Where
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Severity
7.8
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
SSRF, Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

The (1) HTTP and (2) FTP coders in ImageMagick before 6.9.3-10 and 7.x before 7.0.1-1 allow remote attackers to conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks via a crafted image.

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First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

The EPHEMERAL coder in ImageMagick before 6.9.3-10 and 7.x before 7.0.1-1 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a crafted image.

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Severity
7.8
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

It was discovered that the Tomcat packages installed certain configuration files read by the Tomcat initialization script as writeable to the tomcat group. A member of the group or a malicious web application deployed on Tomcat could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

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Severity
8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTPPROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.

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Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

A flaw was found in the way OpenSSL encoded certain ASN.1 data structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when verified or re-encoded by OpenSSL, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the OpenSSL library.

1 / 3
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Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Heap-based buffer overflow in the flxdecodedeltafli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via the startline parameter.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Heap-based buffer overflow in the flxdecodedeltafli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by providing a 'skip count' that goes beyond initialized buffer.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Hi,

When executing a program via the SELinux sandbox, the nonpriv session can escape to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the terminal's input buffer, allowing an attacker to escape the sandbox.

$ cat test.c #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h>

int main() { char cmd = "id\n"; while(cmd) ioctl(0, TIOCSTI, cmd++); execlp("/bin/id", "id", NULL); }

$ gcc test.c -o test $ /bin/sandbox ./test id uid=1000 gid=1000 groups=1000 context=unconfinedu:unconfinedr:sandboxt:s0:c47,c176 [saken@ghetto ~]$ id <------ did not type this uid=1000(saken) gid=1000(saken) groups=1000(saken) context=unconfinedu:unconfinedr:unconfinedt:s0-s0:c0.c1023

This is similar to CVE-2016-2568, CVE-2016-2779, etc.

Thanks, Federico Bento.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Heap-based buffer overflow in the flxdecodedeltafli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by providing a 'write count' that goes beyond the initialized buffer.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in abrt allowing privilege escalation.

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1. Insecure temporary directory and symlink usage in sosreport

A vulnerability allowing to elevate privileges from an unprivileged user to root on a default installation of RHEL 7/7.1 was reported.

When a process receives SIGSEGV, abrt will save diagnostic information in /var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-$pid on RHEL 7. Unless /etc/abrt/abrt.conf contains the line "PrivateReports = yes", directories created here by abrt will be chown()'d to the user who owned the crashing process. After saving some initial information it will call post-create scripts, one of the default ones on RHEL is /usr/sbin/sosreport. /usr/sbin/sosreport will be invoked as root and work with a temporary directory named /var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-$pid/sosreport-$hostname-$date. It will save a number of files collected from the system in this directory and then archive it. Since the directory is owned by root we cannot modify files inside it while sosreport is running, but we do own the parent directory and can simply rename the temporary directory and make a new one. /usr/sbin/sosreport will then write files into our crafted temp directory and will follow any symlinks we make inside. By also renaming some of the temporary files that sosreport works with we can exploit sosreport to write a file with crafted data at an arbitrary location as root.

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2. Insecure temporary directory usage in abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache

A vulnerability was reported allowing to create symlinks and files at arbitrary locations as the abrt user. abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache is a wrapper for abrt-action-install-debuginfo with the setuid bit for userid abrt. By default it creates a temporary directory in /var/tmp/abrt-tmp-debuginfo-RANDOMSUFFIX and downloads debug rpm files to this location before extracting them to /var/cache/abrt-di. The random suffix is not quite random but in fact highly predictable, and we can create this directory before executing the suid wrapper. By controlling the "unpacked.cpio" file we can trick abrt-action-install-debuginfo into extracting a cpio file that we control. By extracting two carefully created cpio archives we can leverage this to create files or symlinks anywhere on the file system as the abrt user.

This only works on non-redhat systems such as CentOS 7 or RHEL installations that do not use the official RHN yum repositories.

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3. Insecure symlink handling in abrt-hook-ccpp

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.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SerializableProvider in RESTEasy in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

An underflow read was found in pngcheckkeyword in pngwutil.c in libpng-1.2.54:

If the data of "key" is only ' ' (0x20), it will read a byte before the buffer in line 1288.

This issue impacts upstream versions 1.2.55, 1.0.65, 1.4.18, and 1.5.25 of libpng.

An attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause an out-of-bounds read by tricking an unsuspecting user into processing a specially crafted PNG image.

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/469

Upstream issue:

http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/bugs/244/

Upstream patch:

http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/d9006f683c641793252d92254a75ae9b815b42ed/

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF font.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.61 and earlier, and 5.5.21 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Server Optimizer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1690.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Integer signedness error in the MacReadPOSTResource function in base/ftobjs.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mac font.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Integer Overflow, Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Multiple integer signedness errors in the pcfgetencodings function in pcf/pcfread.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow, NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) via a crafted PCF file that specifies negative values for the first column and first row.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

sfnt/ttload.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with offset+length calculations without restricting the values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SFNT table.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The MacReadPOSTResource function in base/ftobjs.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with adding to length values without validating the original values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mac font.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Multiple integer overflows in sfnt/ttcmap.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted cmap SFNT table.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Off-by-one error in the pcfgetproperties function in pcf/pcfread.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted PCF file with a 0xffffffff size value that is improperly incremented.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The ttfaceloadkern function in sfnt/ttkern.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 enforces an incorrect minimum table length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TrueType font.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The ttcmap4validate function in sfnt/ttcmap.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 validates a certain length field before that field's value is completely calculated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted cmap SFNT table.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The bdfparseglyphs function in bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly handle a missing ENDCHAR record, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted BDF font.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain parsing actions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 font, related to type42/t42parse.c and type1/t1load.c.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The ttsbitdecoderinit function in sfnt/ttsbit.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with a count-to-size association without restricting the count value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted embedded bitmap.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The ttfaceloadhdmx function in truetype/ttpload.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not establish a minimum record size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TrueType font.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Use After Free
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not consider that scanning can be incomplete without triggering an error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 font.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Buffer Overflow, Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read or NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the MIT Kerberos SPNEGO acceptor for continuation tokens. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the server acceptor.

It is reported that this issue affects version 1.5 and later.

Upstream commit and further details:

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/524688ce87a15fc75f87efc8c039ba4c7d5c197b

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