PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PHP is an open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with...

Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mercurial is a distributed source control management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

WebKitGTK+: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background WebKitGTK+ is a full-featured port of the WebKit rendering engine, suitable for projects requiring any kind of web integration, offers Webkit’s full functionality and is used on a wide range of systems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WebkitGTK+. Please...

chkrootkit: Local privilege escalation

Background chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit. Description When /tmp is mounted without the noexec option chkrootkit will execute files in /tmp with root privileges. Impact A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Workaround Users shou...

cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background cURL is a tool and libcurl is a library for transferring data with URL syntax. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition, obtain...

Perl: Race condition vulnerability

Background File::Path module provides a convenient way to create directories of arbitrary depth and to delete an entire directory subtree from the filesystem. Description A race condition occurs within concurrent environments. This condition was discovered by The cPanel Security Team in the rmtre...

GDK-PixBuf: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GDK-PixBuf is an image loading library for GTK+. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GDK-PixBuf. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact A remote attacker, by sending a specially crafted TIFF, JPEG, or URL, could execute arbitrary code...

SquirrelMail: Remote Code Execution

Background SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP and can optionally be installed with SQL support. Description It was discovered that the sendmail.cf file is mishandled in a popen call. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open an e-mail attachment...

Kpathsea: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Kpathsea is a library to do path searching. It is used by TeX Live and others TeX related software. Description It was discovered that the mpost program from the shellescapecommands list is capable of executing arbitrary external programs during the conversion of .tex files. The...

GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

Background GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also used for hardware testing. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation...

mod_gnutls: Certificate validation error

Background modgnutls is an extension for ​Apache’s httpd. It uses the ​GnuTLS library to provide HTTPS. It supports some protocols and features that modssl does not. Description It was discovered that the authentication hook in modgnutls does not validate client’s certificates even when option...

Supervisor: command injection vulnerability

Background Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems. Description A vulnerability in Supervisor was discovered in which an authenticated client could send malicious XML-RPC requests and supervidord will r...

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 References for...

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...

Subversion: Arbitrary code execution

Background Subversion is a version control system intended to eventually replace CVS. Like CVS, it has an optional client-server architecture where the server can be an Apache server running modsvn, or an ssh program as in CVS’s :ext: method. In addition to supporting the features found in CVS,...

MCollective: Remote Code Execution

Background MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. Description A vulnerability was discovered in MCollective which allowed for deserialized YAML from agents without calling safeload. This allows the potential for arbitrary code execution on the...

AutoTrace: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background AutoTrace converts bitmap to vector graphics. Description Heap-based buffer overflows have been discovered in the pstoeditsuffixtableinit and pnmloadrawpbm functions of AutoTrace. Impact Remote attackers, by enticing a user to process a crafted bmp image file, could cause a Denial of...

jbig2dec: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background jbig2dec is a decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format. Description Integer overflow errors have been discovered in the jbig2decodesymboldict, jbig2buildhuffmantable, and jbig2imagecompose functions of jbig2dec. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a...

evilvte: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator Description Steve Kemp of Debian identified a flaw in evilvte which does not properly validate hypertext links. Please review the Debian bug report referenced below. Impact Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code by enticing a user...

RAR and UnRAR: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background RAR and UnRAR provide command line interfaces for compressing and decompressing RAR files. Description A VMSFDELTA memory corruption was discovered in which an integer overflow can be caused in DataSize+CurChannel. The result is a negative value of the “DestPos” variable which allows...

Ked Password Manager: Information leak

Background Helps to manage large numbers of passwords and related information and simplifies the tasks of searching and entering password data. Description A history file in /.kedpm/history is written in clear text. All of the commands performed in the password manager are written there. This can...

GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for additional information. Impact A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to...

bzip2: Denial of service

Background bzip2 is a high-quality data compressor used extensively by Gentoo Linux. Description A use-after-free flaw was found in bzip2recover, leading to a null pointer dereference, or a write to a closed file descriptor. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact A...

TNEF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background TNEF is a program for unpacking MIME attachments of type “application/ms-tnef”. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in TNEF. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted...

BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is a Name Server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DNS request to the BIND resolver resulting in ...

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...

Gajim: Information disclosure

Background Gajim is a Jabber/XMPP client which uses GTK+. Description Gajim unconditionally implements the “XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients” extension. Impact Remote attackers, by enticing a user to connect to a malicious XMPP server, could extract plaintext from Off The Record OTR encrypted...

MAN DB: Privilege escalation

Background MAN DB is a man replacement that utilizes BerkelyDB instead of flat files. Description The /var/cache/man directory as part of the MAN DB package has group permissions set to root. Impact A local user who does not belong to the root group, but has the ability to modify the /var/cache/m...

libcroco: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libcroco is a standalone CSS2 parsing and manipulation library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libcroco. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted CSS file...

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...

Game Music Emu: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Game Music Emu is a multi-purpose console music emulator and player library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Game Music Emu. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially...

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...

JasPer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background JasPer is a software-based implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in JasPer. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

RoundCube: Security bypass

Background Free and open source webmail software for the masses, written in PHP. Description Authenticated users can arbitrarily reset passwords due to a problem caused by an improperly restricted exec call in the virtualmin and sasl drivers of the password plugin. Impact Authenticated users can...

VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted subtitles file, could...

phpMyAdmin: Security bypass

Background phpMyAdmin is a web-based management tool for MySQL databases. Description A vulnerability was discovered where the restrictions caused by “$cfg‘Servers’$i‘AllowNoPassword’ = false” are bypassed under certain PHP versions. This can lead compromised user accounts, who have no passwords...

OpenSLP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenSLP is an open-source implementation of Service Location Protocol SLP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSLP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition o...

GNOME applet for NetworkManager: Arbitrary file read/write

Background GNOME applet for NetworkManager is a GTK+ 3 front-end which works under Xorg environments with a systray. Description Frederic Bardy and Quentin Biguenet discovered that GNOME applet for NetworkManager incorrectly checked permissions when connecting to certain wireless networks. Impact...

virglrenderer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A virtual 3D GPU library, that allows the guest operating system to use the host GPU to accelerate 3D rendering. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in virglrenderer. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could cau...

IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background IcedTea’s aim is to provide OpenJDK in a form suitable for easy configuration, compilation and distribution with the primary goal of allowing inclusion in GNU/Linux distributions. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in IcedTea. Please review the CVE identifiers...

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...

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 A...

FreeRADIUS: Security bypass

Background FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server. Description It was discovered that the implementation of TTLS and PEAP in FreeRADIUS skips inner authentication when it handles a resumed TLS connection. The affected versions of FreeRADIUS fails to reliably prevent the...

Vim, gVim: Remote execution of arbitrary code

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 and gVim. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker...

nettle: Information disclosure

Background Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in almost any context: In cryptographic toolkits for object-oriented languages, such as C++, Python, or Pike, in applications like lsh or GnuPG, or even in kernel space. Description It was found that nettle’s RSA and DSA...

Graphite: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Graphite is a “smart font” system developed specifically to handle the complexities of lesser-known languages of the world. Description An out-of-bounds write has been found in the Graphite 2 library. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document usi...

Urban Terror: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Urban Terror is a free multiplayer first person shooter developed by FrozenSand, that will run on any Quake III Arena compatible engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Urban Terror. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A...

jbig2dec: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background jbig2dec is a decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in jbig2dec. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to process...

libksba: Denial of Service and information disclosure

Background Libksba is a X.509 and CMS PKCS7 library. Description It was found that an unproportionate amount of memory is allocated when parsing crafted certificates in libskba, which may lead to Denial of Service condition. Moreover in libksba 1.3.4, allocated memory is uninitialized and could...

Kodi: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Kodi formerly XBMC is a free and open-source media player software application. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Kodi. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted...