Python -- buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into()

Vincent Danen via Red Hat Issue Tracker reports: A vulnerability was reported in Python's socket module, due to a boundary error within the sockrecvfrominto function, which could be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. This could be used to crash a Python application that uses the...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

FreeBSD -- bsnmpd remote denial of service vulnerability

Problem Description: The bsnmpd8 daemon is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow when it has received a specifically crafted GETBULK PDU request. Impact: This issue could be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the context of the service daemon, or crash the service daemon, causing a...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 11 security fixes in this release, including: 249502 High CVE-2013-6646: Use-after-free in web workers. Credit to Collin Payne. 326854 High CVE-2013-6641: Use-after-free related to forms. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 324969 High CVE-2013-6642: Address bar...

subversion -- mod_dav_svn vulnerability

Subversion Project reports: Subversion's moddavsvn Apache HTTPD server module will crash when it receives an OPTIONS request against the server root and Subversion is configured to handle the server root and SVNListParentPath is on. This can lead to a DoS. There are no known instances of this...

bind -- denial of service vulnerability

ISC reports: Because of a defect in handling queries for NSEC3-signed zones, BIND can crash with an "INSIST" failure in name.c when processing queries possessing certain properties. By exploiting this defect an attacker deliberately constructing a query with the right properties could achieve...

HTMLDOC -- buffer overflow issues when reading AFM files and parsing page sizes

Michael Sweet reports: HTMLDOC 1.8.28 fixes some known security issues and formatting bugs. Changes include: SECURITY: Fixed three buffer overflow issues when reading AFM files and parsing page sizes...

openssl -- multiple vulnerabilities

OpenSSL development team reports: Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014: Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450...

ntpd DRDoS / Amplification Attack using ntpdc monlist command

ntp.org reports: Unrestricted access to the monlist feature in ntprequest.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.7p26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service traffic amplification via forged 1 REQMONGETLIST or 2 REQMONGETLIST1 requests, as exploited in the wild in December 2013 Use noquery to...

wemux -- read-only can be bypassed

JonApps reports: The read-only mode can be bypassed and any command sent to bash session...

libXfont -- Stack buffer overflow in parsing of BDF font files in libXfont

freedesktop.org reports: A BDF font file containing a longer than expected string can cause a buffer overflow on the stack. Testing in X servers built with Stack Protector restulted in an immediate crash when reading a user-proveded specially crafted font. As libXfont is used to read user-specifi...

imlib2 -- denial of service vulnerabilities

Enlightenment reports: GIF loader: Fix segv on images without colormap Prevent division-by-zero crashes. Fix segfault when opening input/queue/id:000007,src:000000,op:flip1,pos:51 with feh...

file -- out-of-bounds access in search rules with offsets from input file

Aaron Reffett reports: softmagic.c in file ... and libmagic allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds memory access and crash via crafted offsets in the softmagic of a PE executable...

OpenX -- SQL injection vulnerability

Revive reports: An SQL-injection vulnerability was recently discovered and reported to the Revive Adserver team by Florian Sander. The vulnerability is known to be already exploited to gain unauthorised access to the application using brute force mechanisms, however other kind of attacks might be...

nagios -- denial of service vulnerability

Eric Stanley reports: Most CGIs previously incremented the input variable counter twice when it encountered a long key value. This could cause the CGI to read past the end of the list of CGI variables...

gnupg -- RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis attack

Werner Koch reports: CVE-2013-4576 has been assigned to this security bug. The paper describes two attacks. The first attack allows to distinguish keys: An attacker is able to notice which key is currently used for decryption. This is in general not a problem but may be used to reveal the...

cURL library -- cert name check ignore with GnuTLS

cURL project reports: libcurl is vulnerable to a case of missing out the checking of the certificate CN or SAN name field when the digital signature verification is turned off. libcurl offers two separate and independent options for verifying a server's TLS certificate. CURLOPTSSLVERIFYPEER and...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Asterisk project reports: A 16 bit SMS message that contains an odd message length value will cause the message decoding loop to run forever. The message buffer is not on the stack but will be overflowed resulting in corrupted memory and an immediate crash. External control protocols, such as...

PHP5 -- memory corruption in openssl_x509_parse()

Stefan Esser reports: The PHP function opensslx509parse uses a helper function called asn1timetotimet to convert timestamps from ASN1 string format into integer timestamp values. The parser within this helper function is not binary safe and can therefore be tricked to write up to five NUL bytes...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2013-116 JPEG information leak MFSA 2013-105 Application Installation doorhanger persists on navigation MFSA 2013-106 Character encoding cross-origin XSS attack MFSA 2013-107 Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested object elements MFSA 2013-108 Use-after-free ...

qt4-xml -- XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service

Richard J. Moore reports: QXmlSimpleReader in Qt versions prior to 5.2 supports expansion of internal entities in XML documents without placing restrictions to ensure the document does not cause excessive memory usage. If an application using this API processes untrusted data then the application...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 15 security fixes in this release, including: 307159 Medium CVE-2013-6634: Session fixation in sync related to 302 redirects. Credit to Andrey Labunets. 314469 High CVE-2013-6635: Use-after-free in editing. Credit to cloudfuzzer. 322959 Medium CVE-2013-6636: Addres...

zabbix -- shell command injection vulnerability

Recurity Labs Team project reports: Zabbix agent is vulnerable to remote command execution from the Zabbix server in some cases...

rails -- multiple vulnerabilities

Rails weblog: Rails 3.2.16 and 4.0.2 have been released! These two releases contain important security fixes, so please upgrade as soon as possible! In order to make upgrading as smooth as possible, we've only included commits directly related to each security issue. The security fixes in 3.2.16...

libxml2 -- entity substitution DoS

Stefan Cornelius reports: It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substitution in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a...

redis -- sensitive information leak through command history file

Redis team reports: The redis-cli history file in linenoise is created with the default OS umask value which makes it world readable in most systems and could potentially expose authentication credentials to other users...

lighttpd -- multiple vulnerabilities

lighttpd security advisories report: It is possible to inadvertantly enable vulnerable ciphers when using ssl.cipher-list. In certain cases setuid and similar can fail, potentially triggering lighttpd to restart running as root. If FAMMonitorDirectory fails, the memory intended to store the conte...

OpenTTD -- Denial of service using forcefully crashed aircrafts

The OpenTTD Team reports: The problem is caused by incorrectly handling the fact that the aircraft circling the corner airport will be outside of the bounds of the map. In the 'out of fuel' crash code the height of the tile under the aircraft is determined. In this case that means a tile outside ...

phpmyfaq -- arbitrary PHP code execution vulnerability

The phpMyFAQ team reports: Secunia noticed while analysing the advisory that authenticated users with "Right to add attachments" are able to exploit an already publicly known issue in the bundled Ajax File Manager of phpMyFAQ version 2.8.3, which leads to arbitrary PHP code execution for...

libyaml heap overflow resulting in possible code execution

libyaml was prone to a heap overflow that could result in arbitrary code execution. Pkg uses libyaml to parse the package manifests in some cases. Pkg also used libyaml to parse the remote repository until 1.2. RedHat Product Security Team reports on libyaml: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was...

ruby -- Heap Overflow in Floating Point Parsing

Ruby developers report: Any time a string is converted to a floating point value, a specially crafted string can cause a heap overflow. This can lead to a denial of service attack via segmentation faults and possibly arbitrary code execution. Any program that converts input of unknown origin to...

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...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal Security Team reports: Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in the supported Drupal core versions 6 and 7. Multiple vulnerabilities due to optimistic cross-site request forgery protection Form API validation - Drupal 6 and 7 Multiple vulnerabilities due to weakness in pseudorandom number...

nginx -- Request line parsing vulnerability

The nginx project reports: Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team discovered a bug in nginx, which might allow an attacker to bypass security restrictions in certain configurations by using a specially crafted request, or might have potential other impact CVE-2013-4547...

subversion -- multiple vulnerabilities

Subversion Project reports: moddontdothat does not restrict requests from serf based clients moddontdothat allows you to block update REPORT requests against certain paths in the repository. It expects the paths in the REPORT request to be absolute URLs. Serf based clients send relative URLs...

chromium -- multiple memory corruption issues

Google Chrome Releases reports: 319117 319125 Critical CVE-2013-6632: Multiple memory corruption issues. Credit to Pinkie Pie...

linux-flashplugin -- multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: These updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 25 security fixes in this release, including: 268565 Medium CVE-2013-6621: Use after free related to speech input elements. Credit to Khalil Zhani. 272786 High CVE-2013-6622: Use after free related to media elements. Credit to cloudfuzzer. 282925 High CVE-2013-6623...

OpenSSH -- Memory corruption in sshd

The OpenSSH development team reports: A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the post- authentication sshd process when an AES-GCM cipher [email protected] or [email protected] is selected during kex exchange. If exploited, this vulnerability might permit code execution with the...

Joomla! -- Core XSS Vulnerabilities

The JSST and the Joomla! Security Center report: 20131101 Core XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability in comcontact. 20131102 Core XSS Vulnerability Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability in comcontact, comweblinks, comnewsfeeds. 20131103 Core XSS Vulnerability...

strongswan -- multiple DoS vulnerabilities

strongSwan Project reports: A DoS vulnerability triggered by crafted IKEv1 fragmentation payloads was discovered in strongSwan's IKE daemon charon. All versions since 5.0.2 are affected. A DoS vulnerability and potential authorization bypass triggered by a crafted IDDERASN1DN ID payload was...

varnish -- DoS vulnerability in Varnish HTTP cache

Varnish Cache Project reports: If Varnish receives a certain illegal request, and the subroutine 'vclerror' restarts the request, the varnishd worker process will crash with an assert. The varnishd management process will restart the worker process, but there will be a brief interruption of servi...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2013-93 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:25.0 / rv:24.1 / rv:17.0.10 MFSA 2013-94 Spoofing addressbar though SELECT element MFSA 2013-95 Access violation with XSLT and uninitialized data MFSA 2013-96 Improperly initialized memory and overflows in some...

gnutls -- denial of service

Salvatore Bonaccorso reports: This vulnerability affects the DANE library of gnutls 3.1.x and gnutls 3.2.x. A server that returns more 4 DANE entries could corrupt the memory of a requesting client...

node.js -- DoS Vulnerability

node.js developers report This release contains a security fix for the http server implementation, please upgrade as soon as possible...

pycrypto -- PRNG reseed race condition

Dwayne Litzenberger reports: In PyCrypto before v2.6.1, the Crypto.Random pseudo-random number generator PRNG exhibits a race condition that may cause it to generate the same 'random' output in multiple processes that are forked from each other. Depending on the application, this could reveal...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: Cross-Site Request Forgery When a user submits changes to a bug right after another user did, a midair collision page is displayed to inform the user about changes recently made. This page contains a token which can be used to validate the changes if the user...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 5 security fixes in this release, including: 292422 High CVE-2013-2925: Use after free in XHR. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 294456 High CVE-2013-2926: Use after free in editing. Credit to cloudfuzzer. 297478 High CVE-2013-2927: Use after free in forms. Credit ...

xorg-server -- use-after-free

Alan Coopersmith reports: Pedro Ribeiro pedrib at gmail.com reported an issue to the X.Org security team in which an authenticated X client can cause an X server to use memory after it was freed, potentially leading to crash and/or memory corruption...

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...