SUSE-SU-2016:1691-1 Security update for MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss

MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, mozilla-nss and mozilla-nspr were updated to fix nine security issues. MozillaFirefox was updated to version 45.2.0 ESR. mozilla-nss was updated to version 3.21.1. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-2834: Memory safety bugs in NSS MFSA 2016-6...

SUSE-SU-2016:1690-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.60 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processes MNTDETACH umount2 system called without verifying that the MNTLOCKED flag is unset, which...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-753)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.26 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower file system does not allow it. This could have lead to local privilege escalation when ecryptfs-utils wa...

[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libarchive-3.2.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes several critical bugs, including some with security implication...

Jetpack <= 4.0.3 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Jetpack 4.0.4 fixes 3 security bugs: Private feedback form entries were made available publicly via the REST API Post By Email settings could be changed The Likes module was vulnerable to XSS...

Updated vlc/mad packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in processing QuickTime IMA files. VLC does not check that the number of channels in the input stream is less than or equal to the size of the buffer, resulting in an out-of-bounds write potential for remote code execution via a malicious media file CVE-2016-5108. The vl...

CVE-2016-5108

Buffer overflow in the DecodeAdpcmImaQT function in modules/codec/adpcm.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted QuickTime IMA file...

Firefox 47 Fixes 13 Vulnerabilities, Removes Click-To-Activate Plugin Whitelist

Mozilla fixed 13 security issues, including two critical vulnerabilities that could have led to spoofing and clickjacking, among other issues, when it updated Firefox to the latest build, Firefox 47, this week. One of the issues, a buffer overflow, could have resulted in a potentially exploitable...

Mozilla Firefox ESR Security Advisories (MFSA2016-49, MFSA2016-61) - Windows

Mozilla Firefox ESR is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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:mozilla:firefoxesr";...

firefox: multiple issues

CVE-2016-2815 arbitrary code execution Mozilla developers and community members reported several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with...

Updated chromium-browser-stable/libpng packages fix security vulnerability

Chromium-browser-stable 51.0.2704.79 fixes security issues: cross-origin bypass problems in extension bindings CVE-2016-1696 and blink CVE-2016-1697, an information leak in extension bindings CVE-2016-1698, a parameter sanitization failure in devtools CVE-2016-1699, use-after-free bugs in...

KLA10822 Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions, execute arbitrary code, elevate privileges, cause denial of service, conduct XSS or obtain sensitive information. Below is a complete list of...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:47.0 / rv:45.2) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community members reported several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these...

Wireshark - erf_meta_read_tag SIGSEGV

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=803 The following SIGSEGV crash due to an invalid memory read can be observed in an ASAN build of Wireshark current git master, by feeding a malformed file to tshark "$ ./tshark -nVxr /path/to/file": --- cut --- ==28415==ERROR:...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-629)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-2847: Limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes bsc970948. - CVE-2016-3136: mctu232: add sanity checking in probe bnc970955. - CVE-2016-2188:...

CVE-2016-4558

The BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 mishandles reference counts, which allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application on 1 a system with more than 32 Gb of memory, related to the program reference...

CVE-2016-2222

The wphttpvalidateurl function in wp-includes/http.php in WordPress before 4.4.2 allows remote attackers to conduct server-side request forgery SSRF attacks via a zero value in the first octet of an IPv4 address in the u parameter to wp-admin/press-this.php...

CVE-2016-4344

Integer overflow in the xmlutf8encode function in ext/xml/xml.c in PHP before 7.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long argument to the utf8encode function, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow...

CVE-2015-8876

Zend/zendexceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not validate certain Exception objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash or trigger unintended method execution via crafted...

Updated imagemagick/ruby-rmagic packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that ImageMagick did not properly sanitize certain input before passing it to the delegate functionality. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted image that, when processed by an application using ImageMagick or an unsuspecting user using the ImageMagick utilities,...