CVE-2020-15778

The CVE-2020-15778 entry covers a command-injection flaw in scp within OpenSSH up to version 8.3p1. The vulnerability resides in scp.c toremote, enabling arbitrary command execution when a destination argument contains backtick characters; the vendor notes they intentionally forgo validating anom...

CVE-2021-41617

CVE-2021-41617 affects OpenSSH sshd (versions 6.2–8.x prior to 8.8) where certain non-default configurations allow local privilege escalation because supplemental groups are not initialized as expected when AuthorizedKeysCommand/AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand run under a different user. This can cau...

CVE-2020-14145

The CVE-2020-14145 entry concerns the OpenSSH client, with versions 5.7–8.4 (and notes that 8.5/8.6 may also be affected) exhibiting an observable discrepancy in the algorithm negotiation that leads to information leakage. The impact is a potential man-in-the-middle attack during initial connecti...

CVE-2021-28041

The CVE refers to OpenSSH ssh-agent before 8.5, where a double-free vulnerability may be triggered in rare scenarios (unconstrained agent-socket access on legacy OS or forwarding to an attacker-controlled host). Affected component: ssh-agent in OpenSSH prior to 8.5. Root cause: double free descri...

CVE-2017-15906

OpenSSH OpenSSH sftp-server.c contains a write-blocking flaw in readonly mode that can let an attacker create zero-length files. Specifically, the process_open function in sftp-server.c mishandles write operations when in read-only mode, affecting OpenSSH versions prior to 7.6. The vulnerability ...

CVE-2016-20012

CVE-2016-20012 : OpenSSH up to 8.7 may leak information by testing whether a given username/public key combination is known to the SSH server, since a challenge is sent only if that combo could be valid for a login. This could enable user enumeration. The IBM bulletin notes the vendor does not re...

CVE-2021-3156

CVE-2021-3156 is a heap-based buffer overflow in sudo that enables privilege escalation to root. The issue arises in the argument parsing path and is exploitable via commands using sudoedit -s with a trailing backslash, leading to memory corruption. Affected release information in the provided do...

CVE-2016-5195

CVE-2016-5195 (Dirty COW) : A race condition in the Linux kernel’s memory management (mm/gup.c) allows a local user to gain write access to read‑only mappings via a faulty copy‑on‑write handling. Affected: kernel 2.x–4.x prior to 4.8.3. Exploitation was observed in the wild around Oct 2016. Impac...

CVE-2019-13272

CVE-2019-13272 affects the Linux kernel ptrace code (kernel/ptrace.c), where credentials recording during ptrace relationship establishment can fail, enabling a local attacker to obtain root privileges under certain parent/child lifecycle scenarios and potentially cause a panic. Public advisories...

CVE-2019-2215

CVE-2019-2215 is a use-after-free in the Android binder driver (binder.c) that enables local privilege escalation from an app to the Linux kernel. The issue is local, with no user interaction required, and exploitation may lead to memory corruption, denial of service, or escalation per the cited ...

CVE-2017-5715

CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre Variant 2) describes speculative-execution side-channel issues used to disclose memory. Connected docs show concrete mitigations and impact across vendors: AMD notes that LFENCE/JMP mitigation (V2-2) may be insufficient on some CPUs; AMD recommends standard mitigations (ret...

CVE-2022-21541

CVE-2022-21541 affects Oracle Java SE (Hotspot) and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Affected Java SE versions include 7u343, 8u333, 11.0.15.1, 17.0.3.1, 18.0.1.1; GraalVM EE: 20.3.6, 21.3.2, 22.1.0. The vulnerability is described as difficult to exploit but allows an unauthenticated networked ...

CVE-2022-21540

CVE-2022-21540 applies to Oracle Java SE (Hotspot) and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition; affected versions include Oracle Java SE 7u343, 8u333, 11.0.15.1, 17.0.3.1, 18.0.1.1 and GraalVM EE 20.3.6, 21.3.2, 22.1.0. The connected documents provide concrete details: the vulnerability can be exploite...

CVE-2022-2068

The Connected documents corroborate CVE-2022-2068 as a real OpenSSL issue: c_rehash can pass certificate filenames to shell commands, enabling local command execution. Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.4 (affecting 3.0.0–3.0.3), in OpenSSL 1.1.1p (affecting 1.1.1–1.1.1o), and in OpenSSL 1.0.2zf (affecting 1.0...

CVE-2007-2768

OpenSSH, when using OPIE (One-Time Passwords in Everything) for PAM, can leak whether a target user exists by returning different responses if the account is configured for OTP. This is described for CVE-2007-2768 (OpenSSH 4.6 and earlier) and is related to CVE-2007-2243 in the IBM bulletin, whic...

CVE-2020-1971

CVE-2020-1971 is described across multiple connected sources as a NULL-dereference in OpenSSL’s GENERAL_NAME_cmp when EDIPARTYNAME is present, potentially enabling a denial-of-service crash. Affected OpenSSL versions include all 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 lines; fixes are published in OpenSSL 1.1.1i and Ope...

CVE-2017-5753

CVE-2017-5753 is part of the Spectre family (Variant 1) described in the SPECTRE_MELTDOWN_ADVISORY: it involves speculative execution and a bounds-check bypass that can enable an unprivileged attacker to read privileged memory via cache timing analysis. IBM’s AIX/VIOS advisories and iFixes addres...

CVE-2022-21549

CVE-2022-21549 affects Oracle Java SE Libraries with affected binaries: Oracle Java SE 17.0.3.1 and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition 21.3.2 and 22.1.0. The entry notes network‑accessible exploitation by an unauthenticated attacker, potentially enabling unauthorized update/insert/delete of data i...

CVE-2019-1559

OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2019-1559 describes a padding-oracle weakness where, if an application encounters a fatal protocol error and then calls SSL_shutdown() twice (to send close_notify and to receive one), the server may respond differently to a 0-byte record with invalid padding versus inval...

CVE-2021-2163

CVE-2021-2163 applies to Oracle/OpenJDK libraries across Java SE, Java SE Embedded and GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Affected versions include Java SE 7u291, 8u281, 11.0.10, 16; Java SE Embedded 8u281; GraalVM EE 19.3.5, 20.3.1.2 and 21.0.0.2. The vulnerability is exploitable remotely over multiple...

CVE-2020-26116

CVE-2020-26116 affects Python’s http.client/httplib in 3.x releases. The issue allows CRLF injection when an attacker controls the HTTP request method, demonstrated by inserting CR/LF into the first argument of HTTPConnection.request. Affected versions include Python 3.x before 3.5.10, 3.6.x befo...

CVE-2021-22555

CVE-2021-22555 is a Linux kernel heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in net/netfilter/x_tables.c, dating to 2.6.19-rc1. The issue allows a local attacker to gain privileges or cause a DoS via heap memory corruption in the username space. Public sources in the connected docs confirm the vulnera...

CVE-2021-33909

CVE-2021-33909 affects the Linux kernel’s filesystem layer (fs/seq_file.c) across 3.16–5.13.x, with fixed releases in 5.13.4 and via patches noted in downstream advisories. The root cause is a size_t-to-int conversion that permits an integer overflow during seq buffer allocations, enabling an Out...

CVE-2019-14816

CVE-2019-14816 is a Linux kernel heap-based buffer overflow in the mwifiex (Marvell) wifi driver that affects all versions up to, but excluding, 5.3. It enables a local attacker to crash the system or potentially execute arbitrary code via the Marvell wifi chip driver; affected scope is the kerne...

CVE-2019-5736

CVE-2019-5736 affects runc as shipped in Docker before 18.09.2 and other products, enabling a container to overwrite the host runc binary via /proc/self/exe and gain host root. Root cause: file-descriptor mishandling in runc leading to command execution as root inside a container. Affected versio...

CVE-2021-3711

CVE-2021-3711 involves a bug in OpenSSL SM2 decryption: the buffer-size calculation during EVP_PKEY_decrypt() first call can under-allocate, enabling a later second call with a too-small buffer and causing a buffer overflow (up to 62 bytes). The issue affects OpenSSL 1.1.1 up to 1.1.1k and is fix...

CVE-2019-14814

CVE-2019-14814 affects the Linux kernel Marvell WiFi driver (mwifiex) - a heap-based buffer overflow in the Marvell WiFi chip driver, present in all kernel versions up to but excluding 5.3. This can allow local users to crash the system or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. Public advisories (...

CVE-2021-43818

CVE-2021-43818 affects python-lxml’s HTML Cleaner (lxml.html). Before 4.6.5, the HTML cleaner lets crafted script content pass through, including scripts in SVG data URLs, enabling potential XSS in security-relevant contexts. A fix is available in lxml 4.6.5; upgrade to receive the patch. The con...

CVE-2021-3712

The CVE-2021-3712 issue affects OpenSSL where ASN1_STRING data may not be NUL-terminated if constructed directly (or via ASN1_STRING_set0), causing read-buffer overreads when many OpenSSL print/name-constraining paths handle such ASN.1 strings. Exploitation could crash the application (DoS) or di...

CVE-2020-11868

NTOP vulnerability CVE-2020-11868 affects ntp in ntp (before 4.2.8p14 and 4.3.x before 4.3.100). An off-path attacker can block unauthenticated synchronization by sending a server-mode packet with a spoofed source IP, because transmissions can be rescheduled even when the origin timestamp is inva...

CVE-2022-34169

CVE-2022-34169 affects the Apache Xalan Java XSLT library. It describes an integer truncation vulnerability when processing malicious XSLT stylesheets, which can corrupt Java class files generated by the internal XSLTC compiler and allow execution of arbitrary Java bytecode. Public references in ...

CVE-2019-3846

CVE-2019-3846 affects the upstream kernel’s Marvell mwifiex wireless kernel driver. The description documents a memory corruption flaw that could allow privilege escalation when connecting to a malicious wireless network. Connected sources confirm this is within the mwifiex driver and describe th...

CVE-2020-12888

CVE-2020-12888 affects the Linux kernel VFIO PCI driver (through 5.6.13) and arises from improper handling of accesses to disabled MMIO space. A local attacker or a guest VM with VFIO access could trigger a denial of service or crash by exploiting writes/reads to disabled memory regions. Connecte...

CVE-2019-14821

CVE-2019-14821 is a Linux kernel KVM issue: an out-of-bounds access in the Coalesced MMIO write path can occur if a host user controls the MMIO ring buffer indices (ring->first/ring->last). A local attacker with /dev/kvm access could crash the host kernel or potentially escalate privileges ...

CVE-2021-29154

CVE-2021-29154 affects the Linux kernel BPF JIT implementation (arch/x86 net/bpf_jit_comp.c and bpf_jit_comp32.c). Connected advisories (e.g., ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-003) confirm a local privilege escalation due to incorrect computation of branch displacements in the BPF JIT, enabling arbitrary cod...

CVE-2016-9841

CVE-2016-9841 is a vulnerability in zlib 1.2.8 related to improper pointer arithmetic in inffast.c that could have context-dependent impact. Connected advisories confirm public details and show remediation by upgrading zlib to a newer version (e.g., 1.2.11) across affected products and distributi...

CVE-2019-14835

The CVE-2019-14835 entry describes a buffer overflow in Linux kernel vhost functionality (virtqueue buffers translated to IOVs) during VM live migration. A privileged guest user could pass descriptors with invalid length while migration is underway, potentially causing a host privilege escalation...

CVE-2021-3517

CVE-2021-3517 is a libxml2 vulnerability affecting versions before 2.9.11. A flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality could allow processing of a crafted XML file to trigger an out‑of‑bounds read, with availability impact and potential confidentiality/integrity impact if memory information i...

CVE-2021-41864

CVE-2021-41864 affects the Linux kernel (pre-5.14.12) in prealloc_elems_and_freelist() within kernel/bpf/stackmap.c. An unprivileged local user can trigger an eBPF multiplication overflow, causing an out-of-bounds write and potential memory corruption or system crash. The issue is fixed in Linux ...

CVE-2022-35252

CVE-2022-35252 affects curl’s handling of cookies containing control codes; when such cookies are echoed back to a server, the server may return 400 responses, effectively enabling a “sister site” to deny service to other siblings. Public advisories confirm this is fixed in curl updates across se...

CVE-2019-17498

CVE-2019-17498 is an integer overflow in libssh2’s SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT bounds check (packet.c) on v1.9.0 and earlier. This can let a crafted SSH server cause an out-of-bounds memory read, enabling information disclosure or denial of service on the client. Public advisories confirm patches/upgrades...

CVE-2020-10732

CVE-2020-10732 describes a Linux Kernel flaw in the Userspace core dumps implementation. According to connected IBM bulletin entries, the issue: allows a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information or cause a program crash by exploiting the core-dump handling path. The vulnerabil...

CVE-2020-13817

CVE-2020-13817 affects ntp’s ntpd prior to 4.2.8p14 and 4.3.x prior to 4.3.100. An off‑path attacker can predict transmit timestamps in spoofed UDP packets to remote ntpd, causing a DoS via daemon exit or system time change when the victim relies on unauthenticated IPv4 time sources. Connected so...

CVE-2020-12770

CVE-2020-12770 arises from the Linux kernel sg_write path in the SCSI generic (sg) driver not releasing internal resources in a specific error path because sg_remove_request is not called. This root cause is cited in multiple sources (e.g., ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-012) and is described as a local-ac...

CVE-2016-8864

CVE-2016-8864 affects ISC BIND DNS server. A denial-of-service can be triggered by processing responses containing a DNAME answer in db.c/resolver.c during recursive queries, causing an assertion failure and named exit. Affected are BIND 9.x releases listed in the advisory (pre-9.9.9-P4, pre-9.10...

CVE-2019-5436

CVE-2019-5436 affects curl/libcurl with a heap buffer overflow in the TFTP receiving code (tftp_receive_packet). Exploitation can lead to DoS or arbitrary code execution. Upstream fix released in curl 7.65.0; advisories from CentOS, Arch Linux, Debian, and others document the vulnerability and re...

CVE-2020-8286

The CVE-2020-8286 issue affects curl/libcurl where OCSP responses were not verified correctly against the certificate, leaving room for fraudulent OCSP responses to appear valid and potentially bypass revocation checks. Reported range: curl versions 7.41.0 through 7.73.0. Impact phrasing in cited...

CVE-2021-4083

CVE-2021-4083 is a read-after-free in Linux kernel Unix domain socket GC triggered by a race between close() and fget(). Affected kernels are prior to 5.16-rc4. Local users could crash the system or escalate privileges. Affected products include upstream kernel and Linux distributions (Astra Linu...

CVE-2019-11068

CVE-2019-11068 affects libxslt up to 1.1.33. The vulnerability arises because xsltCheckRead/xsltCheckWrite can permit access even after a -1 error, enabling protection bypass. According to the linked advisories, this vulnerability has a CVSSv3 base score of 9.8 (NETWORK, LOW attack complexity, NO...

CVE-2019-17006

CVE-2019-17006 : In Network Security Services (NSS) prior to 3.46, several cryptographic primitives lacked input length checks, enabling a heap-based buffer overflow that could crash the application or, per in-document wording, potentially allow code execution. The issue is associated with NSS us...