libdwarf 'ELF' File Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

libdwarf is a set of tools for reading and writing DWARF2 debugging information. A vulnerability in libdwarf 'ELF' file handling allows remote attackers to commit a denial of service by submitting a special file...

DLA-388-1 dwarfutils - security update

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Scientific Linux Security Update : file on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the way file parsed certain Composite Document Format CDF files. A remote attacker could use either of these flaws to crash file, or an application using file, via a specially crafted CDF file. CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: pax-utils-1.1.4-1.fc22

pax-utils is a small set of various PaX aware and related utilities for ELF binaries. It was written for ELF Q/A on Gentoo systems but can be used on any distro...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: pax-utils-1.1.4-1.fc23

pax-utils is a small set of various PaX aware and related utilities for ELF binaries. It was written for ELF Q/A on Gentoo systems but can be used on any distro...

Man-db 2.6.7.1 - Local Privilege Escalation

Man-db 2.6.7.1 - Local Privilege Escalation / EDB Note: man:man - man:root http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/ man:root - root:root http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ CreateSetgidBinary.c...

CentOS 7 : file (CESA-2015:2155)

Updated file packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings,...

Man-db 2.6.7.1 - Local Privilege Escalation

/ EDB Note: man:man - man:root http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/ man:root - root:root http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ CreateSetgidBinary.c...

file, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:2155 Updated file packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-2155)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Oracle Linux 7 : file (ELSA-2015-2155)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2155 advisory. - fix CVE-2014-8116 - bump the acceptable ELF program headers count to 2048 - fix CVE-2014-0207 - cdfreadshortsector insufficient boundary check - fix...

binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.23.52.0.1-55 - Add missing delta to patch that fixes parsing corrupted archives. 1162666 2.23.52.0.1-54 - Import patch for PR 18270: Create AArch64 GOT entries for local symbols. 1238783 2.23.52.0.1-51 - Fix incorrectly generated binaries and DSOs on PPC platforms. 1247126 2.23.52.0.1-50 - Fix...

file: denial of service issue (resource consumption)

A flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed Executable and Linkable Format ELF files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application using fileinfo to consume an excessive amount of system resources...

file: out-of-bounds read in elf note headers

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed Executable and Linkable Format ELF files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted ELF file...

file: malformed elf file causes access to uninitialized memory

A flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed Executable and Linkable Format ELF files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application using fileinfo to crash or disclose certain portions of server memory...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: file security and bug fix update

Updated file packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings,...

binutils: lack of range checking leading to controlled write in _bfd_elf_setup_sections()

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way various binutils utilities processed certain files. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, it could cause the utility used to process that file to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...

binutils: heap overflow in objdump when parsing a crafted ELF/PE binary file (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8485)

It was found that the fix for the CVE-2014-8485 issue was incomplete: a heap-based buffer overflow in the objdump utility could cause it to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running objdump when processing specially crafted files...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201412-48

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201412-48 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen 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-or-later ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201503-08

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201503-08 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen 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-or-later ifdescription...