qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in USB EHCI emulation support

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the USB EHCI emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It occurs during communication between host controller interfaceEHCI and a respective device driver. These two communicate via a isochronous...

joomla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The JSST and the Joomla! Security Center report: 20151201 - Core - Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Browser information is not filtered properly while saving the session values into the database which leads to a Remote Code Execution vulnerability. 20151202 - Core - CSRF Hardening Add addition...

cups-filters -- code execution

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

jenkins -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jenkins Security Advisory: Description SECURITY-95 / CVE-2015-7536 Stored XSS vulnerability through workspace files and archived artifacts In certain configurations, low privilege users were able to create e.g. HTML files in workspaces and archived artifacts that could result in XSS when accessed...

xen-tools -- libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error

The Xen Project reports: When constructing a guest which is configured to use a PV bootloader which runs as a userspace process in the toolstack domain e.g. pygrub libxl creates a mapping of the files to be used as kernel and initial ramdisk when building the guest domain. However if building the...

flash -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates resolve heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2015-8438, CVE-2015-8446. These updates resolve memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution CVE-2015-8444, CVE-2015-8443, CVE-2015-8417, CVE-2015-8416,...

xen-kernel -- XENMEM_exchange error handling issues

The Xen Project reports: Error handling in the operation may involve handing back pages to the domain. This operation may fail when in parallel the domain gets torn down. So far this failure unconditionally resulted in the host being brought down due to an internal error being assumed. This is...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 7 security fixes in this release, including: 548273 High CVE-2015-6788: Type confusion in extensions. Credit to anonymous. 557981 High CVE-2015-6789: Use-after-free in Blink. Credit to cloudfuzzer. 542054 Medium CVE-2015-6790: Escaping issue in saved pages. Credit ...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in VNC

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the VNC display driver support is vulnerable to an arithmetic exception flaw. It occurs on the VNC server side while processing the 'SetPixelFormat' messages from a client. A privileged remote client could use this...

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 ...

cacti -- SQL injection vulnerabilities

NVD reports: SQL injection vulnerability in include/topgraphheader.php in Cacti 0.8.8f and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the rraid parameter in a properties action to graph.php...

redmine -- information leak vulnerability

Redmine reports: Data disclosure in atom feed...

libressl -- NULL pointer dereference

The OpenBSD project reports: A NULL pointer deference could be triggered by a crafted certificate sent to services configured to verify client certificates on TLS/SSL connections...

openssl -- multiple vulnerabilities

OpenSSL project reports: BNmodexp may produce incorrect results on x8664 CVE-2015-3193 Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter CVE-2015-3194 X509ATTRIBUTE memory leak CVE-2015-3195 Race condition handling PSK identify hint CVE-2015-3196 Anon DH ServerKeyExchange with 0 p parameter...

libtorrent -- remote DoS

X-cela reports: Calls into buildbenocde that use %zu could crash on 64 bit machines due to the size change of sizet. Someone can force READENCIA to fail allowing an internalerror to be thrown and bring down the client...

py-amf -- input sanitization errors

oCERT reports: A specially crafted AMF payload, containing malicious references to XML external entities, can be used to trigger Denial of Service DoS conditions or arbitrarily return the contents of files that are accessible with the running application privileges...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 41 security fixes in this release, including: 558589 Critical CVE-2015-6765: Use-after-free in AppCache. Credit to anonymous. 551044 High CVE-2015-6766: Use-after-free in AppCache. Credit to anonymous. 554908 High CVE-2015-6767: Use-after-free in AppCache. Credit t...

libraw -- index overflow in smal_decode_segment

ChenQin reports: The LibRaw raw image decoder has multiple vulnerabilities that can cause memory errors which may lead to code execution or other problems. In CVE-2015-8366, LibRaw's smaldecodesegment function does not handle indexes carefully, which can cause an index overflow...

qemu and xen-tools -- denial of service vulnerabilities in AMD PC-Net II NIC support

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the AMD PC-Net II Ethernet Controller support is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow flaw. While receiving packets in the loopback mode, it appends CRC code to the receive buffer. If the data size given is same as...

libraw -- memory objects not properly initialized

ChenQin reports: The LibRaw raw image decoder has multiple vulnerabilities that can cause memory errors which may lead to code execution or other problems. In CVE-2015-8367, LibRaw's phaseonecorrect function does not handle memory initialization correctly, which may cause other problems...

ffmpeg -- multiple vulnerabilities

NVD reports: The updatedimensions function in libavcodec/vp8.c in FFmpeg through 2.8.1, as used in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.71 and other products, relies on a coefficient-partition count during multi-threaded operation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service race conditi...

dpkg -- stack-based buffer overflow

Salvatore Bonaccorso reports: Hanno Boeck discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the dpkg-deb component of dpkg, the Debian package management system. This flaw could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution if a user or an automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafte...

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...

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...

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...

quassel -- remote denial of service

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

libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

reports: CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue David Drysdale. CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey David Drysdale. CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures Daniel Veillard. CVE-2015-7499 1 Add xmlHaltParser to stop the...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in Q35 chipset emulation

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the Q35 chipset based pc system emulator is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow. It occurs during VM guest migration, as more16 bytes data is moved into allocated 8 bytes memory area. A privileged guest user...

sudo -- potential privilege escalation via symlink misconfiguration

MITRE reports: sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home///file.txt."...

kibana4 -- CSRF vulnerability

Elastic reports: Vulnerability Summary: Kibana versions prior to 4.1.3 and 4.2.1 are vulnerable to a CSRF attack. Remediation Summary: Users should upgrade to 4.1.3 or 4.2.1...

piwik -- multiple vulnerabilities

Piwik changelog reports: This release is rated critical. We are grateful for Security researchers who disclosed security issues privately to the Piwik Security Response team: Elamaran Venkatraman, Egidio Romano and Dmitriy Shcherbatov. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: XSS, CSRF, possible...

a2ps -- format string vulnerability

Jong-Gwon Kim reports: When user runs a2ps with malicious crafted proa2ps prologue file, an attacker can execute arbitrary code...

strongswan -- authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin

Strongswan Release Notes reports: Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin that was caused by insufficient verification of the internal state when handling MSCHAPv2 Success messages received by the client. This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2015-8023...

libpng buffer overflow in png_set_PLTE

libpng reports: CVE for a vulnerability in libpng, all versions, in the pngsetPLTE/pnggetPLTE functions. These functions failed to check for an out-of-range palette when reading or writing PNG files with a bitdepth less than 8. Some applications might read the bit depth from the IHDR chunk and...

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...

redmine -- multiple vulnerabilities

Redmine reports: Potential changeset message disclosure in issues API. Data disclosure on the time logging form...

gdm -- lock screen bypass when holding escape key

Ray Strode reports: CVE-2015-7496 - lock screen bypass when holding escape key...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 520422 High CVE-2015-1302: Information leak in PDF viewer. Credit to Rob Wu...

xen-kernel -- CPU lockup during exception delivery

The Xen Project reports: A malicious HVM guest administrator can cause a denial of service. Specifically, prevent use of a physical CPU for a significant, perhaps indefinite period. If a host watchdog Xen or dom0 is in use, this can lead to a watchdog timeout and consequently a reboot of the host...

hostapd and wpa_supplicant -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jouni Malinen reports: wpasupplicant unauthorized WNM Sleep Mode GTK control. 2015-6 - CVE-2015-5310 EAP-pwd missing last fragment length validation. 2015-7 - CVE-2015-5315 EAP-pwd peer error path failure on unexpected Confirm message. 2015-8 - CVE-2015-5316...

MySQL - Multiple vulnerabilities

Oracle reports: Critical Patch Update: MySQL Server, versions 5.5.45 and prior, 5.6.26 and prior...

flash -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates resolve a type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution CVE-2015-7659. These updates resolve a security bypass vulnerability that could be exploited to write arbitrary data to the file system under user permissions CVE-2015-7662. These updates resolve...

moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities

Moodle Release Notes report: MSA-15-0037 Possible to send a message to a user who blocked messages from non contacts MSA-15-0038 DDoS possibility in Atto MSA-15-0039 CSRF in site registration form MSA-15-0040 Student XSS in survey MSA-15-0041 XSS in flash video player MSA-15-0042 CSRF in lesson...

adminer -- XSS vulnerability

Jakub Vrana reports: Fix XSS in indexes non-MySQL only...

jenkins -- remote code execution via unsafe deserialization

Jenkins Developers report: Unsafe deserialization allows unauthenticated remote attackers to run arbitrary code on the Jenkins master...

PuTTY -- memory corruption in terminal emulator's erase character handling

Ben Harris reports: Versions of PuTTY and pterm between 0.54 and 0.65 inclusive have a potentially memory-corrupting integer overflow in the handling of the ECH erase characters control sequence in the terminal emulator. To exploit a vulnerability in the terminal emulator, an attacker must be abl...

PHPmailer -- SMTP injection vulnerability

PHPMailer changelog reports: Fix vulnerability that allowed email addresses with line breaks valid in RFC5322 to pass to SMTP, permitting message injection at the SMTP level. Mitigated in both the address validator and in the lower-level SMTP class. Thanks to Takeshi Terada...

cyrus-imapd -- integer overflow in the start_octet addition

Cyrus IMAP 2.5.7 Release Note states: CVE-2015-8077, CVE-2015-8078: protect against integer overflow in urlfetch range checks...

claws-mail -- no bounds checking on the output buffer in conv_jistoeuc, conv_euctojis, conv_sjistoeuc

DrWhax reports: So in codeconv.c there is a function for Japanese character set conversion called convjistoeuc. There is no bounds checking on the output buffer, which is created on the stack with alloca Bug can be triggered by sending an email to [email protected] or whatever. Since my C is...

OpenOffice 4.1.1 -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Apache OpenOffice Project reports: A vulnerability in OpenOffice settings of OpenDocument Format files and templates allows silent access to files that are readable from an user account, over-riding the user's default configuration settings. Once these files are imported into a...