Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2690-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2690-1 advisory. Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this fl...

Oracle Linux 7 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2015-1507)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1507 advisory. - Resolves: bz1243726 CVE-2015-3214 qemu-kvm: qemu: i8254: out-of-bounds memory access in pitioportread function rhel-7.1.z - Resolves: bz1243689...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities (USN-2686-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2686-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Apache HTTP Server incorrectly parsed chunk headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request...

Debian DLA-281-1 : expat security update

Multiple integer overflows in the XMLGetBuffer function in Expat through 2.1.0, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 and other products, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted XML data, a related...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2015:1282-1)

krb5 was updated to fix three security issues. Remote authenticated users could cause denial of service. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2014-5353: NULL pointer dereference when using a ticket policy name as password name bsc910457. - CVE-2014-5354: NULL pointer dereference when using...

Ubuntu 14.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2685-1)

A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual machine subsystem's kvmapichasevents function. A unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-4692 A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel handles invalid UDP checksums. A remote attacker...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2678-1)

A flaw was discovered in the user space memory copying for the pipe iovecs in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-1805 Daniel Borkmann reported a kernel crash in the Linux...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2682-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2682-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual machine subsystem's kvmapichasevents function. A unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : LXC vulnerabilities (USN-2675-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2675-1 advisory. Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC had a directory traversal flaw when creating lock files. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to create an arbitrar...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2015:1269-1)

MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, and mozilla-nss were updated to fix 17 security issues. For more details please check the changelogs. - CVE-2015-2724/CVE-2015-2725/CVE-2015-2726: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards bsc935979. - CVE-2015-2728: Type confusion in Indexed Database Manager bsc935979. -...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : postgresql93 (SUSE-SU-2015:1264-1)

PostgreSQL was updated to the security and bugfix release 9.3.8 including 9.3.7. Security issues fixed : - CVE-2015-3165, bsc931972: Avoid possible crash when client disconnects just before the authentication timeout expires. - CVE-2015-3166, bsc931973: Consistently check for failure of the print...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2015:1268-2)

MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, and mozilla-nss were updated to fix 17 security issues. For more details please check the changelogs. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-2724/CVE-2015-2725/CVE-2015-2726: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards bsc935979. - CVE-2015-2728: Type confusion in...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 / 7 : thunderbird (ELSA-2015-1455)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 / 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1455 advisory. 31.8.0-1.0.1 - Replaced thunderbird-redhat-default-prefs.js with thunderbird-oracle-default-prefs.js 31.8.0-1 - Update to 31.8.0 Tenable has...

Debian DLA-275-1 : ruby1.9.1 security update

It was discovered that the uri package in the Ruby standard library uses regular expressions that may result in excessive backtracking. Ruby applications that parse untrusted URIs using this library were susceptible to denial of service attacks by passing crafted URIs. For the oldoldstable...

Fedora 22 : drupal7-views_bulk_operations-3.3-1.fc22 (2015-11318)

7.x-3.3 See SA-CONTRIB-2015-131 Changes since 7.x-3.2: - Fix security vulnerability, by AdamPS. - Remove an entitylabel workaround that core no longer needs. - Issue 2427381 by axel.rutz: Rules component lacks entity type - Issue 2418751 by anrikun: Archive action fails silently - Issue 2318273 b...

SUSE SLED11 Security Update : flash-player (SUSE-SU-2015:1258-1)

flash-player was updated to fix two security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-5123: Use-after-free vulnerability in the BitmapData class in the ActionScript 3 AS3 implementation in Adobe Flash Player allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of...

Debian DLA-276-1 : inspircd security update

Adam , upstream author of inspircd found the Debian patch that fixed CVE-2012-1836 was incomplete. Furthermore, it introduced an issue, since invalid dns packets caused an infinite loop. This upload corrects these problems. As of today, no CVEs has been assigned to these Debian-specific flaws. Fo...

Fedora 22 : squashfs-tools-4.3-11.fc22 (2015-10750)

Security fix for CVE-2015-4645 / CVE-2015-4646 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fedora 21 : pcre-8.35-12.fc21 (2015-11019)

This release fixes two heap buffer overflows when compiling certain regular expressions: CVE-2015-3210 and CVE-2015-5073. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : augeas (SUSE-SU-2015:1249-1)

This update fixes an untrusted argument escaping problem CVE-2014-8119 : - new API - augescapename - which can be used to escape untrusted inputs before using them as part of path expressions - augmatch is changed to return properly escaped output Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted...