LessTif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm

Background LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is a standard user interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities, including buffer overflows, out of bounds memory access and directory traversals, have been discovered in libXpm, which is shipped as a part of...

GraphicsMagick: PSD decoding heap overflow

Background GraphicsMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats. GraphicsMagick is originally derived from ImageMagick 5.5.2. Description Andrei Nigmatulin discovered that handling a Photoshop Document PSD file with more than 24 layers in ImageMagick could...

phpWebSite: HTTP response splitting vulnerability

Background phpWebSite is a web site content management system. Description Due to lack of proper input validation, phpWebSite has been found to be vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks. Impact A malicious user could inject arbitrary response data, leading to content spoofing, web cache...

Tomcat: Insecure installation

Background Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java Servlets and Java Server Pages. Description The Gentoo ebuild for Tomcat sets the ownership of the Tomcat init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but those scripts are executed with root privileges when the system is started...

Roundup: Filesystem access vulnerability

Background Roundup is a simple to use issue-tracking system with command-line, web, and e-mail interfaces. Description Improper handling of a specially crafted URL allows access to the server's filesystem, which could contain sensitive information. Impact An attacker could view files owned by the...

l2tpd: Buffer overflow

Background l2tpd is a GPL implentation of the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol. Description Thomas Walpuski discovered a buffer overflow that may be exploitable by sending a specially crafted packet. In order to exploit the vulnerable code, an attacker would need to fake the establishment of an L2TP...

Linux Kernel: Remote DoS vulnerability with IPTables TCP Handling

Background The Linux kernel is responsible for managing the core aspects of a GNU/Linux system, providing an interface for core system applications as well as providing the essential structure and capability to access hardware that is needed for a running system. Description An attacker can utili...

libde265: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Open h.265 video codec implementation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libde265. 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...

Flatpak: Sandbox Escape

Background Flatpak is a Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Flatpak. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A malicious or compromised Flatpak app could execute arbitrary code outside its sandbo...

Mozilla Firefox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

Thunar: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy to use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive and does not include any confusing or useless options by default. Thunar starts up quickly and navigating...

X.Org X Server, XWayland: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org X Server and XWayland. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact The X server can be crashed by a maliciou...

Synapse: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Synapse is a Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Synapse. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

RDoc: Command Injection

Background RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in RDoc. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact RDoc used to call Kernelopen to open a local file. If a Ruby project has a file whose name...

multipath-tools: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background multipath-tools are used to drive the Device Mapper multipathing driver. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in multipath-tools. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

man-db: privilege escalation

Background man-db is a man replacement that utilizes BerkeleyDB instead of flat files. Description A root privilege escalation through setuid executable and cron job has been discovered in man-db. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A local user with access to th...

Vim, gVim: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Vim is an efficient, highly configurable improved version of the classic ‘vi’ text editor. gVim is the GUI version of Vim. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Vim, gVim. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the...

libksba: Remote Code Execution

Background Libksba is a X.509 and CMS PKCS7 library. Description An integer overflow in parsing ASN.1 objects could lead to a buffer overflow. Impact Crafted ASN.1 objects could trigger an integer overflow and buffer overflow to result in remote code execution. Workaround There is no known...

Pillow: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The friendly PIL fork. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pillow. 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. Resolution...

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 Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround ...

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Denial of service

Background The Mozilla Network Security Service NSS 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 A flaw was found in the way Mozilla Network Security Service NSS handled CCS ChangeCipherSpec message...

Shadow: Privilege escalation

Background Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts. Description When Shadow was installed with the PAM use flag, setuid binaries provided by Shadow were not properly restricted. Impact A local attacker could escalate privileges to root. Workaround There is no known workaround at this...

Background mujs is an embeddable Javascript interpreter in C. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mujs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround...

arpwatch: Root privilege escalation

Background The ethernet monitor program; for keeping track of ethernet/ip address pairings. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s arpwatch ebuild made excessive permission operations on its data directories, possibly changing ownership of unintended files. This only affects OpenRC systems, ...

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 Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaroun...

libvpx: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libvpx is the VP8 codec SDK used to encode and decode video streams, typically within a WebM format media file. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvpx. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ClamAV. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause ClamAV to scan a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service...

LibreOffice: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LibreOffice is a powerful office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools let you unleash your creativity and grow your productivity. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibreOffice. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact...

Patch: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Patch takes a patch file containing a difference listing produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Patch. Please review the CVE identifiers reference...

Rust: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rust. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker able to control the val...

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...

Puppet Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Puppet Agent contains Puppet’s main code and all of the dependencies needed to run it, including Facter, Hiera, and bundled versions of Ruby and OpenSSL. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet Agent. Please review the references for details. Impact A remote...

GNU Wget: Header injection

Background GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. Description It was discovered that there was a header injection vulnerability in GNU Wget which allowed remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRL...

PCRE library: Denial of service

Background PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. Description It was found that the compilebracketmatchingpath function in pcrejitcompile.c in PCRE library is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read. Impact ...

Coreutils: Arbitrary code execution

Background The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. Description A memory corruption flaw in GNU Coreutils’ parsedatetime function was reported. Applications using parsedatetime, such as touch or date, may accepted untrusted inpu...

libsndfile: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libsndfile. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially...

CUPS: Buffer overflow

Background CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System, is a full-featured print server. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in CUPS concerning the handling of compressed raster files. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process...

Git: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Description Git is vulnerable to the remote execution of arbitrary code by cloning repositories with large filenames or a large...

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 Remote attackers could cause Denial of Service and local attackers could...

tcpdump: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background tcpdump is a Tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

RSYSLOG: Denial of service

Background RSYSLOG is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with database support and more. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RSYSLOG. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker may be able to create a Denial of...

PPP: Information disclosure

Background PPP is a Unix implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol Description Integer overflow is discovered in the getword function in options.c in PPP Impact A local attacker could execute process with extremely long options list, possibly obtaining sensitive information. Workaround There ...

libssh: Arbitrary code execution

Background libssh is a C library providing SSHv2 and SSHv1. Description Multiple buffer overflow, double free, and integer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in libssh. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial o...

Perl Parallel-ForkManager Module: Insecure temporary file usage

Background Parallel-ForkManager is a simple parallel processing fork manager for Perl. Description The Perl Parallel-ForkManager module does not handle temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user...

Puppet: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Puppet is a system configuration management tool written in Ruby. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of t...

bzip2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background bzip2 is a high-quality data compressor used extensively by Gentoo Linux. Description An integer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in bzip2. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted...

GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GnuTLS is an Open Source implementation of the TLS 1.2 and SSL 3.0 protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GnuTLS: An error in libgnutls does not properly sanitize "\0" characters from certificate fields CVE-2009-2730. An error in the TLS and SSL protocols...

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 and release notes referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web site usi...

ImageMagick: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background ImageMagick is a collection of tools and libraries for manipulating various image formats. Description Tielei Wang has discovered that the XMakeImage function in magick/xwindow.c is prone to an integer overflow, possibly leading to a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could enti...

Dnsmasq: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It includes support for Trivial FTP TFTP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the TFTP functionality included in Dnsmasq: Pablo Jorge and Alberto Solino discovered a heap-based buffer...