flash -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates resolve a type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution CVE-2016-0985. These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, CVE-2016-0983, CVE-2016-0984. The...

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 ...

horde -- XSS vulnerabilities

The Horde Team reports: Fixed XSS vulnerabilities in menu bar and form renderer...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Botan

The botan developers reports: Infinite loop in modular square root algorithm - The ressol function implements the Tonelli-Shanks algorithm for finding square roots could be sent into a nearly infinite loop due to a misplaced conditional check. This could occur if a composite modulus is provided, ...

hive -- authorization logic vulnerability

Sushanth Sowmyan reports: Some partition-level operations exist that do not explicitly also authorize privileges of the parent table. This can lead to issues when the parent table would have denied the operation, but no denial occurs because the partition-level privilege is not checked by the...

FreeBSD -- Linux compatibility layer issetugid(2) system call

Problem Description: A programming error in the Linux compatibility layer could cause the issetugid2 system call to return incorrect information. Impact: If an application relies on output of the issetugid2 system call and that information is incorrect, this could lead to a privilege escalation...

privoxy -- multiple vulnerabilities

Privoxy Developers reports: Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content. CVE-2016-1982. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer. Remove empty Host headers in client requests. Previously they would result in invalid reads. CVE-2016-1983. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz an...

radicale -- multiple vulnerabilities

Radicale reports: The multifilesystem backend allows access to arbitrary files on all platforms. Prevent regex injection in rights management...

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...

libpng buffer overflow in png_set_PLTE

libpng reports: CVE for a vulnerability in libpng, all versions, in the pngsetPLTE/pnggetPLTE functions. These functions failed to check for an out-of-range palette when reading or writing PNG files with a bitdepth less than 8. Some applications might read the bit depth from the IHDR chunk and...

Salt -- multiple vulnerabilities

Salt release notes: CVE-2015-6918 - Git modules leaking HTTPS auth credentials to debug log Updated the Git state and execution modules to no longer display HTTPS basic authentication credentials in loglevel debug output on the Salt master. These credentials are now replaced with REDACTED in the...

git -- potential code execution

Debian reports: "int" is the wrong data type for ... nlen assignment...

Bugzilla security issues

Bugzilla Security Advisory Login names usually an email address longer than 127 characters are silently truncated in MySQL which could cause the domain name of the email address to be corrupted. An attacker could use this vulnerability to create an account with an email address different from the...

vorbis-tools, opus-tools -- multiple vulnerabilities

Paris Zoumpouloglou reports: I discovered an integer overflow issue in oggenc, related to the number of channels in the input WAV file. The issue triggers an out-of-bounds memory access which causes oggenc to crash. Paris Zoumpouloglou reports: A crafted WAV file with number of channels set to 0...

subversion -- multiple vulnerabilities

Subversion reports: CVE-2015-3184: Subversion's modauthzsvn does not properly restrict anonymous access in some mixed anonymous/authenticated environments when using Apache httpd 2.4. CVE-2015-3187: Subversion servers, both httpd and svnserve, will reveal some paths that should be hidden by...

cups-filters -- buffer overflow in texttopdf size allocation

Stefan Cornelius from Red Hat reports: A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way the texttopdf utility of cups-filters processed print jobs with a specially crafted line size. An attacker being able to submit print jobs could exploit this flaw to crash texttopdf or, possibly, execute...

devel/ipython -- remote execution

Kyle Kelley reports: Summary: JSON error responses from the IPython notebook REST API contained URL parameters and were incorrectly reported as text/html instead of application/json. The error messages included some of these URL params, resulting in a cross site scripting attack. This affects use...

logstash -- Directory traversal vulnerability in the file output plugin

Elastic reports: An attacker could use the File output plugin with dynamic field references in the path option to traverse paths outside of Logstash directory. This technique could also be used to overwrite any files which can be accessed with permissions associated with Logstash user. This relea...

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...

xen-kernel -- arm: vgic: incorrect rate limiting of guest triggered logging

The Xen Project reports: On ARM systems the code which deals with virtualizing the GIC distributor would, under various circumstances, log messages on a guest accessible code path without appropriate rate limiting. A malicious guest could cause repeated logging to the hypervisor console, leading ...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 62 security fixes in this release, including: 430353 High CVE-2014-7923: Memory corruption in ICU. Credit to yangdingning. 435880 High CVE-2014-7924: Use-after-free in IndexedDB. Credit to Collin Payne. 434136 High CVE-2014-7925: Use-after-free in WebAudio. Credit ...

Adobe Flash Player -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

libevent -- integer overflow in evbuffers

Debian Security Team reports: Andrew Bartlett of Catalyst reported a defect affecting certain applications using the Libevent evbuffer API. This defect leaves applications which pass insanely large inputs to evbuffers open to a possible heap overflow or infinite loop. In order to exploit this fla...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2014-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:33.0 / rv:31.2 MFSA 2014-75 Buffer overflow during CSS manipulation MFSA 2014-76 Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom waveforms MFSA 2014-78 Further uninitialized memory use during GIF MFSA 2014-79...

e2fsprogs -- buffer overflow if s_first_meta_bg too big

Theodore Ts'o reports: If sfirstmetabg is greater than the of number block group descriptor blocks, then reading or writing the block group descriptors will end up overruning the memory buffer allocated for the descriptors. The finding is credited to a vulnerability report from Jose Duart of Goog...

mcollective -- cert valication issue

Melissa Stone reports: The MCollective aessecurity public key plugin does not correctly validate certs against the CA. By exploiting this vulnerability within a race/initialization window, an attacker with local access could initiate an unauthorized MCollective client connection with a server, an...

libXfont -- X Font Service Protocol and Font metadata file handling issues

Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered several issues in the way the libXfont library handles the responses it receives from xfs servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. Most of these...

virtualbox-ose -- local vulnerability

Oracle reports: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox prior to 3.2.20, 4.0.22, 4.1.30, 4.2.22, and 4.3.6 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Core...

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...

libXfont -- Stack buffer overflow in parsing of BDF font files in libXfont

freedesktop.org reports: A BDF font file containing a longer than expected string can cause a buffer overflow on the stack. Testing in X servers built with Stack Protector restulted in an immediate crash when reading a user-proveded specially crafted font. As libXfont is used to read user-specifi...

varnish -- DoS vulnerability in Varnish HTTP cache

Varnish Cache Project reports: If Varnish receives a certain illegal request, and the subroutine 'vclerror' restarts the request, the varnishd worker process will crash with an assert. The varnishd management process will restart the worker process, but there will be a brief interruption of servi...

mod_fcgid -- possible heap buffer overwrite

Apache Project reports: Fix possible heap buffer overwrite...

FreeBSD -- integer overflow in IP_MSFILTER

Problem Description: An integer overflow in computing the size of a temporary buffer can result in a buffer which is too small for the requested operation. Impact: An unprivileged process can read or write pages of memory which belong to the kernel. These may lead to exposure of sensitive...

cURL library -- heap corruption in curl_easy_unescape

cURL developers report: libcurl is vulnerable to a case of bad checking of the input data which may lead to heap corruption. The function curleasyunescape decodes URL-encoded strings to raw binary data. URL-encoded octets are represented with %HH combinations where HH is a two-digit hexadecimal...

ruby -- Object taint bypassing in DL and Fiddle in Ruby

Ruby Developers report: There is a vulnerability in DL and Fiddle in Ruby where tainted strings can be used by system calls regardless of the $SAFE level set in Ruby. Native functions exposed to Ruby with DL or Fiddle do not check the taint values set on the objects passed in. This can result in...

FreeBSD -- BIND remote denial of service

A flaw in a library used by BIND allows an attacker to deliberately cause excessive memory consumption by the named8 process. This affects both recursive and authoritative servers...

perl -- denial of service via algorithmic complexity attack on hashing routines

Perl developers report: In order to prevent an algorithmic complexity attack against its hashing mechanism, perl will sometimes recalculate keys and redistribute the contents of a hash. This mechanism has made perl robust against attacks that have been demonstrated against other systems. Research...

nss-pam-ldapd -- file descriptor buffer overflow

Garth Mollett reports: A file descriptor overflow issue in the use of FDSET in nss-pam-ldapd can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker could, under some circumstances, use this flaw to cause a process that has the NSS or PAM module loaded to crash or potentially execute arbitrary cod...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 162494 High CVE-2012-5145: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 165622 High CVE-2012-5146: Same origin policy bypass with malformed URL. Credit to Erling A Ellingsen and Subodh Iyengar, both of Facebook. 165864 High CVE-2012-5147:...

FreeBSD -- Linux compatibility layer input validation error

Problem description: A programming error in the handling of some Linux system calls may result in memory locations being accessed without proper validation...

OpenX -- SQL injection vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in OpenX, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed via the "xajaxargs" parameter to www/admin/updates-history.php when "xajax" is set to "expandOSURow" is not properly sanitised in e.g. the...

pycrypto -- vulnerable ElGamal key generation

Dwayne C. Litzenberger of PyCrypto reports: In the ElGamal schemes for both encryption and signatures, g is supposed to be the generator of the entire Z^p group. However, in PyCrypto 2.5 and earlier, g is more simply the generator of a random sub-group of Z^p. The result is that the signature spa...

RT -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

BestPractical report: Internal audits of the RT codebase have uncovered a number of security vulnerabilities in RT. We are releasing versions 3.8.12 and 4.0.6 to resolve these vulnerabilities, as well as patches which apply atop all released versions of 3.8 and 4.0. The vulnerabilities addressed ...

socat -- Heap-based buffer overflow

The socat development team reports: This vulnerability can be exploited when socat is invoked with the READLINE address this is usually only used interactively without option "prompt" and without option "noprompt" and an attacker succeeds to provide malicious data to the other arbitrary address...

mozilla -- heap-buffer overflow

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2012-11 libpng integer overflow...

Xorg server -- two vulnerabilities in X server lock handling code

Matthieu Herrb reports: It is possible to deduce if a file exists or not by exploiting the way that Xorg creates its lock files. This is caused by the fact that the X server is behaving differently if the lock file already exists as a symbolic link pointing to an existing or non-existing file. It...

glpi -- remote attack via crafted POST request

The GLPI project reports: The autocompletion functionality in GLPI before 0.80.2 does not blacklist certain username and password fields, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted POST request...

krb5 -- MITKRB5-SA-2011-002, KDC vulnerable to hang when using LDAP back end

An advisory published by the MIT Kerberos team says: The MIT krb5 Key Distribution Center KDC daemon is vulnerable to denial of service attacks from unauthenticated remote attackers. CVE-2011-0281 and CVE-2011-0282 occur only in KDCs using LDAP back ends, but CVE-2011-0283 occurs in all krb5-1.9...

php5 -- Denial of Service in php_date_parse_tzfile()

MITRE CVE team reports: Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the phpdateparsetzfile cache...

bzip2 -- integer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in bzip2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS Denial of Service or potentially compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow in the "BZ2decompress" function in decompress.c and can be...