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On Sun, 8 Mar 2026 03:57:45 +0100, Solar Designer wrote: others have. It may well be that allowing those other env vars by and maybe allowing LANG and LC is desirable for current use cases. LANG and LC were cargo-culted in as they are honoured by OpenSSHd. Separately note that I didn't check the BSDs telnet client (which I think is still present in all BSDs) for being (hopefully not) willing And you could want to check the telnet client in InetUtils, now that we know this package missed telnet[d] security fixes in general. This was CVE-2005-0488 (and CVE-2005-1205 on Windows).

"Certain BSD-based Telnet clients, including those used on Solaris and SuSE Linux, allow remote malicious Telnet servers to read sensitive command."

The daemon now clears the inherited environment (preserving PATH and TERM, respectively, if present) before calling telnetdsetup(). LDPRELOAD=/lib64/libhardenedmalloc.so (although /etc/ld.so.preload is a more reliable way to do this when practical to do it globally).

exorciseenv() and leave the inetd/tcpd supplied environment intact for telnetd (or some site-specific wrapper) to inherit. +++ b/telnetd/state.c @@ -1495,10 +1495,18 @@ suboption (void) case NEWENVVAR: case ENVUSERVAR: ... } / end of case TELOPTNEWENVIRON /

Some code duplication here. Not new with these changes, but could be worth moving to a new function e.g. setenvvarifallowed(). Agreed. I'll implement setenvvarifallowed() instead. +/ A default whitelist for environment variables. / +static const char allowedenvvars[] = { + "USER", + "LOGNAME", + "TERM", + "LANG", + "LC", + NULL +};

Can make not only the strings but also the pointers const:

static const char const allowedenvvars[] = {

so that both may end up in a read-only section. OK, .rodata it is. +int +isenvvarallowed (const char var, const char val) +{ + const char p; + int allowed = 0; + + for (p = allowedenvvars; p; p++) + { + if (fnmatch (p, var, FNMNOESCAPE) == 0) + { + allowed = 1; + break; + } + } + + if (!allowed) + return 0;

You didn't strictly need the "allowed" variable, you could check p after the loop. But maybe it's more readable the way you wrote it. I'll keep "allowed" for the time being, but I don't mind changing it if there's a clearer way to express this logic. My review above isn't in full context - I only looked at the patches.

Severity
7.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A vulnerability was found in a way libxml2 parses certain files. With the libxml2 in recovery mode, a maliciously crafted filed could cause libxml2 to crash.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/682

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/683

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Source: Red Hat
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Severity
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Source: Ubuntu
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9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Source: Ubuntu
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7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Source: Ubuntu
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Severity
7
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Source: Ubuntu
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7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Source: Ubuntu
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7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Source: Ubuntu
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7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Source: Ubuntu
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7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Source: Ubuntu
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5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

A vulnerability exists where the caret ("^") character is improperly escaped constructing some URIs due to it being used as a separator, allowing for possible spoofing of origin attributes.

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First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Mozilla developers and community members Andreea Pavel, Christian Holler, Honza Bambas, Jason Kratzer, and Jeff Gilbert reported memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 68, Firefox ESR 60.8, and Thunderbird 68. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

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Source: Mozilla
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Severity
8.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in ruby, where the date object was found to be vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) during the parsing of dates. This flaw allows an attacker to hang a ruby application by providing a specially crafted date string. The highest threat to this vulnerability is system availability.

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First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
Input Validation
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A security Bypass vulnerability exists in the FcgidPassHeader Proxy in modfcgid through 2016-07-07.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.3
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

The verify function in the RSA package for Python (Python-RSA) before 3.3 allows attackers to spoof signatures with a small public exponent via crafted signature padding, aka a BERserk attack.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. A lack of bounds checking when copying ivdata from the VM guest memory into host memory can lead to a large buffer overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

1 / 3
Source: Ubuntu
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The Verify function in crypto/dsa/dsa.go in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly check parameters passed to the big integer library, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted public key to a program that uses HTTPS client certificates or SSH server libraries.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.

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Severity
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in the way haproxy processed certain HTTP/2 request packets. An attacker could send crafted HTTP/2 request packets which cause memory corruption, leading to a crash or potential remote arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user running haproxy.

1 / 3
Source: Red Hat
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Severity
8
Path Traversal
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in python-pip. Installing remote packages is vulnerable to directory traversal via Content-Disposition header by a malicious server.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6413

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Source: Red Hat

Remedy

Avoid downloading or installing packages from potentially malicious servers via the command-line "pip download" or "pip install".
First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mwifiex driver implementation when connecting to other WiFi devices in "Test Mode." A kernel memory leak can occur if an error condition is met during the parameter negotiation. This issue can lead to a denial of service if multiple error conditions meeting the repeated connection attempts are attempted.

1 / 3

Remedy

As connecting to a wireless device is not automatic and initiated by a user, not connecting to rogue access points would prevent this flaw from being abused.
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Severity
5.7
Use After Free, Race Condition
AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

A use-after-free flaw was found in the acmprobe USB subsystem in the Linux kernel. A race condition occurs when a destroy() procedure is initiated allowing the refcount to decrement on the interface so early that it is never under counted. A malicious USB device is required for exploit. System availability is the largest threat from the vulnerability, however data integrity and confidentiality are also threatened.

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Remedy

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
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Severity
6.5
Divide by Zero
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

ImageMagick 7.0.1-0 to 7.0.8-54 Q16 allows Division by Zero in RemoveDuplicateLayers in MagickCore/layer.c.

1 / 5
Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
10
Input Validation
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Last updated 24 July 2024

1 / 3
Source: Ubuntu
First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

An issue was discovered in buttonopen in login/logind-button.c in systemd before 243. When executing the udevadm trigger command, a memory leak may occur.

1 / 2
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A resource consumption vulnerability was found in nghttp2. This flaw allows an attacker to repeatedly construct an overly large HTTP/2 SETTINGS frame with a length of 14,400 bytes that causes excessive CPU usage, leading to a denial of service.

1 / 3
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A code execution vulnerability exists in the directory rehashing functionality of E2fsprogs e2fsck 1.45.4. A specially crafted ext4 directory can cause an out-of-bounds write on the stack, resulting in code execution. An attacker can corrupt a partition to trigger this vulnerability.

1 / 3
Source: Ubuntu
First published (updated )
Severity
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

js/getscripts.js.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large array in the scripts parameter.

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