Debian DLA-221-1 : tiff security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the LibTIFF library and utilities for the Tag Image File Format. These could lead to a denial of service, information disclosure or privilege escalation. CVE-2014-8128 William Robinet discovered that out-of-bounds writes are triggered in several of...

Fedora 20 : t1utils-1.39-1.fc20 (2015-7581)

t1utils Version 1.39 2015-02-26 ================================= - t1disasm: Security fixes for buffer overrun reported by Jakub Wilk and Niels Thykier. t1utils Version 1.38 2013-09-29 ================================= - t1disasm: Fix an infinite loop on some fonts reported by Niels Thykier. Not...

Oracle Linux 7 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2015-0999)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0999 advisory. 1.5.3-86.el71.2 - kvm-fdc-force-the-fifo-access-to-be-in-bounds-of-the-all.patch bz1219269 - Resolves: bz1219269 EMBARGOED CVE-2015-3456 qemu-kvm: qemu: floppy...

Oracle Linux 5 : xen (ELSA-2015-1002)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1002 advisory. 3.0.3-146.el5 - xen-fdc-force-the-fifo-access-to-be-in-bounds-of-the-all.patch - xen-FDC-Fix-buffer-overflow-Herv-Poussineau.patch - Resolves: bz1219333 xen:...

Oracle Linux 7 : kexec-tools (ELSA-2015-0986)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0986 advisory. 2.0.7-19.0.1.el71.2 - kdumpctl: exclude defaulthugepagesz setting from kdump kernel cmdline Sriharsha Yadagudde Orabug: 19134999 - kdumpctl: verify if kernel...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-2608-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2608-1 advisory. Jason Geffner discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtual floppy driver. This issue is known as VENOM. A malicious guest could use this issue to...

Fedora 22 : kernel-4.0.2-300.fc22 (2015-7784)

The 4.0.2 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. 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...

Fedora 22 : ca-certificates-2015.2.4-1.0.fc22 (2015-7918)

This is an update to the set of CA certificates released with NSS version 3.18.1 However, the package modifies the CA list to keep several legacy CAs still trusted for compatibility reasons. Please refer to the project URL for details. If you prefer to use the unchanged list provided by Mozilla,...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerability (USN-2597-2)

USN-2597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, however an unrelated regression in the auditing of some path names was introduced. Due to the regression the system could crash under certain conditions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. A race condition betwe...

Fedora 20 : testdisk-7.0-2.fc20 (2015-6933)

TestDisk 7.0 fixes several stack overflows. The new photorec is faster. qphotorec is a qt4 version of PhotoRec. Full release notes: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk7.0Release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security...

Fedora 21 : perl-XML-LibXML-2.0119-1.fc21 (2015-7115)

Security fix for 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. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Fedora 20 : springframework-3.1.4-3.fc20 (2015-6862)

Security fix for CVE-2014-0225 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. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Unix / Linux - Local Users Information : Passwords Never Expire

Using the supplied credentials, Nessus was able to list local users that are enabled and whose passwords never expire. TRUSTED...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-2598-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2598-1 advisory. A race condition between chown and execve was discovered in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could exploit this race by using chown on a setuid-user-binary to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : ClamAV vulnerabilities (USN-2594-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2594-1 advisory. It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled certain malformed files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerability (USN-2599-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2599-1 advisory. A race condition between chown and execve was discovered in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could exploit this race by using chown on a setuid-user-binary to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : XML::LibXML vulnerability (USN-2592-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2592-1 advisory. Tilmann Haak discovered that XML::LibXML incorrectly handled the expandentities parameter in certain situations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue t...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Dnsmasq vulnerability (USN-2593-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2593-1 advisory. Nick Sampanis discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly handled certain malformed DNS requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Dnsmasq to crash,...

Fedora 21 : curl-7.37.0-14.fc21 (2015-6728)

require credentials to match for NTLM re-use CVE-2015-3143 - fix invalid write with a zero-length host name in URL CVE-2015-3144 - fix invalid write in cookie path sanitization code CVE-2015-3145 - close Negotiate connections when done CVE-2015-3148 Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Fedora 20 : qt3-3.3.8b-63.fc20 (2015-6573)

This update fixes CVE-2015-1860, a buffer overflow when loading some specific invalid GIF image files, which could be exploited for denial of service application crash and possibly even arbitrary code execution attacks. The security patch is backported from Qt 4. Please note that Qt 3 is NOT...