The vulnerability of the Wireshark Network Protocol Analyzer software allows a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information.

A vulnerability exists in the SnifferDecompress function in the wireshark/Wireshark DOS sniffer processing module, located in the wiretap/ngsniffer.c file. This vulnerability arises due to improper handling of empty input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows malicious individuals operating...

PT-2016-3293

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions bzip2 versions 1.0.6 and earlier Description The issue is related to an out-of-bounds write in the BZ2 decompress function in decompress.c when there are many selectors. This can lead to memory corruption, resulting in a denial of service and/...

Adobe Flash - SimpleButton Creation Type Confusion

Exploit for multiple platform in category dos / poc Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=640 There is a type confusion vulnerability in the SimpleButton constructor. Flash stores an empty button to use to create buttons for optimization reasons. If this obje...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4471

Off-by-one error in the lzxddecompress function in lzxd.c in libmspack before 0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer under-read and application crash via a crafted CAB archive...

libpng 1.6.15 Heap Overflow Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits / Alex Eubanks email protected libpng 1.6.15 heap overflow 18 December 2014 / / A foreword / // this bug was found with american fuzzy lop! thanks lcamtuf! / We will trigger a call to zlib which will decompress data from an IDAT chunk into a...

Fedora 21 : libhtp-0.5.16-1.fc21 (2014-16880)

0.5.16 11 December 2014 - Per personality requestline leading whitespace handling Victor Julien - Improve request line parsing with leading spaces Victor Julien - Harden decompress code against memory stress Victor Julien Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description...

USN-2421-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2419-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2416-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...

USN-2415-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2421-1)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2419-1)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2417-1)

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-2416-1)

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...

wireshark: DOS Sniffer file parser flaw (wnpa-sec-2014-19)

The SnifferDecompress function in wiretap/ngsniffer.c in the DOS Sniffer file parser in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.12.x before 1.12.1 does not prevent data overwrites during copy operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted file...

[USN-2289-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2289-1 July 17, 2014 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubun...

USN-2286-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-2281-1)

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's audit subsystem when auditing...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-saucy vulnerabilities (USN-2287-1)

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-2285-1)

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...