Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss BRMS security and bug fix update

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BRMS. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the...

Framework: denial-of-service attack with XML input

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Spring processes inline DTD declarations. A remote attacker could submit a specially crafted XML file that would cause out-of-memory errors when parsed...

openSUSE Security Update : nghttp2 (openSUSE-2016-314)

This update for nghttp2 fixes the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2016-1544: A malicious remote attacker could have caused an Out of memory condition due to unlimited incoming HTTP header fields boo966514 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

Fedora 23 : nghttp2-1.7.1-1.fc23 (2016-ac861a840e)

CVE-2016-1544: Out of memory in nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2asio applications due to unlimited incoming HTTP header fields: https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.7.1 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora...

The vulnerability of the glibc library, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure or execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the libresolv component in the glibc library is related to multiple buffer overflows in the senddg and sendvc functions. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to cause service failures or execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted DNS requests that trigger...

Mozilla: Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation (MFSA 2016-03)

Buffer overflow in the BufferSubData function in Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted WebGL content...

nghttp2: denial of service

HTTP/2 uses HPACK to compress header fields. The basic idea is that HTTP header field is stored in the receiver with the numeric index number. The memory used by this storage is tightly constrained, and it is 4KiB by default. When sender sends the same header field, it just sends the correspondin...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox regression (USN-2880-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2880-2 advisory. USN-2880-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update introduced a regression which caused Firefox to crash on startup with some configurations. This update...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2880-2)

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...

openSUSE Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (openSUSE-2016-131)

This update fixes the following security related issues by updating packages to a more recent version : Update of NSPR to 4.11 Update of NSS to 3.21 Update of Firefox to 44.0 - MFSA 2016-01/CVE-2016-1930/CVE-2016-1931 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-02/CVE-2016-1933 bmo1231761 Out...

openSUSE Security Update : the MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss and mozilla-nspr (openSUSE-2016-128)

This update to MozillaFirefox fixes several security issues and bugs. Mozilla Firefox was updated to 44.0. Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.21 Mozilla NSPR was updated to 4.11. The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2016-1930/CVE-2016-1931: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards boo963633 -...

nghttp2 -- Out of memory in nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2_asio

Nghttp2 reports: Out of memory in nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2asio applications due to unlimited incoming HTTP header fields. nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2asio applications do not limit the memory usage for the incoming HTTP header field. If peer sends specially crafted HTTP/2 HEADERS frames...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (4f00dac0-1e18-4481-95af-7aaad63fd303)

Mozilla Foundation reports : MFSA 2016-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:44.0 / rv:38.6 MFSA 2016-02 Out of Memory crash when parsing GIF format images MFSA 2016-03 Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation MFSA 2016-04 Firefox allows for control characters to be set in cook...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2880-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2880-1 advisory. Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, Randell Jesup, Nicolas Pierron, Eric Rescorla, Tyson Smith, and Gab...

USN-2880-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, Randell Jesup, Nicolas Pierron, Eric Rescorla, Tyson Smith, and Gabor Krizsanits discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker...

kernel: memcg: OOM handling DoS

It was found that the Linux kernel memory resource controller's memcg handling of OOM out of memory conditions could lead to deadlocks. An attacker able to continuously spawn new processes within a single memory-constrained cgroup during an OOM event could use this flaw to lock up the system...

Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation — Mozilla

Security researcher Aki Helin used the Address Sanitizer tool to find a buffer overflow write when rendering some WebGL content. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash...

FreeBSD : php -- multiple vulnerabilities (6b771fe2-b84e-11e5-92f9-485d605f4717)

PHP reports : - Core : - Fixed bug 70755 fpmlog.c memory leak and buffer overflow. - GD : - Fixed bug 70976 Memory Read via gdImageRotateInterpolated Array Index Out of Bounds. - SOAP : - Fixed bug 70900 SoapClient systematic out of memory error. - Wddx - Fixed bug 70661 Use After Free...

xen-tools -- libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error

The Xen Project reports: When constructing a guest which is configured to use a PV bootloader which runs as a userspace process in the toolstack domain e.g. pygrub libxl creates a mapping of the files to be used as kernel and initial ramdisk when building the guest domain. However if building the...

kernel: memcg: OOM handling DoS

It was found that the Linux kernel memory resource controller's memcg handling of OOM out of memory conditions could lead to deadlocks. An attacker able to continuously spawn new processes within a single memory-constrained cgroup during an OOM event could use this flaw to lock up the system...