kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. Payloads of NM entries are not supposed to contain NUL. When such entry is processed, only the part prior to the first NUL goes into the concatenation i.e. the directory entry name being encoded by a bunch of NM entries. The process stops when the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18281

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...

Apple macOS AppleGPUWrangler Logging Uninitialized Memory Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to disclose sensitive information on vulnerable installations of Apple macOS. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handlin...

Linux systemd Symlink Dereference Via chown_one() Exploit

Linux suffers from an issue with systemd where chownone can dereference symlinks. systemd: chownone can dereference symlinks CVE-2018-15687 I am sending this bug report to Ubuntu, even though it's an upstream bug, as requested at...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2018:1690-2)

This update for java-180-openjdk to version 8u171 fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : S8180881: Better packaging of deserialization S8182362: Update CipherOutputStream Usage S8183032: Upgrade to LittleCMS 2.9 S8189123: More consistent classloading S8189969,...

Google Android Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-01601)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the 'CollectValuesOrEntriesImpl' function of the elements.cc file in Android. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to...

Cisco IOS XR Software BGP Implementation Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco IOS XR Software is the United States Cisco Cisco company's IOS software series including IOS T, IOS S and IOS XR in a fully modular, distributed network operating system. An input validation vulnerability exists in the Border Gateway Protocol BGP feature implementation in Cisco IOS XR...

PT-2018-3640 · Wikimedia +1 · Mediawiki +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: MediaWiki versions prior to 1.35.1 Description: The issue is related to a lack of input validation mechanism in MediaWiki, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to impact data integrity. Specifically, when MediaWiki:Mainpage is set to...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.301.1 - x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix overflow in l1tfpfnlimit on 32bit Vlastimil Babka Orabug: 28505519 CVE-2018-3620 - x86/speculation/l1tf: Exempt zeroed PTEs from inversion Sean Christopherson Orabug: 28505519 CVE-2018-3620 - x86/speculation/l1tf: Protect PAE swap entries against L1TF...

Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using meta refresh and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs

A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using a meta http-equiv="refresh" on a page to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries. This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects...

Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using meta refresh and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs

A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using a meta http-equiv="refresh" on a page to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries. This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects...

CVE-2016-9040

An exploitable denial of service exists in the the Joyent SmartOS OS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFSADDENTRIES when used with a 32 bit model. An attacker can cause a buffer to be allocated and never freed. When...

PT-2018-5058 · Joyent · Smartos

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Joyent SmartOS OS version 20161110T013148Z Description: The issue is related to a denial of service in the Hyprlofs file system. It is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFSADDENTRIES when used with a 32-bit model. An...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1318

Adding method ACLs in remap.config can cause a segfault when the user makes a carefully crafted request. This affects versions Apache Traffic Server ATS 6.0.0 to 6.2.2 and 7.0.0 to 7.1.3. To resolve this issue users running 6.x should upgrade to 6.2.3 or later versions and 7.x users should upgrad...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15470

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x. The logic in oxenstored for handling writes depended on the order of evaluation of expressions making up a tuple. As indicated in section 7.7.3 "Operations on data structures" of the OCaml manual, the order of evaluation of subexpressions is not...

kernel: kvm: vmx: host GDT limit corruption

A flaw was found in Linux kernel's KVM virtualization subsystem. The VMX code does not restore the GDT.LIMIT to the previous host value, but instead sets it to 64KB. With a corrupted GDT limit a host's userspace code has an ability to place malicious entries in the GDT, particularly to the per-cp...

DependencyCheck v3.3.1 - A Software Composition Analysis Utility That Detects Publicly Disclosed Vulnerabilities In Application Dependencies

Dependency-Check is a Software Composition Analysis SCA tool that attempts to detect publicly disclosed vulnerabilities contained within a project's dependencies. It does this by determining if there is a Common Platform Enumeration CPE identifier for a given dependency. If found, it will generat...

GHSA-2XVJ-J3QH-X8C3 private_address_check contains race condition

The privateaddresscheck ruby gem before 0.5.0 is vulnerable to a time-of-check time-of-use TOCTOU race condition due to the address the socket uses not being checked. DNS entries with a TTL of 0 can trigger this case where the initial resolution is a public address but the subsequent resolution i...

Linux kernel invalid pointer dereference vulnerability

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the 'ioctlmappage' function in Linux kernel version 4.17.10 and earlier, which stems from the checkleafitem in the...

Sen. Wyden Urges Government Ban on Adobe Flash

Citing security concerns, Sen. Ron Wyden is urging the government to create a plan to transition away from Adobe Flash before the vendor stops supporting it in 2020. To that end, the Oregon Democrat delivered a formal request to the National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards...