Updated grub2 packages fix security vulnerability

A flaw was found in the way the grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system CVE-2015-8370...

Grub2 Integer Overflow Vulnerability

GNU GRUB is a set of bootloaders for the GNU Project developed by the GNU Project.Grub2 is an enhanced version of it. A security vulnerability exists in the handling of backspace characters in the 'grubusernameget' function in the grub2 grub-core/normal/auth.c file and the 'grubpasswordget '...

CentOS 7 : grub2 (CESA-2015:2623)

Updated grub2 packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8370

Multiple integer underflows in Grub2 1.98 through 2.02 allow physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service disk corruption via backspace characters in the 1 grubusernameget function in grub-core/normal/auth.c or the 2...

Integer overflow

Multiple integer underflows in Grub2 1.98 through 2.02 allow physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service disk corruption via backspace characters in the 1 grubusernameget function in grub-core/normal/auth.c or the 2...

grub2 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:2653 Updated grub2 packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

USN-2836-1 grub2 vulnerability

Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll discovered that GRUB incorrectly handled the backspace key when configured to use authentication. A local attacker could use this issue to bypass GRUB password protection...

grub2: buffer overflow when checking password entered during bootup

A flaw was found in the way grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8370

Multiple integer underflows in Grub2 1.98 through 2.02 allow physically proximate attackers to bypass authentication, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service disk corruption via backspace characters in the 1 grubusernameget function in grub-core/normal/auth.c or the 2...

PT-2023-28417 · W3M +5 · W3M +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: W3M affected versions not specified Description: An out-of-bounds write issue has been discovered in the backspace handling of the checkType function in etc.c within the W3M application. This issue is triggered by supplying a specially crafte...

Microsoft Windows NT 3/4 CSRSS Memory Access Violation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3478/info CSRSS.EXE is the Windows NT Client Server Run-time Subsystem. It is responsible for console windows and the creation and deletion of threads. The Windows NT kernel is dependant on this service and will halt if t...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4567

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks via a \b backspace character in CSS...

CVE-2013-4567

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks via a \b backspace character in CSS...

CVE-2013-4567

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks via a \b backspace character in CSS...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4567

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Sanitizer::checkCss in MediaWiki before 1.19.9, 1.20.x before 1.20.8, and 1.21.x before 1.21.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks via a \b backspace character in CSS...

backspace_between_dots

This evasion plugin inserts an A and a backspace control character between dots which cancel each other when they are processed and some filters that match ../ are bypassed. Example: Input: ../../etc/passwd Output: .%41%08./.%41%08./etc/passwd Plugin type Evasion Options This plugin doesnt have a...

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities from character encoding — Mozilla

WebKit developer Alexey Proskuryakov reported that the Mozilla HTML parser treated the backspace character as whitespace contrary to the HTML specification and different from other browsers. This difference might lead to Cross-site Scripting XSS risks on sites which filtered input in accordance...

CVE-2008-1246

The CVE-2008-1246 entry concerns Cisco PIX/ASA Finesse Operating System versions 7.1 and 7.2. Affected component: enable prompt handling logic that allows local users to escalate privileges by typing characters at the enable prompt, deleting them with Backspace, and then holding Backspace for one...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including 1 a backspace character that is treated as...

CVE-2008-0416

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including 1 a backspace character that is treated as...