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...

jasper -- multiple vulnerabilities

Martin Prpic reports: A double free flaw was found in the way JasPer's jasperimagestopload function parsed certain JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash. Feist Josselin reports: A new use-after-free was found in Jasper JPEG-200. The...

Adobe Flash Player -- critical vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player. These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. These updates resolve type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution...

wordpress -- Multiple vulnerability

Gary Pendergast reports: WordPress 4.2.4 fixes three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential SQL injection that could be used to compromise a site...

pcre -- Heap Overflow Vulnerability in find_fixedlength()

Venustech ADLAB reports: PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow. During subpattern calculation of a malformed regular expression, an offset that is used as an array index is fully controlled and can be large enough so that unexpected heap memory regions are accessed...

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...

elasticsearch -- security fix for shared file-system repositories

Elastic reports: Vulnerability Summary: All Elasticsearch versions from 1.0.0 to 1.5.2 are vulnerable to an attack that uses Elasticsearch to modify files read and executed by certain other applications. Remediation Summary: Users should upgrade to 1.6.0. Alternately, ensure that other applicatio...

rubygem-bson -- DoS and possible injection

Phill MV reports: By submitting a specially crafted string to a service relying on the bson rubygem, an attacker may trigger denials of service or even inject data into victim's MongoDB instances...

strongswan -- Denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability

StrongSwan Project reports A denial-of-service and potential remote code execution vulnerability triggered by crafted IKE messages was discovered in strongSwan. Versions 5.2.2 and 5.3.0 are affected...

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...

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...

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...

FreeBSD -- Remote command execution in ftp(1)

Problem Description: A malicious HTTP server could cause ftp1 to execute arbitrary commands. Impact: When operating on HTTP URIs, the ftp1 client follows HTTP redirects, and uses the part of the path after the last '/' from the last resource it accesses as the output filename if '-o' is not...

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...

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...

security/ossec-hids-* -- root escalation via temp files

OSSEC reports: This correction will create the temp file for the hosts deny file in /var/ossec and will use mktemp where available to create NON-predictable temp file name. In cases where mktemp is not available we have written a BAD version of mktemp, but should be a little better then just...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django project reports: These releases address an issue with reverse generating external URLs; a denial of service involving file uploads; a potential session hijacking issue in the remote-user middleware; and a data leak in the administrative interface. We encourage all users of Django to...

samba -- remote code execution

Samba developers report: A malicious browser can send packets that may overwrite the heap of the target nmbd NetBIOS name services daemon. It may be possible to use this to generate a remote code execution vulnerability as the superuser root...

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...

ruby-gems -- Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerability

Ruby Gem developers report: The patch for CVE-2013-4363 was insufficiently verified so the combined regular expression for verifying gem version remains vulnerable following CVE-2013-4363. RubyGems validates versions with a regular expression that is vulnerable to denial of service due to...

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...

subversion -- remotely triggerable "Assertion failed" DoS vulnerability or read overflow.

Subversion Project reports: Subversion's moddavsvn Apache HTTPD server module will trigger an assertion on some requests made against a revision root. This can lead to a DoS. If assertions are disabled it will trigger a read overflow which may cause a SEGFAULT or equivalent or undefined behavior...

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...

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...

devel/subversion -- svnserve remotely triggerable DoS

Subversion team reports: Subversion's svnserve server process may exit when an incoming TCP connection is closed early in the connection process...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Buffer Overflow Exploit Through SIP SDP Header Username disclosure in SIP channel driver Denial of Service in HTTP server...

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...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django Project reports: Host header poisoning Some parts of Django -- independent of end-user-written applications -- make use of full URLs, including domain name, which are generated from the HTTP Host header. Some attacks against this are beyond Django's ability to control, and require the...

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...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 138208 High CVE-2012-2900: Crash in Skia text rendering. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 147499 Critical CVE-2012-5108: Race condition in audio device handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 148692 Medium CVE-2012-5109: OOB read in ICU regex. Credit to Arthur...

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...

dns/bind9* -- Several vulnerabilities

ISC reports: Prevents a crash when queried for a record whose RDATA exceeds 65535 bytes. Prevents a crash when validating caused by using "Bad cache" data before it has been initialized. ISCQUEUE handling for recursive clients was updated to address a race condition that could cause a memory leak...

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...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django project reports: Today the Django team is issuing multiple releases -- Django 1.3.2 and Django 1.4.1 -- to remedy security issues reported to us: Cross-site scripting in authentication views Denial-of-service in image validation Denial-of-service via getimagedimensions All users are...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Remote crash vulnerability in IAX2 channel driver. Skinny Channel Driver Remote Crash Vulnerability...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

phpMyAdmin -- Multiple XSS

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: Using crafted database names, it was possible to produce XSS in the Database Synchronize and Database rename panels. Using an invalid and crafted SQL query, it was possible to produce XSS when editing a query on a table overview panel or when using the vie...

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...

rsync -- incremental recursion memory corruption vulnerability

rsync development team reports: Fixed a data-corruption issue when preserving hard-links without preserving file ownership, and doing deletions either before or during the transfer CVE-2011-1097. This fixes some assert errors in the hard-linking code, and some potential failed checksums via -c th...

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...

openssl -- TLS extension parsing race condition

OpenSSL Team reports: Rob Hulswit has found a flaw in the OpenSSL TLS server extension code parsing which on affected servers can be exploited in a buffer overrun attack. Any OpenSSL based TLS server is vulnerable if it is multi-threaded and uses OpenSSL's internal caching mechanism. Servers that...