Iceni Argus PDF Uninitialized WordStyle Color Length Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable uninitialized variable vulnerability which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow exists in Iceni Argus. When it attempts to convert a malformed PDF to XML a stack variable will be left uninitialized which will later be used to fetch a length that is used in a copy operatio...

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC jpeg decoder Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary A use of uninitialized memory vulnerability exists in JPEG image file format decoding code of Adobe Acrobat Reader which ultimately leads to a heap-based buffer overflow which can be abused to achieve remote code execution. A specially crafted PDF file with an embedded JPEG can trigger th...

Microsoft Office Information Disclosure (MS16-148: CVE-2016-7264)

An information disclosure vulnerability exists within Microsoft Office. The vulnerability occurs due to an out-of-bound memory read as a result of an uninitialized variable, and could be used to disclose the memory content. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a victim to open a...

Microsoft Office Information Disclosure (MS16-148: CVE-2016-7265)

An information disclosure vulnerability was discovered within Microsoft Office. The vulnerability is due to reading out of bound memory due to an uninitialized variable which could disclose the contents of memory. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a victim to open a specially...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9178

The getuserasmex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a getuserex call...

Microsoft Office Word Viewer Information Disclosure Vulnerability (3199168)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS16-133. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

ntp: crash with crafted logconfig configuration command

It was found that ntpd could crash due to an uninitialized variable when processing malformed logconfig configuration commands...

Security update for qemu (important)

qemu was updated to fix 19 security issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-2392: The isrndis function in the USB Net device emulator hw/usb/dev-network.c in QEMU did not properly validate USB configuration descriptor objects, which allowed local guest OS administrators to cause a...

kernel: Uninitialized variable in request_key handling causes kernel crash in error handling path

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's keyring handling code: the keyrejectandlink function could be forced to free an arbitrary memory block. An attacker could use this flaw to trigger a use-after-free condition on the system, potentially allowing for privilege escalation...

CVE-2016-5105

The megasasdcmdcfgread function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU, when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, uses an uninitialized variable, which allows local guest administrators to read host memory via vectors involving a MegaRAID Firmware Interface MFI command...

CVE-2016-5105

The megasasdcmdcfgread function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU, when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, uses an uninitialized variable, which allows local guest administrators to read host memory via vectors involving a MegaRAID Firmware Interface MFI command...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5105

The megasasdcmdcfgread function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU, when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, uses an uninitialized variable, which allows local guest administrators to read host memory via vectors involving a MegaRAID Firmware Interface MFI command...

CVE-2016-5105

The megasasdcmdcfgread function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU, when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, uses an uninitialized variable, which allows local guest administrators to read host memory via vectors involving a MegaRAID Firmware Interface MFI command...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3596)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3596 advisory. - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24402831 CVE-2016-4470 - vfs: add vfsselectinode helper Miklos Szeredi Orabug:...

kernel: Uninitialized variable in request_key handling causes kernel crash in error handling path

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's keyring handling code: the keyrejectandlink function could be forced to free an arbitrary memory block. An attacker could use this flaw to trigger a use-after-free condition on the system, potentially allowing for privilege escalation...

Internet Bug Bounty: Two vulnerabilities in the ssl module

I found two vulnerabilities in python's ssl module. The first is a PyXDECREF call on an object which isn't owned, leading to use-after-free and/or double free scenarios. The second vulnerability is an uninitialized variable use. I described both issues in detail in a mail to the PSRT. The mail an...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-37.6.2 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393865 CVE-2016-4470 - ovl: fix permission checking for setattr Miklos Szeredi Orabug: 24393742 CVE-2015-8660...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.9.2 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393864 CVE-2016-4470...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.283.2 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393863 CVE-2016-4470...

kernel: Uninitialized variable in request_key handling causes kernel crash in error handling path

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's keyring handling code: the keyrejectandlink function could be forced to free an arbitrary memory block. An attacker could use this flaw to trigger a use-after-free condition on the system, potentially allowing for privilege escalation...