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 Yelp. The Gnome user help application allows the help document to execute arbitrary scripts. This vulnerability allows malicious users to input help documents, which may exfiltrate user files to an external environment.

A flaw was found in libsoup. The package is vulnerable to a heap buffer over-read when sniffing content via the skipinsightwhitespace() function. Libsoup clients may read one byte out-of-bounds in response to a crafted HTTP response by an HTTP server.

A flaw was found in rsync which could be triggered when rsync compares file checksums. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the checksum length (s2length) to cause a comparison between a checksum and uninitialized memory and leak one byte of uninitialized stack data at a time.

A vulnerability was found in Buildah. Cache mounts do not properly validate that user-specified paths for the cache are within our cache directory, allowing a RUN instruction in a Container file to mount an arbitrary directory from the host (read/write) into the container as long as those files can be accessed by the user running Buildah.

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.

A vulnerability was found in Unbound due to incorrect default permissions, allowing any process outside the unbound group to modify the unbound runtime configuration. If a process can connect over localhost to port 8953, it can alter the configuration of unbound.service. This flaw allows an unprivileged attacker to manipulate a running instance, potentially altering forwarders, allowing them to track all queries forwarded by the local resolver, and, in some cases, disrupting resolving altogether.

A use-after-free flaw was found in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. If the catchall element is garbage-collected when the pipapo set is removed, the element can be deactivated twice. This can cause a use-after-free issue on an NFTCHAIN object or NFTOBJECT object, allowing a local unprivileged user with CAPNETADMIN capability to escalate their privileges on the system.

Last updated 30 August 2024

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.

+5.9.2: + security: + - These two CVEs can be exploited by a user with read-only credentials: + - CVE-2022-24805 A buffer overflow in the handling of the INDEX of + NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB can cause an out-of-bounds memory access. + - CVE-2022-24809 A malformed OID in a GET-NEXT to the nsVacmAccessTable + can cause a NULL pointer dereference. + - These CVEs can be exploited by a user with read-write credentials: + - CVE-2022-24806 Improper Input Validation when SETing malformed + OIDs in master agent and subagent simultaneously + - CVE-2022-24807 A malformed OID in a SET request to + SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmAccessTable can cause an + out-of-bounds memory access. + - CVE-2022-24808 A malformed OID in a SET request to + NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB::nsLogTable can cause a NULL pointer dereference + - CVE-2022-24810 A malformed OID in a SET to the nsVacmAccessTable + can cause a NULL pointer dereference. + - To avoid these flaws, use strong SNMPv3 credentials and do not share them. + If you must use SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c, use a complex community string + and enhance the protection by restricting access to a given IP address range. + - Thanks are due to Yu Zhang of VARAS@IIE and Nanyu Zhong of VARAS@IIE for + reporting the following CVEs that have been fixed in this release, and + to Arista Networks for providing fixes.