ffmpeg -- multiple vulnerabilities

NVD reports: The updatedimensions function in libavcodec/vp8.c in FFmpeg through 2.8.1, as used in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.71 and other products, relies on a coefficient-partition count during multi-threaded operation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service race conditi...

xen-kernel -- Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests

The Xen Project reports: The code to validate level 2 page table entries is bypassed when certain conditions are satisfied. This means that a PV guest can create writable mappings using super page mappings. Such writable mappings can violate Xen intended invariants for pages which Xen is supposed...

flash -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates resolve a type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution CVE-2015-5573. These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2015-5570, CVE-2015-5574, CVE-2015-5581, CVE-2015-5584, CVE-2015-6682. These updates...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in virtio-net support

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the Virtual Network Devicevirtio-net support is vulnerable to a DoS issue. It could occur while receiving large packets over the tuntap/macvtap interfaces and when guest's virtio-net driver did not support...

RT -- two XSS vulnerabilities

Best Practical reports: RT 4.0.0 and above are vulnerable to a cross-site scripting XSS attack via the user and group rights management pages. This vulnerability is assigned CVE-2015-5475. It was discovered and reported by Marcin Kopec at Data Reliance Shared Service Center. RT 4.2.0 and above ar...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark development team reports: The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. wnpa-sec-2015-21 Protocol tree crash. Bug 11309 wnpa-sec-2015-22 Memory manager crash. Bug 11373 wnpa-sec-2015-23 Dissector table crash. Bug 11381 wnpa-sec-2015-24 ZigBee crash. Bug 11389 wnpa-sec-2015-25 GSM RLC/M...

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...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in MSI-X support

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the PCI MSI-X support is vulnerable to null pointer dereference issue. It occurs when the controller attempts to write to the pending bit arrayPBA memory region. Because the MSI-X MMIO support did not define the...

apache22 -- chunk header parsing defect

Apache Foundation reports: CVE-2015-3183 core: Fix chunk header parsing defect. Remove aprbrigadeflatten, buffering and duplicated code from the HTTPIN filter, parse chunks in a single pass with zero copy. Limit accepted chunk-size to 2^63-1 and be strict about chunk-ext authorized characters...

cacti -- Multiple XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities

The Cacti Group, Inc. reports: Important Security Fixes Multiple XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities Changelog bug: Fixed SQL injection VN: JVN78187936 / TN:JPCERT98968540 bug0002542: FG-VD-15-017 Cacti Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Notification bug0002571: SQL Injection and Location heade...

Adobe Flash Player -- critical vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. These updates resolve a vulnerability CVE-2015-3096 that could be...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 45 new security fixes, including: 456518 High CVE-2015-1235: Cross-origin-bypass in HTML parser. Credit to anonymous. 313939 Medium CVE-2015-1236: Cross-origin-bypass in Blink. Credit to Amitay Dobo. 461191 High CVE-2015-1237: Use-after-free in IPC. Credit to Khali...

Adobe Flash Player -- critical vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2015-3043 exists in...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA-2015-30 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:37.0 / rv:31.6 MFSA-2015-31 Use-after-free when using the Fluendo MP3 GStreamer plugin MFSA-2015-32 Add-on lightweight theme installation approval bypassed through MITM attack MFSA-2015-33 resource:// documents can...

xen-kernel -- Information leak through version information hypercall

The Xen Project reports: The code handling certain sub-operations of the HYPERVISORxenversion hypercall fails to fully initialize all fields of structures subsequently copied back to guest memory. Due to this hypervisor stack contents are copied into the destination of the operation, thus becomin...

chrony -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrony News reports: CVE-2015-1853: DoS attack on authenticated symmetric NTP associations CVE-2015-1821: Heap-based buffer overflow in access configuration CVE-2015-1822: Use of uninitialized pointer in command processing...

GNU binutils -- multiple vulnerabilities

US-CERT/NIST reports: The bfdXXiswapaouthdrin function in bfd/peXXigen.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted NumberOfRvaAndSizes field in the AOUT header in a PE...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- remote denial of service or arbitrary code execution

NVIDIA Unix security team reports: The GLX indirect rendering support supplied on NVIDIA products is subject to the recently disclosed X.Org vulnerabilities CVE-2014-8093, CVE-2014-8098 as well as internally identified vulnerabilities CVE-2014-8298. Depending on how it is configured, the X server...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 159 security fixes in this release, including 113 found using MemorySanitizer: 416449 Critical CVE-2014-3188: A special thanks to Jüri Aedla for a combination of V8 and IPC bugs that can lead to remote code execution outside of the sandbox. 398384 High...

fish -- local privilege escalation and remote code execution

Fish developer David Adam reports: This release fixes a number of local privilege escalation vulnerability and one remote code execution vulnerability...

tomcat -- multiple vulnerabilities

Tomcat Security Team reports: Tomcat does not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets, which allows remote attackers to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference,...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 3 security fixes in this release: 358038 High CVE-2014-1740: Use-after-free in WebSockets. Credit to Collin Payne. 349898 High CVE-2014-1741: Integer overflow in DOM ranges. Credit to John Butler. 356690 High CVE-2014-1742: Use-after-free in editing. Credit to...

nginx-devel -- SPDY heap buffer overflow

The nginx project reports: A bug in the experimental SPDY implementation in nginx was found, which might allow an attacker to cause a heap memory buffer overflow in a worker process by using a specially crafted request, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution CVE-2014-0133. The problem...

Python -- buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into()

Vincent Danen via Red Hat Issue Tracker reports: A vulnerability was reported in Python's socket module, due to a boundary error within the sockrecvfrominto function, which could be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. This could be used to crash a Python application that uses the...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2013-76 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:24.0 / rv:17.0.9 MFSA 2013-77 Improper state in HTML5 Tree Builder with templates MFSA 2013-78 Integer overflow in ANGLE library MFSA 2013-79 Use-after-free in Animation Manager during stylesheet cloning MFSA 2013-80...

typo3 -- Multiple vulnerabilities in TYPO3 Core

Typo Security Team reports: It has been discovered that TYPO3 Core is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting and Remote Code Execution. TYPO3 bundles flash files for video and audio playback. Old versions of FlowPlayer and flashmedia are susceptible to Cross-Site Scripting. No authentication is...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: A special reward for Andrey Labunets for his combination of CVE-2013-2879 and CVE-2013-2868 along with some since fixed server-side bugs. 252216 Low CVE-2013-2867: Block pop-unders in various scenarios. 252062 High CVE-2013-2879: Confusion setting up sign-in and...

ruby -- Hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL client

Ruby Developers report: Ruby's SSL client implements hostname identity check but it does not properly handle hostnames in the certificate that contain null bytes...

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...

piwigo -- CSRF/Path Traversal

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab reports: The CSRF vulnerability exists due to insufficient verification of the HTTP request origin in "/admin.php" script. A remote attacker can trick a logged-in administrator to visit a specially crafted webpage and create arbitrary PHP file on the remote...

tomcat -- denial of service

The Apache Software Foundation reports: When using the NIO connector with sendfile and HTTPS enabled, if a client breaks the connection while reading the response an infinite loop is entered leading to a denial of service...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 156567 High CVE-2012-5133: Use-after-free in SVG filters. Credit to miaubiz. 148638 Medium CVE-2012-5130: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 155711 Low CVE-2012-5132: Browser crash with chunked encoding. Credit to Attila Szász. 158249 Hi...

otrs -- XSS vulnerability in Internet Explorer

OTRS Security Advisory reports: This advisory covers vulnerabilities discovered in the OTRS core system. Due to the XSS vulnerability in Internet Explorer an attacker could send a specially prepared HTML email to OTRS which would cause JavaScript code to be executed in your Internet Explorer whil...

emacs -- remote code execution vulnerability

Chong Yidong reports: Paul Ling has found a security flaw in the file-local variables code in GNU Emacs. When the Emacs user option enable-local-variables' is set to :safe' the default value is t, Emacs should automatically refuse to evaluate eval' forms in file-local variable sections. Due to th...

dns/bind9* -- Heavy DNSSEC Validation Load Can Cause a 'Bad Cache' Assertion Failure

ISC reports: High numbers of queries with DNSSEC validation enabled can cause an assertion failure in named, caused by using a 'bad cache' data structure before it has been initialized. BIND 9 stores a cache of query names that are known to be failing due to misconfigured name servers or a broken...

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...

net-snmp -- Remote DoS

The Red Hat Security Response Team reports: An array index error, leading to out-of heap-based buffer read flaw was found in the way the net-snmp agent performed lookups in the extension table. When certain MIB subtrees were handled by the extend directive, a remote attacker having read privilege...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 113902 High CVE-2011-3050: Use-after-free with first-letter handling. Credit to miaubiz. 116162 High CVE-2011-3045: libpng integer issue from upstream. Credit to Glenn Randers-Pehrson of the libpng project. 116461 High CVE-2011-3051: Use-after-free in CSS cross-fad...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2011-46 loadSubScript unwraps XPCNativeWrapper scope parameter 1.9.2 branch MFSA 2011-47 Potential XSS against sites using Shift-JIS MFSA 2011-48 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:8.0 MFSA 2011-49 Memory corruption while profiling using Firebug MFSA 2011-50...

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 2010-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:1.9.2.13/ 1.9.1.16 MFSA 2010-75 Buffer overflow while line breaking after document.write with long string MFSA 2010-76 Chrome privilege escalation with window.open and isindex element MFSA 2010-77 Crash and remote co...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS attack in database search

phpMyAdmin team reports: It was possible to conduct a XSS attack using spoofed request on the db search script...

squid -- Denial of Service vulnerability in HTCP

Squid security advisory 2010:2 reports: Due to incorrect processing Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when receiving specially crafted HTCP packets. This problem allows any machine to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service when its HTCP port is open...

ntp -- stack-based buffer overflow

US-CERT reports: ntpd contains a stack buffer overflow which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system or create a denial of service...

ziproxy -- multiple vulnerability

Ziproxy Developers reports: Multiple HTTP proxy implementations are prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability related to the interpretation of the 'Host' HTTP header. Specifically, this issue occurs when the proxy makes a forwarding decision based on the 'Host' HTTP header instead of the...

sudo -- certain authorized users could run commands as any user

Todd Miller reports: A bug was introduced in Sudo's group matching code in version 1.6.9 when support for matching based on the supplemental group vector was added. This bug may allow certain users listed in the sudoers file to run a command as a different user than their access rule specifies...

moinmoin -- multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Input passed to multiple parameters in action/AttachFile.py is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site. Certain input passed to...

vim -- multiple vulnerabilities in the netrw module

Jan Minar reports: Applying the D'' to a file with a crafted file name, or inside a directory with a crafted directory name, can lead to arbitrary code execution. Lack of sanitization throughout Netrw can lead to arbitrary code execution upon opening a directory with a crafted name. The Vim Netrw...

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...