CVE-2015-2942

MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large number of nested entity references in an (1) SVG file or (2) XMP metadata in a PDF file, aka a “billion laughs attack,” a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2937.

Debian Security Advisory 3220-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 3220-1 – Hanno Boeck discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the asn1_der_decoding function in Libtasn1, a library to manage ASN.1 structures. A remote attacker could take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Libtasn1 library to crash, or potentially to execute arbitrary code.

Debian Security Advisory 3221-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 3221-1 – Adam Sampson discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the XAUTHORITY environment variable in das-watchdog, a watchdog daemon to ensure a realtime process won’t hang the machine. A local user can exploit this flaw to escalate his privileges and execute arbitrary code as root.