xen-kernel -- Information leak through XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo

The Xen Project reports: The handler for XENDOMCTLgettscinfo failed to initialize a padding field subsequently copied to guest memory. A similar leak existed in XENSYSCTLgetdomaininfolist, which is being addressed here regardless of that operation being declared unsafe for disaggregation by XSA-7...

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...

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...

krb5 1.11 -- New release/fix multiple vulnerabilities

The MIT Kerberos team announces the availability of MIT Kerberos 5 Release 1.11.6: Handle certain invalid RFC 1964 GSS tokens correctly to avoid invalid memory reference vulnerabilities. CVE-2014-4341 Fix memory management vulnerabilities in GSSAPI SPNEGO. CVE-2014-4343 CVE-2014-4344 Fix buffer...

cURL -- URL request injection vulnerability

cURL reports: When libcurl sends a request to a server via a HTTP proxy, it copies the entire URL into the request and sends if off. If the given URL contains line feeds and carriage returns those will be sent along to the proxy too, which allows the program to for example send a separate HTTP...

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:...

phpMyAdmin -- XSRF/CSRF due to DOM based XSS in the micro history feature

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: XSRF/CSRF due to DOM based XSS in the micro history feature. By deceiving a logged-in user to click on a crafted URL, it is possible to perform remote code execution and in some cases, create a root account due to a DOM based XSS vulnerability in the micro...

bugzilla -- Cross Site Request Forgery

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: Adobe does not properly restrict the SWF file format, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks against Bugzilla's JSONP endpoint, possibly obtaining sensitive bug information, via a crafted OBJECT element with SWF conte...

mencoder -- potential buffer overrun when processing malicious lzo compressed input

Michael Niedermayer and Luca Barbato report in upstream ffmpeg: avutil/lzo: Fix integer overflow...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 31 vulnerabilities fixed in this release, including: 354123 High CVE-2014-1716: UXSS in V8. Credit to Anonymous. 353004 High CVE-2014-1717: OOB access in V8. Credit to Anonymous. 348332 High CVE-2014-1718: Integer overflow in compositor. Credit to Aaron Staple...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 161564 High CVE-2012-5138: Incorrect file path handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Jüri Aedla. 162835 High CVE-2012-5137: Use-after-free in media source handling. Credit to Pinkie Pie...

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...

tomcat -- authentication weaknesses

The Apache Software Foundation reports: Three weaknesses in Tomcat's implementation of DIGEST authentication were identified and resolved: Tomcat tracked client rather than server nonces and nonce count. When a session ID was present, authentication was bypassed. The user name and password were n...

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...

xlockmore -- local exploit

Ignatios Souvatzis of NetBSD reports: Due to an error in the dclock screensaver in xlockmore, users who explicitly use this screensaver or a random mix of screensavers using something like "xlockmore -mode random" may have their screen unlocked unexpectedly at a random time...

FreeBSD -- Incorrect handling of zero-length RDATA fields in named(8)

Problem description: The named8 server does not properly handle DNS resource records where the RDATA field is zero length, which may cause various issues for the servers handling them. Resolving servers may crash or disclose some portion of memory to the client. Authoritative servers may crash on...

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...

Apache Traffic Server -- heap overflow vulnerability

CERT-FI reports: A heap overflow vulnerability has been found in the HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol protocol handling of Apache Traffic Server. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially to execute his own code by sending a specially modified HTTP message t...

Python -- DoS via malformed XML-RPC / HTTP POST request

Jan Lieskovsky reports, A denial of service flaw was found in the way Simple XML-RPC Server module of Python processed client connections, that were closed prior the complete request body has been received. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Python Simple XML-RPC based server process ...

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...

libxml -- Integer overflow

Integer overflow in xpath.c, allows context-dependent attackers to to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XML file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow when adding a new namespace node, related to handling of XPath expressions...

OpenTTD -- Denial of service via improperly validated commands

The OpenTTD Team reports: Multiple off-by-one errors in ordercmd.cpp in OpenTTD before 1.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted CMDINSERTORDER command...

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...

bugzilla -- multiple serious vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: This advisory covers three security issues that have recently been fixed in the Bugzilla code: A weakness in Bugzilla could allow a user to gain unauthorized access to another Bugzilla account. A weakness in the Perl CGI.pm module allows injecting HTTP header...

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...

firefox -- WOFF heap corruption due to integer overflow

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2010-08 WOFF heap corruption due to integer overflow...

png -- libpng decompression denial of service

A vulnerability in libpng can result in denial of service conditions when a remote attacker tricks a victim to open a specially-crafted PNG file. The PNG project describes the problem in an advisory: Because of the efficient compression method used in Portable Network Graphics PNG files, a small...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2009-38: Data corruption with SOCKS5 reply containing DNS name longer than 15 characters MFSA 2009-42: Compromise of SSL-protected communication MFSA 2009-43: Heap overflow in certificate regexp parsing MFSA 2009-44: Location bar and SSL indicator spoofing via...

silc-client -- Format string vulnerability

SILC changelog reports: An unspecified format string vulnerability exists in silc-client...

amarok -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Tobias Klein has reported some vulnerabilities in Amarok, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Two integer overflow errors exist within the "Audible::Tag::readTag" function in src/metadata/audible/audibletag.cpp. These can be...

libaudiofile -- heap-based overflow in Microsoft ADPCM compression module

Debian reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in msadpcm.c in libaudiofile in audiofile 0.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted WAV file...

FreeBSD -- arc4random(9) predictable sequence vulnerability

Problem Description: When the arc4random9 random number generator is initialized, there may be inadequate entropy to meet the needs of kernel systems which rely on arc4random9; and it may take up to 5 minutes before arc4random9 is reseeded with secure entropy from the Yarrow random number...

libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Libxml2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or to potentially compromise an application using the library. 1 An integer overflow error in the "xmlSAX2Characters" function can be exploited to trigge...

cups -- multiple vulnerabilities

The release note of cups 1.3.9 reports: It contains the following fixes: SECURITY: The HP-GL/2 filter did not range check pen numbers STR 2911 SECURITY: The SGI image file reader did not range check 16-bit run lengths STR 2918 SECURITY: The text filter did not range check cpi, lpi, or column valu...

mysql -- empty bit-string literal denial of service

MySQL reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing an empty bit-string literal and can be exploited to crash the server via a specially crafted SQL statement...

FreeType 2 -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: An integer overflow error exists in the processing of PFB font files. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a PFB file containing a specially crafted "Private" dictionary table. An error in the processing of PFB font files can be exploited to trigger the...

phpmyadmin -- Username/Password Session File Information Disclosure

A phpMyAdmin security announcement report: phpMyAdmin saves sensitive information like the MySQL username and password and the Blowfish secret key in session data, which might be unprotected on a shared host...

bzip2 -- crash with certain malformed archive files

SecurityFocus reports: The 'bzip2' application is prone to a remote file-handling vulnerability because the application fails to properly handle malformed files. Exploit attempts likely result in application crashes...

sdl_image -- buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Secunia reports: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in SDLimage, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service or potentially compromise an application using the library. A boundary error within the LWZReadByte function in IMGgif.c can be exploited to trigger the...

gallery2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Gallery team reports: Gallery 2.2.4 addresses the following security vulnerabilities: Publish XP module - Fixed unauthorized album creation and file uploads. URL rewrite module - Fixed local file inclusion vulnerability in unsecured admin controller and information disclosure in hotlink...