A man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker may be able to execute a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic when a connection uses an AES-CBC cipher and the server runs on an Intel CPU supporting AES-NI. This is a common configuration for TLS servers.

The OpenSSL project has labelled this vulnerability high severity.

A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from nssdns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control of EIP in the DNS client.

The buffer overflow occurs in the functions senddg (send datagram) and sendvc (send TCP) for the NSS module libnssdns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AFUNSPEC family, or in some cases AFINET6 family. The use of AFUNSPEC (or AFINET6 in some cases) triggers the low-level resolver code to send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by resnquery.

Qemu emulator built with VGA emulation with VESA BIOS Extensions(VBE) support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while doing VGA r/w operations via i/o port methods.

A privileged guest user could use this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code, with privileges of the Qemu process on the host.

Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg01197.html

Reference: ---------- -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/09/3