Fedora 22 : mksh-50f-1.fc22 (2015-6558)

"R50f is a required security and bugfix release : - Add a patch marker for vendor patch versioning to mksh.1 - SECURITY: make unset HISTFILE actually work - Document some more issues with the current history code - Remove some unused code - RCSID-only sync with OpenBSD, for bogus and irrelevant...

OracleVM 3.3 : glibc (OVMSA-2015-0055)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Fix invalid file descriptor reuse while sending DNS query 1207995, CVE-2013-7423. - Fix buffer overflow in gethostbynamer with misaligned buffer 1209375, CVE-2015-1781. - Enhance nscd to detect any...

glibc security and bug fix update

2.12-1.149.7 - Fix invalid file descriptor reuse while sending DNS query 1207995, CVE-2013-7423. - Fix buffer overflow in gethostbynamer with misaligned buffer 1209375, CVE-2015-1781. 2.12-1.149.6 - Enhance nscd to detect any configuration file changes 1194149...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : dbus (MDVSA-2015:176)

Updated dbus packages fix multiple vulnerabilities : A denial of service vulnerability in D-Bus before 1.6.20 allows a local attacker to cause a bus-activated service that is not currently running to attempt to start, and fail, denying other users access to this service Additionally, in highly...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDVSA-2015:128)

Updated sendmail packages fix security vulnerability : Sendmail before 8.14.9 does not properly closing file descriptors before executing programs. This bug could enable local users to interfere with an open SMTP connection if they can execute their own program for mail delivery e.g., via procmai...

Information disclosure

The implementation of certain splicewrite file operations in the Linux kernel before 3.16 does not enforce a restriction on the maximum size of a single file, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted splice system...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 10357)

glibc has ben updated to fix three security issues : - wordexp failed to honour WRDENOCMD bsc906371. CVE-2014-7817 - Fixed invalid file descriptor reuse while sending DNS query bsc915526. CVE-2013-7423 - Fixed buffer overflow in wscanf bsc916222 These non-security issues have been fixed:...

GNU C Library Code Injection Vulnerability

The GNU C Library also known as glibc, libc6 is an open-source, free C language compiler released under the LGPL license. A security vulnerability exists in the 'senddg' function in the resolv/ressend.c file in GNU C Library 2.20 and earlier versions, which stems from the program failing to...

openSUSE Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-2015-173)

Glibc was updated to fix several security issues. - Avoid infinite loop in nssdns getnetbyname CVE-2014-9402, bsc910599, BZ 17630 - wordexp fails to honour WRDENOCMD CVE-2014-7817, bsc906371, BZ 17625 - Fix invalid file descriptor reuse while sending DNS query CVE-2013-7423, bsc915526, BZ 15946 -...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7423

The senddg function in resolv/ressend.c in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.20 does not properly reuse file descriptors, which allows remote attackers to send DNS queries to unintended locations via a large number of requests that trigger a call to the getaddrinfo function...

CVE-2013-7423

The senddg function in resolv/ressend.c in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.20 does not properly reuse file descriptors, which allows remote attackers to send DNS queries to unintended locations via a large number of requests that trigger a call to the getaddrinfo function...

Code injection

Asterisk Open Source 12.x before 12.8.1 and 13.x before 13.1.1, when using the PJSIP channel driver, does not properly reclaim RTP ports, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service file descriptor consumption via an SDP offer containing only incompatible codecs...

Asterisk DoS

Crash on empty WebSocket frame. File descriptor leak on incompatible codecs...

AST-2015-001: File descriptor leak when incompatible codecs are offered

Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2015-001 Product Asterisk Summary File descriptor leak when incompatible codecs are offered Nature of Advisory Resource exhaustion Susceptibility Remote Authenticated Sessions Severity Major Exploits Known No Reported On 6 January, 2015 Reported By Y Ateya...

FreeBSD : asterisk -- File descriptor leak when incompatible codecs are offered (2eeb6652-a7a6-11e4-96ba-001999f8d30b)

The Asterisk project reports : Asterisk may be configured to only allow specific audio or video codecs to be used when communicating with a particular endpoint. When an endpoint sends an SDP offer that only lists codecs not allowed by Asterisk, the offer is rejected. However, in this case, RTP...

CVE-2015-1201

Privoxy before 3.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service file descriptor consumption via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information...

CVE-2015-1201

Privoxy before 3.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service file descriptor consumption via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1201

Privoxy before 3.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service file descriptor consumption via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information...

CVE-2015-1201

CVE-2015-1201 affects Privoxy before 3.0.22, enabling remote denial of service via file descriptor consumption. Multiple sources confirm the issue and mention third‑party provenance for the vulnerability details. Affected component: Privoxy proxy server; vulnerability type: DoS via unspecified ve...

privoxy -- multiple vulnerabilities

Privoxy Developers reports: Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to the socket limit being reached CID 66382. This affected Privoxy 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support on most platforms this is the default. Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug CID 66394 and two additional...