FreeBSD -- Multiple portsnap vulnerabilities

Problem Description: Flaws in portsnap's verification of downloaded tar files allows additional files to be included without causing the verification to fail. Portsnap may then use or execute these files. Impact: An attacker who can conduct man in the middle attack on the network at the time when...

FreeBSD -- Heap overflow vulnerability in bspatch

Problem Description: The implementation of bspatch is susceptible to integer overflows with carefully crafted input, potentially allowing an attacker who can control the patch file to write at arbitrary locations in the heap. This issue was partially addressed in FreeBSD-SA-16:25.bspatch, but som...

FreeBSD-SA-16:31.libarchive

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:31.libarchive Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Multiple libarchive vulnerabilities Category: core Module: portsnap Announced: 2016-10-05 Affects:...

FreeBSD-SA-16:29.bspatch

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:29.bspatch Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Heap overflow vulnerability in bspatch Category: core Module: bsdiff Announced: 2016-10-10 Affects:...

FreeBSD-SA-16:28.bind

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:28.bind Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: BIND remote Denial of Service vulnerability Category: contrib Module: bind Announced: 2016-10-10 Credits...

FreeBSD-SA-16:27.openssl

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:27.openssl Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Regression in OpenSSL suite Category: contrib Module: openssl Announced: 2016-10-10 Credits: OpenSSL...

FreeBSD -- Multiple libarchive vulnerabilities

Problem Description: Flaws in libarchive's handling of symlinks and hard links allow overwriting files outside the extraction directory, or permission changes to a directory outside the extraction directory. Impact: An attacker who can control freebsd-update's or portsnap's input to tar1 can chan...

FreeBSD : django -- CSRF protection bypass on a site with Google Analytics (bb022643-84fb-11e6-a4a1-60a44ce6887b)

Django Software Foundation reports : An interaction between Google Analytics and Django's cookie parsing could allow an attacker to set arbitrary cookies leading to a bypass of CSRF protection. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

FreeBSD : BIND -- Remote Denial of Service vulnerability (c8d902b1-8550-11e6-81e7-d050996490d0)

ISC reports : Testing by ISC has uncovered a critical error condition which can occur when a nameserver is constructing a response. A defect in the rendering of messages into packets can cause named to exit with an assertion failure in buffer.c while constructing a response to a query that meets...

FreeBSD : OpenSSL -- multiple vulnerabilities (91a337d8-83ed-11e6-bf52-b499baebfeaf)

OpenSSL reports : Critical vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.1.0a Fix Use After Free for large message sizes CVE-2016-6309 Moderate vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.0.2i Missing CRL sanity check CVE-2016-7052 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

FreeBSD-SA-16:26.openssl

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:26.openssl Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities Category: contrib Module: openssl Announced: 2016-09-23; revised on...

FreeBSD : OpenSSL -- multiple vulnerabilities (43eaa656-80bc-11e6-bf52-b499baebfeaf)

OpenSSL reports : High: OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth SSLpeek hang on empty record SWEET32 Mitigation OOB write in MDC2Update Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS OOB write in BNbn2dec OOB read in TSOBJprintbio Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour Constant time flag not preserved...

FreeBSD : irssi -- heap corruption and missing boundary checks (e78261e4-803d-11e6-a590-14dae9d210b8)

Irssi reports : Remote crash and heap corruption. Remote code execution seems difficult since only Nuls are written. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-2018...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (2c57c47e-8bb3-4694-83c8-9fc3abad3964)

Mozilla Foundation reports : CVE-2016-2827 - Out-of-bounds read in mozilla::net::IsValidReferrerPolicy low CVE-2016-5256 - Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 49 critical CVE-2016-5257 - Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4 critical CVE-2016-5270 - Heap-buffer-overflow in...

FreeBSD : Remote-Code-Execution vulnerability in mysql and its variants CVE 2016-6662 (b64a7389-7c27-11e6-8aaa-5404a68ad561)

LegalHackers' reports : RCE Bugs discovered in MySQL and its variants like MariaDB. It works by manipulating my.cnf files and using --malloc-lib. The bug seems fixed in MySQL 5.7.15 by Oracle %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (653a8059-7c49-11e6-9242-3065ec8fd3ec)

Google Chrome Releases reports : Several security fixes in this release, including : - 641101 High CVE-2016-5170: Use after free in Blink.Credit to Anonymous - 643357 High CVE-2016-5171: Use after free in Blink. Credit to Anonymous - 616386 Medium CVE-2016-5172: Arbitrary Memory Read in v8. Credi...

FreeBSD : dropbear -- multiple vulnerabilities (bc19dcca-7b13-11e6-b99e-589cfc0654e1)

Matt Johnston reports : If specific usernames including '%' symbols can be created on a system validated by getpwnam then an attacker could run arbitrary code as root when connecting to Dropbear server. A dbclient user who can control username or host arguments could potentially run arbitrary cod...

FreeBSD : cURL -- Escape and unescape integer overflows (b018121b-7a4b-11e6-bf52-b499baebfeaf)

The cURL project reports The four libcurl functions curlescape, curleasyescape, curlunescape and curleasyunescape perform string URL percent escaping and unescaping. They accept custom string length inputs in signed integer arguments. The provided string length arguments were not properly checked...

FreeBSD : h2o -- fix DoS attack vector (08664d42-7989-11e6-b7a8-74d02b9a84d5)

Frederik Deweerdt reported a denial-of-service attack vector due to an unhandled error condition during socket connection. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-20...

FreeBSD : mysql -- Remote Root Code Execution (856b88bf-7984-11e6-81e7-d050996490d0)

Dawid Golunski reports : An independent research has revealed multiple severe MySQL vulnerabilities. This advisory focuses on a critical vulnerability with a CVEID of CVE-2016-6662 which can allow attackers to remotely inject malicious settings into MySQL configuration files my.cnf leading to...