ppxp -- local root exploit

A Debian Advisory reports: Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening potentially user supplied log files. This can be tricked into opening a root shell...

squid -- DNS lookup spoofing vulnerability

The squid patches page notes: Malicious users may spoof DNS lookups if the DNS client UDP port random, assigned by OS as startup is unfiltered and your network is not protected from IP spoofing...

sharutils -- unshar insecure temporary file creation

An Ubuntu Advisory reports: Joey Hess discovered that "unshar" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

horde -- Horde Page Title Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory: SA14730 A vulnerability has been reported in Horde, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed when setting the parent frame's page title via JavaScript is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be...

xv -- filename handling format string vulnerability

A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team identified a flaw in the handling of image filenames by xv. Successful exploitation would require a victim to process a specially crafted image with a malformed filename, potentially resulting in the...

uim -- privilege escalation vulnerability

The uim developers reports: Takumi ASAKI discovered that uim always trusts environment variables. But this is not correct behavior, sometimes environment variables shouldn't be trusted. This bug causes privilege escalation when libuim is linked against setuid/setgid application. Since GTK+...

wu-ftpd -- remote globbing DoS vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability in version 2.6.2 of WU-FPTD could allow for a denial of service of the system by resource exhaustion. The vulnerability specifically exists in the wufnmatch function in wufnmatch.c. When a pattern...

ngircd -- format string vulnerability

A No System Group security advisory reports that ngircd is vulnerable to a format string vulnerability in the LogResolver function of log.c, if IDENT support is enabled. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the ngircd daemon, which is root by defaul...

enscript -- multiple vulnerabilities

Erik Sjölund discovered several issues in enscript: it suffers from several buffer overflows, quotes and shell escape characters are insufficiently sanitized in filenames, and it supported taking input from an arbitrary command pipe, with unwanted side effects...

unrtf -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Yosef Klein and Limin Wang have found a buffer overflow vulnerability in unrtf that can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running unrtf, by running unrtf on a specially crafted rtf document...

bugzilla -- cross-site scripting vulnerability

A Bugzilla advisory states: This advisory covers a single cross-site scripting issue that has recently been discovered and fixed in the Bugzilla code: If a malicious user links to a Bugzilla site using a specially crafted URL, a script in the error page generated by Bugzilla will display the URL...

ruby -- CGI DoS

The Ruby CGI.rb module contains a bug which can cause the CGI module to go into an infinite loop, thereby causing a denial-of-service situation on the web server by using all available CPU time...

egroupware -- arbitrary file download in JiNN

eGroupWare contains a bug in the JiNN component that allows a remote attacker to download arbitrary files...

bogofilter -- RFC 2047 decoder denial-of-service vulnerability

The bogofilter team has been provided with a test case of a malformatted non-conformant RFC-2047 encoded word that can cause bogofilter versions 0.92.7 and prior to try to write a NUL byte into a memory location that is either one byte past the end of a flex buffer or to a location that is the...

imwheel -- insecure handling of PID file

A Computer Academic Underground advisory describes the consequences of imwheel's handling of the process ID file PID file: imwheel exclusively uses a predictably named PID file for management of multiple imwheel processes. A race condition exists when the -k command-line option is used to kill...

gnomevfs -- unsafe URI handling

Alexander Larsson reports that some versions of gnome-vfs and MidnightCommander contain a number of extfs' scripts that do not properly validate user input. If an attacker can cause her victim to process a specially-crafted URI, arbitrary commands can be executed with the privileges of the victim...

distcc -- incorrect parsing of IP access control rules

Fix bug that might cause IP-based access control rules not to be interpreted correctly on 64-bit platforms...

multiple vulnerabilities in ethereal

Issues have been discovered in multiple protocol dissectors...

isakmpd payload handling denial-of-service vulnerabilities

Numerous errors in isakmpd's input packet validation lead to denial-of-service vulnerabilities. From the Rapid7 advisory: The ISAKMP packet processing functions in OpenBSD's isakmpd daemon contain multiple payload handling flaws that allow a remote attacker to launch a denial of service attack...

jailed processes can attach to other jails

A programming error has been found in the jailattach2 system call which affects the way that system call verifies the privilege level of the calling process. Instead of failing immediately if the calling process was already jailed, the jailattach system call would fail only after changing the...

kdepim exploitable buffer overflow in VCF reader

A buffer overflow is present in some versions of the KDE personal information manager kdepim which may be triggered when processing a specially crafted VCF file...

leafnode denial-of-service triggered by article request

The leafnode NNTP server may go into an unterminated loop with 100% CPU use when an article is requested by Message-ID that has been crossposted to several news groups when one of the group names is the prefix of another group name that the article was cross-posted to. Found by Jan Knutar...

terraform -- exclusion bypass in .terraformignore handling

HashiCorp reports: Terraform bundles the go-slug library, which builds the archive uploaded to HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise when a run is started. In go-slug before v0.18.3, matching of .terraformignore rules does not consistently treat canonically equivalent Unicode filenames as the sam...

nginx -- multiple vulnerabilities

The nginx developers report: A heap memory buffer overflow vulnerability when using the "ignoreinvalidheaders off;" and "largeclientheaderbuffers" directives with large configured values while proxying a specially crafted request to an HTTP/2 or gRPC backend may allow memory corruption or a...

Erlang/OTP -- OCSP responder certificate accepted after expiry in public_key

https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-cjxj-wj6x-3fff reports: Erlang/OTP's publickey application fails to validate the validity period of OCSP responder certificates during response verification. An attacker possessing an expired OCSP responder's private key can forge responses...

Mozilla -- Incorrect boundary conditions

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=2029301 reports: Incorrect boundary conditions in the Audio/Video: Playback component...

chromium -- security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 127 security fixes: Critical: 493747582 CVE-2026-7896: Integer overflow in Blink. 504069514 CVE-2026-7897: Use after free in Mobile. 504587882 CVE-2026-7898: Use after free in Chromoting. High: 505481948 CVE-2026-7899: Out of bounds read and write in...

firefox -- Information disclosure

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=2027433 reports: Information disclosure due to incorrect boundary conditions in the Audio/Video component...

Mozilla -- Incorrect boundary conditions

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=2026089 reports: Incorrect boundary conditions in the Libraries component in NSS...

Mozilla -- Incorrect boundary conditions

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=2021770 reports: Incorrect boundary conditions in the WebRTC: Networking component...

Mozilla -- Uninitialized memory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=2022604 reports: Uninitialized memory in the Audio/Video: Web Codecs component...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 4 security fixes: 445380761 High CVE-2025-10585: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Google Threat Analysis Group on 2025-09-16 435875050 High CVE-2025-10500: Use after free in Dawn. Reported by Giunash Gyujeong Jin on 2025-08-03 440737137 High...

Mozilla -- javascript content execution

[email protected] reports: A process isolation vulnerability in Thunderbird stemmed from improper handling of javascript: URIs, which could allow content to execute in the top-level document's process instead of the intended frame, potentially enabling a sandbox escape...

qt6-webengine -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Qt qtwebengine-chromium repo reports: Backports for 11 security bugs in Chromium: CVE-2024-11477: 7-Zip Zstd decompression integer underflow CVE-2025-0762: Use after free in DevTools CVE-2025-0996: Inappropriate implementation in Browser UI CVE-2025-0998: Out of bounds memory access in V8...

PostgreSQL -- PostgreSQL quoting APIs miss neutralizing quoting syntax in text that fails encoding validation

The PostgreSQL Project reports: Improper neutralization of quoting syntax in PostgreSQL libpq functions PQescapeLiteral, PQescapeIdentifier, PQescapeString, and PQescapeStringConn allows a database input provider to achieve SQL injection in certain usage patterns. Specifically, SQL injection...

redis,valkey -- Remote code execution valnerability

Redis core team reports: An authenticated user may use a specially crafted Lua script to manipulate the garbage collector and potentially lead to remote code execution. The problem exists in all versions of Redis with Lua scripting...

gstreamer1-plugins-jpeg -- NULL-pointer dereferences in JPEG decoder

The GStreamer Security Center reports: Insufficient error handling in the JPEG decoder that can lead to NULL-pointer dereferences, and that can cause crashes for certain input files...

electron32 -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-7966. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-9370...

electron{31,32} -- multiple vulnerabilities

Electron developers report: This update fixes the following vulnerabilities: Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-9602. Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-9603...

vscode -- Visual Studio Code for Linux Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

VSCode developers report: Visual Studio Code for Linux Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A remote code execution vulnerability exists in VS Code 1.94.0 and earlier versions in the elevated save flow...

Unbound -- Denial of service attack

NLnet labs report: A vulnerability has been discovered in Unbound when handling replies with very large RRsets that Unbound needs to perform name compression for. Malicious upstreams responses with very large RRsets can cause Unbound to spend a considerable time applying name compression to...

redis,valkey -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Redis core team reports: CVE-2024-31449 Lua library commands may lead to stack overflow and potential RCE. CVE-2024-31227 Potential Denial-of-service due to malformed ACL selectors. CVE-2024-31228 Potential Denial-of-service due to unbounded pattern matching...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 4 security fixes: 367764861 High CVE-2024-7025: Integer overflow in Layout. Reported by Tashita Software Security on 2024-09-18 368208152 High CVE-2024-9369: Insufficient data validation in Mojo. Reported by Xiantong Hou and Pisanbao of Wuheng Lab on...

Gitlab -- vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Maintainer can leak Dependency Proxy password by changing Dependency Proxy URL via crafted POST request AI feature reads unsanitized content, allowing for attacker to hide prompt injection Project reference can be exposed in system notes...

FreeBSD -- bhyve(8) privileged guest escape via TPM device passthrough

Problem Description: bhyve can be configured to provide access to the host's TPM device, where it passes the communication through an emulated device provided to the guest. This may be performed on the command-line by starting bhyve with the -l tpm,passthru,/dev/tpmX parameters. The MMIO handler...

frr - BGP

[email protected] reports: An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR. bgpattrencap in bgpd/bgpattr.c does not check the actual remaining stream length before taking the TLV value...

Django -- multiple vulnerabilities

Django reports: CVE-2024-38875: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.urlize. CVE-2024-39329: Username enumeration through timing difference for users with unusable passwords. CVE-2024-39330: Potential directory-traversal in django.core.files.storage.Storage.save. CVE-2024-39614:...

chromium -- multiple security fixes

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 6 security fixes: 344608204 High CVE-2024-6100: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Seunghyun Lee @0x10n participating in SSD Secure Disclosure's TyphoonPWN 2024 on 2024-06-04 343748812 High CVE-2024-6101: Inappropriate implementation in WebAssembly...

python -- several vulnerabilities

Hugo van Kemenade reports: Python 3.14.2 and 3.13.11 are now available ... and come with some bonus security fixes. gh-142145: Remove quadratic behavior in node ID cache clearing CVE-2025-12084 gh-119451: Fix a potential denial of service in http.client only in 3.13; CVE-2025-13836 gh-119452: Fix...

cyrus-imapd -- unbounded memory allocation

Cyrus IMAP 3.8.3 Release Notes states: Fixed CVE-2024-34055: Cyrus-IMAP through 3.8.2 and 3.10.0-beta2 allow authenticated attackers to cause unbounded memory allocation by sending many LITERALs in a single command. The IMAP protocol allows for command arguments to be LITERALs of negotiated lengt...