crypto: algifaead - Revert to operating out-of-place

Last updated 25 August 2025

cyrus-sasl (aka Cyrus SASL) 2.1.27 has an out-of-bounds write leading to unauthenticated remote denial-of-service in OpenLDAP via a malformed LDAP packet. The OpenLDAP crash is ultimately caused by an off-by-one error in sasladdstring in common.c in cyrus-sasl.

Last updated 25 August 2025

A vulnerability was found in Python 2.7.x through 2.7.16 and 3.x through 3.7.2. An improper Handling of Unicode Encoding (with an incorrect netloc) during NFKC normalization could lead to an Information Disclosure (credentials, cookies, etc. that are cached against a given hostname) in the urllib.parse.urlsplit, urllib.parse.urlparse components. A specially crafted URL could be incorrectly parsed to locate cookies or authentication data and send that information to a different host than when parsed correctly.

References: https://bugs.python.org/issue36216 https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/urlsplit-nfkc-normalization.html

Uptream Patch: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/12201

An issue was discovered in OpenSSH 7.9. Due to the scp implementation being derived from 1983 rcp, the server chooses which files/directories are sent to the client. However, the scp client only performs cursory validation of the object name returned (only directory traversal attacks are prevented). A malicious scp server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can overwrite arbitrary files in the scp client target directory. If recursive operation (-r) is performed, the server can manipulate subdirectories as well (for example, to overwrite the .ssh/authorizedkeys file).

An issue was discovered in OpenSSH 7.9. Due to missing character encoding in the progress display, a malicious server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can employ crafted object names to manipulate the client output, e.g., by using ANSI control codes to hide additional files being transferred. This affects refreshprogressmeter() in progressmeter.c.

A flaw was found in libxml2's xmlBuildQName function, where integer overflows in buffer size calculations can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. This issue can result in memory corruption or a denial of service when processing crafted input.

A flaw was found in Node.js versions before 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0. A Denial of Service with large HTTP headers. By using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB per connection), and carefully timed completion of the headers, it is possible to cause the HTTP server to abort from heap allocation failure. Attack potential is mitigated by the use of a load balancer or other proxy layer.

References: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/november-2018-security-releases/

A vulnerability was found in WebKit. The flaw is triggered when processing maliciously crafted web content that may lead to arbitrary code execution. Improved memory handling addresses the multiple memory corruption issues.

A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the certificate parsing code in Python. This causes a denial of service to applications when parsing specially crafted certificates. This vulnerability is unlikely to be triggered if application enables SSL/TLS certificate validation and accepts certificates only from trusted root certificate authorities.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of ext4 extent management. The kernel doesn't correctly initialize memory regions in the extent tree block which may be exported to a local user to obtain sensitive information by reading empty/uninitialized data from the filesystem.

Last updated 24 July 2024

Accessibility. A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.

A flaw was identified in the X.Org X server’s X Keyboard (Xkb) extension where improper bounds checking in the XkbSetCompatMap() function can cause an unsigned short overflow. If an attacker sends specially crafted input data, the value calculation may overflow, leading to memory corruption or a crash.

A flaw was discovered in the X.Org X server’s X Keyboard (Xkb) extension when handling client resource cleanup. The software frees certain data structures without properly detaching related resources, leading to a use-after-free condition. This can cause memory corruption or a crash when affected clients disconnect.

A random memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's GPU i915 kernel driver functionality in the way a user may run malicious code on the GPU. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.

A crafted request uri-path can cause modproxy to forward the request to an origin server choosen by the remote user. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.48 and earlier.

A flaw was found in Booth, a cluster ticket manager. If a specially-crafted hash is passed to gcrymdgetalgodlen(), it may allow an invalid HMAC to be accepted by the Booth server.

A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copypagetoiterpipe and pushpipe functions in the Linux kernel and could thus contain stale values. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to write to pages in the page cache backed by read only files and as such escalate their privileges on the system.

Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.20 to 2.4.43. A specially crafted value for the 'Cache-Digest' header in a HTTP/2 request would result in a crash when the server actually tries to HTTP/2 PUSH a resource afterwards. Configuring the HTTP/2 feature via "H2Push off" will mitigate this vulnerability for unpatched servers.

A flaw was discovered in the Bluetooth protocol. An attacker within physical proximity to the Bluetooth connection could downgrade the encryption protocol to be trivially brute forced.

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

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister(MSR) access with nested(=1) virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled.

A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue.

Upstream patches: ----------------- -> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git/commit/?id=acff78477b9b4f26ecdf65733a4ed77fe837e9dc -> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git/commit/?id=c73f4c998e1fd4249b9edfa39e23f4fda2b9b041

Reference: ---------- -> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/08/1

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP), part of the Bluetooth stack. An attacker, within the range of standard Bluetooth transmissions, can create and send a specially crafted packet. The response to this specially crafted packet can contain part of the kernel stack which can be used in a further attack.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of logical link control and adaptation protocol (L2CAP), part of the Bluetooth stack in the l2capparseconfrsp and l2capparseconfreq functions. An attacker with physical access within the range of standard Bluetooth transmission can create a specially crafted packet. The response to this specially crafted packet can contain part of the kernel stack which can be used in a further attack.

An out of bounds write flaw was found in the SQLite component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1025466

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

A flaw was found in the kernels implementation of the bluetooth HIDP (Human Interface Device Protocol). A local attacker with access permissions to the bluetooth device can issue an IOCTL which will trigger the dohidpsockioctl function in net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c.c. This function can potentially leak potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a HIDPCONNADD command, because a name field may not correctly NULL terminated.

Reference: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.15

Upstream commit: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a1616a5ac99ede5d605047a9012481ce7ff18b16 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a1616a5ac99ede5d605047a9012481ce7ff18b16

Last updated 28 September 2026

A flaw was found in the implementation of Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) abortion where a local authenticated attacker with the ability to monitor execution time is able to infer TSX memory state by comparing abort execution times.

This could allow information disclosure via this observed sidechannel for any TSX transaction being executed while an attacker is able to observe abort timing.