It was discovered that the RMI (Java Remote Method Invocation) server implementation in the JMX (Java Management Extensions) component of OpenJDK did not restrict which classes can be deserialized when deserializing authentication credentials. A remote unauthenticated attacker able to connect to a JMX port could possibly use this flaw trigger deserialization flaws.

apache. Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 2.4.27.

The tcpmssmanglepacket function in net/netfilter/xtTCPMSS.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11, and 4.9.x before 4.9.36, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the presence of xtTCPMSS in an iptables action.

An unspecified flaw was found in the Libraries component in OpenJDK. ObjectInputStream's readSerialData() could, in certain cases, incorrectly perform deserialization of data from serialized input. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

Last updated 25 August 2025

It was discovered that OpenSSH client did not correctly handle situations when untrusted X11 forwarding was requested and generation of the untrusted authentication cookie failed. The ssh client continued by generating fake authentication cookie and allowed remote X clients to connect the local X server. The decision if client connection was accepted was delegated to the X server which, depending on its configuration, could allow clients to open trusted X connection. This would lead to remote X clients having more privileged access to the local X server than intended.

This problem can occur when X server does not include or enable X Security extension (for X.org X server, this extension is not compiled in by default since 2007) and when it has authentication methods besides MIT cookies enabled (e.g. localuser authentication allowing all X connections from a local user who owns the X session).

Both of these conditions are satisfied on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and current Fedora versions. The X server does not have X Security extension compiled in and 'xhost +si:localuser:id -un' is run from the xinit scripts. Therefore remote X clients are granted trusted access to the local X server when 'ssh -X' is used, as if 'ssh -Y' was actually used.

The X server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 includes X Security extension (as of RHSA-2013:1620 - http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1620.html - which was released as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5) and hence does not fall back to the use of fake authentication cookie.

This issue was corrected upstream in version 7.1p2:

http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.1p2

Upstream commit:

https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=ed4ce82dbfa8a3a3c8ea6fa0db113c71e234416c

which needs to be applied after:

https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=f98a09cacff7baad8748c9aa217afd155a4d493f

A flaw was found in the bash functionality that evaluates specially formatted environment variables passed to it from another environment. An attacker could use this feature to override or bypass restrictions to the environment to execute shell commands before restrictions have been applied. Certain services and applications allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide environment variables, allowing them to exploit this issue.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Stephane Chazelas for reporting this issue.

GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings after certain malformed function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the modcgi and modcgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server, scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in which setting the environment occurs across a privilege boundary from Bash execution. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-6271.

Oracle MySQL through 5.5.52, 5.6.x through 5.6.33, and 5.7.x through 5.7.15; MariaDB before 5.5.51, 10.0.x before 10.0.27, and 10.1.x before 10.1.17; and Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.1, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78.0, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-7 allow local users to create arbitrary configurations and bypass certain protection mechanisms by setting generallogfile to a my.cnf configuration. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by setting malloclib. NOTE: the affected MySQL version information is from Oracle's October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that the issue was silently patched in MySQL 5.5.52, 5.6.33, and 5.7.15.

apache. Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 2.4.27.

Moxilla Firefox allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy to read arbitrary files or gain privileges.

A flaw was found in sudo before version 1.8.28. When sudo is configured to allow a user to run commands as an arbitrary user via the 'ALL' keyword in a 'Runas' specification, it is possible to run commands as root.

In Mercurial before 4.1.3, "hg serve --stdio" allows remote authenticated users to launch the Python debugger, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by using --debugger as a repository name.

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.

The VNC websocket frame decoder in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section.

A vulnerability was found in the libxml2 library. A heap-based buffer overread could happen in xmlNextChar.

References:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/showbug.cgi?id=759671

Upstream fix:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=a7a94612aa3b16779e2c74e1fa353b5d9786c602

apache. Multiple issues existed in Apache. These were addressed by updating Apache to version 2.4.25.

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch operation via Mov SS or Pop SS instructions. During the stack switch operation, processor does not deliver interrupts and exceptions, they are delivered once the first instruction after the stack switch is executed.

An unprivileged KVM guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest and/or potentially escalate their privileges in the guest.

Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/32d43cd391bacb5f0814c2624399a5dad3501d09

Reference: ---------- -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/08/5

An attacker within bluetooth transmission range can cause a stack buffer overflow in the Bluetooth system of the Linux kernel while processing pending L2CAP configuration responses from a client. An unauthenticated user able to connect to a system via Bluetooth could use this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the system.

External References:

https://www.armis.com/blueborne/ https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/blueborne https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3177231 https://access.redhat.com/blogs/product-security/posts/blueborne

An upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e860d2c904d1a9f38a24eb44c9f34b8f915a6ea3

Artifex Ghostscript allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile.

A vulnerability was found in the libxml2 library. A heap-buffer-overflow could happen in xmlStrncat.

References:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/showbug.cgi?id=763071

Upstream fix:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=8fbbf5513d609c1770b391b99e33314cd0742704

It was discovered that the Tomcat packages installed configuration file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf 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.

Last updated 29 November 2024

A vulnerability was found in the fs/inode.c:inodeinitowner() function logic of the LInux kernel that allows local users to create files with an unintended group ownership and with group execution and SGID permission bits set, in a scenario where a directory is SGID and belongs to a certain group and is writable by a user who is not a member of this group. This can lead to excessive permissions granted in case when they should not.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host.

A vulnerability was found in icoutils in extract.c. It is possible to access unallocated memory via wrestool while parsing maliciously crafted file which would make the application crash or possibly allow code execution.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/56

Upstream patch:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/icoutils.git/commit/?id=1aa9f28f7bcbdfff6a84a15ac8d9a87559b1596a

An integer overflow vulnerability was found in extract.c while transferring resources into file memory. A maliciously crafted file could make the application crash or possibly allow code execution.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/56

Upstream patch:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/icoutils.git/commit/?id=1a108713ac26215c7568353f6e02e727e6d4b24a

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in jasper in jpctsfbgetbands2 function in jpctsfb.c triggered by parsing of a malicious file.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/1abc2e5a401a4bf1d5ca4df91358ce5df111f495

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/473

GNU patch does not properly sanitize patch files allowing for malicious patches to pass arbitrary shell commands to ed. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into applying malicious patches with the patch command.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the getZip64Data function in Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted zip file in the -t command argument to the unzip command.