Category Archives: Advisories

DSA-5783-1 firefox-esr – security update

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Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox
web browser, which could potentially result in the execution
of arbitrary code.

Debian follows the extended support releases (ESR) of Firefox.
Starting with this update we’re now following the 128.x releases.

Between 115.x and 128.x, Firefox has seen a number of feature
updates. For more information please refer to
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0esr/releasenotes/

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-5783-1

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USN-7055-1: FreeRADIUS vulnerability

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Goldberg, Miro Haller, Nadia Heninger, Mike Milano, Dan Shumow, Marc
Stevens, and Adam Suhl discovered that FreeRADIUS incorrectly authenticated
certain responses. An attacker able to intercept communications between a
RADIUS client and server could possibly use this issue to forge responses,
bypass authentication, and access network devices and services.

This update introduces new configuration options called “limit_proxy_state”
and “require_message_authenticator” that default to “auto” but should be
set to “yes” once all RADIUS devices have been upgraded on a network.

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USN-7053-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain malformed
image files. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked
into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to
cause a denial of service or potentially leak sensitive information.
These vulnerabilities included heap and stack-based buffer overflows,
memory leaks, and improper handling of uninitialized values.

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USN-7054-1: unzip vulnerability

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It was discovered that unzip did not properly handle unicode strings under
certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted zip file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause unzip
to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.

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