A buffer overflow and two remote crashes were recently discovered in gaim's MSN protocol handler. An attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges by crafting and sending a particular MSN message.

Chris Evans and Marcus Meissner recently discovered several integer overflow vulnerabilities in xpdf, a viewer for PDF files. Because tetex-bin contains xpdf code, it is also affected. These vulnerabilities could be exploited by an attacker providing a specially crafted TeX, LaTeX, or PDF file. Processing such a file with pdflatex could result in abnormal program termination or the execution of program code supplied by the attacker. This bug could be exploited to gain the privileges of the user invoking pdflatex.

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled GSS message tokens where an unwrapped token could appear to be truncated. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-37370) It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled GSS message tokens when sent a token with invalid length fields. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-37371)

Iggy Frankovic discovered that FRR incorrectly handled certain BGP messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FRR to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Iggy Frankovic discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain BGP messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

It was discovered that LibreOffice would incorrectly handle digital signature verification after repairing a corrupted document. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to forge valid signatures.

It was discovered that tgt attempts to achieve entropy by calling rand without srand. The PRNG seed is always 1, and thus the sequence of challenges is always identical.

It was discovered that py7zr was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially crafted 7z archive, an attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files outside the target directory on the host.

It was discovered that Puma incorrectly handled parsing certain headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite header values set by intermediate proxies by providing duplicate headers containing underscore characters.

USN-7031-1 fixed CVE-2024-45614 in Puma for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. This update fixes the CVE for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Puma incorrectly handled parsing certain headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite header values set by intermediate proxies by providing duplicate headers containing underscore characters.

It was discovered that some Intel(R) Processors did not properly restrict access to the Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface. This may allow a local privileged attacker to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2024-23984) It was discovered that some Intel(R) Processors did not properly implement finite state machines (FSMs) in hardware logic. This may allow a local privileged attacker to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-24968)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled HTTP trailer headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling.

The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 2.64 version of the Mozilla certificate authority bundle.

It was discovered that the AppArmor policy compiler incorrectly generated looser restrictions than expected for rules allowing mount operations. A local attacker could possibly use this to bypass AppArmor restrictions in applications where some mount operations were permitted.

It was discovered that Rack was not properly parsing data when processing multipart POST requests. If a user or automated system were tricked into sending a specially crafted multipart POST request to an application using Rack, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-30122) It was discovered that Rack was not properly escaping untrusted data when performing logging operations, which could cause shell escaped sequences to be written to a terminal. If a user or automated system were tricked into sending a specially crafted request to an application using Rack, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code in the machine running the application. (CVE-2022-30123) It was discovered that Rack did not properly structure regular expressions in some of its parsing components, which could result in uncontrolled resource consumption if an application using Rack received specially crafted input. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-44570, CVE-2022-44571) It was discovered that Rack did not properly structure regular expressions in its multipart parsing component, which could result in uncontrolled resource consumption if an application using Rack to parse multipart posts received specially crafted input. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-44572) It was discovered that Rack incorrectly handled Multipart MIME parsing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Rack to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-27530) It was discovered that Rack incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Rack to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-27539) It was discovered that Rack incorrectly parsed certain media types. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Rack to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-25126) It was discovered that Rack incorrectly handled certain Range headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Rack to create large responses, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-26141) It was discovered that Rack incorrectly handled certain crafted headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Rack to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-26146)

Thomas Stangner discovered a permission vulnerability in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to read named shared memory segments, potentially exposing sensitive application data.

It was discovered that OpenJPEG could enter a large loop and continuously print warning messages when given specially crafted input. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service.

USN-7034-1 updated ca-certificates. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 2.64 version of the Mozilla certificate authority bundle.

It was discovered that ConfigObj contains regex that is susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a regular expression denial of service.

It was discovered that Flatpak incorrectly handled certain persisted directories. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read and write files in locations it would not normally have access to. A patch was also needed to Bubblewrap in order to avoid race conditions caused by this fix.

USN-7015-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Python. This update provides the corresponding updates for CVE-2023-27043 for python2.7 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and for python3.5 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the Python email module incorrectly parsed email addresses that contain special characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certain protection mechanisms. (CVE-2023-27043) It was discovered that Python allowed excessive backtracking while parsing certain tarfile headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Python to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-6232) It was discovered that the Python email module incorrectly quoted newlines for email headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform header injection. (CVE-2024-6923) It was discovered that the Python http.cookies module incorrectly handled parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Python to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-7592) It was discovered that the Python zipfile module incorrectly handled certain malformed zip files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Python to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-8088)

Suyue Guo discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when flushing the typeahead buffer, leading to heap-buffer-overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

USN-7041-1 fixed a vulnerability in CUPS. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Simone Margaritelli discovered that CUPS incorrectly sanitized IPP data when creating PPD files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to manipulate PPD files and execute arbitrary code when a printer is used.

Benoit Côté-Jodoin and Michael Nipper discovered that Devise-Two-Factor incorrectly handled one-time password validation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to intercept and re-use a one-time password. (CVE-2021-43177) Garrett Rappaport discovered that Devise-Two-Factor incorrectly handled generating multi-factor authentication codes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to generate valid multi-factor authentication codes. (CVE-2024-8796)

Vladimír Čunát discovered that Knot Resolver incorrectly handled input during DNSSEC validation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certain validations. (CVE-2019-10190) Vladimír Čunát discovered that Knot Resolver incorrectly handled input during DNSSEC validation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to downgrade DNSSEC-secure domains to a DNSSEC-insecure state, resulting in a domain hijacking attack. (CVE-2019-10191) Vladimír Čunát discovered that Knot Resolver incorrectly handled certain DNS replies with many resource records. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume system resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-19331) Lior Shafir, Yehuda Afek, and Anat Bremler-Barr discovered that Knot Resolver incorrectly handled certain queries. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform an amplification attack directed at a target. (CVE-2020-12667)

It was discovered that unzip did not properly handle unicode strings under certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause unzip to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Goldberg, Miro Haller, Nadia Heninger, Mike Milano, Dan Shumow, Marc Stevens, and Adam Suhl discovered that FreeRADIUS incorrectly authenticated certain responses. An attacker able to intercept communications between a RADIUS client and server could possibly use this issue to forge responses, bypass authentication, and access network devices and services. This update introduces new configuration options called "limitproxystate" and "requiremessageauthenticator" that default to "auto" but should be set to "yes" once all RADIUS devices have been upgraded on a network.

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-9392, CVE-2024-9396, CVE-2024-9397, CVE-2024-9398, CVE-2024-9399, CVE-2024-9400, CVE-2024-9401, CVE-2024-9402, CVE-2024-9403) Masato Kinugawa discovered that Firefox did not properly validate javascript under the "resource://pdf.js" origin. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to execute arbitrary javascript code and access cross-origin PDF content. (CVE-2024-9393) Masato Kinugawa discovered that Firefox did not properly validate javascript under the "resource://devtools" origin. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to execute arbitrary javascript code and access cross-origin JSON content. (CVE-2024-9394)

Brennan Conroy discovered that the .NET Kestrel web server did not properly handle closing HTTP/3 streams under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to achieve remote code execution. This vulnerability only impacted .NET8. (CVE-2024-38229) It was discovered that .NET components designed to process malicious input were susceptible to hash flooding attacks. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash. (CVE-2024-43483) It was discovered that the .NET System.IO.Packaging namespace did not properly process SortedList data structures. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash. (CVE-2024-43484) It was discovered that .NET did not properly handle the deserialization of of certain JSON properties. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash. (CVE-2024-43485)

Fabian Vogt discovered that OATH Toolkit incorrectly handled file permissions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite root owned files, leading to a privilege escalation attack. (CVE-2024-47191)