Xi Lu discovered that missing input sanitising in Emacs (in etags, the Ruby mode and htmlfontify) could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5360-1
User "Arminius" discovered a vulnerability in Vim, an enhanced version of the standard UNIX editor Vi (Vi IMproved), which also affected the Neovim fork, an extensible editor focused on modern code and features: . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4487-1
New mailx packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] mailx (SSA:2016-062-01) New mailx packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Drop SSLv2 support (no longer supported by OpenSSL), and fix security issues that could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through the use of a specially-crafted email address. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-2771 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-7844 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_6413.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 13.0 package: 38ee95ec8ed3dfdaf2f736e3e0e3fc39 mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.0.txz Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 1df63fd2f328a10beca73a155b79ff3c mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz Slackware 13.1 package: 7ed6abe0adf99fe6cc2a820ca7b4086d mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 991ac2b0121330bdb3ecd1f32f62d53c mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware 13.37 package: 5f8ddb457a40ebbb5ea83b086c2ca964 mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 9898bb8aa35e1c7ea21898aafe2de0e6 mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz Slackware 14.0 package: 8a52d8cf54387eb6de3a00a90334694b mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.0.txz Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: abe166a6d5e80195f6a07213ad0f89c9 mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz Slackware 14.1 package: 39496e377649bc8c5ed75c15dc9d2505 mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: cded8a78db70f0e5208475c988b4facb mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz Slackware -current package: 2c416a0e6e988dac27b99bb5eda67224 n/mailx-12.5-i586-2.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 237538b03e07025f97eb21708fda82bc n/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: #upgradepkg mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz +-----+ . Recent mailx updates made available for Slackware to resolve severe security vulnerabilities. Immediate upgrade is suggested for every system version.. Slackware Packages, Mailx Shell Command Execution, Security Update. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the Python wrapper for the Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG). Insufficient sanitising could lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2946-1
Two security issues have been discovered in Weechat a, fast, light and extensible chat client: CVE-2011-1428 . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2598-1
Bernhard R. Link discovered that the CVS browsing interface of Gforge, a collaborative development tool, performs insufficient escaping of URLs, which allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the www-data user.. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1297-1
Ingo H3 is vulnerable to arbitrary shell command execution when handling procmail rules.. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200611-22 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - https://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: Ingo H3: Folder name shell command injection Date: November 27, 2006 Bugs: #153927 ID: 200611-22 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======= Ingo H3 is vulnerable to arbitrary shell command execution when handling procmail rules. Background ========= Ingo H3 is a generic frontend for editing Sieve, procmail, maildrop and IMAP filter rules. Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/horde-ingo < 1.1.2 > = 1.1.2 Description ========== Ingo H3 fails to properly escape shell metacharacters in procmail rules. Impact ===== A remote authenticated attacker could craft a malicious rule which could lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands on the server. Workaround ========= Don't use procmail with Ingo H3. Resolution ========= All Ingo H3 users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "> =www-apps/horde-ingo-1.1.2" References ========= [ 1 ] CVE-2006-5449 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5449 Availability =========== This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200611-22 Concerns? ======== Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuringthe confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
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