libssh -- weak Diffie-Hellman secret generation

Andreas Schneider reports: libssh versions 0.1 and above have a bits/bytes confusion bug and generate an abnormally short ephemeral secret for the diffie-hellman-group1 and diffie-hellman-group14 key exchange methods. The resulting secret is 128 bits long, instead of the recommended sizes of 1024...

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...

NSS -- MD5 downgrade in TLS 1.2 signatures

The Mozilla Project reports: Security researcher Karthikeyan Bhargavan reported an issue in Network Security Services NSS where MD5 signatures in the server signature within the TLS 1.2 ServerKeyExchange message are still accepted. This is an issue since NSS has officially disallowed the acceptin...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in USB EHCI emulation support

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the USB EHCI emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It occurs during communication between host controller interfaceEHCI and a respective device driver. These two communicate via a isochronous...

flash -- remote code execution

Adobe reports: These updates resolve type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2015-7645, CVE-2015-7647, CVE-2015-7648...

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...

xen-tools -- Guest triggerable qemu MSI-X pass-through error messages

The Xen Project reports: Device model code dealing with guest PCI MSI-X interrupt management activities logs messages on certain supposedly invalid guest operations. A buggy or malicious guest repeatedly invoking such operations may result in the host disk to fill up, possibly leading to a Denial...

libxml2 -- Enforce the reader to run in constant memory

Daniel Veilland reports: Enforce the reader to run in constant memory. One of the operation on the reader could resolve entities leading to the classic expansion issue. Make sure the buffer used for xmlreader operation is bounded. Introduce a new allocation type for the buffers for this effect...

rest-client -- plaintext password disclosure

The open sourced vulnerability database reports: REST Client for Ruby contains a flaw that is due to the application logging password information in plaintext. This may allow a local attacker to gain access to password information...

xserver -- multiple issue with X client request handling

Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way the X server code base handles requests from X clients, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. The vulnerabilities cou...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: We have today posted updated versions of 9.9.6 and 9.10.1 to address a significant security vulnerability in DNS resolution. The flaw was discovered by Florian Maury of ANSSI, and applies to any recursive resolver that does not support a limit on the number of recursions...

unzip -- out of boundary access issues in test_compr_eb

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2489-1 reports: Michal Zalewski discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain malformed zip archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code...

libvncserver -- multiple security vulnerabilities

Nicolas Ruff reports: Integer overflow in MallocFrameBuffer on client side. Lack of malloc return value checking on client side. Server crash on a very large ClientCutText message. Server crash when scaling factor is set to zero. Multiple stack overflows in File Transfer feature...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2014-66 IFRAME sandbox same-origin access through redirect MFSA 2014-65 Certificate parsing broken by non-standard character encoding MFSA 2014-64 Crash in Skia library when scaling high quality images MFSA 2014-63 Use-after-free while when manipulating...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django project reports: These releases address an unexpected code-execution issue, a caching issue which can expose CSRF tokens and a MySQL typecasting issue. While these issues present limited risk and may not affect all Django users, we encourage all users to evaluate their own risk and...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 28 security fixes in this release, including: 334897 High CVE-2013-6652: Issue with relative paths in Windows sandbox named pipe policy. Credit to tyranid. 331790 High CVE-2013-6653: Use-after-free related to web contents. Credit to Khalil Zhani. 333176 High...

mumble -- NULL pointer dereference and heap-based buffer overflow

Mumble reports: A malformed Opus voice packet sent to a Mumble client could trigger a NULL pointer dereference or an out-of-bounds array access. A malformed Opus voice packet sent to a Mumble client could trigger a heap-based buffer overflow...

openssl -- multiple vulnerabilities

OpenSSL development team reports: Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014: Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450...

redis -- sensitive information leak through command history file

Redis team reports: The redis-cli history file in linenoise is created with the default OS umask value which makes it world readable in most systems and could potentially expose authentication credentials to other users...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 176882 High CVE-2013-0902: Use-after-free in frame loader. Credit to Chamal de Silva. 176252 High CVE-2013-0903: Use-after-free in browser navigation handling. Credit to "chromium.khalil". 172926 172331 High CVE-2013-0904: Memory corruption in Web Audio. Credit to...

net/openafs -- buffer overflow

Nickolai Zeldovich reports: An attacker with the ability to manipulate AFS directory ACLs may crash the fileserver hosting that volume. In addition, once a corrupt ACL is placed on a fileserver, its existence may crash client utilities manipulating ACLs on that server...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Information Leak If the visibility of a custom field is controlled by a product or a component of a product you cannot see, their names are disclosed in the JavaScript code generated for this...

FreeBSD -- OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities

Problem description: OpenSSL fails to clear the bytes used as block cipher padding in SSL 3.0 records when operating as a client or a server that accept SSL 3.0 handshakes. As a result, in each record, up to 15 bytes of uninitialized memory may be sent, encrypted, to the SSL peer. This could...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS in replication setup

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: It was possible to conduct XSS using a crafted database name...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 73478 Low CVE-2011-3953: Avoid clipboard monitoring after paste event. Credit to Daniel Cheng of the Chromium development community. 92550 Low CVE-2011-3954: Crash with excessive database usage. Credit to Collin Payne. 93106 High CVE-2011-3955: Crash aborting an...

php -- arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a logic error within the "phpregistervariableex" function phpvariables.c when hashing form posts and updating a hash table,...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 106672 High CVE-2011-3921: Use-after-free in animation frames. Credit to Boris Zbarsky of Mozilla. 107128 High CVE-2011-3919: Heap-buffer-overflow in libxml. Credit to Juri Aedla. 108006 High CVE-2011-3922: Stack-buffer-overflow in glyph handling. Credit to Google...

ffmpeg -- multiple vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1320-1 reports: Phillip Langlois discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed QDM2 streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted QDM2 stream file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary...

phpmyadmin -- multiple vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: XSS in table Print view. Via a crafted MIME-type transformation parameter, an attacker can perform a local file inclusion. In the 'relational schema' code a parameter was not sanitized before being used to concatenate a class name. The end result is a loca...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.7 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.186.6 and earlier versions for Android. These vulnerabilities could cau...

isc-dhcp-client -- dhclient does not strip or escape shell meta-characters

ISC reports: ISC dhclient did not strip or escape certain shell meta-characters in responses from the dhcp server like hostname before passing the responses on to dhclient-script. Depending on the script and OS, this can result in execution of exploit code on the client...

php -- crash on crafted tag in exif

US-CERT/NIST reports: exif.c in the Exif extension in PHP before 5.3.6 on 64-bit platforms performs an incorrect cast, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via an image with a crafted Image File Directory IFD that triggers a buffer over-read...

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...

krb5 -- multiple checksum handling vulnerabilities

The MIT Kerberos team reports: MIT krb5 clients incorrectly accept an unkeyed checksums in the SAM-2 preauthentication challenge. An unauthenticated remote attacker could alter a SAM-2 challenge, affecting the prompt text seen by the user or the kind of response sent to the KDC. Under some...

webkit-gtk2 -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Gustavo Noronha Silva reports: With help from Vincent Danen and other members of the Red Hat security team, the following CVE's where fixed...

bugzilla -- information disclosure

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: Normally, information about time-tracking estimated hours, actual hours, hours worked, and deadlines is restricted to users in the "time-tracking group". However, any user was able, by crafting their own search URL, to search for bugs based using those fields...

wget -- multiple HTTP client download filename vulnerability

GNU Wget version 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a...

Wireshark -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark reports: Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly check record sizes for many packet capture file formats Wireshark could dereference a NULL pointer and crash. The RLC dissector could overflow a buffer...

PEAR -- Net_Ping and Net_Traceroute remote arbitrary command injection

PEAR Security Advisory reports: Multiple remote arbitrary command injections have been found in the NetPing and NetTraceroute. When input from forms are used directly, the attacker could pass variables that would allow him to execute remote arbitrary command injections...

libxml -- Stack consumption vulnerability

Stack consumption vulnerability allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD...

mono -- XML signature HMAC truncation spoofing

Secunia reports: A security issue has been reported in Mono, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks. The security issue is caused due to an error when processing certain XML signatures...

isc-dhcp-client -- Stack overflow vulnerability

US-CERT reports: The ISC DHCP dhclient application contains a stack buffer overflow, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges...

phpmyadmin -- insufficient output sanitizing when generating configuration file

phpMyAdmin reports: Setup script used to generate configuration can be fooled using a crafted POST request to include arbitrary PHP code in generated configuration file...

firefox -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2009-06: Directives to not cache pages ignored MFSA 2009-05: XMLHttpRequest allows reading HTTPOnly cookies MFSA 2009-04: Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files MFSA 2009-03: Local file stealing with SessionStore MFSA 2009-02: XSS using a chrome XBL...

dovecot-managesieve -- Script Name Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Secunia reports: The security issue is caused due to an input validation error when processing script names. This can be exploited to read or modify arbitrary files having ".sieve" extensions via directory traversal attacks, with the privileges of the attacker's user id...

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...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these potential vulnerabilities to bypass Flash Player security controls. Adobe recommends users...

FreeBSD -- IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol routing vulnerability

Problem Description IPv6 routers may allow "on-link" IPv6 nodes to create and update the router's neighbor cache and forwarding information. A malicious IPv6 node sharing a common router but on a different physical segment from another node may be able to spoof Neighbor Discovery messages, allowi...

extman -- password bypass vulnerability

Extmail team reports: Emergency update 4 fixes a serious security vulnerability. Successful exploit of this vulnerability would allow attacker to change user's password without knowing it by using specifically crafted HTTP request...

libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability

xine project reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix remotely-expoitable buffer overflow, CVE-2008-0225. It also contains a read-past-end fix for an internal library function which is only used if the OS does not supply it and a rendering fix for...