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 possible denial of service vulnerability was found in the multipart parsing component of Rack. A...

ProFTPd: Memory Disclosure

Background ProFTPD is an advanced and very configurable FTP server. Description ProFTPd unconditionally sends passwords to Radius servers for authentication in multiples of 16 bytes. If a password is not of a length that is a multiple of 16 bytes, ProFTPd will read beyond the end of the password...

Shadow: TOCTOU Race

Background Shadow contains utilities to deal with user accounts Description A TOCTOU race condition was discovered in shadow. A local attacker with write privileges in a directory removed or copied by usermod/userdel could potentially exploit this flaw when the administrator invokes...

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...

LibRaw: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibRaw. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted...

Perl DBI: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A database access module for the Perl programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Perl module DBI. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround Ther...

PyCrypto: Weak key generation

Background PyCrypto is the Python Cryptography Toolkit. Description It was discovered that PyCrypto incorrectly generated ElGamal key parameters. Impact Attackers may be able to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext data. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resoluti...

pump: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background BOOTP and DHCP client for automatic IP configuration. Description It was discovered that there was an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the pump DHCP/BOOTP client. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to connect to a malicious server, could cause the execution of...

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...

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 referenced CVE identifiers and Adobe Security Bulletin for details...

MariaDB, MySQL: Root privilege escalation

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. MariaDB is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. Description The Gentoo installation scripts before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging...

X.Org Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org Server. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact Attackers could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Servi...

X.Org Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org Server. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A local attacker could cause a global buffer overflow or a Denial...

Shadow: Buffer overflow

Background Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts. Description Malformed input in the newusers tool may produce crashes and other unspecified behaviors. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or bypass privilege boundaries in some web-hosting...

libsoup: Arbitrary remote code execution

Background libsoup is an HTTP client/server library for GNOME. Description A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in libsoup. Impact A remote attacker, by using specially crafted HTTP requests, could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process. Workaround There i...

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...

KAuth and KDELibs: Privilege escalation

Background KAuth provides a convenient, system-integrated way to offload actions that need to be performed as a privileged user root, for example to small hopefully secure helper utilities. The KDE libraries, basis of KDE and used by many open source projects. Description KAuth and KDELibs contai...

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...

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...

w3m: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background w3m is a text based WWW browser. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in w3m. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service...

Zabbix: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Zabbix is software for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Zabbix. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges...

SQUASHFS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival use i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used, and in constrained block device/memory systems e.g. embedded systems where low overhead is needed...

libwmf: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libwmf is a library for converting WMF files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libwmf. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause...

Dnsmasq: Denial of service

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description An out-of-bounds read vulnerability has been found in the tcprequest function in Dnsmasq. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DNS request, possibly resulting in a Denial of Servic...

file: Denial of service

Background The file utility attempts to identify a file’s format by scanning binary data for patterns. Description Multiple issues with the ELF parser used by the file utility have been detected and fixed. Impact A context-dependent attacker can cause Denial of Service. Workaround There is no kno...

D-Bus: Denial of service

Background D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. Description D-Bus doesn’t validate the source of ActivationFailure signals. Impact A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this...

LittleCMS: Denial of service

Background LittleCMS, or short lcms, is a color management system for working with ICC profiles. It is used by many applications including GIMP and Firefox. Description Multiple stack-based buffer overflows and a profile parser error have been found in LittleCMS. Impact A remote attacker could...

MCollective: Privilege escalation

Background MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective: An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in MCollective CVE-2014-3248 MCollective does not properly validate server...

Xen: Multiple Vunlerabilities

Background Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker can utilize multiple vectors to execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, or gain access to...

cups-filters: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background cups-filters is an OpenPrinting CUPS Filters. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cups-filters. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for more details about the vulnerabilities. Impact A remote attackers could possibly execute arbitrary code...

Symfony: Information disclosure

Background Symfony is a professional, open-source PHP5 web development framework. Description Symfony does not properly sanitize input for upload requests. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted file upload request, possibly resulting in disclosure of sensitive information...

Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF...

ISC DHCP: Denial of service

Background ISC DHCP is a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP client/server. Description ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion attack involving regular expressions sent by DHCP clients. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request from a malicious or spoofed client,...

qemu-kvm: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background qemu-kvm provides QEMU and Kernel-based Virtual Machine userland tools. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in qemu-kvm. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact These vulnerabilities allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Servi...

Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Asterisk: An error in manager.c allows shell access through the MixMonitor application, GetVar, or Status CVE-2012-2414. An error in chanskinny.c could cause a heap-based...

ArgyllCMS: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background ArgyllCMS is an ICC compatible color management system that supports accurate ICC profile creation for scanners, cameras and film recorders. Description ArgyllCMS does not properly handle ICC profiles causing a use-after-free vulnerability. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user ...

ConnMan: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ConnMan provides a daemon for managing Internet connections. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ConnMan: Errors in inet.c and rtnl.c prevent ConnMan from checking the origin of netlink messages CVE-2012-2320. ConnMan does not properly check for shell escapes when...

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 found in OpenSSL: Timing differences for decryption are exposed by CBC...

Rack: Denial of service

Background Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Description Rack does not properly randomize hash functions to protect against hash collision attacks. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted form post, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There i...

FreeType: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FreeType is a high-quality and portable font engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeType. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted font, possibly resulting ...

SARG: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background SARG is the Squid Analysis Report Generator. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in SARG. For further information please consult the CVE entries referenced below. Impact These vulnerabilities might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors. NOTE: Th...

GD: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background GD is a graphic library for fast image creation. Description Tomas Hoger reported that the gdGetColors function in gdgd.c does not properly verify the colorsTotal struct member, possibly leading to a buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially...

BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocol. Description Multiple cache poisoning vulnerabilities were discovered in BIND. For further information please consult the CVE entries and the ISC Security Bulletin referenced below. Note:...

Linux-PAM: Privilege escalation

Background Linux-PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is an architecture allowing the separation of the development of privilege granting software from the development of secure and appropriate authentication schemes. Description Marcus Granado repoted that Linux-PAM does not properly handle user...

libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libpng is the official PNG reference library used to read, write and manipulate PNG images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libpng: A memory leak bug was reported in pnghandletEXt, a function that is used while reading PNG images CVE-2008-6218. A memory overwrit...

Epiphany: Untrusted search path

Background Epiphany is a GNOME webbrowser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko. Description James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface. Impact A local attacker could entice a user to run Epiphany from a directory containing a specially crafted python...

PowerDNS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture. Description Daniel Drown reported an error when receiving a HINFO CH query CVE-2008-5277. Brian J. Dowling of Simplicity Communications discovered a previously unknown security...

ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Clam AntiVirus is a free anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported: Damian Put reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing PeSpin packed PE binaries CVE-2008-0314. Alin Rad Po...

phpMyAdmin: SQL injection vulnerability

Background phpMyAdmin is a free web-based database administration tool. Description Richard Cunningham reported that phpMyAdmin uses the $REQUEST variable of $GET and $POST as a source for its parameters. Impact An attacker could entice a user to visit a malicious web application that sets an...

Vobcopy: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Vobcopy is a tool for decrypting and copying DVD .vob files to a hard disk. Description Joey Hess reported that vobcopy appends data to the file "/tmp/vobcopy.bla" in an insecure manner. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink attacks and append data...