LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Ruby.
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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in GlusterFS, a clustered file system. Buffer overflows and path traversal issues may lead to information disclosure, denial-of-service or the execution of arbitrary code.
This instalment in our series of articles to mark Antimalware Day tells the stories behind two creations that are representative of the 1980s: a virus viewed as the first-ever PC virus and a worm that caused the greatest damage ever wrought by a piece of malware up to that point The post Malware of the […]
Reading Time: ~5 min.You’re probably familiar with some of the most common requirements for creating passwords. A mix of upper and lowercase letters is a simple example. These are known as password constraints. They’re rules for how you must construct a password. If your password must be at least eight characters long, contain lower case, […]
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in MuPDF, a PDF, XPS, and e-book viewer which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed documents are opened.
LinuxSecurity.com: Nick Rolfe discovered multiple buffer overflows in the Icecast multimedia streaming server which could result in the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
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LinuxSecurity.com: Updated cimg and gmic packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue was discovered in CImg v.220. DoS occurs when loading a crafted bmp image that triggers an allocation failure in load_bmp in CImg.h (CVE-2018-7587).
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities: Incorrect handling of unsigned attributes in singed Jar manifests (Security, 8194534) (CVE-2018-3136).
LinuxSecurity.com: The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was found that the GnuTLS implementation of HMAC-SHA-256 and HMAC-SHA-384 was vulnerable to a Lucky thirteen style attack. Remote attackers could use this flaw to conduct distinguishing attacks and
LinuxSecurity.com: This update provides virtualbox 5.2.20 and fixes the following security vulnerabilities: During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities: ‘$wgRateLimits’ entry for ‘user’ overrides ‘newbie’ (CVE-2018-0503). When a log event is (partially) hidden Special:Redirect/logid can link
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated gitolite package fixes security vulnerability: Gitolite before 3.6.9 does not (in certain configurations involving @all or a regex) properly restrict access to a Git repository that is in the process of being migrated until the full set of migration steps has been
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated mbedtls package fixes security vulnerabilities: Fixed a vulnerability in the TLS ciphersuites based on use of CBC and SHA-384 in DTLS/TLS 1.0 to 1.2, that allowed an active network attacker to partially recover the plaintext of messages under certains conditions
LinuxSecurity.com: Dancer2 0.206000 addresses several potential security issues. There is a potential RCE with regards to Storable. Dancer2 adds session ID validation to the session engine so that session backends based on Storable can reject malformed session IDs that may lead to exploitation of the RCE. Parsing requests now uses HTTP::Entity::Parser which reduces the amount […]
LinuxSecurity.com: The python-cryptography and python-cryptography-vectors packages have been updated to version 2.3.1 and fixes the following security issue: The finalize_with_tag API did not enforce a minimum tag length. If a user did not validate the input length prior to passing it to
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated axis packages fix security vulnerability: Apache Axis 1.x up to and including 1.4 is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack in the default servlet/services (CVE-2018-8032).
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated lighttpd package fixes security vulnerabilities: Potential path traversal with specific configs or in some use cases in mod_alias.
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated dnsmasq packages fix a security issue Upstream dnsmasq run as nobody user which could lead to security issue if multiple services run as this same user.
LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the Ruby language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
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LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in curl.
LinuxSecurity.com: tzdata upstream released version 2018g. Notables changes since 2018e (previous version available in jessie)
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LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2018-5179
Reading Time: ~2 min.DemonBot Botnet Gaining Traction DemonBot, while not the most sophisticated botnet discovered to date, has seen a significant rise in usage over the last week. With the ability to take control of Hadoop cloud frameworks, DemonBot has been using the platform to carry out DDoS attacks across the globe. By exploiting Hadoop’s […]
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LinuxSecurity.com: The package linux-lts before version 4.14.75-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.
LinuxSecurity.com: The package linux before version 4.18.13.arch1-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.
LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpldapadmin, a web-based interface for administering LDAP servers. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version
LinuxSecurity.com: OpenJDK: Improper field access checks (Hotspot, 8199226) (CVE-2018-3169) * OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of the trustURLCodebase restriction (JNDI, 8199177) (CVE-2018-3149) * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of unsigned attributes in signed Jar manifests (Security, 8194534) (CVE-2018-3136) * OpenJDK: Leak of sensitive header data via HTTP redirect (Networking, 8196902) (CVE-2018-3139) * OpenJ [More…]
