mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

MediaWiki reports: Internal review discovered that Special:DeletedContributions did not properly protect the IP of autoblocked users. This fix makes the functionality of Special:DeletedContributions consistent with Special:Contributions and Special:BlockList. Internal review discovered that...

groovy -- remote execution of untrusted code

Cédric Champeau reports: Description When an application has Groovy on the classpath and that it uses standard Java serialization mechanism to communicate between servers, or to store local data, it is possible for an attacker to bake a special serialized object that will execute code directly wh...

openssl -- alternate chains certificate forgery vulnerability

OpenSSL reports: During certificate verification, OpenSSL starting from version 1.0.1n and 1.0.2b will attempt to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an attacker could cause certain chec...

dhcpcd -- remote code execution/denial of service

MITRE reports: The getoption function in dhcp.c in dhcpcd before 6.2.0, as used in dhcpcd 5.x in Android before 5.1 and other products, does not validate the relationship between length fields and the amount of data, which allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of...

strongswan -- Information Leak Vulnerability

strongSwan Project reports: An information leak vulnerability was fixed that, in certain IKEv2 setups, allowed rogue servers with a valid certificate accepted by the client to trick it into disclosing user credentials even plain passwords if the client accepts EAP-GTC. This was caused because...

rubygem-paperclip -- validation bypass vulnerability

Jon Yurek reports: Thanks to MORI Shingo of DeNA Co., Ltd. for reporting this. There is an issue where if an HTML file is uploaded with a .html extension, but the content type is listed as being image/jpeg, this will bypass a validation checking for images. But it will also pass the spoof check,...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 5 security fixes in this release, including: 453279 High CVE-2015-1243: Use-after-free in DOM. Credit to Saif El-Sherei. 481777 CVE-2015-1250: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives...

Vulnerability in HWP document filter

US-CERT/NIST reports: The HWP filter in LibreOffice before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 and Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HWP document, which triggers an out-of-bounds write...

xen-kernel -- Information leak via internal x86 system device emulation

The Xen Project reports: Emulation routines in the hypervisor dealing with certain system devices check whether the access size by the guest is a supported one. When the access size is unsupported these routines failed to set the data to be returned to the guest for read accesses, so that...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA-2015-11 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:36.0 / rv:31.5 MFSA-2015-12 Invoking Mozilla updater will load locally stored DLL files MFSA-2015-13 Appended period to hostnames can bypass HPKP and HSTS protections MFSA-2015-14 Malicious WebGL content crash when...

qt4-gui, qt5-gui -- DoS vulnerability in the BMP image handler

Richard J. Moore reports: The builtin BMP decoder in QtGui prior to Qt 5.5 contained a bug that would lead to a division by zero when loading certain corrupt BMP files. This in turn would cause the application loading these hand crafted BMPs to crash...

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

The MIT Kerberos team reports: CVE-2014-5353: The krb5ldapgetpasswordpolicyfromdn function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdbldap/ldappwdpolicy.c in MIT Kerberos 5 aka krb5 before 1.13.1, when the KDC uses LDAP, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service daemon crash via a successful...

libidn -- out-of-bounds read issue with invalid UTF-8 input

Simon Josefsson reports: stringpreputf8toucs4 now rejects invalid UTF-8. This function has always been documented to not validate that the input UTF-8 string is actually valid UTF-8...

mod_jk -- information disclosure

NIST reports: Apache Tomcat Connectors modjk before 1.2.41 ignores JkUnmount rules for subtrees of previous JkMount rules, which allows remote attackers to access otherwise restricted artifacts via unspecified vectors...

ffmpeg -- use-after-free

NVD reports: Use-after-free vulnerability in the ffh264freetables function in libavcodec/h264.c in FFmpeg before 2.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted H.264 data in an MP4 file, as demonstrated by an HTML VIDEO element tha...

nginx -- inject commands into SSL session vulnerability

The nginx project reports: Security: pipelined commands were not discarded after STARTTLS command in SMTP proxy CVE-2014-3556; the bug had appeared in 1.5.6...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 26 security fixes in this release, including 380885 Medium CVE-2014-3160: Same-Origin-Policy bypass in SVG. Credit to Christian Schneider. 393765 CVE-2014-3162: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives...

strongswan -- Remote Authentication Bypass

strongSwan developers report: Remote attackers are able to bypass authentication by rekeying an IKESA during 1 initiation or 2 re-authentication, which triggers the IKESA state to be set to established. Only installations that actively initiate or re-authenticate IKEv2 IKESAs are affected...

www/chromium --multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 7 vulnerabilities fixed in this release, including: 344881 High CVE-2014-1700: Use-after-free in speech. Credit to Chamal de Silva. 342618 High CVE-2014-1701: UXSS in events. Credit to aidanhs. 333058 High CVE-2014-1702: Use-after-free in web database. Credit to...

file -- denial of service

The Fine Free file project reports: file before 5.17 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service infinite recursion, CPU consumption, and crash via a crafted indirect offset value in the magic of a file...

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...

squid -- denial of service

Squid project reports: Due to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted HTTP requests This problem allows any client who can generate HTTP requests to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service...

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...

puppet -- Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Puppet Developers report: When making REST api calls, the puppet master takes YAML from an untrusted client, deserializes it, and then calls methods on the resulting object. A YAML payload can be crafted to cause the deserialization to construct an instance of any class available in the ruby...

devel/subversion -- fsfs repositories can be corrupted by newline characters in filenames

Subversion team reports: If a filename which contains a newline character ASCII 0x0a is committed to a repository using the FSFS format, the resulting revision is corrupt...

suPHP -- Privilege escalation

suPHP developer Sebastian Marsching reports: When the suPHPPHPPath was set, modsuphp would use the specified PHP executable to pretty-print PHP source files MIME type x-httpd-php-source or application/x-httpd-php-source. However, it would not sanitize the environment. Thus a user that was allowed...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- ARGB cursor buffer overflow in "NoScanout" mode

NVIDIA Unix security team reports: When the NVIDIA driver for the X Window System is operated in "NoScanout" mode, and an X client installs an ARGB cursor that is larger than the expected size 64x64 or 256x256, depending on the driver version, the driver will overflow a buffer. This can cause a...

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...

java 7.x -- security manager bypass

US CERT reports: Java 7 Update 10 and earlier versions of Java 7 contain a vulnerability that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. The Java JRE plug-in provides its own Security Manager. Typically, a web applet runs with a security manager...

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...

tomcat -- Denial of Service

The Apache Software Foundation reports: The checks that limited the permitted size of request headers were implemented too late in the request parsing process for the HTTP NIO connector. This enabled a malicious user to trigger an OutOfMemoryError by sending a single request with very large...

ansible -- enable host key checking in paramiko connection type

Ansible changelog reports: Host key checking is on by default. Disable it if you like by adding hostkeychecking=False in the default section of /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg or /ansible.cfg or by exporting ANSIBLEHOSTKEYCHECKING=False...

pidgin-otr -- format string vulnerability

The authors report: Versions 3.2.0 and earlier of the pidgin-otr plugin contain a format string security flaw. This flaw could potentially be exploited by a remote attacker to cause arbitrary code to be executed on the user's machine. The flaw is in pidgin-otr, not in libotr. Other applications...

libxml2 -- An off-by-one out-of-bounds write by XPointer

Google chrome team reports: An off-by-one out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way libxml, a library for providing XML and HTML support, evaluated certain XPointer parts XPointer is used by libxml to include only the part from the returned XML document, that can be accessed using the XPath...

clamav -- multiple vulnerabilities

MITRE Advisories report: The TAR parser allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial aliases character sequence. The TAR parser allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a TAR archive entry with a length field that exceeds the total TAR fi...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 105867 High CVE-2011-3031: Use-after-free in v8 element wrapper. Credit to Chamal de Silva. 108037 High CVE-2011-3032: Use-after-free in SVG value handling. Credit to Arthur Gerkis. 108406 115471 High CVE-2011-3033: Buffer overflow in the Skia drawing library. Cred...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 81753 Medium CVE-2011-3903: Out-of-bounds read in regex matching. Credit to David Holloway of the Chromium development community. 95465 Low CVE-2011-3905: Out-of-bounds reads in libxml. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Inferno. 98809 Medium CVE-2011-3906:...

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...

freetype -- Some type 1 fonts handling vulnerabilities

The FreeType project reports: A couple of vulnerabilities in handling Type 1 fonts...

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...

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...

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...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2009-32 JavaScript chrome privilege escalation MFSA 2009-31 XUL scripts bypass content-policy checks MFSA 2009-30 Incorrect principal set for file: resources loaded via location bar MFSA 2009-29 Arbitrary code execution using event listeners attached to an element...

GnuTLS -- multiple vulnerabilities

SecurityFocus reports: GnuTLS is prone to multiple remote vulnerabilities: A remote code-execution vulnerability. A denial-of-service vulnerability. A signature-generation vulnerability. A signature-verification vulnerability. An attacker can exploit these issues to potentially execute arbitrary...

libsndfile -- CAF processing integer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in the processing of CAF description chunks. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking the user into processing a specially crafted CAF audio file...

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...

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...

rubygem-rails -- SQL injection vulnerability

Jonathan Weiss reports, that it is possible to perform an SQL injection in Rails applications via not correctly sanitized :limit and :offset parameters. It is possible to change arbitrary values in affected tables or gain access to the sensitive data...

apache -- multiple vulnerabilities

Apache HTTP server project reports: The following potential security flaws are addressed: CVE-2008-2364: modproxyhttp: Better handling of excessive interim responses from origin server to prevent potential denial of service and high memory usage. Reported by Ryujiro Shibuya. CVE-2007-6420:...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Software ASA reports about multiple security fixes: Fixed an issue where simulated text inputs could trick users into uploading arbitrary files, as reported by Mozilla. Image properties can no longer be used to execute scripts, as reported by Max Leonov. Fixed an issue where the...