Debian Security Advisory DSA 2852-1 (libgadu - heap-based buffer overflow)

Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney discovered that libgadu, a library for accessing the Gadu-Gadu instant messaging service, contained an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow. Attackers which impersonate the server could crash clients and potentially execute arbitrary code. OpenVAS Vulnerabili...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2855-1 (libav - several vulnerabilities)

Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library. The IDs mentioned above are just a portion of the security issues fixed in this update. A full list of the changes is available at...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2853-1 (horde3 - remote code execution)

Pedro Ribeiro from Agile Information Security found a possible remote code execution on Horde3, a web application framework. Unsanitized variables are passed to the unserialize PHP function. A remote attacker could specially-craft one of those variables allowing her to load and execute code...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2851-1 (drupal6 - impersonation)

Christian Mainka and Vladislav Mladenov reported a vulnerability in the OpenID module of Drupal, a fully-featured content management framework. A malicious user could exploit this flaw to log in as other users on the site, including administrators, and hijack their accounts. These fixes require...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2850-1 (libyaml - heap-based buffer overflow)

Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow flaw in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library. A remote attacker could provide a YAML document with a specially-crafted tag that, when parsed by an application using libyaml, would cause the...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2849-1 (curl - information disclosure)

Paras Sethia discovered that libcurl, a client-side URL transfer library, would sometimes mix up multiple HTTP and HTTPS connections with NTLM authentication to the same server, sending requests for one user over the connection authenticated as a different user. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2848-1 (mysql-5.5 - several vulnerabilities)

Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream version 5.5.35. Please see the MySQL 5.5 Release Notes and Oracle's Critical Patch Update advisory for further details:...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2846-1 (libvirt - several vulnerabilities)

Multiple security issues have been found in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library: CVE-2013-6458 It was discovered that insecure job usage could lead to denial of service against libvirtd. CVE-2014-1447 It was discovered that a race condition in keepalive handling could lead to denial of...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2845-1 (mysql-5.1 - several vulnerabilities)

This DSA updates the MySQL 5.1 database to 5.1.73. This fixes multiple unspecified security problems in MySQL: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2845.nasl 6715 2017-07-13 09:57:40Z teissa $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA...

Debian DSA-2844-1 : djvulibre - arbitrary code execution

It was discovered that djvulibre, the Open Source DjVu implementation project, can be crashed or possibly make it execute arbitrary code when processing a specially crafted djvu file. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2844-1 (djvulibre - arbitrary code execution)

It was discovered that djvulibre, the Open Source DjVu implementation project, can be crashed or possibly make it execute arbitrary code when processing a specially crafted djvu file. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2844.nasl 6759 2017-07-19 09:56:33Z teissa $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2841-1 (movabletype-opensource - cross-site scripting)

A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in the rich text editor of the Movable Type blogging engine. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2841.nasl 6715 2017-07-13 09:57:40Z teissa $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2841-1 using nvtgen 1.0 Script version: 1.0 Author: Greenbone Networks...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2840-1 (srtp - buffer overflow)

Fernando Russ from Groundworks Technologies reported a buffer overflow flaw in srtp, Cisco's reference implementation of the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol SRTP, in how the cryptopolicysetfromprofileforrtp function applies cryptographic profiles to an srtppolicy. A remote attacker could...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2837-1 (openssl - programming error)

Anton Johansson discovered that an invalid TLS handshake package could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer dereference. The oldstable distribution squeeze is not affected. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2837.nasl 6663 2017-07-11 09:58:05Z teissa $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2837-1 using...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2838-1 (libxfont - buffer overflow)

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the processing of Glyph Bitmap Distribution fonts BDF could result in the execution of arbitrary code. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2838.nasl 6715 2017-07-13 09:57:40Z teissa $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2838-1 using nvtgen 1.0 Script versio...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2836-1 (devscripts - arbitrary code execution)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in uscan, a tool to scan upstream sites for new releases of packages, which is part of the devscripts package. An attacker controlling a website from which uscan would attempt to download a source tarball could execute arbitrary code with the privilege...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2833-1 (openssl - several vulnerabilities)

Multiple security issues have been fixed in OpenSSL: The TLS 1.2 support was susceptible to denial of service and retransmission of DTLS messages was fixed. In addition this update disables the insecure DualECDRBG algorithm which was unused anyway, see...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2834-1 (typo3-src - several vulnerabilities)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in TYPO3, a content management system. This update addresses cross-site scripting, information disclosure, mass assignment, open redirection and insecure unserialize vulnerabilities and corresponds to TYPO3-CORE-SA-2013-004 . OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2831-1 (puppet - insecure temporary files)

An unsafe use of temporary files was discovered in Puppet, a tool for centralized configuration management. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability and overwrite an arbitrary file in the system. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2831.nasl 6611 2017-07-07 12:07:20Z cfischer $ Auto-generated fr...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2830-1 (ruby-i18n - cross-site scripting)

Peter McLarnan discovered that the internationalization component of Ruby on Rails does not properly encode parameters in generated HTML code, resulting in a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This update corrects the underlying vulnerability in the i18n gem, as provided by the ruby-i18n package...