Ziming Zhang discovered that BlueZ incorrectly handled memory write operations in its gatt server. A remote attacker could possibly use this to cause BlueZ to crash leading to a denial of service, or potentially remotely execute code. (CVE-2022-0204)
If a user installed an extension of a particular type, the extension could have auto-updated itself and while doing so, bypass the prompt which grants the new version the new requested permissions (CVE-2022-22754). If a user was convinced to drag and drop an image to their desktop or other
Security hotfix release addressing a critical vulnerability in PostgreSQL connections (CVE-2021-3850) Additional fixes: Fix usage of get_magic_* functions #619 #657
private-cwd leaks access to the entire filesystem References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30007 - https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/4780
For CVE-2021-20316 and CVE-2021-44141, there is only a workaround and mitigation: All versions of Samba prior to 4.15.5 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a server symlink to determine if a file or directory
XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 via an about: page, as demonstrated by ephy-about:overview when a user visits an XSS payload page often enough to place that page on the Most Visited list (CVE-2021-45085).
Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerability: An off-by-one buffer overflow and underflow in getcwd() may lead to memory corruption when the size of the buffer is exactly 1. A local attacker who can control the input buffer and size passed to getcwd() in a setuid program
xterm through Patch 370, when Sixel support is enabled, allows attackers to trigger a buffer overflow in set_sixel in graphics_sixel.c via crafted text. (CVE-2022-24130) References:
The qtwebengine5 package has been updated to version 5.15.8, fixing several security issues in the bundled chromium code. See the referenced package announcement for details. References:
lrzsz before version 0.12.21~rc can leak information to the receiving side due to an incorrect length check in the function zsdata that causes a size_t to wrap around. (CVE-2018-10195) References:
Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES. (CVE-2022-23852) Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog
An attacker can modify on-disk metadata to simulate decryption in progress with crashed (unfinished) reencryption step and persistently decrypt part of the LUKS device (CVE-2021-4122). References:
LibTIFF 4.3.0 has an out-of-bounds read in _TIFFmemcpy in tif_unix.c in certain situations involving a custom tag and 0x0200 as the second word of the DE field. (CVE-2022-22844) References:
TCP Receive Path does not Check for Presence of Sufficient Header Data. (CVE-2022-23096) Possibly invalid memory reference in 'strnlen()' call in 'forward_dns_reply()'. (CVE-2022-23097)
This update provides Rust 1.57.0 as a feature and bugfix update. See the release notes for details. The 'std::fs::remove_dir_all' standard library function was vulnerable a race condition enabling symlink following (CWE-363). An attacker could use this
CVE-2022-0096: Use after free in Storage. CVE-2022-0097: Inappropriate implementation in DevTools. CVE-2022-0098: Use after free in Screen Capture. CVE-2022-0099: Use after free in Sign-in. CVE-2022-0100: Heap buffer overflow in Media streams API.
This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.15.18 and fixes atleast the following security issues: A random memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernels GPU i915 kernel driver functionality in the way a user may run malicious code on the GPU.
This kernel update is based on upstream 5.15.18 and fixes atleast the following security issues: A random memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernels GPU i915 kernel driver functionality in the way a user may run malicious code on the GPU.
AOM v2.0.1 was discovered to contain a stack buffer overflow via the component src/aom_image.c. (CVE-2020-36129) AOM v2.0.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the component av1/av1_dx_iface.c. (CVE-2020-36130)
XSS in handling an attachment's filename extension when displaying a MIME type warning message (CVE-2021-44025). Potential SQL injection via search or search_params (CVE-2021-44026). References:
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