HP Security Bulletin HPSBOV03318 1

HP Security Bulletin HPSBOV03318 1 – Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified with HP SSL for OpenVMS. These vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely to create a remote Denial of Service (DoS) and other vulnerabilities. Revision 1 of this advisory.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-0803-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-0803-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the Linux kernel’s Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize input parameters while registering memory regions from user space via the verbs API. A local user with access to a /dev/infiniband/uverbsX device could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s Frame Buffer device implementation mapped kernel memory to user space via the mmap syscall. A local user able to access a frame buffer device file could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.

several issues in SQLite (+ catching up on several other bugs)

Posted by Michal Zalewski on Apr 14

SQLite is probably the most popular embedded database in use today; it
is also known for being very well-tested and robust.

Because of its versatility, SQLite sometimes finds use as the
mechanism behind SQL-style query APIs that are exposed between
privileged execution contexts and less-trusted code. One example of
this is the WebDB / WebSQL mechanism available in some browsers; in
this setting, vulnerabilities in the SQLite parser can open up…