#buffer_overflow

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0002-03 - An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include buffer overflow and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0001-03 - An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Issues addressed include buffer overflow and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Plus: Apple shuts down a Flipper Zero Attack, Microsoft patches more than 30 vulnerabilities, and more critical updates for the last month of 2023.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202312-8 - A vulnerability has been found in LibRaw where a heap buffer overflow may lead to an application crash. Versions greater than or equal to 0.21.1-r1 are affected.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5583-1 - A buffer overflow was discovered in the AV1 video plugin for the GStreamer media framework, which may result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media file is opened.

Google has issued an emergency update for Chrome that fixes an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the WebRTC component.

**Why is this Chrome CVE included in the Security Update Guide?** The vulnerability assigned to this CVE is in Chromium Open Source Software (OSS) which is consumed by Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based). It is being documented in the Security Update Guide to announce that the latest version of Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) is no longer vulnerable. **How can I see the version of the browser?** 1. In your Microsoft Edge browser, click on the 3 dots (...) on the very right-hand side of the window 2. Click on **Help and Feedback** 3. Click on **About Microsoft Edge**

A buffer overflow exists in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. It has been dubbed Looney Tunables. This issue allows an local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code in the context of the root user. This Metasploit module targets glibc packaged on Ubuntu and Debian. Fedora 37 and 38 and other distributions of linux also come packaged with versions of glibc vulnerable to CVE-2023-4911 however this module does not target them.

Google has rolled out security updates for the Chrome web browser to address a high-severity zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-7024, has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow bug in the WebRTC framework that could be exploited to result in program crashes or arbitrary code execution. Clément

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7873-03 - An update for gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include buffer overflow and use-after-free vulnerabilities.