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An issue was found in the IonMonkey JIT compiler of the Mozilla Firefox web browser which could lead to arbitrary code execution. For Debian 8 "Jessie", this p…
In Qt5's plugin loader code as found in qtbase-opensource-src, it was possible to (side-)load plugins from "the" local folder in addition to a system-widely de…
Several vulnerabilities were fixed in libjackson-json-java. CVE-2017-7525
It was discovered that the LDAP authentication modules for the Prosody Jabber/XMPP server incorrectly validated the XMPP address when checking whether a user h…
tcp_emu in tcp_subr.c in libslirp 4.1.0, as used in QEMU 4.2.0, mismanag es memory, as demonstrated by IRC DCC commands in EMU_IRC.
An untrusted deserialization was found in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcResponseParser:addResult method of Apache XML-RPC (aka ws-xmlrpc) library. A malic…
Two vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in the stream-tcp code of the intrusion detection and prevention tool Suricata.
An issue has been found in wget, a tool to retrieve files from the web. A race condition might occur as files rejected by an access list are kept on the disk f…
Several issues have been found in zlib, a compression library. They are basically about improper big-endian CRC calculation, improper left shift of negative in…
Three issues have been found in graphicsmagick, a collection of image processing tools. They are basically a heap-based buffer over-read, heap-based buffer
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the otrs2 package that may lead to unauthorized access, remote code execution and spoofing.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the webkit2gtk web engine: CVE-2019-8835
It was discovered that there were a large number of NULL pointer dereferences due to unchecked return values from malloc and friends in hiredis, a minimalistic…
An issue has been found in unzip, a de-archiver for .zip files. While processing a password protected archive, a heap-based buffer overflow could happen, that …
OpenJPEG had a heap-based buffer overflow in opj_t1_clbl_decode_processor in libopenjp2.so.
It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain strings, due to an out-of-bounds read during a comparison for a symbol name from the string table (st…
A flaw was found in the solaris_zone module from the Ansible Community modules. When setting the name for the zone on the Solaris host, the zone name is checke…
A code injection vulnerability in python-reportlab allows an attacker to execute code while parsing a color attribute. An application that uses python-reportla…
The implementation of ACL inheritance in the Samba AD DC was not complete, and so absent a 'full-sync' replication, ACLs could get out of sync between domain c…
FontForge 20190801 has a use-after-free in SFD_GetFontMetaData in sfd.c (CVE-2020-5395) FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDef…
A heap-based buffer overflow in _cairo_image_surface_create_from_jpeg() in extensions/cairo_io/cairo-image-surface-jpeg.c in gThumb and Pix allows attackers to…
An issue has been found in iperf3, an Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool. Bad handling of UTF8/16 strings in an embedded library could cause a
An issue has been found in slirp, a SLIP/PPP emulator using a dial up shell account. Due to bad memory handling in slirp a heap-based buffer overflow or other
An issue has been found in jsoup, a Java HTML parser that makes sense of real-world HTML soup. Due to bad handling of missing' at EOF a cross-site scripting (X…