A Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability (from any user to root) was found in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major Linux distribution.
A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Setparamprefix() in the menu rendering code performs a length calculation on the assumption that expressing a quoted single quote will require 3 characters while it actually requires 4 characters which allows an attacker to corrupt memory by one byte for each quote in the input. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The option parser allows an attacker to write past the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms of options. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
The CSS parser (khtml/css/cssparser.cpp) in Konqueror in KDE 4.7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read memory via a crafted font face source, related to "type confusion."
A heap overflow vulnerability was found in openslp, that may result in remote code execution.
A flaw was found in Intel graphics hardware (GPU) where a local attacker with the ability to issue commands to the GPU which could inadvertently lead to memory corruption and possibly privilege escalation.
The attacker could use the GPU blitter to perform privilege MMIO operations not limited to the address space required to function correctly. This would expose the blitter to access kernel memory with a specially crafted request to the blitter.
Affected hardware:
- Ivy Bridge(Gen 7) and later, - Cherry Trail (Gen8) and newer mobile, desktop and embedded processors. - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v4 and later product families.
A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts. An attacker with local access could use this information to reveal private data through a Spectre like side channel.
Last updated 25 August 2025
A vulnerability was found in modauthmellon before v0.14.2. If Apache is configured as a reverse proxy and modauthmellon is configured to only let through authenticated users (with the require valid-user directive), adding special HTTP headers that are normally used to start the special SAML ECP (non-browser based) can be used to bypass authentication.
A flaw was found in libssh2 before 1.8.1 creating a vulnerability on the SSH client side. A server could send a multiple keyboard interactive response messages whose total length are greater than unsigned char max characters. This value is used by the SSH client as an index to copy memory causing in an out of bounds memory write error.
A malicious server could send a specially crafted packet which could result in an unchecked integer overflow. The value would then be used to allocate memory causing a possible memory write out of bounds error.
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
A use after free issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements its device control API. While creating a device via kvmioctlcreatedevice(), device holds a reference to a VM object, latter this reference is transferred to caller's file descriptor table. If such file descriptor was to be closed, reference count to the VM object could become zero, potentially leading to use-after-free issue latter.
A user/process could use this flaw to crash the guest VM resulting in DoS issue OR potentially gain privileged access to a system.
Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/cfa39381173d5f969daf43582c95ad679189cbc9
Reference: ---------- -> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/18/2
A use after free issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor emulates a preemption timer for L2 guest when nested(=1) virtualization is enabled. This high resolution timer(hrtimer) runs when L2 guest is active. After VM exit, in syncvmcs12() timer object is stopped. The use-after-free occurs if the timer object is free'd before calling syncvmcs12() routine.
A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the host kernel resulting in DoS OR potentially gain privileged access to a system.
It affects only Intel processors and only when nested virtualization is enabled.
Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/ecec76885bcfe3294685dc363fd1273df0d5d65f
Reference: ---------- -> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/18/2
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while parsing an HTML5 stream in concert with custom HTML elements. This results in the stream parser object being freed while still in use, leading to a potentially exploitable crash.
An earlier fix for an Inter-process Communication (IPC) vulnerability, CVE-2011-3079, added authentication to communication between IPC endpoints and server parents during IPC process creation. This authentication is insufficient for channels created after the IPC process is started, leading to the authentication not being correctly applied to later channels. This could allow for a sandbox escape through IPC channels due to lack of message validation in the listener process.
Last updated 25 August 2025
Last updated 25 August 2025
In Artifex Ghostscript through 9.26, ephemeral or transient procedures can allow access to system operators, leading to remote code execution.
A memory disclosure flaw was found in the FileChannelImpl class in the Libraries component of OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw leak limited amount of Java Virtual Machine memory possibly containing sensitive information, resulting in a partial bypass of Java sandbox restrictions.
In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the "start time" protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c.
A buffer overflow can occur in the Skia library during buffer offset calculations with hardware accelerated canvas 2D actions due to the use of 32-bit calculations instead of 64-bit. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur after deleting a selection element due to a weak reference to the select element in the options collection. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
External Reference:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-30/#CVE-2018-18492
A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using the Javascript location property to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries(). This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft.
External Reference:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-30/#CVE-2018-18494
A potential vulnerability leading to an integer overflow can occur during buffer size calculations for images when a raw value is used instead of the checked value. This can lead to an out-of-bounds write.
Last updated 25 August 2025
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Skia library can occur when creating a path, leading to a potentially exploitable crash.
In Artifex Ghostscript through 9.25, the setpattern operator did not properly validate certain types. A specially crafted PostScript document could exploit this to crash Ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the context of the Ghostscript process. This is a type confusion issue because of failure to check whether the Implementation of a pattern dictionary was a structure type.
A possible memory corruption due to a type confusion was found in the Linux kernel in the skclonelock() function in the net/core/sock.c. A possibility of local escalation of privileges cannot be fully ruled out for a local unprivileged attacker.
References:
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-12-01.html#kernel-components
An upstream patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9d538fa60bad4f7b23193c89e843797a1cf71ef3
FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains an Integer Truncation that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function updatereadbitmapupdate() and results in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.