gld -- format string and buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Gld has been found vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows as well as multiple format string vulnerabilities. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Gld, the default user being root. The FreeBSD port defaults to running gld ...

jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability

Pluf has discovered a vulnerability in Sun Java JDK/SDK, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The jar tool does not check properly if the files to be extracted have the string "../" on its names, so it's possible for an attacker to create a malicio...

phpmyadmin -- cross site scripting vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports: The convcharset parameter was not correctly validated, opening the door to a XSS attack...

phpmyadmin -- information disclosure vulnerability

A phpMyAdmin security announcement reports: By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way especially scripts in the libraries subdirectory, it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin...

exim -- two buffer overflow vulnerabilities

The function hostaton can overflow a buffer if it is presented with an illegal IPv6 address that has more than 8 components. 2. The second report described a buffer overflow in the function spabase64tobits, which is part of the code for SPA authentication...

mailman -- generated passwords are poor quality

Florian Weimer wrote: Mailman 2.1.5 uses weak auto-generated passwords for new subscribers. These passwords are assigned when members subscribe without specifying their own password either by email or the web frontend. Knowledge of this password allows an attacker to gain access to the list archi...

ethereal -- multiple vulnerabilities

An Ethreal Security Advisories reports: Issues have been discovered in the following protocol dissectors: Matthew Bing discovered a bug in DICOM dissection that could make Ethereal crash. An invalid RTP timestamp could make Ethereal hang and create a large temporary file, possibly filling availab...

mplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities

iDEFENSE and the MPlayer Team have found multiple vulnerabilities in MPlayer: Potential heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code Potential stack overflow in MMST streaming code Multiple buffer overflows in BMP demuxer Potential heap overflow in pnm streaming code Potential buffer overflow in...

isc-dhcpd -- format string vulnerabilities

The ISC DHCP programs are vulnerable to several format string vulnerabilities which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the DHCP programs, typically root for the DHCP server...

Cyrus IMAPd -- PARTIAL command out of bounds memory corruption

Due to a bug within the argument parser of the partial command an argument like "bodyp" will be wrongly detected as "body.peek". Because of this the bufferposition gets increased by 10 instead of 5 and could therefore point outside the allocated memory buffer for the rest of the parsing process. ...

mpg123 -- buffer overflow in URL handling

Carlos Barros reports that mpg123 contains two buffer overflows. These vulnerabilities can potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code. The first buffer overflow can occur when mpg123 parses a URL with a user-name/password field that is more than 256 characters long. This problem can be...

krb5 -- double-free vulnerabilities

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The MIT Kerberos 5 implementation's Key Distribution Center KDC program contains a double-free vulnerability that potentially allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Compromise of a KDC host compromises the security of the entire...

Ruby insecure file permissions in the CGI session management

According to a Debian Security Advisory: Andres Salomon noticed a problem in the CGI session management of Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language. CGI::Session's FileStore and presumably PStore ... implementations store session information insecurely. They simply create files, ignoring...

MySQL authentication bypass / buffer overflow

By submitting a carefully crafted authentication packet, it is possible for an attacker to bypass password authentication in MySQL 4.1. Using a similar method, a stack buffer used in the authentication mechanism can be overflowed...

isc-dhcp3-server buffer overflow in logging mechanism

A buffer overflow exists in the logging functionality of the DHCP daemon which could lead to Denial of Service attacks and has the potential to allow attackers to execute arbitrary code...

mozilla -- security icon spoofing

Under certain situations it is possible for the security icon which Mozilla displays when connected to a site using SSL to be spoofed. This could be used to make so-called "phishing attacks" more difficult to detect...

FreeBSD-kernel -- ASLR bypass for setuid executables via procctl(2)

Problem Description: The ELF image activator cleared per-process ASLR preference flags for setuid binaries after the code that computes the PIE base address, rather than before. As a result, a user-requested ASLR disable was still in effect at the point where the base address was chosen. Impact: ...

OpenEXR -- 3.4.12 fixes multiple vulnerabilities

Cary Phillips reports: The OpenEXR 3.4.12 release addresses the following security vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-45696 OpenEXR htundoimpl heap-buffer-overflow READ via codestream/channel width mismatch in HTJ2K decode CVE-2026-44663 Integer overflow in HTJ2K decoder htundoimpl leading to...

expat -- multiple vulnerabilities

libexpat reports: CVE-2024-45490: Calling function XMLParseBuffer with len 0 without noticing and then calling XMLGetBuffer will have XMLParseBuffer fail to recognize the problem and XMLGetBuffer corrupt memory. With the fix, XMLParseBuffer now complains with error XMLERRORINVALIDARGUMENT just li...

FreeBSD -- umtx Kernel panic or Use-After-Free

Problem Description: Concurrent removals of such a mapping by using the UMTXSHMDESTROY sub-request of UMTXOPSHM can lead to decreasing the reference count of the object representing the mapping too many times, causing it to be freed too early. Impact: A malicious code exercizing the UMTXSHMDESTRO...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 21 security fixes: 342456991 High CVE-2024-5830: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Man Yue Mo of GitHub Security Lab on 2024-05-24 339171223 High CVE-2024-5831: Use after free in Dawn. Reported by wgslfuzz on 2024-05-07 340196361 High CVE-2024-5832: U...

openvpn -- two security fixes

Gert Doering reports that OpenVPN 2.6.11 fixes two security bugs three on Windows: CVE-2024-5594: control channel: refuse control channel messages with nonprintable characters in them. Security scope: a malicious openvpn peer can send garbage to openvpn log, or cause high CPU load. Reynir Björnss...

qt6-webengine -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Qt qtwebengine-chromium repo reports: Backports for 16 security bugs in Chromium: CVE-2024-2625: Object lifecycle issue in V8 CVE-2024-2626: Out of bounds read in Swiftshader CVE-2024-2885: Use after free in Dawn CVE-2024-2887: Type Confusion in WebAssembly CVE-2024-3157: Out of bounds write in...

electron{27,28} -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-2885. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-2883. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-2887. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-2886...

jenkins -- HTTP/2 denial of service vulnerability in bundled Jetty

Jenkins Security Advisory: Description High SECURITY-3379 / CVE-2024-22201 HTTP/2 denial of service vulnerability in bundled Jetty...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 17 security fixes: 1484394 High CVE-2024-0812: Inappropriate implementation in Accessibility. Reported by Anonymous on 2023-09-19 1504936 High CVE-2024-0808: Integer underflow in WebUI. Reported by Lyra Rebane rebane2001 on 2023-11-24 1496250 Medium...

chromium -- security update

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 1 security fix: 1497859 High CVE-2023-5996: Use after free in WebAudio. Reported by Huang Xilin of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab via Tianfu Cup 2023 on 2023-10-30...

Grafana -- Grafana DS proxy race condition

Grafana Labs reports: We have discovered a vulnerability with Grafana’s data source query endpoints that could end up crashing a Grafana instance. If you have public dashboards PD enabled, we are scoring this as a CVSS 7.5 High. If you have disabled PD, this vulnerability is still a risk, but...

powerdns-recursor -- denial of service

PowerDNS Team reports: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2023-02: Deterred spoofing attempts can lead to authoritative servers being marked unavailable...

rack -- possible denial of service vulnerability in header parsing

oooooooq reports: Carefully crafted input can cause header parsing in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that parse headers using Rack virtually all Rails applications are impacted...

Django -- multiple vulnerabilities

Django reports: CVE-2023-23969: Potential denial-of-service via Accept-Language headers...

rack -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Aaron Patterson reports: CVE-2022-44570 Carefully crafted input can cause the Range header parsing component in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that deal with Range requests such as streaming applications, or...

routinator -- multiple vulnerabilities

NLnet Labs report: This release fixes two issues in Routinator that can be exploited remotely by rogue RPKI CAs and repositories. We therefore advise all users of Routinator to upgrade to this release at their earliest convenience. The first issue, CVE-2022-39915, can lead to Routinator crashing...

go -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Go project reports: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header The HTTP/1 client accepted some invalid Transfer-Encoding headers as indicating a "chunked" encoding. This could potentially allow for request smuggling, but only if combined with an intermediate server that also...

FreeBSD -- Potential jail escape vulnerabilities in netmap

Problem Description: The total size of the user-provided nmreq to nmreqcopyin was first computed and then trusted during the copyin. This time-of-check to time-of-use bug could lead to kernel memory corruption. CVE-2022-23084 A user-provided integer option was passed to nmreqcopyin without checki...

Gitlab -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Group members with developer role can escalate their privilege to maintainer on projects that they import When user registration is limited, external users that aren't developers shouldn't have access to the CI Lint API Collision in access memoization leads to potential elevated...

rubygem-cgi -- cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse

oooooooq reports: The old versions of CGI::Cookie.parse applied URL decoding to cookie names. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof security prefixes in cookie names, which may be able to trick a vulnerable application. By this fix, CGI::Cookie.parse no longer decodes cookie names...

go -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Go project reports: debug/macho fails out when loading a file that contains a dynamic symbol table command that indicates a larger number of symbols than exist in the loaded symbol table. Previously, opening a zip with Reader.Open could result in a panic if the zip contained a file whose name...

mailman -- 2.1.37 fixes XSS via user options, and moderator offline brute-force vuln against list admin password

Mark Sapiro reports: A potential XSS attack via the user options page has been reported by Harsh Jaiswal. This is fixed. CVE-2021-43331 LP: 1949401. A potential for for a list moderator to carry out an off-line brute force attack to obtain the list admin password has been reported by Andre Protas...

go -- archive/zip: overflow in preallocation check can cause OOM panic

The Go project reports: An oversight in the previous fix still allows for an OOM panic when the indicated directory size in the archive header is so large that subtracting it from the archive size overflows a uint64, effectively bypassing the check that the number of files in the archive is...

go -- crypto/tls: clients can panic when provided a certificate of the wrong type for the negotiated parameters

The Go project reports: crypto/tls clients can panic when provided a certificate of the wrong type for the negotiated parameters. net/http clients performing HTTPS requests are also affected. The panic can be triggered by an attacker in a privileged network position without access to the server...

go -- net/http: panic due to racy read of persistConn after handler panic

The Go project reports: A net/http/httputil ReverseProxy can panic due to a race condition if its Handler aborts with ErrAbortHandler, for example due to an error in copying the response body. An attacker might be able to force the conditions leading to the race condition...

dino -- Path traversal in Dino file transfers

Dino team reports: It was discovered that when a user receives and downloads a file in Dino, URI-encoded path separators in the file name will be decoded, allowing an attacker to traverse directories and create arbitrary files in the context of the user...

openvpn -- deferred authentication can be bypassed in specific circumstances

Gert Döring reports: OpenVPN 2.5.1 and earlier versions allows a remote attackers to bypass authentication and access control channel data on servers configured with deferred authentication, which can be used to potentially trigger further information leaks...

FreeBSD -- login.access fails to apply rules

Problem Description: A regression in the login.access5 rule processor has the effect of causing rules to fail to match even when they should not. This means that rules denying access may be ignored. Impact: The configuration in login.access5 may not be applied, permitting login access to users ev...

asterisk -- Crash when negotiating T.38 with a zero port

The Asterisk project reports: When Asterisk sends a re-invite initiating T.38 faxing and the endpoint responds with a m=image line and zero port, a crash will occur in Asterisk. This is a reoccurrence of AST-2019-004...

mutt -- authentication credentials being sent over an unencrypted connection

Kevin J. McCarthy reports: Mutt had incorrect error handling when initially connecting to an IMAP server, which could result in an attempt to authenticate without enabling TLS...

consul -- Fix Consul Connect CA private key configuration

Hashicorp reports: Increase the permissions to read from the /connect/ca/configuration endpoint to operator:write. Previously Connect CA configuration, including the private key, set via this endpoint could be read back by an operator with operator:read privileges...

FreeBSD -- sendmsg(2) privilege escalation

Problem Description: When handling a 32-bit sendmsg2 call, the compat32 subsystem copies the control message to be transmitted if any into kernel memory, and adjusts alignment of control message headers. The code which performs this work contained a time-of-check to time-of-use TOCTOU vulnerabili...

xorg-server -- Pixel Data Uninitialized Memory Information Disclosure

The X.org project reports: Allocation for pixmap data in AllocatePixmap does not initialize the memory in xserver, it leads to leak uninitialize heap memory to clients. When the X server runs with elevated privileges. This flaw can lead to ASLR bypass, which when combined with other flaws...