Ubuntu Security Notice 2610-1 – Several security issues were discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass Same Origin Policy restrictions. A use-after-free was discovered in the WebAudio implementation in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. Various other issues were also addressed.
Monthly Archives: May 2015
CVE-2012-1978
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Simple PHP Agenda 2.2.8 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) add an administrator via a request to auth/process.php, (2) delete an administrator via a request to auth/admin/adminprocess.php, (3) add an event via a request to engine/new_event.php, or (4) delete an event via a request to phpagenda/.
CVE-2015-3647
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wppa-ajax-front.php in the WP Photo Album Plus (aka WPPA) plugin before 6.1.3 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) comemail or (2) comname parameter in a wppa do-comment action.
CVE-2015-4018
SQL injection vulnerability in feedwordpresssyndicationpage.class.php in the FeedWordPress plugin before 2015.0514 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the link_ids[] parameter in an Update action in the syndication.php page to wp-admin/admin.php.
CVE-2015-3911
Huawei E587 Mobile WiFi with firmware before 11.203.30.00.00 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, change configurations, send messages, and cause a denial of service (device restart) via unspecified vectors.
CVE-2015-3912
Huawei E355s Mobile WiFi with firmware before 22.158.45.02.625 and WEBUI before 13.100.04.01.625 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive configuration information by sniffing the network or sending unspecified commands.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2618-1
Ubuntu Security Notice 2618-1 – It was discovered that python-dbusmock incorrectly handled template loading from shared directories. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Debian Security Advisory 3266-1
Debian Linux Security Advisory 3266-1 – 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.
Jackrabbit WebDAV XXE Injection
Jackrabbit versions 2.x suffer from a WebDAV XXE injection vulnerability. Included are details and patches.
Ersatz Scheme Deceives Hackers, Protects Stored Passwords
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a scheme that protects stolen passwords from offline cracking.