NTP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network. The net-misc/ntp package contains the official reference implementation by the NTP Project. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NTP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced...

RSYSLOG: Denial of service

Background RSYSLOG is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with database support and more. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RSYSLOG. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker may be able to create a Denial of...

libvirt: Denial of service

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 context-dependent attacker may be able to cause Denial of Service. Workaround There i...

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 may be able to execute arbitrary code, cause a Deni...

PowerDNS Recursor: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PowerDNS Recursor is a high-end, high-performance resolving name server Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PowerDNS Recursor. Please review the CVE identifiers and PowerDNS blog post referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to send...

sendmail: Information disclosure

Background sendmail is a widely-used Mail Transport Agent MTA. Description The smcloseonexec function in conf.c has arguments in the wrong order. Impact A local attacker could get access to unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a specially crafted program. Workaround There is no known...

ZNC: Denial of service

Background ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer. Description Multiple NULL pointer dereferences have been found in ZNC. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution...

Apache Tomcat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Apache Tomcat is a Servlet-3.0/JSP-2.2 Container. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tomcat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service condition as well as obtain sensitive...

Varnish: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Varnish is a web application accelerator. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Varnish. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition via a specially crafted GET request...

Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ruby on Rails is a web-application and persistence framework. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby on Rails. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service...

CouchDB: Denial of service

Background Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database. Description CouchDB does not properly sanitize the count parameter for Universally Unique Identifiers UUID requests. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to CouchDB,...

GNUstep Base library: Denial of service

Background GNUstep Base library is a free software package implementing the API of the OpenStep Foundation Kit tm, including later additions. Description GNUstep Base library does not properly handle the file descriptor for logging, when run as a daemon. Impact A remote attacker could send a...

D-Bus: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in D-Bus. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service...

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...

Xfig: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Xfig is an interactive drawing tool. Description A stack-based buffer overflow and a stack consumption vulnerability have been found in Xfig. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution or a Denial of...

mod_wsgi: Privilege escalation

Background modwsgi is an Apache2 module for running Python WSGI applications. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in modwsgi: Error codes returned by setuid are not properly handled CVE-2014-0240 A memory leak exists via the “Content-Type” header CVE-2014-0242 Impact A local attacker...

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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...