xen-kernel -- x86 shadow pagetables: address width overflow

The Xen Project reports: In the x86 shadow pagetable code, the guest frame number of a superpage mapping is stored in a 32-bit field. If a shadowed guest can cause a superpage mapping of a guest-physical address at or above 2^44 to be shadowed, the top bits of the address will be lost, causing an...

perl5 -- taint mechanism bypass vulnerability

MITRE reports: Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp...

tiff -- denial of service

Aladdin Mubaied reports: Buffer-overflow in gif2tiff utility...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: A problem parsing resource record signatures for DNAME resource records can lead to an assertion failure in resolver.c or db.c...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 6 security fixes in this release, including: 546677 High CVE-2016-1622: Same-origin bypass in Extensions. Credit to anonymous. 577105 High CVE-2016-1623: Same-origin bypass in DOM. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski. 509313 Medium CVE-2016-1625: Navigation bypass in Chrome...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC support

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw. It occurs when a guest repeatedly tries to activate the vmxnet3 device. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to leak...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2015-134 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:43.0 / rv:38.5 MFSA 2015-135 Crash with JavaScript variable assignment with unboxed objects MFSA 2015-136 Same-origin policy violation using perfomance.getEntries and history navigation MFSA 2015-137 Firefox allows...

lldpd -- Buffer overflow/Denial of service

The lldpd developer Vincent Bernat reports: A buffer overflow may allow arbitrary code execution only if hardening was disabled. Malformed packets should not make lldpd crash. Ensure we can handle them by not using assert in this part...

wordpress -- XSS vulnerability

Gary Pendergast reports: WordPress versions 4.2.2 and earlier are affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could allow users with the Contributor or Author role to compromise a site. This was reported by Jon Cave and fixed by Robert Chapin, both of the WordPress security team...

Adobe Flash Player -- critical vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player. These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit targeting CVE-2015-5119 has been publicly published...

cups -- multiple vulnerabilities

CUPS development team reports: The new release addresses two security vulnerabilities, add localizations for German and Russian, and includes several general bug fixes. Changes include: Security: Fixed CERT VU 810572/CVE-2015-1158/CVE-2015-1159 exploiting the dynamic linker STR 4609 Security: The...

xen-tools -- HVM qemu unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA graphics backends

The Xen Project reports: When instantiating an emulated VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu will by default enable a backend to expose that device, either SDL or VNC depending on the version of qemu and the build time configuration. The libxl toolstack library does not explicitly disable these...

asterisk -- Mitigation for libcURL HTTP request injection vulnerability

The Asterisk project reports: CVE-2014-8150 reported an HTTP request injection vulnerability in libcURL. Asterisk uses libcURL in its funccurl.so module the CURL dialplan function, as well as its resconfigcurl.so cURL realtime backend modules. Since Asterisk may be configured to allow for...

asterisk -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The Asterisk project reports: AST-2014-014 - High call load may result in hung channels in ConfBridge. AST-2014-017 - Permission escalation through ConfBridge actions/dialplan functions...

subversion -- several vulnerabilities

Subversion Project reports: Using the Serf RA layer of Subversion for HTTPS uses the aprfnmatch API to handle matching wildcards in certificate Common Names and Subject Alternate Names. However, aprfnmatch is not designed for this purpose. Instead it is designed to behave like common shell...

lighttpd -- multiple vulnerabilities

lighttpd security advisories report: It is possible to inadvertantly enable vulnerable ciphers when using ssl.cipher-list. In certain cases setuid and similar can fail, potentially triggering lighttpd to restart running as root. If FAMMonitorDirectory fails, the memory intended to store the conte...

ruby -- Heap Overflow in Floating Point Parsing

Ruby developers report: Any time a string is converted to a floating point value, a specially crafted string can cause a heap overflow. This can lead to a denial of service attack via segmentation faults and possibly arbitrary code execution. Any program that converts input of unknown origin to...

devel/subversion -- contrib hook-scripts can allow arbitrary code execution

Subversion team reports: The script contrib/hook-scripts/check-mime-type.pl does not escape argv arguments to 'svnlook' that start with a hyphen. This could be used to cause 'svnlook', and hence check-mime-type.pl, to error out. The script contrib/hook-scripts/svn-keyword-check.pl parses filename...

nginx -- multiple vulnerabilities

The nginx project reports: A stack-based buffer overflow might occur in a worker process process while handling a specially crafted request, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. CVE-2013-2028 A security problem related to CVE-2013-2028 was identified, affecting some previous nginx...

stunnel -- Remote Code Execution

Michal Trojnara reports: 64-bit versions of stunnel with the following conditions: NTLM authentication enabled CONNECT protocol negotiation enabled Configured in SSL client mode An attacker that can either control the proxy server specified in the "connect" option or execute MITM attacks on the T...

sudo -- Potential bypass of tty_tickets constraints

Todd Miller reports: A potentially malicious program run by a user with sudo access may be able to bypass the "ttyticket" constraints. In order for this to succeed there must exist on the machine a terminal device that the user has previously authenticated themselves on via sudo within the last...

www/chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 129898 High CVE-2012-2842: Use-after-free in counter handling. Credit to miaubiz. 130595 High CVE-2012-2843: Use-after-free in layout height tracking. Credit to miaubiz. 133450 High CVE-2012-2844: Bad object access with JavaScript in PDF. Credit to Alexey Samsonov ...

php5-sqlite -- open_basedir bypass

MITRE CVE team reports: The SQLite functionality in PHP before 5.3.15 allows remote attackers to bypass the openbasedir protection mechanism via unspecified vectors...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wordpress reports: External code has been updated to non-vulnerable versions. In addition the following bugs have been fixed: Limited privilege escalation where a site administrator could deactivate network-wide plugins when running a WordPress network under particular circumstances. Cross-site...

OpenTTD -- Denial of service (server) via slow read attack

The OpenTTD Team reports: Using a slow read type attack it is possible to prevent anyone from joining a server with virtually no resources. Once downloading the map no other downloads of the map can start, so downloading really slowly will prevent others from joining. This can be further aggravat...

acroread9 -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

The Adobe Security Team reports: An unspecified vulnerability in the U3D component allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service attack via unknown vectors. A heap-based buffer overflow allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

FreeBSD -- errors handling corrupt compress file in compress(1) and gzip(1)

Problem Description: The code used to decompress a file created by compress1 does not do sufficient boundary checks on compressed code words, allowing reference beyond the decompression table, which may result in a stack overflow or an infinite loop when the decompressor encounters a corrupted fi...

quagga -- multiple vulnerabilities

CERT-FI reports: Five vulnerabilities have been found in the BGP, OSPF, and OSPFv3 components of Quagga. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially to execute his own code by sending a specially modified packets to an affected server. Routing messages are...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2011-29 Security issues addressed in Firefox 6 MFSA 2011-28 Security issues addressed in Firefox 3.6.20...

isc-dhcp-server -- server halt upon processing certain packets

ISC reports: A pair of defects cause the server to halt upon processing certain packets. The patch is to properly discard or process those packets...

linux-flashplugin -- remote code execution vulnerability

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: A critical vulnerability exists in Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier for Chrome users for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2010-07 Fixes for potentially exploitable crashes ported to the legacy branch MFSA 2010-06 Scriptable plugin execution in SeaMonkey mail MFSA 2009-68 NTLM reflection vulnerability MFSA 2009-62 Download filename spoofing with RTL override MFSA 2009-59 Heap buffer...

libtool -- Library Search Path Privilege Escalation Issue

Secunia.com Do not attempt to load an unqualified module.la file from the current directory by default since doing so is insecure and is not compliant with the documentation...

OpenLDAP -- incorrect handling of NULL in certificate Common Name

Jan Lieskovsky reports: OpenLDAP does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authori...

apache22 -- several vulnerabilities

Apache ChangeLog reports: CVE-2009-1891: Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against moddeflate or other modules. CVE-2009-1195: Prevent the "Includes" Option from being enabled in an .htaccess file if the AllowOverride restrictions do not permit it. CVE-2009-1890: Fix a potential...

pngcrush -- libpng Uninitialised Pointer Arrays Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Pngcrush, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to the use of vulnerable libpng code...

moinmoin -- multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in MoinMoin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to multiple parameters in action/AttachFile.py is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited ...

clamav -- off-by-one heap overflow in VBA project parser

Advisory from Moritz Jodeit, November 8th, 2008: ClamAV contains an off-by-one heap overflow vulnerability in the code responsible for parsing VBA project files. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the clamd' process by sending an email...

qemu -- Heap overflow in Cirrus emulation

Aurelien Jarno reports: CVE-2008-4539: fix a heap overflow in Cirrus emulation The code in hw/cirrusvga.c has changed a lot between CVE-2007-1320 has been announced and the patch has been applied. As a consequence it has wrongly applied and QEMU is still vulnerable to this bug if using VNC...

ruby -- multiple vulnerabilities in safe level

The official ruby site reports: Several vulnerabilities in safe level have been discovereds:. untracevar is permitted at safe level 4; $PROGRAMNAME may be modified at safe level 4; insecure methods may be called at safe level 1-3; syslog operations are permitted at safe level 4; dl doesn't check...

squirrelmail -- Cross site scripting in HTML filter

The SquirrelMail developers report: Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the HTML filter in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9a allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 data: URI in an HTML e-mail attachment or 2 various non-ASCII character sets that a...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PHP, including: buffer overflows, stack overflows, format string, and information disclosure vulnerabilities. The session extension contained safemode and openbasedir bypasses, but the FreeBSD Security Officer does not consider these real security...

lighttpd -- Remote DOS in CRLF parsing

Lighttpd SA: If the connection aborts during parsing "\r\n\r\n" the server might get into a infinite loop and use 100% of the CPU time. lighttpd still responses to other requests. This can be repeated until either the server limit for concurrent connections or file descriptors is reached. The bug...

proftpd -- remote code execution vulnerabilities

The proftpd development team reports that several remote buffer overflows had been found in the proftpd server...

netpbm -- buffer overflow in pnmtopng

Ubuntu reports: A buffer overflow was found in the "pnmtopng" conversion program. By tricking an user or automated system to process a specially crafted PNM image with pnmtopng, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pnmtopng...

firefox & mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Foundation reports of multiple security vulnerabilities in Firefox and Mozilla: MFSA 2005-56 Code execution through shared function objects MFSA 2005-55 XHTML node spoofing MFSA 2005-54 Javascript prompt origin spoofing MFSA 2005-53 Standalone applications can run arbitrary code throu...

gaim -- Yahoo! remote crash vulnerability

Jacopo Ottaviani reports that Gaim can be crashed by being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters via the Yahoo! protocol...

kernel -- information disclosure when using HTT

Problem description and impact When running on processors supporting Hyper-Threading Technology, it is possible for a malicious thread to monitor the execution of another thread. Information may be disclosed to local users, allowing in many cases for privilege escalation. For example, on a...

postgresql -- character conversion and tsearch2 vulnerabilities

The postgresql development team reports: The more severe of the two errors is that the functions that support client-to-server character set conversion can be called from SQL commands by unprivileged users, but these functions are not designed to be safe against malicious choices of argument...

mysql -- mysql_real_connect buffer overflow vulnerability

The mysqlrealconnect function doesn't properly handle DNS replies by copying the IP address into a buffer without any length checking. A specially crafted DNS reply may therefore be used to cause a buffer overflow on affected systems. Note that whether this issue can be exploitable depends on the...