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Several vulnerabilities were fixed in libjackson-json-java, a Java JSON processor. CVE-2017-7525
In inetutils-telnetd, an implementation of a telnet daemon, arbitrary remote code execution might have been possible via short writes or urgent data.
A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in Icinga Web 2, a web interface for Icinga, which could result in the disclosure of files readable by the p…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in sqlite3, a C library that implements an SQL database engine. CVE-2018-8740
Chrony's method of opening its PID file could allow a compromised chrony user account to overwrite files in certain parts of the filesystem with chrony's PID, …
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Python2.7, an interactive high-level object-oriented language.
Tim Starling discovered two vulnerabilities in firejail, a sandbox program to restrict the running environment of untrusted applications.
The Server-Server protocol implementation in ngIRCd before 26~rc2 allows an out-of-bounds access, as demonstrated by the IRC_NJOIN() function. (CVE-2020-14148)…
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, allowing an attacker to escalate privileges and cau…
NSS has multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities when handling secret key material.
Integer overflow due to missing input sanitation in rdpegfx channel. The input rectangles from the server are not checked against local surface coordinates and…
The jas_matrix_bindsub function in jas_seq.c in JasPer 2.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read) via a crafted image (CVE-2017…
Allocation for pixmap data in AllocatePixmap() does not initialize the memory in xserver, it leads to leak uninitialize heap memory to clients. When the X serv…
The X Input Method (XIM) client implementation in libX11 has some integer overflows and signed/unsigned comparison issues that can lead to heap corruption when…
CVE-2020-12100: Receiving mail with deeply nested MIME parts leads to resource exhaustion as Dovecot attempts to parse it. CVE-2020-12673: Dovecot's NTLM imple…
In radare2 before version 4.5.0, malformed PDB file names in the PDB server path cause shell injection. To trigger the problem it's required to open the execut…
It was reported that firejail does not respect the end-of-options separator ("--"), allowing an attacker with control over the command line options of the sand…
Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.20 to 2.4.43. A specially crafted value for the 'Cache-Digest' header in a HTTP/2 request would result in a crash when the serv…
An access flaw was found in targetcli, where the /etc/target and underneath backup directory/files were world-readable. This flaw allows a local attacker to ac…
Servers where the Handler concurrently reads the request body and writes a response can encounter a data race and crash. The httputil.ReverseProxy Handler is a…
Kevin Backhouse discovered multiple vulnerabilies in the epson2 and epsonds backends of SANE, a library for scanners. A malicious remote device could exploit t…
Several vulnerabilities were fixed in JRuby, a 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby. CVE-2017-17742
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in net-snmp, a suite of Simple Network Management Protocol applications, which could lead to privilege escalation.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime, resulting in denial of service, bypass of access/sandbox restrictions or information …