Category Archives: Security

Security

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2370-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 2370-1 – Guillem Jover discovered that APT incorrectly created a temporary file when handling the changelog command. A local attacker could use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be prevented by the kernel link restrictions.

CVE-2014-5375 (moab)

The server in Adaptive Computing Moab before 7.2.9 and 8 before 8.0.0 does not properly validate the message owner matches the submitting user, which allows remote authenticated users to impersonate arbitrary users via the UserId and Owner tags.

CVE-2014-7983 (joomla!)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in com_contact in Joomla! CMS 3.1.2 through 3.2.x before 3.2.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2014-3641 (cinder)

The (1) GlusterFS and (2) Linux Smbfs drivers in OpenStack Cinder before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to obtain file data from the Cinder-volume host by cloning and attaching a volume with a crafted qcow2 header.