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ERPSCAN Research Advisory [ERPSCAN-15-017] SAP NetWeaver J2EE DAS
service – Unauthorized Access
Application: SAP NetWeaver
Versions Affected: SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA, probably others
Vendor URL: http://SAP.com
Bugs: Unauthorized access
Sent: 20.04.2013
Reported: 21.04.2013
Vendor response: 21.04.2013
Date of Public Advisory: 13.10.2015
Reference: SAP Security Note 1945215
Author: Alexander Polyakov (ERPScan)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes three security issues is
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.
CVE-2015-7645, CVE-2015-7647, CVE-2015-7648
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
PostgreSQL could be made to crash or expose private information if it
handled specially crafted data.
Software description
postgresql-9.1
– Object-relational SQL database
postgresql-9.3
– Object-relational SQL database
postgresql-9.4
– Object-relational SQL database
Details
Josh Kupershmidt discovered the pgCrypto extension could expose several bytes of server memory if the crypt() function was provided a too-short salt. An attacker could use this flaw to read private data. (CVE-2015-5288)
Oskari Saarenmaa discovered that the json and jsonb handlers could exhaust available stack space. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-5289)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart PostgreSQL to make all the necessary changes.
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
Firefox could be made to expose sensitive information across origins
Software description
firefox
– Mozilla Open Source web browser
Details
Abdulrahman Alqabandi and Ben Kelly discovered that the fetch() API did not correctly implement the Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) specification. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information from other origins. (CVE-2015-7184)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version: