store/swift.py in OpenStack Glance Essex (2012.1), Folsom (2012.2) before 2012.2.3, and Grizzly, when in Swift single tenant mode, logs the Swift endpoint's user name and password in cleartext when the endpoint is misconfigured or unusable, allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by reading the error messages.
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-5983 to the following vulnerability:
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySysSetArgv API function in Python before 2.6 prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory.
References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983 http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg586010.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrusted-python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html
Juliano Rizzo announced: [1] http://www.ekoparty.org/2011/juliano-rizzo.php
that at ekoparty Security Conference, from 2011-09-21 to 2011-09-23 they will present a new fast block-wise chosen-plaintext attack against SSL/TLS. One application of the attack should allow the adversary to efficiently decrypt and obtain authentication tokens and cookies from HTTPS requests.
The Red Hat Security Response Team is watching progress on this one and once further details are available, we will immediately react to ensure timely manner updates for affected packages.
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) allows remote authenticated users to gain access to a VM in opportunistic circumstances by using the VNC token for a deleted VM that was bound to the same VNC port.
An access control vulnerability exists in the Applet Rhino Script Engine component of Oracle's Java Runtime Environment allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code.
DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py in Update Manager before 1:0.87.31.1, 1:0.134.x before 1:0.134.11.1, 1:0.142.x before 1:0.142.23.1, 1:0.150.x before 1:0.150.5.1, and 1:0.152.x before 1:0.152.25.5 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to obtain the XAUTHORITY file content for a user via a symlink attack on the temporary file.
DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py in Update Manager before 1:0.87.31.1, 1:0.134.x before 1:0.134.11.1, 1:0.142.x before 1:0.142.23.1, 1:0.150.x before 1:0.150.5.1, and 1:0.152.x before 1:0.152.25.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 through 11.10 does not verify the GPG signature before extracting an upgrade tarball, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to (1) create or overwrite arbitrary files via a directory traversal attack using a crafted tar file, or (2) bypass authentication via a crafted meta-release file.
dmrc.c in Light Display Manager (aka LightDM) before 1.1.1 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on ~/.dmrc.
Untrusted search path vulnerability in pammotd (aka the MOTD module) in libpam-modules before 1.1.3-2ubuntu2.1 on Ubuntu 11.10, before 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.4 on Ubuntu 11.04, before 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.4 on Ubuntu 10.10, before 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and before 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, when using certain configurations such as "session optional pammotd.so", allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the PATH environment variable to reference a malicious command, as demonstrated via uname.
The default keybindings for wwm in LTSP Display Manager (ldm) 2.2.x before 2.2.7 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the KPRETURN keybinding, which launches a terminal window.
debian/guest-account in Light Display Manager (lightdm) 1.0.x before 1.0.6 and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, as used in Ubuntu Linux 11.10, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-6648 has been assigned for the gdm-guest-session issue.
The Ubuntu AccountsService package before 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1.1 does not properly drop privileges when changing language settings, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.
ppa.py in Software Properties before 0.81.13.3 does not validate the server certificate when downloading PPA GPG key fingerprints, which allows man-in-the-middle (MITM) attackers to spoof GPG keys for a package repository.
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A peer (or local user) may cause TCP to use a nominal MSS of as little as 88 (actual MSS of 76 with timestamps). Given that we have a sufficiently prodigious local sender and the peer ACKs quickly enough, it is nevertheless possible to grow the window for such a connection to the point that we will try to send just under 64K at once. This results in a single skb that expands to 861 segments.
In some drivers with TSO support, such an skb will require hundreds of DMA descriptors; a substantial fraction of a TX ring or even more than a full ring. The TX queue selected for the skb may stall and trigger the TX watchdog repeatedly (since the problem skb will be retried after the TX reset).
Upstream patch: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg206332.html
References: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/171
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Ben Hutchings of Solarflare (tm) for reporting this issue.
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The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.2, Thunderbird before 17.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.15 does not prevent modifications to the prototype of an object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by referencing Object.prototype.proto in a crafted HTML document.
Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.2, Thunderbird before 17.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.15 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by leveraging improper interaction between plugin objects and SVG elements.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the serializeToStream implementation in the XMLSerializer component in Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.2, Thunderbird before 17.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted web content.
apt 0.8.16, 0.9.7, and possibly other versions does not properly handle InRelease files, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to modify packages before installation via unknown vectors, possibly related to integrity checking and the use of third-party repositories.
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-4484 to the following vulnerability:
Buffer overflow in the server in MySQL 5.0.51a on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data to TCP port 3306, as demonstrated by the vdmysql5 module in VulnDisco Pack Professional 8.11. NOTE: as of 20100106, this disclosure has no actionable information. However, because the VulnDisco Pack author is a reliable researcher, the issue is being assigned a CVE identifier for tracking purposes.
References: http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/jan-4-2010-mysql-exploit-demo.html http://intevydis.com/vd-list.shtml http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7900 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37640
More details about the issue may be disclosed in about 2 weeks: http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/jan-72010-0day-awareness.html
Heap-based buffer overflow in Oracle MySQL 5.5.19 and other versions through 5.5.28, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using certain variations of the (1) USE, (2) SHOW TABLES, (3) DESCRIBE, (4) SHOW FIELDS FROM, (5) SHOW COLUMNS FROM, (6) SHOW INDEX FROM, (7) CREATE TABLE, (8) DROP TABLE, (9) ALTER TABLE, (10) DELETE FROM, (11) UPDATE, and (12) SET PASSWORD commands.
Unspecified vulnerability in the Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.65 and earlier and 5.5.27 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability, related to GIS Extension.
The sapiheaderop function in main/SAPI.c in PHP 5.4.0RC2 through 5.4.0 does not properly determine a pointer during checks for %0D sequences (aka carriage return characters), which allows remote attackers to bypass an HTTP response-splitting protection mechanism via a crafted URL, related to improper interaction between the PHP header function and certain browsers, as demonstrated by Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1398.
An XML External Entities (XXE) attack was found in the way xmlparse routine, used for producing of xml data type value from character data, of PostgreSQL, an advanced Object-Relational database management system (DBMS), performed parsing of provided character data. An unprivileged database user could issue a specially-crafted SQL query to the PostgreSQL server that, when processed could lead to attacker's ability to read arbitrary system files, accessible with privileges of the user running the PostgreSQL server.
References: [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-20.html [2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-9.html [3] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-5.html
Qemu, as used in Xen 4.0, 4.1 and possibly other products, when emulating certain devices with a virtual console backend, allows local OS guest users to gain privileges via a crafted escape VT100 sequence that triggers the overwrite of a "device model's address space."
It was discovered that the formatted printing functionality in glibc did not properly honor the size of a structure when calculating the amount of memory to allocate. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted sequence of format specifiers, leading to an undersized buffer allocation and subsequent stack corruption, resulting in a crash or, potentially, FORTIFYSOURCE format string protection mechanism bypass, when processed.
References: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=12445 http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=84a4211850e3d23a9d3a4f3b294752a3b30bc0ff
It was discovered that the formatted printing functionality in glibc did not properly restrict the use of alloca(). A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted sequence of format specifiers, leading to a crash or, potentially, FORTIFYSOURCE format string protection mechanism bypass, when processed.
It was discovered that the formatted printing functionality in glibc used extendalloca() incorrectly. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted sequence of format specifiers, leading to a desynchronization within the buffer size handling, resulting in the use of uninitialized memory or, potentially, FORTIFYSOURCE format string protection mechanism bypass, when processed.
References: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=13446 http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4647e727a2a52e1259474c13f4b13288938bed4
In NetworkManager 0.9.2.0, when a new wireless network was created with WPA/WPA2 security in AdHoc mode, it created an open/insecure network.