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A vulnerbility has been found in fluidsynth, a real-time MIDI software synthesizer. Using a special crafted soundfont2 file, a use after free vulnerability
OpenVPN 2.5.1 and earlier versions allows a remote attackers to bypass authentication and access control channel data on servers configured with deferred authe…
A flaw was found in nginx. An off-by-one error while processing DNS responses allows a network attacker to write a dot character out of bounds in a heap alloca…
Remote crash in RSA decryption via manipulated ciphertext (CVE-2021-3580). A flaw was found in Nettle in versions before 3.7.2, where several Nettle signature …
re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags (CVE-2018-21232). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cg…
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gi…
Libgcrypt before 1.8.8 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 mishandles ElGamal encryption because it lacks exponent blinding to address a side-channel attack against mpi_pow…
Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which hop sent these cells: this wo…
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in openjpeg. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application compiled again…
A flaw was found in gnutls. A use after free issue in client sending key_share extension may lead to memory corruption and other consequences (CVE-2021-20231).…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in klibc. Depending on how klibc is used, these could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalatio…
The XML parsers used by XMLBeans did not set the properties needed to protect the user from malicious XML input. Vulnerabilities include the possibility for XM…
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff library and the included tools, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary cod…
Two issues have been found in bluez, a package with Bluetooth tools and daemons. One issue is about a man-in-the-middle attack during secure pairing, the other…
A flaw was found in samba. Spaces used in a string around a domain name (DN), while supposed to be ignored, can cause invalid DN strings with spaces to instead…
A memory leak was discovered in Mat_VarCalloc in mat.c in matio 1.5.17 because SafeMulDims does not consider the rank==0 case (CVE-2019-20052). References: - h…
An issue has been found in libgcrypt20, a crypto library. Mishandling of ElGamal encryption results in a possible side-channel attack and an interoperability p…
Enterprise applications used to live securely in data centers and office employees connected to internal networks using company-managed laptops or desktops. An…
Bluetooth LE and BR/EDR secure pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 2.1 through 5.2 may permit a nearby man-in-the-middle attacker to identify the Passkey u…
mod_auth_openidc 2.4.0 to 2.4.7 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial-of- service (DoS) condition via unspecified vectors (CVE-2021-20718). References: - …
It seems like every new day brings with it a new ransomware news item ' new attacks, methods, horror stories, and data being leaked.Ransomware attacks are on t…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, denial of service, or …
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, denial of service, or …
Steven Seeley discovered that in jetty, a Java servlet engine and webserver, requests to the ConcatServlet and WelcomeFilter are able to access protected resou…