xorg-server: information leak and denial of service

Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string lengths exceeding the...

xorg-server -- Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers.

Peter Hutterer reports: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string...

OpenJDK: DER decoder infinite loop (Security, 8059485)

A flaw was found in the way the DER Distinguished Encoding Rules decoder in the Security component in OpenJDK handled negative length values. A specially crafted, DER-encoded input could cause a Java application to enter an infinite loop when decoded...

USN-2452-1: NSS vulnerability

It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain ASN.1 lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a data-smuggling attack...

USN-2452-1 nss vulnerability

It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain ASN.1 lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a data-smuggling attack...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9730

The udfpctochar function in fs/udf/symlink.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 relies on component lengths that are unused, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via a crafted UDF filesystem image...

Apple QuickTime Text Track Descriptors Heap Buffer Overflow - Ver2 (CVE-2012-0664)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Apple QuickTime. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of parameters lengths. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a victim to open a specially crafted QuickTime Text file with an affected version of...

xorg-x11-server: out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset values in GLX extension

Multiple out-of-bounds write flaws were found in the way the X.Org server calculated memory requirements for certain GLX extension requests. A malicious, authenticated client could use either of these flaws to crash the X.Org server or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root privileges...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8100

The Render extension in XFree86 4.0.1, X.Org X Window System aka X11 or X X11R6.7, and X.Org Server aka xserver and xorg-server before 1.16.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read or write or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted length or index...

libXfont: unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol replies

Multiple out-of-bounds write flaws were found in the way libXfont parsed replies received from an X.org font server. A malicious X.org server could cause an X client to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server...

libX11: Multiple Array Index error leading to heap-based OOB write

Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 1.6 RC1 and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the 1 XAllocColorCells, 2 XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, 3 XkbReadGeomShapes, 4 XkbReadGetGeometryReply...

USN-2307-1 gpgme1.0 vulnerability

Tomáš Trnka discovered that GPGME incorrectly handled certain certificate line lengths. An attacker could use this issue to cause applications using GPGME to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : MiniUPnPc vulnerability (USN-2280-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2280-1 advisory. It was discovered that MiniUPnPc incorrectly handled certain buffer lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using MiniUPnPc...

USN-2280-1: MiniUPnPc vulnerability

It was discovered that MiniUPnPc incorrectly handled certain buffer lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using MiniUPnPc to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-2280-1 miniupnpc vulnerability

It was discovered that MiniUPnPc incorrectly handled certain buffer lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using MiniUPnPc to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

QNX Photon phrelay-cfg -s Parameter Overflow

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11164/info Reportedly QNX Photon MicroGUI is affected by multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in MicroGUI utilities. These issues are due to a failure of the affected applications to validate user-supplied string...

QNX Photon input-cfg -s Parameter Overflow

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11164/info Reportedly QNX Photon MicroGUI is affected by multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in MicroGUI utilities. These issues are due to a failure of the affected applications to validate user-supplied string...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : json-c vulnerabilities (USN-2245-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2245-1 advisory. Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled buffer lengths. An attacker could use this issue with a specially-crafted large JSON document t...

USN-2245-1: json-c vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled buffer lengths. An attacker could use this issue with a specially-crafted large JSON document to cause json-c to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-6370 Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled hash arrays. ...

USN-2245-1 json-c vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled buffer lengths. An attacker could use this issue with a specially-crafted large JSON document to cause json-c to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-6370 Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled hash arrays. ...