Debian Security Advisory DSA 3778-1 (ruby-archive-tar-minitar - security update)

Michal Marek discovered that ruby-archive-tar-minitar, a Ruby library that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar archive files, is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. dot do...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3778-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3776-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Debian DSA-3780-1 : ntfs-3g - security update

Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Ubuntu Update Includes OpenSSL Fixes

Ubuntu users are being urged to update their operating systems to address a handful of recently patched OpenSSL vulnerabilities which affect Ubuntu and its derivatives. Developers with Canonical, the company that oversees the Linux distribution, announced the updates on Tuesday, encouraging users...

Debian DSA-3777-1 : libgd2 - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation, which may result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed file is processed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-3778-1 : ruby-archive-tar-minitar - security update

Michal Marek discovered that ruby-archive-tar-minitar, a Ruby library that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar archive files, is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. dot do...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2017:0346-1)

This update for java-180-openjdk fixes the following issues: Oracle Critical Patch Update of January 2017 bsc1020905 Upgrade to version jdk8u121 icedtea 3.3.0 : - S8138725: Add options for Javadoc generation - S8140353: Improve signature checking - S8151934, CVE-2017-3231: Resolve class resolutio...

SUSE-SU-2017:0346-1 Security update for java-1_8_0-openjdk

This update for java-180-openjdk fixes the following issues: Oracle Critical Patch Update of January 2017 bsc1020905 Upgrade to version jdk8u121 icedtea 3.3.0: - S8138725: Add options for Javadoc generation - S8140353: Improve signature checking - S8151934, CVE-2017-3231: Resolve class resolution...

Debian DSA-3774-1 : lcms2 - security update

Ibrahim M. El-Sayed discovered an out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in the function TypeMLURead in lcms2, the Little CMS 2 color management library, which can be triggered by an image with a specially crafted ICC profile and leading to a heap memory leak or denial-of-service for applications...

Debian DSA-3775-1 : tcpdump - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump, a command-line network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugi...

OpenSSL 1.0.2 < 1.0.2k Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of OpenSSL installed on the remote host is prior to 1.0.2k. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 1.0.2k advisory. - There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL 1.0.2 before 1.0.2k and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0d...

OpenSSL 1.1.0 < 1.1.0d Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of OpenSSL installed on the remote host is prior to 1.1.0d. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 1.1.0d advisory. - There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL 1.0.2 before 1.0.2k and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0d...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3775-1 (tcpdump - security update)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump, a command-line network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3775.nasl 6607 2017-07-07 12:04:25Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3774-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3775-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Debian DSA-3772-1 : libxpm - security update

Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that the libXpm library contained two integer overflow flaws, leading to a heap out-of-bounds write, while parsing XPM extensions in a file. An attacker can provide a specially crafted XPM file that, when processed by an application using the libXpm library, would cau...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2017-791)

It was discovered that the RMI registry and DCG implementations in the RMI component of OpenJDK performed deserialization of untrusted inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of RMI registry or a Java RMI application. CVE-2017-3241 This...

Timing Attacks

OpenSSL is vulnerable to timing attacks. Certain cryptographic functions do not run in constant time, meaning that a malicious user can recover a DSA private key based on the time taken for the operations...

BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64

There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible...