xen-tools -- qemu incautious about shared ring processing

The Xen Project reports: The compiler can emit optimizations in qemu which can lead to double fetch vulnerabilities. Specifically data on the rings shared between qemu and the hypervisor which the guest under control can obtain mappings of can be fetched twice during which time the guest can alte...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 4 security fixes in this release, including: 643948 High CVE-2016-5199: Heap corruption in FFmpeg. Credit to Paul Mehta 658114 High CVE-2016-5200: Out of bounds memory access in V8. Credit to Choongwoo Han 660678 Medium CVE-2016-5201: Info leak in extensions. Credi...

node.js -- ares_create_query single byte out of buffer write

Node.js has released new versions containing the following security fix: The following releases all contain fixes for CVE-2016-5180 "arescreatequery single byte out of buffer write": Node.js v0.10.48 Maintenance, Node.js v0.12.17 Maintenance, Node.js v4.6.1 LTS "Argon" While this is not a critica...

xen-kernel -- use after free in FIFO event channel code

The Xen Project reports: When the EVTCHNOPinitcontrol operation is called with a bad guest frame number, it takes an error path which frees a control structure without also clearing the corresponding pointer. Certain subsequent operations EVTCHNOPexpandarray or another EVTCHNOPinitcontrol, upon...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

owncloud -- multiple vulnerabilities

Owncloud reports: Reflected XSS in OCS provider discovery oC-SA-2016-001 Information Exposure Through Directory Listing in the file scanner oC-SA-2016-002 Disclosure of files that begin with ".v" due to unchecked return value oC-SA-2016-003...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

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

kea -- unexpected termination while handling a malformed packet

ISC Support reports: ISC Kea may terminate unexpectedly crash while handling a malformed client packet. Related defects in the kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers can cause the server to crash during option processing if a client sends a malformed packet. An attacker sending a crafted malformed packe...

cups-filters -- code execution

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases reports: 51 security fixes in this release, including: 456516 High CVE-2015-1212: Out-of-bounds write in media. Credit to anonymous. 448423 High CVE-2015-1213: Out-of-bounds write in skia filters. Credit to cloudfuzzer. 445810 High CVE-2015-1214: Out-of-bounds write in skia filter...

xorg-server -- Information leak in the XkbSetGeometry request of X servers.

Peter Hutterer reports: Olivier Fourdan from Red Hat has discovered a protocol handling issue in the way the X server code base handles the XkbSetGeometry request. The issue stems from the server trusting the client to send valid string lengths in the request data. A malicious client with string...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

FreeBSD -- Privilege escalation via mmap

Due to insufficient permission checks in the virtual memory system, a tracing process such as a debugger may be able to modify portions of the traced process's address space to which the traced process itself does not have write access...

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...

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...

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...

Wireshark -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Wireshark reports: The HSRP dissector could go into an infinite loop. The PPP dissector could abort. Martin Wilck discovered an infinite loop in the DRDA dissector. Laurent Butti discovered a buffer overflow in the LDP dissector...

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...

libjpeg-turbo -- heap-based buffer overflow

The Changelog for version 1.2.1 says: Fixed a regression caused by 1.2.06 in which decompressing corrupt JPEG images specifically, images in which the component count was erroneously set to a large value would cause libjpeg-turbo to segfault. A Heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way...

sudo -- netmask vulnerability

Todd Miller reports: Sudo supports granting access to commands on a per-host basis. The host specification may be in the form of a host name, a netgroup, an IP address, or an IP network an IP address with an associated netmask. When IPv6 support was added to sudo, a bug was introduced that caused...

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...

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...