Last updated 24 July 2024

A local user can trigger a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of key lookups in the keychain subsystem.

The keyrejectandlink() function contains an error in which a key-lookup can fail and in an attempt to cache the failed lookup may attempt to free memory which can still be in use.

This could crash the system or at worse free a memory block which would then be re-used by another kernel mechanism causing a user after free.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showbug.cgi?id=1341352

Upstream patch:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-kernel-janitors/msg26069.html

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7u97, 8u73, and 8u74 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to the Hotspot sub-component.

It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK failed to properly check DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) parameters. The use of keys with incorrect parameters could lead to disclosure of sensitive data.

Mercurial before 3.7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted name when converting a Git repository.

Mercurial before 3.7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted git ext:: URL when cloning a subrepository.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way OpenSSL parsed certain ASN.1-encoded data from BIO (OpenSSL's I/O abstraction) inputs. An application using OpenSSL that accepts untrusted ASN.1 BIO input could be forced to allocate an excessive amount of data.

An issue with ASN.1 DER decoder was reported that could lead to memory corruptions, possible privilege escalation, or complete local denial of service via x509 certificate DER files.

Tags with indefinite length can be used to corrupt the dp and len pointers in asn1findindefinitelength() in lib/asn1decoder.c

Vulnerable code:

... nexttag: if (unlikely(datalen - dp < 2)) { if (datalen == dp) goto missingeoc; goto dataoverrunerror; } ... n = len - 0x80; if (unlikely(n > sizeof(sizet) - 1)) goto lengthtoolong; if (unlikely(n > datalen - dp)) goto dataoverrunerror; for (len = 0; n > 0; n--) { len <<= 8; len |= data[dp++]; } dp += len; goto nexttag; ...

dp can be corrupted and the check at nexttag is not sufficient to prevent this.

Upstream fix: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/12/270

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=23c8a812dc3c621009e4f0e5342aa4e2ede1ceaa

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the default content option in jquery.ui.tooltip.js in the Tooltip widget in jQuery UI before 1.10.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the title attribute, which is not properly handled in the autocomplete combo box demo.

IssueDescription:

An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed certain ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) certificates or certificate signing requests (CSR). A malicious user could create a specially crafted ECC certificate or a certificate signing request that, when processed by an application compiled against GnuTLS (for example, certtool), could cause that application to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.

The (1) qemuDomainMigratePerform and (2) qemuDomainMigrateFinish2 functions in qemu/qemudriver.c in libvirt do not unlock the domain when an ACL check fails, which allow local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

This issue was discovered by Tim Waugh of Red Hat. Tigervnc is affected by same thing as in CVE-2014-6052. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was reported in tigervnc. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash.

The moddavsvn Apache HTTPD server module in Apache Subversion 1.7.x before 1.7.19 and 1.8.x before 1.8.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a request for a URI that triggers a lookup for a virtual transaction name that does not exist.

GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging a temporary lock outage, and the resulting temporary shell availability, caused by the Linux kernel OOM killer.

A possible stack-based buffer overflow flaw was reported in the Ruby encodes() function from pack.c. From the bug report, this function may be used on data received from a server, and could be triggered remotely.

As the affected stack buffer is a static size on the stack, FORTIFYSOURCE may help mitigate this issue to only be a denial of service.

The original report suggests older versions (such as 1.9.3) are not affected.

Bug report: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10019

CVE request: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/09/13

The sosendto function in slirp/udp.c in QEMU before 2.1.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by sending a udp packet with a value of 0 in the source port and address, which triggers access of an uninitialized socket.

The moddavsvn Apache HTTPD server module in Apache Subversion 1.x before 1.7.19 and 1.8.x before 1.8.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash) via a REPORT request for a resource that does not exist.

Apache Subversion 1.0.0 through 1.7.x before 1.7.17 and 1.8.x before 1.8.10 uses an MD5 hash of the URL and authentication realm to store cached credentials, which makes it easier for remote servers to obtain the credentials via a crafted authentication realm.

An out-of-bounds read in pngconverttorfc1123 in png.c was found.

Upstream bug:

http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/bugs/241/

Upstream patch:

http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/fbf0f024346ca0a4ffc64b082a95c6b6bb6d29c4/

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/161

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.

A vulnerability allowing to elevate privileges from the abrt user to root was reported. If a program starting with the name "abrt" crashes, abrt-hook-ccpp will write the coredump to /var/tmp/abrt/$filename-coredump or /var/spool/abrt/$filename-coredump. From abrt-hook-ccpp.c:

if (lastslash && strncmp(++lastslash, "abrt", 4) == 0) { / If abrtd/abrt-foo crashes, we don't want to create a directory, since that can make new copy of abrtd to process it, and maybe crash again... Unlike dirs, mere files are ignored by abrtd. / if (snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/%s-coredump", gsettingsdumplocation, lastslash) >= sizeof(path)) errormsganddie("Error saving '%s': truncated long file path", path);

int abrtcorefd = xopen3(path, OWRONLY | OCREAT | OTRUNC, 0600);

The call to xopen3() does not include the flag ONOFOLLOW and is therefore vulnerable to a symlink attack.

This vulnerability is not exploitable on RHEL installations with default configuration. It can be exploitable if the system is configured to use non-RHN yum repositories. This is because yum is normally not usable by non-root users if the only configured repositories are RHN.

Note: This security flaw has been split from bug #1262252.

It was discovered that the nssfiles backend for the Name Service Switch in glibc would return incorrect data to applications or corrupt the heap (depending on adjacent heap contents), potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via QXL commands related to the surfaceid parameter.

It was found that ntpd did not correctly implement the -g option:

-g Normally, ntpd exits with a message to the system log if the offset exceeds the panic threshold, which is 1000 s by default. This option allows the time to be set to any value without restriction; however, this can happen only once. If the thresh‐ old is exceeded after that, ntpd will exit with a message to the system log. This option can be used with the -q and -x options. See the tinker command for other options.

ntpd could actually step the clock multiple times by more than the panic threshold if its clock discipline doesn't have enough time to reach the sync state and stay there for at least one update. If a man-in-the-middle attacker can control the NTP traffic since ntpd was started (or maybe up to 15-30 minutes after that), they can prevent the client from reaching the sync state and force it to step its clock by any amount any number of times, which can be used by attackers to expire certificates, etc.

This is contrary to what the documentation says. Normally, the assumption is that an MITM attacker can step the clock more than the panic threshold only once when ntpd starts and to make a larger adjustment the attacker has to divide it into multiple smaller steps, each taking 15 minutes, which is slow.

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to read and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host via guest QXL commands related to surface creation.

It was discovered that sntp program would hang in an infinite loop when a crafted NTP packet was received, related to the conversion of the precision value in the packet to double.

It was found that ntpd could crash due to an uninitialized variable when processing malformed logconfig configuration commands, for example:

ntpq -c ":config logconfig a"

Upstream patch:

http://bk.ntp.org/ntp-dev/?PAGE=patch&REV=4c4fc141LwvcoGp-lLGhkAFp3ZvtrA

It was discovered that the calloc implementation in glibc, as shipped in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 GA and 7.2 GA version, could return memory areas which contain non-zero bytes. This could lead to application misbehavior such as hangs or crashes.

It was found that ntpd exits with a segmentation fault when a statistics type that was not enabled during compilation (e.g. timingstats) is referenced by the statistics or filegen configuration command, for example:

ntpq -c ':config statistics timingstats' ntpq -c ':config filegen timingstats'

Upstream patch:

http://bk.ntp.org/ntp-dev/?PAGE=patch&REV=4d253ed0A400LyhRQIV0u23NJwuGAA

(in 4.2.6, the code than handles NULL == filegen needs to be adjusted as the outer loop was changed from while to for)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.44 and earlier, and 5.6.25 and earlier, allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Client programs.