Category Archives: Advisories

USN-6610-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

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Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive
information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-0741,
CVE-2024-0742, CVE-2024-0743, CVE-2024-0744, CVE-2024-0745, CVE-2024-0747,
CVE-2024-0748, CVE-2024-0749, CVE-2024-0750, CVE-2024-0751, CVE-2024-0753,
CVE-2024-0754, CVE-2024-0755)

Cornel Ionce discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when
opening the print preview dialog. An attacker could potentially exploit
this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-0746)

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USN-6611-1: Exim vulnerability

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It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled certain requests.
A remote attacker could possibly use a published exploitation technique
to inject e-mail messages with a spoofed MAIL FROM address, allowing bypass
of an SPF protection mechanism.

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Re: Buffer Overflow in graphviz via via a crafted config6a file

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Posted by Matthew Fernandez on Jan 27

More specifically, this issue is an out-of-bounds read.

AFAICT the issue was actually introduced in Graphviz 2.36. It was fixed
in commit a95f977f5d809915ec4b14836d2b5b7f5e74881e (essentially
reverting cf95714837f06f684929b54659523c2c9b1fc19f that introduced the
issue), but there has been no release yet since then. The next release
will be 10.0.0. So affected versions would be [2.36, 10.0.0).

To exploit this issue, you need to modify a…

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CVEs based on commit messages

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Posted by Mark Esler on Jan 27

Dear Meng Rujie,

In regards to your recent FD posts, are you requesting CVEs based on the
presence of strings in commit messages such as “null pointer dereference”?

Are you reaching out to each upstream project before assigning a CVE? Do
you believe that every null pointer bug is a vulnerability? What impact
are you hoping to achieve?

Please reconsider how you are requesting CVEs.

CVE assignment based on commit message allows…

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Re: Null pointer dereference in Xedit

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Posted by Alan Coopersmith on Jan 27

I will be asking that this CVE be withdrawn on behalf of the X.Org security team.

While it is a low-priority bug, we did not see any security exposure
when this bug was first brought to our attention because there is no
way for an attacker to change the contents of the lisp.lsp file or to
cause a *.lsp file to be loaded for another user.

The bug report states “replace /usr/local/lib/X11/xedit/lisp/lisp.lsp with
the attached version,”…

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