Debian DSA-3214-1 : mailman - security update

A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in Mailman, the mailing list manager. Installations using a transport script such as postfix-to-mailman.py to interface with their MTA instead of static aliases were vulnerable to a path traversal attack. To successfully exploit this, an attacker need...

Debian DLA-186-1 : mailman security update

A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in Mailman, the mailing list manager. Installations using a transport script such as postfix-to-mailman.py to interface with their MTA instead of static aliases were vulnerable to a path traversal attack. To successfully exploit this, an attacker need...

[SECURITY] [DLA 186-1] mailman security update

Package : mailman Version : 1:2.1.13-6 CVE ID : CVE-2015-2775 Debian Bug : 781626 A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in Mailman, the mailing list manager. Installations using a transport script such as postfix-to-mailman.py to interface with their MTA instead of static aliases were...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2304

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio in libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a full pathname in an archive...

Shell-Redirection-Race-Condition

This could result in a symbolic link attack that could be used to corrupt any file that the owner of the redirecting shell has access to write to. This issue affects those systems running vulnerable versions of bash, tcsh, cash, ksh and sh. ksh is reportedly not vulnerable for IBM AIX systems...

Apple Patches Thunderstrike Bug in OSX, Fixes More Than 30 Flaws in iOS

Apple has released major security updates for both OS X and iOS that includes patches for a number of bugs that could lead to arbitrary code execution. The release of iOS 8.1.3 fixes a vulnerability that allowed an attacker to bypass the sandbox restrictions in Safari and the OS X update fixes a...

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.1.5 - Write Access Violation

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.1.5 - Write Access Violation Title : VLC Player 2.1.5 Write Access Violation Vulnerability Discoverer: Veysel HATAS @muh4f1z Web page : www.binarysniper.net Vendor : VideoLAN VLC Project Test: Windows XP SP3 Status: Fixed Severity : High CVE ID : CVE-2014-9598 NIST:...

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.1.5 - Write Access Violation

Title : VLC Player 2.1.5 Write Access Violation Vulnerability Discoverer: Veysel HATAS @muh4f1z Web page : www.binarysniper.net Vendor : VideoLAN VLC Project Test: Windows XP SP3 Status: Fixed Severity : High CVE ID : CVE-2014-9598 NIST:...

USN-2482-1: elfutils vulnerability

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that libelf1 incorrectly handled certain filesystem paths while extracting ar archives. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a directory traversal attack on the root directory if the process extracting the ar archive has write access to the root directory...

USN-2482-1 elfutils vulnerability

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that libelf1 incorrectly handled certain filesystem paths while extracting ar archives. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a directory traversal attack on the root directory if the process extracting the ar archive has write access to the root directory...

CVE-2014-9598

The pictureRelease function in misc/picture.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service write access violation via a crafted M2V file...

Memory Corruption Bugs Found in VLC Media Player

There are two memory corruption vulnerabilities in some versions of the VLC open-source media player that can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. Neither one of the vulnerabilities has been fixed by VideoLAN, the organization that maintains VLC. Security researcher...

websvn -- information disclosure

Thijs Kinkhorst reports: James Clawson reported: "Arbitrary files with a known path can be accessed in websvn by committing a symlink to a repository and then downloading the file using the download link. An attacker must have write access to the repo, and the download option must have been enabl...

USN-2470-1 git vulnerability

Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain filesystem paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code if the Git tree is stored in an HFS+ or NTFS filesystem. The remote attacker would need write access to a Git repository that...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Git vulnerability (USN-2470-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2470-1 advisory. Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain filesystem paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute...

Intel Chipsets Local Competition Condition Security Bypass Vulnerability

Intel is the world's largest manufacturer of personal computer parts and CPUs. A competitive condition vulnerability exists in Intel chipsets that rely solely on the BIOSCNTL.BIOSWE and BIOSCNTL.BLE bits as the BIOS write lockout mechanism, allowing a local attacker to exploit the vulnerability t...

[CVE-2014-7301] SGI Tempo System Database Password Exposure

SGI Tempo System Database Password Exposure Software: SGI Tempo SGI ICE-X Supercomputers Affected Versions: Unknown CVE Reference: CVE-2014-7301 Author: John Fitzpatrick, MWR Labs Severity: Medium Risk Vendor: Silicon Graphics International Corp SGI Vendor Response: Uncooperative Description It i...

SGI Tempo Database Password Disclosure

SGI Tempo System Database Password Exposure Software: SGI Tempo SGI ICE-X Supercomputers Affected Versions: Unknown CVE Reference: CVE-2014-7301 Author: John Fitzpatrick, MWR Labs Severity: Medium Risk Vendor: Silicon Graphics International Corp SGI Vendor Response: Uncooperative Description It i...

XAMPP < 1.8.2 Local Write Access Vulnerability (Oct 2014) - Active Check

XAMPP is prone to an arbitrary file download vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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:apachefriends:xampp";...

CVE-2014-1875

The Capture::Tiny module before 0.24 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file...