Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3001-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3001-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: glibc-2.22-17.fc23

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

CVE-2016-2143

It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process with four page table levels will cause memory corruption with a variety of symptoms. All processes are created with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for the address space. If the parent process has four page table levels with a limit o...

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system allows a perpetrator to obtain confidential information about the addresses of kernel objects and bypass the KASLR security mechanisms.

The vulnerability of Windows operating system’s kernel mode drivers is related to the lack of protection for privileged data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating locally, to obtain confidential information about kernel object addresses and bypass the KASLR protection...

libdwarf 'dwarf_dealloc()' function denial of service vulnerability

libdwarf is a set of tools for reading and writing DWARF2 debugging information. A security vulnerability exists in the 'dwarfdealloc' function of libdwarf, which stems from the program failing to check the 'DwarfPtr' space parameter. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of...

MGASA-2016-0187 Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

When running in recovery mode, certain invalid XML documents would trigger an infinite recursion in libxml2 that ran until all stack space was exhausted. This vulnerability could have been used to facilitate a denial-of-sevice attack CVE-2016-3627. libxml2 limits the number of recursions an XML...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: glibc-2.23.1-7.fc24

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-2965-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2965-3 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors,...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability (USN-2965-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2965-4 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors,...

DNS reconnaissance tool: Fierce

Fierce is a DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space Fierce is a semi-lightweight scanner that helps locate non-contiguous IP space and hostnames against specified domains. It’s really meant as a pre-cursor to nmap, unicornscan, nessus, nikto, etc, since all of those require...

USN-2965-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors, leading to a use-after-free. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the...

Joyent SmartOS dtrace Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to disclose information on vulnerable installations of Joyent SmartOS. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the dtrace implementation in SmartOS. A functi...

SUSE-SU-2016:1205-1 Security update for libxml2

This update for libxml2 fixes two security issues: - libxml2 limits the number of recursions an XML document can contain so to protect against the 'Billion Laughs' denial-of-service attack. Unfortunately, the underlying counter was not incremented properly in all necessary locations. Therefore,...

SUSE-SU-2016:1204-1 Security update for libxml2

This update for libxml2 fixes two security issues: - libxml2 limits the number of recursions an XML document can contain so to protect against the 'Billion Laughs' denial-of-service attack. Unfortunately, the underlying counter was not incremented properly in all necessary locations. Therefore,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3672

The archpickmmaplayout function in arch/x86/mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not properly randomize the legacy base address, which makes it easier for local users to defeat the intended restrictions on the ADDRNORANDOMIZE flag, and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism for a setuid...

Internet Bug Bounty: ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)

On 4 April 2016 I reported a bug to the OpenSSL Security Team where I was able to force OpenSSL to use large amounts of cpu time, memory and swap space. They confirmed receipt on 6 April 2016 and on 22 April 2016 I was notified that they were assigning CVE-2016-2109 to this flaw and the fix was...

users without "delete attachment permission" can delete attachment

go to space tools permissions and remove the permission of user X to delete attachments go to a page of that space which contains an attachment go to attachments no "delete" link available / expand an attachment to see older versionns including current version for each version there is the...

users without "delete attachment permission" can delete attachment

go to space tools permissions and remove the permission of user X to delete attachments go to a page of that space which contains an attachment go to attachments no "delete" link available / expand an attachment to see older versionns including current version for each version there is the...

users without "delete attachment permission" can delete attachment

go to space tools permissions and remove the permission of user X to delete attachments go to a page of that space which contains an attachment go to attachments no "delete" link available / expand an attachment to see older versionns including current version for each version there is the...

Debian DSA-3554-1 : xen - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159 XSA-172 Jan Beulich from SUSE discovered that Xen does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit whe...