node -- access to unintended files

node developers report: Node.js 8.5.0 before 8.6.0 allows remote attackers to access unintended files, because a change to ".." handling was incompatible with the pathname validation used by unspecified community modules...

libbson -- Denial of Service

mongodb developers report: In MongoDB libbson 1.7.0, the bsonitercodewscope function in bson-iter.c miscalculates a bsonutf8validate length argument, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read in the bsonutf8validate function in bson-utf8.c, as...

cURL -- URL file scheme drive letter buffer overflow

cURL security advisory: When libcurl is given either 1. a file: URL that doesn't use two slashes following the colon, or 2. is told that file is the default scheme to use for URLs without scheme ... and the given path starts with a drive letter and libcurl is built for Windows or DOS, then libcur...

FreeBSD -- ipfilter(4) fragment handling panic

Problem Description: ipfilter4, capable of stateful packet inspection, using the "keep state" or "keep frags" rule options, will not only maintain the state of connections, such as TCP streams or UDP communication, it also maintains the state of fragmented packets. When a packet fragments are...

id Tech 3 -- remote code execution vulnerability

The content auto-download of id Tech 3 can be used to deliver maliciously crafted content, that triggers downloading of further content and loading and executing it as native code with user credentials. This affects ioquake3, ioUrbanTerror, OpenArena, the original Quake 3 Arena and other forks...

potrace -- multiple memory failure

potrace reports: CVE-2016-8685: invalid memory access in findnext CVE-2016-8686: memory allocation failure...

h2o -- Use-after-free vulnerability

Kazuho Oku reports: A use-after-free vulnerability exists in H2O up to and including version 2.0.4 / 2.1.0-beta3 that can be used by a remote attacker to mount DoS attacks and / or information theft...

krb5 -- KDC denial of service vulnerability

Major changes in krb5 1.14.3 and krb5 1.13.6: Fix a rare KDC denial of service vulnerability when anonymous client principals are restricted to obtaining TGTs only CVE-2016-3120...

libidn -- multiple vulnerabilities

Simon Josefsson reports: libidn: Fix out-of-bounds stack read in idnatoascii4i. idn: Solve out-of-bounds-read when reading one zero byte as input. Also replaced fgets with getline. libidn: stringpreputf8nfkcnormalize reject invalid UTF-8. It was always documented to only accept UTF-8 data, but no...

jansson -- local denial of service vulnerabilities

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

libarchive -- RCE vulnerability

The libarchive project reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in the zipreadmacmetadata function in archivereadsupportformatzip.c in libarchive before 3.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted entry-size values in a ZIP archive...

xerces-c3 -- Parser Crashes on Malformed Input

The Apache Software Foundation reports: The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. The overflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as memory corruption during a parse operation. The bugs...

FreeBSD -- Linux compatibility layer setgroups(2) system call

Problem Description: A programming error in the Linux compatibility layer setgroups2 system call can lead to an unexpected results, such as overwriting random kernel memory contents. Impact: It is possible for a local attacker to overwrite portions of kernel memory, which may result in a privileg...

FreeBSD -- Insecure default snmpd.config permissions

Problem Description: The SNMP protocol supports an authentication model called USM, which relies on a shared secret. The default permission of the snmpd configuration file, /etc/snmpd.config, is weak and does not provide adequate protection against local unprivileged users. Impact: A local user m...

php -- multiple vulnerabilities

PHP reports: Core: Fixed bug 70755 fpmlog.c memory leak and buffer overflow. GD: Fixed bug 70976 Memory Read via gdImageRotateInterpolated Array Index Out of Bounds. SOAP: Fixed bug 70900 SoapClient systematic out of memory error. Wddx Fixed bug 70661 Use After Free Vulnerability in WDDX Packet...

cups-filters -- code execution

Till Kamppeter reports: Cups Filters/Foomatic Filters does not consider semicolon as an illegal escape character...

redmine -- information leak vulnerability

Redmine reports: Data disclosure in atom feed...

otrs -- Scheduler Process ID File Access

The OTRS project reports: An attacker with valid LOCAL credentials could access and manipulate the process ID file for bin/otrs.schduler.pl from the CLI. The Proc::Daemon module 0.14 for Perl uses world-writable permissions for a file that stores a process ID, which allows local users to have an...

pcre -- heap overflow vulnerability

Guanxing Wen reports: PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow. During the compilation of a malformed regular expression, more data is written on the malloced block than the expected size output by compileregex. The Heap Overflow vulnerability is caused by the followi...

ntp -- control message remote Denial of Service vulnerability

ntp.org reports: Under limited and specific circumstances an attacker can send a crafted packet to cause a vulnerable ntpd instance to crash. This requires each of the following to be true: ntpd set up to allow for remote configuration not allowed by default, and knowledge of the configuration...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal development team reports: Impersonation OpenID module - Drupal 6 and 7 - Critical A vulnerability was found in the OpenID module that allows a malicious user to log in as other users on the site, including administrators, and hijack their accounts. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fa...

FreeBSD -- Integer overflow in IGMP protocol

Problem Description: An integer overflow in computing the size of IGMPv3 data buffer can result in a buffer which is too small for the requested operation. Impact: An attacker who can send specifically crafted IGMP packets could cause a denial of service situation by causing the kernel to crash...

cassandra3 -- jBCrypt integer overflow

mindrot project reports: There is an integer overflow that occurs with very large logrounds values, first reported by Marcus Rathsfeld...

libzmq4 -- V3 protocol handler vulnerable to downgrade attacks

Pieter Hintjens reports: It is easy to bypass the security mechanism in 4.1.0 and 4.0.5 by sending a ZMTP v2 or earlier header. The library accepts such connections without applying its security mechanism...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Asterisk project reports: Asterisk Manager User Unauthorized Shell Access. Manager users can execute arbitrary shell commands with the MixMonitor manager action. Asterisk does not require system class authorization for a manager user to use the MixMonitor action, so any manager user who is...

pivotx -- cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

pivotx reports: cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the nickname and possibly the email field. Mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a PivotX account...

nginx -- SPDY memory corruption

The nginx project reports: A bug in the experimental SPDY implementation in nginx 1.5.10 was found, which might allow an attacker to corrupt worker process memory by using a specially crafted request, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution CVE-2014-0088. The problem only affects nginx...

monitorix -- serious bug in the built-in HTTP server

Monitorix Project reports: A serious bug in the built-in HTTP server. It was discovered that the handlerequest routine did not properly perform input sanitization which led into a number of security vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary...

Quassel IRC -- SQL injection vulnerability

Quassel IRC developers report: SQL injection vulnerability in Quassel IRC before 0.9.1, when Qt 4.8.5 or later and PostgreSQL 8.2 or later are used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a \ backslash in a message...

nas -- multiple vulnerabilities

Hamid Zamani reports: multiple security problems buffer overflows, format string vulnerabilities and missing input sanitising, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code...

telepathy-gabble -- TLS verification bypass

Simon McVittie reports: This release fixes a man-in-the-middle attack. If you use an unencrypted connection to a "legacy Jabber" pre-XMPP server, this version of Gabble will not connect until you make one of these configuration changes: . upgrade the server software to something that supports XMP...

rubygem-ruby_parser -- insecure tmp file usage

Michael Scherer reports: This is a relatively minor tmp file usage issue...

tinc -- Buffer overflow

tinc-vpn.org reports: Drop packets forwarded via TCP if they are too big...

dns/bind9* -- crash on deliberately constructed combination of records

ISC reports: A deliberately constructed combination of records could cause named to hang while populating the additional section of a response...

phpMyAdmin -- Multiple XSS in Table operations, Database structure, Trigger and Visualize GIS data pages

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: Using a crafted table name, it was possible to produce a XSS : 1 On the Database Structure page, creating a new table with a crafted name 2 On the Database Structure page, using the Empty and Drop links of the crafted table name 3 On the Table Operations...

isc-dhcp-server -- DoS in DHCPv6

ISC reports: Due to improper handling of a DHCPv6 lease structure, ISC DHCP servers that are serving IPv6 address pools AND using Dynamic DNS can encounter a segmentation fault error while updating lease status under certain conditions. The potential exists for this condition to be intentionally...

PuTTY -- Password vulnerability

Simon Tatham reports: PuTTY 0.62 fixes a security issue present in 0.59, 0.60 and 0.61. If you log in using SSH-2 keyboard-interactive authentication which is the usual method used by modern servers to request a password, the password you type was accidentally kept in PuTTY's memory for the rest ...

kdeutils4 -- Directory traversal vulnerability

Tim Brown from Nth Dimention reports: I recently discovered that the Ark archiving tool is vulnerable to directory traversal via malformed. When attempts are made to view files within the malformed Zip file in Ark's default view, the wrong file may be displayed due to incorrect construction of th...

PHP -- crypt() returns only the salt for MD5

PHP development team reports: If crypt is executed with MD5 salts, the return value consists of the salt only. DES and BLOWFISH salts work as expected...

linux-flashplugin -- remote code execution vulnerability

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.33 and earlier versions Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.18 and earlier for Chrome users for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, Adobe Flash Player 10.1.106.16 and...

Axis2 -- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Apache Axis2 reports: Apache Axis2 1.7.3 is a security release that contains a fix for CVE-2010-3981. That security vulnerability affects the admin console that is part of the Axis2 Web application and was originally reported for SAP BusinessObjects which includes a version of Axis2. That report...

isolate -- local root exploit

Isolate currently suffers from some bad security bugs! These are local root privilege escalation bugs. Thanks to the helpful person who reported them email Chris if you want credit!. We're working to fix them ASAP, but until then, isolate is unsafe and you should uninstall it. Sorry!...

sudo -- Secure path vulnerability

Todd Miller reports: Most versions of the C library function getenv return the first instance of an environment variable to the caller. However, some programs, notably the GNU Bourne Again SHell bash, do their own environment parsing and may choose the last instance of a variable rather than the...

mDNSResponder -- corrupted stack crash when parsing bad resolv.conf

Juli Mallett reports: mdnsd will crash on some systems with a corrupt stack and once that's fixed it will still leak a file descriptor when parsing resolv.conf. The crash is because scanf is used with %10s for a buffer that is only 10 chars long. The buffer size needs increased to 11 chars to hol...

ziproxy -- atypical huge picture files vulnerability

Ziproxy 3.0.1 release fixes a security vulnerability related to atypical huge picture files 4GB of size once expanded...

mediawiki -- authenticated CSRF vulnerability

A MediaWiki security announcement reports: MediaWiki was found to be vulnerable to login CSRF. An attacker who controls a user account on the target wiki can force the victim to log in as the attacker, via a script on an external website. If the wiki is configured to allow user scripts, say with...

Zend Framework -- security issues in bundled Dojo library

The Zend Framework team reports: Several files in the bundled Dojo library were identified as having potential exploits, and the Dojo team also advised disabling or removing any PHP scripts in the Dojo library tree when deploying to production...

fetchmail -- heap overflow on verbose X.509 display

Matthias Andree reports: In verbose mode, fetchmail prints X.509 certificate subject and issuer information to the user, and counts and allocates a malloc buffer for that purpose. If the material to be displayed contains characters with high bit set and the platform treats the "char" type as...

dovecot -- Insecure directory permissions

Dovecot author reports: Dovecot v1.2.x had been creating basedir and its parents if necessary with 0777 permissions. The basedir's permissions get changed to 0755 automatically at startup, but you may need to chmod the parent directories manually...

expat2 -- buffer over-read and crash

CVE reports: The big2toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related t...