Last updated 11 February 2025

A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.

GNU C Library could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write in the ISO-2022-CN-EXT plugin. By sending specially crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite critical data structures and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

Abnormal termination of an application can a cause a denial of service.

Applications performing certificate name checks (e.g., TLS clients checking server certificates) may attempt to read an invalid memory address when comparing the expected name with an otherName subject alternative name of an X.509 certificate. This may result in an exception that terminates the application program.

Note that basic certificate chain validation (signatures, dates, ...) is not affected, the denial of service can occur only when the application also specifies an expected DNS name, Email address or IP address.

TLS servers rarely solicit client certificates, and even when they do, they generally don't perform a name check against a "reference identifier" (expected identity), but rather extract the presented identity after checking the certificate chain. So TLS servers are generally not affected and the severity of the issue is Moderate.

The FIPS modules in 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue. OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are also not affected by this issue.

OpenSSL 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are vulnerable to this issue.

OpenSSL 3.3 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.3.2

OpenSSL 3.2 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.2.3

OpenSSL 3.1 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.1.7

OpenSSL 3.0 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.0.15

AMD. A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

Accounts. The issue was addressed with improved checks.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ip6tunnel: make sure to pull inner header in ip6tnlrcv()

syzbot found ip6tnlrcv() could access unitiliazed data [1].

Call pskbinetmaypull() to fix this, and initialize ipv6h variable after this call as it can change skb->head.

[1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in INETECNdecapsulate include/net/inetecn.h:253 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in INETECNdecapsulate include/net/inetecn.h:275 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in IP6ECNdecapsulate+0x7df/0x1e50 include/net/inetecn.h:321 INETECNdecapsulate include/net/inetecn.h:253 [inline] INETECNdecapsulate include/net/inetecn.h:275 [inline] IP6ECNdecapsulate+0x7df/0x1e50 include/net/inetecn.h:321 ip6ip6dscpecndecapsulate+0x178/0x1b0 net/ipv6/ip6tunnel.c:727 ip6tnlrcv+0xd4e/0x1590 net/ipv6/ip6tunnel.c:845 ip6tnlrcv+0xce/0x100 net/ipv6/ip6tunnel.c:888 grercv+0x143f/0x1870 ip6protocoldeliverrcu+0xda6/0x2a60 net/ipv6/ip6input.c:438 ip6inputfinish net/ipv6/ip6input.c:483 [inline] NFHOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline] ip6input+0x15d/0x430 net/ipv6/ip6input.c:492 ip6mcinput+0xa7e/0xc80 net/ipv6/ip6input.c:586 dstinput include/net/dst.h:461 [inline] ip6rcvfinish+0x5db/0x870 net/ipv6/ip6input.c:79 NFHOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline] ipv6rcv+0xda/0x390 net/ipv6/ip6input.c:310 netifreceiveskbonecore net/core/dev.c:5532 [inline] netifreceiveskb+0x1a6/0x5a0 net/core/dev.c:5646 netifreceiveskbinternal net/core/dev.c:5732 [inline] netifreceiveskb+0x58/0x660 net/core/dev.c:5791 tunrxbatched+0x3ee/0x980 drivers/net/tun.c:1555 tungetuser+0x53af/0x66d0 drivers/net/tun.c:2002 tunchrwriteiter+0x3af/0x5d0 drivers/net/tun.c:2048 callwriteiter include/linux/fs.h:2084 [inline] newsyncwrite fs/readwrite.c:497 [inline] vfswrite+0x786/0x1200 fs/readwrite.c:590 ksyswrite+0x20f/0x4c0 fs/readwrite.c:643 dosyswrite fs/readwrite.c:655 [inline] sesyswrite fs/readwrite.c:652 [inline] x64syswrite+0x93/0xd0 fs/readwrite.c:652 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] dosyscall64+0x6d/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0x6b

Uninit was created at: slabpostallochook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768 slaballocnode mm/slub.c:3478 [inline] kmemcacheallocnode+0x5e9/0xb10 mm/slub.c:3523 kmallocreserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:560 allocskb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:651 allocskb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline] allocskbwithfrags+0xc8/0xbd0 net/core/skbuff.c:6334 sockallocsendpskb+0xa80/0xbf0 net/core/sock.c:2787 tunallocskb drivers/net/tun.c:1531 [inline] tungetuser+0x1e8a/0x66d0 drivers/net/tun.c:1846 tunchrwriteiter+0x3af/0x5d0 drivers/net/tun.c:2048 callwriteiter include/linux/fs.h:2084 [inline] newsyncwrite fs/readwrite.c:497 [inline] vfswrite+0x786/0x1200 fs/readwrite.c:590 ksyswrite+0x20f/0x4c0 fs/readwrite.c:643 dosyswrite fs/readwrite.c:655 [inline] sesyswrite fs/readwrite.c:652 [inline] x64syswrite+0x93/0xd0 fs/readwrite.c:652 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] dosyscall64+0x6d/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0x6b

CPU: 0 PID: 5034 Comm: syz-executor331 Not tainted 6.7.0-syzkaller-00562-g9f8413c4a66f #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023

A flaw was found in the SQL plugin shipped with Cyrus SASL. The vulnerability occurs due to failure to properly escape SQL input and leads to an improper input validation vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands and the ability to change the passwords for other accounts allowing escalation of privileges.

A flaw was found in libxml2. Parsing a XML document with the XMLPARSEHUGE option enabled can result in an integer overflow because safety checks were missing in some functions. Also, the xmlParseEntityValue function didn't have any length limitation.

A flaw was found in the libxml2 library in functions used to manipulate the xmlBuf and the xmlBuffer types. A substantial input causes values to calculate buffer sizes to overflow, resulting in an out-of-bounds write.

A flaw was found in libxml2. A call to the xmlGetID function can return a pointer already freed when parsing an XML document with the XMLPARSEDTDVALID option and without the XMLPARSENOENT option, resulting in a use-after-free issue.

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with elevated privileges.

Certifi 2024.07.04 removes root certificates from "GLOBALTRUST" from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla's trust store.

GLOBALTRUST's root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation which identified "long-running and unresolved compliance issues". Conclusions of Mozilla's investigation can be found here.

A command injection vulnerability was found in Python 2.x and 3.x, specifically within the mailcap module. Mailcap core-module is based on the format documented in RFC 1524. The “findmatch()” function does not sanitise the second argument (filename). As a result, the legitimate command (that is used for opening the specified mime type) is concatenated with an arbitrary command, injected by an attacker.

iperf3 before 3.14 allows peers to cause an integer overflow and heap corruption via a crafted length field.

A vulnerability was discovered in Python. A quadratic algorithm exists when processing inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder, such that a crafted unreasonably long name being presented to the decoder could lead to a CPU denial of service. Hostnames are often supplied by remote servers that could be controlled by a malicious actor, which could trigger excessive CPU consumption on the client attempting to make use of an attacker-supplied hostname.

vim is vulnerable to Use After Free

vim is vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow

vim is vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in libxml2, where it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content. This flaw causes the application to crash if an untrusted XML document is parsed in recovery mode and post validated. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demanglepath() in rust-demangle.c, as distributed in GNU Binutils version 2.36. A crafted symbol can cause stack memory to be exhausted leading to a crash.

An use-after-free was found in xmllint when used with --html and --push options when processing crafted files.

Reference: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/230

Upstream patch: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/1358d157d0bd83be1dfe356a69213df9fac0b539

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in libxml2 when processing truncated UTF-8 input.

Reference: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/235

Upstream patch: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/bf22713507fe1fc3a2c4b525cf0a88c2dc87a3a2

ActionKit. An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.

OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a a missing check in the validation logic of X.509 certificate chains by the X509VFLAGX509STRICT flag. By using any valid certificate or certificate chain to sign a specially crafted certificate, an attacker could bypass the check that non-CA certificates must not be able to issue other certificates and override the default purpose.

GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion failure when processing invalid input sequences in the ISO-2022-JP-3 encoding in the iconv function. By sending specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way sudo parses command line arguments.

As per the researcher this vulnerability:

- is exploitable by any local user (normal users and system users, sudoers and non-sudoers), without authentication (i.e., the attacker does not need to know the user's password);

- was introduced in July 2011 (commit 8255ed69), and affects all legacy versions from 1.8.2 to 1.8.31p2 and all stable versions from 1.9.0 to 1.9.5p1, in their default configuration.

This could lead to privilege escalation.

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