libsndfile -- out-of-bounds read memory access

Laurent Delosieres, Secunia Research at Flexera Software reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in libsndfile, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "aiffreadchanmap" function...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- multiple vulnerabilities in the kernel mode layer handler

NVIDIA Unix security team reports: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains vulnerabilities in the kernel mode layer handler where not correctly validated user input, NULL pointer dereference, and incorrect access control may lead to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges...

FreeBSD -- Possible login(1) argument injection in telnetd(8)

Problem Description: An unexpected sequence of memory allocation failures combined with insufficient error checking could result in the construction and execution of an argument sequence that was not intended. Impact: An attacker who controls the sequence of memory allocation failures and success...

xen-kernel -- x86 task switch to VM86 mode mis-handled

The Xen Project reports: LDTR, just like TR, is purely a protected mode facility. Hence even when switching to a VM86 mode task, LDTR loading needs to follow protected mode semantics. This was violated by the code. On SVM AMD hardware: a malicious unprivileged guest process can escalate its...

flash -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates resolve type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2016-7860, CVE-2016-7861, CVE-2016-7865. These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2016-7857, CVE-2016-7858, CVE-2016-7859, CVE-2016-7862,...

collectd -- Network plugin heap overflow

The collectd Project reports: Emilien Gaspar has identified a heap overflow in collectd's network plugin which can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable...

kdelibs -- directory traversal vulnerability

David Faure reports: A maliciously crafted archive .zip or .tar.bz2 with "../" in the file paths could be offered for download via the KNewStuff framework e.g. on www.kde-look.org, and upon extraction would install files anywhere in the user's home directory...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal Security Team reports: Saving user accounts can sometimes grant the user all roles User module - Drupal 7 - Moderately Critical Views can allow unauthorized users to see Statistics information Views module - Drupal 8 - Less Critical...

jansson -- local denial of service vulnerabilities

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

kamailio -- SEAS Module Heap overflow

Stelios Tsampas reports: A remotely exploitable heap overflow vulnerability was found in Kamailio v4.3.4...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: Specific APL data could trigger an INSIST in apl42.c...

phpMyAdmin -- path disclosure vulnerability

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: By calling some scripts that are part of phpMyAdmin in an unexpected way, it is possible to trigger phpMyAdmin to display a PHP error message which contains the full path of the directory where phpMyAdmin is installed. We consider these vulnerabilities to ...

Salt -- information disclosure

Salt release notes report: CVE-2015-8034: Saving state.sls cache data to disk with insecure permissions This affects users of the state.sls function. The state run cache on the minion was being created with incorrect permissions. This file could potentially contain sensitive data that was inserte...

django -- information leak vulnerability

Tim Graham reports: If an application allows users to specify an unvalidated format for dates and passes this format to the date filter, e.g. lastupdated|date:userdateformat , then a malicious user could obtain any secret in the application's settings by specifying a settings key instead of a dat...

subversion -- multiple vulnerabilities

Subversion Project reports: Remotely triggerable heap overflow and out-of-bounds read caused by integer overflow in the svn:// protocol parser. Remotely triggerable heap overflow and out-of-bounds read in moddavsvn caused by integer overflow when parsing skel-encoded request bodies...

openslp -- denial of service vulnerability

Qinghao Tang reports: The function ParseExtension in openslp 1.2.1 contains vulnerability: an attacker can cause a denial of service infinite loop via a packet with crafted "nextoffset" value and "extid" value...

php -- use-after-free vulnerability

Symeon Paraschoudis reports: Use-after-free vulnerability in splrecursiveitmoveforwardex...

polkit -- multiple vulnerabilities

Colin Walters reports: Integer overflow in the authenticationagentnewcookie function in PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a large number of connections, which triggers the issuance of a duplicate cookie value. The authenticationagentnew function i...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django project reports: In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing multiple releases -- Django 1.4.20, 1.6.11, 1.7.7 and 1.8c1. These releases are now available on PyPI and our download page. These releases address several security issues detailed below. We...

p7zip -- directory traversal vulnerability

Alexander Cherepanov reports: 7z and 7zr is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability. While extracting an archive, it will extract symlinks and then follow them if they are referenced in further entries. This can be exploited by a rogue archive to write files outside the current directo...

kwebkitpart, kde-runtime -- insufficient input validation

Albert Aastals Cid reports: kwebkitpart and the bookmarks:// io slave were not sanitizing input correctly allowing to some javascript being executed on the context of the referenced hostname. Whilst in most cases, the JavaScript will be executed in an untrusted context, with the bookmarks IO slav...

dbus -- multiple vulnerabilities

Simon McVittie reports: Alban Crequy at Collabora Ltd. discovered a bug in dbus-daemon's support for file descriptor passing. A malicious process could force system services or user applications to be disconnected from the D-Bus system bus by sending them a message containing a file descriptor,...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in VNC

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the VNC display driver is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing a CLIENTCUTTEXT message with specially crafted payload message. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash th...

kdelibs4 -- KMail/KIO POP3 SSL Man-in-the-middle Flaw

Richard J. Moore reports: The POP3 kioslave used by KMail will accept invalid certificates without presenting a dialog to the user due a bug that leads to an inability to display the dialog combined with an error in the way the result is checked. This flaw allows an active attacker to perform MIT...

FreeBSD -- Incorrect error handling in PAM policy parser

Problem Description: The OpenPAM library searches for policy definitions in several locations. While doing so, the absence of a policy file is a soft failure handled by searching in the next location while the presence of an invalid file is a hard failure handled by returning an error to the...

otrs -- multiple vulnerabilities

The OTRS Project reports: SQL injection issue An attacker that managed to take over the session of a logged in customer could create tickets and/or send follow-ups to existing tickets due to missing challenge token checks...

FreeBSD -- Insufficient credential checks in network ioctl(2)

Problem Description: As is commonly the case, the IPv6 and ATM network layer ioctl request handlers are written in such a way that an unrecognized request is passed on unmodified to the link layer, which will either handle it or return an error code. Network interface drivers, however, assume tha...

phpMyAdmin -- Global variable scope injection

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: The import.php script was vulnerable to GLOBALS variable injection. Therefore, an attacker could manipulate any configuration parameter. This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who logged in to phpMyAdmin, as the usual token protection prevents...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 136643 137721 137957 High CVE-2012-2862: Use-after-free in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team. 136968 137361 High CVE-2012-2863: Out-of-bounds writes in PDF viewer. Credit to...

dns/nsd -- DoS vulnerability from non-standard DNS packet

Marek Vavrusa and Lubos Slovak report: It is possible to crash SIGSEGV a NSD child server process by sending it a non-standard DNS packet from any host on the internet. A crashed child process will automatically be restarted by the parent process, but an attacker may keep the NSD server occupied...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

WebCalendar -- multiple vulnerabilities

Hanno Boeck reports: Fixes are now available for various security vulnerabilities including LFI local file inclusion, XSS cross site scripting and others...

nginx -- Buffer overflow in the ngx_http_mp4_module

The nginx project reports: Buffer overflow in the ngxhttpmp4module...

rubygem-mail -- multiple vulnerabilities

rubygem-mail -- multiple vulnerabilities Two issues were fixed. They are a file system traversal in filedelivery method and arbitrary command execution when using exim or sendmail from the command line...

vlc -- arbitrary code execution in Real RTSP and MMS support

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, on behalf of the VideoLAN project reports: If successful, a malicious third party could crash the VLC media player process. Arbitrary code execution could be possible on some systems...

gnutls -- client session resumption vulnerability

The GnuTLS team reports: GNUTLS-SA-2011-2 Possible buffer overflow/Denial of service...

mod_perl2 -- execute arbitrary Perl code

modperl2 2.0.11 fixes Arbitrary Perl code execution in the context of the user account via a user-owned .htaccess. modperl 2.0 through 2.0.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code by placing it in a user-owned .htaccess file, because contrary to the documentation there is no configurati...

dovecot -- denial of service vulnerability

Timo Sirainen reports: Fixed potential crashes and other problems when parsing header names that contained NUL characters...

FreeBSD -- Network ACL mishandling in mountd(8)

Problem Description: While parsing the exports5 table, a network mask in the form of "-network=netname/prefixlength" results in an incorrect network mask being computed if the prefix length is not a multiple of 8. For example, specifying the ACL for an export as "-network 192.0.2.0/23" would resu...

squid -- Denial of service vulnerability in request handling

Squid security advisory 2010:3 reports: Due to an internal error in string handling Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests. This problem allows any trusted client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service...

firefox -- Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2010-48 Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix...

awstats -- arbitrary commands execution vulnerability

Awstats change log reports: Security fix Traverse directory of LoadPlugin Security fix Limit config to defined directory to avoid access to external config file via a nfs or webdav link...

joomla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Joomla! reported the following vulnerabilities: If a user entered a URL with a negative query limit or offset, a PHP notice would display revealing information about the system.. The migration script in the Joomla! installer does not check the file type being uploaded. If the installation...

Zend Framework -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Zend Framework team reports: Potential XSS or HTML Injection vector in ZendJson. Potential XSS vector in ZendServiceReCaptchaMailHide. Potential MIME-type Injection in ZendFileTransfer Executive Summary. Potential XSS vector in ZendFilterStripTags when comments allowed. Potential XSS vector i...

rt -- Session fixation vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in RT, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct session fixation attacks. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of sessions and can be exploited to hijack another user's session by tricking the user into logging...

opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

Opera Team Reports: Fixed an issue where certain domain names could allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Chris Weber of Casaba Security Fixed an issue where scripts can run on the feed subscription page, as reported by Inferno...

cyrus-imapd -- Potential buffer overflow in Sieve

The Cyrus IMAP Server ChangeLog states: Fixed CERT VU336053 - Potential buffer overflow in Sieve...

BIND -- Dynamic update message remote DoS

Problem Description: When named8 receives a specially crafted dynamic update message an internal assertion check is triggered which causes named8 to exit. To trigger the problem, the dynamic update message must contains a record of type "ANY" and at least one resource record set RRset for this...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark team reports: Wireshark 1.0.7 fixes the following vulnerabilities: The PROFINET dissector was vulnerable to a format string overflow. Bug 3382 Versions affected: 0.99.6 to 1.0.6, CVE-2009-1210. The Check Point High-Availability Protocol CPHAP dissector could crash. Bug 3269 Versions...

wireshark -- SMTP Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Wireshark, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the SMTP dissector and can be exploited to trigger the execution of an infinite loop via a large SMTP packet...