vlc -- Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in VLC media player

VideoLAN reports: Details A remote user could: Create a specifically crafted image file that could trigger an out of bounds read Send a specifically crafter request to the microdns service discovery, potentially triggering various memory management issues Impact If successful, a malicious third...

Loofah -- XSS vulnerability

GitHub issue: This issue has been created for public disclosure of an XSS vulnerability that was responsibly reported by https://hackerone.com/vxhex In the Loofah gem, through v2.3.0, unsanitized JavaScript may occur in sanitized output when a crafted SVG element is republished...

ksh93 -- certain environment variables interpreted as arithmetic expressions on startup, leading to code injection

Upstream ksh93 maintainer Siteshwar Vashisht reports: A flaw was found in the way ksh evaluates certain environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Services and applications that allow remote unauthenticated...

FreeBSD -- IPv6 remote Denial-of-Service

Problem Description: Due do a missing check in the code of mpulldown9 data returned may not be contiguous as requested by the caller. Impact: Extra checks in the IPv6 code catch the error condition and trigger a kernel panic leading to a remote DoS denial-of-service attack with certain Ethernet...

mongodb -- Our init scripts check /proc/[pid]/stat should validate that `(${procname})` is the process' command name.

Sicheng Liu of Beijing DBSEC Technology Co., Ltd reports: Incorrect scoping of kill operations in MongoDB Server's packaged SysV init scripts allow users with write access to the PID file to insert arbitrary PIDs to be killed when the root user stops the MongoDB process via SysV init...

FreeBSD -- pts(4) write-after-free

Problem Description: The code which handles a close2 of a descriptor created by posixopenpt2 fails to undo the configuration which causes SIGIO to be raised. This bug can lead to a write-after-free of kernel memory. Impact: The bug permits malicious code to trigger a write-after-free, which may b...

libxslt -- security framework bypass

Mitre report: libxslt through 1.1.33 allows bypass of a protection mechanism because callers of xsltCheckRead and xsltCheckWrite permit access even upon receiving a -1 error code. xsltCheckRead can return -1 for a crafted URL that is not actually invalid and is subsequently loaded...

rssh - multiple vulnerabilities

NVD reports: rssh version 2.3.4 contains a CWE-77: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command 'Command Injection' vulnerability in allowscp permission that can result in Local command execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via An authorized SSH user with the allowscp...

p5-Email-Address-List -- DDoS related vulnerability

Best PRactical Solutions reports: 0.06 2019-01-02 - Changes to address CVE-2018-18898 which could allow DDoS-type attacks. Thanks to Lukas Kramer for reporting the issue and Alex Vandiver for contributing fixes. - Fix pathological backtracking for unkown regex - Fix pathological backtracking in...

phpMyAdmin -- multiple vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: Summary Local file inclusion through transformation feature Description A flaw has been found where an attacker can exploit phpMyAdmin to leak the contents of a local file. The attacker must have access to the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage tables,...

rubygem-doorkeeper -- token revocation vulnerability

NVD reports: Doorkeeper version 4.2.0 and later contains a Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in Token revocation API's authorized method that can result in Access tokens are not revoked for public OAuth apps, leaking access until expiry...

Gitlab -- multiple vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Wiki XSS Sanitize gem updates XSS in urlforparams Content injection via username Activity feed publicly displaying internal project names Persistent XSS in charts...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Foundation reports: CVE-2018-5146: Out of bounds memory write in libvorbis An out of bounds memory write while processing Vorbis audio data was reported through the Pwn2Own contest. CVE-2018-5147: Out of bounds memory write in libtremor The libtremor library has the same flaw as...

Loofah -- XSS vulnerability

GitHub issue: This issue has been created for public disclosure of an XSS / code injection vulnerability that was responsibly reported by the Shopify Application Security Team. Loofah allows non-whitelisted attributes to be present in sanitized output when input with specially-crafted HTML...

shibboleth-sp -- vulnerable to forged user attribute data

Shibboleth consortium reports: Shibboleth SP software vulnerable to forged user attribute data The Service Provider software relies on a generic XML parser to process SAML responses and there are limitations in older versions of the parser that make it impossible to fully disable Document Type...

Flash Player -- information disclosure

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

asterisk -- Crash in PJSIP resource when missing a contact header

The Asterisk project reports: A select set of SIP messages create a dialog in Asterisk. Those SIP messages must contain a contact header. For those messages, if the header was not present and using the PJSIP channel driver, it would cause Asterisk to crash. The severity of this vulnerability is...

wget -- Heap overflow in HTTP protocol handling

Antti Levomäki, Christian Jalio, Joonas Pihlaja: Wget contains two vulnerabilities, a stack overflow and a heap overflow, in the handling of HTTP chunked encoding. By convincing a user to download a specific link over HTTP, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

phpmyfaq -- multiple issues

phpmyfaq developers report: Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in inc/PMF/Faq.php in phpMyFAQ through 2.9.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Questions field in an "Add New FAQ" action. Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in phpMyFAQ through 2.9.8 allow...

libgcrypt -- side-channel attack vulnerability

GnuPG reports: Mitigate a local side-channel attack on Curve25519 dubbed "May the Fourth Be With You"...

GitLab -- two vulnerabilities

GitLab reports: Remote Command Execution in git client An external code review performed by Recurity-Labs identified a remote command execution vulnerability in git that could be exploited via the "Repo by URL" import option in GitLab. The command line git client was not properly escaping command...

SquirrelMail -- post-authentication access privileges

Florian Grunow reports: An attacker able to exploit this vulnerability can extract files of the server the application is running on. This may include configuration files, log files and additionally all files that are readable for all users on the system. This issue is post-authentication. That...

BIND -- multiple vulnerabilities

ISC reports: A query with a specific set of characteristics could cause a server using DNS64 to encounter an assertion failure and terminate. An attacker could deliberately construct a query, enabling denial-of-service against a server if it was configured to use the DNS64 feature and other...

gtk-vnc -- bounds checking vulnerabilities

Daniel P. Berrange reports: CVE-2017-5884 - fix bounds checking for RRE, hextile and copyrect encodings CVE-2017-5885 - fix color map index bounds checking...

PHP -- undisclosed vulnerabilities

The PHP project reports: The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.15. This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.30. This is a security release. Several...

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...

file-roller -- path traversal vulnerability

reports: File Roller 3.5.4 through 3.20.2 was affected by a path traversal bug that could result in deleted files if a user were tricked into opening a malicious archive...

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...

The GIMP -- Use after Free vulnerability

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

jansson -- local denial of service vulnerabilities

QuickFuzz reports: A crash caused by stack exhaustion parsing a JSON was found...

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...

chromium -- same origin bypass

Google Chrome Releases reports: 583431 Critical CVE-2016-1629: Same-origin bypass in Blink and Sandbox escape in Chrome. Credit to anonymous...

h2o -- directory traversal vulnerability

Yakuzo OKU reports: When redirect directive is used, this flaw allows a remote attacker to inject response headers into an HTTP redirect response...

nghttp2 -- use after free

nghttp2 reports: This release fixes heap-use-after-free bug in idle stream handling code. We strongly recommend to upgrade the older installation to this latest version as soon as possible...

passenger -- client controlled header overwriting

Daniel Knoppel reports: It was discovered by the SUSE security team that it was possible, in some cases, for clients to overwrite headers set by the server, resulting in a medium level security issue. CVE-2015-7519 has been assigned to this issue. Affected use-cases: Header overwriting may occur ...

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...

quassel -- remote denial of service

Pierre Schweitzer reports: Any client sending the command "/op " in a query will cause the Quassel core to crash...

libsrtp -- DoS via crafted RTP header vulnerability

libsrtp reports: Prevent potential DoS attack due to lack of bounds checking on RTP header CSRC count and extension header length. Credit goes to Randell Jesup and the Firefox team for reporting this issue...

firefox -- Cross-origin restriction bypass using Fetch

Firefox Developers report: Security researcher Abdulrahman Alqabandi reported that the fetch API did not correctly implement the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing CORS specification, allowing a malicious page to access private data from other origins. Mozilla developer Ben Kelly independently reporte...

shutter -- arbitrary code execution

Luke Farone reports: In the "Shutter" screenshot application, I discovered that using the "Show in folder" menu option while viewing a file with a specially-crafted path allows for arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user running Shutter...

powerdns -- denial of service

PowerDNS reports: A bug was found in our DNS packet parsing/generation code, which, when exploited, can cause individual threads disabling service or whole processes allowing a supervisor to restart them to crash with just one or a few query packets...

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...

FreeBSD -- routed(8) remote denial of service vulnerability

Problem Description: The input path in routed8 will accept queries from any source and attempt to answer them. However, the output path assumes that the destination address for the response is on a directly connected network. Impact: Upon receipt of a query from a source which is not on a directl...

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...

devel/ipython -- CSRF possible remote execution vulnerability

Kyle Kelley reports: Summary: POST requests exposed via the IPython REST API are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery CSRF. Web pages on different domains can make non-AJAX POST requests to known IPython URLs, and IPython will honor them. The user's browser will automatically send IPython...

xen-tools -- xl command line config handling stack overflow

The Xen Project reports: The xl command line utility mishandles long configuration values when passed as command line arguments, with a buffer overrun. A semi-trusted guest administrator or controller, who is intended to be able to partially control the configuration settings for a domain, can...

cURL -- sensitive HTTP server headers also sent to proxies

cURL reports: libcurl provides applications a way to set custom HTTP headers to be sent to the server by using CURLOPTHTTPHEADER. A similar option is available for the curl command-line tool with the '--header' option. When the connection passes through an HTTP proxy the same set of headers is se...

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...

cabextract -- directory traversal with UTF-8 symbols in filenames

Cabextract ChangeLog reports: It was possible for cabinet files to extract to absolute file locations, and it was possible on Cygwin to get around cabextract's absolute and relative path protections by using backslashes...

privoxy -- multiple vulnerabilities

Privoxy Developers reports: Fixed a memory leak when rejecting client connections due to the socket limit being reached CID 66382. This affected Privoxy 3.0.21 when compiled with IPv6 support on most platforms this is the default. Fixed an immediate-use-after-free bug CID 66394 and two additional...