OpenVPN -- several vulnerabilities

Samuli Seppänen reports: In May/June 2017 Guido Vranken threw a fuzzer at OpenVPN 2.4.2. In the process he found several vulnerabilities and reported them to the OpenVPN project. ... The first releases to have these fixes are OpenVPN 2.4.3 and 2.3.17. This is a list of fixed important...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: Please reference CVE/URL list for details...

typo3 -- Missing access check in Extbase

TYPO3 reports: Extbase request handling fails to implement a proper access check for requested controller/ action combinations, which makes it possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary Extbase actions by crafting a special request. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must...

jenkins -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jenkins Security Advisory: Description SECURITY-232 / CVE-2016-0788Remote code execution vulnerability in remoting module A vulnerability in the Jenkins remoting module allowed unauthenticated remote attackers to open a JRMP listener on the server hosting the Jenkins master process, which allowed...

nghttp2 -- Out of memory in nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2_asio

Nghttp2 reports: Out of memory in nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2asio applications due to unlimited incoming HTTP header fields. nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2asio applications do not limit the memory usage for the incoming HTTP header field. If peer sends specially crafted HTTP/2 HEADERS frames...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 43 security fixes in this release, including: 446032 High CVE-2015-1271: Heap-buffer-overflow in pdfium. Credit to cloudfuzzer. 459215 High CVE-2015-1273: Heap-buffer-overflow in pdfium. Credit to makosoft. 461858 High CVE-2015-1274: Settings allowed executable fil...

krb5 -- Vulnerabilities in kadmind, libgssrpc, gss_process_context_token VU#540092

MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2015-001 reports: CVE-2014-5352: In the MIT krb5 libgssapikrb5 library, after gssprocesscontexttoken is used to process a valid context deletion token, the caller is left with a security context handle containing a dangling pointer. Further uses of this handle will resu...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS and DoS vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: DoS vulnerability with long passwords. With very long passwords it was possible to initiate a denial of service attack on phpMyAdmin. We consider this vulnerability to be serious. This vulnerability can be mitigated by configuring throttling in the...

bash -- out-of-bounds memory access in parser

RedHat security team reports: It was discovered that the fixed-sized redirstack could be forced to overflow in the Bash parser, resulting in memory corruption, and possibly leading to arbitrary code execution when evaluating untrusted input that would not otherwise be run as code. An off-by-one...

cacti -- allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands

Cacti release reports: Multiple security vulnerabilities have been fixed: SQL injection vulnerabilities...

puppet27 and puppet -- multiple vulnerabilities

Moses Mendoza reports: A vulnerability found in Puppet could allow an authenticated client to cause the master to execute arbitrary code while responding to a catalog request. Specifically, in order to exploit the vulnerability, the puppet master must be made to invoke the 'template' or...

OpenSSL -- TLS 1.1, 1.2 denial of service

OpenSSL security team reports: A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of CBC mode ciphersuites in TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 on AES-NI supporting platforms can be exploited in a DoS attack. A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of OCSP response verification can be exploited in a denial of service attack...

openjpeg -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Openjpeg release notes report: That CVE-2012-3535 and CVE-2012-3358 are fixed in the 1.5.1 release. That CVE-2013-4289, CVE-2013-4290, CVE-2013-1447, CVE-2013-6045, CVE-2013-6052, CVE-2013-6054, CVE-2013-6053, CVE-2013-6887, where fixed in the 1.5.2 release...

phpMyAdmin -- Path disclosure due to missing verification of file presence

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: The showconfigerrors.php scripts did not validate the presence of the configuration file, so an error message shows the full path of this file, leading to possible further attacks. For the error messages to be displayed, php.ini's errorreporting must be se...

Apache -- Insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH handling

Apache reports: Insecure handling of LDLIBRARYPATH was found that could lead to the current working directory to be searched for DSOs. This could allow a local user to execute code as root if an administrator runs apachectl from an untrusted directory...

Multiple implementations -- DoS via hash algorithm collision

oCERT reports: A variety of programming languages suffer from a denial-of-service DoS condition against storage functions of key/value pairs in hash data structures, the condition can be leveraged by exploiting predictable collisions in the underlying hashing algorithms. The issue finds particula...

postfix -- plaintext command injection with SMTP over TLS

Wietse Venema has discovered a software flaw that allows an attacker to inject client commands into an SMTP session during the unprotected plaintext SMTP protocol phase, such that the server will execute those commands during the SMTP- over-TLS protocol phase when all communication is supposed to...

proftpd -- remote code execution vulnerability

Tippingpoint reports: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of ProFTPD. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The flaw exists within the proftpd server component which listens by default on TCP port 21. When readin...

libcdaudio -- remote buffer overflow and code execution

securityfocus reports: The 'libcdaudio' library is prone to a remote heap code in the context of an application that uses the library. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. A buffer-overflow in Grip occurs when the software processes a response to a CDDB query that has more than...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Foundation reports of multiple security issues in Firefox, Seamonkey, and Thunderbird. Several of these issues can probably be used to run arbitrary code with the privilege of the user running the program. Web forgery overwrite with div overlay URL token stealing via stylesheet redire...

squid -- buffer overflow vulnerability in gopherToHTML

The squid patches page notes: A malicious gopher server may return a response with very long lines that cause a buffer overflow in Squid. Workaround: Since gopher is very obscure these days, do not allow Squid to any gopher servers. Use an ACL rule like: acl Gopher proto gopher httpaccess deny...

libpng denial-of-service

Steve Grubb reports a buffer read overrun in libpng's pngformatbuffer function. A specially constructed PNG image processed by an application using libpng may trigger the buffer read overrun and possibly result in an application crash...

bind8 negative cache poison attack

A programming error in BIND 8 named can result in a DNS message being incorrectly cached as a negative response. As a result, an attacker may arrange for malicious DNS messages to be delivered to a target name server, and cause that name server to cache a negative response for some target domain...

vscode -- multiple vulnerabilities

VSCode developers report: The update addresses these issues, including a fix for a security vulnerability. Scope nodemodule binary resolution in js-debug Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability with VS Code server for web UI...

electron{24,25} -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-4763. Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-4762. Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-4761. Security: backported fix for CVE-2023-4863...

git -- Local clone-based data exfiltration with non-local transports

git team reports: Using a specially-crafted repository, Git can be tricked into using its local clone optimization even when using a non-local transport. Though Git will abort local clones whose source $GITDIR/objects directory contains symbolic links c.f., CVE-2022-39253, the objects directory...

MariaDB -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The MariaDB project reports: Multiple vulnerabilities, mostly segfaults, in the server component...

OpenSSL -- Command injection vulnerability

The OpenSSL project reports: Circumstances where the crehash script does not properly sanitise shell metacharacters to prevent command injection were found by code review...

rsyslog8 -- heap buffer overflow on receiving TCP syslog

Rainer Gerhards reports: Modules for TCP syslog reception have a heap buffer overflow when octet-counted framing is used. The attacker can corrupt heap values, leading to data integrity issues and availability impact. Remote code execution is unlikely to happen but not impossible...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases reports: This release contains 28 security fixes, including: 1292261 High CVE-2022-1125: Use after free in Portals. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2022-01-29 1291891 High CVE-2022-1127: Use after free in QR Code Generator. Reported by anonymous on 2022-01-28 1301920 High CVE-2022-112...

mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mediawiki reports: T292763. CVE-2021-44854 REST API incorrectly publicly caches autocomplete search results from private wikis. T271037, CVE-2021-44856 Title blocked in AbuseFilter can be created via Special:ChangeContentModel. T297322, CVE-2021-44857 Unauthorized users can use action=mcrundo to...

seatd-launch -- privilege escalation with SUID

Kenny Levinsen reports: seatd-launch used execlp, which reads the PATH environment variable to search for the requested executable, to execute seatd. This meant that the caller could freely control what executable was loaded by adding a user-writable directory to PATH. If seatd-launch had the SUI...

cURL -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The cURL project reports: CURLOPTSSLCERT mixup with Secure Transport CVE-2021-22926 TELNET stack contents disclosure again CVE-2021-22925 Bad connection reuse due to flawed path name checks CVE-2021-92254 Metalink download sends credentials CVE-2021-92253 Wrong content via metalink not discarded...

go -- encoding/xml: infinite loop when using xml.NewTokenDecoder with a custom TokenReader; archive/zip: panic when calling Reader.Open

The Go project reports: The Decode, DecodeElement, and Skip methods of an xml.Decoder provided by xml.NewTokenDecoder may enter an infinite loop when operating on a custom xml.TokenReader which returns an EOF in the middle of an open XML element. The Reader.Open API, new in Go 1.16, will panic wh...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases reports: This release contains 36 security fixes, including: 1137179 Critical CVE-2021-21117: Insufficient policy enforcement in Cryptohome. Reported by Rory McNamara on 2020-10-10 1161357 High CVE-2021-21118: Insufficient data validation in V8. Reported by Tyler Nighswander...

Python -- Regular Expression DoS attack against client

Ben Caller and Matt Schwager reports: Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service ReDoS attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler...

webkit2-gtk3 -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The WebKitGTK project reports multiple vulnerabilities...

TYPO3 -- multiple vulnerabilities

TYPO3 news: Please read the corresponding Security Advisories for details...

OpenSSL -- Cache timing vulnerability

The OpenSSL project reports: The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could recover the private key...

wget -- Stack overflow in HTTP protocol handling

Antti Levomäki, Christian Jalio, Joonas Pihlaja: Wget contains two vulnerabilities, a stack overflow and a heap overflow, in the handling of HTTP chunked encoding. By convincing a user to download a specific link over HTTP, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

Supervisord -- An authenticated client can run arbitrary shell commands via malicious XML-RPC requests

mnaberez reports: supervisord can be configured to run an HTTP server on a TCP socket and/or a Unix domain socket. The HTTP server is how supervisorctl communicates with supervisord. If an HTTP server has been enabled, it will always serve both HTML pages and an XML-RPC interface. A vulnerability...

Joomla! -- multiple vulnerabilities

The JSST and the Joomla! Security Center report: 20161201 - Core - Elevated Privileges Incorrect use of unfiltered data stored to the session on a form validation failure allows for existing user accounts to be modified; to include resetting their username, password, and user group assignments...

moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities

Marina Glancy reports: MSA-16-0023: Question engine allows access to files that should not be available MSA-16-0024: Non-admin site managers may accidentally edit admins via web services MSA-16-0025: Capability to view course notes is checked in the wrong context MSA-16-0026: When debugging is...

tiff -- buffer overflow

Mathias Svensson reports: potential buffer write overrun in PixarLogDecode on corrupted/unexpected images...

proftpd -- vulnerability in mod_tls

MITRE reports: The modtls module in ProFTPD before 1.3.5b and 1.3.6 before 1.3.6rc2 does not properly handle the TLSDHParamFile directive, which might cause a weaker than intended Diffie-Hellman DH key to be used and consequently allow attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors...

openldap -- denial of service vulnerability

Denis Andzakovic reports: By sending a crafted packet, an attacker may cause the OpenLDAP server to reach an assert9 9 statement, crashing the daemon...

FreeBSD -- Resource exhaustion due to sessions stuck in LAST_ACK state

Problem Description: TCP connections transitioning to the LASTACK state can become permanently stuck due to mishandling of protocol state in certain situations, which in turn can lead to accumulated consumption and eventual exhaustion of system resources, such as mbufs and sockets. Impact: An...

xen-tools -- Potential unintended writes to host MSI message data field via qemu

The Xen Project reports: Logic is in place to avoid writes to certain host config space fields when the guest must nevertheless be able to access their virtual counterparts. A bug in how this logic deals with accesses spanning multiple fields allows the guest to write to the host MSI message data...

phpMyAdmin -- XSRF and man-in-the-middle vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: XSRF/CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin setup. By deceiving a user to click on a crafted URL, it is possible to alter the configuration file being generated with phpMyAdmin setup. This vulnerability only affects the configuration file generation process and...

mysql -- SSL Downgrade

Duo Security reports: Researchers have identified a serious vulnerability in some versions of Oracle’s MySQL database product that allows an attacker to strip SSL/TLS connections of their security wrapping transparently...