Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Vulnerabilities in the CPP and Parity Ethereum Client

Vulnerabilities discovered by Marcin Noga of Cisco Talos. Overview Talos is disclosing the presence of multiple vulnerabilities in the CPP and the Parity Ethereum clients. TALOS-2017-0503 / CVE-2017-14457 describes a denial of service vulnerability and potential memory leak in libevm. The functio...

CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC miner_setGasPrice improper authorization Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable improper authorization vulnerability exists in minersetGasPrice API of cpp-ethereum’s JSON-RPC commit 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768. A JSON request can cause an access to the restricted functionality resulting in authorization bypass. An attacker can send JSON to...

CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC admin_peers improper authorization Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable improper authorization vulnerability exists in adminpeers API of cpp-ethereum’s JSON-RPC commit 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768. A JSON request can cause an access to the restricted functionality resulting in authorization bypass. An attacker can send JSON to trigg...

CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC miner_start improper authorization Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable improper authorization vulnerability exists in minerstart API of cpp-ethereum’s JSON-RPC commit 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768. A JSON request can cause an access to the restricted functionality resulting in authorization bypass. An attacker can send JSON to trigg...

CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC miner_setEtherbase improper authorization Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable improper authorization vulnerability exists in minersetEtherbase API of cpp-ethereum’s JSON-RPC commit 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768. A JSON request can cause an access to the restricted functionality resulting in authorization bypass. An attacker can send JSON t...

CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities

Summary An exploitable unhandled exception vulnerability exists in multiple APIs of CPP-Ethereum’s JSON-RPC. Specially crafted JSON requests can cause a unhandled exception resulting in denial of service. An attacker can send malicious JSON to trigger this vulnerability. Tested Versions Ethereum...

CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC admin_nodeInfo improper authorization Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable improper authorization vulnerability exists in adminnodeInfo API of cpp-ethereum’s JSON-RPC commit 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768. A JSON request can cause an access to the restricted functionality resulting in authorization bypass. An attacker can send JSON to...

CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC miner_stop improper authorization Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable improper authorization vulnerability exists in minerstop API of cpp-ethereum’s JSON-RPC commit 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768. A JSON request can cause an access to the restricted functionality resulting in authorization bypass. An attacker can send JSON to trigge...

CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC admin_addPeer Authorization Bypass Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable improper authorization vulnerability exists in adminaddPeer API of cpp-ethereum’s JSON-RPC commit 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768. A JSON request can cause an access to the restricted functionality resulting in authorization bypass. An attacker can send JSON to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5268

In OpenCV 3.3.1, a heap-based buffer overflow happens in cv::Jpeg2KDecoder::readComponent8u in modules/imgcodecs/src/grfmtjpeg2000.cpp when parsing a crafted image file...

CVE-2017-17484

The ucnvUTF8FromUTF8 function in ucnvu8.cpp in International Components for Unicode ICU for C/C++ through 60.1 mishandles ucnvconvertEx calls for UTF-8 to UTF-8 conversion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow and application crash or possibly hav...

Fedora Update for qpid-cpp FEDORA-2017-f76bf63612

The remote host is missing an update for the 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 ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: qpid-cpp-1.36.0-8.fc27

Run-time libraries for AMQP client applications developed using Qpid C++. Clients exchange messages with an AMQP message broker using the AMQP protocol...

7zip UDF CInArchive::ReadFileItem Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2016-2335)

Summary An out of bound read vulnerability exists in the CInArchive::ReadFileItem method functionality of 7zip for handling UDF files that can lead to denial of service or code execution. Tested Versions 7-Zip 32 15.05 beta 7-Zip 64 9.20 Product URLs http://www.7-zip.org/ Details...

PYSEC-2017-132

An Invalid memory address dereference was discovered in Exiv2::StringValueBase::read in value.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0880

Apache Xerces-C++ allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted message sent to an XML service that causes hash table collisions...

CVE-2017-11692

The function "Token& Scanner::peek" in scanner.cpp in yaml-cpp 0.5.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and application exit via a '!2' string...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Yaml-cpp is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The Token& Scanner::peek function in scanner.cpp may cause an assertion failure and application exit through a !2 string...

CVE-2017-11692

The function "Token& Scanner::peek" in scanner.cpp in yaml-cpp 0.5.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and application exit via a '!2' string...

CVE-2017-11692

The function "Token& Scanner::peek" in scanner.cpp in yaml-cpp 0.5.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and application exit via a '!2' string...