re2c: Buffer overflow

Background re2c is a tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions. Description A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in re2c. Impact An attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution A...

FAAD2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FAAD2 is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoder. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FAAD2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the...

QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A privileged user/process within a guest QEMU environment can cause a Denial of...

c-ares: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests including name resolves. Description A hostname with an escaped trailing dot such as “hello\.” would have its size calculated incorrectly leading to a single byte written beyond the end of a buffer on the heap. Impact A remote...

libotr, Pidgin OTR: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Pidgin Off-the-Record OTR messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging. libotr is a portable off-the-record messaging library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities exist in both libotr and Pidgin OTR. Please review the CVE identifiers for more information...

Xerces-C++: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Xerces-C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xerces-C++. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafte...

OpenJPEG: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJPEG. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted JPEG file, possibly resulting in...

Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacke...

Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open-source web browser project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or...

Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2012

Background For more information on the packages listed in this GLSA, please see their homepage referenced in the ebuild. Description Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below. Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details. EGroupware VTE Layer Four...

Bash: Code Injection

Background Bash is the standard GNU Bourne Again SHell. Description Stephane Chazelas reported that Bash incorrectly handles function definitions, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary code. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands even in restricte...

dhcpcd: Denial of service

Background dhcpcd is a fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP client. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in dhcpcd. A malicious dhcp server can set flags as part of the dhcp reply that can cause a Denial of Service condition. Impact A remote attacker can cause a Deni...

MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MIT Kerberos 5. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary...

Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Theo de Raadt reported that the application does not properly drop privileges to the primary groups of the user specified via the "User" configuration optio...

PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Description Several vulnerabilitites were found in PHP: PHP ships a vulnerable version of the PCRE library which allows for the circumvention of security...

PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PHP is a general-purpose scripting language widely used to develop web-based applications. It can run inside a web server using the modphp module or the CGI version and also stand-alone in a CLI. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in PHP: a possible $GLOBALS...

phpMyAdmin: Local file inclusion vulnerability

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web. Description Maksymilian Arciemowicz reported that in libraries/grabglobals.lib.php, the $redirect parameter was not correctly validated. Systems running PHP in safe mode are not affected...

Sun Java: Web Start argument injection vulnerability

Background Sun provides implementations of Java Development Kits JDK and Java Runtime Environments JRE. These implementations provide the Java Web Start technology that can be used for easy client-side deployment of Java applications. Description Jouko Pynnonen discovered that Java Web Start...

unarj: Long filenames buffer overflow and a path traversal vulnerability

Background unarj is an ARJ archive decompressor. Description unarj has a bounds checking vulnerability within the handling of long filenames in archives. It also fails to properly sanitize paths when extracting an archive if the "x" option is used to preserve paths. Impact An attacker could trigg...

Telegram: Security bypass

Background Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed. Description It was discovered that Telegram failed to invalidate a recently active session. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

Tar: Denial of service

Background The Tar program provides the ability to create and manipulate tar archives. Description It was discovered that GNU Tar had a memory leak when processing archive headers. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted archive using Tar, possibly resulting in a...

tmux: Buffer overflow

Background tmux is a terminal multiplexer. Description A flaw in tmux’s handling of escape characters was discovered which may allow a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition...

Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. Google Chrome is one fast, simple, and secure browser for all your devices. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and...

Ansible: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ansible. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

Binary diff: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background bsdiff and bspatch are tools for building and applying patches to binary files. Description It was discovered that the implementation of bspatch did not check for a negative value on numbers of bytes read from the diff and extra streams. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...

Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A local attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Xen QEMU process on the host, gain...

Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The elaborate standard library includes an HTTP server “WEBRick” and a class for XML parsing “REXML”. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly escalate privileges to root, thus allowing the...

SquirrelMail: Remote Code Execution

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP and can optionally be installed with SQL support. Description It was discovered that the sendmail.cf file is mishandled in a popen call. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open an e-mail attachment...

Graphite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Graphite is a “smart font” system developed specifically to handle the complexities of lesser-known languages of the world. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Graphite. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker...

ICU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ICU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers...

libarchive: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libarchive is a library for manipulating different streaming archive formats, including certain tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libarchive. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

BusyBox: Denial of service

Background BusyBox is a set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils. Description The recvandprocessclientpkt function in networking/ntpd.c in BusyBox allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service CPU and bandwidth consumption via a forged NTP packet, which...

WebKitGTK+: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background WebKitGTK+ is a full-featured port of the WebKit rendering engine, suitable for projects requiring any kind of web integration, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web browsers. It offers WebKit’s full functionality and is useful in a wide range of systems from desktop...

jq: Buffer overflow

Background jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. Description An off-by-one error was discovered in the tokenadd function in jvparse.c which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could trick a victim into processing a specially crafted JSON file,...

NTP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background NTP contains software for the Network Time Protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NTP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no kno...

claws-mail: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Claws Mail is a GTK based e-mail client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in claws-mail. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could possibly intercept communications due to the default implementation of SSL 3.0...

IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background IcedTea’s aim is to provide OpenJDK in a form suitable for easy configuration, compilation and distribution with the primary goal of allowing inclusion in GNU/Linux distributions. Description Various OpenJDK attack vectors in IcedTea, such as 2D, Corba, Hotspot, Libraries, and JAXP,...

MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MediaWiki is a collaborative editing software used by large projects such as Wikipedia. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MediaWiki. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to create a Denial of...

Apache HTTP Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Apache HTTP Server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Apache HTTP Server. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to...

Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Adobe Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Reader. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file, possibly resulting i...

VMware Player, Server, Workstation: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background VMware Player, Server, and Workstation allow emulation of a complete PC on a PC without the usual performance overhead of most emulators. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VMware Player, Server, and Workstation. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background BIND is the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact The vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service daemon crash via a DNS...

Tomcat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java Servlets and Java Server Pages. Description The following vulnerabilities were reported: Delian Krustev discovered that the JULI logging component does not properly enforce access restrictions, allowing web...

PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Description Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, most of them during the Month Of PHP Bugs MOPB by Stefan Esser. The most severe of these...

zgv: Multiple buffer overflows

Background zgv is a console image viewer based on svgalib. Description Multiple arithmetic overflows have been detected in the image processing code of zgv. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted image file, potentially resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the...

libxslt: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT itself is an XML language to define transformations for XML. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libxslt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review th...

Apache Commons Text: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background Apache Commons Text is a library focused on algorithms working on strings. Description Apache Commons Text performs variable interpolation, allowing properties to be dynamically evaluated and expanded. The standard format for interpolation is "$prefix:name", where "prefix" is used to...

FasterXML jackson-databind: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FasterXML jackson-databind is a general data-binding package for Jackson 2.x which works on streaming API core implementations. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FasterXML jackson-databind. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impac...