libarchive: NULL pointer dereference in archive_write.c

A flaw was found in libarchive. A missing check of the return value of the calloc function can cause a NULL pointer dereference in an out-of-memory condition or when a memory allocation limit is reached, resulting in the program linked with libarchive to crash...

Tinysvcmdns Multi-label DNS Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the tinysvcmdns library version 2016-07-18. A specially crafted packet can make the library overwrite an arbitrary amount of data on the heap with attacker controlled values. An attacker needs send a dns packet to trigger this...

libxml2: Denial of service

Background libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. Description libxml2 returns the empty string when the allocation limit is encountered while constructing the attribute value string. Impact A remote attacker may be able to cause Denial of Service via a specially...