Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of...

PPP: Information disclosure

Background PPP is a Unix implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol Description Integer overflow is discovered in the getword function in options.c in PPP Impact A local attacker could execute process with extremely long options list, possibly obtaining sensitive information. Workaround There ...

FreeRDP: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background FreeRDP is a free implementation of the remote desktop protocol. Description FreeRDP does not properly validate user-supplied input, which could lead to an integer overflow in the xfPointerNew function. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Django: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Django is a Python-based web framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Django. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to create a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, or...

MCollective: Privilege escalation

Background MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective: An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in MCollective CVE-2014-3248 MCollective does not properly validate server...

strongSwan: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux. Description A NULL pointer dereference and an error in the IKEv2 implementation have been found in strongSwan. Impact A remote attacker could create a Denial of Service condition or bypass security restrictions. Workaround There is no...

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 details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a special...

Ruby: Denial of service

Background Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process...

QtGui: Denial of service

Background QtGui is the GUI module and platform plugins for the Qt5 framework. Description A NULL pointer dereference has been found in QtGui. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted GIF image, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known...

AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries provides pre-compiled 32-bit libraries. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker may be able to...

Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2012

Background For more information on the packages listed in this GLSA, please see their homepage referenced in the ebuild. Description Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below. Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details. EGroupware VTE Layer Four...

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...

Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2010

Background For more information on the packages listed in this GLSA, please see their homepage referenced in the ebuild. Description Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below. Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details. Insight Perl Tk Module...

Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011

Background For more information on the packages listed in this GLSA, please see their homepage referenced in the ebuild. Description Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below. Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details. FMOD Studio PEAR Mail LVM...

libxml2: Denial of service

Background libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. Description parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.2 does not properly prevent entity expansion even when entity substitution has been disabled. Impact A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to a specially craft...

Clam AntiVirus: Denial of service

Background Clam AntiVirus is an open source GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Description A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the cliscanpe function in libclamav/pe.c in ClamAV. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of...

Dovecot: Denial of service

Background Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server. Description Dovecot does not properly close connections, allowing a resource exhaustion for incomplete SSL/TLS handshakes. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known...

nfs-utils: Information disclosure

Background nfs-utils contains the client and daemon implementations for the NFS protocol. Description rpc.gssd in nfs-utils is vulnerable to DNS spoofing due to it depending on PTR resolution for GSSAPI authentication, allowing for data to be submitted to a malicious server without the knowledge ...

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 context-dependent attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition and a loc...

libvirt: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvirt. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service or cause information leakage...

Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Description An assertion failure in processing of SSL-Bump has been found in Squid. Heap based overflow is discovered when processing SNMP requests. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted...

Aircrack-ng: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Aircrack-ng. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local...

Ansible: Privilege escalation

Background Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ansible. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process,...

Asterisk: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Asterisk is an open source telephony engine and toolkit. Description Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a man in the...

Openswan: Denial of service

Background Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. Description A NULL pointer dereference has been found in Openswan. Impact A remote attacker could create a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution Gentoo has discontinued support for...

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...

GNU Wget: Arbitrary code execution

Background GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. Description An absolute path traversal vulnerability has been found in GNU Wget. Impact A remote FTP server is able to write to arbitrary files, and consequently...

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 for details. Impact A...

MySQL, MariaDB: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. MariaDB is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. Description Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered in MySQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker coul...

TigerVNC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background TigerVNC is a high-performance VNC server/client. Description Two boundary errors in TigerVNC could lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious VNC server using TigerVNC, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code...

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 could entice a user to open a specially crafted media file using VLC,...

Perl, Perl Locale-Maketext module: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Locale-Maketext - Perl framework for localization Description Two vulnerabilities have been reported in the Locale-Maketext module for Perl, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise an application using the module. The vulnerabilities are caused due to the “compile”...

Bash: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Bash is the standard GNU Bourne Again SHell. Description Florian Weimer, Todd Sabin, Michal Zalewski et al. discovered further parsing flaws in Bash. The unaffected Gentoo packages listed in this GLSA contain the official patches to fix the issues tracked as CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-718...

Bash: Code Injection (Updated fix for GLSA 201409-09)

Background Bash is the standard GNU Bourne Again SHell. Description Stephane Chazelas reported that Bash incorrectly handles function definitions, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary code CVE-2014-6271. Gentoo Linux informed about this issue in GLSA 201409-09. Tavis Ormandy reported that the...

Bash: Code Injection

Background Bash is the standard GNU Bourne Again SHell. Description Stephane Chazelas reported that Bash incorrectly handles function definitions, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary code. Impact A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands even in restricte...

libxml2: Denial of service

Background libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. Description A vulnerability in the xmlParserHandlePEReference function of parser.c, when expanding entity references, can be exploited to consume large amounts of memory and cause a crash or hang. Impact A remote...

Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open-source web browser project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service condition or possibly have other...

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...

c-icap: Denial of service

Background c-icap is an implementation of an ICAP server. It can be used with HTTP proxies that support the ICAP protocol to implement content adaptation and filtering services. Description c-icap contains a flaw in the parserequest function of request.c that may allow a remote denial of service...

MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MySQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could possibly gain escalated privileges. A remote attacker could send a...

dhcpcd: Denial of service

Background dhcpcd is a fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP client. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in dhcpcd. A malicious dhcp server can set flags as part of the dhcp reply that can cause a Denial of Service condition. Impact A remote attacker can cause a Deni...

Net-SNMP: Denial of service

Background Net-SNMP bundles software for generating and retrieving SNMP data. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Net-SNMP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could create a Denial of Service condition. Workaround Ther...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer formerly known as ethereal. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service condition via specially...

OpenOffice, LibreOffice: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenOffice is the open source version of StarOffice, a full office productivity suite. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenOffice and Libreoffice. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A...

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

Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open-source web browser project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could conduct a number of attacks which include: cross site scripting attacks,...

NRPE: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Nagios Remote Plugin Executor NRPE remotely executes Nagios plugins on other Linux/Unix machines. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NRPE. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker can utilize multiple vectors to...

GNU Libtasn1: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Libtasn1. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no...

stunnel: Information disclosure

Background The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between a client and a local or remote server. Description stunnel does not properly update the state of the pseudo-random generator after fork-threading which causes subsequent children with the same process ID to us...

Jinja2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Jinja2 is a template engine written in pure Python. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Jinja2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted cache file or...