libmspack -- frame_end overflow which could cause infinite loop

There is a denial of service vulnerability in libmspack. The libmspack code is built into cabextract, so it is also vulnerable. MITRE reports: Integer overflow in the qtmddecompress function in libmspack 0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service hang via a crafted CAB file, which...

FreeBSD -- Buffer overflow in stdio

Problem Description: A programming error in the standard I/O library's sflush function could erroneously adjust the buffered stream's internal state even when no write actually occurred in the case when write2 system call returns an error. Impact: The accounting mismatch would accumulate, if the...

jasper -- multiple vulnerabilities

oCERT reports: The library is affected by a double-free vulnerability in function jasiccattrvaldestroy as well as a heap-based buffer overflow in function jp2decode. A specially crafted jp2 file can be used to trigger the vulnerabilities. oCERT reports: The library is affected by an off-by-one...

xserver -- multiple issue with X client request handling

Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way the X server code base handles requests from X clients, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues. The vulnerabilities cou...

GNU binutils -- multiple vulnerabilities

US-CERT/NIST reports: The bfdXXiswapaouthdrin function in bfd/peXXigen.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted NumberOfRvaAndSizes field in the AOUT header in a PE...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: We have today posted updated versions of 9.9.6 and 9.10.1 to address a significant security vulnerability in DNS resolution. The flaw was discovered by Florian Maury of ANSSI, and applies to any recursive resolver that does not support a limit on the number of recursions...

unbound -- can be tricked into following an endless series of delegations, this consumes a lot of resources

Unbound developer reports: The resolver can be tricked into following an endless series of delegations, this consumes a lot of resources...

freetype -- Out of bounds stack-based read/write

Werner LEMBERG reports: The fix for CVE-2014-2240 was not 100% complete to fix the issue from the CVE completly...

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...

unzip -- input sanitization errors

oCERT reports: The UnZip tool is an open source extraction utility for archives compressed in the zip format. The unzip command line tool is affected by heap-based buffer overflows within the CRC32 verification, the testcompreb and the getZip64Data functions. The input errors may result in...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- remote denial of service or arbitrary code execution

NVIDIA Unix security team reports: The GLX indirect rendering support supplied on NVIDIA products is subject to the recently disclosed X.Org vulnerabilities CVE-2014-8093, CVE-2014-8098 as well as internally identified vulnerabilities CVE-2014-8298. Depending on how it is configured, the X server...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS and DoS vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: DoS vulnerability with long passwords. With very long passwords it was possible to initiate a denial of service attack on phpMyAdmin. We consider this vulnerability to be serious. This vulnerability can be mitigated by configuring throttling in the...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: ASN.1 DER decoding of lengths is too permissive, allowing undetected smuggling of arbitrary data MFSA-2014-90 Apple CoreGraphics framework on OS X 10.10 logging input data to /tmp directory MFSA-2014-89 Bad casting from the BasicThebesLayer to BasicContainerLayer...

OpenVPN -- denial of service security vulnerability

The OpenVPN project reports: In late November 2014 Dragana Damjanovic notified OpenVPN developers of a critical denial of service security vulnerability CVE-2014-8104. The vulnerability allows an tls-authenticated client to crash the server by sending a too-short control channel packet to the...

mutt -- denial of service via crafted mail message

NVD reports: The writeoneheader function in mutt 1.5.23 does not properly handle newline characters at the beginning of a header, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a header with an empty body, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the muttsubstrdup...

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

MITRE reports: wp-login.php in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 might allow remote attackers to reset passwords by leveraging access to an e-mail account that received a password-reset message. wp-includes/http.php in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8...

flac -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Erik de Castro Lopo reports: Google Security Team member, Michele Spagnuolo, recently found two potential problems in the FLAC code base. They are: CVE-2014-9028: Heap buffer write overflow. CVE-2014-8962: Heap buffer read overflow...

graphviz -- format string vulnerability

Joshua Rogers reports: A format string vulnerability has been found in graphviz'...

Python -- HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib

Guido Vranken reports: HTTP header injection in urrlib2/urllib/httplib/http.client with newlines in header values, where newlines have a semantic consequence of denoting the start of an additional header line...

cacti -- multiple security vulnerabilities

The Cacti Group, Inc. reports: Important Security Fixes CVE-2013-5588 - XSS issue via installer or device editing CVE-2013-5589 - SQL injection vulnerability in device editing CVE-2014-2326 - XSS issue via CDEF editing CVE-2014-2327 - Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability CVE-2014-2328 -...

asterisk -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The Asterisk project reports: AST-2014-012 - Mixed IP address families in access control lists may permit unwanted traffic. AST-2014-018 - AMI permission escalation through DB dialplan function...

asterisk -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The Asterisk project reports: AST-2014-014 - High call load may result in hung channels in ConfBridge. AST-2014-017 - Permission escalation through ConfBridge actions/dialplan functions...

sox -- input sanitization errors

oCERT reports: The sox command line tool is affected by two heap-based buffer overflows, respectively located in functions startread and AdpcmReadBlock. A specially crafted wav file can be used to trigger the vulnerabilities...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS and information disclosure vulnerabilities

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: With a crafted database, table or column name it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the table browse page. With a crafted ENUM value it is possible to trigger XSS attacks in the table print view and zoom search pages. With a crafted value for font siz...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 42 security fixes in this release, including: 389734 High CVE-2014-7899: Address bar spoofing. Credit to Eli Grey. 406868 High CVE-2014-7900: Use-after-free in pdfium. Credit to Atte Kettunen from OUSPG. 413375 High CVE-2014-7901: Integer overflow in pdfium. Credit...

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 -- incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3636 part A

Simon McVittie reports: The patch issued by the D-Bus maintainers for CVE-2014-3636 was based on incorrect reasoning, and does not fully prevent the attack described as "CVE-2014-3636 part A", which is repeated below. Preventing that attack requires raising the system dbus-daemon's RLIMITNOFILE...

kde-workspace -- privilege escalation

David Edmundson reports: KDE workspace configuration module for setting the date and time has a helper program which runs as root for performing actions. This is secured with polkit. This helper takes the name of the ntp utility to run as an argument. This allows a hacker to run any arbitrary...

Konversation -- out-of-bounds read on a heap-allocated array

Konversation developers report: Konversation's Blowfish ECB encryption support assumes incoming blocks to be the expected 12 bytes. The lack of a sanity-check for the actual size can cause a denial of service and an information leak to the local user...

FreeBSD -- Remote command execution in ftp(1)

Problem Description: A malicious HTTP server could cause ftp1 to execute arbitrary commands. Impact: When operating on HTTP URIs, the ftp1 client follows HTTP redirects, and uses the part of the path after the last '/' from the last resource it accesses as the output filename if '-o' is not...

FreeBSD -- Denial of service attack against sshd(8)

Problem Description: Although OpenSSH is not multithreaded, when OpenSSH is compiled with Kerberos support, the Heimdal libraries bring in the POSIX thread library as a dependency. Due to incorrect library ordering while linking sshd8, symbols in the C library which are shadowed by the POSIX thre...

FreeBSD -- Kernel stack disclosure in setlogin(2) / getlogin(2)

Problem Description: When setlogin2 is called while setting up a new login session, the login name is copied into an uninitialized stack buffer, which is then copied into a buffer of the same size in the session structure. The getlogin2 system call returns the entire buffer rather than just the...

unzip -- out of boundary access issues in test_compr_eb

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2489-1 reports: Michal Zalewski discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain malformed zip archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code...

asterisk -- Remote Crash Vulnerability in WebSocket Server

The Asterisk project reports: When handling a WebSocket frame the reshttpwebsocket module dynamically changes the size of the memory used to allow the provided payload to fit. If a payload length of zero was received the code would incorrectly attempt to resize to zero. This operation would succe...

jenkins -- slave-originated arbitrary code execution on master servers

Kohsuke Kawaguchi from Jenkins team reports: Historically, Jenkins master and slaves behaved as if they altogether form a single distributed process. This means a slave can ask a master to do just about anything within the confinement of the operating system, such as accessing files on the master...

wget -- path traversal vulnerability in recursive FTP mode

MITRE reports: Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a LIST response that references the same filename within two entries, one of which indicates...

davmail -- fix potential CVE-2014-3566 vulnerability (POODLE)

Mickaël Guessant reports: DavMail 4.6.0 released Enhancements: Fix potential CVE-2014-3566 vulnerability...

libpurple/pidgin -- multiple vulnerabilities

The pidgin development team reports:...

phpMyAdmin -- XSS vulnerabilities in SQL debug output and server monitor page.

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: With a crafted database or table name it is possible to trigger an XSS in SQL debug output when enabled and in server monitor page when viewing and analysing executed queries. This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who is logged in to...

FreeBSD -- rtsold(8) remote buffer overflow vulnerability

Problem Description: Due to a missing length check in the code that handles DNS parameters, a malformed router advertisement message can result in a stack buffer overflow in rtsold8. Impact: Receipt of a router advertisement message with a malformed DNSSL option, for instance from a compromised...

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...

FreeBSD -- memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup

Problem Description: The namei facility will leak a small amount of kernel memory every time a sandboxed process looks up a nonexistent path name. Impact: A remote attacker that can cause a sandboxed process for instance, a web server to look up a large number of nonexistent path names can cause...

asterisk -- Asterisk Susceptibility to POODLE Vulnerability

The Asterisk project reports: The POODLE vulnerability is described under CVE-2014-3566. This advisory describes the Asterisk's project susceptibility to this vulnerability...

libxml2 -- Denial of service

RedHat reports: A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption denia...

drupal7 -- SQL injection

Drupal Security Team reports: Drupal 7 includes a database abstraction API to ensure that queries executed against the database are sanitized to prevent SQL injection attacks. A vulnerability in this API allows an attacker to send specially crafted requests resulting in arbitrary SQL execution...

OpenSSL -- multiple vulnerabilities

The OpenSSL Project reports: A flaw in the DTLS SRTP extension parsing code allows an attacker, who sends a carefully crafted handshake message, to cause OpenSSL to fail to free up to 64k of memory causing a memory leak. This could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack. This issue affects...

libvpx -- out-of-bounds write

The Mozilla Project reports: Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team found an out-of-bounds write when buffering WebM format video containing frames with invalid tile sizes. This can lead to a potentially exploitable crash...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2014-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:33.0 / rv:31.2 MFSA 2014-75 Buffer overflow during CSS manipulation MFSA 2014-76 Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom waveforms MFSA 2014-78 Further uninitialized memory use during GIF MFSA 2014-79...

twiki -- remote Perl code execution

TWiki developers report: The debugenableplugins request parameter allows arbitrary Perl code execution. Using an HTTP GET request towards a TWiki server, add a specially crafted debugenableplugins request parameter to TWiki's view script typically port 80/TCP. Prior authentication may or may not ...

xdelta3 -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Stepan Golosunov reports: Buffer overflow was found and fixed in xdelta3 binary diff tool that allows arbitrary code execution from input files at least on some systems...