Debian DSA-3888-1 : exim4 - security update (Stack Clash)

The Qualys Research Labs discovered a memory leak in the Exim mail transport agent. This is not a security vulnerability in Exim by itself, but can be used to exploit a vulnerability in stack handling. For the full details, please refer to their advisory published at:...

Debian DSA-3870-1 : wordpress - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool. They would allow remote attackers to force password resets, and perform various cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-3869-1 : tnef - security update

It was discovered that tnef, a tool used to unpack MIME attachments of type 'application/ms-tnef', did not correctly validate its input. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a malicious attachment, which would result in a denial-of-service by application crash...

Debian DSA-3867-1 : sudo - security update

The Qualys Security team discovered that sudo, a program designed to provide limited super user privileges to specific users, does not properly parse '/proc/pid/stat' to read the device number of the tty from field 7 ttynr. A sudoers user can take advantage of this flaw on an SELinux-enabled syst...

Debian DSA-3850-1 : rtmpdump - security update

Dave McDaniel discovered multiple vulnerabilities in rtmpdump, a small dumper/library for RTMP media streams, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed stream is dumped. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

openSUSE Security Update : dpkg (openSUSE-2017-549)

This update for dpkg fixes the following issues : This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2015-0860: Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in dpkg allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an...

Debian DLA-931-1 : freetype security update

It was found that a malformed font could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u7. We recommend that you upgrade your freetype packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Directory traversal

dpkg-source in dpkg 1.3.0 through 1.18.23 is able to use a non-GNU patch program and does not offer a protection mechanism for blank-indented diff hunks, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted Debian source package, as demonstrated by use of dpkg-source...

CVE-2017-8283

dpkg-source in dpkg 1.3.0 through 1.18.23 is able to use a non-GNU patch program and does not offer a protection mechanism for blank-indented diff hunks, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted Debian source package, as demonstrated by use of dpkg-source...

CVE-2017-8283

dpkg-source in dpkg 1.3.0 through 1.18.23 is able to use a non-GNU patch program and does not offer a protection mechanism for blank-indented diff hunks, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted Debian source package, as demonstrated by use of dpkg-source...

CVE-2017-8283

dpkg-source in dpkg 1.3.0 through 1.18.23 is able to use a non-GNU patch program and does not offer a protection mechanism for blank-indented diff hunks, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted Debian source package, as demonstrated by use of dpkg-source...

CVE-2017-8283

dpkg-source in dpkg 1.3.0 through 1.18.23 is able to use a non-GNU patch program and does not offer a protection mechanism for blank-indented diff hunks, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted Debian source package, as demonstrated by use of dpkg-source...

CVE-2017-8283

dpkg-source in dpkg 1.3.0 through 1.18.23 is able to use a non-GNU patch program and does not offer a protection mechanism for blank-indented diff hunks, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted Debian source package, as demonstrated by use of dpkg-source...

CVE-2017-8283

CVE-2017-8283 concerns dpkg-source in dpkg 1.3.0 through 1.18.23, which can invoke a non-GNU patch program and lacks protection for blank-indented diff hunks. This enables remote attackers to perform directory traversal via a crafted Debian source package, demonstrated by using dpkg-source on Net...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dpkg (SUSE-SU-2017:1096-1)

This update for dpkg fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2015-0860: Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in dpkg allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an...

SUSE-SU-2017:1096-1 Security update for dpkg

This update for dpkg fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2015-0860: Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in dpkg allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an...

Debian DSA-3785-1 : jasper - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the JasPer library for processing JPEG-2000 images, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image is processed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-3742-1 : flightgear - security update

It was discovered that the Flight Gear flight simulator performs insufficient sanitising of Nasal scripts which allows a malicious script to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Flight Gear. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Fedora 24 : dpkg (2016-5608472a90)

New upstream vesion, 1.17.27 . Security fix for CVE-2015-0860 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Fedora Update for dpkg FEDORA-2016-10ec03ed27

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...