The vulnerability of Google Chrome browser allows a perpetrator to trigger a service failure.

The platform/fonts/shaping/HarfBuzzShaper.cpp file of Google Chrome browser contains errors related to incorrect initialization of long fields. As a result, the bug may cause a service failure through the use of a specially crafted Unicode-formatted text message...

Apple CoreGraphics framework on OS X 10.10 logging input data to /tmp directory — Mozilla

Security researcher Kent Howard reported an Apple issue present in OS X 10.10 Yosemite where log files are created by the CoreGraphics framework of OS X in the /tmp local directory. These log files contain a record of all inputs into Mozilla programs during their operation. In versions of OS X fr...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4920

The P1 dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.1 does not properly initialize a global variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted packet...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

These updated packages fix the following security issue : - a possible kernel memory leak was found in the Linux kernel Simple Internet Transition SIT INET6 implementation. This could allow a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. CVE-2008-2136, Important As well, these updated...

Fedora 13 : beanstalkd-1.4.6-1.fc13 (2010-9570)

Sat Jun 5 2010 Jeremy Hinegardner - 1.4.6-1 - update to upstream 1.4.6 - Mon Feb 22 2010 Jeremy Hinegardner - 1.4.3-2 - fix binlogdir location initialization for bug 55831 - Sun Feb 21 2010 Jeremy Hinegardner - 1.4.3-1 - update to upstream 1.4.3 - change default binlogdir in sysconfig file -...

FreeBSD : Samba 3.0.x password initialization bug (3388eff9-5d6e-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a)

From the Samba 3.0.2 release notes : Security Announcement: It has been confirmed that previous versions of Samba 3.0 are susceptible to a password initialization bug that could grant an attacker unauthorized access to a user account created by the mksmbpasswd.sh shell script. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

Samba 3.0.x password initialization bug

From the Samba 3.0.2 release notes: Security Announcement: It has been confirmed that previous versions of Samba 3.0 are susceptible to a password initialization bug that could grant an attacker unauthorized access to a user account created by the mksmbpasswd.sh shell script...