Fedora 24 : pcre (2017-3b367c896f)

This release fixes a crash when finding a Unicode property for a character with a code point greater than 0x10ffff in UTF-32 library while UTF mode is disabled and JIT mde enabled. It also fixes a buffer overlflow in pcretest tool when copying a string in UTF-32 mode. Note that Tenable Network...

PT-2018-3744

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.8 Firefox versions prior to 52.8 Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 52.8 Thunderbird versions prior to 52.8 Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow that occurs during the conversion of a UTF-8 stri...

PT-2018-16785

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.7 Thunderbird versions prior to 52.7 Description An integer overflow can occur during the conversion of text to some Unicode character sets due to an unchecked length parameter. Recommendations For Firefox ESR...

ansible -- Input validation flaw in jinja2 templating system

RedHat security team reports: An input validation flaw was found in Ansible, where it fails to properly mark lookup-plugin results as unsafe. If an attacker could control the results of lookup calls, they could inject Unicode strings to be parsed by the jinja2 templating system, result in code...

Mozilla: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert with CSS animations. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.1, Firefox ESR 52.1, and Firefox 53...

PT-2017-3949

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ansible versions 2.3.1.0 and 2.4.0.0 and earlier Description The issue is related to insufficient input validation in Ansible. An attacker could exploit this by controlling the results of lookup calls, injecting Unicode strings to be parsed by...

USN-3274-1 icu vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ICU incorrectly handled certain memory operations when processing data. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, a remote attacker could possibly cause it to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (EulerOS-SA-2016-1015)

According to the versions of the java-1.7.0-openjdk packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Multiple flaws were discovered in the Serialization and Hotspot components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could...

Combining fonts

I love the font Just Another Hand, I use it a lot in diagrams during my talks: Here it is! Yay! The thing is, I don't like the positioning of the hyphen & equals glyphs… Cache-Control: max-age=3600 They look awkwardly positioned – they sit too high. Thankfully CSS lets you merge fonts together, s...

Combining fonts

&&&& I love the font Just Another Hand, I use it a lot in diagrams during my talks: Here it is! Yay! The thing is, I don't like the positioning of the hyphen & equals glyphs… Cache-Control: max-age=3600 They look awkwardly positioned – they sit too high. Thankfully CSS lets you merge fonts...

Faking Domain Names with Unicode Characters

It's things like this that make phishing attacks easier. News article...

Google Chrome International Components for Unicode for C/C++ Denial of Service Vulnerability

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google, Inc.International Components for Unicode ICU for C/C++ is a Unicode-supported, software internationalization, globalization C/C++ library. ICU for C/C++ in Google Chrome versions prior to 40.0.2214.91 A security vulnerability exists in the Regul...

Fedora 25 : pcre (2017-b4d4a46af6)

This release fixes a crash when finding a Unicode property for a character with a code point greater than 0x10ffff in UTF-32 library while UTF mode is disabled and JIT mde enabled. It also fixes a buffer overlflow in pcretest tool when copying a string in UTF-32 mode. Note that Tenable Network...

CVE-2014-9654

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode ICU for C/C++ before 2014-12-03, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, calculates certain values without ensuring that they can be represented in a 24-bit field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9654

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode ICU for C/C++ before 2014-12-03, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, calculates certain values without ensuring that they can be represented in a 24-bit field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...

Fedora 25 : pcre2 (2017-9c6430c2e2)

This release fixes a crash when finding a Unicode property for a character with a code point greater than 0x10ffff in UTF-32 library while UTF mode is disabled and JIT mode is enabled. It also fixes an incortect cast in UTF validation routine. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

CVE-2014-9654: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode ICU for C/C++ before 2014-12-03, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, calculates certain values without ensuring that they can be represented in a 24-bit field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...

Mozilla: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert with CSS animations. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.1, Firefox ESR 52.1, and Firefox 53...

FreeBSD : icu -- multiple vulnerabilities (607f8b57-7454-42c6-a88a-8706f327076d)

NVD reports : International Components for Unicode ICU for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the utf8TextAccess function in common/utext.cpp and the utextsetNativeIndex function. International Components for Unicode ICU for C/C++...

Google Fixes Unicode Phishing Vulnerability in Chrome 58, Firefox Stands Pat

Google fixed a handful of issues when it released the latest version of its browser, Chrome 58, on Wednesday, including a vulnerability that could have made it easier for an attacker to carry out a phishing attack with Unicode domains. The vulnerability, based on Punycode – a way to represent...