USN-3477-3 firefox regressions

USN-3477-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced various minor regressions. This update fixes the problems. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafte...

kernel: information leak due to a data race in ALSA timer

It was found that the timer functionality in the Linux kernel ALSA subsystem is prone to a race condition between read and ioctl system call handlers, resulting in an uninitialized memory disclosure to user space. A local user could use this flaw to read information belonging to other users...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

kernel: information leak due to a data race in ALSA timer

It was found that the timer functionality in the Linux kernel ALSA subsystem is prone to a race condition between read and ioctl system call handlers, resulting in an uninitialized memory disclosure to user space. A local user could use this flaw to read information belonging to other users...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel: information leak due to a data race in ALSA timer

It was found that the timer functionality in the Linux kernel ALSA subsystem is prone to a race condition between read and ioctl system call handlers, resulting in an uninitialized memory disclosure to user space. A local user could use this flaw to read information belonging to other users...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox regression (USN-3477-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3477-2 advisory. USN-3477-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused search suggestions to not be displayed when performing Google searches from the search...

USN-3477-2: Firefox regression

USN-3477-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused search suggestions to not be displayed when performing Google searches from the search bar. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in...

CVE-2017-16994

The walkhugetlbrange function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory via crafted use of the mincore system call...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16994

The walkhugetlbrange function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory via crafted use of the mincore system call...

Microsoft Windows win32kbase!NtQueryCompositionInputQueueAndTransform Kernel Stack Memory Disclosure

The win32k!NtQueryCompositionInputQueueAndTransform system call may disclose portions of uninitialized kernel stack memory to user-mode clients on Windows 10. Windows Kernel stack memory disclosure in win32kbase!NtQueryCompositionInputQueueAndTransform We have discovered that the...

Linux mincore() Kernel Heap Page Disclosure

Linux: mincore discloses uninitialized kernel heap pages I found the following bug with an AFL-based fuzzer: When walkpagerange is used on a VMHUGETLB VMA, callbacks from the mmwalk structure are only invoked for present pages. However, domincore assumes that it will always get callbacks for all...

Linux Kernel - mincore() Uninitialized Kernel Heap Page Disclosure

Linux Kernel - mincore Uninitialized Kernel Heap Page Disclosure / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1431 I found the following bug with an AFL-based fuzzer: When walkpagerange is used on a VMHUGETLB VMA, callbacks from the mmwalk structure are only invoked for...

RHEL 6 / 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.18 (RHSA-2017:3240)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3240 advisory. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server. This release...

FreeBSD Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-37251)

FreeBSD is a set of Unix-like free operating systems in the FreeBSD project, headed by the Core Team team, and is an important branch of Unix-like systems that have evolved through BSD, 386BSD, and 4.4BSD. A security vulnerability exists in FreeBSD that stems from a program failing to properly...

CVE-2017-11017

In android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, while flashing a specially crafted UBI image, it is possible to corrupt memory, or access uninitialized memory...

CVE-2017-11017

CVE-2017-11017 affects Android builds for MSM (including CAF-derived kernel variants) and related Android forks (Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android). The issue arises when flashing a specially crafted UBI image, causing memory corruption or access to uninitialized memory in the Linux kernel used by ...

httpd: Uninitialized memory reflection in mod_auth_digest

It was discovered that the httpd's modauthdigest module did not properly initialize memory before using it when processing certain headers related to digest authentication. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose potentially sensitive information or cause httpd child process to...

httpd: Uninitialized memory reflection in mod_auth_digest

It was discovered that the httpd's modauthdigest module did not properly initialize memory before using it when processing certain headers related to digest authentication. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose potentially sensitive information or cause httpd child process to...