#buffer_overflow

Google on Monday shipped security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome web browser that it said is being exploited in the wild. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2022-2294, relates to a heap overflow flaw in the WebRTC component that provides real-time audio and video communication capabilities in browsers without the need to install plugins or download native

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.18.9. A type confusion bug in nft_set_elem_init (leading to a buffer overflow) could be used by a local attacker to escalate privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-32250. (The attacker can obtain root access, but must start with an unprivileged user namespace to obtain CAP_NET_ADMIN access.) This can be fixed in nft_setelem_parse_data in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-5491-01 - PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. Issues addressed include buffer overflow and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

Lockbit ransomware version 3.0 apparently now requires a password to execute as noted by "@vxunderground", but does not properly check bounds for both the -pass and -k arguments. Supplying a long string of characters for either flag will trigger a unicode stack buffer overflow overwriting the ECX register and structured exception handler (SEH).

An update for rh-php73-php is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. 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-2021-21703: php: Local privilege escalation via PHP-FPM * CVE-2021-21707: php: special character breaks path in xml parsing * CVE-2022-31625: php: uninitialized array in pg_query_params() leading to RCE * CVE-2022-31626: php: password of excessive length triggers buffer overflow leading to RCE

** DISPUTED ** md2roff 1.7 has a stack-based buffer overflow via a Markdown file containing a large number of consecutive characters to be processed. NOTE: the vendor's position is that the product is not intended for untrusted input.

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.

PDFAlto v0.4 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the component /pdfalto/src/pdfalto.cc.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-5249-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, information leakage, privilege escalation, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-5476-01 - This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, privilege escalation, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.