vlc -- arbitrary pointer dereference vulnerability

oCERT reports: The stable VLC version suffers from an arbitrary pointer dereference vulnerability. The vulnerability affects the 3GP file format parser, insufficient restrictions on a writable buffer can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via the heap memory. A specific 3GP file can be crafte...

OpenSSH -- PermitRootLogin may allow password connections with 'without-password'

OpenSSH 7.0 contained a logic error in PermitRootLogin= prohibit-password/without-password that could, depending on compile-time configuration, permit password authentication to root while preventing other forms of authentication. This problem was reported by Mantas Mikulenas...

codeigniter -- SQL injection vulnerability

The CodeIgniter changelog reports: Security: Fixed an SQL injection vulnerability in Active Record method offset...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: An incorrect boundary check in openpgpkey61.c can cause named to terminate due to a REQUIRE assertion failure. This defect can be deliberately exploited by an attacker who can provide a maliciously constructed response in answer to a query...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: Parsing a malformed DNSSEC key can cause a validating resolver to exit due to a failed assertion in buffer.c. It is possible for a remote attacker to deliberately trigger this condition, for example by using a query which requires a response from a zone containing a deliberately...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal development team reports: This security advisory fixes multiple vulnerabilities. See below for a list. Cross-site Scripting - Ajax system - Drupal 7 A vulnerability was found that allows a malicious user to perform a cross-site scripting attack by invoking Drupal.ajax on a whitelisted HTML...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

Tim Graham reports: Denial-of-service possibility in logout view by filling session store Previously, a session could be created when anonymously accessing the django.contrib.auth.views.logout view provided it wasn't decorated with django.contrib.auth.decorators.loginrequired as done in the admin...

FreeBSD -- Multiple integer overflows in expat (libbsdxml) XML parser

Problem Description: Multiple integer overflows have been discovered in the XMLGetBuffer function in the expat library. Impact: The integer overflows may be exploited by using specifically crafted XML data and lead to infinite loop, or a heap buffer overflow, which results in a Denial of Service...

jasper -- multiple vulnerabilities

Martin Prpic reports: A double free flaw was found in the way JasPer's jasperimagestopload function parsed certain JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash. Feist Josselin reports: A new use-after-free was found in Jasper JPEG-200. The...

qemu -- buffer overflow vulnerability in VNC

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the VNC display driver support is vulnerable to a buffer overflow flaw leading to a heap memory corruption issue. It could occur while refreshing the server display surface via routine vncrefreshserversurface. A...

openjpeg -- use-after-free vulnerability

Feist Josselin reports: Use-after-free was found in openjpeg. The vuln is fixed in version 2.1.1 and was located in opjj2kwritemco function...

unreal -- denial of service

Unreal reports: Summary: If SASL support is enabled in UnrealIRCd this is not the default and is also enabled in your services package then a malicious user with a services account can cause UnrealIRCd to crash...

pear-twig -- remote code execution

Fabien Potencier reports: End users can craft valid Twig code that allows them to execute arbitrary code RCEs via the self variable, which is always available, even in sandboxed templates...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark development team reports: The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. wnpa-sec-2015-21 Protocol tree crash. Bug 11309 wnpa-sec-2015-22 Memory manager crash. Bug 11373 wnpa-sec-2015-23 Dissector table crash. Bug 11381 wnpa-sec-2015-24 ZigBee crash. Bug 11389 wnpa-sec-2015-25 GSM RLC/M...

RT -- two XSS vulnerabilities

Best Practical reports: RT 4.0.0 and above are vulnerable to a cross-site scripting XSS attack via the user and group rights management pages. This vulnerability is assigned CVE-2015-5475. It was discovered and reported by Marcin Kopec at Data Reliance Shared Service Center. RT 4.2.0 and above ar...

OpenSSH -- PAM vulnerabilities

OpenSSH 6.8 and 6.9 incorrectly set TTYs to be world-writable. Local attackers may be able to write arbitrary messages to logged-in users, including terminal escape sequences. Reported by Nikolay Edigaryev. Fixed a privilege separation weakness related to PAM support. Attackers who could...

mbedTLS/PolarSSL -- multiple vulnerabilities

ARM Limited reports: In order to strengthen the minimum requirements for connections and to protect against the Logjam attack, the minimum size of Diffie-Hellman parameters accepted by the client has been increased to 1024 bits. In addition the default size for the Diffie-Hellman parameters on th...

libvpx -- multiple buffer overflows

The Mozilla Project reports: Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two buffer overflow issues in the Libvpx library used for WebM video when decoding a malformed WebM video file. These buffer overflows result in...

Adobe Flash Player -- critical vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player. These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. These updates resolve type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2015-79 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:40.0 / rv:38.2 MFSA 2015-80 Out-of-bounds read with malformed MP3 file MFSA 2015-81 Use-after-free in MediaStream playback MFSA 2015-82 Redefinition of non-configurable JavaScript object properties MFSA 2015-83...

mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

MediaWiki reports: Internal review discovered that Special:DeletedContributions did not properly protect the IP of autoblocked users. This fix makes the functionality of Special:DeletedContributions consistent with Special:Contributions and Special:BlockList. Internal review discovered that...

vorbis-tools, opus-tools -- multiple vulnerabilities

Paris Zoumpouloglou reports: I discovered an integer overflow issue in oggenc, related to the number of channels in the input WAV file. The issue triggers an out-of-bounds memory access which causes oggenc to crash. Paris Zoumpouloglou reports: A crafted WAV file with number of channels set to 0...

libpgf -- use-after-free

Pengsu Cheng reports: An use-after-free issue in Decoder.cpp was reported to upstream. The problem is due to lack of validation of ColorTableSize...

screen -- stack overflow

Kuang-che Wu reports: screen will recursively call MScrollV to depth n/256. This is time consuming and will overflow stack if n is huge...

php5 -- multiple vulnerabilities

The PHP project reports: Core: Fixed bug 69793 Remotely triggerable stack exhaustion via recursive method calls. Fixed bug 70121 unserialize could lead to unexpected methods execution / NULL pointer deref. OpenSSL: Fixed bug 70014 opensslrandompseudobytes is not cryptographically secure. Phar:...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2015-78 Same origin violation and local file stealing via PDF reader...

qemu -- buffer overflow vulnerability in virtio-serial message exchanges

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the virtio-serial vmchannel support is vulnerable to a buffer overflow issue. It could occur while exchanging virtio control messages between guest and the host. A malicious guest could use this flaw to corrupt few...

pcre -- heap overflow vulnerability in '(?|' situations

Venustech ADLAB 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. Exploits with advanced Heap Fengshui techniques may...

adminer -- XSS vulnerability

Jakub Vrana reports: Fix XSS in alter table...

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 pass certain ed1 scripts to the ed1 editor, which would run commands. Impact: This issue could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands as the user invoking patch1...

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...

wordpress -- Multiple vulnerability

Gary Pendergast reports: WordPress 4.2.4 fixes three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential SQL injection that could be used to compromise a site...

qemu, xen-tools -- use-after-free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol

The Xen Project reports: When unplugging an emulated block device the device was not fully unplugged, meaning a second unplug attempt would attempt to unplug the device a second time using a previously freed pointer. An HVM guest which has access to an emulated IDE disk device may be able to...

Botan BER Decoder vulnerabilities

The botan developers reports: Excess memory allocation in BER decoder - The BER decoder would allocate a fairly arbitrary amount of memory in a length field, even if there was no chance the read request would succeed. This might cause the process to run out of memory or invoke the OOM killer. Cra...

qemu, xen-tools -- QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model

The Xen Project reports: The QEMU model of the RTL8139 network card did not sufficiently validate inputs in the C+ mode offload emulation. This results in uninitialized memory from the QEMU process's heap being leaked to the domain as well as to the network. A guest may be able to read sensitive...

froxlor -- database password information leak

[email protected] reports: An unauthenticated remote attacker is able to get the database password via webaccess due to wrong file permissions of the /logs/ folder in froxlor version 0.9.33.1 and earlier. The plain SQL password and username may be stored in the /logs/sql-error.log file...

go -- multiple vulnerabilities

Jason Buberel, Go Product Manager, reports: CVE-2015-5739 - "Content Length" treated as valid header CVE-2015-5740 - Double content-length headers does not return 400 error CVE-2015-5741 - Additional hardening, not sending Content-Length w/Transfer-Encoding, Closing connections...

FreeBSD -- Resource exhaustion in TCP reassembly

Problem Description: There is a mistake with the introduction of VNET, which converted the global limit on the number of segments that could belong to reassembly queues into a per-VNET limit. Because mbufs are allocated from a global pool, in the presence of a sufficient number of VNETs, the tota...

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...

subversion -- multiple vulnerabilities

Subversion reports: CVE-2015-3184: Subversion's modauthzsvn does not properly restrict anonymous access in some mixed anonymous/authenticated environments when using Apache httpd 2.4. CVE-2015-3187: Subversion servers, both httpd and svnserve, will reveal some paths that should be hidden by...

remind -- buffer overflow with malicious reminder file input

Dianne Skoll reports: BUG FIX: Fix a buffer overflow found by Alexander Keller. The bug can be manifested by an extended DUMP command using a system variable that is a special variable whose name begins with '$'...

qemu, xen-tools -- QEMU heap overflow flaw with certain ATAPI commands

The Xen Project reports: A heap overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's IDE subsystem handled I/O buffer access while processing certain ATAPI commands. A privileged guest user in a guest with CDROM drive enabled could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the...

lshell -- Shell autocomplete reveals forbidden directories

lshell reports: The autocomplete feature allows users to list directories, while they do not have access to those paths issue 109...

wordpress -- XSS vulnerability

Gary Pendergast reports: WordPress versions 4.2.2 and earlier are affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could allow users with the Contributor or Author role to compromise a site. This was reported by Jon Cave and fixed by Robert Chapin, both of the WordPress security team...

qemu -- stack buffer overflow while parsing SCSI commands

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the SCSI device emulation support is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow issue. It could occur while parsing SCSI command descriptor block with an invalid operation code. A privilegedCAPSYSRAWIO user inside guest...

logstash -- SSL/TLS vulnerability with Lumberjack input

Elastic reports: Vulnerability Summary: All Logstash versions prior to 1.5.2 that use Lumberjack input in combination with Logstash Forwarder agent are vulnerable to a SSL/TLS security issue called the FREAK attack. This allows an attacker to intercept communication and access secure data. Users...

sox -- memory corruption vulnerabilities

Michele Spagnuolo, Google Security Team, reports: The write heap buffer overflows are related to ADPCM handling in WAV files, while the read heap buffer overflow is while opening a .VOC...

OpenSSH -- MaxAuthTries limit bypass via duplicates in KbdInteractiveDevices

It was discovered that the OpenSSH sshd daemon did not check the list of keyboard-interactive authentication methods for duplicates. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the MaxAuthTries limit, making it easier to perform password guessing attacks...

shibboleth-sp -- DoS vulnerability

Shibboleth consortium reports: Shibboleth SP software crashes on well-formed but invalid XML. The Service Provider software contains a code path with an uncaught exception that can be triggered by an unauthenticated attacker by supplying well-formed but schema-invalid XML in the form of SAML...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: An error in the handling of TKEY queries can be exploited by an attacker for use as a denial-of-service vector, as a constructed packet can use the defect to trigger a REQUIRE assertion failure, causing BIND to exit...