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rsync: Potential integer overflow
Background rsync is a server and client utility that provides fast incremental file transfers. It is used to efficiently synchronize files between hosts and is used by emerge to fetch Gentoo's Portage tree. Description An integer overflow was found in the receivexattr function from the extended...
bsd-games: Local privilege escalation in tetris-bsd
Background bsd-games is a collection of NetBSD games ported to Linux. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that the checkscores function in scores.c reads in the data from the /var/games/tetris-bsd.scores file without validation, rendering it vulnerable to...
Trac: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Background Trac is a minimalistic web-based project management, wiki and bug tracking system including a Subversion interface. Description Christophe Truc discovered that Trac fails to properly sanitize input passed in the URL. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this to inject and execute...
VMware Workstation: Vulnerability in NAT networking
Background VMware Workstation is a powerful virtual machine for developers and system administrators. Description Tim Shelton discovered that vmnet-natd, the host module providing NAT-style networking for VMware guest operating systems, is unable to process incorrect 'EPRT' and 'PORT' FTP request...
Apache 2.0: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background The Apache HTTP Server Project is a featureful, freely-available HTTP Web server. Description Filip Sneppe discovered that Apache improperly handles byterange requests to CGI scripts. Impact A remote attacker may access vulnerable scripts in a malicious way, exhausting all RAM and swap...
LutelWall: Insecure temporary file creation
Background LutelWall is a high-level Linux firewall configuration tool. Description Eric Romang has discovered that the newversioncheck function in LutelWall insecurely creates a temporary file when updating to a new version. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary fi...
GnuTLS: Denial of Service vulnerability
Background GnuTLS is a free TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 implementation for the GNU project. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in the record packet parsing in the GnuTLS library. Additionally, a flaw was also found in the RSA key export functionality. Impact A remote attacker could exploit...
PuTTY: Remote code execution
Background PuTTY is a popular SSH client, PSCP is a secure copy implementation, and PSFTP is a SSH File Transfer Protocol client. Description Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the PSCP and PSFTP clients, which can be triggered by the SFTP server itself. These issues are caused by the...
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...
Samba: Remote printing non-vulnerability
Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. Description Due to a bug in the printernotifyinfo function, authorized users could potentially crash their smbd process by sending improperly...
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...
Horde-IMP: Input validation vulnerability
Background Horde-IMP is the Internet Messaging Program. It is written in PHP and provides webmail access to IMAP and POP3 accounts. Description Horde-IMP fails to properly sanitize email messages that contain malicious HTML or script code. Impact By enticing a user to read a specially crafted...
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...
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...
Nagios: Privilege escalation
Background Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description A vulnerability in Nagios was discovered due to the improper handling of configuration files which can be owned by a non-root user. Impact A local attacker can escalate privileges to root by leveraging...
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, by enticing a user to open a specially...
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 ...
T1Lib: : Multiple vulnerabilities
Background T1Lib is a library for rasterizing bitmaps from Adobe Type 1 fonts. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in T1Lib. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers, by coercing users to process specially crafted AFM font or PD...
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...