gnupg -- possible infinite recursion in the compressed packet parser

Werner Koch reports: Special crafted input data may be used to cause a denial of service against GPG GnuPG's OpenPGP part and some other OpenPGP implementations. All systems using GPG to process incoming data are affected...

Fedora 19 : gpsd-3.9-1.fc19 (2013-7276)

This is an update to the latest upstream release, which fixes a denial of service flaw found in the way AIS driver packet parser processed certain malformed packets. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenabl...

wireshark: multiple file parser vulnerabilities (wnpa-sec-2012-01)

The dissectpacket function in epan/packet.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.11 and 1.6.x before 1.6.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a long packet in a capture file, as demonstrated by an airopeek file...

BlueZ: Arbitrary code execution

Background BlueZ is a set of Bluetooth tools and system daemons for Linux. Description It has been reported that the Bluetooth packet parser does not validate string length fields in SDP packets. Impact A physically proximate attacker using a Bluetooth device with an already established trust...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: bluez-libs and bluez-utils security update

Updated bluez-libs and bluez-utils packages that fix a security flaw are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The bluez-libs package contains libraries for use in Bluetooth...