Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux, linux-meta vulnerabilities (USN-3326-1) (Stack Clash)

It was discovered that a use-after-free flaw existed in the filesystem encryption subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-7374 It was discovered that the stack guard page for processes in the Linux kernel was not...

Microsoft IE: textarea.defaultValue memory disclosure (CVE-2017-0059)

There is an use-after-free bug in IE which can lead to info leak / memory disclosure. The bug was confirmed on Internet Explorer version 11.0.9600.18537 update version 11.0.38 PoC: function run var textarea = document.getElementById"textarea"; var frame = document.createElement"iframe";...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

ImageMagick is vulnerable to denial-of-service DoS attacks. The library contains a double free bug, allowing a malicious user to pass a malicious image to the system and cause the system to crash...

MGASA-2016-0335 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerability

Chromium-browser-stable 53.0.2785.143 provides fixes for security issues: a use-after-free bug in V8 CVE-2016-5177 and various problems found in upstream's internal audits, fuzzing, and other initiatives CVE-2016-5178...

Debian DSA-3659-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or have other impacts. - CVE-2016-5696 Yue Cao, Zhiyun Qian, Zhongjie Wang, Tuan Dao, and Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy of the University of California, Riverside; and Lisa M...

Debian DSA-3528-1 : pidgin-otr - security update

Stefan Sperling discovered that pidgin-otr, a Pidgin plugin implementing Off-The-Record messaging, contained a use-after-free bug. This could be used by a malicious remote user to intentionally crash the application, thus causing a denial-of-service. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for openssl (openSUSE-SU-2016:0627-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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 3500-1 (openssl - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Socket Layer toolkit. CVE-2016-0702 Yuval Yarom from the University of Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin from Technion and Tel Aviv University, and Nadia Heninger from the University of Pennsylvania discovered a side-channel attack whic...

SUSE SLED11 Security Update : compat-openssl097g (SUSE-SU-2016:0631-1) (DROWN)

This update for compat-openssl097g fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-0800 aka the 'DROWN' attack bsc968046: OpenSSL was vulnerable to a cross-protocol attack that could lead to decryption of TLS sessions by using a server supporting SSLv2 and EXPORT cipher suites as a Bleichenbacher RSA...

openSUSE Security Update : openssl (openSUSE-2016-288) (DROWN)

This update for openssl fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-0800 aka the 'DROWN' attack bsc968046: OpenSSL was vulnerable to a cross-protocol attack that could lead to decryption of TLS sessions by using a server supporting SSLv2 and EXPORT cipher suites as a...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0093)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3500-1 : openssl - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Socket Layer toolkit. - CVE-2016-0702 Yuval Yarom from the University of Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin from Technion and Tel Aviv University, and Nadia Heninger from the University of Pennsylvania discovered a side-channel attack...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-646)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Racing MIDI messages in Chrome

This is a guest blog post by Oliver Chang from the Chrome Security team. This post is about an exceptionally bad use after free bug in Chrome’s browser process that affected Linux, Chrome OS and OS X. What makes this bug interesting is the fact that it could be directly triggered from the web...

CVE-2015-8659

The idle stream handling in nghttp2 before 1.6.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, aka a heap-use-after-free bug...

openssh security, bug fix, and enhancement update

6.6.1p1-22 - Use the correct constant for glob limits 1160377 6.6.1p1-21 - Extend memory limit for remote glob in sftp acc. to stat limit 1160377 6.6.1p1-20 - Fix vulnerabilities published with openssh-7.0 1265807 - Privilege separation weakness related to PAM support - Use-after-free bug related...

SUSE-SU-2015:1706-2 Security update for rpcbind

A use-after-free security bug in rpcbind was fixed which could lead to a remote denial of service...

Wireshark epan/wmem/wmem_allocator_block.c Denial of Service Vulnerability

Wireshark formerly known as Ethereal is a suite of network packet analysis software developed by the Wireshark team. Multiple 'wmemblocksplitfreechunk' functions in the epan/wmem/wmemallocatorblock.c file of the wmem block allocator in Wireshark's Memory Manager The mealloc operation restores the...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix three security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...