Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird DLL Hijacking

Hi @ll despite better knowledge and MULTIPLE bug/vulnerability reports see , , , ... Mozilla continues to ship Firefox and Thunderbird for Windows with a vulnerable executable installer. Proof of concept/demonstration: 1. visit , download and save it as ShimEng.dll in your "Downloads" folder, the...

Critical: java-1.7.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the ObjectInputStream class in the Serialization component of OpenJDK failed to properly ensure thread consistency when deserializing serialized input. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions...

quassel -- remote denial of service

Mitre reports: The onReadyRead function in core/coreauthhandler.cpp in Quassel before 0.12.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via invalid handshake data...

perl5 -- taint mechanism bypass vulnerability

MITRE reports: Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp...

Medium: GraphicsMagick

Issue Overview: An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the parsing of GIF files using GraphicsMagick. Affected Packages: GraphicsMagick Issue Correction: Run yum update GraphicsMagick or yum update --advisory ALAS-2016-678 to update your system. New Packages: i686: ...

Medium: samba

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the way Samba handled ACLs on symbolic links. An authenticated user could use this flaw to gain access to an arbitrary file or directory by overwriting its ACL. Affected Packages: samba Issue Correction: Run yum update samba or yum update --advisory ALAS-2016-6...

Medium: openssh

Issue Overview: An access flaw was discovered in the OpenSSH client where it did not correctly handle failures to generate authentication cookies for untrusted X11 forwarding. A malicious or compromised remote X application could possibly use this flaw to establish a trusted connection to the loc...

Critical: java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-1.7.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: An improper type safety check was discovered in the Hotspot component. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java Sandbox restrictions. Affected Packages: java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-1.7.0-openjdk Issue Correction: Run yum update java-1.8.0-openjdk or...

Important: git

Issue Overview: An integer truncation flaw CVE-2016-2315 and an integer overflow flaw CVE-2016-2324, both leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, were found in the way Git processed certain path information. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted Git repository that would cause a Git...

Low: nmap

Issue Overview: The http-domino-enum-passwords.nse script in NMap before 6.40, when domino-enum-passwords.idpath is set, allows remote servers to upload arbitrarily named files via a crafted FullName parameter in a response, as demonstrated using directory traversal sequences. Affected Packages:...

Mitre Tackles Its Critics: Set To Revamp CVE Vulnerability Reporting

Mitre Corporation will introduce a new pilot program for classifying Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE in the coming weeks. The move is in response to a backlash in the security community where some critics contend Mitre is failing to keep pace with a massive influx in the number of report...

Medium: openssh

Issue Overview: It was discovered that the OpenSSH server did not sanitize data received in requests to enable X11 forwarding. An authenticated client with restricted SSH access could possibly use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions. Affected Packages: openssh Issue Correction: Run yum upda...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: When running as a Xen 64-bit PV guest, user mode processes not supposed to be able to access I/O ports may be granted such permission, potentially resulting in one or more of in-guest privilege escalation, guest crashes Denial of Service, or in-guest information leaks. CVE-2016-31...

Medium: tomcat8

Issue Overview: A directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java was discovered which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. slash dot dot in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource,...

Medium: tomcat6

Issue Overview: It was found that the expression language resolver evaluated expressions within a privileged code section. A malicious web application could use this flaw to bypass security manager protections. CVE-2014-7810 It was found that Tomcat would keep connections open after processing...

Medium: tomcat7

Issue Overview: A directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java was discovered which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /.. slash dot dot in a pathname used by a web application in a getResource,...

Critical: nss-util

Issue Overview: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user...

Fedora 23 : opensmtpd-5.7.3p1-1.fc23 (2015-ed1c673f09)

"Issues fixed in this release since 5.7.2: - fix an mda buffer truncation bug which allows a user to create forward files that pass session checks but fail delivery later down the chain, within the user mda; - fix remote buffer overflow in unprivileged pony process; - reworked offline enqueue to...

WordPress GravityForms 1.9.15.11 Cross Site Scripting

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Product: WordPress plugin GravityForms Product URL: http://www.gravityforms.com/ Vendor: Rocketgenius Vulnerability Type: Reflected Cross-site Scripting CWE-79 Vulnerable Versions: 1.9.15.11 other versions not tested Fixed Version: 1.9.16 Solution...

pcre -- heap overflow vulnerability

Mitre reports: The pcrecompile2 function in pcrecompile.c in PCRE 8.38 mishandles the /?:F?+?:^?Ra+"99-?J?'R'?'R'?'RR'?'R'\97?J?J?'R'?'R'\99|:?|?'R'\k'R'|?'R'H'R'RH'R/ pattern and related patterns with named subgroups, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer...