Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Vim is distributed with the tar.vim plugin, that allows easy editing and viewing of (compressed or uncompressed) tar files. Starting with 9.1.0858, the tar.vim plugin uses the ":read" ex command line to append below the cursor position, however the is not sanitized and is taken literally from the tar archive. This allows to execute shell commands via special crafted tar archives. Whether this really happens, depends on the shell being used ('shell' option, which is set using $SHELL). The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.1164

Last updated 25 February 2025

Description There exists a security vulnerability in Jetty's DosFilter which can be exploited by unauthorized users to cause remote denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the server using DosFilter. By repeatedly sending crafted requests, attackers can trigger OutofMemory errors and exhaust the server's memory finally.

Vulnerability details The Jetty DoSFilter (Denial of Service Filter) is a security filter designed to protect web applications against certain types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and other abusive behavior. It helps to mitigate excessive resource consumption by limiting the rate at which clients can make requests to the server. The DoSFilter monitors and tracks client request patterns, including request rates, and can take actions such as blocking or delaying requests from clients that exceed predefined thresholds. The internal tracking of requests in DoSFilter is the source of this OutOfMemory condition.

Impact Users of the DoSFilter may be subject to DoS attacks that will ultimately exhaust the memory of the server if they have not configured session passivation or an aggressive session inactivation timeout.

Patches The DoSFilter has been patched in all active releases to no longer support the session tracking mode, even if configured.

Patched releases:

9.4.54 10.0.18 11.0.18 12.0.3

Abnormal termination of an application can a cause a denial of service.

Applications performing certificate name checks (e.g., TLS clients checking server certificates) may attempt to read an invalid memory address when comparing the expected name with an otherName subject alternative name of an X.509 certificate. This may result in an exception that terminates the application program.

Note that basic certificate chain validation (signatures, dates, ...) is not affected, the denial of service can occur only when the application also specifies an expected DNS name, Email address or IP address.

TLS servers rarely solicit client certificates, and even when they do, they generally don't perform a name check against a "reference identifier" (expected identity), but rather extract the presented identity after checking the certificate chain. So TLS servers are generally not affected and the severity of the issue is Moderate.

The FIPS modules in 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue. OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are also not affected by this issue.

OpenSSL 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are vulnerable to this issue.

OpenSSL 3.3 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.3.2

OpenSSL 3.2 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.2.3

OpenSSL 3.1 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.1.7

OpenSSL 3.0 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.0.15

A RangeCheckElimination array index overflow was found in OpenJDK.

Oracle CPU advisory - July 2024: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2024.html#AppendixJAVA

A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.

glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory allocation failure when the Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache uses the xmalloc or xrealloc functions. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to terminate the daemon.

less could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system. By using a newline character in the name of a file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.

Dnspython is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in stub resolver when a bad-in-some-way response arrives before a legitimate one on the UDP port dnspython is using for that query. By sending a specially crafted query, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.

GNU C Library could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write in the ISO-2022-CN-EXT plugin. By sending specially crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite critical data structures and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

Accounts. The issue was addressed with improved checks.

ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when preparing an NSEC3 closest encloser proof. By flooding the target resolver with queries, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause CPU exhaustion on a DNSSEC-validating resolver.

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nftables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

The nftverdictinit() function allows positive values as drop error within the hook verdict, and hence the nfhookslow() function can cause a double free vulnerability when NFDROP is issued with a drop error which resembles NFACCEPT.

We recommend upgrading past commit f342de4e2f33e0e39165d8639387aa6c19dff660.

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with elevated privileges.

A vulnerability was discovered in Python. A quadratic algorithm exists when processing inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder, such that a crafted unreasonably long name being presented to the decoder could lead to a CPU denial of service. Hostnames are often supplied by remote servers that could be controlled by a malicious actor, which could trigger excessive CPU consumption on the client attempting to make use of an attacker-supplied hostname.

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Expat package, caused by destruction of a shared DTD in XMLExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations. This may lead to availability disruptions.

A Linux Kernel flaw found in the net/netfilter/nfnetlinkqueue.c. If local user creates netfilter rule that truncates the packet below the header size, the skbpull() will result in a malformed skb (skb->len < 0). As result, denial of service could happen after incorrect check in nfqnlmangle function.

Fixes: 7af4cc3fa158 ("[NETFILTER]: Add "nfnetlinkqueue" netfilter queue handler over nfnetlink")

Reference: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220726104206.2036-1-fw@strlen.de/t/

An integer truncation issue was found in the Xalan Java XSLT library when processing malicious stylesheets. This flaw could be used to potentially execute arbitrary Java bytecode.

Description Invalid HTTP/2 requests (for example, invalid URIs) are incorrectly handled by writing a blocking error response directly from the selector thread. If the client manages to exhaust the HTTP/2 flow control window, or TCP congest the connection, the selector thread will be blocked trying to write the error response. If this is repeated for all the selector threads, the server becomes unresponsive, causing the denial of service.

Impact A malicious client may render the server unresponsive.

Patches The fix is available in Jetty versions 9.4.47. 10.0.10, 11.0.10.

Workarounds No workaround available within Jetty itself. One possible workaround is to filter the requests before sending them to Jetty (for example in a proxy)

For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: Email us at security@webtide.com.

A use of incorrectly resolved name vulnerability fixed in 7.83.1 might remove the wrong file when --no-clobber is used together with --remove-on-error.

The curl URL parser wrongly accepts percent-encoded URL separators like '/'when decoding the host name part of a URL making it a different URL usingthe wrong host name when it is later retrieved.For example a URL like http://example.com%2F127.0.0.1/ would be allowed bythe parser and get transposed into http://example.com/127.0.0.1/. This flawcan be used to circumvent filters checks and more.

An issue was discovered in the Linux Kernel from 4.18 to 4.19, an improper update of sock reference in TCP pacing can lead to memory/netns leak, which can be used by remote clients.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The PTRACESEIZE code path allows attackers to bypass intended restrictions on setting the PTSUSPENDSECCOMP flag, possibly disabling seccomp.

A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs due to an erroneous function. A malicious server could make curl within Network Security Services (NSS) get stuck in a never-ending busy loop when trying to retrieve that information. This flaw allows an Infinite Loop, affecting system availability.

An improper authentication vulnerability exists in curl 7.33.0 to and including 7.82.0 which might allow reuse OAUTH2-authenticated connections without properly making sure that the connection was authenticated with the same credentials as set for this transfer. This affects SASL-enabled protocols: SMPTP(S) IMAP(S) POP3(S) and LDAP(S) (openldap only).

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in curl 7.65.0 to 7.82.0 are vulnerable that by using an IPv6 address that was in the connection pool but with a different zone id it could reuse a connection instead.

A flaw was found in Apache Santuario (XML Security for Java) in the way it processed some paths. A remote attacker could use this flaw to circumvent the "secure validation" feature and disclose potentially sensitive information in local XML files.

An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact.

A use-after-free flaw was found in net/sunrpc/xprt.c in the Remote Procedure Call (SunRPC) protocol in the Linux kernel. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash, and this may even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1a3b1bba7c7a5eb8a11513cf88427cb9d77bc60a http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/11/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/11/3

jbd2journalwaitupdates in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 5.17.1 has a use-after-free caused by a transactiont race condition.