unzip -- heap based buffer overflow in iconv patch

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2502-1 reports: unzip could be made to run programs if it opened a specially crafted file...

git -- Arbitrary command execution on case-insensitive filesystems

The Git Project reports: When using a case-insensitive filesystem an attacker can craft a malicious Git tree that will cause Git to overwrite its own .git/config file when cloning or checking out a repository, leading to arbitrary command execution in the client machine. If you are a hosting...

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...

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...

tor -- traffic confirmation attack

The Tor Project reports: Tor before 0.2.4.23 and 0.2.5 before 0.2.5.6-alpha maintains a circuit after an inbound RELAYEARLY cell is received by a client, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct traffic-confirmation attacks by using the pattern of RELAY and RELAYEARLY cells as a mean...

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...

FreeBSD -- Deadlock in the NFS server

Problem Description: The kernel holds a lock over the source directory vnode while trying to convert the target directory file handle to a vnode, which needs to be returned with the lock held, too. This order may be in violation of normal lock order, which in conjunction with other threads that...

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...

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...

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...

xorg-server -- use-after-free

Alan Coopersmith reports: Pedro Ribeiro pedrib at gmail.com reported an issue to the X.Org security team in which an authenticated X client can cause an X server to use memory after it was freed, potentially leading to crash and/or memory corruption...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django project reports: These releases address a directory-traversal vulnerability in one of Django's built-in template tags. While this issue requires some fairly specific factors to be exploitable, we encourage all users of Django to upgrade promptly...

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...

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...

dns/bind9* -- Malicious Regex Can Cause Memory Exhaustion

ISC reports: A critical defect in BIND 9 allows an attacker to cause excessive memory consumption in named or other programs linked to libdns...

privoxy -- malicious server spoofing as proxy vulnerability

Privoxy Developers reports: Proxy authentication headers are removed unless the new directive enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding is used. Forwarding the headers potentially allows malicious sites to trick the user into providing them with login information. Reported by Chris John Riley...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 172243 High CVE-2013-0879: Memory corruption with web audio node. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 171951 High CVE-2013-0880: Use-after-free in database handling. Credit to Chamal de Silva. 167069 Medium CVE-2013-0881: Bad read in Matroska handling. Credit to Atte...

FreeBSD -- BIND remote DoS with deliberately crafted DNS64 query

Problem description: Due to a software defect a crafted query can cause named8 to crash with an assertion failure...

nagios -- buffer overflow in history.cgi

full disclosure reports: history.cgi is vulnerable to a buffer overflow due to the use of sprintf with user supplied data that has not been restricted in size...

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...

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...

OpenSSL -- DTLS Denial of Service

The OpenSSL Team reports: A flaw in the fix to CVE-2011-4108 can be exploited in a denial of service attack. Only DTLS applications using OpenSSL 1.0.0f and 0.9.8s are affected...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.152 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.153 and earlier versions for Android. In addition a patch was release...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.36 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.185.25 and earlier versions for Android. These vulnerabilities could...

mailman -- CSRF hardening in parts of the web interface

The late Tokio Kikuchi reported: We may have to set lifetime for input forms because of recent activities on cross-site request forgery CSRF. The form lifetime is successfully deployed in frameworks like web.py or plone etc. Proposed branch lp:tkikuchi/mailman/form-lifetime implement lifetime in...

Asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Asterisk Development Team reports: It is possible for a user of the Asterisk Manager Interface to bypass a security check and execute shell commands when they should not have that ability. Sending the "Async" header with the "Application" header during an Originate action, allows authenticate...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2011-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:1.9.2.14/ 1.9.1.17 MFSA 2011-02 Recursive eval call causes confirm dialogs to evaluate to true MFSA 2011-03 Use-after-free error in JSON.stringify MFSA 2011-04 Buffer overflow in JavaScript upvarMap MFSA 2011-05 Buff...

mailman -- XSS vulnerability

CVE reports: Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Cgi/confirm.py in GNU Mailman 2.1.14 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 full name or 2 username field in a confirmation message...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.159.1 and earlier versions Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.28 and earlier for Chrome users for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.2.157.51 and...

tomcat -- Cross-site scripting vulnerability

The Tomcat security team reports: The HTML Manager interface displayed web applciation provided data, such as display names, without filtering. A malicious web application could trigger script execution by an administartive user when viewing the manager pages...

isc-dhcp-server -- Empty link-address denial of service

ISC reports: If the server receives a DHCPv6 packet containing one or more Relay-Forward messages, and none of them supply an address in the Relay-Forward link-address field, then the server will crash. This can be used as a single packet crash attack vector...

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...

krb5 -- multiple denial of service vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities in krb5 can be used by remote attackers in denial of service attacks. The MIT security advisories report this as follows: An unauthenticated remote attacker can send an invalid request to a KDC process that will cause it to crash due to an assertion failure, creating a denial ...

curl -- libcurl buffer overflow vulnerability

The cURL project reports in a security advisory: Using the affected libcurl version to download compressed content over HTTP, an application can ask libcurl to automatically uncompress data. When doing so, libcurl can wrongly send data up to 64K in size to the callback which thus is much larger...

silc-toolkit -- Format string vulnerabilities

SILC Changlog reports: An unspecified format string vulnerability exists in silc-toolkit...

fetchmail -- improper SSL certificate subject verification

Matthias Andree reports: Moxie Marlinspike demonstrated in July 2009 that some CAs would sign certificates that contain embedded NUL characters in the Common Name or subjectAltName fields of ITU-T X.509 certificates. Applications that would treat such X.509 strings as NUL-terminated C strings...

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...

freetype2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FreeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library. An integer overflow error within the "cffcharsetcomputecids" function in cff/cffload.c can be exploited to potentially cause...

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...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera reports: If a malicious page redirects Opera to a specially crafted address URL, it can cause Opera to crash. Given sufficient address content, the crash could cause execution of code controlled by the attacking page. Once a Java applet has been cached, if a page can predict the cache path...

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...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Wireshark team reports of multiple vulnerabilities: Wireshark could crash when reading an MP3 file. Beyond Security discovered that Wireshark could loop excessively while reading a malformed DNP packet. Stefan Esser discovered a buffer overflow in the SSL dissector. The ANSI MAP dissector cou...

pcre -- arbitrary code execution

Debian project reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team has discovered several security issues in PCRE, the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library, which potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by compiling specially crafted regular expressions...

fetchmail -- denial of service on reject of local warning message

Matthias Andree reports: fetchmail will generate warning messages in certain circumstances for instance, when leaving oversized messages on the server or login to the upstream fails and send them to the local postmaster or the user running it. If this warning message is then refused by the SMTP...

linux-flashplugin -- critical vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these potential vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious SWF must be loaded in Flash Player by the user for an attacker to exploit...

cups -- Incomplete SSL Negotiation Denial of Service

Secunia reports: CUPS is not using multiple workers to handle connections. This can be exploited to stop CUPS from accepting new connections by starting but never completing an SSL negotiation...

mod_perl -- remote DoS in PATH_INFO parsing

Mandriva reports: PerlRun.pm in Apache modperl 1.29 and earlier, and RegistryCooker.pm in modperl 2.x, does not properly escape PATHINFO before use in a regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption via a crafted URI...

flyspray -- authentication bypass

The Flyspray Project reports: Flyspray authentication system can be bypassed by sending a carefully crafted post request. To be vulnerable, PHP configuration directive outputbuffering has to be disabled or set to a low value...

mod_jk -- long URL stack overflow vulnerability

TippingPoint and The Zero Day Initiative reports: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apache Tomcat JK Web Server Connector. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the URI handler fo...

libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability

xine Team reports: A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix array index vulnerability which may lead to a stack buffer overflow...