Pointer leaks through pointer-keyed data structures

Posted by Jann Horn, Google Project Zero Introduction Some time in 2024, during a Project Zero team discussion, we were talking about how remote ASLR leaks would be helpful or necessary for exploiting some types of memory corruption bugs, specifically in the context of Apple devices. Coming from...

[slackware-security] expat

New expat packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/expat-2.7.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fix alignment of internal allocations for some non-amd64 architectures e.g. sparc32; fixes ...

CLSA-2025-1758821123 perl-HTTP-Tiny: Fix of CVE-2023-31486

CVE-2023-31486: fix insecure default TLS configuration...

CLSA-2025-1758796886 kernel: Fix of 22 CVEs

drm/amd/amdgpu: introduce gcmes2.bin v2 - proc: fix a dentry lock race between releasetask and lookup - scsi: aacraid: Stop using PCIIRQAFFINITY - scsi: aacraid: Remove useless code - scsi: aacraid: Remove unused aaccheckhealth - scsi: aacraid: struct user,sgmap,64,raw: Replace 1-element arrays...

CLSA-2025-1758796854 cups: Fix of CVE-2023-4504

CVE-2023-4504: check for null terminator after a backslash...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7770-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2025-39890

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in ath12kservicereadyextevent Currently, in ath12kservicereadyextevent, svcrdyext.macphycaps is not freed in the failure case, causing a memory leak. The following trace is observed in kmemleak:...

PT-2025-39348

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Flag Forge versions prior to 2.2.0 Description The /api/admin/assign-badge endpoint in Flag Forge does not have sufficient access controls. This allows any authenticated user to assign high-privilege badges, such as Staff, to themselves. This...

CLSA-2025-1758645375 libwebp: Fix of CVE-2020-36328

CVE-2020-36328: fix a heap-based buffer overflow in WebPDecodeInto functions...

American Archive of Public Broadcasting allowed access to restricted media for years

A security flaw in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting AAPB website allowed unauthorized access to protected and private media, according to BleepingComputer. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting AAPB is a collaborative initiative between the Library of Congress and WGBH Educationa...

CLSA-2025-1758615308 libwebp: Fix of CVE-2020-36328

CVE-2020-36328: fix a heap-based buffer overflow in WebPDecodeInto functions...

SUSE-SU-2025:20790-1 Security update for kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_9

This update for kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RTUpdate9 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-38109: net/mlx5: fix ECVF vports unload on shutdown flow bsc1245685 - CVE-2025-38181: calipso: fix null-ptr-deref in calipsoreqset,delattr bsc1246001 - CVE-2025-38498: dochangetype: refuse to operate on...

CVE-2025-39876

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: Fix possible NPD in fecenetphyresetafterclkenable The function ofphyfinddevice may return NULL, so we need to take care before dereferencing phydev...

PT-2025-39220

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Kata Containers versions prior to 3.21.0 Description Kata Containers is an open source project focused on lightweight Virtual Machines that function like containers. In versions prior to 3.21.0, a malicious host can bypass initdata verificatio...

SUSE CVE-2023-53220

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: az6007: Fix null-ptr-deref in az6007i2cxfer In az6007i2cxfer, msg is controlled by user. When msgi.buf is null and msgi.len is zero, former checks on msgi.buf would be passed. Malicious data finally reach az6007i2cxfer. If...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Container Release Update

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams,...

CVE-2025-59335 CubeCart Session Not Invalidated After Password Change

CubeCart is an ecommerce software solution. Prior to version 6.5.11, there is an absence of automatic session expiration following a user's password change. This oversight poses a security risk, as if a user forgets to log out from a location where they accessed their account, an unauthorized use...

PT-2025-39033

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mesh Connect JS SDK versions prior to 3.3.2 Description Mesh Connect JS SDK contains JS libraries for integrating with Mesh Connect. A lack of sanitization of URLs protocols in the createLink.openLink function enables the execution of arbitrar...

cifs: prevent NULL pointer dereference in UTF16 conversion

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CVE-2025-57396

Tandoor Recipes 2.0.0-alpha-1, fixed in 2.0.0-alpha-2, is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is due to the rework of the API, which resulted in the User Profile API Endpoint containing two boolean values indicating whether a user is staff or administrative. Consequently, any user can escala...