Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2014-341)

It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that...

USN-2379-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices. CVE-2014-3181 Ben Hawkes reported...

CVE-2012-6110

bcron-exec in bcron before 0.10 does not close file descriptors associated with temporary files when running a cron job, which allows local users to modify job files and send spam messages by accessing an open file descriptor...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6110

bcron-exec in bcron before 0.10 does not close file descriptors associated with temporary files when running a cron job, which allows local users to modify job files and send spam messages by accessing an open file descriptor...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6110

bcron-exec in bcron before 0.10 does not close file descriptors associated with temporary files when running a cron job, which allows local users to modify job files and send spam messages by accessing an open file descriptor...

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bcron-exec in bcron before 0.10 does not close file descriptors associated with temporary files when running a cron job, which allows local users to modify job files and send spam messages by accessing an open file descriptor...

CVE-2012-6110

bcron-exec in bcron before 0.10 does not close file descriptors associated with temporary files when running a cron job, which allows local users to modify job files and send spam messages by accessing an open file descriptor...

CVE-2012-6110

bcron-exec in bcron before 0.10 does not close file descriptors associated with temporary files when running a cron job, which allows local users to modify job files and send spam messages by accessing an open file descriptor...

USN-2352-1: DBus vulnerabilities

Simon McVittie discovered that DBus incorrectly handled the file descriptors message limit. A local attacker could use this issue to cause DBus to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

FreeBSD : dbus -- multiple vulnerabilities (38242d51-3e58-11e4-ac2f-bcaec565249c)

Simon McVittie reports : Do not accept an extra fd in the padding of a cmsg message, which could lead to a 4-byte heap buffer overrun CVE-2014-3635. Reduce default for maximum Unix file descriptors passed per message from 1024 to 16, preventing a uid with the default maximum number of connections...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3636

D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to 1 cause a denial of service prevention of new connections and connection drop by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors or 2 cause a denial of service disconnect via multiple messages that combine to have...

CVE-2014-3636

D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to 1 cause a denial of service prevention of new connections and connection drop by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors or 2 cause a denial of service disconnect via multiple messages that combine to have...

dbus -- multiple vulnerabilities

Simon McVittie reports: Do not accept an extra fd in the padding of a cmsg message, which could lead to a 4-byte heap buffer overrun CVE-2014-3635. Reduce default for maximum Unix file descriptors passed per message from 1024 to 16, preventing a uid with the default maximum number of connections...

Tomcat/JBossWeb: XML parser hijack by malicious web application

It was found that, in certain circumstances, it was possible for a malicious web application to replace the XML parsers used by JBoss Web / Apache Tomcat to process XSLTs for the default servlet, JSP documents, tag library descriptors TLDs, and tag plug-in configuration files. The injected XML...

e2fsprogs -- buffer overflow if s_first_meta_bg too big

Theodore Ts'o reports: If sfirstmetabg is greater than the of number block group descriptor blocks, then reading or writing the block group descriptors will end up overruning the memory buffer allocated for the descriptors. The finding is credited to a vulnerability report from Jose Duart of Goog...

RHEL 5 : Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2.2 update (Moderate) (RHSA-2012:1277)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1277 advisory. - qpid-cpp: not closing incomplete connections exhausts file descriptors, leading to DoS CVE-2012-2145 - qpid-cpp-server-cluster: unauthoriz...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : DBus vulnerabilities (USN-2275-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2275-1 advisory. Alban Crequy discovered that dbus-daemon incorrectly sent AccessDenied errors to the service instead of the client when enforcing permissions. A local us...

dbus -- multiple vulnerabilities

Simon McVittie reports: Alban Crequy at Collabora Ltd. discovered a bug in dbus-daemon's support for file descriptor passing. A malicious process could force system services or user applications to be disconnected from the D-Bus system bus by sending them a message containing a file descriptor,...

WMNet2 1.0 6 Kernel Memory File Descriptor Leakage Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5719/info It has been reported that wmnet2 is vulnerable to a leakage of open file descriptors that may result in unauthorized disclosure of kernel memory. It is allegedly possible for attackers to inherit the open file...

WMMon 1.0 b2 Memory Character File Open File Descriptor Read Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5718/info It has been reported that wmmon is vulnerable to a leakage of open file descriptors that may result in unauthorized disclosure of kernel memory. It is allegedly possible for attackers to inherit the open file...