urllib3 -- certificate verification failure

urllib3 reports: CVE-2016-9015: Certification verification failure...

cURL -- Escape and unescape integer overflows

The cURL project reports The four libcurl functions curlescape, curleasyescape, curlunescape and curleasyunescape perform string URL percent escaping and unescaping. They accept custom string length inputs in signed integer arguments. The provided string length arguments were not properly checked...

ruby-saml -- XML signature wrapping attack

RubySec reports: ruby-saml prior to version 1.3.0 is vulnerable to an XML signature wrapping attack in the specific scenario where there was a signature that referenced at the same time 2 elements but past the scheme validator process since 1 of the element was inside the encrypted assertion...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 560011 High CVE-2016-1630: Same-origin bypass in Blink. 569496 High CVE-2016-1631: Same-origin bypass in Pepper Plugin. 549986 High CVE-2016-1632: Bad cast in Extensions. 572537 High CVE-2016-1633: Use-after-free in Blink. 559292 High CVE-2016-1634: Use-after-free ...

PostgreSQL -- Security Fixes for Regular Expressions, PL/Java.

PostgreSQL project reports: Security Fixes for Regular Expressions, PL/Java CVE-2016-0773: This release closes security hole CVE-2016-0773, an issue with regular expression regex parsing. Prior code allowed users to pass in expressions which included out-of-range Unicode characters, triggering a...

phpmyadmin -- XSS vulnerability in normalization page

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: With a crafted table name it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the database normalization page. We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical. This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who is logged in to phpMyAdmin, as the usual token...

rails -- multiple vulnerabilities

Ruby on Rails blog: Rails 5.0.0.beta1.1, 4.2.5.1, 4.1.14.1, and 3.2.22.1 have been released! These contain important security fixes, and it is recommended that users upgrade as soon as possible...

FreeBSD -- SCTP ICMPv6 error message vulnerability

Problem Description: A lack of proper input checks in the ICMPv6 processing in the SCTP stack can lead to either a failed kernel assertion or to a NULL pointer dereference. In either case, a kernel panic will follow. Impact: A remote, unauthenticated attacker can reliably trigger a kernel panic i...

ffmpeg -- remote attacker can access local files

Arch Linux reports: ffmpeg has a vulnerability in the current version that allows the attacker to create a specially crafted video file, downloading which will send files from a user PC to a remote attacker server. The attack does not even require the user to open that file — for example, KDE...

atheme-services -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mitre reports: modules/chanserv/flags.c in Atheme before 7.2.7 allows remote attackers to modify the Anope FLAGS behavior by registering and dropping the 1 LIST, 2 CLEAR, or 3 MODIFY keyword nicks. Buffer overflow in the xmlrpccharencode function in modules/transport/xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.c in Atheme...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 2 security fixes in this release, including: 569486 CVE-2015-6792: Fixes from internal audits and fuzzing...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 520422 High CVE-2015-1302: Information leak in PDF viewer. Credit to Rob Wu...

cups-filters -- code execution

Salvatore Bonaccorso reports: Cups Filters/Foomatic Filters does not consider backtick as an illegal escape character...

gdk-pixbuf2 -- head overflow and DoS

reports: We found a heap overflow and a DoS in the gdk-pixbuf implementation triggered by the scaling of tga file. We found a heap overflow in the gdk-pixbuf implementation triggered by the scaling of gif file...

libvpx -- buffer overflow in vp9_init_context_buffers

The Mozilla Project reports: Security researcher Khalil Zhani reported that a maliciously crafted vp9 format video could be used to trigger a buffer overflow while parsing the file. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash due to a flaw in the libvpx library...

qemu, xen-tools -- QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model

The Xen Project reports: The QEMU model of the RTL8139 network card did not sufficiently validate inputs in the C+ mode offload emulation. This results in uninitialized memory from the QEMU process's heap being leaked to the domain as well as to the network. A guest may be able to read sensitive...

Adobe Flash Player -- critical vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Critical vulnerabilities CVE-2015-5122, CVE-2015-5123 have been identified. Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of reports that exploits targeting these vulnerabilities have been...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: A very uncommon combination of zone data has been found that triggers a bug in BIND, with the result that named will exit with a "REQUIRE" failure in name.c when validating the data returned in answer to a recursive query. A recursive resolver that is performing DNSSEC validation can...

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...

django -- Fixed session flushing in the cached_db backend

The Django project reports: A change to session.flush in the cacheddb session backend in Django 1.8 mistakenly sets the session key to an empty string rather than None. An empty string is treated as a valid session key and the session cookie is set accordingly. Any users with an empty string in...

suricata -- TLS/DER Parser Bug (DoS)

OISF Development Team reports: The OISF development team is pleased to announce Suricata 2.0.8. This release fixes a number of issues in the 2.0 series. The most important issue is a bug in the DER parser which is used to decode SSL/TLS certificates could crash Suricata. This issue was reported b...

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...

ffmpeg -- out-of-bounds array access

NVD reports: The msrledecodepal4 function in msrledec.c in Libav before 10.7 and 11.x before 11.4 and FFmpeg before 2.0.7, 2.2.x before 2.2.15, 2.4.x before 2.4.8, 2.5.x before 2.5.6, and 2.6.x before 2.6.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, related to a pixel...

libtasn1 -- stack-based buffer overflow in asn1_der_decoding

Debian reports: Hanno Boeck discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the asn1derdecoding function in Libtasn1, a library to manage ASN.1 structures. A remote attacker could take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Libtasn1 library to crash, or potentially to execute...

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...

osc -- shell command injection via crafted _service files

SUSE Security Update reports: osc before 0.151.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a service file...

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 1.12 -- New release/fix multiple vulnerabilities

The MIT Kerberos team announces the availability of MIT Kerberos 5 Release 1.12.3: Fix multiple vulnerabilities in the LDAP KDC back end. CVE-2014-5354 CVE-2014-5353 Fix multiple kadmind vulnerabilities, some of which are based in the gssrpc library. CVE-2014-5352 CVE-2014-5352 CVE-2014-9421...

mini_httpd -- buffer overflow via snprintf

ACME Updates reports: minihttpd 1.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via an HTTP request with a long protocol string, which triggers an incorrect response size calculation and an out-of-bounds read. rene ACME, the author, claims that the...

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...

e2fsprogs -- potential buffer overflow in closefs()

Theodore Ts'o reports: On a carefully crafted filesystem that gets modified through tune2fs or debugfs, it is possible to trigger a buffer overrun when the file system is closed via closefs...

wget -- path traversal vulnerability in recursive FTP mode

MITRE reports: Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a LIST response that references the same filename within two entries, one of which indicates...

squid -- Buffer overflow in SNMP processing

The squid-cache project reports: Due to incorrect buffer management Squid can be caused by an attacker to write outside its allocated SNMP buffer...

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...

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

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

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...

mutt -- denial of service, potential remote code execution

Beatrice Torracca and Evgeni Golov report: A buffer overflow has been discovered that could result in denial of service or potential execution of arbitrary code. This condition can be triggered by malformed RFC2047 header lines...

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...

libyaml heap overflow resulting in possible code execution

libyaml was prone to a heap overflow that could result in arbitrary code execution. Pkg uses libyaml to parse the package manifests in some cases. Pkg also used libyaml to parse the remote repository until 1.2. RedHat Product Security Team reports on libyaml: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: Cross-Site Request Forgery When a user submits changes to a bug right after another user did, a midair collision page is displayed to inform the user about changes recently made. This page contains a token which can be used to validate the changes if the user...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 50 security fixes in this release, including: 223962270758271161284785284786 Medium CVE-2013-2906: Races in Web Audio. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 260667 Medium CVE-2013-2907: Out of bounds read in Window.prototype object. Credit to Boris Zbarsky. 265221 Medi...

FreeBSD -- Incorrect privilege validation in the NFS server

Problem Description: The kernel incorrectly uses client supplied credentials instead of the one configured in exports5 when filling out the anonymous credential for a NFS export, when -network or -host restrictions are used at the same time. Impact: The remote client may supply privileged...

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 ...

otrs -- information disclosure

The OTRS Project reports: An attacker with a valid agent login could manipulate URLs in the ticket split mechanism to see contents of tickets and they are not permitted to see...

Joomla! -- XXS and DDoS vulnerabilities

The JSST and the Joomla! Security Center report: 20130405 - Core - XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability in Voting plugin. 20130403 - Core - XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering allows possibility of XSS exploit in some circumstances. 20130402 - Core - Information...

ModSecurity -- XML External Entity Processing Vulnerability

Positive Technologies has reported a vulnerability in ModSecurity, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information or cause a DoS Denial Of Serice. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when parsing external XML entities and can be exploited to e.g...

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...

Ruby Rack Gem -- Multiple Issues

Rack developers report: Today we are proud to announce the release of Rack 1.4.5. Fix CVE-2013-0263, timing attack against Rack::Session::Cookie Fix CVE-2013-0262, symlink path traversal in Rack::File...

tomcat -- bypass of security constraints

The Apache Software Foundation reports: When using FORM authentication it was possible to bypass the security constraint checks in the FORM authenticator by appending "/jsecuritycheck" to the end of the URL if some other component such as the Single-Sign-On valve had called request.setUserPrincip...

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...