xen-tools -- populate-on-demand balloon size inaccuracy can crash guests

The Xen Project reports: Guests configured with PoD might be unstable, especially under load. In an affected guest, an unprivileged guest user might be able to cause a guest crash, perhaps simply by applying load so as to cause heavy memory pressure within the guest...

openafs -- information disclosure

The OpenAFS development team reports: When constructing an Rx acknowledgment ACK packet, Andrew-derived Rx implementations do not initialize three octets of data that are padding in the C language structure and were inadvertently included in the wire protocol CVE-2015-7762. Additionally, OpenAFS ...

p5-HTML-Scrubber -- XSS vulnerability

MITRE reports: Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the HTML-Scrubber module before 0.15 for Perl, when the comment feature is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted comment...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: Two vulnerabilities were fixed in this release: 530301 High CVE-2015-1303: Cross-origin bypass in DOM. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski. 531891 High CVE-2015-1304: Cross-origin bypass in V8. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski...

devel/ipython -- multiple vulnerabilities

Matthias Bussonnier reports: Summary: Local folder name was used in HTML templates without escaping, allowing XSS in said pages by carefully crafting folder name and URL to access it. URI with issues: GET /tree/ Benjamin RK reports: Vulnerability: A maliciously forged file opened for editing can...

screen -- stack overflow

Kuang-che Wu reports: screen will recursively call MScrollV to depth n/256. This is time consuming and will overflow stack if n is huge...

go -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jason Buberel, Go Product Manager, reports: CVE-2015-5739 - "Content Length" treated as valid header CVE-2015-5740 - Double content-length headers does not return 400 error CVE-2015-5741 - Additional hardening, not sending Content-Length w/Transfer-Encoding, Closing connections...

xen-kernel -- GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref operation misbehavior

The Xen Project reports: With the introduction of version 2 grant table operations, a version check became necessary for most grant table related hypercalls. The GNTTABOPswapgrantref call was lacking such a check. As a result, the subsequent code behaved as if version 2 was in use, when a guest...

tidy -- heap-buffer-overflow

Geoff McLane reports: tidy is affected by a write out of bounds when processing malformed html files. This issue could be abused on server side applications that use php-tidy extension with user input. The issue was confirmed, analyzed, and fixed by the tidy5 maintainer...

elasticsearch -- directory traversal attack with site plugins

Elastic reports: Vulnerability Summary: All Elasticsearch versions prior to 1.5.2 and 1.4.5 are vulnerable to a directory traversal attack that allows an attacker to retrieve files from the server running Elasticsearch when one or more site plugins are installed, or when Windows is the server OS...

powerdns -- Label decompression bug can cause crashes or CPU spikes

The PowerDNS project reports: A bug was discovered in our label decompression code, making it possible for names to refer to themselves, thus causing a loop during decompression. On some platforms, this bug can be abused to cause crashes. On all platforms, this bug can be abused to cause...

PostgreSQL -- minor security problems.

PostgreSQL project reports: This update fixes three security vulnerabilities reported in PostgreSQL over the past few months. Nether of these issues is seen as particularly urgent. However, users should examine them in case their installations are vulnerable:. CVE-2015-3165 Double "free" after...

qemu -- Heap overflow in QEMU PCNET controller, allowing guest to host escape (CVE-2015-3209)

The QEMU security team reports: A guest which has access to an emulated PCNET network device e.g. with "model=pcnet" in their VIF configuration can exploit this vulnerability to take over the qemu process elevating its privilege to that of the qemu process...

libksba -- local denial of service vulnerabilities

Martin Prpic, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Denial of Service due to stack overflow in src/ber-decoder.c. Integer overflow in the BER decoder src/ber-decoder.c. Integer overflow in the DN decoder src/dn.c...

pidgin-otr -- use after free

Hanno Bock reports: The pidgin-otr plugin version 4.0.2 fixes a heap use after free error. The bug is triggered when a user tries to authenticate a buddy and happens in the function createsmpdialog...

cassandra -- remote execution of arbitrary code

Jake Luciani reports: Under its default configuration, Cassandra binds an unauthenticated JMX/RMI interface to all network interfaces. As RMI is an API for the transport and remote execution of serialized Java, anyone with access to this interface can execute arbitrary code as the running user...

xen-kernel and xen-tools -- Long latency MMIO mapping operations are not preemptible

The Xen Project reports: The XENDOMCTLmemorymapping hypercall allows long running operations without implementing preemption. This hypercall is used by the device model as part of the emulation associated with configuration of PCI devices passed through to HVM guests and is therefore indirectly...

librsvg2 -- denial of service vulnerability

Adam Maris, Red Hat Product Security, reports: CVE-2015-7557: Out-of-bounds heap read in librsvg2 was found when parsing SVG file...

WebKit-gtk -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Webkit release team reports: This release fixes the following security issues: CVE-2014-1344, CVE-2014-1384, CVE-2014-1385, CVE-2014-1386, CVE-2014-1387, CVE-2014-1388, CVE-2014-1389, CVE-2014-1390...

otrs -- Incomplete Access Control

The OTRS project reports: An attacker with valid OTRS credentials could access and manipulate ticket data of other users via the GenericInterface, if a ticket webservice is configured and not additionally secured...

unzip -- input sanitization errors

oCERT reports: The UnZip tool is an open source extraction utility for archives compressed in the zip format. The unzip command line tool is affected by heap-based buffer overflows within the CRC32 verification, the testcompreb and the getZip64Data functions. The input errors may result in...

FreeBSD -- memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup

Problem Description: The namei facility will leak a small amount of kernel memory every time a sandboxed process looks up a nonexistent path name. Impact: A remote attacker that can cause a sandboxed process for instance, a web server to look up a large number of nonexistent path names can cause...

Bugzilla multiple security issues

Bugzilla Security Advisory Unauthorized Account Creation An attacker creating a new Bugzilla account can override certain parameters when finalizing the account creation that can lead to the user being created with a different email address than originally requested. The overridden login name cou...

chromium -- RSA signature malleability in NSS

Google Chrome Releases reports: 414124 RSA signature malleability in NSS CVE-2014-1568. Thanks to Antoine Delignat-Lavaud of Prosecco/INRIA, Brian Smith and Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security...

phpmyfaq -- multiple vulnerabilities

The phpMyFAQ team reports: An arbitrary script may be executed on the user's Internet Explorer when using an older version of the browser. If a user views a malicious page while logged in, settings may be changed unintentionally...

libzrtpcpp -- multiple security vulnerabilities

Mark Dowd reports: Vulnerability 1. Remote Heap Overflow: If an attacker sends a packet larger than 1024 bytes that gets stored temporarily which occurs many times - such as when sending a ZRTP Hello packet, a heap overflow will occur, leading to potential arbitrary code execution on the vulnerab...

dbus -- local dos

Simon McVittie reports: Alexandru Cornea discovered a vulnerability in libdbus caused by an implementation bug in dbusprintfstringupperbound. This vulnerability can be exploited by a local user to crash system services that use libdbus, causing denial of service. It is platform-specific: x86-64...

samba -- ACLs are not checked on opening an alternate data stream on a file or directory

The Samba project reports: Samba versions 3.2.0 and above all versions of 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 4.0.x and 4.1.x do not check the underlying file or directory ACL when opening an alternate data stream. According to the SMB1 and SMB2+ protocols the ACL on an underlying file or director...

php5 -- Heap based buffer overflow in quoted_printable_encode

The PHP development team reports: A Heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the php quotedprintableencode function. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause php to crash or execute arbirary code with the permission of the user running php...

www/mod_security -- NULL pointer dereference DoS

SecurityFocus reports: When ModSecurity receives a request body with a size bigger than the value set by the "SecRequestBodyInMemoryLimit" and with a "Content-Type" that has no request body processor mapped to it, ModSecurity will systematically crash on every call to "forceRequestBodyVariable"...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2013-41 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:21.0 / rv:17.0.6 MFSA 2013-42 Privileged access for content level constructor MFSA 2013-43 File input control has access to full path MFSA 2013-44 Local privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service MFSA...

libpurple -- multiple vulnerabilities

Pidgin reports: libpurple Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values. MXit Fix two bugs where a remote MXit user could possibly specify a local file path to be written to. Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could potentially send specially crafted da...

FreeBSD -- Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)

Problem description: The BIND daemon would crash when a query is made on a resource record with RDATA that exceeds 65535 bytes. The BIND daemon would lock up when a query is made on specific combinations of RDATA...

ruby -- Hash-flooding DoS vulnerability for ruby 1.9

The official ruby site reports: Carefully crafted sequence of strings can cause a denial of service attack on the service that parses the sequence to create a Hash object by using the strings as keys. For instance, this vulnerability affects web application that parses the JSON data sent from...

gitolite -- path traversal vulnerability

Sitaram Chamarty reports: I'm sorry to say there is a potential path traversal vulnerability in v3. Thanks to Stephane Chazelas for finding it and alerting me. Can it affect you? This can only affect you if you are using wild card repos, and at least one of your patterns allows the string "../" t...

ruby -- $SAFE escaping vulnerability about Exception#to_s/NameError#to_s

The official ruby site reports: Vulnerabilities found for Exceptiontos, NameErrortos, and nameerrmesgtos which is Ruby interpreter-internal API. A malicious user code can bypass $SAFE check by utilizing one of those security holes. Ruby's $SAFE mechanism enables untrusted user codes to run in $SA...

jabberd -- domain spoofing in server dialback protocol

XMPP Standards Foundation reports: Some implementations of the XMPP Server Dialback protocol RFC 3920/XEP-0220 have not been checking dialback responses to ensure that validated results are correlated with requests. An attacking server could spoof one or more domains in communicating with a...

rssh -- arbitrary command execution

Derek Martin rssh maintainer reports: Henrik Erkkonen has discovered that, through clever manipulation of environment variables on the ssh command line, it is possible to circumvent rssh. As far as I can tell, there is no way to effect a root compromise, except of course if the root account is th...

png -- memory corruption/possible remote code execution

The PNG project reports: libpng fails to correctly handle malloc failures for text chunks in pngsettext2, which can lead to memory corruption and the possibility of remote code execution...

ImageMagick -- multiple vulnerabilities

ImageMagick reports: Three vulnerabilities have been identified in ImageMagick's handling of JPEG and TIFF files. With these vulnerabilities, it is possible to cause a denial of service situation in the target system...

raptor/raptor2 -- XXE in RDF/XML File Interpretation

Timothy D. Morgan reports: In December 2011, VSR identified a vulnerability in multiple open source office products including OpenOffice, LibreOffice, KOffice, and AbiWord due to unsafe interpretation of XML files with custom entity declarations. Deeper analysis revealed that the vulnerability wa...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- access to arbitrary system memory

NVIDIA Unix security team reports: Security vulnerability CVE-2012-0946 in the NVIDIA UNIX driver was disclosed to NVIDIA on March 20th, 2012. The vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker who has read and write access to the GPU device nodes to reconfigure GPUs to gain access to arbitrary...

inspircd -- buffer overflow

InspIRCd reports: InspIRCd contains a heap corruption vulnerability that exists in the dns.cpp code. The res buffer is allocated on the heap and can be overflowed. The res buffer can be exploited during its deallocation. The number of overflowed bytes can be controlled with DNS compression featur...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal development team reports: Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability in Aggregator module CVE: CVE-2012-0826 An XSRF vulnerability can force an aggregator feed to update. Since some services are rate-limited e.g. Twitter limits requests to 150 per hour this could lead to a denial of service...

bip -- buffer overflow

Julien Tinnes reports, Bip doesn't check if fd is equal or larger than FDSETSIZE...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Tabular and graphical reports, as well as new charts have a debug mode which displays raw data as plain text. This text is not correctly escaped and a crafted URL could use this vulnerability to...

asterisk -- remote crash vulnerability in SIP channel driver

Asterisk project reports: A remote authenticated user can cause a crash with a malformed request due to an unitialized variable...

Apache APR -- DoS vulnerabilities

The Apache Portable Runtime Project reports: Reimplement aprfnmatch from scratch using a non-recursive algorithm; now has improved compliance with the fnmatch spec...

subversion -- remote HTTP DoS vulnerability

Subversion project reports: Subversion HTTP servers up to 1.5.9 inclusive or 1.6.15 inclusive are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable NULL-pointer dereference...

Drupal Views plugin -- cross-site scripting

Drupal security team reports: The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content are presented. Under certain circumstances, Views could display parts of the page path without escaping, resulting in a relected Cross Site Scripting XSS...