Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Batik vulnerability (USN-2548-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2548-1 advisory. Nicolas Gregoire and Kevin Schaller discovered that Batik would load XML external entities by default. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a...

Debian DLA-98-1 : openvpn security update

Dragana Damjanovic discovered that an authenticated client could crash an OpenVPN server by sending a control packet containing less than four bytes as payload. For the oldstable distribution squeeze, this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.3-2+squeeze3 in squeeze-lts. We recommend that you...

Debian DLA-47-1 : lua5.1 security update

Fix stack overflow in vararg functions. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Debian DLA-95-1 : clamav security update

Two bugs were discovered in clamav and are fixed by this release. One issue is in clamscan, the command line anti-virus scanner included in the package, which could lead to crashes when scanning certain files. CVE-2013-6497 The second issue is in libclamav which caused a heap buffer overflow when...

Debian DLA-104-1 : pdns-recursor security update

Florian Maury from ANSSI discovered a flaw in pdns-recursor, a recursive DNS server : a remote attacker controlling maliciously-constructed zones or a rogue server could affect the performance of pdns-recursor, thus leading to resource exhaustion and a potential denial of service. NOTE: Tenable...

Debian DLA-106-1 : getmail4 security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in getmail4, a mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS, that could allow man-in-the-middle attacks. CVE-2014-7273 The IMAP-over-SSL implementation in getmail 4.0.0 through 4.43.0 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which...

Debian DLA-109-1 : libyaml-libyaml-perl security update

Jonathan Gray and Stanislaw Pitucha found an assertion failure in the way wrapped strings are parsed in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an application using libyaml could cause the application to crash. This update...

Debian DLA-27-1 : file security update

Fix various denial of service attacks : CVE-2014-3487 The cdfreadpropertyinfo function does not properly validate a stream offset, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted CDF file. CVE-2014-3480 The cdfcountchain function in cdf.c in does not...

Debian DLA-88-1 : ruby1.8 security update

This update fixes multiple local and remote denial of service and remote code execute problems : CVE-2011-0188 Properly allocate memory, to prevent arbitrary code execution or application crash. Reported by Drew Yao. CVE-2011-2686 Reinitialize the random seed when forking to prevent CVE-2003-0900...

Debian DLA-113-1 : bsd-mailx security update

It was discovered that bsd-mailx, an implementation of the 'mail' command, had an undocumented feature which treats syntactically valid email addresses as shell commands to execute. Users who need this feature can re-enable it using the 'expandaddr' in an appropriate mailrc file. This update also...

Debian DLA-158-1 : request-tracker3.8 security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Request Tracker, an extensible trouble-ticket tracking system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : CVE-2014-9472 Christian Loos discovered a remote denial of service vulnerability, exploitable via th...

Debian DLA-177-1 : openssl security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues : CVE-2015-0209 It was discovered that a malformed EC private key might result in memory corruption. CVE-2015-0286 Stephen...

Debian DLA-87-1 : dbus security update

This updates fixes multiple local denial of services discovered by Alban Crequy and Simon McVittie. CVE-2014-3477 Fix a denial of service failure to obtain bus name in newly-activated system services that not all users are allowed to access. CVE-2014-3638 Reduce maximum number of pending replies...

Debian DLA-140-1 : rpm security update

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in rpm : CVE-2014-8118 Fix integer overflow which allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2013-6435 Prevent remote attackers from executing arbitrary code via crafted RPM files. CVE-2012-0815 Fix denial of service and possible code execution...

Debian DLA-156-1 : samba security update

Richard van Eeden of Microsoft Vulnerability Research discovered that Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix, contains a flaw in the netlogon server code which allows remote code execution with root privileges from an unauthenticated connection. For the oldstable distribution...

Debian DLA-144-1 : polarssl security update

A vulnerability was discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw using specially crafted certificates to mount a denial of service against an application linked against the library application crash, or potentially, to execute arbitra...

Debian DLA-74-1 : ppp security update

This updates fixes a potential integer overflow in option parsing. A user in the group 'dip' could provide a specially crafted configuration file of more than 2G and generate an integer overflow. This may enable an attacker to overwrite the heap and thereby corrupt security-relevant variables. Se...

Debian DLA-84-1 : curl security update

Symeon Paraschoudis discovered that the curleasyduphandle function in cURL, an URL transfer library, has a bug that can lead to libcurl eventually sending off sensitive data that was not intended for sending, while performing a HTTP POST operation. This bug requires CURLOPTCOPYPOSTFIELDS and...

Debian DLA-173-1 : putty security update

MATTA-2015-002 Florent Daigniere discovered that PuTTY did not enforce an acceptable range for the Diffie-Hellman server value, as required by RFC 4253, potentially allowing an eavesdroppable connection to be established in the event of a server weakness. 779488 CVE-2015-2157 Patrick Coleman...

Debian DLA-119-1 : subversion security update

Evgeny Kotkov discovered a NULL pointer dereference while processing REPORT requests in moddavsvn, the Subversion component which is used to serve repositories with the Apache web server. A remote attacker could abuse this vulnerability for a denial of service. We recommend that you upgrade your...