The Digital Photo Access Protocol (DPAP) server for iPhoto 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed dpap: URI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0043. (CVSS:7.5) (Last Update:2008-09-05)
CVE-2008-0778
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in an ActiveX control in QTPlugin.ocx for Apple QuickTime 7.4.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) SetBgColor, (2) SetHREF, (3) SetMovieName, (4) SetTarget, and (5) SetMatrix methods. (CVSS:7.5) (Last Update:2008-09-05)
Critical Patch Update – January 2008
SA-2008-007 – Drupal core – Cross site scripting (register_globals)
- Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2008-007
- Project: Drupal core
- Version: 4.7.x, 5.x
- Date: 2008-January-10
- Security risk: Less critical
- Exploitable from: Remote
- Vulnerability: Cross site scripting when register_globals is enabled.
Description
When theme .tpl.php files are accessible via the web and the PHP setting register_globals is set to enabled, anonymous users are able to execute cross site scripting attacks via specially crafted links.
Drupals .htaccess attempts to set register_globals to disabled and also prevents access to .tpl.php files. Only when both these measures are not effective and your PHP interpreter is configured with register_globals set to enabled, will this issue affect you.
Versions affected
- Drupal 4.7.x
- Drupal 5.x
Solutions
- Disable register_globals. Please refer to the PHP documentation on information how to configure PHP.
- Ensure .tpl.php files are not accessible via the web.
Drupal 4.7.11 and 5.6 will present a warning on the administration page when register_globals is enabled. Drupal 5.6 will refuse installation on an insecurely configured server. Existing sites will continue to work.
Reported by
Ultra Security Research.
Contact
The security contact for Drupal can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the form at http://drupal.org/contact.
Drupal version:
SA-2008-006 – Drupal core – Cross site scripting (UTF8)
- Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2008-006
- Project: Drupal core
- Version: 4.7.x, 5.x
- Date: 2008-January-10
- Security risk: Moderately critical
- Exploitable from: Remote
- Vulnerability: Cross site scripting
Description
When outputting plaintext Drupal strips potentially dangerous HTML tags and attributes from HTML, and escapes characters which have a special meaning in HTML. This output filtering secures the site against cross site scripting attacks via user input.
Certain byte sequences that are invalid in the UTF8 specification are not handled properly by Internet Explorer 6 and may lead it to see a multibyte start character where none is present. Internet Explorer 6 then consumes a number of subsequent UTF-8 characters. This may lead to unsafe attributes that were outside a tag for the filter to appear inside a tag for Internet Explorer 6. This behaviour can then be used to insert and execute javascript in the context of the website.
Wikipedia has more information about cross site scripting (XSS).
Versions affected
- Drupal 4.7.x before version 4.7.11.
- Drupal 5.x before version 5.6.
Solution
Install the latest version:
- If you are running Drupal 4.7.x then upgrade to Drupal 4.7.11.
- If you are running Drupal 5.x then upgrade to Drupal 5.6.
If you are unable to upgrade immediately, you can apply a patch to secure your installation until you are able to do a proper upgrade.
- To patch Drupal 4.7.10 use SA-2008-006-4.7.10.patch.
- To patch Drupal 5.5 use SA-2008-006-5.5.patch.
Important note
Drupal 4.7.11 and 5.6 now require PHP 4.3.5 or higher as the minimum version.
Use of modules that purposely insert bytes that are invalid UTF-8 characters, such as GeSHi Filter and Code Filter will cause any text using the filter to not be displayed. Disable the modules until a solution has been found.
Reported by
The vulnerability was discovered during an audit of Drupal core by Stefan Esser, Mayflower GmbH and Zend.
The Drupal security team wants to thank Die Zeit, who commissioned the audit, for sharing the results.
Contact
The security contact for Drupal can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the form at http://drupal.org/contact.
Drupal version:
SA-2008-005 – Drupal core – Cross site request forgery
- Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2008-005
- Project: Drupal core
- Version: 4.7.x, 5.x
- Date: 2008-January-10
- Security risk: Less critical
- Exploitable from: Remote
- Vulnerability: Cross site request forgery
Description
The aggregator module fetches items from RSS feeds and makes them available on the site. The module provides an option to remove items from a particular feed. This has been implemented as a simple GET request and is therefore vulnerable to cross site request forgeries. For example: Should a privileged user view a page containing an <img> tag with a specially constructed src pointing to a remove items URL, the items would be removed.
Versions affected
- Drupal 4.7.x before version 4.7.11.
- Drupal 5.x before version 5.6.
Solution
Install the latest version:
- If you are running Drupal 4.7.x then upgrade to Drupal 4.7.11.
- If you are running Drupal 5.x then upgrade to Drupal 5.6.
If you are unable to upgrade immediately, you can apply a patch to secure your installation until you are able to do a proper upgrade.
- To patch Drupal 4.7.10 use SA-2008-005-4.7.10.patch.
- To patch Drupal 5.5 use SA-2008-005-5.5.patch.
Reported by
The Drupal security team.
Contact
The security contact for Drupal can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the form at http://drupal.org/contact.
Drupal version:
CVE-2007-3876
Stack-based buffer overflow in SMB in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long workgroup (-W) option to mount_smbfs or (2) an unspecified manipulation of the command line to smbutil. (CVSS:6.6) (Last Update:2008-09-05)
CVE-2007-6276
The accept_connections function in the virtual private network daemon (vpnd) in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and daemon crash) via a crafted load balancing packet to UDP port 4112. (CVSS:7.8) (Last Update:2011-07-18)
SA-2007-031 – Drupal core – SQL Injection possible when certain contributed modules are enabled
- Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2007-031
- Project: Drupal core
- Version: 4.7.x, 5.x
- Date: 2007-December-05
- Security risk: Moderately critical
- Exploitable from: Remote
- Vulnerability: SQL Injection
Description
The function taxonomy_select_nodes() directly injects variables into SQL queries instead of using placeholders. While taxonomy module itself validates the input passed to taxonomy_select_nodes(), this is a weakness in Drupal core. Several contributed modules, such as taxonomy_menu, ajaxLoader, and ubrowser, directly pass user input to taxonomy_select_nodes(), enabling SQL injection attacks by anonymous users.
To learn more about SQL injection, please read this article.
Versions affected
- Drupal 4.7.x before Drupal 4.7.9
- Drupal 5.x before Drupal 5.4
Solution
Install the latest version:
- If you are running Drupal 4.7.x then upgrade to Drupal 4.7.9.
- If you are running Drupal 5.x then upgrade to Drupal 5.4.
If you are unable to upgrade immediately, you can apply a patch to secure your installation until you are able to do a proper upgrade.
- To patch Drupal 4.7.8 use SA-2007-031-4.7.8.patch.
- To patch Drupal 5.3 use SA-2007-031-5.3.patch.
Reported by
- Nadid Skywalker
- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Contact
The security contact for Drupal can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the form at http://drupal.org/contact.
Drupal version:
CVE-2006-7225
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a “malformed POSIX character class”, as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence. (CVSS:4.3) (Last Update:2010-08-21)