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....

DCRaw: Buffer overflow

Background Command-line decoder for raw digital photos. Description An integer overflow was discovered in the ljpegstart function in DCRaw. Impact Remote attackers, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted image, could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known...

PPP: Buffer overflow

Background PPP is a Unix implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol Description A buffer overflow was discovered in the rcmksid function in plugins/radius/util.c in PPP when the PID for pppd is greater than 65535. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround...

DBD::mysql: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface DBI Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in DBD::mysql. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition, execute arbitrary code, or have other...

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...

zlib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background zlib is a widely used free and patent unencumbered data compression library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in zlib. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There...

Quagga: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Quagga is a free routing daemon replacing Zebra supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Quagga. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted packet possibly...

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 and bug reports referenced for details. Impact Remote attackers could conduct a Man-in-the-Middle attack t...

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 Various OpenJDK attack vectors in IcedTea, such as 2D, Corba, Hotspot, Libraries, and JAXP,...

CVS: Heap-based overflow

Background CVS Concurrent Versions System is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server. Description A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the proxyconnect function in src/client.c in CVS. Impact An attacker, utilizing a remo...

irssi: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background irssi is a modular textUI IRC client with IPv6 support. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in irssi. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process ...

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Multiple vulnerabilities

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 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NSS. Please review the CVE identifiers and technical...

VLC: Buffer overflow

Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description A buffer overflow was discovered in the DecodeAdpcmImaQT function in modules/codec/adpcm.c in the VideoLAN VLC media player. Impact Remote attackers, by enticing a user to execute a specially crafted QuickTime IMA...

file: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background file is a utility that guesses a file format by scanning binary data for patterns. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in file. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to...

MiniUPnPc: Buffer overflow

Background UPnP client library and a simple UPnP client. Description An out-of-bounds read was discovered in the getHTTPResponse function in miniwget.c in MiniUPnPc. Impact Remote attackers, through specially crafted headers, could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known...

Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Pidgin is a client for a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker might send specially crafted data using the MXit protocol,...

xdelta: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Xdelta is a C library and command-line tool for delta compression using VCDIFF/RFC 3284 streams. Description A buffer overflow can be triggered within xdelta when ran against a malicious input file. Impact A remote attacker could coerce the victim to run xdelta against a malicious inpu...

libxml2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libxml2 is the XML eXtended Markup Language C parser and toolkit initially developed for the Gnome project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libxml2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user...

Apache: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apache. Please review the CVE identifiers, upstream Apache Software Foundation documentation, and HTTPoxy website referenced below for details...

Mozilla SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla SeaMonkey is a free and open-source Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla SeaMonkey. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below...

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 execute arbitrary code with the...

runC: Privilege escalation

Background RunC is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. Description A vulnerability was discovered in runC that allows additional container processes via ‘runc exec’ to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the...

NGINX: Privilege escalation

Background nginx is a robust, small, and high performance HTTP and reverse proxy server. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default NGINX installation applied similar problematic permissions on “/var/log/nginx” as Debian DSA-3701 and is therefore vulnerable to the same attack described i...

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 Vim and gVim do not properly validate values for the ‘filetype’, ‘syntax’, and ‘keymap’ options. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

BIND: Denial of service

Background BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is a Name Server. Description A defect in BIND’s handling of responses containing a DNAME answer can cause a resolver to exit after encountering an assertion failure in db.c or resolver.c. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DNS...

D-Bus: Format string vulnerability

Background D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. Description It was discovered that D-Bus incorrectly handles certain format strings. The impact of this new vulnerability is believed to not be exploitable if D-Bus is patched against CVE-2015-0245. Th...

Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Botan Japanese for peony is a cryptography library written in C++11. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Botan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker might obtain ECDSA secret keys via a timing side-channel...

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...

vzctl: Security bypass

Background vzctl is a set of control tools for the OpenVZ server virtualization solution. Description It was discovered that vzctl determined the virtual environment VE layout based on the presence of root.hdd/DiskDescriptor.xml in the VE private directory. This allows local simfs container CT ro...

phpBB: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpBB is an Open Source bulletin board package. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpBB. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to change settings, inject arbitrary web script or HTML, or conduct...

Expat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Expat is a set of XML parsing libraries. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted XML file, could execute arbitrary cod...

c-ares: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests including name resolves. Description A hostname with an escaped trailing dot such as “hello\.” would have its size calculated incorrectly leading to a single byte written beyond the end of a buffer on the heap. Impact A remote...

7-Zip: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background 7-Zip is an open-source file archiver, an application used primarily to compress files. 7-Zip uses its own 7z archive format, but can read and write several other archive formats. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in 7-Zip. Please review the CVE identifiers...

flex: Potential insecure code generation

Background flex is a programming tool used to generate scanners programs which recognize lexical patterns in text. Description A heap-based buffer overflow in the yygetnextbuffer function in Flex might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary co...

PgBouncer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PgBouncer. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker might send a specially crafted package possibly resulting in a...

phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background phpMyAdmin is a web-based management tool for MySQL databases. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A authenticated remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute...

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 A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted ind...

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...

libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The TIFF library contains encoding and decoding routines for the Tag Image File Format. It is called by numerous programs, including GNOME and KDE applications, to interpret TIFF images. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libTIFF. Please review the CVE...

Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform web browser from Mozilla. The Mozilla Thunderbird mail client is a redesign of the Mozilla Mail component. The goal is to produce a cross-platform stand-alone mail application using XUL XML User Interface Language. Description Multiple vulnerabilitie...

LZO: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LZO is an extremely fast compression and decompression library Description LZO is vulnerable to an integer overflow condition in the “lzo1xdecompresssafe” function which could result in a possible buffer overrun when processing maliciously crafted compressed input data. Impact A remote...

musl: Integer overflow

Background musl is a “libc”, an implementation of the standard library functionality described in the ISO C and POSIX standards, plus common extensions, intended for use on Linux-based systems. Description A vulnerability was discovered in musl’s tretnfarunparallel function buffer overflow logic,...

libotr, Pidgin OTR: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Pidgin Off-the-Record OTR messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging. libotr is a portable off-the-record messaging library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities exist in both libotr and Pidgin OTR. Please review the CVE identifiers for more information...

memcached: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system Description Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in memcached. Please review the CVE identifiers and Cisco TALOS reports referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could abuse...

HDF5: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background HDF5 technology suite includes a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. Description Multiple arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities have been discovered in HDF5. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could...

libarchive: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libarchive is a library for manipulating different streaming archive formats, including certain tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libarchive. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

MariaDB and MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. MariaDB is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MariaDB and MySQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Attackers could execut...

Mutt: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client. Description A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in Mutt’s muttsubstrdup function. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All...

Xdg-Utils: Command injection

Background Xdg-Utils is a set of tools allowing all applications to easily integrate with the Free Desktop configuration. Description An eval injection vulnerability was discovered in Xdg-Utils. Impact A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary code via the URL argument to xdg-open...

BusyBox: Denial of service

Background BusyBox is a set of tools for embedded systems and is a replacement for GNU Coreutils. Description The recvandprocessclientpkt function in networking/ntpd.c in BusyBox allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service CPU and bandwidth consumption via a forged NTP packet, which...