pmake: Insecure temporary file usage

Background pmake is Debian’s version of NetBSD’s make, a tool to build programs in parallel. Description /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk and /usr/share/mk/bsd.prog.mk create temporary files insecurely, with predictable names /tmp/dependPID, and without using $TMPDIR. Impact The make include files allow...

acpid2: Privilege escalation

Background acpid2 is a daemon for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. Description acpid2 does not properly use the pidof program in powerbtn.sh. Impact A local attacker could gain escalated privileges. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All acpid2 users shoul...

TPTEST: Arbitrary code execution

Background TPTEST is a tool to measure the speed of a user’s Internet connection. Description The GetStatsFromLine function in TPTEST is vulnerable to buffer overflows from STATS lines with long email and pwd fields. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted STATS line, possibly...

FFmpeg: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FFmpeg. Please review the CVE identifiers and FFmpeg changelogs referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

GNU Automake: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Automake. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker could execut...

MPlayer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MPlayer is a media player including support for a wide range of audio and video formats. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer and the bundled FFmpeg. Please review the CVE identifiers and FFmpeg GLSA referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker...

Groff: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background GNU Troff Groff is a text formatter used for man pages. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Groff. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files wit...

Perl Parallel-ForkManager Module: Insecure temporary file usage

Background Parallel-ForkManager is a simple parallel processing fork manager for Perl. Description The Perl Parallel-ForkManager module does not handle temporary files securely. Impact A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user...

PolarSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PolarSSL is a cryptographic library for embedded systems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PolarSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker might be able to cause Denial of Service, conduct a man-in-the middl...

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 may be able to cause arbitrary code execution or a...

Setuptools: Man-in-the-Middle attack

Background Setuptools is a manager for Python packages. Description Setuptools does not check the integrity of downloaded Python packages. Impact A remote attacker could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process. Workaround There is no known...

OpenJPEG: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 library. Description OpenJPEG contains an invalid free error and multiple buffer overflow flaws. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted JPEG file,...

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 A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Aircrack-ng. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted dum...

nginx: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background nginx is a robust, small, and high performance HTTP and reverse proxy server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in nginx. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, possibly...

Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF...

GEGL: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background GEGL is a graph-based image processing framework. Description Multiple integer overflows in GEGL may cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PPM image using an application linked against GEGL, possibly resulting in...

isync: Man-in-the-Middle attack

Background isync is an IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer. Description isync does not properly verify the server’s hostname against the CN field in the SSL certificate. Impact A remote server could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to disclose passwords or obtain other sensitive information...

Perl Module-Signature module: Arbitrary code execution

Background The Perl Module::Signature module adds signing capabilities to CPAN modules. Description The ‘cpansign verify’ command will automatically download keys and use them to check the signature of CPAN packages via the SIGNATURE file. If an attacker were to replace this SHA1 with a special...

Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird an open-source email client, both from the Mozilla Project. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as the ‘Mozilla...

Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Squid is a full-featured web proxy cache. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker may be able to bypass ACL restrictions or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workarou...

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 Guest domains could possibly gain privileges, execute arbitrary code, or cause a Denial of Service on the host domain...

klibc: Command Injection

Background klibc is a minimalistic libc used for making an initramfs. Description The ipconfig utility in klibc writes DHCP options to /tmp/net-$DEVICE.conf, and this file is later sourced by other scripts to get defined variables. The options written to this file are not properly escaped. Impact...

Dropbear: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Dropbear is an SSH server and client designed with a small memory footprint. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dropbear. Please review the CVE identifier and Gentoo bug referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted...

libvirt: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines. Description An error in the virNetMessageFree function in rpc/virnetserverclient.c can lead to a use-after-free. Additionally, a socket leak in the remoteDispatchStoragePoolListAllVolumes command can lead to file descriptor...

TPP: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background TPP is an ncurses-based text presentation tool. Description TPP templates may contain a --exec clause, the contents of which are automatically executed without confirmation from the user. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file using TPP, possibly...

Monkey HTTP Daemon: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Monkey HTTP Daemon is a lightweight and powerful web server for GNU/Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Monkey HTTP Daemon. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request,...

MoinMoin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MoinMoin is a Python WikiEngine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MoinMoin. 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, overwrite arbitrary...

Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Chromium is an open-source web browser project. V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and V8. Please review the CVE identifiers and release notes referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent...

GNU ZRTP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background GNU ZRTP is a C++ implementation of the ZRTP protocol. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU ZRTP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the proces...

ProFTPD: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background ProFTPD is an advanced and very configurable FTP server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ProFTPD. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges o...

Apache HTTP Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Apache HTTP Server is one of the most popular web servers on the Internet. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Apache HTTP Server. Please review the CVE identifiers and research paper referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially...

Subversion: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Subversion is a versioning system designed to be a replacement for CVS. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Subversion. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or obtain...

libotr: Arbitrary code execution

Background libotr is a portable off-the-record messaging library. Description Multiple heap-based buffer overflows are present in the Base64 decoder of libotr. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted OTR message, resulting in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the...

LibRaw, libkdcraw: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras. libkdcraw is a wrapper for LibRaw within KDE. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in LibRaw and libkdcraw. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remot...

Adobe Reader: Arbitrary Code Execution

Background Adobe Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description An unspecified vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader. Impact An attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution All Adobe Reader users...

FileZilla: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FileZilla is an open source FTP client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FileZilla. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious server, resulting in possible arbitrary...

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 unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A...

pip: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in pip. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could conduct a Man-in-the-Middle attack to cause pip to execute arbitra...

Snack: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Snack is a sound toolkit for creating multi-platform audio applications with scripting languages. Description The GetWavHeader function in jkSoundFile.c does not have boundary checks when parsing format sub-chunks or unknown sub-chunks. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to...

Xlockmore: Denial of service

Background Xlockmore is just another screensaver application for X. Description A Denial of Service flaw was found in the way Xlockmore performed the passing of arguments to the underlying localtime call, when the ‘dlock’ mode was used. Impact A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of...

strongSwan: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongSwan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could use ECDSA to authenticate as another user with an invalid signature...

Cyrus-SASL: Denial of service

Background Cyrus-SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer. Description In the GNU C Library glibc from version 2.17 onwards, the crypt function call can return NULL when the salt violates specifications or the system is in FIPS-140 mode and a DES or MD5 hashed...

MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background MySQL is a fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MySQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, possibly resulting in...

Wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Wireshark is a versatile network protocol analyzer. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process ...

Puppet: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Puppet is a system configuration management tool written in Ruby. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Puppet. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of t...

Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Adobe Reader is a closed-source PDF reader. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Reader. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file, possibly resulting i...

D-Bus: Denial of service

Background D-Bus is a message bus system which processes can use to talk to each other. Description D-Bus’ dbusprintfstringupperbound function crashes if it returns exactly 1024 bytes. Impact A local attacker could provide specially-crafted input to an application using D-Bus which would cause...

PuTTY: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background PuTTY is a telnet and SSH client. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PuTTY. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open connection to specially crafted SSH server, possibly resulting in executi...

HAProxy: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HAProxy. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact ...

NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege escalation

Background The NVIDIA drivers provide X11 and GLX support for NVIDIA graphic boards. Description Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in NVIDIA drivers: A vulnerability has been found in the way NVIDIA drivers handle read/write access to GPU device nodes, allowing access to arbitrary system...