Flash Player -- information disclosure

Adobe reports: This update resolves an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure CVE-2018-4871...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 2 security fixes in this release, including: 777728 Critical CVE-2017-15398: Stack buffer overflow in QUIC. Reported by Ned Williamson on 2017-10-24 776677 High CVE-2017-15399: Use after free in V8. Reported by Zhao Qixun of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team on 2017-10-20...

wordpress -- multiple issues

wordpress developers reports: WordPress versions 4.8.2 and earlier are affected by an issue where $wpdb-prepare can create unexpected and unsafe queries leading to potential SQL injection SQLi. WordPress core is not directly vulnerable to this issue, but we've added hardening to prevent plugins a...

Django -- possible XSS in traceback section of technical 500 debug page

Django blog: In older versions, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with DEBUG =...

asterisk -- RTP/RTCP information leak

The Asterisk project reports: This is a follow up advisory to AST-2017-005. Insufficient RTCP packet validation could allow reading stale buffer contents and when combined with the "nat" and "symmetricrtp" options allow redirecting where Asterisk sends the next RTCP report. The RTP stream...

asterisk -- Unauthorized data disclosure and shell access command injection in app_minivm

The Asterisk project reports: AST-2017-005 - A change was made to the strict RTP support in the RTP stack to better tolerate late media when a reinvite occurs. When combined with the symmetric RTP support this introduced an avenue where media could be hijacked. Instead of only learning a new...

SquirrelMail -- post-authentication remote code execution

SquirrelMail developers report: SquirrelMail 1.4.22 and other versions before 201704270200-SVN allows post-authentication remote code execution via a sendmail.cf file that is mishandled in a popen call. It's possible to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell commands on the remote...

xen-tools -- Cirrus VGA Heap overflow via display refresh

The Xen Project reports: A privileged user within the guest VM can cause a heap overflow in the device model process, potentially escalating their privileges to that of the device model process...

diffoscope -- arbitrary file write

Ximin Luo reports: v67 introduced a security hole where diffoscope may write to arbitrary locations on disk depending on the contents of an untrusted archive...

guile2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Ludovic Courtès reports: The REPL server is vulnerable to the HTTP inter-protocol attack The ‘mkdir’ procedure of GNU Guile, an implementation of the Scheme programming language, temporarily changed the process’ umask to zero. During that time window, in a multithreaded application, other threads...

xen-kernel -- CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guests

The Xen Project reports: Instructions touching FPU, MMX, or XMM registers are required to raise a Device Not Available Exception NM when either CR0.EM or CR0.TS are set. Their AVX or AVX-512 extensions would consider only CR0.TS. While during normal operation this is ensured by the hardware, if a...

Apache OpenOffice -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Apache Openofffice project reports: CVE-2017-3157: Arbitrary file disclosure in Calc and Writer By exploiting the way OpenOffice renders embedded objects, an attacker could craft a document that allows reading in a file from the user's filesystem. Information could be retrieved by the attacke...

xen-kernel -- x86: Mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation

The Xen Project reports: When emulating HVM instructions, Xen uses a small i-cache for fetches from guest memory. The code that handles cache misses does not check if the address from which it fetched lies within the cache before blindly writing to it. As such it is possible for the guest to...

chicken -- multiple vulnerabilities

Peter Bex reports: A buffer overflow error was found in the POSIX unit's procedures process-execute and process-spawn. Additionally, a memory leak existed in this code, which would be triggered when an error is raised during argument and environment processing. Irregex versions before 0.9.6 conta...

Mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: Please reference CVE/URL list for details...

flash -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates resolve a race condition vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure CVE-2016-4247. These updates resolve type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2016-4223, CVE-2016-4224, CVE-2016-4225. These updates resolve use-after-free...

p5-XSLoader -- local arbitrary code execution

Jakub Wilk reports: XSLoader tries to load code from a subdirectory in the cwd when called inside a string eval...

The GIMP -- Use after Free vulnerability

The GIMP team reports: A Use-after-free vulnerability was found in the xcfloadimage function...

xen-tools -- Unsanitised driver domain input in libxl device handling

The Xen Project reports: libxl's device-handling code freely uses and trusts information from the backend directories in xenstore. A malicious driver domain can deny service to management tools...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

Helen Hou-Sandi reports: WordPress 4.5.2 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.5.1 and earlier are affected by a SOME vulnerability through Plupload, the third-party library...

libtasn1 -- denial of service parsing malicious DER certificates

GNU Libtasn1 NEWS reports: Fixes to avoid an infinite recursion when decoding without the ASN1DECODEFLAGSTRICTDER flag. Reported by Pascal Cuoq...

mercurial -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mercurial reports: CVE-2016-3630: Remote code execution in binary delta decoding CVE-2016-3068: Arbitrary code execution with Git subrepos CVE-2016-3069: Arbitrary code execution when converting Git repos...

prosody -- user impersonation vulnerability

The Prosody team reports: Adopt key generation algorithm from XEP-0185, to prevent impersonation attacks CVE-2016-0756...

salt -- code execution

SaltStack reports: Improper handling of clear messages on the minion, which could result in executing commands not sent by the master...

p5-PathTools -- File::Spec::canonpath loses taint

Ricardo Signes reports: Beginning in PathTools 3.47 and/or perl 5.20.0, the File::Spec::canonpath routine returned untained strings even if passed tainted input. This defect undermines the guarantee of taint propagation, which is sometimes used to ensure that unvalidated user input does not reach...

wordpress -- XSS vulnerability

Aaron Jorbin reports: WordPress 4.4.1 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 and earlier are affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could allow a site to be...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in Rocker switch emulation

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the Rocker switch emulation support is vulnerable to an off-by-one error. It happens while processing transmittx descriptors in 'txconsume' routine, if a descriptor was to have more than allowed ROCKERTXFRAGSMAX=16...

giflib -- heap overflow

Hans Jerry Illikainen reports: A heap overflow may occur in the giffix utility included in giflib-5.1.1 when processing records of the type IMAGEDESCRECORDTYPE' due to the allocated size of LineBuffer' equaling the value of the logical screen width, GifFileIn-SWidth', while subsequently having...

bind -- multiple vulnerabilities

ISC reports: Named is potentially vulnerable to the OpenSSL vulnerability described in CVE-2015-3193. Incorrect reference counting could result in an INSIST failure if a socket error occurred while performing a lookup. This flaw is disclosed in CVE-2015-8461. RT40945 Insufficient testing when...

flash -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates resolve a vulnerability that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin-policy and lead to information disclosure CVE-2015-7628. These updates include a defense-in-depth feature in the Flash broker API CVE-2015-5569. These updates resolve use-after-free...

OpenSMTPD -- multiple vulnerabilities

OpenSMTPD developers report: an oversight in the portable version of fgetln that allows attackers to read and write out-of-bounds memory multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities that allow local users to kill or hang OpenSMTPD a stack-based buffer overflow that allows local users to crash...

optipng -- use-after-free vulnerability

Gustavo Grieco reports: We found a use-after-free causing an invalid/double free in optipng 0.6.4...

pitivi -- code execution

Luke Farone reports: Double-clicking a file in the user's media library with a specially-crafted path or filename allows for arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user running Pitivi...

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...

froxlor -- database password information leak

[email protected] reports: An unauthenticated remote attacker is able to get the database password via webaccess due to wrong file permissions of the /logs/ folder in froxlor version 0.9.33.1 and earlier. The plain SQL password and username may be stored in the /logs/sql-error.log file...

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 run commands in addition to the desired SCCS or RCS commands. Impact: This issue could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands as the user invoking patch1 against...

node, iojs, and v8 -- denial of service

node reports: This release of Node.js fixes a bug that triggers an out-of-band write in V8's utf-8 decoder. This bug impacts all Buffer to String conversions. This is an important security update as this bug can be used to cause a denial of service attack...

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...

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...

roundcube -- multiple vulnerabilities

Roundcube reports: We just published updates to both stable versions 1.0 and 1.1 after fixing many minor bugs and adding some security improvements to the 1.1 release branch. Version 1.0.6 comes with cherry-picked fixes from the more recent version to ensure proper long term support especially in...

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...

qemu, xen and VirtualBox OSE -- possible VM escape and code execution ("VENOM")

Jason Geffner, CrowdStrike Senior Security Researcher reports: VENOM, CVE-2015-3456, is a security vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many computer virtualization platforms. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to escape from the confines of an affected virtual machine VM...

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...

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...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 12 security fixes in this release, including 390174 High CVE-2014-3165: Use-after-free in web sockets. Credit to Collin Payne. 398925 High CVE-2014-3166: Information disclosure in SPDY. Credit to Antoine Delignat-Lavaud. 400950 CVE-2014-3167: Various fixes from...

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...

otrs -- XSS Issue

The OTRS Project reports: An attacker could send a specially prepared HTML email to OTRS. If he can then trick an agent into following a special link to display this email, JavaScript code would be executed...