Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox regression (USN-3477-4)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3477-4 advisory. USN-3477-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced a crash reporting issue where background tab crash reports were sent to Mozilla...

USN-3477-4: Firefox regression

USN-3477-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced a crash reporting issue where background tab crash reports were sent to Mozilla without user opt-in. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : LibTIFF vulnerability (K11220361)

The NeXTDecode function in tifnext.c in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service uninitialized memory access via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by libtiff5.tif. CVE-2015-1547 Impact This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service DoS attack.BIG-...

Code injection

The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local attacker able to use the AFALG-based skcipher interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPISKCIPHER to cause a denial of service uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash or have...

CVE-2017-17805

The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local attacker able to use the AFALG-based skcipher interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPISKCIPHER to cause a denial of service uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash or have...

CVE-2017-17805

The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local attacker able to use the AFALG-based skcipher interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPISKCIPHER to cause a denial of service uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash or have...

CVE-2017-17805

The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local attacker able to use the AFALG-based skcipher interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPISKCIPHER to cause a denial of service uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash or have...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15897

Node.js had a bug in versions 8.X and 9.X which caused buffers to not be initialized when the encoding for the fill value did not match the encoding specified. For example, 'Buffer.alloc0x100, "This is not correctly encoded", "hex";' The buffer implementation was updated such that the buffer will...

chromium-browser: use of uninitialized value in skia

Use of uninitialized memory in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2017:3315 centos7

Check the version of kernel 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 ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882810";...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2017:3315)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Linux: mincore() discloses uninitialized kernel heap pages(CVE-2017-16994)

I found the following bug with an AFL-based fuzzer: When walkpagerange is used on a VMHUGETLB VMA, callbacks from the mmwalk structure are only invoked for present pages. However, domincore assumes that it will always get callbacks for all pages in the range passed to walkpagerange, and when this...

RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2017:3295)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3295 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Securi...

USN-3477-3 firefox regressions

USN-3477-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced various minor regressions. This update fixes the problems. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafte...

kernel: information leak due to a data race in ALSA timer

It was found that the timer functionality in the Linux kernel ALSA subsystem is prone to a race condition between read and ioctl system call handlers, resulting in an uninitialized memory disclosure to user space. A local user could use this flaw to read information belonging to other users...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

kernel: information leak due to a data race in ALSA timer

It was found that the timer functionality in the Linux kernel ALSA subsystem is prone to a race condition between read and ioctl system call handlers, resulting in an uninitialized memory disclosure to user space. A local user could use this flaw to read information belonging to other users...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel: information leak due to a data race in ALSA timer

It was found that the timer functionality in the Linux kernel ALSA subsystem is prone to a race condition between read and ioctl system call handlers, resulting in an uninitialized memory disclosure to user space. A local user could use this flaw to read information belonging to other users...