The Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) provides a programming interface specification that facilitates from the network driver architecture perspective the communication between a protocol driver and the underlying network adapter. In Windows OS the so called “NDIS wrapper” (implemented in the Ndis.sys) provides a programming layer of communication between network protocols (TCP/IP) and all the underlying NDIS device drivers so that the implementation of high-level protocol components are independent of the network adapter itself. During vulnerability research from a local security perspective that was performed over several software firewall products designed for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (R2 included), an issue during the loading and initialization of one of the OS NDIS protocol drivers was identified; specifically the ‘Remote Access and Routing Driver’ called wanarp.sys. This issue can be exploited through various NDIS 5.x filter intermediate drivers that provide the firewall functionality of several security related products. The resulting impact is vertical privilege escalation which allows a local attacker to execute code with kernel privileges from any account type, thus completely compromising the affected host.

Apache CloudStack provides an API for managing network, compute, storage, and user aspects of a CloudStack cloud. Under certain circumstances, the results of certain API calls may expose the root password for a virtual machine related to an API call. Versions 4.4.4 and 4.5.1 are affected.

ipset-bash-completion is programmable completion code for the bash shell, to support the ipset program (netfilter.org). It allows you to interactively retrieve and complete options, commands, set names, types, and members.

Apache CloudStack sets a VNC password unique to each KVM virtual machine under management. Upon migrating a VM from one host to another, the VNC password is no longer set in KVM on the new host. To leverage this issue, an attacker would need to have network access to a CloudStack host to be able to connect via VNC directly. Versions 4.4.4 and 4.5.1 are affected.

Asterisk Project Security Advisory – If no UDPTL packets are lost there is no problem. However, a lost packet causes Asterisk to use the available error correcting redundancy packets. If those redundancy packets have zero length then Asterisk uses an uninitialized buffer pointer and length value which can cause invalid memory accesses later when the packet is copied.

Asterisk Project Security Advisory – Setting the sip.conf timert1 value to a value higher than 1245 can cause an integer overflow and result in large retransmit timeout times. These large timeout values hold system file descriptors hostage and can cause the system to run out of file descriptors.

WordPress User Meta Manager plugin version 3.4.6 suffers from a remote blind SQL injection vulnerability.

WordPress User Meta Manager plugin version 3.4.6 suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Asterisk Project Security Advisory – The Asterisk HTTP server currently has a default configuration which allows the BEAST vulnerability to be exploited if the TLS functionality is enabled. This can allow a man-in-the-middle attack to decrypt data passing through it.