Project Zero Prize Conclusion

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero On September 13, 2016 we announced the Project Zero Prize. It concluded last week with no prizes awarded. The purpose of this post is to discuss what happened and what we learned about hacking contest design. Throughout the contest, we did not receive a...

openSUSE Security Update : xtrabackup (openSUSE-2017-382)

This update to xtrabackup 2.3.7 fixes one security issue and bugs. The following security issue was fixed : - innobackupex and xtrabackup scripts were showing the password in the ps output when it was passed as a command line argument boo1026729 The following functionality was added : - new...

Important product security update: Virtuozzo PowerPanel RTM Hotfix 1 (7.0.1-346)

The new packages for Virtuozzo PowerPanel introducing a security fix and usability bug fixes. Vulnerability id: PP-312 Incorrect checking of locked VM accounts in Virtuozzo SDK allowed one to use any password to log in to Virtuozzo PowerPanel in the legacy mode for a VM with such a locked account...

CVE-2017-7246

Stack-based buffer overflow in the pcre32copysubstring function in pcreget.c in libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service WRITE of size 268 or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file...

Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerability

JIT-spray targeting asm.js combined with a heap spray allows for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks. CVE-2017-5400 A crash triggerable by web content in which an ErrorResult references unassigned memory due to a logic error. The resulting crash may...

CVE-2015-0855

The mediaLibraryPlayCb function in mainwindow.py in pitivi before 0.95 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a file path...

CVE-2016-9266

listmp3.c in libming 0.4.7 allows remote attackers to unspecified impact via a crafted mp3 file, which triggers an invalid left shift...

CVE-2016-9557

Integer overflow in jasimage.c in JasPer before 1.900.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted file...

CVE-2016-10047

Memory leak in the NewXMLTree function in magick/xml-tree.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted XML file...

CVE-2016-10057

Buffer overflow in the WriteGROUP4Image function in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.5-8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or have other unspecified impact via a crafted file...

CVE-2016-10058

Memory leak in the ReadPSDLayers function in coders/psd.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.6-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted image file...

Security update for mbedtls (important)

This update to mbedtls 1.3.19 fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerability was fixed: CVE-2017-2784: A remote user could have used a specially crafted certificate to cause mbedtls to free a buffer allocated on the stack when verifying the validity of public key with a secp224k1...

CVE-2017-7209

The dumpsectionasbytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash...

CVE-2017-5618

GNU screen before 4.5.1 allows local users to modify arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges by leveraging improper checking of logfile permissions...

CVE-2017-7186

libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation violation for read access, and application crash by triggering an invalid Unicode property lookup...

openSUSE Security Update : irssi (openSUSE-2017-352)

This update to irssi 1.0.2 fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed : boo1029020: Use after free while producing list of netjoins The following non-security changes are included : - Fix in command arg parser to detect missing arguments in tail place - Fix regressio...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2017:0714-1)

This update for MozillaFirefox to ESR 45.8 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed bsc1028391 : - CVE-2017-5402: Use-after-free working with events in FontFace objects - CVE-2017-5410: Memory corruption during JavaScript garbage collection incremental sweeping - CVE-2017-5400: asm.js...

CVE-2017-7178

CSRF was discovered in the web UI in Deluge before 1.3.14. The exploitation methodology involves 1 hosting a crafted plugin that executes an arbitrary program from its init.py file and 2 causing the victim to download, install, and enable this plugin...

Security update for Chromium (important)

Chromium was updated to 57.0.2987.98 to fix security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed bsc1028848: - CVE-2017-5030: Memory corruption in V8 - CVE-2017-5031: Use after free in ANGLE - CVE-2017-5032: Out of bounds write in PDFium - CVE-2017-5029: Integer overflow in libxslt ...

Security update for Chromium (important)

Chromium was updated to 57.0.2987.98 to fix security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed bsc1028848: - CVE-2017-5030: Memory corruption in V8 - CVE-2017-5031: Use after free in ANGLE - CVE-2017-5032: Out of bounds write in PDFium - CVE-2017-5029: Integer overflow in libxslt ...