Samba: Multiple buffer overflows

Background Samba is a package which allows nix systems to act as file servers for Windows computers. It also allows nix systems to mount shares exported by a Samba/CIFS/Windows server. The Samba Web Administration Tool SWAT is a web-based configuration tool part of the Samba package. Description...

Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Binutils. Please review the CVE identifiers...

VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could take control of VirtualBox resulting in the execution of...

SpamAssassin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SpamAssassin is an extensible email filter used to identify junk email. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SpamAssassin. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, or...

sudo: Privilege escalation

Background sudo su “do” allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain users or groups of users the ability to run some or all commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail of the commands and their arguments. Description The fix present in...

cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in cURL: When zlib is enabled, the amount of data sent to an application for automatic decompression is not restricted CVE-2010-0734...

PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below and the associated PHP release notes...

GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Binutils. Please review the CVE identifie...

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 buffer overflows exist in OpenSSL's handling of TLS certificates for client authentication. Impa...

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 Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for...

Apache Ant: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ant is a Java-based build tool similar to ‘make’ that uses XML configuration files. Description Apache Ant was found to be using multiple insecure temporary files which may disclose sensitive information or execute code from an unsafe local location. Impact A local attacker could...

Unbound: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Unbound. Please review the referenced bugs for details. Impact Please review the referenced bugs for details. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time...

QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of Service condition, o...

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...

OpenJPEG: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJPEG. Please review the references below for details. Impact A remote attacker, via a crafted BMP, PDF, or j2k document, could execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of Servic...

RubyGems: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background RubyGems is a sophisticated package manager for Ruby. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RubyGems. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to install a specially crafted gem, could possibly execute...

Postfix: Privilege escalation

Background Postfix is a mail server and an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Description By default, Berkeley DB reads a DBCONFIG configuration file from the current working directory. This is an undocumented behavior. Impact A local attacker, by using a specially crafted DGCONFIG...

Lua: Buffer overflow

Background Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. Description A buffer overflow was discovered in the vararg functions in ldo....

Commons-BeanUtils: Arbitrary code execution

Background Commons-beanutils provides easy-to-use wrappers around Reflection and Introspection APIs Description Apache Commons BeanUtils does not suppress the class property, which allows for the manipulation of the ClassLoader. Impact Remote attackers could potentially execute arbitrary code wit...

OpenOffice.org: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenOffice.org is an open source office productivity suite, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, data charting, formula editing, and file conversion facilities. Description Internal security audits by OpenOffice.org have discovered three security vulnerabiliti...

PyYAML: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for Python. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in PyYAML. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library, where it is susceptible to arbitrary code execution whe...

Python: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Python. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround...

cfitsio: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A C and Fortran library for manipulating FITS files. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cfitsio. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...

Dnsmasq: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dnsmasq. Please review the references below for details. Impact An attacker, by sending specially crafted DNS replies, could possibly execute...

json-c: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background json-c is a JSON implementation in C. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in json-c. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote/local attacker could send a specially crafted file possibly resulting in a Denial of Service...

CVS: Command injection

Background CVS Concurrent Versions System is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server. Description It was discovered that when CVS is configured to use SSH for remote repositories it allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code...

QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code with privileges of QEM...

Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ruby on Rails is a web-application and persistence framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby on Rails. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service...

Libav: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Libav is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Libav. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media...

Mozilla Firefox: Various vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is the popular next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Firefox: Michael Krax reported that plugins can be used to load privileged content and trick the user to interact with it...

FluidSynth: Remote code execution

Background FluidSynth is a real-time synthesizer based on the Soundfont 2 specifications. Description FluidSynth contains a use-after-free in sfloader/fluidsffile.c which occurs when parsing Soundfile 2 files. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Soundfont 2 fi...

GLib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GLib is a library providing a number of GNOME’s core objects and functions. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GLib. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround The...

Xen: Buffer overflow

Background Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor. Description An out-of-bounds read/write access issue was found in the USB emulator when using QEMU. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There...

UnZip: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

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 A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially craft...

Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of Service...

feh: Arbitrary remote code execution

Background feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. Description Tobias Stoeckmann discovered it was possible to trigger an out-of-boundary heap write with the image viewer feh while receiving an IPC message. Impact A remote attacker, pretending to be the E17 window manager, could...

GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The GNU C library is the standard C library used by Gentoo Linux systems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU C Library. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could trigger vulnerabilities in dynamic library...

Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with root privileges, cause a Deni...

HTMLDOC: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background HTMLDOC is a HTML indexer and HTML to PS and PDF converter. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HTMLDOC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no know...

FreeRDP: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background FreeRDP is a free implementation of the remote desktop protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeRDP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no...

curl: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background A command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in curl. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Note that the risk of...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An authenticated remote attacker, by executing malicious crafted...

Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dovecot. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted mail or send a specially crafted IMAP...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly obtain sensitive information, alte...

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...

Git: Command injection

Background Git is a small and fast distributed version control system designed to handle small and large projects. Description Specially crafted ‘ssh://...’ URLs may allow the owner of the repository to execute arbitrary commands on client’s machine if those commands are already installed on the...

NTFS-3G: Privilege escalation

Background NTFS-3G is a stable, full-featured, read-write NTFS driver for various operating systems. Description NTFS-3G is affected by the same vulnerability as reported in “GLSA 201603-04” when the bundled fuse-lite implementation is used. Impact A local user could gain root privileges...

BusyBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background BusyBox is a 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 possibly execute arbitrary code wi...

libupnp: Arbitrary code execution

Background libupnp is a portable, open source, UPnP development kit. Description Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in libupnp. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the...

HashiCorp Vault: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background HashiCorp Vault is a tool for managing secrets. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HashiCorp Vault. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known...