SuSE 10 Security Update : finch, libpurple, and pidgin (ZYPP Patch Number 8131)

Various remote triggerable crashes in pidgin have been fixed : - In some situations the MSN server sends text that isn't UTF-8 encoded, and Pidgin fails to verify the text's encoding. In some cases this can lead to a crash when attempting to display the text . CVE-2012-1178 - Incoming messages wi...

MySQL 5.5 < 5.5.24 Security Bypass Vulnerability

The version of MySQL 5.5 installed on the remote host is earlier than 5.5.24 and is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Several errors exist related to 'GIS Extension', 'Server', 'InnoDB' and 'Server Optimizer' components that can allow denial of service attacks...

MySQL 5.1 < 5.1.63 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of MySQL 5.1 installed on the remote host is earlier than 5.1.63 and is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Several errors exist related to 'GIS Extension' and 'Server Optimizer' components that can allow denial of service attacks. CVE-2012-0540, CVE-2012-1689,...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: bind97 security update

Updated bind97 packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

Mozilla Thunderbird 10.0.x < 10.0.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of Thunderbird 10.0.x is potentially affected by the following security issues : - An error exists in the ASN.1 decoder when handling zero length items that can lead to application crashes. CVE-2012-0441 - Multiple memory corruption errors exist. CVE-2012-1937, CVE-2012-1939...

nut -- upsd can be remotely crashed

Networkupstools project reports: NUT server upsd, from versions 2.4.0 to 2.6.3, are exposed to crashes when receiving random data from the network. This issue is related to the way NUT parses characters, especially from the network. Non printable characters were missed from strings operation such...

Apple iOS 5.1.1 Safari Browser - 'JS match()' / 'search()' Crash (PoC)

!/usr/bin/env ruby - Title iOS \n\ Crash PoC\n\ \n\ var s = "poc";\n\ s.match"chrbufferlen";\n\ \n\ "; def help puts "iOS = v5.1.1 Safari Browser JS match, search Crash PoC" puts "$0 -p bindport -h bindaddress --verbose" end Parsing options opts = optparser = OptionParser.new do |op| op.on"-h",...

Google Chrome < 19.0.1084.52 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 117409 High CVE-2011-3103: Crashes in v8 garbage collection. Credit to the Chromium development community Brett Wilson. 118018 Medium CVE-2011-3104: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Inferno. 120912 High CVE-2011-3105: Use-after-free...

Wireshark 1.6.x < 1.6.8 Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

The installed version of Wireshark is 1.6.x before 1.6.8. This version is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Input validation errors exist in the dissectors for ANSI MAP, ASF, BACapp, Bluetooth HCI, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.3, LTP, and R3 that can allow specially crafted packets to cause...

Wireshark 1.4.x < 1.4.13 Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

The installed version of Wireshark is 1.4.x before 1.4.13. This version is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Input validation errors exist in the dissectors for ANSI MAP, ASF, BACapp, Bluetooth HCI, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.3, LTP, and R3 that can allow specially crafted packets to cause...

Google Chrome < 19.0.1084.46 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Google Chrome < 19.0.1084.46 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Staggering Increase in Android Malware Variants, Trojan Apps

The number of malicious programs that target Google’s Android mobile platform is growing at an alarming rate, according to data from anti-malware company F-Secure. In the first quarter of 2012, F-Secure identified 3063 new malicious Android application packages APKs and 37 new families of...

Fedora 16 : openconnect-3.18-1.fc16 (2012-6758)

This update fixes a potential buffer overrun when handling the greeting banner from the server. This update fixes a potential crash when processing libproxy results, and introduces some performance improvement Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block direct...

nVIR

1987 Also hitting Macs in the mid ’80s was nVIR, a virus that initially began to spread via floppy disk that eventually had its source code made widely available. The virus caused application crashes, printing errors on laser printers, slow system response time and even system crashes, according ...

Multiple security flaws fixed in FreeType v2.4.9 — Mozilla

Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a series of memory safety bugs in the FreeType library, some of which could cause memory corruption and exploitable crashes with certain fonts and font parsing. Firefox Mobile has been upgraded to FreeType...

Opera Browser Multiple Vulnerabilities-02 (Jul 2011) - Mac OS X

Opera browser is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 ifdescription...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1422-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1422-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN14221.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1422-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1422-1)

Sasha Levin discovered a flaw in the permission checking for device assignments requested via the kvm ioctl in the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system causing a denial of service. CVE-2011-4347 Stephan Barwolf discovered a flaw in the KVM kernel-based virtual machin...