A vulnerability was found in OpenSSL 1.0.2. When an application encounters a fatal protocol error and then calls SSLshutdown() twice, OpenSSL can respond differently to the calling application if a 0 byte record is received with invalid padding compared to if a 0 byte record is received with an invalid MAC. This difference in behaviour can be detected by a remote peer, then this amounts to a padding oracle that could be used to decrypt data. In order for this to be exploitable "non-stitched" ciphersuites must be in use. Also the application must call SSLshutdown() twice even if a protocol error has occurred (applications should not do this but some do anyway). AEAD ciphersuites are not impacted. This issue does not impact OpenSSL 1.1.1 or 1.1.0.

Upstream bug: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20190226.txt

Upstream Patch: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/e9bbefbf0f24c57645e7ad6a5a71ae649d18ac8e

A flaw was found in HTTP/2. An attacker, sending a stream of header with a 0-length header name and a 0-length header value, could cause some implementations to allocate memory for these headers and keep the allocations alive until the session dies. The can consume excess memory, potentially leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

GNU ncurses could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a heap-based buffer over-read in the ncfindentry function in tinfo/comphash.c in the terminfo library. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.

GNU ncurses could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmtentry function in tinfo/comphash.c in the terminfo library. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.

In the Linux kernel before 4.20.14, expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacks a check for the mmap minimum address, which makes it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP platforms. This is related to a capability check for the wrong task.

An Invalid Address dereference was discovered in TIFFWriteDirectoryTagTransferfunction in libtiff/tifdirwrite.c in LibTIFF 4.0.10, affecting the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf function in tiffcp.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. This is different from CVE-2018-12900.

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in the pngimagefree function in the libpng library. This could lead to denial of service or a potentially exploitable crash when a malformed image is processed.

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic in various cases, including cases of different branches with different state or limits to sanitize, leading to side-channel attacks.

An information leakage issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled page fault exception while emulating instructions like VMXON, VMCLEAR, VMPTRLD, VMWRITE with memory address as an operand. It occurs if the operand is an mmio address, as the returned exception object holds uninitialised stack memory contents.

A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host's stack memory contents to a guest.

It affects only Intel processors and only when nested virtualization is enabled.

Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/353c0956a618a07ba4bbe7ad00ff29fe70e8412a

Reference: ---------- -> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/18/2

An out of bounds read flaw was found in the Skia component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=883596

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop12.html

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel vfio interface implementation that permits violation of the user's locked memory limit. If a device is bound to a vfio driver, such as vfio-pci, and the local attacker is administratively granted ownership of the device, it may cause a system memory exhaustion and thus a denial of service (DoS).

References:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q2/6

A suggested fix:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/155414977872.12780.13728555131525362206.stgit@gimli.home/T/#u

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the function hiddebugeventsread() in drivers/hid/hid-debug.c file which may enter an infinite loop with certain parameters passed from a userspace. A local privileged user ("root") can cause a system lock up and a denial of service. Versions from v4.18 and newer are vulnerable.

An input validation flaw was found in the URL class implementation in the Networking component of OpenJDK. A URL class instance could have been created for a URL string containing invalid characters not permitted in URLs.

It was discovered that the implementation of the Collections class in the Utilities component of OpenJDK did not limit the amount of memory allocated when creating object instance from a serialized form. A specially-crafted input could cause a Java application to use an excessive amount of memory when deserialized.

It was discovered that the implementation of the Throwable class in the Utilities component of OpenJDK did not sufficiently validate serial stream before deserializing suppressed exceptions. A specially-crafted input could cause a Java application to construct inconsistent object and possibly use an excessive amount of system resources when deserialized.

Last updated 25 August 2025

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the FUJITSU Extended Socket Network driver. A call to the allocworkqueue return was not validated and causes a denial of service at the time of failure. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the QLOGIC drivers for HBA. A call to allocworkqueue return was not validated and can cause a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/ifsdio.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the allocworkqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the allocworkqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.1.17. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the sound/usb/line6/pcm.c driver.

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3450121997ce872eb7f1248417225827ea249710

References:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/20/2 https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=240f09164db2c3d3af33a117c713dc7650dc29d6

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c driver.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.1. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/p54usb.c driver.

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. The Zr364xx USB device driver is susceptible to malicious USB devices. An attacker able to add a specific USB device could cause a crash leading to a denial of service.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.6. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2usb.c driver.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.14. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c driver.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.6. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c driver because drivers/media/radio/radio-raremono.c does not properly allocate memory.

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 has a NULL pointer dereference via an incomplete address in an endpoint descriptor.

An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. simpleobjectelfmatch in simple-object-elf.c does not check for a zero shstrndx value, leading to an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's Dynamic Logical Partitioning (DLPAR) functionality on PowerPC systems handled low memory conditions on device discovery. An attacker who can change the LPAR configuration and incur low memory conditions at the same time could use this flaw to crash the system.