17 Essential Skills for Performance Engineers

Most people in the performance engineering field agree that our skillset is derived from an intersection of disciplines that include testing, optimization, and systems engineering...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1922

QEMU aka Quick Emulator built with the TPR optimization for 32-bit Windows guests support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while doing I/O port write operations via hmp interface. In that, 'currentcpu' remains null, which leads to the null pointer dereference. A user or...

CVE-2016-1922

QEMU aka Quick Emulator built with the TPR optimization for 32-bit Windows guests support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while doing I/O port write operations via hmp interface. In that, 'currentcpu' remains null, which leads to the null pointer dereference. A user or...

Null pointer dereference

QEMU aka Quick Emulator built with the TPR optimization for 32-bit Windows guests support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while doing I/O port write operations via hmp interface. In that, 'currentcpu' remains null, which leads to the null pointer dereference. A user or...

CVE-2016-1922

QEMU aka Quick Emulator built with the TPR optimization for 32-bit Windows guests support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while doing I/O port write operations via hmp interface. In that, 'currentcpu' remains null, which leads to the null pointer dereference. A user or...

Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow WRITE in rasterize_edges_1 (MFSA 2016-89, MFSA 2016-90)

A heap-buffer-overflow in Cairo when processing SVG content caused by compiler optimization, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR 45.5, and Firefox 50...

CVE-2016-5296

A heap-buffer-overflow in Cairo when processing SVG content caused by compiler optimization, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR 45.5, and Firefox 50...

CVE-2016-5296

A heap-buffer-overflow in Cairo when processing SVG content caused by compiler optimization, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR 45.5, and Firefox 50...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5296

A heap-buffer-overflow in Cairo when processing SVG content caused by compiler optimization, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5, Firefox ESR 45.5, and Firefox 50...

shopify-scripts: Segfault in mruby, mruby_engine and the parent MRI Ruby due to null pointer dereference

Introduction ============ Certain valid Ruby programs are able to cause a segmentation fault in mruby through a null pointer derefence, which in turn leads to a crash in mrubyengine and the parent MRI Ruby process. Proof of concept ================ crash.rb: --------- def method yield end method&...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Multiple LibTIFF vulnerabilities (K35155453)

CVE-2015-8683 The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tifgetimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read via a packed TIFF image. CVE-2015-8665 tifgetimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read vi...

glibc security update

2.17-157 - Rebuild with updated binutils 1268008 2.17-156 - malloc arena free free list management fix 1276753 2.17-155 - Basic validity check for locale-archive.tmpl 1350733 2.17-153 - Add Intel AVX-512 optimized routines 1298526. 2.17-151 - Improve malloc peformance in low-memory situations...

openSUSE Security Update : mariadb (openSUSE-2016-1274)

This update for mariadb to 10.0.27 fixes the following issues : - release notes : - https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10027-release-notes - https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10026-release-notes - changelog : - https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10027-changelog -...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (K89096577)

CVE-2016-5314 Buffer overflow in the PixarLogDecode function in tifpixarlog.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by overwriting the vgetparent...

Security update for mariadb (important)

This update for mariadb to 10.0.27 fixes the following issues: release notes: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10027-release-notes https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10026-release-notes changelog: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10027-changelog...

SOL35155453 - Multiple LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are...

High Throughput Fuzzer: Grr

High Throughput Fuzzer GRR is an x86 to amd64 binary translator. GRR was created to emulate and fuzzer DECREE challenge binaries. GRR was created for the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. Features Code cache persistence avoids translation overheads across separate runs. Optimization of the code cache,...

SOL24923910 - LibTIFF vulnerability CVE-2016-3632

Vulnerability Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are...

openSUSE Security Update : mariadb (openSUSE-2016-1154)

This update for mariadb to 10.0.27 fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2016-6662: A malicious user with SQL and filesystem access could create a my.cnf in the datadir and, under certain circumstances, execute arbitrary code as mysql or even root user. bsc998309 - release not...

Security update for mariadb (important)

This update for mariadb to 10.0.27 fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: CVE-2016-6662: A malicious user with SQL and filesystem access could create a my.cnf in the datadir and, under certain circumstances, execute arbitrary code as mysql or even root user. bsc998309 release notes:...