Privilege escalation

The process-initialization implementation in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT Gold and 8.1, and Windows 10 does not properly constrain impersonation levels, which allows local users to gain privileges via a...

CVE-2015-2527

The process-initialization implementation in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT Gold and 8.1, and Windows 10 does not properly constrain impersonation levels, which allows local users to gain privileges via a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6826

The ffrv34decodeinitthreadcopy function in libavcodec/rv34.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid pointer access or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted 1 RV30 or 2 RV40 RealVideo dat...

CVE-2015-6824

The swsinitcontext function in libswscale/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2 does not initialize certain pixbuf data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation violation or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted video data...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6826

The ffrv34decodeinitthreadcopy function in libavcodec/rv34.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid pointer access or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted 1 RV30 or 2 RV40 RealVideo dat...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6563

The monitor component in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms accepts extraneous username data in MONITORREQPAMINITCTX requests, which allows local users to conduct impersonation attacks by leveraging any SSH login access in conjunction with control of the sshd uid to send a crafte...

Apple iOS ImageIO Memory Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. A memory incorrect initialization vulnerability exists in Apple iOS ImageIO's handling of PNG files, which allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to construct special files that can be parse...

FreeBSD : net-snmp -- snmp_pdu_parse() function incomplete initialization (381183e8-3798-11e5-9970-14dae9d210b8)

Qinghao Tang reports : Incompletely initialized vulnerability exists in the function 'snmppduparse' of 'snmpapi.c', and remote attackers can cause memory leak, DOS and possible command executions by sending malicious packets. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive te...

Joomla! Helpdesk Pro plugin file upload vulnerability

Joomla! is a well-known content management system in foreign countries. Joomla! is a software system developed using the PHP language coupled with a MySQL database, which can be implemented on a variety of different platforms such as Linux, Windows, MacOSX and so on. A file upload vulnerability...

kernel: kvm: insufficient sysenter emulation when invoked from 16-bit code

It was found that the Linux kernel KVM subsystem's sysenter instruction emulation was not sufficient. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges by tricking the hypervisor to emulate a SYSENTER instruction in 16-bit mode, if the guest OS did not initialize the...

SSL/TLS: "Invariance Weakness" vulnerability in RC4 stream cipher

The RC4 algorithm, as used in the TLS protocol and SSL protocol, does not properly combine state data with key data during the initialization phase, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct plaintext-recovery attacks against the initial bytes of a stream by sniffing network traffic...

Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (3072000)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS15-068. 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...

MS15-068: Vulnerabilities in Windows Hyper-V Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3072000)

The remote Windows host is affected by multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in Hyper-V : - An error exists in how Hyper-V handles packet size memory initialization in guest virtual machines. An authenticated attacker with access to a guest virtual machine can exploit this by running a...

freexl -- integer overflow

Stefan Cornelius reports: There's an integer overflow in the allocatecells function when trying to allocate the memory for worksheet with specially crafted row/column dimensions. This can be exploited to cause a heap memory corruption. The most likely outcome of this is a crash when trying to...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption (MS15-056: CVE-2015-1750)

A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to an error in the way that Internet Explorer accesses an object that has not been correctly initialized or has been deleted. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a use...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-406.0.0.0.1 - netfront fix ring buffer index go back led vif stop orabug 18272251 - net fix tcptrimhead James Li orabug 14512145, 19219078 - ocfs2: dlm: fix recovery hung Junxiao Bi orabug 13956772 - i386: fix MTRR code Zhenzhong Duan orabug 15862649 - oprofile x86, mm: Add...

Nessus Product Information

Set up Nessus product information to help facilitate some plugins to detect what platform they are running on. TRUSTED...

chromium-browser: Uninitialized value in PDFium.

PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65, does not properly initialize memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors...

Google Chrome PDFium Code Injection Vulnerability

Google Chrome is the United States Google Google company developed a Web browser. PDFium is one of the open source PDF rendering engine. Google Chrome PDFium has a security vulnerability. Due to the program failed to properly initialize memory. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to...

CVE-2015-1259

PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65, does not properly initialize memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors...