#buffer_overflow

Ubuntu Security Notice 6079-1 - It was discovered that some AMD x86-64 processors with SMT enabled could speculatively execute instructions using a return address from a sibling thread. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. Ziming Zhang discovered that the VMware Virtual GPU DRM driver in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3067-01 - AutoTrace is a program for converting bitmaps to vector graphics. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2834-01 - WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, bypass, code execution, information leakage, out of bounds write, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2851-01 - FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol, released under the Apache license. The xfreerdp client can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows machines, xrdp, and VirtualBox. Issues addressed include buffer overflow and out of bounds read vulnerabilities.

An update for xorg-x11-server-Xwayland is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-3550: A flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server package. A buffer overflow can occur in the _GetCountedString function in xkb/xkb.c due to improper input validation, allowing for possible escalation of privileges, execution of arbitrary code, or a denial of service. * CVE-2022-3551: A flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server package. The Pro...

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-46790: A vulnerability was found in NTFS-3G, specifically in the ntfsck utility. Incorrect validation of NTFS metadata can result in a heap-based buffer overflow when processing a crafted NTFS image file or partition. * CVE-2022-3165: An integer underflow issue was found in the QEMU VNC server while processing ClientCut...

An update for freerdp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-39282: A vulnerability was found in FreeRDP where clients on UNIX systems using /parallel command line switch might read uninitialized data and send it to the client's server. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information. * CVE-2022-39283: A vulnerability was found in FreeRDP where all clients using the /video comma...

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-26341: A flaw was found in hw. This issue can cause AMD CPUs to transiently execute beyond unconditional direct branches. * CVE-2021-33655: An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s framebuffer-based console driver functionality in the way a user triggers ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO with malicious data. This flaw allows a local user to c...

An update for xorg-x11-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-3550: A flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server package. A buffer overflow can occur in the _GetCountedString function in xkb/xkb.c due to improper input validation, allowing for possible escalation of privileges, execution of arbitrary code, or a denial of service. * CVE-2022-3551: A flaw was found in the xorg-x11-server package. The ProcXkbGetKb...

An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-32886: A vulnerability was found in webkitgtkm, where a buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. * CVE-2022-32888: A vulnerability was found in webkitgtk, where an out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. Processing mali...