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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

exFAT: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background A full-featured exFAT file system implementation for Unix-like systems. Description Two vulnerabilities were found in exFAT. A malformed input can cause a write heap overflow or cause an endless loop. Impact Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service...

Docker: Privilege escalation

Background Docker is the world’s leading software containerization platform. Description Docker does not properly distinguish between numeric UIDs and string usernames. Impact Local attackers could possibly escalate their privileges. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolutio...

libmms: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background libmms is a library for downloading streaming media files using the mmst and mmsh protocols. Description A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the getanswer function within mmsh.c of libmms. Impact A remote attacker might send a specially crafted MMS over HTTP MMSH response,...

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 Local attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition, execute arbitrary code...

SoX: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. Description A heap-based buffer overflow can be triggered when processing a malicious NIST Sphere or WAV audio file. Impact A remote attacker could coerce the victim to run SoX...

CrackLib: Buffer overflow

Background CrackLib is a library used to enforce strong passwords by comparing user selected passwords to words in chosen word lists. Description A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the FascistGecosUser function of lib/fascist.c. Impact A local attacker could set a specially crafted...

socat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background socat is a multipurpose bidirectional relay, similar to netcat. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in socat. Please review the references below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or obta...

OpenJPEG: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJPEG. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted JPEG file, possibly resulting in...

Coreutils: Arbitrary code execution

Background The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. Description A memory corruption flaw in GNU Coreutils’ parsedatetime function was reported. Applications using parsedatetime, such as touch or date, may accepted untrusted inpu...

jq: Buffer overflow

Background jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. Description An off-by-one error was discovered in the tokenadd function in jvparse.c which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could trick a victim into processing a specially crafted JSON file,...

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...

SQLite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SQLite. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

OpenSSH: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenSSH is a complete SSH protocol implementation that includes SFTP client and server support. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSH. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers could cause Denial of Service an...

Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities

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

PECL HTTP: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background This HTTP extension aims to provide a convenient and powerful set of functionality for one of PHPs major applications. Description A buffer overflow can be triggered in the URL parsing functions of the PECL HTTP extension. This allows overflowing a buffer with data originating from an...

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 vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers and the...

ARJ: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Open-source implementation of the ARJ archiver. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ARJ. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker, using a specially crafted ARJ archive, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the...

util-linux: Arbitrary code execution

Background util-linux is a suite of Linux programs including mount and umount, programs used to mount and unmount filesystems. Description A command injection flaw was discovered in util-linux’s “blkid” utility. It uses caching files /dev/.blkid.tab or /run/blkid/blkid.tab to store info about the...

Patch: Denial of service

Background Patch takes a patch file containing a difference listing produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions. Description Due to a flaw in Patch, the application can enter an infinite loop when processing a specially...

Chromium: 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. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Chromium web browser. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details...

nghttp2: Denial of service

Background Nghttp2 is an implementation of HTTP/2 and its header compression algorithm HPACK in C. Description Nghttpd, nghttp, and libnghttp2asio applications do not limit the memory usage for the incoming HTTP header field. If a peer sends a specially crafted HTTP/2 HEADERS frame and CONTINUATI...