Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 vulnerabilities
765 known vulnerabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 from Red Hat. 765 are rated high or critical, and 5 have been exploited in real attacks. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.
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- 7.4 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Read
A flaw was found in libsoup, where the soup_multipart_new_from_message() function is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read. This flaw allows a malicious HTTP client to induce the libsoup server to read out of bounds.
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle…: NULL Pointer Dereference
A flaw was found in libsoup, where the soup_message_headers_get_content_disposition() function is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference. This flaw allows a malicious HTTP peer to crash a libsoup client or server that uses this function.
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Misinterpretation of Input
A flaw was found in libsoup. The HTTP/2 server in libsoup may not fully validate the values of pseudo-headers :scheme, :authority, and :path, which may allow a user to cause a denial of service (DoS).
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Read
A flaw was found in libsoup, where the soup_headers_parse_request() function may be vulnerable to an out-of-bound read. This flaw allows a malicious user to use a specially crafted HTTP request to crash the HTTP server.
- 7.4 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site
A flaw was found in Yelp. The Gnome user help application allows the help document to execute arbitrary scripts. This vulnerability allows malicious users to input help documents, which may exfiltrate user files to an external environment.
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A flaw was found in libsoup. The SoupWebsocketConnection may accept a large WebSocket message, which may cause libsoup to allocate memory and lead to a denial of service (DoS).
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Uncontrolled Recursion
A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nested entity references, libexpat can be forced to recurse indefinitely, exhausting t
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Use After Free
A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. When changing an alarm, the values of the change mask are evaluated one after the other, changing the trigger values as requested, and eventually, SyncInitTrigger() is called. If one of the changes trigger
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Use After Free
A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. When a device is removed while still frozen, the events queued for that device remain while the device is freed. Replaying the events will cause a use-after-free.
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Access of Uninitialized Pointer
An access to an uninitialized pointer flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The function compCheckRedirect() may fail if it cannot allocate the backing pixmap. In that case, compRedirectWindow() will return a BadAlloc error without validating the window tree m
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Write
An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The function GetBarrierDevice() searches for the pointer device based on its device ID and returns the matching value, or supposedly NULL, if no match was found. However, the code will return the las
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. If XkbChangeTypesOfKey() is called with a 0 group, it will resize the key symbols table to 0 but leave the key actions unchanged. If the same function is later called with a non-zero value of groups, this
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Write
A heap overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The computation of the length in XkbSizeKeySyms() differs from what is written in XkbWriteKeySyms(), which may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Write
A buffer overflow flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The code in XkbVModMaskText() allocates a fixed-sized buffer on the stack and copies the names of the virtual modifiers to that buffer. The code fails to check the bounds of the buffer and would copy the
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Use After Free
A use-after-free flaw was found in X.Org and Xwayland. The root cursor is referenced in the X server as a global variable. If a client frees the root cursor, the internal reference points to freed memory and causes a use-after-free.
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle…: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
A command injection flaw was found in the text editor Emacs. It could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on a vulnerable system. Exploitation is possible by tricking users into visiting a specially crafted website or a
- 9.8 Critical severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Write
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the rsync daemon. This issue is due to improper handling of attacker-controlled checksum lengths (s2length) in the code. When MAX_DIGEST_LEN exceeds the fixed SUM_LENGTH (16 bytes), an attacker can write out of bo
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
A flaw was found in rsync. When using the `--safe-links` option, the rsync client fails to properly verify if a symbolic link destination sent from the server contains another symbolic link within it. This results in a path traversal vulnerability, which may l
- 7.4 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Covert Timing Channel
A vulnerability was found in Ruby. The Ruby interpreter is vulnerable to the Marvin Attack. This attack allows the attacker to decrypt previously encrypted messages or forge signatures by exchanging a large number of messages with the vulnerable service.
- 7.8 High severity
Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Privilege Management
A script injection vulnerability was identified in the Tuned package. The `instance_create()` D-Bus function can be called by locally logged-in users without authentication. This flaw allows a local non-privileged user to execute a D-Bus call with `script_pre`
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A flaw was found within the handling of SMB2_READ commands in the kernel ksmbd module. The issue results from not releasing memory after its effective lifetime. An attacker can leverage this to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Out-of-bounds Read
A flaw was found within the handling of SMB2 read requests in the kernel ksmbd module. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this to
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Out-of-bounds Read
A flaw was found within the parsing of SMB2 requests that have a transform header in the kernel ksmbd module. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacke
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap buffer overflow was found in the virtio-snd device in QEMU. When reading input audio in the virtio-snd input callback, virtio_snd_pcm_in_cb, the function did not check whether the iov can fit the data buffer. This issue can trigger an out-of-bounds writ
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Out-of-bounds Read
A flaw was found within the parsing of extended attributes in the kernel ksmbd module. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this to
- 7.4 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Authentication
A flaw was found in pam_access, where certain rules in its configuration file are mistakenly treated as hostnames. This vulnerability allows attackers to trick the system by pretending to be a trusted hostname, gaining unauthorized access. This issue poses a r
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A flaw was found in the X.org server. Due to improperly tracked allocation size in _XkbSetCompatMap, a local attacker may be able to trigger a buffer overflow condition via a specially crafted payload, leading to denial of service or local privilege escalation
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: NULL Pointer Dereference
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in Libtiff via `tif_dirinfo.c`. This issue may allow an attacker to trigger memory allocation failures through certain means, such as restricting the heap space size or injecting faults, causing a segmentation fault. T
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Synchronization
A flaw was found in the QEMU NBD Server. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) attack via improper synchronization during socket closure when a client keeps a socket open as the server is taken offline.
- 7.0 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Improper Control of Generation of Code
A flaw was found in the GTK library. Under certain conditions, it is possible for a library to be injected into a GTK application from the current working directory.
- 7.0 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Signal Handler Race Condition
A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls v
- 7.8 High severity
Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.2.1: Out-of-bounds Write
A flaw was found in the QEMU disk image utility (qemu-img) 'info' command. A specially crafted image file containing a `json:{}` value describing block devices in QMP could cause the qemu-img process on the host to consume large amounts of memory or CPU time,
- 8.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate
- 7.5 High severity
A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility.
A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs when using -dests parameter with pdfinfo utility. By using certain malformed input files, an attacker could cause the utility to crash, leading to a denial of service.
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Incorrect Authorization
A vulnerability was found in FreeIPA in how the initial implementation of MS-SFU by MIT Kerberos was missing a condition for granting the "forwardable" flag on S4U2Self tickets. Fixing this mistake required adding a special case for the check_allowed_to_delega
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Certificate System 10.4 EUS for RHEL-8: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
A flaw was found in dogtag-pki and pki-core. The token authentication scheme can be bypassed with a LDAP injection. By passing the query string parameter sessionID=*, an attacker can authenticate with an existing session saved in the LDAP directory server, whi
- 7.5 High severity
A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. A specially-crafted LDAP query can potentially cause a…
A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. A specially-crafted LDAP query can potentially cause a failure on the directory server, leading to a denial of service
- 7.1 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
A race condition flaw was found in sssd where the GPO policy is not consistently applied for authenticated users. This may lead to improper authorization issues, granting or denying access to resources inappropriately.
- 8.2 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Double Free
A double free vulnerability was found in QEMU virtio devices (virtio-gpu, virtio-serial-bus, virtio-crypto), where the mem_reentrancy_guard flag insufficiently protects against DMA reentrancy issues. This issue could allow a malicious privileged guest user to
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle…: Use After Free
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the ProcRenderAddGlyphs() function of Xorg servers. This issue occurs when AllocateGlyph() is called to store new glyphs sent by the client to the X server, potentially resulting in multiple entries pointing to the s