Updated libjpeg packages fix a security vulnerability

libjpeg-turbo 1.5.2 has a NULL Pointer Dereference in jdpostct.c and jquant1.c via a crafted JPEG file. CVE-2017-15232...

Updated groovy18 packages fix security vulnerability

When an application has Groovy on the classpath and that it uses standard Java serialization mechanism to communicate between servers, or to store local data, it is possible for an attacker to bake a special serialized object that will execute code directly when deserialized. All applications whi...

Updated postgresql9.3/4/6 packages fix security vulnerabilities

libpq, and by extension any connection driver that utilizes libpq, ignores empty passwords and does not transmit them to the server. When using libpq or a libpq-based connection driver to perform password-based authentication methods, it would appear that setting an empty password would be the...

Updated shutter packages fix security vulnerability

Remote attackers could trick users into assisting them in executing arbitrary commands via a crafted image name that is mishandled during a "Run a plugin" action CVE-2016-10081...

Updated libsoup packages fix security vulnerability

An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 2.58. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause a stack overflow resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send a special HTTP request to the vulnerable server to trigger this vulnerability CVE-2017-28...

Updated mpg123 packages fix security vulnerabilities

The nexttext function in src/libmpg123/id3.c in mpg123 1.24.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer over-read via a crafted mp3 file CVE-2017-9545. Invalid read of size 1 in ID3v2 parser due to forgotten offset from the frame flag bytes CVE-2017-10683. Extend pow tables for...

Updated gc packages fix security vulnerability

Kuang-che Wu discovered that multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities existed in libgc. An attacker could use these to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2016-9427...

Updated jhead packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that jhead, a tool to manipulate the non-image part of EXIF compliant JPEG files, is prone to an out-of-bounds access vulnerability, which may result in denial of service or, potentially, the execution of arbitrary code if an image with specially crafted EXIF data is processed...

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability

The wireshark package has been updated to version 2.0.11, which fixes two security issues where a malformed packet trace could cause it to crash or go into an infinite loop, and fixes several other bugs as well. See the release notes for details...

Updated ruby-archive-tar-minitar packages fix security vulnerability

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. dot dot in a TAR archive entry. CVE-2016-10173 Moreover the updated packages replace deprecated requiregem by gem to make minitar wo...

Updated squid packages fix security vulnerabilities

Incorrect processing of responses to If-None-Modified HTTP conditional requests leads to client-specific Cookie data being leaked to other clients. Attack requests can easily be crafted by a client to probe a cache for this information CVE-2016-10002. Incorrect HTTP Request header comparison...

Updated bzip2 packages fix security vulnerability

A use-after-free flaw was found in bzip2recover, leading to a null pointer dereference, or a write to a closed file descriptor. An attacker could use this flaw by sending a specially crafted bzip2 file to recover and force the program to crash CVE-2016-3189...

Updated jasper packages fix security vulnerability

A double-free issue in JasPer 1.900.1 in the jasperimagestopload function can cause a denial of service if a specially crafted JPEG image is loaded CVE-2015-5203. A use-after-free which leads to double-free vulnerability was found in Jasper JPEG-2000 library, in src/libjasper/mif/mifcod.c file...

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability

Check read permission when loading page content in ApiParse CVE-2016-6331 Make blocks log users out if $wgBlockDisablesLogin is true CVE-2016-6332 Make $wgBlockDisablesLogin also restrict logged in permissions CVE-2016-6332 Require login to preview user CSS pages CVE-2016-6333 Escape '' in inline...

Updated fontconfig packages fix security vulnerability

Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that cache files are insufficiently validated in fontconfig, a generic font configuration library. An attacker can trigger arbitrary free calls, which in turn allows double free attacks and therefore arbitrary code execution. In combination with setuid binaries using...

Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability

The Xerces-C XML parser fails to successfully parse a DTD that is deeply nested, and this causes a stack overflow, which makes a denial of service attack against many applications possible by an unauthenticated attacker CVE-2016-4464...

Updated libksba packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libksba packages fix security vulnerabilities: An out-of-bounds read access in ksbadntostr in libksba 1.3.3, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356, could result in denial of service CVE-2016-4574. In liksba 1.3.3, the returned length of the object from ksbaberparsetl ti.length was no...

Updated quassel packages fix CVE-2016-4414

Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerability: It was found that quasselcore is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by unauthenticated clients. The protocol negotiation did not take into account lack of a match in handshake data, in which case PeerFactory::createPeer returns a nullptr,...

Updated php packages fix security vulnerability

The php package has been updated to version 5.6.20, which fixes several security issues and other bugs. See the upstream ChangeLog for more details...

Updated moodle packages fix security vulnerability

In Moodle before 2.8.11, teachers who otherwise were not supposed to see students' emails could see them in the participants list CVE-2016-2151. In Moodle before 2.8.11, Moodle traditionally trusted content from external DB, however it was decided that external datasources may not be aware of web...

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerability

A path-traversal flaw was found in the way the libvirt daemon handled file-system names for storage volumes. A libvirt user with privileges to create storage volumes and without privileges to create and modify domains could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges CVE-2015-5313...

Updated radicale packages fix CVE-2015-8748

Updated radicale package fixes security vulnerabilities: If an attacker is able to authenticate with a user name like .', he can bypass read/write limitations imposed by regex-based rules, including the built-in rules ownerwrite' read for everybody, write for the calendar owner and owneronly' rea...

Updated claws-mail packages fix security vulnerability

no bounds checking on the output buffer in convjistoeuc, conveuctojis, convsjistoeuc A Tails contributor found a vulnerability in claws-mail where in codeconv.c a function for japanese character set conversion called convjistoeuc has no bounds checking on the output buffer which is created on the...

Updated gcc packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that the std::randomdevice class in libstdc++ would not properly detect short reads and could return predictable values if applications used it to obtain randomness from a blocking source such as /dev/random. CVE-2015-5276...

Updated putty packages fix security vulnerability

Versions of PuTTY 0.54 and 0.65 inclusive have a potentially memory-corrupting integer overflow in the handling of the ECH erase characters control sequence in the terminal emulator CVE-2015-5309...

Updated util-linux packages fix security vulnerability

A buffer overflow in the colcrt command in util-linux can lead to a crash when given a large input CVE-2015-5218...

Updated drupal package fixes security vulnerability

The Overlay module in Drupal core displays administrative pages as a layer over the current page using JavaScript, rather than replacing the page in the browser window. The Overlay module does not sufficiently validate URLs prior to displaying their contents, leading to an open redirect...

Updated rpcbind packages fix CVE-2015-7236

Updated rpcbind package fixes security vulnerability: A remotely triggerable use-after-free vulnerability was found in rpcbind, a server that converts RPC program numbers into universal addresses. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to mount a denial of service rpcbind crash...

Updated ipython packages fix CVE-2015-6938

Updated ipython packages fix security vulnerability: In IPython, local folder name was used in HTML templates without escaping, allowing XSS in said pages by carefully crafting folder name and URL to access it CVE-2015-6938...

Updated conntrack-tools packages fix CVE-2015-6496

Updated conntrack-tools packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that in certain configurations, if the relevant conntrack kernel module is not loaded, conntrackd will crash when handling DCCP, SCTP or ICMPv6 packets CVE-2015-6496...

Updated squashfs-tools packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated squashfs-tools package fixes security vulnerabilities: The unsquashfs command from squashfs-tools is vulnerable to integer CVE-2015-4645 and stack CVE-2015-4646 overflows...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel-tmb fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4...

Updated libraw packages fix CVE-2015-3885

Updated libraw packages fix security vulnerability: The dcraw tool suffers from an integer overflow condition which lead to a buffer overflow. The vulnerability concerns the 'len' variable, parsed without validation from opened images, used in the ljpegstart function. A maliciously crafted raw...

Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities: This update provides MariaDB 5.5.43, which fixes several security issues and other bugs. Please refer to the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisories and the Release Notes for MariaDB for further information regarding the security...

Updated quassel packages fix CVE-2015-3427

Updated quassel packages fix security vulnerability: Quassel is vulnerable to SQL injection through its use of Qt's postgres driver. If the PostgreSQL server is restarted or the connection is lost at any point, other IRC users may be able to trick the Quassel core into executing SQL queries upon...

Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix CVE-2015-2788

Updated perl-DBD-Firebird packages fix security vulnerability: Stefan Roas discovered a way to cause a buffer overflow in DBD::FireBird in certain error conditions, due to the use of the sprintf function to write to a fixed-size memory buffer CVE-2015-2788...

Updated libxfont package fixes security vulnerabilities

The bdf parser reads a count for the number of properties defined in a font from the font file, and allocates arrays with entries for each property based on that count. It never checked to see if that count was negative, or large enough to overflow when multiplied by the size of the structures...

Updated hivex packages fix CVE-2014-9273

Updated hivex packages fix security vulnerability: lib/handle.c in Hivex before 1.3.11 allows local users to execute arbitrary code and gain privileges via a small hive files, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write CVE-2014-9273...

Updated xdg-utils packages fix CVE-2014-9622

Updated xdg-utils package fixes security vulnerability: John Houwer discovered a way to cause xdg-open, a tool that automatically opens URLs in a user's preferred application, to execute arbitrary commands remotely CVE-2014-9622. The xdg-utils has been updated to a much more recent snapshot, and...

Updated phpmyadmin package fixes security vulnerability

In phpMyAdmin before 4.1.14.6, with a crafted database or table name it is possible to trigger an XSS in SQL debug output when enabled and in server monitor page when viewing and analysing executed queries CVE-2014-8326...

Updated gnupg packages fix CVE-2014-5270

Updated gnupg packages fix security vulnerability: The gnupg program before version 1.4.16 is vulnerable to an ELGAMAL side-channel attack CVE-2014-5270...

Updated serf packages fix CVE-2014-3504

Updated serf packages fix security vulnerability: Ben Reser discovered that serf did not correctly handle SSL certificates with NUL bytes in the CommonName or SubjectAltNames fields. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter...

Updated 389-ds-base packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that when replication was enabled for each attribute in 389 Directory Server, which is the default configuration, the server returned replicated metadata when the directory was searched while debugging was enabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to disclose potentially sensiti...

Updated readline packages fix security vulnerability

Steve Kemp discovered the rltropen function in readline insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks CVE-2014-2524. Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in vi input mode, and to fix an issue with slowness when...

Updated emacs packages fix CVE-2014-3421-4

Updated emacs packages fix security vulnerabilities: Steve Kemp discovered multiple temporary file handling issues in Emacs. A local attacker could use these flaws to perform symbolic link attacks against users running Emacs CVE-2014-3421, CVE-2014-3422, CVE-2014-3423, CVE-2014-3424...

Updated cifs-utils packages fix CVE-2014-2830

Updated cifs-utils packages fix security vulnerability: Sebastian Krahmer discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in cifscreds.c CVE-2014-2830...

Updated tigervnc packages fix CVE-2014-0011

Updated tigervnc packages fix security vulnerability: A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way vncviewer rendered certain screen images from a vnc server. If a user could be tricked into connecting to a malicious vnc server, it may cause the vncviewer to crash, or could possibly execute...

Updated 389-ds-base package fixes security vulnerability

It was discovered that the 389 Directory Server did not properly handle certain SASL-based authentication mechanisms. A user able to authenticate to the directory using these SASL mechanisms could connect as any other directory user, including the administrative Directory Manager account. This...

Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

It was reported that Freetype before 2.5.3 suffers from an out-of-bounds stack-based read/write flaw in cf2hintmapbuild in the CFF rasterizing code, which could lead to a buffer overflow CVE-2014-2240. It was also reported that Freetype before 2.5.3 has a denial-of-service vulnerability in the CF...

Updated libgadu packages fix security vulnerability

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could send a large value for Content-Length and cause an integer overflow which could lead to a buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu HTTP parsing CVE-2013-6487...