SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : flex, at, bogofilter, cyrus-imapd, kdelibs4, libQtWebKit4, libbonobo, mdbtools, netpbm, openslp, sgmltool, virtuoso, libqt5-qtwebkit (SUSE-SU-2016:2397-1)

Various packages included vulnerable parsers generated by 'flex'. This update provides a fixed 'flex' package and also rebuilds of packages that might have security issues caused by the auto generated code. Flex itself was updated to fix a buffer overflow in the generated scanner bsc990856,...

Debian DLA-639-1 : mactelnet security update

CVE-2016-7115 Buffer overflow in the handlepacket function in mactelnet.c in the client in MAC-Telnet 0.4.3 and earlier allows remote TELNET servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in an MTCPTYPEENCRYPTIONKEY control packet. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in...

Debian DLA-634-1 : dropbear security update

It was discovered that there were two issues in dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client : - CVE-2016-7406: Potential issues in exit message formatting. - CVE-2016-7407: Overflows when parsing OpenSSH's ASN.1 key format. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in dropbear version...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3073-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3073-1 advisory. Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda discovered multiple memory safety issues in...

Fedora 23 : xen (2016-1c3374bcb9)

x86: Disallow L3 recursive pagetable for 32-bit PV guests XSA-185, CVE-2016-7092 1374470 x86: Mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation XSA-186, CVE-2016-7093 1374471 x86 HVM: Overflow of shctxt-segreg XSA-187, CVE-2016-7094 1374473 Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Irssi vulnerabilities (USN-3086-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3086-1 advisory. Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that the format parsing code in Irssi did not properly verify 24bit color codes. A remote attacker could use...

Fedora 23 : wordpress (2016-91bfe9ddb8)

See upstream announcements : - WordPress 4.6 Pepper - WordPress 4.6.1 Security and Maintenance Release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as muc...

Debian DLA-631-1 : unadf security update

It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in unadf, a tool to extract files from an Amiga Disk File dump .adf : - CVE-2016-1243: stack-based buffer overflow caused by blindly trusting on pathname lengths of archived files. Stack allocated buffer sysbuf was filled with sprintf without...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3084-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3084-1 advisory. Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-3082-1)

Chiachih Wu, Yuan-Tsung Lo, and Xuxian Jiang discovered that the legacy ABI for ARM OABI had incomplete access checks for epollwait2 and semtimedop2. A local attacker could use this to possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description bloc...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3084-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3084-2 advisory. USN-3084-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities (USN-3084-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3084-4 advisory. Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3084-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3084-3 advisory. Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2016-1847)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-1847 advisory. - net tcp: enable per-socket rate limiting of all 'challenge acks' Florian Westphal 1355603 1355605 CVE-2016-5696 - net tcp: uninline tcpoowratelimited...

Fedora 24 : xen (2016-7d2c67d1f5)

x86: Disallow L3 recursive pagetable for 32-bit PV guests XSA-185, CVE-2016-7092 1374470 x86: Mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation XSA-186, CVE-2016-7093 1374471 x86 HVM: Overflow of shctxt-segreg XSA-187, CVE-2016-7094 1374473 Note that Tenable Network Security has...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wpa_supplicant (SUSE-SU-2016:2305-1)

This update for wpasupplicant fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-4141: WPS UPnP vulnerability with HTTP chunked transfer encoding. bnc930077 - CVE-2015-4142: Integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing. bnc930078 - CVE-2015-4143: EAP-pwd missing payload length validation...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities (USN-3079-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3079-1 advisory. A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, ...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : openjdk-6 vulnerabilities (USN-3077-1)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-3458 Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability. An attacker...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : libidn (SUSE-SU-2016:2291-1)

This update for libidn fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-6262 and CVE-2015-8948: Out-of-bounds-read when reading one zero byte as input bsc990189 - CVE-2016-6261: Out-of-bounds stack read in idnatoascii4i bsc990190 - CVE-2016-6263: stringpreputf8nfkcnormalize reject invalid UTF-8 bsc990191 ...

Fedora 23 : phpMyAdmin (2016-06e4de8210)

phpMyAdmin 4.6.4 2016-08-16 ============================= This release includes many security fixes of various levels of severity. Upstream recommends all users upgrade to this release immediately. For full information on the vulnerabilities fixed and mitigation factors for users who are unable t...