Gustavo Grieco discovered an use-after-free vulnerability in xerces-c, a
validating XML parser library for C++, due to not properly handling
invalid characters in XML input documents in the DTDScanner.
Category Archives: Debian
Debian Security Advisories
DSA-3578 libidn – security update
It was discovered that libidn, the GNU library for Internationalized
Domain Names (IDNs), did not correctly handle invalid UTF-8 input,
causing an out-of-bounds read. This could allow attackers to disclose
sensitive information from an application using the libidn library.
DSA-3577 jansson – security update
Gustavo Grieco discovered that jansson, a C library for encoding,
decoding and manipulating JSON data, did not limit the recursion depth
when parsing JSON arrays and objects. This could allow remote attackers
to cause a denial of service (crash) via stack exhaustion, using crafted
JSON data.
DSA-3576 icedove – security update
Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian’s version of
the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client: Multiple memory safety errors may
lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service.
DSA-3575 libxstream-java – security update
It was discovered that XStream, a Java library to serialize objects to
XML and back again, was susceptible to XML External Entity attacks.
[BSA-110] Security Update for wordpress
Craig Small <csmall-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A< at >public.gmane.org> uploaded new packages for wordpress which fixed the following securty problems: CVE-2016-4566 Reflected XSS in PLupload and mediaelement For the jessie-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in version 4.5.2+dfsg-1~bpo8+1
DSA-3574 libarchive – security update
Rock Stevens, Andrew Ruef and Marcin Icewall
Noga discovered a
heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the zip_read_mac_metadata
function in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library,
which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a user or automated
system is tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP file.
DSA-3572 websvn – security update
Nitin Venkatesh discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion
repositories, is susceptible to cross-site scripting attacks via
specially crafted file and directory names in repositories.
DSA-3573 qemu – security update
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor
emulator.
DSA-3571 ikiwiki – security update
Simon McVittie discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the
error reporting of Ikiwiki, a wiki compiler. This update also hardens
ikiwiki’s use of imagemagick in the img plugin.