Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 23, 2023) — Social media sites are making extra security a paid feature

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Social medias latest business plan seems to be charging for security. Twitter recently announced a plan to make SMS-based two-factor authentication a paid service as part of Twitter Blue -- asking users to pay either $8 or $11 monthly...

WordPress WP Meta SEO Plugin <= 4.5.2 is vulnerable to SQL Injection

Software WP Meta SEO Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 4.5.2 Fixed in 4.5.3 OWASP Top 10 A1: Injection Classification SQL Injection CVE N/A Patch priority High CVSS severity High 7.1 Developer Claim ownership PSID ed22c0b021d4 Credits WordFence Required privilege Subscriber Published 23 February,...

K16945: Mailx vulnerabilities CVE-2004-2771 and CVE-2014-7844

Security Advisory Description CVE-2014-7844 The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell meta characters in an email address. CVE-2004-2771 A flaw was found in the way mailx handled...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: kernel-6.1.12-100.fc36

The kernel meta package...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: kernel-6.1.12-200.fc37

The kernel meta package...

SUSE CVE-2010-3775

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.16 and 3.6.x before 3.6.13, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.11, does not properly handle certain redirections involving data: URLs and Java LiveConnect scripts, which allows remote attackers to start processes, read arbitrary local files, and establish network connections via...

SUSE CVE-2011-1401

ikiwiki before 3.20110328 does not ascertain whether the htmlscrubber plugin is enabled during processing of the "meta stylesheet" directive, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks via crafted Cascading Style Sheets CSS token sequences in 1 the default...

SUSE CVE-2012-0220

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the meta plugin Plugin/meta.pm in ikiwiki before 3.20120516 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 author or 2 authorurl meta tags...

SUSE CVE-2012-2582

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Open Ticket Request System OTRS Help Desk 2.4.x before 2.4.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.15, and 3.1.x before 3.1.9, and OTRS ITSM 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 3.0.x before 3.0.6, and 3.1.x before 3.1.6, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or...

SUSE CVE-2015-2711

Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 does not recognize a referrer policy delivered by a referrer META element in cases of context-menu navigation and middle-click navigation, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading web-server Referer logs that contain private data in a UR...

SUSE CVE-2015-4695

meta.h in libwmf 0.2.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read via a crafted WMF file...

SUSE CVE-2016-7523

coders/meta.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read via a crafted file...

SUSE CVE-2016-10208

The ext4fillsuper function in fs/ext4/super.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 does not properly validate meta block groups, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and system crash via a crafted ext4 image...

SUSE CVE-2016-10712

In PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3, all of the return values of streamgetmetadata can be controlled if the input can be controlled e.g., during file uploads. For example, a "$uri = streamgetmetadatafopen$file, "r"'uri'" call mishandles the case where $file is...

SUSE CVE-2017-7837

SVG loaded through "" tags can use "" tags within the SVG data to set cookies for that page. This vulnerability affects Firefox 57...

SUSE CVE-2017-12418

ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has memory leaks in the parse8BIMW and format8BIM functions in coders/meta.c, related to the WriteImage function in MagickCore/constitute.c...

SUSE CVE-2018-5118

The screenshot images displayed in the Activity Stream page displayed when a new tab is opened is created from the meta tags of websites. An issue was discovered where the page could attempt to create these images through "file:" URLs from the local file system. This loading is blocked by the...

SUSE CVE-2018-11781

Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.2 fixes a local user code injection in the meta rule syntax...

SUSE CVE-2018-14437

ImageMagick 7.0.8-4 has a memory leak in parse8BIM in coders/meta.c...

SUSE CVE-2018-14644

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers fo...