Fedora 22 : proftpd-1.3.5-6.fc22 (2015-7164)

Vadim Melihow reported a critical issue with proftpd installations that use the modcopy module's SITE CPFR/SITE CPTO commands; modcopy allows these commands to be used by unauthenticated clients Upstream report: http://bugs.proftpd.org/showbug.cgi?id=4169 Note that modcopy is not loaded/enabled b...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-2585-1)

It was discovered that the Linux kernel's IPv6 networking stack has a flaw that allows using route advertisement RA messages to set the 'hoplimit' to values that are too low. An unprivileged attacker on a local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service IPv6 messages dropped. No...

Debian DLA-210-1 : qt4-x11 security update

This update fixes multiple security issues in the Qt library. CVE-2013-0254 The QSharedMemory class uses weak permissions world-readable and world-writable for shared memory segments, which allows local users to read sensitive information or modify critical program data, as demonstrated by readin...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2587-1)

A stack overflow was discovered in the the microcode loader for the intel x86 platform. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service kernel crash or to potentially execute code with kernel privileges. CVE-2015-2666 It was discovered that the Linux kernel's IPv6 networking...

Fedora 22 : yourls-1.7-3.20150410gitabc7d6c.fc22 (2015-5965)

Update to the latest master from git Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 703...

Fedora 21 : wpa_supplicant-2.0-13.fc21 (2015-6860)

This update addresses a security vulnerability identified as CVE-2015-1863 . More information on this vulnerability is provided by upstream at https://w1.fi/security/2015-1/wpasupplicant-p2p-ssid-overflow.txt . An extract : Attacker or a system controlled by the attacker needs to be within radio...

Ubuntu 14.10 : autofs vulnerability (USN-2579-1)

It was discovered that autofs incorrectly filtered environment variables when using program maps. When program maps were configured, a local user could use this issue to escalate privileges. This update changes the default behaviour by adding a prefix to environment variables. Sites using program...

Fedora 21 : wesnoth-1.12.2-1.fc21 (2015-6295)

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=41872 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fedora 22 : qt3-3.3.8b-63.fc22 (2015-6613)

This update fixes CVE-2015-1860, a buffer overflow when loading some specific invalid GIF image files, which could be exploited for denial of service application crash and possibly even arbitrary code execution attacks. The security patch is backported from Qt 4. Please note that Qt 3 is NOT...

Debian DLA-207-1 : subversion security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Subversion, a version control system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : CVE-2015-0248 Subversion moddavsvn and svnserve were vulnerable to a remotely triggerable assertion DoS vulnerability for certain...

Fedora 21 : qt5-qtbase-5.4.1-9.fc21 (2015-6364)

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Qt image format handling of BMP, ICO and GIF files. The issues exposed included denial of service and buffer overflows leading to heap corruption. It is possible the latter could be used to perform remote code execution. See also...

Fedora 22 : curl-7.40.0-3.fc22 (2015-6695)

require credentials to match for NTLM re-use CVE-2015-3143 - fix invalid write with a zero-length host name in URL CVE-2015-3144 - fix invalid write in cookie path sanitization code CVE-2015-3145 - close Negotiate connections when done CVE-2015-3148 Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Fedora 21 : spatialite-tools-4.2.0-10.fc21 / sqlite-3.8.9-1.fc21 (2015-6324)

Update of sqlite to latest upstream version, with spatialite-tools rebuild. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introduci...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (SOL16471)

The dopagesmove function in mm/migrate.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc7 does not validate node values, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory locations, cause a denial of service OOPS, and possibly have unspecified other impact by specifying a node that is not part of the...

Fedora 22 : knot-1.6.3-1.fc22 (2015-5786)

new upstream release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Fedora 22 : qt5-qtbase-5.4.1-9.fc22 (2015-6114)

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Qt image format handling of BMP, ICO and GIF files. The issues exposed included denial of service and buffer overflows leading to heap corruption. It is possible the latter could be used to perform remote code execution. See also...

Fedora 22 : arj-3.10.22-22.fc22 (2015-5524)

Added patch from Debian to avoid free on invalid pointer due to a buffer overflow 1196751, 1207180 - Added patch from Debian for symlink directory traversal 1178824 - Added patch from Debian to fix the directory traversal via //multiple/leading/slash 1178824 Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Debian DLA-202-1 : wesnoth-1.8 security update

Ignacio R. Morelle discovered that missing path restrictions in the 'Battle of Wesnoth' game could result in the disclosure of arbitrary files in the user's home directory if malicious campaigns/maps are loaded. For the oldstable distribution distribution, this problem has been fixed in version...

Fedora 21 : python-2.7.8-8.fc21 (2015-6003)

Security fix for CVE-2013-1752 multiple unbound readline DoS flaws in python stdlib following fixes which all relates to this CVE are in this patch : - poplib: limit maximum line length that we read from the network 16041 - smtplib: limit amount read from the network 16042 Note that Tenable Netwo...

Fedora 21 : perl-Module-Signature-0.78-1.fc21 / perl-Test-Signature-1.11-1.fc21 (2015-5833)

This update addresses various security issues in perl-Module-Signature as described below. The default behavior is also changed so as to ignore any MANIFEST.SKIP files unless a 'skip' parameter is specified. An updated version of perl-Test-Signature that accounts for the changed default behavior ...