py39-Elixir -- weak use of cryptography

Red Hat Security Response Team reports: Elixir 0.8.0 uses Blowfish in CFB mode without constructing a unique initialization vector IV, which makes it easier for context-dependent users to obtain sensitive information and decrypt the database...

otrs -- XSS vulnerability in Internet Explorer

OTRS Security Advisory reports: This advisory covers vulnerabilities discovered in the OTRS core system. Due to the XSS vulnerability in Internet Explorer an attacker could send a specially prepared HTML email to OTRS which would cause JavaScript code to be executed in your Internet Explorer whil...

otrs -- XSS vulnerability in Internet Explorer could lead to remote code execution

The OTRS Project reports: This advisory covers vulnerabilities discovered in the OTRS core system. Due to the XSS vulnerability in Internet Explorer an attacker could send a specially prepared HTML email to OTRS which would cause JavaScript code to be executed in your Internet Explorer while...

ruby -- $SAFE escaping vulnerability about Exception#to_s/NameError#to_s

The official ruby site reports: Vulnerabilities found for Exceptiontos, NameErrortos, and nameerrmesgtos which is Ruby interpreter-internal API. A malicious user code can bypass $SAFE check by utilizing one of those security holes. Ruby's $SAFE mechanism enables untrusted user codes to run in $SA...

wireshark -- denial of service in DRDA dissector

RedHat security team reports: A denial of service flaw was found in the way Distributed Relational Database Architecture DRDA dissector of Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, performed processing of certain DRDA packet capture files. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted capture...

jabberd -- domain spoofing in server dialback protocol

XMPP Standards Foundation reports: Some implementations of the XMPP Server Dialback protocol RFC 3920/XEP-0220 have not been checking dialback responses to ensure that validated results are correlated with requests. An attacking server could spoof one or more domains in communicating with a...

databases/postgresql*-server -- multiple vulnerabilities

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group reports: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today released security updates for all active branches of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.1.5, 9.0.9, 8.4.13 and 8.3.20. This update patches security holes associated with libxml2 and...

typo3 -- Multiple vulernabilities in TYPO3 Core

Typo Security Team reports: It has been discovered that TYPO3 Core is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting, Information Disclosure, Insecure Unserialize leading to Arbitrary Code Execution. TYPO3 Backend Help System - Due to a missing signature HMAC for a parameter in the viewhelp.php file, an...

GNU gatekeeper -- denial of service

Jan Willamowius reports: GNU Gatekeeper before 3.1 does not limit the number of connections to the status port, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection and thread consumption via a large number of connections...

roundcube -- cross-site scripting in HTML email messages

RoundCube branch 0.8.x prior to the version 0.8.1 is prone to the cross-scripting attack XSS originating from incoming HTML e-mails: due to the lack of proper sanitization of JavaScript code inside the "href" attribute, sender could launch XSS attack when recipient opens the message in RoundCube...

inn -- plaintext command injection into encrypted channel

INN developers report: Fixed a possible plaintext command injection during the negotiation of a TLS layer. The vulnerability detailed in CVE-2011-0411 affects the STARTTLS and AUTHINFO SASL commands. nnrpd now resets its read buffer upon a successful negotiation of a TLS layer. It prevents...

ansible -- enable host key checking in paramiko connection type

Ansible changelog reports: Host key checking is on by default. Disable it if you like by adding hostkeychecking=False in the default section of /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg or /ansible.cfg or by exporting ANSIBLEHOSTKEYCHECKING=False...

emacs -- remote code execution vulnerability

Chong Yidong reports: Paul Ling has found a security flaw in the file-local variables code in GNU Emacs. When the Emacs user option enable-local-variables' is set to :safe' the default value is t, Emacs should automatically refuse to evaluate eval' forms in file-local variable sections. Due to th...

fetchmail -- two vulnerabilities in NTLM authentication

Matthias Andree reports: With NTLM support enabled, fetchmail might mistake a server-side error message during NTLM protocol exchange for protocol data, leading to a SIGSEGV. Also, with a carefully crafted NTLM challenge, a malicious server might cause fetchmail to read from a bad memory location...

phpMyAdmin -- Multiple XSS in Table operations, Database structure, Trigger and Visualize GIS data pages

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: Using a crafted table name, it was possible to produce a XSS : 1 On the Database Structure page, creating a new table with a crafted name 2 On the Database Structure page, using the Empty and Drop links of the crafted table name 3 On the Table Operations...

Calligra, KOffice -- input validation failure

KDE Security Advisory reports: A flaw has been found which can allow malicious code to take advantage of an input validation failure in the Microsoft import filter in Calligra and KOffice. Exploitation can allow the attacker to gain control of the running process and execute code on its behalf...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 136643 137721 137957 High CVE-2012-2862: Use-after-free in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team. 136968 137361 High CVE-2012-2863: Out-of-bounds writes in PDF viewer. Credit to...

rubygem-rails -- multiple vulnerabilities

Rails core team reports: This version contains three important security fixes, please upgrade immediately. One of security fixes impacts all users and is related to HTML escaping code. The other two fixes impacts people using selecttag's prompt option and striptags helper from ActionPack...

phpMyAdmin -- Path disclosure due to missing library

The phpMyAdmin development team reports: The showconfigerrors.php script does not include a library, so an error message shows the full path of this file, leading to possible further attacks...

libcloud -- possible SSL MITM due to invalid regexp used to validate target server hostname

The libcloud development team reports: When establishing a secure SSL / TLS connection to a target server an invalid regular expression has been used for performing the hostname verification. Subset instead of the full target server hostname has been marked an an acceptable match for the given...

libutp -- remote denial of service or arbitrary code execution

NVD reports: Stack-based buffer overflow in utp.cpp in libutp, as used in Transmission before 2.74 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted "micro transport protocol packets."...

Several vulnerabilities found in IcedTea-Web

The IcedTea project team reports: CVE-2012-3422: Use of uninitialized instance pointers An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in IcedTea-Web web browser plugin. A malicious web page could use this flaw make IcedTea-Web browser plugin pass invalid pointer to a web browser. Depending on the...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: Linux only 125225 Medium CVE-2012-2846: Cross-process interference in renderers. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Julien Tinnes. 127522 Low CVE-2012-2847: Missing re-prompt to user upon excessive downloads. Credit to Matt Austin of Aspect Security. 127525 Medi...

django -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Django project reports: Today the Django team is issuing multiple releases -- Django 1.3.2 and Django 1.4.1 -- to remedy security issues reported to us: Cross-site scripting in authentication views Denial-of-service in image validation Denial-of-service via getimagedimensions All users are...

ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick -- DoS via specially crafted PNG file

Kurt Seifried reports: There is an issue in ImageMagick that is also present in GraphicsMagick. CVE-2011-3026 deals with libpng memory allocation, and limitations have been added so that a bad PNG can't cause the system to allocate a lot of memory and a denial of service. However on further...

libotr -- buffer overflows

OTR developers report: The otrlbase64otrdecode function and similar functions within OTR suffer from buffer overflows in the case of malformed input; specifically if a message of the format of "?OTR:===." is received then a zero-byte allocation is performed without a similar correlation between t...

nsd -- Denial of Service

Tom Hendrikx reports: It is possible to crash SIGSEGV a NSD child server process by sending it a DNS packet from any host on the internet and the per zone stats build option is enabled. A crashed child process will automatically be restarted by the parent process, but an attacker may keep the NSD...

bugzilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

A Bugzilla Security Advisory reports: The following security issues have been discovered in Bugzilla: Information Leak Versions: 4.1.1 to 4.2.1, 4.3.1 In HTML bugmails, all bug IDs and attachment IDs are linkified, and hovering these links displays a tooltip with the bug summary or the attachment...

rubygem-actionpack -- Denial of Service

There is a DoS vulnerability in Action Pack digest authentication handling in authenticateorrequestwithhttpdigest...

OpenTTD -- Denial of Service

The OpenTTD Team reports: Denial of service server using ships on half tiles and landscaping...

p5-RT-Authen-ExternalAuth -- privilege escalation

The RT development team reports: RT::Authen::ExternalAuth 0.10 and below for all versions of RT are vulnerable to an escalation of privilege attack where the URL of a RSS feed of the user can be used to acquire a fully logged-in session as that user. CVE-2012-2770 has been assigned to this...

isc-dhcp -- multiple vulnerabilities

ISC reports: An unexpected client identifier parameter can cause the ISC DHCP daemon to segmentation fault when running in DHCPv6 mode, resulting in a denial of service to further client requests. In order to exploit this condition, an attacker must be able to send requests to the DHCP server. An...

dns/bind9* -- Heavy DNSSEC Validation Load Can Cause a 'Bad Cache' Assertion Failure

ISC reports: High numbers of queries with DNSSEC validation enabled can cause an assertion failure in named, caused by using a 'bad cache' data structure before it has been initialized. BIND 9 stores a cache of query names that are known to be failing due to misconfigured name servers or a broken...

squidclamav -- cross-site scripting in default virus warning pages

SquidClamav developers report: This release fix several security issues by escaping CGI parameters. Prior to versions 6.7 and 5.8, CGI script clwarn.cgi was not properly sanitizing input variables, so they could be used to inject arbitrary strings to the generated page, leading to the cross-site...

FreeBSD -- named(8) DNSSEC validation Denial of Service

Problem description: BIND 9 stores a cache of query names that are known to be failing due to misconfigured name servers or a broken chain of trust. Under high query loads, when DNSSEC validation is active, it is possible for a condition to arise in which data from this cache of failing queries...

squidclamav -- Denial of Service

SquidClamav developers report: Add a workaround for a squidGuard bug that unescape the URL and send it back unescaped. This result in garbage staying into pipe of the system command call and could crash squidclamav on next read or return false information. This is specially true with URL containi...

Wireshark -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark reports: It may be possible to make Wireshark crash by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. It may be possible to make Wireshark consume excessive CPU resources by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by...

bitcoin -- denial of service

A unspecified denial-of-service attack that could cause the bitcoin process to become unresponsive was found...

php -- potential overflow in _php_stream_scandir

The PHP Development Team reports: The release of PHP 5.4.15 and 5.4.5 fix a potential overflow in phpstreamscandir...

dns/nsd -- DoS vulnerability from non-standard DNS packet

Marek Vavrusa and Lubos Slovak report: It is possible to crash SIGSEGV a NSD child server process by sending it a non-standard DNS packet from any host on the internet. A crashed child process will automatically be restarted by the parent process, but an attacker may keep the NSD server occupied...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2012-42 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:14.0/ rv:10.0.6 MFSA 2012-43 Incorrect URL displayed in addressbar through drag and drop MFSA 2012-44 Gecko memory corruption MFSA 2012-45 Spoofing issue with location MFSA 2012-46 XSS through data: URLs MFSA 2012-47...

Dokuwiki -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Secunia Research reports: Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in DokuWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the "ns" POST parameter in lib/exe/ajax.php when "call" is set to "medialist" and "do" is set to "media" is no...

libexif -- multiple remote vulnerabilities

libexif project security advisory: A number of remotely exploitable issues were discovered in libexif and exif, with effects ranging from information leakage to potential remote code execution...

www/chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 129898 High CVE-2012-2842: Use-after-free in counter handling. Credit to miaubiz. 130595 High CVE-2012-2843: Use-after-free in layout height tracking. Credit to miaubiz. 133450 High CVE-2012-2844: Bad object access with JavaScript in PDF. Credit to Alexey Samsonov ...

puppet -- multiple vulnerabilities

puppet -- multiple vulnerabilities Arbitrary file read on the puppet master from authenticated clients high. It is possible to construct an HTTP get request from an authenticated client with a valid certificate that will return the contents of an arbitrary file on the Puppet master that the maste...

automake -- Insecure 'distcheck' recipe granted world-writable distdir

GNU reports: The recipe of the 'distcheck' target granted temporary world-write permissions on the extracted distdir. This introduced a locally exploitable race condition for those who run "make distcheck" with a non-restrictive umask e.g., 022 in a directory that was accessible by others. A...

puppet -- multiple vulnerabilities

puppet -- multiple vulnerabilities Arbitrary file read on the puppet master from authenticated clients high. It is possible to construct an HTTP get request from an authenticated client with a valid certificate that will return the contents of an arbitrary file on the Puppet master that the maste...

asterisk -- multiple vulnerabilities

Asterisk project reports: Possible resource leak on uncompleted re-invite transactions. Remote crash vulnerability in voice mail application...

typo3 -- Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in TYPO3 Core

Typo3 Security Report TYPO3-CORE-SA-2012-003: TYPO3 bundles and uses an external JavaScript and Flash Upload Library called swfupload. TYPO3 can be configured to use this Flash uploader. Input passed via the "movieName" parameter to swfupload.swf is not properly sanitised before being used in a...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 118633 Low CVE-2012-2815: Leak of iframe fragment id. Credit to Elie Bursztein of Google. 120222 High CVE-2012-2817: Use-after-free in table section handling. Credit to miaubiz. 120944 High CVE-2012-2818: Use-after-free in counter layout. Credit to miaubiz. 120977...