Emmanuel Thome discovered that missing sanitising in the oarsh command of OAR, a software used to manage jobs and resources of HPC clusters, could result in privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.2-3+deb7u1. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.4-2+deb8u1. For […]

Marcin Noga discovered an integer underflow in Lhasa, a lzh archive decompressor, which might result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed archive is processed. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.7-2+deb7u1. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.0+git3fe46-1+deb8u1. For the […]

Randell Jesup and the Firefox team discovered that srtp, Cisco’s reference implementation of the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP), does not properly handle RTP header CSRC count and extension header length. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to crash an application linked against libsrtp, resulting in a denial of service. For the oldstable distribution […]

It was discovered that libstruts1.2-java, a Java framework for MVC applications, contains a bug in its multi-page validation code. This allows input validation to be bypassed, even if MPV is not used directly. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.9-5+deb7u2. We recommend that you upgrade your libstruts1.2-java packages.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in imlib2, an image manipulation library. CVE-2014-9762 A segmentation fault could occur when opening GIFs without a colormap. CVE-2014-9763 Several divisions by zero, resulting in a program crash, could occur when handling PNM files. CVE-2014-9764 A segmentation fault could occur when opening GIFs with feh. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libebml, a library for manipulating Extensible Binary Meta Language files. CVE-2015-8789 Context-dependent attackers could trigger a use-after-free vulnerability by providing a maliciously crafted EBML document. CVE-2015-8790 Context-dependent attackers could obtain sensitive information from the process’ heap memory by using a maliciously crafted UTF-8 string. CVE-2015-8791 Context-dependent attackers could obtain sensitive […]

Stelios Tsampas discovered a buffer overflow in the Kamailio SIP proxy which might result in the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.0-2+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.4-2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been […]

Kashyap Thimmaraju and Bhargava Shastry discovered a remotely triggerable buffer overflow vulnerability in openvswitch, a production quality, multilayer virtual switch implementation. Specially crafted MPLS packets could overflow the buffer reserved for MPLS labels in an OVS internal data structure. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service, or […]

Guido Vranken discovered several vulnerabilities in dhcpcd, a DHCP client, which may result in denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1:3.2.3-11+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your dhcpcd packages.

Kostya Kortchinsky discovered a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the VPNv4 NLRI parser in bgpd in quagga, a BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (daemon crash), or potentially, execution of arbitrary code, if bgpd is configured with BGP peers enabled for VPNv4. For the oldstable […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1646 Wen Xu discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the v8 library. CVE-2016-1647 A use-after-free issue was discovered. CVE-2016-1648 A use-after-free issue was discovered in the handling of extensions. CVE-2016-1649 lokihardt discovered a buffer overflow issue in the Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine (ANGLE) library. […]

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been fixed in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, which may result on bypass of security manager restrictions, information disclosure, denial of service or session fixation. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat6 packages.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Redmine, a project management web application, which may result in information disclosure. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0~20140825-8~deb8u2. For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.0-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in […]

Stefan Sperling discovered that pidgin-otr, a Pidgin plugin implementing Off-The-Record messaging, contained a use-after-free bug. This could be used by a malicious remote user to intentionally crash the application, thus causing a denial-of-service. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.1-1+deb8u1. For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this […]

It was discovered that libmatroska, an extensible open standard audio/video container format, incorrectly processed EBML lacing. By providing maliciously crafted input, an attacker could use this flaw to force some leakage of information located in the process heap memory. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.0-2+deb7u1. For the stable […]

It was discovered that inspircd, an IRC daemon, incorrectly handled PTR lookups of connecting users. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to crash the application by setting up malformed DNS records, thus causing a denial-of-service, For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.5-1+deb7u2. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem […]

Vincent LE GARREC discovered an integer overflow in pixman, a pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to cause an application using the pixman library to crash, or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem […]

It was discovered that the ActiveMQ Java message broker performs unsafe deserialisation. For additional information, please refer to the upstream advisory at http://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2015-5254-announcement.txt. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u2. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.0+dfsg1-4+deb8u2. For the testing distribution (stretch), this […]

This update disables the Graphite font shaping library in Iceweasel, Debian’s version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 38.7.1esr-1~deb7u1. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 38.7.1esr-1~deb8u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in […]

Alex Rousskov from The Measurement Factory discovered that Squid3, a fully featured web proxy cache, does not properly handle errors for certain malformed HTTP responses. A remote HTTP server can exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit). For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in […]

Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian’s version of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client: Multiple memory safety errors, integer overflows, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 38.7.0-1~deb7u1. For the […]

Lael Cellier discovered two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in git, a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system, which could be exploited for remote execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy3. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2. For the unstable […]

Multiple security issues have been found in the Xen virtualisation solution, which may result in denial of service or information disclosure. The oldstable distribution (wheezy) will be updated in a separate DSA. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.1-9+deb8u4. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed […]

Several vulnerabilities were found in SPIP, a website engine for publishing, resulting in code injection. CVE-2016-3153 g0uZ et sambecks, from team root-me, discovered that arbitrary PHP code could be injected when adding content. CVE-2016-3154 Gilles Vincent discovered that deserializing untrusted content could result in arbitrary objects injection. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have […]

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for DNP, RSL, LLRP, GSM A-bis OML, ASN 1 BER which could result in denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy18. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u5. For the testing distribution (stretch), […]

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Graphite font rendering engine which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed font file is processed. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.6-1~deb7u1. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in […]

A local root privilege escalation vulnerability was found in Exim, Debian’s default mail transfer agent, in configurations using the perl_startup option (Only Exim via exim4-daemon-heavy enables Perl support). To address the vulnerability, updated Exim versions clean the complete execution environment by default, affecting Exim and subprocesses such as transports calling other programs, and thus may […]

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-2015-7560 Jeremy Allison of Google, Inc. and the Samba Team discovered that Samba incorrectly handles getting and setting ACLs on a symlink path. An authenticated malicious client can use […]

Markus Vervier of X41 D-Sec GmbH discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in libotr, an off-the-record (OTR) messaging library, in the way how the sizes of portions of incoming messages were stored. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending crafted messages to an application that is using libotr to perform denial of service attacks […]

Two vulnerabilites have been discovered in ISC’s BIND DNS server. CVE-2016-1285 A maliciously crafted rdnc, a way to remotely administer a BIND server, operation can cause named to crash, resulting in denial of service. CVE-2016-1286 An error parsing DNAME resource records can cause named to crash, resulting in denial of service. For the oldstable distribution […]

Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian’s version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows, use-after-frees and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service, address bar spoofing and overwriting local files. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed […]

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rails, a web application framework written in Ruby. Both vulnerabilities affect Action Pack, which handles the web requests for Rails. CVE-2016-2097 Crafted requests to Action View, one of the components of Action Pack, might result in rendering files from arbitrary locations, including files beyond the application’s view directory. This […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1643 cloudfuzzer discovered a type confusion issue in Blink/Webkit. CVE-2016-1644 Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free issue in Blink/Webkit. CVE-2016-1645 An out-of-bounds write issue was discovered in the pdfium library. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 49.0.2623.87-1~deb8u1. For the testing […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in JasPer, a library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2016-1577 Jacob Baines discovered a double-free flaw in the jas_iccattrval_destroy function. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause an application using the JasPer library to crash, or potentially, to execute arbitrary […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2015-8126 Joerg Bornemann discovered multiple buffer overflow issues in the libpng library. CVE-2016-1630 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in Blink/Webkit. CVE-2016-1631 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy in the Pepper Plugin API. CVE-2016-1632 A […]

Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 6:0.8.17-2. For the stable distribution (jessie), libav has been updated to 11.6-1~deb8u1 which brings several further bugfixes as detailed in the upstream changelog: https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v11.6 We recommend that […]

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors/parsers for Pcapng, NBAP, UMTS FP, DCOM, AllJoyn, T.38, SDP, NLM, DNS, BED, SCTP, 802.11, DIAMETER, VeriWave, RVSP, ANSi A, GSM A, Ascend, NBAP, ZigBee ZCL and Sniffer which could result in denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy17. For […]

Alvaro Muñoz and Christian Schneider discovered that BeanShell, an embeddable Java source interpreter, could be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands: applications including BeanShell in their classpath are vulnerable to this flaw if they deserialize data from an untrusted source. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0b4-12+deb7u1. For the stable […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, information leak or data loss. CVE-2013-4312 Tetsuo Handa discovered that users can use pipes queued on local (Unix) sockets to allocate an unfair share of kernel memory, leading to denial-of-service (resource exhaustion). This issue was previously […]

Ralf Schlatterbeck discovered an information leak in roundup, a web-based issue tracking system. An authenticated attacker could use it to see sensitive details about other users, including their hashed password. After applying the update, which will fix the shipped templates, the site administrator should ensure the instanced versions (in /var/lib/roundup usually) are also updated, either […]

The update for linux issued as DSA-3426-1 and DSA-3434-1 to address CVE-2015-8543 uncovered a bug in ctdb, a clustered database to store temporary data, leading to broken clusters. Updated packages are now available to address this problem. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.12+git20120201-5. For the stable distribution (jessie), […]

Stephane Chazelas discovered a bug in the environment handling in Perl. Perl provides a Perl-space hash variable, %ENV, in which environment variables can be looked up. If a variable appears twice in envp, only the last value would appear in %ENV, but getenv would return the first. Perl’s taint security mechanism would be applied to […]

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Socket Layer toolkit. CVE-2016-0702 Yuval Yarom from the University of Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin from Technion and Tel Aviv University, and Nadia Heninger from the University of Pennsylvania discovered a side-channel attack which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture. This could allow […]

Markus Krell discovered that xymon, a network- and applications-monitoring system, was vulnerable to the following security issues: CVE-2016-2054 The incorrect handling of user-supplied input in the config command can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, resulting in denial of service (via application crash) or remote code execution. CVE-2016-2055 The incorrect handling of user-supplied input in the […]

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been found in Pillow, a Python imaging library, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed FLI, PCD or Tiff files is processed. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.7-4+deb7u2 of the python-imaging source package. For the […]

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been found in the Drupal content management framework. For additional information, please refer to the upstream advisory at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001 For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 7.14-2+deb7u12. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.32-1+deb8u6. For the unstable distribution (sid), this […]

It was discovered that php-horde, a flexible, modular, general-purpose web application framework written in PHP, is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.1+debian0-2+deb8u3. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.9+debian0-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem […]

It was discovered that php-horde-core, a set of classes providing the core functionality of the Horde Application Framework, is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.15.0+debian0-1+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.22.4+debian0-1. For the unstable distribution […]

Two SQL injection vulnerabilities were discovered in cacti, a web interface for graphing of monitoring systems. Specially crafted input can be used by an attacker in parameters of the graphs_new.php script to execute arbitrary SQL commands on the database. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.8a+dfsg-5+deb7u8. For the stable […]

Gustavo Grieco discovered that xerces-c, a validating XML parser library for C++, mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. These flaws could lead to a denial of service in applications using the xerces-c library, or potentially, to the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution […]

Daniel Gultsch discovered a vulnerability in Gajim, an XMPP/jabber client. Gajim didn’t verify the origin of roster update, allowing an attacker to spoof them and potentially allowing her to intercept messages. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.15.1-4.1+deb7u1. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in […]

Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian’s version of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client: Multiple memory safety errors, integer overflows, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 38.6.0-1~deb7u1. For the […]

Jakub Palaczynski discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion repositories, does not correctly sanitize user-supplied input, which allows a remote user to run reflected cross-site scripting attacks. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.3-1.1+deb7u2. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.3-1.2+deb8u1. We […]

lighttpd, a small webserver, is vulnerable to the POODLE attack via the use of SSLv3. This protocol is now disabled by default. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.31-4+deb7u4. We recommend that you upgrade your lighttpd packages.

Aris Adamantiadis discovered that libssh, a tiny C SSH library, incorrectly generated a short ephemeral secret for the diffie-hellman-group1 and diffie-hellman-group14 key exchange methods. The resulting secret is 128 bits long, instead of the recommended sizes of 1024 and 2048 bits respectively. This flaw could allow an eavesdropper with enough resources to decrypt or intercept […]

Andreas Schneider reported that libssh2, a SSH2 client-side library, passes the number of bytes to a function that expects number of bits during the SSHv2 handshake when libssh2 is to get a suitable value for group order in the Diffie-Hellman negotiation. This weakens significantly the handshake security, potentially allowing an eavesdropper with enough resources to […]

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1622 It was discovered that a maliciously crafted extension could bypass the Same Origin Policy. CVE-2016-1623 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same Origin Policy. CVE-2016-1624 lukezli discovered a buffer overflow issue in the Brotli library. CVE-2016-1625 Jann Horn discovered a way to […]

Alexander Izmailov discovered that didiwiki, a wiki implementation, failed to correctly validate user-supplied input, thus allowing a malicious user to access any part of the filesystem. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5-11+deb7u1. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5-11+deb8u1. For the testing […]