#debian

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5342-1 - Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that a user-after-free flaw in the X Input extension of the X.org X server may result in privilege escalation if the X server is running under the root user.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5341-1 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine. Francisco Alonso discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. YeongHyeon Choi, Hyeon Park, SeOk JEON, YoungSung Ahn, JunSeo Bae and Dohyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5340-1 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine. Francisco Alonso discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. YeongHyeon Choi, Hyeon Park, SeOk JEON, YoungSung Ahn, JunSeo Bae and Dohyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5339-1 - Ikeda Soji reported that libhtml-stripscripts-perl, a Perl module for removing scripts from HTML, is prone to a regular expression denial of service, due to catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with specially crafted style attributes.

This Metasploit module targets a vulnerability in Tomcat versions 6, 7, and 8 on Debian-based distributions where these older versions provide a vulnerable tomcat init script that allows local attackers who have already gained access to the tomcat account to escalate their privileges from the tomcat user to root and fully compromise the target system.

EMC NetWorker may potentially be vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the Networker Client execution service (nsrexecd) when oldauth authentication method is used. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send arbitrary commands via RPC service to be executed on the host system with the privileges of the nsrexecd service, which runs with administrative privileges.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5338-1 - Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin and Damien Rannou discovered that missing input sanitising in the handling of VMDK images in Cinder, the OpenStack block storage system, may result in information disclosure.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5337-1 - Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin and Damien Rannou discovered that missing input sanitising in the handling of VMDK images in OpenStack Compute (codenamed Nova) may result in information disclosure.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5336-1 - Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin and Damien Rannou discovered that missing input sanitizing in the handling of VMDK images in Glance, the OpenStack image registry and delivery service, may result in information disclosure.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5335-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime, which may result in denial of service or spoofing.