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...

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...

NSS -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: Security researcher Hanno Böck reported that calculations with mpdiv and mpexptmod in Network Security Services NSS can produce wrong results in some circumstances. These functions are used within NSS for a variety of cryptographic division functions, leading to...

dhcpcd -- multiple vulnerabilities

Nico Golde reports: heap overflow via malformed dhcp responses later in printoption via dhcpenvoption1 due to incorrect option length values. Exploitation is non-trivial, but I'd love to be proven wrong. invalid read/crash via malformed dhcp responses. not exploitable beyond DoS as far as I can...

Ruby -- unsafe tainted string vulnerability

Ruby developer reports: There is an unsafe tainted string vulnerability in Fiddle and DL. This issue was originally reported and fixed with CVE-2009-5147 in DL, but reappeared after DL was reimplemented using Fiddle and libffi. And, about DL, CVE-2009-5147 was fixed at Ruby 1.9.1, but not fixed a...

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 ...

optipng -- multiple vulnerabilities

ifread.c in gif2png, as used in OptiPNG before 0.7.6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service uninitialized memory read via a crafted GIF file. The bmpreadrows function in pngxtern/pngxrbmp.c in OptiPNG before 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid memory...

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...

libvpx -- multiple buffer overflows

The Mozilla Project reports: Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two buffer overflow issues in the Libvpx library used for WebM video when decoding a malformed WebM video file. These buffer overflows result in...

FreeBSD -- shell injection vulnerability in patch(1)

Problem Description: Due to insufficient sanitization of the input patch stream, it is possible for a patch file to cause patch1 to pass certain ed1 scripts to the ed1 editor, which would run commands. Impact: This issue could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands as the user invoking patch1...

gdk-pixbuf2 -- heap overflow and DoS

Gustavo Grieco reports: We found a heap overflow and a DoS in the gdk-pixbuf implementation triggered by the scaling of a malformed bmp...

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...

www/chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 4 security fixes in this release: 464922 High CVE-2015-1266: Scheme validation error in WebUI. Credit to anonymous. 494640 High CVE-2015-1268: Cross-origin bypass in Blink. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski. 497507 Medium CVE-2015-1267: Cross-origin bypass in Blink. Credit...

squid -- client-first SSL-bump does not correctly validate X509 server certificate

Squid security advisory 2015:1 reports: Squid configured with client-first SSL-bump does not correctly validate X509 server certificate domain / hostname fields. The bug is important because it allows remote servers to bypass client certificate validation. Some attackers may also be able to use...

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...

rest-client -- session fixation vulnerability

Andy Brody reports: When Ruby rest-client processes an HTTP redirection response, it blindly passes along the values from any Set-Cookie headers to the redirection target, regardless of domain, path, or expiration...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA-2015-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:35.0 / rv:31.4 MFSA-2015-02 Uninitialized memory use during bitmap rendering MFSA-2015-03 sendBeacon requests lack an Origin header MFSA-2015-04 Cookie injection through Proxy Authenticate responses MFSA-2015-05 Read...

chicken -- buffer overrun in substring-index[-ci]

chicken developer Moritz Heidkamp reports: The substring-index-ci procedures of the data-structures unit are vulnerable to a buffer overrun attack when passed an integer greater than zero as the optional START argument. As a work-around you can switch to SRFI 13's string-contains procedure which...

freetype -- Out of bounds stack-based read/write

Werner LEMBERG reports: The fix for CVE-2014-2240 was not 100% complete to fix the issue from the CVE completly...

flac -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Erik de Castro Lopo reports: Google Security Team member, Michele Spagnuolo, recently found two potential problems in the FLAC code base. They are: CVE-2014-9028: Heap buffer write overflow. CVE-2014-8962: Heap buffer read overflow...

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...

twiki -- remote Perl code execution

TWiki developers report: The debugenableplugins request parameter allows arbitrary Perl code execution. Using an HTTP GET request towards a TWiki server, add a specially crafted debugenableplugins request parameter to TWiki's view script typically port 80/TCP. Prior authentication may or may not ...

www/chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 4 security fixes in this release, including: 401362 High CVE-2014-3178: Use-after-free in rendering. Credit to miaubiz. 411014 CVE-2014-3179: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives...

logstash -- Remote command execution in Logstash zabbix and nagios_nsca outputs

Elastic reports: The vulnerability impacts deployments that use the either the zabbix or the nagiosnsca outputs. In these cases, an attacker with an ability to send crafted events to any source of data for Logstash could execute operating system commands with the permissions of the Logstash...

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...

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...

pyrad -- multiple vulnerabilities

Nathaniel McCallum reports: packet.py in pyrad before 2.1 uses weak random numbers to generate RADIUS authenticators and hash passwords, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a brute force attack. The CreateID function in packet.py in pyrad before 2.1 uses...

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...

ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick -- DoS via specially crafted PNG file

Kurt Seifried reports: There is an issue in ImageMagick that is also present in GraphicsMagick. CVE-2011-3026 deals with libpng memory allocation, and limitations have been added so that a bad PNG can't cause the system to allocate a lot of memory and a denial of service. However on further...

libxml2 -- An off-by-one out-of-bounds write by XPointer

Google chrome team reports: An off-by-one out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way libxml, a library for providing XML and HTML support, evaluated certain XPointer parts XPointer is used by libxml to include only the part from the returned XML document, that can be accessed using the XPath...

PivotX -- 'ajaxhelper.php' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

High-Tech Bridge reports: Input passed via the "file" GET parameter to /pivotx/ajaxhelper.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in administrator's browser session in context of the affected website...

libpurple -- Invalid memory dereference in the XMPP protocol plug-in by processing serie of specially-crafted file transfer requests

Pidgin reports: A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the file transfer requests...

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...

libpurple -- Remote DoS via an MSN OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding

US-CERT reports: The msnoimreporttouser function in oim.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service application crash via an OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding...

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...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 106484 High CVE-2011-3924: Use-after-free in DOM selections. Credit to Arthur Gerkis. 108461 High CVE-2011-3928: Use-after-free in DOM handling. Credit to wushi of team509 reported through ZDI ZDI-CAN-1415. 108605 High CVE-2011-3927: Uninitialized value in Skia...

krb5 -- KDC null pointer dereference in TGS handling

The MIT Kerberos Team reports: In releases krb5-1.9 and later, the KDC can crash due to a NULL pointer dereference in code that handles TGS Ticket Granting Service requests. The trigger condition is trivial to produce using unmodified client software, but requires the ability to authenticate as a...

OpenSSL -- multiple vulnerabilities

OpenSSL Team reports: Two security flaws have been fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0e Under certain circumstances OpenSSL's internal certificate verification routines can incorrectly accept a CRL whose nextUpdate field is in the past. CVE-2011-3207 OpenSSL server code for ephemeral ECDH ciphersuites is not...

codeigniter -- SQL injection vulnerability

The CodeIgniter changelog reports: An improvement was made to the MySQL and MySQLi drivers to prevent exposing a potential vector for SQL injection on sites using multi-byte character sets in the database client connection. An incompatibility in PHP versions 5.0.7 with mysqlsetcharset creates a...

XSS issue in MantisBT

Net.Edit0r from BlACK Hat Group reported an XSS issue in search.php. All MantisBT users including anonymous users that are not logged in to public bug trackers could be impacted by this vulnerability...

mailman -- CSRF hardening in parts of the web interface

The late Tokio Kikuchi reported: We may have to set lifetime for input forms because of recent activities on cross-site request forgery CSRF. The form lifetime is successfully deployed in frameworks like web.py or plone etc. Proposed branch lp:tkikuchi/mailman/form-lifetime implement lifetime in...

krb5 -- MITKRB5-SA-2011-001, kpropd denial of service

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The MIT krb5 KDC database propagation daemon kpropd is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack triggered by invalid network input. If a kpropd worker process receives invalid input that causes it to exit with an abnormal status, it can cause t...

plone -- Remote Security Bypass

Plone developer reports: This is an escalation of privileges attack that can be used by anonymous users to gain access to a Plone site's administration controls, view unpublished content, create new content and modify a site's skin. The sandbox protecting access to the underlying system is still ...

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...

pecl-phar -- format string vulnerability

Entry for CVE-2010-2094 says: Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the phar extension in PHP 5.3 before 5.3.2 allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information memory contents and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted phar:// URI that is not properly handled by the 1...

pidgin -- multiple remote denial of service vulnerabilities

Three denial of service vulnerabilities where found in pidgin and allow remote attackers to crash the application. The developers summarized these problems as follows: Pidgin can become unresponsive when displaying large numbers of smileys Certain nicknames in group chat rooms can trigger a crash...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Drupal Security Team reports: Cross-site scripting The Forum module does not correctly handle certain arguments obtained from the URL. By enticing a suitably privileged user to visit a specially crafted URL, a malicious user is able to insert arbitrary HTML and script code into forum pages...