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Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FreeImage_AllocateBitmap. (CVE-2023-47995) Infinite loop exits in Load in PluginTIFF.cpp. (CVE-2023-47997) References:
Manfred Paul discovered a flaw in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, allowing an attacker to inject an event handler into a privileged object that would allow ar…
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the Python Imaging Library (PIL), an image processing library for Python. CVE-2021-23437
Splinefont in FontForge through 20230101 allows command injection via crafted filenames. (CVE-2024-25081) Splinefont in FontForge through 20230101 allows comma…
LibTIFF is vulnerable to an integer overflow. This flaw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute an arbitra…
It was discovered that fontforge, a font editor, is prone to shell command injection vulnerabilities when processing specially crafted files. For the oldstable…
A couple of vulnerabilities were found in zfs-linux. CVE-2013-20001
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Cacti, a network monitoring system. An attacker could manipulate the database, execute code remotely, launch DoS (denial…
It was discovered that Expat could be made to consume large amounts of resources. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted …
multipath-tools 0.7.7 through 0.9.x before 0.9.2 allows local users to obtain root access, as exploited in conjunction with CVE-2022-41974. Local users able to…
curl was affected by a path traversal vulnerability. SFTP implementation causes the tilde (~) character to be wrongly replaced when used as a prefix in the fir…
jackson-databind before 2.13.0 allows a Java StackOverflow exception and denial of service via a large depth of nested objects. (CVE-2020-36518) In FasterXML j…
Path traversal in moment.locale. (CVE-2022-24785) Inefficient parsing algorithim resulting in DoS. (CVE-2022-31129) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_…
Two vulnerabilities have been fixed in unADF, a tool to extract files from an Amiga Disk File dump. CVE-2016-1243
Hatim Chabik discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spip, a content management system, which can lead to privilege escalation or information …
The MPlayer Project mencoder SVN-r38374-13.0.1 is vulnerable to Divide By Zero via the function config () of llibmpcodecs/vf_scale.c. (CVE-2022-38850) Certain …
When using an SSH remote with the optional libssh2 backend, libgit2 does not perform certificate checking by default. (CVE-2023-22742) Using well-crafted input…
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Open vSwitch, a software-based Ethernet virtual switch, which could result in a bypass of OpenFlow rules or denial of se…
Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in the machine emulator and virtualizer QEMU. CVE-2023-2861
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in tiff, Tag Image File Format library. CVE-2023-3576
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software t…
Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in the font editor FontForge. CVE-2020-5395
Two vulnerabilities were fixed in YARD, a documentation tool for the Ruby programming laguage. CVE-2019-1020001
Aviv Keller discovered that the frames.html file generated by YARD, a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language, was vulnerable to cross-…