RHEL 6 : elfutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - elfutils: eu-size cannot handle recursive ar files CVE-2018-18520 - elfutils: heap-based buffer over-read...

zlib: A flaw found in zlib when compressing (not decompressing) certain inputs

An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in zlib, which allows memory corruption when deflating ex: when compressing if the input has many distant matches. For some rare inputs with a large number of distant matches crafted payloads, the buffer into which the compressed or deflated data is written...

SUSE CVE-2006-5823

The zlibinflate function in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service crash via a malformed filesystem that uses zlib compression that triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated using cramfs...

zlib: A flaw found in zlib when compressing (not decompressing) certain inputs

An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in zlib, which allows memory corruption when deflating ex: when compressing if the input has many distant matches. For some rare inputs with a large number of distant matches crafted payloads, the buffer into which the compressed or deflated data is written...

rsync security update

An update is available for rsync. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The rsync utility enables the users to copy and synchronize files locally or...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- zlib compression out-of-bounds write (38f2e3a0-b61e-11ec-9ebc-1c697aa5a594)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 38f2e3a0-b61e-11ec-9ebc-1c697aa5a594 advisory. - zlib before 1.2.12 allows memory corruption when deflating i.e., when compressing if the input has ma...

Security advisory: Recently reported zlib compression issue impacts Qt

zlib has recently reported that it has a security issue when deflating which could cause memory corruption if the input has many distant matches. This is reported in a bit more detail here: and has been assigned the CVE id CVE-2018-25032. This has been fixed in an update to zlib 1.2.12 This affec...

SUSE-RU-2022:0861-1 Security update for openssl-1_1

This update for openssl-11 fixes the following issues: openssl-11: - CVE-2022-0778: Infinite loop in BNmodsqrt reachable when parsing certificates bsc1196877. - Fix PAC pointer authentication in ARM bsc1195856 - Pull libopenssl-11 when updating openssl-11 with the same version bsc1195792 - FIPS:...

SUSE-SU-2022:0860-1 Security update for openssl-1_1

This update for openssl-11 fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2022-0778: Infinite loop in BNmodsqrt reachable when parsing certificates bsc1196877. Non-security issues fixed: - Fix PAC pointer authentication in ARM. bsc1195856 - Pull libopenssl-11 when updating openssl-11 wit...

SUSE-SU-2019:2668-1 Security update for sudo

This update for sudo provides the following fix: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2019-14287: Fixed an issue where a user with sudo privileges that allowed them to run commands with an arbitrary uid, could run commands as root, despite being forbidden to do so in sudoers bsc1153674. Other issues fixed...

50m-ctf: LFI on Accounting server and RCE on FliteThermostat admin server

Summary: An attacker is able to download local files on the Accounting server due leveraging improper input sanitization in the Invoice PDF generator. In the same fashion an attacker is also able to issue server-side requests on the Accounting server through user-controlled CSS, possibly leading ...

Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Framework component. (CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9843)

Summary IBM Tivoli Monitoring uses zlib compression library in both the General services library and the File Transfer component. This bulletin address several reported vulnerabilities in the zlib compression library. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-9840 DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a...

CVE-2017-7609

elfcompress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted ELF file...

Automated Modular Cryptanalysis Tool: FeatherDuster

Automated Modular Cryptanalysis Tool FeatherDuster is a tool written by Daniel “unicornfurnace” Crowley of NCC Group for breaking crypto which tries to make the process of identifying and exploiting weak cryptosystems as easy as possible. Cryptanalib is the moving parts behind FeatherDuster, and...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7609

elfcompress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted ELF file...

CVE-2017-7609

elfcompress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted ELF file...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7609

elfcompress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted ELF file...

Wireshark 1.12.x < 1.12.9 Multiple DoS

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 1.12.x prior to 1.12.9. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components : - 802.11 dissector - AllJoyn dissector - ANSI A dissector - Ascend file parser - BER dissector - DCOM...

Wireshark 2.0.0 Multiple DoS

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is 2.0.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the following components : - 802.11 dissector - ANSI A dissector - Ascend file parser - BER dissector - Bluetooth Attribute dissector - DIAMETER...

CVE-2015-8721

Buffer overflow in the tvbuncompress function in epan/tvbuffzlib.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted packet with zlib compression...