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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

e2fsprogs: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background e2fsprogs is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Description A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in openfs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to use ext2fs library for example, fsck on a...

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...

Open vSwitch: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background Open vSwitch is a production quality multilayer virtual switch. Description A buffer overflow was discovered in lib/flow.c in ovs-vswitchd. Impact A remote attacker, using a specially crafted MPLS packet, could execute arbitrary code. Workaround There is no known workaround at this tim...

Bash: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Bash is the standard GNU Bourne Again SHell. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Bash. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a...

Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

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 local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, could gain privileges on t...

Icinga: Privilege escalation

Background Icinga is an open source computer system and network monitoring application. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application in 2009. Description Icinga daemon was found to perform unsafe operations when handling the log file. Impact A local attacker, wh...

libjpeg-turbo: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions MMX, SSE2, NEON, AltiVec to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression. Description The accelerated Huffman decoder was previously invoked if there were 128 bytes in the input buffer. However, it is possible to...

Openfire: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Openfire formerly Wildfire is a cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP Jabber protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Openfire. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could bypass...

Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chicken is a scheme interpreter and native scheme to C compiler. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chicken. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of t...

Pillow: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The friendly PIL fork. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pillow. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the...

CyaSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background CyaSSL is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in CyaSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code...

mod_wsgi: Privilege escalation

Background modwsgi is an Apache2 module for running Python WSGI applications. Description modwsgi, when creating a daemon process group, does not properly handle dropping group privileges. Impact Context-dependent attackers could escalate privileges due to the improper handling of group privilege...

Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail. Please review upstream’s release notes below for...

Roundcube: Arbitrary code execution

Background Free and open source webmail software for the masses, written in PHP. Description Roundcube, when no SMTP server is configured and the sendmail program is enabled, does not properly restrict the use of custom envelope-from addresses on the sendmail command line. Impact An authenticated...

Xerces-C++: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Xerces-C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xerces-C++. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafte...

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...

Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor. Please review the CVE identifier and change log referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker...

elfutils: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse ELF objects. Description An integer overflow, in the checksection function of dwarfbeginelf.c, in the libdw library can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

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...

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 could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of...

Pixman: Buffer overflow

Background Pixman is a pixel manipulation library. Description In pixman-general, careless computations done with the ‘destbuffer’ pointer may overflow, failing the buffer upper limit check. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition, or execute arbitrary code wit...

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...

TigerVNC: Integer overflow

Background TigerVNC is a high-performance VNC server/client. Description TigerVNC is impacted by the same vulnerability as found in CVE-2014-6051. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way screen sizes were handled. Impact A remote attacker, utilizing a...

Bash: Arbitrary code execution

Background Bash is the standard GNU Bourne Again SHell. Description A vulnerability was found in the way Bash expands $HOSTNAME. Injecting malicious code into $HOSTNAME could cause it to run each time Bash expands \h in the prompt string. Impact A remote attacker controlling the system’s hostname...

XStream: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. Description It was found that XStream would deserialize arbitrary user-supplied XML content, thus representing objects of any type. Impact A remote attacker could pass a specially crafted XML document to XStream,...

GPL Ghostscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. Description An integer overflow flaw was discovered that leads to an out-of-bounds read and write in gsttf.ps. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in 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, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web browsers. It offers WebKit’s full functionality and is useful in a wide range of systems from desktop...

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 A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition, or...

systemd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A system and service manager. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in systemd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service...