Tavis Ormandy discovered that FUSE, a Filesystem in USErspace, does not
scrub the environment before executing mount or umount with elevated
privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite
arbitrary files and gain elevated privileges by accessing debugging
features via the environment that would not normally be safe for
unprivileged users.
Category Archives: Debian
Debian Security Advisories
DSA-3265 zendframework – security update
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Zend Framework, a PHP
framework. Except for CVE-2015-3154, all these issues were already fixed
in the version initially shipped with Jessie.
DSA-3263 proftpd-dfsg – security update
Vadim Melihow discovered that in proftpd-dfsg, an FTP server, the
mod_copy module allowed unauthenticated users to copy files around on
the server, and possibly to execute arbitrary code.
DSA-3264 icedove – security update
Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian’s version of
the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client: Multiple memory safety errors,
buffer overflows and use-after-frees may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code, privilege escalation or denial of service.
DSA-3262 xen – security update
Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy
disk drive, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary code.
This only affects HVM guests.
DSA-3261 libmodule-signature-perl – security update
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libmodule-signature-perl, a
Perl module to manipulate CPAN SIGNATURE files. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
DSA-3260 iceweasel – security update
Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian’s version
of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors,
buffer overflows and use-after-frees may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code, privilege escalation or denial of service.
DSA-3259 qemu – security update
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the qemu virtualisation
solution:
DSA-3258 quassel – security update
It was discovered that the fix for
CVE-2013-4422 in quassel, a
distributed IRC client, was incomplete. This could allow remote
attackers to inject SQL queries after a database reconnection (e.g.
when the backend PostgreSQL server is restarted).
DSA-3257 mercurial – security update
Jesse Hertz of Matasano Security discovered that Mercurial, a
distributed version control system, is prone to a command injection
vulnerability via a crafted repository name in a clone command.