Updated x11-server packages fix CVE-2015-0255

Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerability: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request, where the server trusts the client to send valid string lengths. A malicious client with string lengt...

FreeBSD : xorg-server -- Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers. (54a69cf7-b2ef-11e4-b1f1-bcaec565249c)

Peter Hutterer reports : Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string...

xorg-server: information leak and denial of service

Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string lengths exceeding the...

xorg-server -- Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers.

Peter Hutterer reports: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string...

CVE-2014-3569

The ssl23getclienthello function in s23srvr.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, and 1.0.1j does not properly handle attempts to use unsupported protocols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash via an unexpected handshake, as demonstrated by...

Fedora 19 : libgadu-1.12.0-0.3.rc2.fc19 (2014-2341)

Security vulnerability fix in HTTP protocol handling. A specially crafted server reply may cause memory overwrite and arbitrary code execution. CVE-2013-6487. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has...

USN-2100-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

Thijs Alkemade and Robert Vehse discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the Yahoo! protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2012-6152 Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the XMPP protocol. A remote...

FreeBSD : xorg -- protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries (2eebebff-cd3b-11e2-8f09-001b38c3836c)

freedesktop.org reports : Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most...

mesa security update

9.0-0.8.3 - CVE-2013-1872: Updated patch with testing from upstream 963063 9.0-0.8.2 - CVE-2013-1872: Updated patch from upstream 963063 9.0-0.8.1 - CVE-2013-1872: Updated patch 963063 9.0-0.8 - CVE-2013-1872: memory corruption oob read/write on intel 963063 - CVE-2013-1993: interger overflows in...

xorg -- protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries

freedesktop.org reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most ...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : pidgin, libpurple and finch (SAT Patch Number 5389)

This update fixes the following security issues : - 604225: MSN emoticon DoS. CVE-2010-1624 - 648273: multiple NULL pointer dereference weaknesses. CVE-2010-3711 - 722199: vulnerability in SILC protocol handling CVE-2011-3594 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive te...

Fedora 14 : wireshark-1.4.4-1.fc14 (2011-2632)

Several security bugs were fixed in this release : - CVE-2011-0538: memory corruption when reading a malformed pcap file - CVE-2010-3445: stack overflow in BER dissector - CVE-2011-1143: NULL pointer dereference causing application crash when reading malformed pcap file - CVE-2011-1140: Multiple...

Xerox Workcenter 4150 - Remote Buffer Overflow (PoC)

Xerox Workcenter 4150 - Remote Buffer Overflow PoC Application: Xerox Workcenter 4150 Remote Buffer Overflow Platforms: Xerox Workcenter 4150 Discover Date: 2009-12-21 Author: Francis Provencher Protek Research Lab's Blog: http://www.Protekresearchlab.com 1 Introduction 2 Report Timeline 3...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2010-0013 Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: pidgin security update

An updated pidgin package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multip...

HP-UX Update for BIND v920 HPSBUX00290

Check for the Version of BIND v920 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test HP-UX Update for BIND v920 HPSBUX00290 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDVSA-2008:069)

Multiple memory management flaws were found in the GSSAPI library used by Kerberos that could result in the use of already freed memory or an attempt to free already freed memory, possibly leading to a crash or allowing the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2007-5901, CVE-2007-5971. A flaw was...

VLC 0.8.6i MMS Protocol Handling Heap Overflow PoC

No description provided by source. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - Orange Bat advisory - Name : VLC 0.8.6i MMS Protocol Handling Class : Heap Overflow Published : 2008-08-24 Credit : g g orange-bat com - - Details - This can be exploited from remote. User have to open mmst:// li...

vlcmms-overflow.txt

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - Orange Bat advisory - Name : VLC 0.8.6i MMS Protocol Handling Class : Heap Overflow Published : 2008-08-24 Credit : g g orange-bat com - - Details - This can be exploited from remote. User have to open mmst:// link poiting to server controlled by...

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6i - Mms Protocol Handling Heap Overflow (PoC)

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6i - Mms Protocol Handling Heap Overflow PoC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - Orange Bat advisory - Name : VLC 0.8.6i MMS Protocol Handling Class : Heap Overflow Published : 2008-08-24 Credit : g g orange-bat com - - Details - This can be exploited...