file: Arbitrary code execution

Background file is a utility used to identify the type of a file. Description A possible stack overflow has been found in the ELF header parsing code of file. Impact An attacker may be able to create a specially crafted ELF file which, when processed with file, may allow the execution of arbitrar...

Apache 1.3: Buffer overflow vulnerability in mod_include

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the internet. modinclude is an Apache module to handle Server Side Includes SSI. Description A possible buffer overflow exists in the gettag function of modinclude.c. Impact If Server Side Includes SSI are enabled, a loca...

MIT krb5: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MIT krb5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Description The implementation of the Key Distribution Center KDC and the MIT krb5 library contain double-free vulnerabilities, making client programs as we...

Gaim: MSN protocol parsing function buffer overflow

Background Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux which supports many instant messaging protocols. Description Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team has discovered a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in the code handling MSN protocol parsing. Impact By...

MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow

Background MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. Description The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and at least one in the TranslateFilename function is exploitable. Impact By enticing a user to play a file with a carefull...

Ethereal: Multiple security problems

Background Ethereal is a feature rich network protocol analyzer. Description There are multiple vulnerabilities in versions of Ethereal earlier than 0.10.4, including: A buffer overflow in the MMSE dissector. Under specific conditions a SIP packet could make Ethereal crash. The AIM dissector coul...

tripwire: Format string vulnerability

Background tripwire is an open source file integrity checker. Description The code that generates email reports contains a format string vulnerability in pipedmailmessage.cpp. Impact With a carefully crafted filename on a local filesystem an attacker could cause execution of arbitrary code with...

phpSysInfo: arbitrary code execution and directory traversal

Background phpSysInfo is a PHP system information tool. Description phpSysInfo contains two vulnerabilities which could allow local files to be read or arbitrary PHP code to be executed, under the privileges of the web server process. Impact An attacker could read local files or execute arbitrary...

Opera: buffer overflows in 7.11 and 7.20

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description The Opera browser can cause a buffer allocated on the heap to overflow under certain HREFs when rendering HTML. The mail system is also deemed vulnerable and an attacker can send an email containing a malformed HREF, or plant the...

Xpdf: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Xpdf is an X viewer for PDF files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xpdf. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...

containerd: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background containerd is a daemon with an API and a command line client, to manage containers on one machine. It uses runC to run containers according to the OCI specification. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in containerd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

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. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WebKitGTK+. Please review the CVE...

UnZip: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Info-ZIP’s UnZip is a tool to list and extract files inside PKZIP compressed files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in UnZip. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

RAR, UnRAR: Arbitrary File Overwrite

Background RAR and UnRAR provide command line interfaces for compressing and decompressing RAR files. Description Due to an error in the validation of symbolic links within archives, RAR and UnRAR can potentially write files to a directory which is outside of the intended unpack directory. Impact...

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The Mozilla Network Security Service is a library implementing security features like SSL v.2/v.3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME and X.509 certificates. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Network Security Service NSS. Please review the...

xterm: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window system. Description xterm does not correctly handle control characters related to OSC 50 font ops sequence handling. Impact The vulnerability allows text written to the terminal to write text to the terminal's command line. If the terminal'...

GPL Ghostscript: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workarou...

OpenEXR: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range HDR image file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic for use in computer imaging applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenEXR. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please revi...

Zutty: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background Zutty is an X terminal emulator rendering through OpenGL ES Compute Shaders. Description Zutty does not correctly handle invalid DECRQSS commands, which can be exploited to run arbitrary commands in the terminal. Impact Untrusted text written to the Zutty terminal can achieve arbitrary...

libaacplus: Denial of Service

Background libaacplus is an HE-AAC+ v2 library, based on the reference implementation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libaacplus. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workarou...

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 upstream bugs referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers...

libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The TIFF library contains encoding and decoding routines for the Tag Image File Format. It is called by numerous programs, including GNOME and KDE applications, to interpret TIFF images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibTIFF. Please review the referenced...

BlueZ: Arbitrary code execution

Background Set of tools to manage Bluetooth devices for Linux. Description It was discovered that there was a double-free vulnerability in Bluez after the service discovery which occurs after a Bluetoth Low Energy BLE connection has been established to a device. Impact A remote attacker, by...

GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workarou...

GNU GLOBAL: Arbitrary code execution

Background GNU GLOBAL is a source code tagging system that works the same way across diverse environments, such as Emacs editor, Vi editor, Less viewer, Bash shell, various web browsers, etc. Description A vulnerability was found in an undocumented function of gozilla. Impact A remote attacker...

DjVu: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background DjVu is a web-centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in DjVu. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

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...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the referenced Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories and CVE identifiers below for details. Impact A remo...

GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

Background GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also used for hardware testing. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation...

cURL: Certificate validation error

Background cURL is a tool and libcurl is a library for transferring data with URL syntax. Description cURL and applications linked against libcurl support “OCSP stapling”, also known as the TLS Certificate Status Request extension using the CURLOPTSSLVERIFYSTATUS option. When telling cURL to use...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a...

Opus: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Description A large NLSF values could cause the stabilization code in silk/NLSFstabilize.c to wrap-around and have the last value in NLSFQ15 to be negative, close to -32768. Under normal circumstances, the code will...

Bash: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Bash is the standard GNU Bourne Again SHell. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Bash. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a...

GnuPG: RNG output is predictable

Background The GNU Privacy Guard, GnuPG, is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Description A long standing bug since 1998 in Libgcrypt see “GLSA 201610-04” below and GnuPG allows an attacker to predict the output from the standard RNG. Please review the “Entropy Loss...

DavFS2: Local privilege escalation

Background DavFS2 is a file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a local disk drive. Description DavFS2 installs “/usr/sbin/mount.davfs” as setuid root. This utility uses “system” to call “/sbin/modprobe”. While the call to “modprobe” itself cannot be manipulated, a local...

RPCBind: Denial of service

Background The RPCBind utility is a server that converts RPC program numbers into universal addresses. Description A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in RPCBind’s svcdodestroy function when trying to free a corrupted xprt-xpnetid pointer. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a...

imlib2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background imlib2 is an advanced replacement for image manipulation libraries such as libXpm. It is utilized by numerous programs, including gkrellm and several window managers, to display images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in imlib2. Please review the CVE identifie...

Quagga: Arbitrary code execution

Background Quagga is a free routing daemon replacing Zebra supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP. Description A memcpy function in the VPNv4 NLRI parser of bgpmplsvpn.c does not properly check the upper-bound length of received Labeled-VPN SAFI routes data, which may allow for arbitrary code execution on...

Django: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Django is a Python-based web framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Django: Session backends create a new record anytime request.session was accessed CVE-2015-5143 Built-in validators in Django do not properly sanitize input CVE-2015-5144 URL validation...

FLAC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background The Free Lossless Audio Codec FLAC library is the reference implementation of the FLAC audio file format. Description A stack-based buffer overflow flaw has been discovered in FLAC. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted .flac file using an application...

AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries provides pre-compiled 32-bit libraries. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker may be able to...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker can cause arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Servic...

Rack: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rack. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a...

Ettercap: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ettercap is a suite of tools for content filtering, sniffing and man in the middle attacks on a LAN. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ettercap: Ettercap does not handle temporary files securely CVE-2010-3843. A format string flaw in Ettercap could cause a...

GNU libmicrohttpd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU libmicrohttpd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote...

BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background BusyBox is set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BusyBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DHCP reques...

OpenSSL: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 as well as a general purpose cryptography library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

Quassel: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Quassel is a Qt4/KDE4 IRC client suppporting a remote daemon for 24/7 connectivity. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in Quassel: Quassel does not properly handle multiple CTCP requests CVE-2010-3443. Quassel, when used with certain versions of Qt and PostgreSQL, does not...

Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Squid is a full-featured web proxy cache. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to bypass ACL restrictions or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workarou...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process ...