kdebase, kdelibs: Multiple security issues

Background KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. Description KDE contains three security issues: Insecure handling of temporary files when running KDE applications outside of the KDE environment DCOPServer creates temporary files ...

Esearch: Insecure temp file handling

Background Esearch is a replacement for the Portage command "emerge search". It uses an index to speed up searching of the Portage tree. Description The eupdatedb utility uses a temporary file /tmp/esearchdb.py.tmp to indicate that the eupdatedb process is running. When run, eupdatedb checks to s...

FreeRADIUS: heap exploit and NULL pointer dereference vulnerability

Background FreeRADIUS is a popular open source RADIUS server. Description FreeRADIUS versions below 0.9.3 are vulnerable to a heap exploit, however, the attack code must be in the form of a valid RADIUS packet which limits the possible exploits. Also corrected in the 0.9.3 release is another...

Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera: 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. Microsoft Edge is a browser that combines a minimal design with...

Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera: 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. Microsoft Edge is a browser that combines a minimal design with...

sudo: Privilege escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker can escalate privileges to root by providin...

Konsole: Code execution

Background Konsole is KDE's terminal emulator. Description Konsole supports loading URLs from the scheme handlers such as telnet://URL. This can be executed regardless of whether the telnet binary is available. It would fallback to bash in that case and execute arbitrary code. Impact Clicking a...

OpenSC: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenSC contains tools and libraries for smart cards. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

OpenJDK: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background OpenJDK is an open source implementation of the Java programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround...

protobuf-c: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background protobuf-c is a protocol buffers implementation in C. Description Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in protobuf-c. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All...

QPDF: Buffer Overflow

Background QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in QPDF. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact QPDF has a heap-based buffer overflow in PlASCII85Decoder::write called from PlAESPDF::flush and...

Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A Modular Open Source PBX System. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the security advisories referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at...

OpenTTD: Denial of service

Background OpenTTD is a clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Description The vulnerability is caused due to missing out-of-bound check within the “HandleCrashedAircraft” function. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at...

Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chicken is a Scheme interpreter and native Scheme to C compiler. Description Chicken includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows and memory corruption vulnerabilities GLSA 200711-30. Impact An attacker could entice a user to process specially crafted regula...

DBmail: Data disclosure

Background DBMail is a mail storage and retrieval daemon that uses SQL databases as its data store. IMAP and POP3 can be used to retrieve mails from the database. Description A vulnerability in DBMail's authldap module when used in conjunction with an Active Directory server has been reported by...

Kazehakase: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Kazehakase is a web browser based on the Gecko engine. Description Kazehakase includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows and memory corruptions vulnerabilities GLSA 200711-30. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open specially crafted input e.g...

R: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background R is a GPL licensed implementation of S, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. PCRE is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions. Description R includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows and memory...

Ruby-GNOME2: Format string error

Background Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of bindings for using GTK+ within the Ruby programming language. Description Chris Rohlf discovered that the "Gtk::MessageDialog.new" method in the file gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c does not properly sanitize the "message" parameter before passing it to the...

Gallery: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Gallery is a PHP based photo album manager. Description Merrick Manalastas and Nicklous Roberts have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the WebDAV and Reupload modules. Impact A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions and rename, replace...

Xfce Terminal: Remote arbitrary code execution

Background Xfce Terminal is a console tool for the Xfce desktop environment. Description Lasse Karkkainen discovered that the function terminalhelperexecute in file terminal-helper.c does not properly escape the URIs before processing. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

Squid: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Squid is a multi-protocol proxy server. Description Squid fails to correctly handle ftp:// URI's. There is also an error in the externalacl queue which can cause an infinite looping condition. Impact An attacker could attempt to retrieve a specially crafted URI via a Squid server causi...

lm_sensors: Insecure temporary file creation

Background lmsensors is a software package that provides drivers for monitoring the temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux systems with hardware monitoring devices. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena has discovered that lmsensors insecurely creates temporary files with predictable...

ProFTPD: Format string vulnerabilities

Background ProFTPD is a configurable GPL-licensed FTP server software. Description "infamous42md" reported that ProFTPD is vulnerable to format string vulnerabilities when displaying a shutdown message containing the name of the current directory, and when displaying response messages to the clie...

multi-gnome-terminal: Information leak

Background multi-gnome-terminal is an enhanced terminal emulator that is derived from gnome-terminal. Description multi-gnome-terminal contains debugging code that has been known to output active keystrokes to a potentially unsafe location. Output has been seen to show up in the '.xsession-errors...

sitecopy: Multiple vulnerabilities in included libneon

Background sitecopy easily maintains remote websites. It makes it simple to keep a remote site synchronized with the local site with one command. Description Multiple format string vulnerabilities and a heap overflow vulnerability were discovered in the code of the neon library GLSA 200405-01 and...

phpMyAdmin < 2.5.6-rc1: possible attack against export.php

Background phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databased over the Web. Description One component of the phpMyAdmin software package export.php does not properly verify input that is passed to it from a remote user. Since the input is used to include...

CVS: possible root compromise when using CVS pserver

Background CVS, which stands for Concurrent Versions System, is a client/server application which tracks changes to sets of files. It allows multiple users to work concurrently on files, and then merge their changes back into the main tree which can be on a remote system. It also allows branching...

Asterisk: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

Commons-BeanUtils: Arbitary Code Execution

Background Commons-beanutils provides easy-to-use wrappers around Reflection and Introspection APIs Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Commons-BeanUtils. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A special BeanIntrospector class was added in...

redict, redis: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Redis is an open source BSD licensed, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Redis. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CV...

YAML-LibYAML: Shell injection

Background YAML-LibYAML provides YAML Serialization using XS and libyaml for Perl. Description YAML-LibYAML uses the legacy '2-arg' open call which is susceptible to shell injection via malicious filenames. Impact Shell injection may be used to execute arbitrary code using a malicious filename...

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...

idna: Denial of Service

Background Internationalized Domain Names for Python IDNA 2008 and UTS 46 Description A vulnerability has been discovered in idna. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details. Workaround There is no known workaround...

libgit2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language that supports C bindings. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovere...

gst-plugins-good: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background gst-plugins-good contains a set of plugins for the GStreamer open source multimedia framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in gst-plugins-good. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

jupyter_core: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background jupytercore contains core Jupyter functionality. Description jupytercore trusts files for execution in the current working directory without validating ownership of those files. Impact By writing to a directory that is used a the current working directory for jupytercore by another use...

OpenSMTPD: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenSMTPD is a lightweight but featured SMTP daemon from OpenBSD. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSMTPD. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges o...

Mod_auth_kerb: Denial of service

Background Modauthkerb is an Apache authentication module using Kerberos. Description Modauthkerb improperly handles component byte encoding in the dergetoid function, allowing for a buffer overflow to occur if there are no components which require more than one byte for encoding. Impact An...

Opera: RSA signature forgery

Background Opera is a multi-platform web browser. Description Opera makes use of OpenSSL, which fails to correctly verify PKCS 1 v1.5 RSA signatures signed by a key with exponent 3. Some CAs in Opera's list of trusted signers are using root certificates with exponent 3. Impact An attacker could...

Kaffeine: Buffer overflow

Background Kaffeine is a graphical front-end for the xine-lib multimedia library. Description Kaffeine uses an unchecked buffer when fetching remote RAM playlists via HTTP. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to play a specially-crafted RAM playlist resulting in the execution of arbitrar...

sudo: Arbitrary command execution

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description The sudoers file is used to define the actions sudo users are permitted to perform. Charles Morris discovered that a specific layout of the sudoers file could cause the results of a...

Horde-Chora: Remote code execution

Background Chora is a PHP-based SVN/CVS repository viewer by the HORDE project. Description A vulnerability in the diff viewer of Chora allows an attacker to inject shellcode. An attacker can exploit PHP's file upload functionality to upload a malicious binary to a vulnerable server, chmod it as...

tla: Multiple vulnerabilities in included libneon

Background GNU Arch tla is a revision control system suited for widely distributed development. Description Multiple format string vulnerabilities and a heap overflow vulnerability were discovered in the code of the neon library GLSA 200405-01 and 200405-13. Current versions of the tla package...

ipsec-tools contains an X.509 certificates vulnerability.

Background From http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/ : "IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's IPsec utilities to the Linux-2.6 IPsec implementation." Description racoon a utility in the ipsec-tools package does not verify digital signatures on Phase1 packets. This means that anybody holding the correct...

Monkeyd Denial of Service vulnerability

Background The Monkey HTTP daemon is a Web server written in C that works under Linux and is based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol. It aims to develop a fast, efficient and small web server. Description A bug in the URI processing of incoming requests allows for a Denial of Service to be launched agains...

Node.js: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Node.js. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround Ther...

glibc: Buffer Overflow

Background glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in glibc. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this...

eza: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, written in rust. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in eza. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A buffer overflow vulnerability in eza allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via the...

OATH Toolkit: Privilege Escalation

Background OATH Toolkit provide components to build one-time password authentication systems. It contains shared C libraries, command line tools and a PAM module. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm RFC 4226, the time-based TOTP algorithm RFC 6238, and Portable Symmetric...

Oracle VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oracle VirtualBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There...