An old inffast.c optimization turns out to not be optimal anymore with modern compilers, and furthermore was not compliant with the C standard, for which decrementing a pointer before its allocated memory is undefined.

External References:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/0/09/Zlib-report.pdf https://docs.google.com/document/d/10i1KZS5so8xDqH2rplRa2xet0tyTvvJlLbQQmZIUIKE/edit#heading=h.t13tvnx4loq7

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/9aaec95e82117c1cb0f9624264c3618fc380cecb

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/602

It was found that sssd's sysdbsearchuserbyupnres() function before 1.16.0 did not sanitize requests when querying its local cache and was vulnerable to injection. In a centralized login environment, if a password hash was locally cached for a given user, an authenticated attacker could use this flaw to retrieve it.

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home directory.

Heap-based buffer overflow in dnsmasq before 2.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response.

A double-free can happen in idrremoveall() in lib/idr.c in the Linux kernel 2.6 branch. An unprivileged local attacker can use this flaw for a privilege escalation or for a system crash and a denial of service (DoS).

A vulnerability was found in basesockcreate in drivers/isdn/mISDN/socket.c in the AFISDN network module in the Linux kernel does not enforce CAPNETRAW, which means that unprivileged users can create a raw socket.

Reference:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b91ee4aa2a2199ba4d4650706c272985a5a32d80

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5.3, in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring->first' and 'ring->last' value could be supplied by a host user-space process. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system.

389 Directory Server in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 through 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 6 through 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 through 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 through 7 allows remote attackers to infer the existence of RDN component objects.

Dominic Scheirlinck of VendHQ reports:

Many software projects and vendors have implemented support for the “Proxy” request header in their respective CGI implementations and languages by creating the “HTTPPROXY” environmental variable based on the header value. When this variable is used (in many cases automatically by various HTTP client libraries) any outgoing requests generated in turn from the attackers original request can be redirected to an attacker controlled proxy. This allows attackers to view potentially sensitive information, reply with malformed data, or to hold connections open causing a potential denial of service.

The PHP web framework contains will automatically populate the HTTPPROXY environmental variable with a user supplied "Proxy" header.

It was discovered that the Kerberos implementation in the Security component of OpenJDK used RSA-MD5 checksum in Ticket Granting Service (TGS) requests even though MD5 algorithm is no longer considered safe for such use case. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to manipulate TGS requests.

A flaw was found in the Serialization component of OpenJDK handled serialization filter. A process-wide filter could have been modified by setting jdk.serialFilter system property at runtime, possibly leading to a bypass of the intended filter during deserialization.

An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Scripting component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and low availability impact.

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

It was discovered that the AccessController class implementation in the Security component of OpenJDK failed, in certain cases, to consider the current context and correctly restrict privileges based on it. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass certain Java sandbox restrictions.

It was discovered that libvirtd would permit readonly clients to use the virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML() API, which would permit them to modify managed save state files. If a managed save had already been created by a privileged user, a local attacker could modify this file such that libvirtd would execute an arbitrary program when the domain was resumed.

This vulnerability was first present in libvirt v3.6.1.

A flaw was found in the implementation of transport.py in Paramiko before 1.17.6, 1.18.x before 1.18.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.2, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests, as demonstrated by channel-open. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.

Upstream Issue:

https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/1175

Upstream Patch:

https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/commit/fa29bd8446c8eab237f5187d28787727b4610516

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in the pngimagefree function in the libpng library. This could lead to denial of service or a potentially exploitable crash when a malformed image is processed.

Last updated 25 August 2025

Due to a missing case handling object types, a type confusion vulnerability could occur, resulting in a crash. We presume that with enough effort that it could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

A flaw was found in the BigDecimal implementation in the Libraries component of OpenJDK. An untrusted numeric value parsed by a Java application could the application to use an excessive amount of CPU time.

A flaw was found in the RMI registry implementation in the RMI component of OpenJDK. Incorrect handling of the server-side dispatch could lead to selection of an incorrect skeleton class.

A flaw was found in the way the Jar URL handler in the Networking component in OpenJDK handled URLs with nested jar: URLs. A specially crafted URL could cause Java application to exit when parsed.

An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JAXP component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.

Last updated 24 July 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during XSL transformations when the source document for the transformation is manipulated by script content during the transformation. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

A flaw was discovered in the way the Libraries component of OpenJDK processed X.509 certificates. Values of Object Identifiers (OIDs) were "interned", possibly allowing a malicious X.509 certificate to trigger excessive memory usage in a Java application processing such certificate.

A flaw was found in the URL class implementation in the Networking component of OpenJDK. An incorrect check to determine if a URLStreamHandler is builtin or not can lead to incorrect URL normalization in certain cases.

A flaw was found in the what the BeanContextSupport class in the Serialization component of OpenJDK handled exceptions during deserialization. A specially-crafted input could cause a Java application to use an excessive amount of resources when deserialized.

An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Java SE Networking component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.