Null pointer dereference

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT data sent via the server could potentially result in a null pointer dereference. A malicious server or an attacker who intercepts the network traffic can send invalid data to trigger th...

CVE-2016-9577

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An authenticated attacker could send crafted messages to the SPICE server causing a heap overflow leading to a crash or possible code execution...

qpid-cpp: 3 qpidd DoS issues in AMQP 0-10 protocol handling

A flaw was found in the way the Qpid daemon qpidd processed certain protocol sequences. An unauthenticated attacker able to send a specially crafted protocol sequence set could use this flaw to crash qpidd...

Design/Logic Flaw

The 1 FileService.importFileByInternalUserId and 2 FileService.importFile SOAP API methods in Apache OpenMeetings before 3.1.1 improperly use the Java URL class without checking the specified protocol handler, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by attempting to upload a file...

Apache OpenMeetings FileService Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

Apache OpenMeetings is the United States Apache Apache Software Foundation developed a set of multi-language customizable video conferencing and collaboration system, which supports audio, video and allows users to view each participant's desktop and so on. An Arbitrary File Read Exposure...

Mozilla Firefox for Android < 41.0 Unknown Protocol Pasted URL Handling Spoofing

Binary data 9017.prm...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : x11-server (MDVSA-2015:119)

Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerabilities : Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in the X.org X server, which may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service CVE-2014-8091, CVE-2014-8092, CVE-2014-8093, CVE-2014-8094, CVE-2014-8095, CVE-2014-8096,...

qpid-cpp: 3 qpidd DoS issues in AMQP 0-10 protocol handling

A flaw was found in the way the Qpid daemon qpidd processed certain protocol sequences. An unauthenticated attacker able to send a specially crafted protocol sequence set could use this flaw to crash qpidd...

kernel: iptables restriction bypass if a protocol handler kernel module not loaded

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter subsystem handled generic protocol tracking. As demonstrated in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP case, a remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended iptables rule restrictions when the associated connection tracking...

Updated x11-server packages fix CVE-2015-0255

Updated x11-server packages fix security vulnerability: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request, where the server trusts the client to send valid string lengths. A malicious client with string lengt...

FreeBSD : xorg-server -- Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers. (54a69cf7-b2ef-11e4-b1f1-bcaec565249c)

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...

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...

CVE-2014-3569

The ssl23getclienthello function in s23srvr.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, and 1.0.1j does not properly handle attempts to use unsupported protocols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash via an unexpected handshake, as demonstrated by...

Fedora 19 : libgadu-1.12.0-0.3.rc2.fc19 (2014-2341)

Security vulnerability fix in HTTP protocol handling. A specially crafted server reply may cause memory overwrite and arbitrary code execution. CVE-2013-6487. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has...

USN-2100-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

Thijs Alkemade and Robert Vehse discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the Yahoo! protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2012-6152 Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the XMPP protocol. A remote...

FreeBSD : xorg -- protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries (2eebebff-cd3b-11e2-8f09-001b38c3836c)

freedesktop.org reports : Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most...

mesa security update

9.0-0.8.3 - CVE-2013-1872: Updated patch with testing from upstream 963063 9.0-0.8.2 - CVE-2013-1872: Updated patch from upstream 963063 9.0-0.8.1 - CVE-2013-1872: Updated patch 963063 9.0-0.8 - CVE-2013-1872: memory corruption oob read/write on intel 963063 - CVE-2013-1993: interger overflows in...

xorg -- protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries

freedesktop.org reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most ...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : pidgin, libpurple and finch (SAT Patch Number 5389)

This update fixes the following security issues : - 604225: MSN emoticon DoS. CVE-2010-1624 - 648273: multiple NULL pointer dereference weaknesses. CVE-2010-3711 - 722199: vulnerability in SILC protocol handling CVE-2011-3594 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive te...