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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. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5337-1
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the X.Org X server. Missing input sanitising in X server extensions may result in local privilege escalation if the X server is configured to run with root privileges. In addition an ASLR bypass was fixed. . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4758-1
Niklas Abel discovered that insufficient input sanitising in the the ss-manager component of shadowsocks-libev, a lightweight socks5 proxy, could result in arbitrary shell command execution. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4009-1
Multiple security issues (cross-site scripting, missing input sanitising and SQL injection) have been discovered in Cacti, a web interface for graphing of monitoring systems. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3007-1
Ansgar Burchardt, Mike O'Connor and Philipp Kern discovered multiple vulnerabilities in DTC, a web control panel for admin and accounting hosting services: . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2365-1
A vulnerability was discovered in aria2, a download client. The "name" attribute of the "file" element of metalink files is not properly sanitised before using it to download files. If a user is tricked into downloading from a specially crafted metalink file, this can be . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2047-1
The previous nagios2 update introduced a regression, which caused status.cgi to segfault when used directly without specifying the 'host' variable. This update fixes the problem. For reference the original advisory text follows. . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1883-2
Vinny Guido discovered that multiple input sanitising vulnerabilities in Fckeditor, a rich text web editor component, may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1836-1
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