Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : bind (cve_2011_4313_denial_of)

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates : - query.c in ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.6.x, 9.4-ESV through 9.4-ESV-R5, 9.6-ESV through 9.6-ESV-R5, 9.7.0 through 9.7.4, 9.8.0 through 9.8.1, and 9.9.0a1 through 9.9.0b1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial o...

glibc security and bug fix update

2.12-1.149.4 - Fix recursive dlopen 1173469. 2.12-1.149.3 - Fix typo in ressend and resquery rh1172023. 2.12-1.149.2 - Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules CVE-2014-6040, 1139571. 2.12-1.149.1 - Fix wordexp to honour WRDENOCMD CVE-2014-7817, 1170121...

ISC BIND Recursive Resolver Resource Consumption Denial of Service (CVE-2014-8500)

A denial of service vulnerability exists in ISC BIND. The vulnerability is due to a design weakness in the way BIND follows DNS delegations. A remote attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities by sending a request to a recursive resolver forcing the resolver to issue a large number possibly...

FreeBSD : bind -- denial of service vulnerability (ab3e98d9-8175-11e4-907d-d050992ecde8)

ISC reports : We have today posted updated versions of 9.9.6 and 9.10.1 to address a significant security vulnerability in DNS resolution. The flaw was discovered by Florian Maury of ANSSI, and applies to any recursive resolver that does not support a limit on the number of recursions...

Windows Gather Active Directory Users

This module will enumerate user accounts in the default Active Domain AD directory and stores them in the database. If GROUPMEMBER is set to the DN of a group, this will list the members of that group by performing a recursive/nested search i.e. it will list users who are members of groups that a...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3097-1 (unbound - security update)

Florian Maury from ANSSI discovered that unbound, a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver, was prone to a denial of service vulnerability. An attacker crafting a malicious zone and able to emit or make emit queries to the server can trick the resolver into following an endless series of...

ISC bind named DoS

Crash on recursive query parsing. Crash on GeoIP handling...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: wget-1.16-3.fc21

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest wit...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: wget-1.16-3.fc19

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest wit...

OracleVM 2.1 : libxml2 (OVMSA-2009-0018)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Add bug347316.patch to backport fix for bug347316 from upstream version - Add libxml2-enterprise.patch and update logos in tarball - Fix a couple of crash CVE-2009-2414, CVE-2009-2416 - Resolves:...

OracleVM 3.3 : glibc (OVMSA-2014-0017)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Remove gconv transliteration loadable modules support CVE-2014-5119, - nlfindlocale: Improve handling of crafted locale names CVE-2014-0475, - Don't use alloca in addgetnetgrentX 1087789. - Adjust...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: wget-1.16-3.fc20

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest wit...

Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities

Will Wood discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled the encodes function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a...

Oracle Linux 5 : libxml2 (ELSA-2014-1885)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1885 advisory. - CVE-2014-3660 denial of service via recursive entity expansion rhbz1161841 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linu...

libxml2: denial of service via recursive entity expansion

A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption denial of service bas...

FreeBSD : wget -- path traversal vulnerability in recursive FTP mode (ee7b4f9d-66c8-11e4-9ae1-e8e0b722a85e)

MITRE reports : Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a LIST response that references the same filename within two entries, one of which indicate...

Debian DSA-3062-1 : wget - security update

HD Moore of Rapid7 discovered a symlink attack in Wget, a command-line utility to retrieve files via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. The vulnerability allows to create arbitrary files on the user's system when Wget runs in recursive mode against a malicious FTP server. Arbitrary file creation may override...

DLA-82-1 wget - security update

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DSA-3062-1 wget - security update

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GNU Wget FTP Symlink Arbitrary Filesystem Access Exploit

This module exploits a vulnerability in Wget when used in recursive -r mode with a FTP server as a destination. A symlink is used to allow arbitrary writes to the target's filesystem. To specify content for the file, use the "file:/path" syntax for the TARGETDATA option. Tested successfully with...