Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > February 14 to 20, 2005

Overview

23 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 2 critical vulnerabilities and 2 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 21 products from 18 vendors including Citrusdb, Yahoo, Francisco Burzi, Linux, and Microsoft. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort", and "Improper Cross-boundary Removal of Sensitive Data".

  • 18 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 22 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Citrusdb has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 4 reported vulnerabilities.
  • Argosoft has the most reported critical vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

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Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

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2 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2005-02-18 CVE-2005-0519 Argosoft Unspecified vulnerability in Argosoft FTP Server

ArGoSoft FTP Server before 1.4.2.7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by uploading a ZIP file containing a shortcut (.LNK) file, using SITE UNZIP to extract the .LNK file onto the server, then accessing the file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0520.

10.0
2005-02-14 CVE-2005-0408 Citrusdb Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in Citrusdb 0.3.6

CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier generates easily predictable MD5 hashes of the user name for the id_hash cookie, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges by calculating the MD5 checksum of the user name combined with the "boogaadeeboo" string, which is hard-coded in the $hidden_hash variable.

9.8

2 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2005-02-19 CVE-2005-0513 Pmachine Remote File Include vulnerability in Pmachine PRO 2.4

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in mail_autocheck.php in the Email This Entry add-on for pMachine Pro 2.4, and possibly other versions including pMachine Free, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by directly requesting mail_autocheck.php and modifying the pm_path parameter to reference a URL on a remote web server that contains the code, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-1086.

7.5
2005-02-14 CVE-2005-0411 Citrusdb Unspecified vulnerability in Citrusdb

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php for CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers and local users to include arbitrary PHP files via ..

7.5

18 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2005-02-14 CVE-2005-0409 Citrusdb Unspecified vulnerability in Citrusdb

CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier does not verify authorization for the (1) importcc.php and (2) uploadcc.php, which allows remote attackers to upload credit card data and obtain sensitive information such as the pathnames for temporary files that store credit card data, and facilitates the exploitation of other vulnerabilities.

6.4
2005-02-14 CVE-2005-0406 Image Processing Project Improper Cross-boundary Removal of Sensitive Data vulnerability in Image Processing Project Image Processing

A design flaw in image processing software that modifies JPEG images might not modify the original EXIF thumbnail, which could lead to an information leak of potentially sensitive visual information that had been removed from the main JPEG image.

5.5
2005-02-20 CVE-2005-0499 Gigafast Ethernet Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Gigafast Router

Gigafast router (aka CompUSA router) with the DNS proxy option enabled allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed DNS queries.

5.0
2005-02-18 CVE-2005-0502 Xinkaa WEB Station Directory Traversal vulnerability in Xinkaa web Station Xinkaa web Station 1.0.3

Directory traversal vulnerability in Xinkaa 1.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via (1) ../ and (2) ..\ characters in an HTTP request.

5.0
2005-02-17 CVE-2005-0243 Yahoo Unspecified vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750, and possibly other versions before 6.0.0.1921, does not properly display long filenames in file dialog boxes, which could allow remote attackers to trick users into downloading and executing programs via file names containing a large number of spaces and multiple file extensions.

5.0
2005-02-16 CVE-2005-0453 Lighttpd Remote Security vulnerability in Lighttpd 1.3.7

The buffer_urldecode function in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and earlier does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for CGI and FastCGI scripts via a URL with a %00 (null) character after the file extension.

5.0
2005-02-15 CVE-2005-0447 SUN Remote Denial Of Service vulnerability in Sun Solaris ARP Handling

Solaris 7, 8, and 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a flood of certain ARP packets.

5.0
2005-02-15 CVE-2005-0433 Francisco Burzi Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in PHP-Nuke

Php-Nuke 7.5 allows remote attackers to determine the full path of the web server via invalid or missing arguments to (1) db.php, (2) mainfile.php, (3) Downloads/index.php, or (4) Web_Links/index.php, which lists the path in a PHP error message.

5.0
2005-02-15 CVE-2005-0176 Linux Multiple vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6.9

The shmctl function in Linux 2.6.9 and earlier allows local users to unlock the memory of other processes, which could cause sensitive memory to be swapped to disk, which could allow it to be read by other users once it has been released.

5.0
2005-02-15 CVE-2005-0149 Mozilla Unspecified vulnerability in Mozilla and Thunderbird

Thunderbird 0.6 through 0.9 and Mozilla 1.7 through 1.7.3 does not obey the network.cookie.disableCookieForMailNews preference, which could allow remote attackers to bypass the user's intended privacy and security policy by using cookies in e-mail messages.

5.0
2005-02-14 CVE-2005-0410 Citrusdb Unspecified vulnerability in Citrusdb

SQL injection vulnerability in importcc.php for CitrusDB 0.3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject data via the fields of a CSV file.

5.0
2005-02-18 CVE-2005-0242 Yahoo Unspecified vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger

The Audio Setup Wizard (asw.dll) in Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to arbitrary code by placing a malicious ping.exe program into the Messenger program directory, which is installed with weak default permissions.

4.6
2005-02-16 CVE-2005-0105 Typespeed Unspecified vulnerability in Typespeed 0.4.1

Unknown vulnerability in typespeed 0.4.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges.

4.6
2005-02-14 CVE-2005-0444 Vmware Local Security vulnerability in Workstation

VMware before 4.5.2.8848-r5 searches for gdk-pixbuf shared libraries using a path that includes the rrdharan world-writable temporary directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code.

4.6
2005-02-19 CVE-2005-0495 Zeroboard Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Zeroboard

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ZeroBoard allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) sn1, (2) year, or (3) page parameter to zboard.php or (4) filename to view_image.php.

4.3
2005-02-17 CVE-2005-0462 Mercuryboard Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Mercuryboard 1.0/1.1/1.1.1

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MercuryBoard 1.0.x and 1.1.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via the f parameter.

4.3
2005-02-16 CVE-2005-0452 Microsoft Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Microsoft ASP.NET Unicode Character Conversion

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Microsoft ASP.NET (.Net) 1.0 and 1.1 to SP1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via Unicode representations for ASCII fullwidth characters that are converted to normal ASCII characters, including ">" and "<".

4.3
2005-02-15 CVE-2005-0434 Francisco Burzi Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in PHP-Nuke

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Php-Nuke 7.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) the newdownloadshowdays parameter in a NewDownloads operation or (2) the newlinkshowdays parameter in a NewLinks operation.

4.3

1 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2005-02-19 CVE-2005-0092 Redhat Multiple vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel

Unknown vulnerability in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel 4GB/4GB split patch, when running on x86 with the hugemem kernel, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

2.1