PT-2017-10699

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby versions prior to 2.4.2 Ruby versions prior to 2.3.5 Ruby versions prior to 2.2.8 Description The issue is related to malicious format strings containing a precious specifier with a huge minus value, which can lead to a buffer overrun. Th...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxml2 vulnerabilities (USN-3235-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3235-1 advisory. It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled format strings. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafte...

USN-3235-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled format strings. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

Fedora 24 : gnome-boxes (2017-42df4eeb59)

gnome-boxes 3.20.4 release, fixing a possible security issue with storing the express installation password in clear text. - Store the user password in the keyring during an express installation. - Fix typo in debug string. - Fix printf format strings. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Fedora 25 : gnome-boxes (2017-fc0140d4c5)

gnome-boxes 3.22.4 release, fixing a possible security issue with storing the express installation password in clear text. - Store the user password in the keyring during an express installation. - Fix typo in debug string in vm-configurator. - Fix printf format strings in the selectiontoolbar...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Irssi vulnerabilities (USN-3184-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3184-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Irssi buf.pl script set incorrect permissions. A local attacker could use this issue to retrieve another user's...

USN-3184-1 irssi vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Irssi buf.pl script set incorrect permissions. A local attacker could use this issue to retrieve another user's window contents. CVE-2016-7553 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled comparing nicks. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Irssi t...

USN-3184-1: Irssi vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Irssi buf.pl script set incorrect permissions. A local attacker could use this issue to retrieve another user's window contents. CVE-2016-7553 Joseph Bisch discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled comparing nicks. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Irssi t...

D-Bus: Format string vulnerability

Background D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. Description It was discovered that D-Bus incorrectly handles certain format strings. The impact of this new vulnerability is believed to not be exploitable if D-Bus is patched against CVE-2015-0245. Th...

printf floating point buffer overflow

libcurl's implementation of the printf functions triggers a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output. The bug occurs when the conversion outputs more than 255 bytes. The flaw happens because the floating point conversion is using system functions without the correct boundary check...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9586

curl before version 7.52.0 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf functions. If there are any application that accepts a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks...

USN-3116-1 dbus vulnerabilities

It was discovered that DBus incorrectly validated the source of ActivationFailure signals. A local attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-0245 It was discovered that DBus incorrectly handled certain...

H2O use of externally-controlled format string

Overview H2O is an open source web server software. H2O uses externally-controlled format strings CWE-134 in the code which output error logs. Kazuho Oku reported this vulnerability to IPA to notify users of its solution through JVN. JPCERT/CC and Kazuho Oku coordinated under the Information...

Ruby: Heap corruption in DateTime.strftime() on 32 bit for certain format strings

originally send by e-mail on 4 Jun 2016 Setting a very high precision in the datestrftimewithtmx function, the following check in the STRFTIME macro in datestrftime.c will not work as expected if 's' = 0x80000000 this is the same type of issue as the other vulnerability I submitted. c 124 if star...

Vulnerability in OpenSSL - Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions

The internal |fmtstr| function used in processing a “%s” format string in the BIOprintf functions could overflow while calculating the length of a string and cause an OOB read when printing very long strings. Additionally the internal |doaproutch| function can attempt to write to an OOB memory...

ruby: off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes() function

Off-by-one error in the encodes function in pack.c in Ruby 1.9.3 and earlier, and 2.x through 2.1.2, when using certain format string specifiers, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via vectors that trigger a stack-based buffer overflow...

ssldump 0.9 b1 Format String Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2096/info ssldump is a traffic analyzer for monitoring network traffic in real time. It is written and maintained by Eric Rescorla. A problem exists which could allow the arbitrary execution of code. The problem exists in...

David Bagley xlock 4.16 User Supplied Format String Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1585/info A vulnerability exists in versions of the xlockmore program, originally written by David Bagley. It is believed to affect all versions of xlock derived from xlockmore. This includes the xlock shipped with a numb...

Hylafax 4.1.x HFaxD Unspecified Format String Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9005/info Hylafax hfaxd daemon has been reported prone to an unspecified format string vulnerability that may be exploited under non-standard configurations to execute arbitrary instructions remotely as the root user. /...

Veritas NetBackup <= 6.0 (bpjava-msvc) Remote Exploit (OS X)

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/perl VERITAS-OSX.pl - VERITAS NetBackup Format Strings OSX/ppc Remote Exploit johnhatdigitalmunitiondotcom bug found by kflistsatdigitalmunitiondotcom http://www.digitalmunition.com/ use POSIX; use IO::Socket; use IO::Select; my $shellcode = / OSX...