Ruby Rack Gem -- Multiple Issues

Rack developers report: Today we are proud to announce the release of Rack 1.4.5. Fix CVE-2013-0263, timing attack against Rack::Session::Cookie Fix CVE-2013-0262, symlink path traversal in Rack::File...

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...

Ruby -- XSS exploit of RDoc documentation generated by rdoc

Ruby developers report: RDoc documentation generated by rdoc bundled with ruby are vulnerable to an XSS exploit. All ruby users are recommended to update ruby to newer version which includes security-fixed RDoc. If you are publishing RDoc documentation generated by rdoc, you are recommended to...

piwigo -- CSRF/Path Traversal

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab reports: The CSRF vulnerability exists due to insufficient verification of the HTTP request origin in "/admin.php" script. A remote attacker can trick a logged-in administrator to visit a specially crafted webpage and create arbitrary PHP file on the remote...

OpenSSL -- TLS 1.1, 1.2 denial of service

OpenSSL security team reports: A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of CBC mode ciphersuites in TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 on AES-NI supporting platforms can be exploited in a DoS attack. A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of OCSP response verification can be exploited in a denial of service attack...

firebird -- Remote Stack Buffer Overflow

Firebird Project reports: The FirebirdSQL server is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow that can be triggered when an unauthenticated user sends a specially crafted packet. The result can lead to remote code execution as the user which runs the FirebirdSQL server...

opera -- execution of arbitrary code

Opera reports: Particular DOM event manipulations can cause Opera to crash. In some cases, this crash might occur in a way that allows execution of arbitrary code. To inject code, additional techniques would have to be employed...

tinc -- Buffer overflow

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

wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wordpress reports: WordPress 3.5.1 also addresses the following security issues: A server-side request forgery vulnerability and remote port scanning using pingbacks. This vulnerability, which could potentially be used to expose information and compromise a site, affects all previous WordPress...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 151008 High CVE-2013-0839: Use-after-free in canvas font handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 170532 Medium CVE-2013-0840: Missing URL validation when opening new windows. 169770 High CVE-2013-0841: Unchecked array index in content blocking. Credit to Google...

drupal -- multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal Security Team reports: Cross-site scripting Various core and contributed modules Access bypass Book module printer friendly version Access bypass Image module...

pyrad -- multiple vulnerabilities

Nathaniel McCallum reports: packet.py in pyrad before 2.1 uses weak random numbers to generate RADIUS authenticators and hash passwords, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a brute force attack. The CreateID function in packet.py in pyrad before 2.1 uses...

java 7.x -- security manager bypass

US CERT reports: Java 7 Update 10 and earlier versions of Java 7 contain a vulnerability that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. The Java JRE plug-in provides its own Security Manager. Typically, a web applet runs with a security manager...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 162494 High CVE-2012-5145: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 165622 High CVE-2012-5146: Same origin policy bypass with malformed URL. Credit to Erling A Ellingsen and Subodh Iyengar, both of Facebook. 165864 High CVE-2012-5147:...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2013-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:18.0/ rv:10.0.12 / rv:17.0.2 MFSA 2013-02 Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer MFSA 2013-03 Buffer Overflow in Canvas MFSA 2013-04 URL spoofing in addressbar during page loads MFSA...

rubygem-rails -- multiple vulnerabilities

Ruby on Rails team reports: Two high-risk vulnerabilities have been discovered: CVE-2013-0155 There is a vulnerability when Active Record is used in conjunction with JSON parameter parsing. Due to the way Active Record interprets parameters in combination with the way that JSON parameters are...

ettercap -- buffer overflow in target list parsing

Host target list parsing routine in ettercap 0.7.4-series prior to 0.7.4.1 and 0.7.5-series is prone to the stack-based buffer overflow that may lead to the code execution with the privileges of the ettercap process. In order to trigger this vulnerability, user or service that use ettercap should...

jenkins -- HTTP access to the server to retrieve the master cryptographic key

Jenkins Security Advisory reports: This advisory announces a security vulnerability that was found in Jenkins core. An attacker can then use this master cryptographic key to mount remote code execution attack against the Jenkins master, or impersonate arbitrary users in making REST API calls. The...

rubygem-rails -- SQL injection vulnerability

Ruby on Rails team reports: There is a SQL injection vulnerability in Active Record in ALL versions. Due to the way dynamic finders in Active Record extract options from method parameters, a method parameter can mistakenly be used as a scope. Carefully crafted requests can use the scope to inject...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Crashes due to large stack allocations when using TCP Denial of Service Through Exploitation of Device State Caching...

ircd-ratbox and charybdis -- remote DoS vulnerability

atheme.org reports: All versions of Charybdis are vulnerable to a remotely-triggered crash bug caused by code originating from ircd-ratbox 2.0. Incidentally, this means all versions since ircd-ratbox 2.0 are also vulnerable...

moinmoin -- Multiple vulnerabilities

MoinMoin developers report the following vulnerabilities as fixed in version 1.9.6: remote code execution vulnerability in twikidraw/anywikidraw action, path traversal vulnerability in AttachFile action, XSS issue, escape page name in rss link. CVE entries at MITRE furher clarify: Multiple...

nagios -- buffer overflow in history.cgi

full disclosure reports: history.cgi is vulnerable to a buffer overflow due to the use of sprintf with user supplied data that has not been restricted in size...

freetype -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The FreeType Project reports: Some vulnerabilities in the BDF implementation have been fixed. Users of this font format should upgrade...

opera -- execution of arbitrary code

Opera reports: When loading GIF images into memory, Opera should allocate the correct amount of memory to store that image. Specially crafted image files can cause Opera to allocate the wrong amount of memory. Subsequent data may then overwrite unrelated memory with attacker-controlled data. This...

squid -- denial of service

Squid developers report: Due to missing input validation Squid cachemgr.cgi tool is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests. This problem allows any client able to reach the cachemgr.cgi to perform a denial of service attack on the service host. The...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 158204 High CVE-2012-5139: Use-after-free with visibility events. Credit to Chamal de Silva. 159429 High CVE-2012-5140: Use-after-free in URL loader. Credit to Chamal de Silva. 160456 Medium CVE-2012-5141: Limit Chromoting client plug-in instantiation. Credit to...

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...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django Project reports: Host header poisoning Several earlier Django security releases focused on the issue of poisoning the HTTP Host header, causing Django to generate URLs pointing to arbitrary, potentially-malicious domains. In response to further input received and reports of continuing...

libarchive -- multiple vulnerabilities

MITRE reports: Integer signedness error in the archivewritezipdata function in archivewritesetformatzip.c in libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier, when running on 64-bit machines, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash via unspecified vectors, which triggers an improper...

Axis2 -- Security vulnerabilities on dependency Apache HttpClient

Apache Axis2 reports: Apache Axis2 1.7.4 is a maintenance release that includes fixes for several issues, including the following security issues: Session fixation AXIS2-4739 and XSS AXIS2-5683 vulnerabilities affecting the admin console. A dependency on an Apache HttpClient version affected by...

tomcat -- bypass of CSRF prevention filter

The Apache Software Foundation reports: The CSRF prevention filter could be bypassed if a request was made to a protected resource without a session identifier present in the request...

django-cms -- XSS Vulnerability

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability Jonas Obrist reports: The security issue allows users with limited admin access to elevate their privileges through XSS injection using the pageattribute template tag. Only users with admin access and the permission to edit at least one django CMS page objec...

tomcat -- denial of service

The Apache Software Foundation reports: When using the NIO connector with sendfile and HTTPS enabled, if a client breaks the connection while reading the response an infinite loop is entered leading to a denial of service...

tomcat -- bypass of security constraints

The Apache Software Foundation reports: When using FORM authentication it was possible to bypass the security constraint checks in the FORM authenticator by appending "/jsecuritycheck" to the end of the URL if some other component such as the Single-Sign-On valve had called request.setUserPrincip...

mysql/mariadb/percona server -- multiple vulnerabilities

ORACLE reports: Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in the replication code Stack-based buffer overflow Heap-based buffer overflow...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 161564 High CVE-2012-5138: Incorrect file path handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Jüri Aedla. 162835 High CVE-2012-5137: Use-after-free in media source handling. Credit to Pinkie Pie...

dns/bind9* -- servers using DNS64 can be crashed by a crafted query

ISC reports: BIND 9 nameservers using the DNS64 IPv6 transition mechanism are vulnerable to a software defect that allows a crafted query to crash the server with a REQUIRE assertion failure. Remote exploitation of this defect can be achieved without extensive effort, resulting in a...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 156567 High CVE-2012-5133: Use-after-free in SVG filters. Credit to miaubiz. 148638 Medium CVE-2012-5130: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 155711 Low CVE-2012-5132: Browser crash with chunked encoding. Credit to Attila Szász. 158249 Hi...

FreeBSD -- Insufficient message length validation for EAP-TLS messages

Problem description: The internal authentication server of hostapd does not sufficiently validate the message length field of EAP-TLS messages...

FreeBSD -- Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)

Problem description: The BIND daemon would crash when a query is made on a resource record with RDATA that exceeds 65535 bytes. The BIND daemon would lock up when a query is made on specific combinations of RDATA...

FreeBSD -- Linux compatibility layer input validation error

Problem description: A programming error in the handling of some Linux system calls may result in memory locations being accessed without proper validation...

upnp -- multiple vulnerabilities

Project changelog reports: This patch addresses three possible buffer overflows in function uniqueservicename.The three issues have the folowing CVE numbers: CVE-2012-5958 Issue 2: Stack buffer overflow of Tempbuf CVE-2012-5959 Issue 4: Stack buffer overflow of Event-UDN CVE-2012-5960 Issue 8:...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2012-91 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:17.0/ rv:10.0.11 MFSA 2012-92 Buffer overflow while rendering GIF images MFSA 2012-93 evalInSanbox location context incorrectly applied MFSA 2012-94 Crash when combining SVG text on path with CSS MFSA 2012-95...

opera -- execution of arbitrary code

Opera reports: When requesting pages using HTTP, Opera temporarily stores the response in a buffer. In some cases, Opera may incorrectly allocate too little space for a buffer, and may then store too much of the response in that buffer. This causes a buffer overflow, which in turn can lead to a...

lighttpd -- remote DoS in header parsing

Lighttpd security advisory reports: Certain Connection header values will trigger an endless loop, for example: "Connection: TE,,Keep-Alive" On receiving such value, lighttpd will enter an endless loop, detecting an empty token but not incrementing the current string position, and keep reading th...

weechat -- Arbitrary shell command execution via scripts

Sebastien Helleu reports: Untrusted command for function hookprocess could lead to execution of commands, because of shell expansions. Workaround with a non-patched version: remove/unload all scripts calling function hookprocess for maximum safety...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Information Leak If the visibility of a custom field is controlled by a product or a component of a product you cannot see, their names are disclosed in the JavaScript code generated for this...

ruby -- Hash-flooding DoS vulnerability for ruby 1.9

The official ruby site reports: Carefully crafted sequence of strings can cause a denial of service attack on the service that parses the sequence to create a Hash object by using the strings as keys. For instance, this vulnerability affects web application that parses the JSON data sent from...

weechat -- Crash or freeze when decoding IRC colors in strings

Sebastien Helleu reports: A buffer overflow is causing a crash or freeze of WeeChat when decoding IRC colors in strings. Workaround for a non-patched version: /set irc.network.colorsreceive off...