Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3052 wpa – security update

Jouni Malinen discovered an input sanitization issue in the wpa_cli and
hostapd_cli tools included in the wpa package. A remote wifi system
within range could provide a crafted string triggering arbitrary code
execution running with privileges of the affected wpa_cli or hostapd_cli
process.

DSA-3047 rsyslog – security update

Mancha discovered a vulnerability in rsyslog, a system for log
processing. This vulnerability is an integer overflow that can be
triggered by malformed messages to a server, if this one accepts data
from untrusted sources, provoking message loss, denial of service and, potentially, remote code execution.

DSA-3046 mediawiki – security update

It was reported that MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work,
allowed to load user-created CSS on pages where user-created JavaScript
is not allowed. A wiki user could be tricked into performing actions by
manipulating the interface from CSS, or JavaScript code being executed
from CSS, on security-wise sensitive pages like Special:Preferences and
Special:UserLogin. This update removes the separation of CSS and
JavaScript module allowance.

DSA-3040 rsyslog – security update

Rainer Gerhards, the rsyslog project leader, reported a vulnerability in
Rsyslog, a system for log processing. As a consequence of this
vulnerability an attacker can send malformed messages to a server, if
this one accepts data from untrusted sources, and trigger a denial of
service attack.