roundcube -- arbitrary password resets

Roundcube reports: Roundcube Webmail allows arbitrary password resets by authenticated users. The problem is caused by an improperly restricted exec call in the virtualmin and sasl drivers of the password plugin...

xen-kernel -- broken check in memory_exchange() permits PV guest breakout

The Xen Project reports: The XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEMexchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays. A malicious or buggy 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of system memory, allowing fo...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 5 security fixes in this release, including: 698622 Critical CVE-2017-5055: Use after free in printing. Credit to Wadih Matar 699166 High CVE-2017-5054: Heap buffer overflow in V8. Credit to Nicolas Trippar of Zimperium zLabs 662767 High CVE-2017-5052: Bad cast in...

openssl -- timing attack vulnerability

Cesar Pereida Garcia reports: The signing function in crypto/ecdsa/ecdsaossl.c in certain OpenSSL versions and forks is vulnerable to timing attacks when signing with the standardized elliptic curve P-256 despite featuring constant-time curve operations and modular inversion. A software defect...

Ansible -- Command execution on Ansible controller from host

Computest reports: Computest found and exploited several issues that allow a compromised host to execute commands on the Ansible controller and thus gain access to other hosts controlled by that controller...

xen-kernel -- x86 64-bit bit test instruction emulation broken

The Xen Project reports: The x86 instructions BT, BTC, BTR, and BTS, when used with a destination memory operand and a source register rather than an immediate operand, access a memory location offset from that specified by the memory operand as specified by the high bits of the register source. ...

ImageMagick -- heap overflow vulnerability

Bastien Roucaries reports: Imagemagick before 3cbfb163cff9e5b8cdeace8312e9bfee810ed02b suffer from a heap overflow in WaveletDenoiseImage. This problem is easily trigerrable from a Perl script...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django project reports: Today the Django team released Django 1.10.3, Django 1.9.11, and 1.8.16. These releases addresses two security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible. User with hardcoded password created when running tests on Oracle DNS...

flash -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and ChromeOS. These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. These updates resolve a type confusion vulnerabilit...

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...

squid -- multiple vulnerabilities

The squid development team reports: Please reference CVE/URL list for details...

hostapd and wpa_supplicant -- psk configuration parameter update allowing arbitrary data to be written

Jouni Malinen reports: psk configuration parameter update allowing arbitrary data to be written 2016-1 - CVE-2016-4476/CVE-2016-4477...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark development team reports: The following vulnerabilities have been fixed: wnpa-sec-2016-19 The NCP dissector could crash. Bug 11591 wnpa-sec-2016-20 TShark could crash due to a packet reassembly bug. Bug 11799 wnpa-sec-2016-21 The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. Bug 11824, Bug 12187...

moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities

Marina Glancy reports: MSA-16-0003: Incorrect capability check when displaying users emails in Participants list MSA-16-0004: XSS from profile fields from external db MSA-16-0005: Reflected XSS in moddata advanced search MSA-16-0006: Hidden courses are shown to students in Event Monitor...

websvn -- reflected cross-site scripting

Sebastien Delafond reports: Jakub Palaczynski discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion repositories, does not correctly sanitize user-supplied input, which allows a remote user to run reflected cross-site scripting attacks...

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...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

Samuel Sidler reports: WordPress 4.4.2 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.4.1 and earlier are affected by two security issues: a possible SSRF for certain local URIs, reported ...

phpmyadmin -- XSS vulnerability in SQL editor

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: With a crafted SQL query, it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the SQL editor. 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 protection preven...

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...

webkit -- UI spoof

webkit reports: The ScrollView::paint function in platform/scroll/ScrollView.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 35.0.1916.114, allows remote attackers to spoof the UI by extending scrollbar painting into the parent frame...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 7 security fixes in this release, including: 548273 High CVE-2015-6788: Type confusion in extensions. Credit to anonymous. 557981 High CVE-2015-6789: Use-after-free in Blink. Credit to cloudfuzzer. 542054 Medium CVE-2015-6790: Escaping issue in saved pages. Credit ...

Joomla! -- Core - SQL Injection/ACL Violation vulnerabilities

The JSST and the Joomla! Security Center report: 20151001 - Core - SQL Injection Inadequate filtering of request data leads to a SQL Injection vulnerability. 20151002 - Core - ACL Violations Inadequate ACL checks in comcontenthistory provide potential read access to data which should be access...

wolfssl -- leakage of private key information

Florian Weimer of Redhat discovered that an optimization in RSA signature validation can result in disclosure of the server's private key under certain fault conditions...

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...

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...

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...

Quassel IRC -- SQL injection vulnerability

Quassel IRC developers report: Restarting a PostgreSQL database while Quassel Core is running would not properly re-initialize the database session inside Quassel, bringing back an old security issue CVE-2013-4422...

qt4-imageformats, qt4-gui, qt5-gui -- Multiple Vulnerabilities in Qt Image Format Handling

Richard J. Moore reports: Due to two recent vulnerabilities identified in the built-in image format handling code, it was decided that this area required further testing to determine if further issues remained. Fuzzing using afl-fuzz located a number of issues in the handling of BMP, ICO and GIF...

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...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: When configured to perform DNSSEC validation, named can crash when encountering a rare set of conditions in the managed trust anchors...

FreeBSD -- Buffer overflow in stdio

Problem Description: A programming error in the standard I/O library's sflush function could erroneously adjust the buffered stream's internal state even when no write actually occurred in the case when write2 system call returns an error. Impact: The accounting mismatch would accumulate, if the...

sox -- input sanitization errors

oCERT reports: The sox command line tool is affected by two heap-based buffer overflows, respectively located in functions startread and AdpcmReadBlock. A specially crafted wav file can be used to trigger the vulnerabilities...

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...

apache -- several vulnerabilities

Apache HTTP SERVER PROJECT reports: Clean up cookie logging with fewer redundant string parsing passes. Log only cookies with a value assignment. Prevents segfaults when logging truncated cookies. moddav: Keep track of length of cdata properly when removing leading spaces. Eliminates a potential...

chromium -- multiple memory corruption issues

Google Chrome Releases reports: 319117 319125 Critical CVE-2013-6632: Multiple memory corruption issues. Credit to Pinkie Pie...

django -- denial-of-service via large passwords

The Django project reports: These releases address a denial-of-service attack against Django's authentication framework. All users of Django are encouraged to upgrade immediately...

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...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS due to unescaped HTML output in Create View page

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: When creating a view with a crafted name and an incorrect CREATE statement, it is possible to trigger an XSS. This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who logged in to phpMyAdmin, as the usual token protection prevents non-logged-in users from...

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 ...

dropbear -- exposure of sensitive information, DoS

The Dropbear project reports: A weakness and a vulnerability have been reported in Dropbear SSH Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information and cause a DoS...

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...

roundcube -- arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability

RoundCube development team reports: After getting reports about a possible vulnerability of Roundcube which allows an attacker to modify its users preferences in a way that he/she can then read files from the server, we now published updated packages as well as patches that fix this security issu...

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...

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...

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...

ettercap -- buffer overflow in target list parsing

Host target list parsing routine in ettercap 0.7.4-series prior to 0.7.4.1 and 0.7.5-series is prone to the stack-based buffer overflow that may lead to the code execution with the privileges of the ettercap process. In order to trigger this vulnerability, user or service that use ettercap should...

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...

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...

otrs -- XSS vulnerability

OTRS Security Advisory reports: This advisory covers vulnerabilities discovered in the OTRS core system. This is a variance of the XSS vulnerability, where an attacker could send a specially prepared HTML email to OTRS which would cause JavaScript code to be executed in your browser while...