UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14172

In coders/ps.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-0 Q16, a DoS in ReadPSImage due to lack of an EOF End of File check might cause huge CPU consumption. When a crafted PSD file, which claims a large "extent" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loop over "length"...

Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software IPv6 SNMP Message Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the IPv6 Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP code of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU usage or a reload of the device. The vulnerability is due to IPv6 sub block corruption. An attacker could exploit this...

GNOME libgedit.a File Denial of Service Vulnerability

GNOME gedit is a text editor for the GNOME project. A security vulnerability exists in the libgedit.a file in GNOME gedit 3.22.1 and earlier. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service CPU consumption with files that begin with multiple '0' metacharacters...

CVE-2017-0900

It was found that rubygems could use an excessive amount of CPU while parsing a sufficiently long gem summary. A specially crafted gem from a gem repository could freeze gem commands attempting to parse its summary...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-14054

In libavformat/rmdec.c in FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in ivrreadheader due to lack of an EOF End of File check might cause huge CPU consumption. When a crafted IVR file, which claims a large "len" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the first type==4 loop would...

GraphicsMagick Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-24317)

GraphicsMagick is a simple set of image processing tools. The tool provides resizing, rotating, highlighting and other functions to images. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'ReadXBMImage' function in the coders/xbm.c file in GraphicsMagick version 1.3.26. An attacker can exploit th...

CVE-2017-13775

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a denial of service issue in ReadJNXImage in coders/jnx.c whereby large amounts of CPU and memory resources may be consumed although the file itself does not support the requests...

Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Hosted in Amazon S3 Bucket

As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, cybercriminals are responding in kind by using techniques long reserved for adware, click-fraud and spying to now drop cryptocurrency miners onto compromised computers. The latest incident comes from a rash of drive-by downloads that are...

libgig Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-27700)

libgig is a C++ library for loading, modifying existing and creating new Gigasampler .gig files and DLS downloadable sound Level 1/2 files, KORG sample instruments .KSF and .KMP files, SoundFont v2 .sf2 files and AKAI sampler data. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the function...

OpenJDK: insecure XML parsing in wsdlimport (JAX-WS, 8182054)

It was discovered that the wsdlimport tool in the JAX-WS component of OpenJDK did not use secure XML parser settings when parsing WSDL XML documents. A specially crafted WSDL document could cause wsdlimport to use an excessive amount of CPU and memory, open connections to other hosts, or leak...

OpenJDK: reading of unprocessed image data in JPEGImageReader (2D, 8169209)

It was discovered that the JPEGImageReader implementation in the 2D component of OpenJDK would, in certain cases, read all image data even if it was not used later. A specially crafted image could cause a Java application to temporarily use an excessive amount of CPU and memory...

SSL/TLS: Malformed plain-text ALERT packets could cause remote DoS

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 2 security update

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 2.1.2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE...

HTTP Load Generator: hey

hey is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application – ApacheBench ab replacement. hey was originally called boom and was influenced from Tarek Ziade’s tool at tarekziade/boom . Installation go get -u github.com/rakyll/hey Note: Requires go 1.7 or greater. Usage hey runs provided numbe...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9258

The TDStretch::processSamples function in source/SoundTouch/TDStretch.cpp in SoundTouch 1.9.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption via a crafted wav file...

OpenJDK: reading of unprocessed image data in JPEGImageReader (2D, 8169209)

It was discovered that the JPEGImageReader implementation in the 2D component of OpenJDK would, in certain cases, read all image data even if it was not used later. A specially crafted image could cause a Java application to temporarily use an excessive amount of CPU and memory...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11171

Bad reference counting in the context of accepticeconnection in gsm-xsmp-server.c in old versions of gnome-session up until version 2.29.92 allows a local attacker to establish ICE connections to gnome-session with invalid authentication data an invalid magic cookie. Each failed authentication...

Authentication flaw

Bad reference counting in the context of accepticeconnection in gsm-xsmp-server.c in old versions of gnome-session up until version 2.29.92 allows a local attacker to establish ICE connections to gnome-session with invalid authentication data an invalid magic cookie. Each failed authentication...

My first working week with Opera Reborn

So, last Monday I changed my Chrome to the new Opera. It was an experiment to feel how is it “really” different from Chrome. I should mention before writing this post two important things about my background: 1. I was an Opera user since 2003 to 2010 and then moved to Chrome because of the many...

Samba 'fd_open_atomic infinite loop' DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2017-9461)

Samba is prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:samba:samba";...