security policies added via the console by the administrator do not properly protect JNDI resources, which could let a remote malicious user obtain access certain restricted resources.
BEA System Security Advisories, BEA06-109.00, BEA06-111.00, BEA06-113.00, BEA06-114.00, BEA06-116.00, BEA06-117.00, BEA06-118.00, & BEA06-119.00, January 23, 2006
BEA Systems, Inc.
WebLogic Portal 8.x
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported in the 'config.xml' file because database passwords are stored in clear-text, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information; a vulnerability was reported due to insufficient protection of the file source of an application's deployment descriptor, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information; and an input validation vulnerability was reported in WSRP (Web Services Remote Portlets), which could let a remote malicious user bypass security restrictions.
BEA System Security Advisories, BEA06-110.00, BEA06-112.00, & BEA06-115.00, January 23, 2006
BEA Systems, Inc.
WebLogic Express 6.x, 7.x, WebLogic Server 6.x, 7.x
A vulnerability has been reported because an administrative user for a specific domain can access other domains if the same WebLogic Server instance and machine was used to create the domains.
Cisco Security Advisory, cisco-sa-20060118-sgbp, January 18, 2006
Claroline
Claroline 1.7.2.
A vulnerability has been reported in the 'claro_init_local.inc.php' script because a predictable value is generated, which could let a remote malicious user bypass security restrictions.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
A format string vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input before using in the format-specifier of a formatted printing function, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 16177, January 9, 2006
RedHat Security Advisory, RHSA-2006:0179-7, January 10, 2006
Mandriva Security Advisory, MDKSA-2006:017, January 19, 2006
Debian Security Advisory, DSA-952-1, January 23, 2006
Douran Portal
FollowWeb
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in 'Register.ASPX' 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.
Multiple remote vulnerabilities have been reported including a format string vulnerability in the 'write_logfile()' function and a Directory Traversal vulnerability, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or access to sensitive information.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 16315, January 19, 2006
e-moBLOG
e-moBLOG 1.3
SQL Injection vulnerabilities have been reported in 'index.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'monthy' parameter and in 'admin/index.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'login' parameter, 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, Proof of Concept exploits have been published.
Several input validation vulnerabilities have been reported: an SQL injection vulnerability was reported in 'blog.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'id' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code; and a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was reported in the 'topic.php' script due to insufficient filtering of HTML code from user-supplied input in the message before displaying, 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 Tracker Alert ID: 1015505, January 18, 2006
Etomite
Etomite 0.6
A vulnerability has been reported in 'manager/includes/todo.inc.php' due to the existence of a backdoor, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities have been reported in 'index.php' due to insufficient sanitization of input before returning to the user, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
Flyspray Security Advisory, FS#703, October 24, 2005
Debian Security Advisory, DSA-953-1, January 24, 2006
F-Secure
Anti-Virus 2004, 2005, 2006, Anti-Virus 5.x, Anti-Virus Client Security 5.x, 6.x, Anti-Virus for Citrix Servers 5.x, Anti-Virus for Firewalls 6.x, Anti-Virus for Linux 4.x, Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange 6.x, Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper 5.x, Anti-Virus for Samba Servers 4.x, Anti-Virus for Windows Servers 5.x, Anti-Virus for Workstations 5.x, Internet Gatekeeper 6.x, Internet Gatekeeper for Linux 2.x, Internet Security 2004, 2005, 2006, Personal Express 6.x
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a buffer overflow vulnerability was reported when handling ZIP archives due to a boundary error, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code; and a vulnerability was reported in the scanning functionality when processing RAR and ZIP archives, which could prevent malware from detection.
F-Secure Security Bulletin FSC-2006-1, January 19, 2006
Gallery Project
Gallery 1.5.2-RC2
An HTML injection vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient sanitization of the user's fullname before using, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
A remote Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported due to an error in the handling of specially crafted IP packets that have the IP option length set to zero.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required.
Linksys BEFVP41 IP Options Remote Denial of Service
Security Tracker Alert ID: 1015490, January 16, 2006
miniBloggie
miniBloggie 1.0 & prior
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in 'Login.PHP' due to insufficient sanitization of the username and password parameters 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.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported when handling HTTP data in the iGateway component due to a boundary error, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the Admin pages of the Management Console, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 16308, January 18, 2006
MyBB Group
MyBulletinBoard 1.0.2, 1.0.1
An HTML injection vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient validity checks on HTTP POST requests, 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.
MyBB HTML Injection
Not Available
KAPDA Advisory, January 21, 2006
Netrix
X-Site Manager
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in 'Product_Details.PHP' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'product_id' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
SQL injection vulnerabilities have 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, Proof of Concept exploits have been published.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 16339, January 23, 2006
Noah Medling
RCBlog
1.03
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported in the 'data' and 'config' directories because user information is stored in textfiles, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information; a Directory Traversal vulnerability was reported in 'index.php' due to insufficient verification of the 'post' parameter before used to view files, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information; and a vulnerability was reported because administrators can upload arbitrary files to a location inside the web root, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary PHP code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
There is no exploit code required; however, Proof of Concept exploits have been published.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.x, Oracle Application Server 10g,
Collaboration Suite Release 1 & Release 2,
Database 8.x, Database Server 10g, Developer Suite 10g, E-Business Suite 11i, Enterprise Manager 10.x,
Oracle9i Application Server,
Oracle9i Database Enterprise Edition,
Oracle9i Database Standard Edition,
Oracle9i Developer Suite,
PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 8.x
82 vulnerabilities and security issues have been reported in various Oracle products, which could lead to information disclosure, arbitrary files overwritten, and arbitrary SQL code injection.
Several input validation vulnerabilities have been reported: a vulnerability was reported due to insufficient sanitization of unspecified input before using, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary JavaScript code; and 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.
Users are advised to contact the vendor for details on obtaining the appropriate updates.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 16310, January 19, 2006
Pixelpost
Pixelpost 1.4.3.
An HTML injection vulnerability has been reported due to insufficient sanitization of user comments, 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.
Multiple input validation vulnerabilities have been reported due to insufficient sanitization of unspecified user-supplied input, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code, HTML, or 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: 16306, January 18, 2006
SleeperChat
SleepterChat 0.3f and prior versions
Several vulnerabilities have been reported: a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was reported in 'Index.PHP' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'pseudo' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code; and a vulnerability was reported in 'chat_no.php' because arbitrary text can be inserted in the 'txt' parameter, which could let a remote malicious user post anonymous messages.
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 Tracker Alert ID: 1015525, January 23, 2006
Stringer Software Solutions
My Amazon Store Manager 1.0
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been reported in 'search.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'q' parameter when performing a search, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
A Directory Traversal vulnerability has been reported in the built-in FTP server listening on port 22003/tcp, which could let a remote malicious user obtain sensitive information.
No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.
An exploit script, DSR-farmerswife44sp1.pl.txt, has been published.
A vulnerability has been reported when a variable is insecurely passed to an 'eval()' call, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Security Focus, Bugtraq ID: 16360, January 24, 2006
Webspot
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An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in 'login.php' due to insufficient sanitization of the 'username' parameter before using in an SQL query, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary SQL code.
SQL injection vulnerabilities have been 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.
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in version 0.5pre1.
This section contains wireless vulnerabilities, articles, and malicious code
that has been identified during the current reporting period.
bluediving-0.3.tgz: Bluediving is a Bluetooth penetration testing suite that implements attacks like Bluebug, BlueSnarf, BlueSnarf++, BlueSmack, and has features such as Bluetooth address spoofing.
Worldwide Hotspot List Tops 100,000 Mark: According to JiWire, the total number of hotspots listed in its directory is now 103,555. In 2005, the number of worldwide hotspots grew 87 percent.The three top countries for hotspots were the U.S., the United Kingdom and Germany. Last year, the three top countries were the U.S., the U.K. and South Korea.
Cambridge prof warns of Skype botnet threat: According to a Cambridge professor, Voice-over-IP apps could be used to cloak networks of zombies and launch Denial of Service attacks.
Four new Trojans on the loose: Antivirus companies are warning that four new Trojans are on the loose, three aimed at mobile phones and a fourth at PCs. The mobile phone worms are disguised as legitimate applications and spread via Bluetooth or multimedia messages and affect phones running Symbian. The computer worm spreads via e-mail and purports to offer pornography.
This section contains brief summaries and links to articles which discuss or present
information pertinent to the cyber security community.
Nyxem Mass-mailing Worm: US-CERT is aware of a new mass-mailing worm known as Nyxem (CME-24). This worm relies on social engineering to propagate. Specifically, the user must click on a link or open an attached file.
FBI publishes 2005 computer crime survey: An FBI survey provides statistics on the state of computer security attacks and defense technologies used by all sizes of organizations. Nine out of ten organizations experienced security incidents in the past year. Over 64% of respondents incurred a financial loss as a result of computer crime; however, only 9% reported these incidents to law enforcement. The United States and China top of the list as by far the worst offenders, together accounting as the source of more than half of all external intrusion attempts. The survey also reports that 44% of all reported intrusions were internal to the organization affected.
Half-million PCs infected by e-mail virus: According to evidence from a web counter, a mass-mailing computer virus that is coded to delete files on February 3 may have spread to more than 500,000 servers. The virus that is known as the Blackmal.E or Nyxem.E virus, travels as an attachment to e-mail messages with suggestive subject lines such as "School girl fantasies gone bad" and "Re: Sex Video". The virus will completely compromise systems whose users open the attachment, attempting to disable security software and making extensive changes to the registry.
Attackers To Go After 2006's Weakest Link: People: According to IBM's annual "Security Threats and Attack Trends Report", enterprises should expect a continued move toward stealthier, smaller, more focused attacks on their computer security, with the weakest link, workers' gullibility, increasingly the focus of hacker efforts.
Kama Sutra Spoofs Digital Certificates: According to a Fortinet advisory, the Kama Sutra worm can fool Windows into accepting a malicious ActiveX control by spoofing a digital signature. The worm also goes by names such as Nyxem.e, MyWife.d, Grew.a, and Blackmal.e. It adds 18 entries to the Windows Registry to slip the ActiveX control by the operating system's defenses.
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-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.
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
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.
5
Sober-Z
Win32 Worm
Stable
December 2005
This worm travels as an email attachment, forging the senders address, harvesting addresses from infected machines, and using its own mail engine. It further download code from the internet, installs into the registry, and reduces overall system security.
6
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.
7
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.
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
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.
10
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.