Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Git vulnerability (USN-3243-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3243-1 advisory. It was discovered that Git incorrectly sanitized branch names in the PS1 variable when configured to display the repository status in the shell prompt. If a user...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : audiofile vulnerabilities (USN-3241-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3241-1 advisory. Agostino Sarubbo discovered that audiofile incorrectly handled certain malformed audio files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing ...

Tenable Log Correlation Engine (LCE) < 4.8.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Tenable Log Correlation Engine LCE installed on the remote host is prior to 4.8.1. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities exist in the Handlebars library in the lib/handlebars/utils.js script due to a failur...

HPE LoadRunner < 12.53 Patch 4 libxdrutil.dll mxdr_string() RCE

The version of HP LoadRunner installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 12.53 patch 4. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to a heap-based buffer overflow condition in the mxdrstring function in libxdrutil.dll. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GNU C Library Regression (USN-3239-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3239-2 advisory. USN-3239-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2015-5180 introduced an internal ABI change within the resolver...

Fedora 25 : rpm-ostree (2017-003fa5648c)

https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/releases/tag/v2017.3 This release includes a fix for CVE-2017-2623. There are a few new features, such as systemctl reload rpm-ostreed now being supported. Some bugfixes such as memory leak fixes. Besides that, there's a lot of internal refactoring goin...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability (USN-3240-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3240-1 advisory. It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers contained a flaw in the kernel mode layer. A local attacker could use this issue to cause a denial ...

Fedora 25 : knot-resolver (2017-df53d02da7)

new upstream release + security: Knot Resolver 1.2.0 and higher could return AD flag for insecure answer if the daemon received answer with invalid RRSIG several times in a row. + fix: layer/iterate: some improvements in cname chain unrolling + fix: layer/validate: fix duplicate records in...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0771-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-5242 fixes one issue. The following security bug was fixed : - CVE-2017-5970: The ipv4pktinfoprepare function in net/ipv4/ipsockglue.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service system crash via 1 an application that made crafted...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability (USN-3173-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3173-2 advisory. USN-3173-1 fixed a vulnerability in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 and nvidia-graphics-drivers-340. This update provides the corresponding update for...

Oracle Linux 6 : openjpeg (ELSA-2017-0559)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-0559 advisory. - Revert previous changes in patch for CVE-2016-5159 - Fix double free in patch for CVE-2016-5139 - Add two more allocation checks to patch for...

Fedora 24 : tcpreplay (2017-936a79ee30)

Patch CVE-2017-6429. Tcpcapinfo utility of Tcpreplay has a buffer overflow vulnerability associated with parsing a crafted pcap file. This occurs in the src/tcpcapinfo.c file when capture has a packet that is too large to handle. References : http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Mar/22 Upstream bug :...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxml2 vulnerabilities (USN-3235-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3235-1 advisory. It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled format strings. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafte...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3234-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3234-2 advisory. USN-3234-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Pidgin vulnerability (USN-3231-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3231-1 advisory. Joseph Bisch discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain xml messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a deni...

Debian DLA-854-1 : icoutils security update

Icoutils is a set of programs that deal with MS Windows icons and cursors. Resources such as icons and cursors can be extracted from MS Windows executable and library files with wrestool. Three vulnerabilities has been found in these tools. CVE-2017-6009 A buffer overflow was observed in wrestool...

Tenable Nessus < 6.10.2 Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability

Tenable Nessus is prone to an arbitrary file upload vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:tenable:nessus...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libevent vulnerabilities (USN-3228-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3228-1 advisory. Guido Vranken discovered that libevent incorrectly handled memory when processing certain data. A remote attacker could possibly use this iss...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : icoutils vulnerabilities (USN-3226-1)

Jerzy Kramarz discovered that icoutils incorrectly handled memory when processing certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause icoutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : python-imaging vulnerabilities (USN-3229-1)

It was discovered that the Python Imaging Library incorrectly handled certain compressed text chunks in PNG images. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the Python Imaging Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2014-9601 Cris Neckar discovered that the Python...