rubygem-actionpack: number_to_currency XSS

It was found that the numbertocurrency Action View helper did not properly escape the unit parameter. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting XSS attack on an application that uses data submitted by a user in the unit parameter...

VMware vCenter Converter 5.1.x < 5.1.2 / 5.5.x < 5.5.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2014-0010) (Shellshock)

The version of VMware vCenter Converter installed on the remote Windows host is 5.1.x prior to 5.1.2 or 5.5.x prior to 5.5.3. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A command injection vulnerability exists in GNU Bash known as Shellshock, which is due to the processing of...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2402-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

CVE-2014-8651

The KDE Clock KCM policykit helper in kde-workspace before 4.11.14 and plasma-desktop before 5.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ntpUtility ntp utility name argument...

kde-workspace -- privilege escalation

David Edmundson reports: KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. This is secured with polkit. This helper takes the name of the ntp utility to run as an argument. This allows a hacker to run any arbitrary...

openSUSE Security Update : wpa_supplicant (openSUSE-SU-2014:1314-1)

add 0001-Add-osexec-helper-to-run-external-programs.patch - add 0002-wpacli-Use-osexec-for-action-script-execution.pat ch - fixing CVE-2014-3686 bnc900611 trying to abuse the action scripts in wpacli %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Validator: JSM bypass via ReflectionHelper

It was discovered that the implementation of org.hibernate.validator.util.ReflectionHelper together with the permissions required to run Hibernate Validator under the Java Security Manager could allow a malicious application deployed in the same application container to execute several actions wi...

CVE-2014-2886

GKSu 2.0.2, when sudo-mode is not enabled, uses " double quote characters in a gksu-run-helper argument, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations involving an untrusted substring within this argument, as demonstrated by an untrusted filename encountered during...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2886

GKSu 2.0.2, when sudo-mode is not enabled, uses " double quote characters in a gksu-run-helper argument, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations involving an untrusted substring within this argument, as demonstrated by an untrusted filename encountered during...

CVE-2014-2886

GKSu 2.0.2, when sudo-mode is not enabled, uses " double quote characters in a gksu-run-helper argument, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations involving an untrusted substring within this argument, as demonstrated by an untrusted filename encountered during...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : procmail (SAT Patch Number 9689)

procmail was updated to fix a security issue in its formail helper. - When formail processed specially crafted e-mail headers a heap corruption could be triggered, which would lead to a crash of formail. CVE-2014-3618 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

CVE-2014-5582

The Ingress Intel Helper aka com.bb.ingressintel application 1.2 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

Information disclosure

The Ingress Intel Helper aka com.bb.ingressintel application 1.2 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5582

The Ingress Intel Helper aka com.bb.ingressintel application 1.2 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5582

CVE-2014-5582 (Ingress Intel Helper) affects the Android app (package com.bb.ingressintel) version 1.2. The root cause is failure to verify X.509 certificates when establishing SSL connections, enabling a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof servers and access sensitive information via a crafted c...

OS X Viscosity OpenVPN Client - Local Root Exploit

No description provided by source. !/bin/sh Viscatory zx2c4 After the hullabaloo from the Tunnelblick local root, savy Mac users began defending Viscosity, another OS X VPN client. They figured, since they spent money on Viscosity, surely it would be better designed than the free open-source...

Gnome-PTY-Helper UTMP Hostname Spoofing Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15004/info 'gnome-pty-helper' is susceptible to a local UTMP hostname spoofing vulnerability. This issue is due to the failure of the application to properly validate user-supplied data prior to using it to update UTMP...

Calibre E-Book Reader Local Root Race Condition Exploit

No description provided by source. !/bin/sh .70-Calibrer Assault Mount by Dan Rosenberg @djrbliss and zx2c4 Yesterday we learned how Calibre's ability to mount anything anywhere resulted in a local root. Today's exploit shows a race condition to subvert recent changes preventing symlinks and...

IPNetSentryX / IPNetMonitorX Unauthorized Network Reconnaissance Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8365/info It has been reported that helper applications that are shipped with IPNetSentryX and IPNetMonitorX may be harnessed by a local attacker to provide for unauthorized network reconnaissance. bash-2.05a$ id...

PHP Live Helper 2.0 Chat.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17960/info PHP Live Helper is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrar...