Security

From the Fedora advisory:

A flaw was found in the way Apache CXF verifies that XML elements were signed or encrypted by a particular Supporting Token. CXF checks to ensure these elements are signed or encrypted by a Supporting Token, but not whether the correct token is used. A remote attacker could use this flaw to transmit confidential information without the appropriate security, and potentially to circumvent access controls on web services exposed via CXF. (CVE-2012-2379)

A flaw was found in the way Apache CXF enforced child policies of WS-SecurityPolicy 1.1 on the client side. In certain circumstances, this could lead a client failing to sign or encrypt certain elements as directed by the security policy, leading to information disclosure and insecure transmission of information. (CVE-2012-2378)

Apache CXF is vulnerable to SOAPAction spoofing attacks under certain conditions. If web services are exposed via Apache CXF that use a unique SOAPAction for each service operation, then a remote attacker could perform SOAPAction spoofing to call a forbidden operation if it accepts the same parameters as an allowed operation. WS-Policy validation is performed against the operation being invoked, and an attack must pass validation to be successful. (CVE-2012-3451)

dracut.sh in dracut, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Fedora 16 and 17, and possibly other products, creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

Directory traversal vulnerability in html2ps before 1.0b7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in SSI directive.

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the Beans, Swing, and JMX components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2012-5086, CVE-2012-5084, CVE-2012-5089)

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the Scripting, JMX, Concurrency, Libraries, and Security components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass certain Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2012-5068, CVE-2012-5071, CVE-2012-5069, CVE-2012-5073, CVE-2012-5072)

It was discovered that java.util.ServiceLoader could create an instance of an incompatible class while performing provider lookup. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass certain Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2012-5079)

It was discovered that the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) SSL/TLS implementation did not properly handle handshake records containing an overly large data length value. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause an SSL/TLS server to terminate with an exception. (CVE-2012-5081)

It was discovered that the JMX component in OpenJDK could perform certain actions in an insecure manner. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2012-5075)

A bug in the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine optimization code could cause it to not perform array initialization in certain cases. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to disclose portions of the virtual machine's memory. (CVE-2012-4416)

It was discovered that the SecureRandom class did not properly protect against the creation of multiple seeders. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2012-5077)

It was discovered that the java.io.FilePermission class exposed the hash code of the canonicalized path name. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to determine certain system paths, such as the current working directory. (CVE-2012-3216)

This update disables Gopher protocol support in the java.net package by default. Gopher support can be enabled by setting the newly introduced property, "jdk.net.registerGopherProtocol", to true. (CVE-2012-5085)

Note: If the web browser plug-in provided by the icedtea-web package was installed, the issues exposed via Java applets could have been exploited without user interaction if a user visited a malicious website.

It was discovered that the JMX component in OpenJDK could perform certain actions in an insecure manner. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use these flaws to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2012-5070, CVE-2012-5075)

The default Java security properties configuration did not restrict access to certain com.sun.org.glassfish packages. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. This update lists those packages as restricted. (CVE-2012-5076, CVE-2012-5074)

Multiple improper permission check issues were discovered in the Beans, Libraries, Swing, and JMX components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2012-5086, CVE-2012-5087, CVE-2012-5088, CVE-2012-5084, CVE-2012-5089)

From the Red Hat advisory:

A flaw was found in libvirtd's RPC call handling. An attacker able to establish a read-only connection to libvirtd could use this flaw to crash libvirtd by sending an RPC message that has an event as the RPC number, or an RPC number that falls into a gap in the RPC dispatch table. (CVE-2012-4423)

A flaw was found in the way XULRunner handled security wrappers. A web page containing malicious content could possibly cause an application linked against XULRunner (such as Mozilla Firefox) to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

The mozilla::net::FailDelayManager::Lookup function in the WebSockets implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.1, Thunderbird before 16.0.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2012-4191)

Mozilla Firefox 16.0, Thunderbird 16.0, and SeaMonkey 2.13 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the properties of a Location object via a crafted web site, a related issue to CVE-2012-4193. (CVE-2012-4192)

CVE-2012-3977: Security researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo reported that SPDY's request header compression leads to information leakage, which can allow the extraction of private data such as session cookies, even over an encrypted SSL connection. (This does not affect Firefox 10 as it does not feature the SPDY extension. It was silently fixed for Firefox 15.)

CVE-2012-3987: Security researcher Warren He reported that when a page is transitioned into Reader Mode in Firefox for Android, the resulting page has chrome privileges and its content is not thoroughly sanitized. A successful attack requires user enabling of reader mode for a malicious page, which could then perform an attack similar to cross-site scripting (XSS) to gain the privileges allowed to Firefox on an Android device. This has been fixed by changing the Reader Mode page into an unprivileged page.

From the SUSE Bugzilla entry:

A vulnerability has been reported in OptiPNG, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a use-after-free error related to the palette reduction functionality. No further information is currently available.

Success exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTML-Template-Pro module before 0.9507 for Perl allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via template parameters, related to improper handling of > (greater than) and < (less than) characters.

[1] Multiple XSS due to unescaped HTML output in Trigger, Procedure and Event pages. When creating/modifying a trigger, event or procedure with a crafted name, it is possible to trigger an XSS.

[2] Fetching the version information from a non-SSL site is vulnerable to a MITM attack. To display information about the current phpMyAdmin version on the main page, a piece of JavaScript is fetched from the phpmyadmin.net website in non-SSL mode. A man-in-the-middle could modify this script on the wire to cause mischief.

A security vulnerability has been discovered in the SSL/TLS protocol, which affects connections using compression.

All versions of TLS are believed to be affected. To address this, Qt will disable TLS compression by default.

If the attacker can insert data into the SSL connection, then by looking at the length of the compressed data it is possible to determine if the inserted data matches secret data or not.

From the Mageia advisory:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail 0.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the signature in an email (CVE-2012-4668).

From the Ubuntu advisory:

Shugo Maedo and Vit Ondruch discovered that Ruby incorrectly allowed untainted strings to be modified in protective safe levels. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions. (CVE-2012-4466, CVE-2012-4481)

From the Ubuntu advisory:

Tyler Hicks and Shugo Maeda discovered that Ruby incorrectly allowed untainted strings to be modified in protective safe levels. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions. (CVE-2012-4464, CVE-2012-4466)

From the SUSE Bugzilla entry:

The HSRP dissector could go into an infinite loop. wnpa-sec-2012-26 CVE-2012-5237

The PPP dissector could abort. wnpa-sec-2012-27 CVE-2012-5238

Martin Wilck discovered an infinite loop in the DRDA dissector. wnpa-sec-2012-28 CVE-2012-5239 CVE-2012-3548 (see bnc#778000)

Laurent Butti discovered a buffer overflow in the LDP dissector. wnpa-sec-2012-29 CVE-2012-5240