GraphicsMagick, a comprehensive image processing package, is found to have a vulnerability which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "ExportAlphaQuantumType()" function found in magick/export.c when exporting 8-bit RGBA images, which can be exploited to cause a crash.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.3.18, Fedora 19 already ships with 1.3.18, so it doesn't seem to be affected.
References: https://bugs.gentoo.org/showbug.cgi?id=488050
A stack overflow vulnerability was found in nan functions that could cause applications which process long strings with the nan function to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
Upstream bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=16962
CVE assignment:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/153
A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from nssdns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control of EIP in the DNS client.
The buffer overflow occurs in the functions senddg (send datagram) and sendvc (send TCP) for the NSS module libnssdns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AFUNSPEC family, or in some cases AFINET6 family. The use of AFUNSPEC (or AFINET6 in some cases) triggers the low-level resolver code to send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by resnquery.
Qemu emulator built with the e1000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing transmit descriptor data when sending a network packet.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu instance resulting in DoS.
Upstream fix: ------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg01199.html
Adam Gowdiak (Security Explorations) reported that the fix for IBM JDK issue CVE-2013-5456 (bug 1027748), also known as "Issue 70", did not correctly address the problem. Applied fix only restricted access to the vulnerable package, rather then addressing the underlying problem of running untrusted code inside doPrivileged block.
Report:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Apr/43
Write-up of the issue:
http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/SE-2012-01-IBM-5.pdf
Proof-of-concept code:
http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/se-2012-01-70.2.zip
It was reported that the IBM fix for the issue 67 from this document http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/SE-2012-01-IBM-2.pdf didn't address the problem properly.
References:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Apr/3
Full report:
http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/SE-2012-01-IBM-4.pdf
A flaw was found in the way memory was being allocated on the stack for user space binaries. If heap and stack memory regions were adjacent to each other, an attacker could use this flaw to jump over the heap/stack gap, cause controlled memory corruption on process stack or heap, and thus increase their privileges on the system.
This is a tracking bug for the glibc part of the mitigation.