Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or spoofing. Wait, Firefox? No more references to Iceweasel? That’s right, Debian no longer applies a custom branding. Please see these links for further information: […]

Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered an out-of-bound read vulnerability in the CInArchive::ReadFileItem method in p7zip, a 7zr file archiver with high compression ratio. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial-of-service or, potentially the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running p7zip, if a […]

Patrick Coleman discovered that missing input sanitising in the ADPCM decoder of the VLC media player may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media file is opened. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.4-1~deb8u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in […]

Two related issues have been discovered in Expat, a C library for parsing XML. CVE-2012-6702 It was introduced when CVE-2012-0876 was addressed. Stefan Sørensen discovered that the use of the function XML_Parse() seeds the random number generator generating repeated outputs for rand() calls. CVE-2016-5300 It is the product of an incomplete solution for CVE-2012-0876. The […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2016-0749 Jing Zhao of Red Hat discovered a memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in spice’s smartcard interaction. A user connecting to a guest VM via spice can take […]

Several issues have been discovered in the MariaDB database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MariaDB to the new upstream version 10.0.25. Please see the MariaDB 10.0 Release Notes for further details: For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 10.0.25-0+deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your mariadb-10.0 packages.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1696 A cross-origin bypass was found in the bindings to extensions. CVE-2016-1697 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a cross-origin bypass in Blink/Webkit. CVE-2016-1698 Rob Wu discovered an information leak. CVE-2016-1699 Gregory Panakkal discovered an issue in the Developer Tools feature. CVE-2016-1700 Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause a denial-of-service against the application, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code with the […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1667 Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass. CVE-2016-1668 Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass in bindings to v8. CVE-2016-1669 Choongwoo Han discovered a buffer overflow in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2016-1670 A race condition was found that could cause the renderer process to reuse ids […]

Bob Friesenhahn from the GraphicsMagick project discovered a command injection vulnerability in ImageMagick, a program suite for image manipulation. An attacker with control on input image or the input filename can execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running the application. This update removes the possibility of using pipe (|) in filenames to […]

It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference in the Nginx code responsible for saving client request bodies to a temporary file might result in denial of service: Malformed requests could crash worker processes. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-5+deb8u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in gdk-pixbuf, a toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an application using gdk-pixbuf (application crash), or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application, if a malformed image […]

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Symfony, a PHP framework. CVE-2016-1902 Lander Brandt discovered that the class SecureRandom might generate weak random numbers for cryptographic use under certain settings. If the functions random_bytes() or openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() are not available, the output of SecureRandom should not be consider secure. CVE-2016-4423 Marek Alaksa from Citadelo discovered that it is […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an application using the libgd2 library. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-5+deb8u3. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have […]

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the XMLRPC response encoding code of the Atheme IRC services may result in denial of service. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 6.0.11-2+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 7.0.7-2. For the unstable distribution (sid), […]

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for PKTC, IAX2, GSM CBCH and NCP which could result in denial of service. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u6. For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.3+geed34f0-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have […]

Gustavo Grieco discovered several flaws in the way librsvg, a SAX-based renderer library for SVG files, parses SVG files with circular definitions. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause an application using the librsvg library to crash. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.40.5-1+deb8u2. For […]

It was discovered that the swift3 (S3 compatibility) middleware plugin for Swift performed insufficient validation of date headers which might result in replay attacks. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7-5+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), […]

Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat, an XML parsing C library, does not properly handle certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Expat library to crash, or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with […]

Nikolay Ermishkin from the Mail.Ru Security Team and Stewie discovered several vulnerabilities in ImageMagick, a program suite for image manipulation. These vulnerabilities, collectively known as ImageTragick, are the consequence of lack of sanitization of untrusted input. An attacker with control on the image input could, with the privileges of the user running the application, execute […]

Julien Bernard discovered that libndp, a library for the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol, does not properly perform input and origin checks during the reception of a NDP message. An attacker in a non-local network could use this flaw to advertise a node as a router, and cause a denial of service attack, or act as […]

Gustavo Grieco discovered an use-after-free vulnerability in xerces-c, a validating XML parser library for C++, due to not properly handling invalid characters in XML input documents in the DTDScanner. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.1-5.1+deb8u2. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.3+debian-2. […]

It was discovered that libidn, the GNU library for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), did not correctly handle invalid UTF-8 input, causing an out-of-bounds read. This could allow attackers to disclose sensitive information from an application using the libidn library. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.29-1+deb8u1. For the testing […]

Gustavo Grieco discovered that jansson, a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data, did not limit the recursion depth when parsing JSON arrays and objects. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via stack exhaustion, using crafted JSON data. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been […]

Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian’s version of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client: Multiple memory safety errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 38.8.0-1~deb8u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed […]

It was discovered that XStream, a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again, was susceptible to XML External Entity attacks. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.7-2+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator. CVE-2016-3710 Wei Xiao and Qinghao Tang of 360.cn Inc discovered an out-of-bounds read and write flaw in the QEMU VGA module. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hosting QEMU process. CVE-2016-3712 […]

Nitin Venkatesh discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion repositories, is susceptible to cross-site scripting attacks via specially crafted file and directory names in repositories. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.3-1.2+deb8u2. We recommend that you upgrade your websvn packages.

Rock Stevens, Andrew Ruef and Marcin Icewall Noga discovered a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the zip_read_mac_metadata function in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a user or automated system is tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP file. For the stable distribution (jessie), […]

Simon McVittie discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the error reporting of Ikiwiki, a wiki compiler. This update also hardens ikiwiki’s use of imagemagick in the img plugin. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.20141016.3. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.20160506. We […]

It was discovered that libpam-sshauth, a PAM module to authenticate using an SSH server, does not correctly handle system users. In certain configurations an attacker can take advantage of this flaw to gain root privileges. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.1-1+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem […]

Pascal Cuoq and Miod Vallat discovered that Libtasn1, a library to manage ASN.1 structures, does not correctly handle certain malformed DER certificates. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Libtasn1 library to hang, resulting in a denial of service. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has […]

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in openafs, an implementation of the distributed filesystem AFS. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2015-8312 Potential denial of service caused by a bug in the pioctl logic allowing a local user to overrun a kernel buffer with a single NUL byte. CVE-2016-2860 Peter Iannucci discovered that […]

Blake Burkhart discovered an arbitrary code execution flaw in Mercurial, a distributed version control system, when using the convert extension on Git repositories with specially crafted names. This flaw in particular affects automated code conversion services that allow arbitrary repository names. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.2-2+deb8u3. For […]

Several security vulnerabilities were found in botan1.10, a C++ library which provides support for many common cryptographic operations, including encryption, authentication, X.509v3 certificates and CRLs. CVE-2015-5726 The BER decoder would crash due to reading from offset 0 of an empty vector if it encountered a BIT STRING which did not contain any data at all. […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1660 Atte Kettunen discovered an out-of-bounds write issue. CVE-2016-1661 Wadih Matar discovered a memory corruption issue. CVE-2016-1662 Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue related to extensions. CVE-2016-1663 A use-after-free issue was discovered in Blink’s bindings to V8. CVE-2016-1664 Wadih Matar discovered a way to spoof […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Socket Layer toolkit. CVE-2016-2105 Guido Vranken discovered that an overflow can occur in the function EVP_EncodeUpdate(), used for Base64 encoding, if an attacker can supply a large amount of data. This could lead to a heap corruption. CVE-2016-2106 Guido Vranken discovered that an overflow can occur in […]

It was discovered that a heap overflow in the Poppler PDF library may result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PDF file is opened. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.26.5-2+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in tardiff, a tarball comparison tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2015-0857 Rainer Mueller and Florian Weimer discovered that tardiff is prone to shell command injections via shell meta-characters in filenames in tar files or via shell meta-characters in the tar filename itself. CVE-2015-0858 Florian Weimer […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Subversion, a version control system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2016-2167 Daniel Shahaf and James McCoy discovered that an implementation error in the authentication against the Cyrus SASL library would permit a remote user to specify a realm string which is a prefix of the […]

Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting language commonly used for web application development. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading PHP to the new upstream version 5.6.20, which includes additional bug fixes. Please refer to the upstream changelog for more information: For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version […]

Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian’s version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors and buffer overflows may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 38.8.0esr-1~deb7u1. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in breakouts of the Java sandbox, denial of service or information disclosure. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7u101-2.6.6-1~deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your openjdk-7 packages.

Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream version 5.5.49. Please see the MySQL 5.5 Release Notes and Oracle’s Critical Patch Update advisory for further details: For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.5.49-0+deb8u1. We recommend that […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in imlib2, an image manipulation library. CVE-2011-5326 Kevin Ryde discovered that attempting to draw a 2×1 radi ellipse results in a floating point exception. CVE-2014-9771 It was discovered that an integer overflow could lead to invalid memory reads and unreasonably large memory allocations. CVE-2016-3993 Yuriy M. Kaminskiy discovered that drawing using […]

Hans Jerry Illikainen discovered that libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation, suffers of a signedness vulnerability which may result in a heap overflow when processing specially crafted compressed gd2 data. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the libgd2 library to crash, or potentially, to […]

CVE-2016-3960 (XSA-173) Ling Liu and Yihan Lian of the Cloud Security Team, Qihoo 360 discovered an integer overflow in the x86 shadow pagetable code. A HVM guest using shadow pagetables can cause the host to crash. A PV guest using shadow pagetables (i.e. being migrated) with PV superpages enabled (which is not the default) can […]

Régis Leroy from Makina Corpus discovered that varnish, a caching HTTP reverse proxy, is vulnerable to HTTP smuggling issues, potentially resulting in cache poisoning or bypassing of access control policies. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.2-2+deb7u2. We recommend that you upgrade your varnish packages.

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, which may result in information disclosure, the bypass of CSRF protections and bypass of the SecurityManager. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 7.0.28-4+deb7u4. This update also fixes CVE-2014-0119 and CVE-2014-0096. For the stable distribution (jessie), these […]

It was discovered that fuseiso, a user-space implementation of the ISO 9660 file system based on FUSE, contains several vulnerabilities. CVE-2015-8836 A stack-based buffer overflow may allow attackers who can trick a user into mounting a crafted ISO 9660 file system to cause a denial of service (crash), or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8837 An […]

Shayan Sadigh discovered a vulnerability in OpenSSH: If PAM support is enabled and the sshd PAM configuration is configured to read userspecified environment variables and the UseLogin option is enabled, a local user may escalate her privileges to root. In Debian UseLogin is not enabled by default. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1651 An out-of-bounds read issue was discovered in the pdfium library. CVE-2016-1652 A cross-site scripting issue was discovered in extension bindings. CVE-2016-1653 Choongwoo Han discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2016-1654 Atte Kettunen discovered an uninitialized memory read condition. CVE-2016-1655 Rob […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2015-5370 Jouni Knuutinen from Synopsys discovered flaws in the Samba DCE-RPC code which can lead to denial of service (crashes and high cpu consumption) and man-in-the-middle attacks. CVE-2016-2110 Stefan […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Imagemagick, a program suite for image manipulation. This update fixes a large number of potential security problems such as null-pointer access and buffer-overflows that might lead to memory leaks or denial of service. None of these security problems have a CVE number assigned. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem […]

Hans Jerry Illikainen discovered that missing input sanitising in the BMP processing code of the optipng PNG optimiser may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed file is processed. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.4-1+deb7u2. This update also fixes CVE-2015-7801, which […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Django, a high-level Python web development framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2016-2512 Mark Striemer discovered that some user-supplied redirect URLs containing basic authentication credentials are incorrectly handled, potentially allowing a remote attacker to perform a malicious redirect or a cross-site scripting attack. CVE-2016-2513 Sjoerd […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cgit, a fast web frontend for git repositories written in C. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to perform cross-site scripting, header injection or denial of service attacks. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.2.git2.0.1-3+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), these […]

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered that Roundcube, a webmail client, contained a path traversal vulnerability. This flaw could be exploited by an attacker to access sensitive files on the server, or even execute arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.2-9+deb7u2. For the testing (stretch) and unstable […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial, a distributed version control system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2016-3068 Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows URLs for Git subrepositories that could result in arbitrary code execution on clone. CVE-2016-3069 Blake Burkhart discovered that Mercurial allows arbitrary code execution when converting Git […]