qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in e1000 NIC support

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the e1000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing transmit descriptor data when sending a network packet. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to...

adminer -- XSS vulnerability

Jakub Vrana reports: Fix XSS in alter table...

moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities

Marina Glancy reports: MSA-15-0026: Possible phishing when redirecting to external site using referer header. CVE-2015-3272 MSA-15-0027: Capability 'mod/forum:canposttomygroups' is not respected when using 'Post a copy to all groups' in forum CVE-2015-3273 MSA-15-0028: Possible XSS through custom...

cups-filters -- texttopdf integer overflow

Stefan Cornelius from Red Hat reports: An integer overflow flaw leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way the texttopdf utility of cups-filter processed print jobs with a specially crafted line size. An attacker being able to submit print jobs could exploit this flaw to...

ansible -- multiple vulnerabilities

Ansible, Inc. reports: Ensure that hostnames match certificate names when using HTTPS - resolved in Ansible 1.9.2 Improper symlink handling in zone, jail, and chroot connection plugins could lead to escape from confined environment - resolved in Ansible 1.9.2...

cURL -- Multiple Vulnerability

cURL reports: libcurl can wrongly send HTTP credentials when re-using connections. libcurl allows applications to set credentials for the upcoming transfer with HTTP Basic authentication, like with CURLOPTUSERPWD for example. Name and password. Just like all other libcurl options the credentials...

xen-tools -- Unmediated PCI register access in qemu

The Xen Project reports: Qemu allows guests to not only read, but also write all parts of the PCI config space but not extended config space of passed through PCI devices not explicitly dealt with for partial emulation purposes. Since the effect depends on the specific purpose of the the config...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 37 security fixes in this release, including: 474029 High CVE-2015-1252: Sandbox escape in Chrome. Credit to anonymous. 464552 High CVE-2015-1253: Cross-origin bypass in DOM. Credit to anonymous. 444927 High CVE-2015-1254: Cross-origin bypass in Editing. Credit to...

qemu, xen and VirtualBox OSE -- possible VM escape and code execution ("VENOM")

Jason Geffner, CrowdStrike Senior Security Researcher reports: VENOM, CVE-2015-3456, is a security vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many computer virtualization platforms. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to escape from the confines of an affected virtual machine VM...

dcraw -- integer overflow condition

ocert reports: The dcraw tool, as well as several other projects re-using its code, suffers from an integer overflow condition which lead to a buffer overflow. The vulnerability concerns the 'len' variable, parsed without validation from opened images, used in the ljpegstart function. A malicious...

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...

xen-tools -- Unmediated PCI command register access in qemu

The Xen Project reports: HVM guests are currently permitted to modify the memory and I/O decode bits in the PCI command register of devices passed through to them. Unless the device is an SR-IOV virtual function, after disabling one or both of these bits subsequent accesses to the MMIO or I/O por...

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...

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...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS and information disclosure vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: With a crafted database, table or column name it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the table browse page. With a crafted ENUM value it is possible to trigger XSS attacks in the table print view and zoom search pages. With a crafted value for font siz...

libpurple/pidgin -- multiple vulnerabilities

The pidgin development team reports:...

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...

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,...

foreman-proxy SSL verification issue

Foreman Security reports: The smart proxy when running in an SSL-secured mode permits incoming API calls to any endpoint without requiring, or performing any verification of an SSL client certificate. This permits any client with access to the API to make requests and perform actions permitting...

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...

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...

xorg -- protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries

freedesktop.org reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most ...

jenkins -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jenkins Security Advisory reports: This advisory announces multiple security vulnerabilities that were found in Jenkins core. SECURITY-63 / CVE-2013-2034 This creates a cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability on Jenkins master, where an anonymous attacker can trick an administrator to execu...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS due to unescaped HTML output in GIS visualisation page

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: When modifying a URL parameter with a crafted value it is possible to trigger an XSS. These XSS can only be triggered when a valid database is known and when a valid cookie token is used...

puppet26 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Moses Mendoza reports: A vulnerability found in Puppet could allow an authenticated client to cause the master to execute arbitrary code while responding to a catalog request. Specifically, in order to exploit the vulnerability, the puppet master must be made to invoke the 'template' or...

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...

krb5 -- null pointer dereference in the KDC PKINIT code [CVE-2013-1415]

No advisory has been released yet. Fix a null pointer dereference in the KDC PKINIT code CVE-2013-1415...

drupal7 -- Denial of service

Drupal Security Team reports: Drupal core's Image module allows for the on-demand generation of image derivatives. This capability can be abused by requesting a large number of new derivatives which can fill up the server disk space, and which can cause a very high CPU load. Either of these effec...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

moinmoin -- Multiple vulnerabilities

MoinMoin developers report the following vulnerabilities as fixed in version 1.9.6: remote code execution vulnerability in twikidraw/anywikidraw action, path traversal vulnerability in AttachFile action, XSS issue, escape page name in rss link. CVE entries at MITRE furher clarify: Multiple...

dns/bind9* -- servers using DNS64 can be crashed by a crafted query

ISC reports: BIND 9 nameservers using the DNS64 IPv6 transition mechanism are vulnerable to a software defect that allows a crafted query to crash the server with a REQUIRE assertion failure. Remote exploitation of this defect can be achieved without extensive effort, resulting in a...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 121347 Medium CVE-2012-2865: Out-of-bounds read in line breaking. Credit to miaubiz. 134897 High CVE-2012-2866: Bad cast with run-ins. Credit to miaubiz. 135485 Low CVE-2012-2867: Browser crash with SPDY. 136881 Medium CVE-2012-2868: Race condition with workers and...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Information Leak Versions: 4.1.1 to 4.2.1, 4.3.1 In HTML bugmails, all bug IDs and attachment IDs are linkified, and hovering these links displays a tooltip with the bug summary or the attachment...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 112983 Low CVE-2011-3083: Browser crash with video + FTP. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG. 113496 Low CVE-2011-3084: Load links from internal pages in their own process. Credit to Brett Wilson of the Chromium development community. 118374 Medium CVE-2011-3085: UI...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 106413 High CVE-2011-3078: Use after free in floats handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Marty Barbella and independent later discovery by miaubiz. 117627 Medium CVE-2011-3079: IPC validation failure. Credit to PinkiePie. 121726 Medium CVE-2011-3080: Rac...

gnutls -- possible overflow/Denial of service vulnerabilities

Mu Dynamics, Inc. reports: The block cipher decryption logic in GnuTLS assumed that a record containing any data which was a multiple of the block size was valid for further decryption processing, leading to a heap corruption vulnerability...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2012-13 XSS with Drag and Drop and Javascript: URL MFSA 2012-14 SVG issues found with Address Sanitizer MFSA 2012-15 XSS with multiple Content Security Policy headers MFSA 2012-16 Escalation of privilege with Javascript: URL as home page MFSA 2012-17 Crash when...

jasper -- buffer overflow

Fedora reports: JasPer fails to properly decode marker segments and other sections in malformed JPEG2000 files. Malformed inputs can cause heap buffer overflows which in turn may result in execution of attacker-controlled code...

php5 -- header splitting attack via carriage-return character

Rui Hirokawa reports: As of PHP 5.1.2, header can no longer be used to send multiple response headers in a single call to prevent the HTTP Response Splitting Attack. header only checks the linefeed LF, 0x0A as line-end marker, it doesn't check the carriage-return CR, 0x0D. However, some browsers...

kdelibs4, rekonq -- input validation failure

KDE Security Advisory reports: The default rendering type for a QLabel is QLabel::AutoText, which uses heuristics to determine whether to render the given content as plain text or rich text. KSSL and Rekonq did not properly force its QLabels to use QLabel::PlainText. As a result, if given a...

roundcube -- XSS vulnerability

RoundCube development Team reports: We just published a new release which fixes a recently reported XSS vulnerability as an update to the stable 0.5 branch. Please update your installations with this new version or patch them with the fix which is also published in the downloads section or our...

BIND -- Remote DoS with certain RPZ configurations

ISC reports: Two defects were discovered in ISC's BIND 9.8 code. These defects only affect BIND 9.8 servers which have recursion enabled and which use a specific feature of the software known as Response Policy Zones RPZ and where the RPZ zone contains a specific rule/action pattern...

gdm -- privilege escalation vulnerability

Sebastian Krahmer reports: It was discovered that the GNOME Display Manager gdm cleared the cache directory, which is owned by an unprivileged user, with the privileges of the root user. A race condition exists in gdm where a local user could take advantage of this by writing to the cache directo...

mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Medawiki reports: An arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability was discovered. The vulnerability only allows execution of files with names ending in ".php" which are already present in the local filesystem. Only servers running Microsoft Windows and possibly Novell Netware are affected. Despite...

webkit-gtk2 -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Gustavo Noronha Silva reports: The patches to fix the following CVEs are included with help from Huzaifa Sidhpurwala from the Red Hat security team...

php-filter -- Denial of Service

The following DoS condition in filter extension was fixed in PHP 5.3.4 and PHP 5.2.15: Stack consumption vulnerability in the filtervar function in PHP 5.2.x through 5.2.14 and 5.3.x through 5.3.3, when FILTERVALIDATEEMAIL mode is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory...

dojo -- cross-site scripting and other vulnerabilities

The Dojo Toolkit team reports: Some PHP files did not properly escape input. Some files could operate like "open redirects". A bad actor could form an URL that looks like it came from a trusted site, but the user would be redirected or load content from the bad actor's site. A file exposed a more...