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Monthly Archives: January 2021

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

The package dovecot before version 2.3.13-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including information disclosure and denial of service.

The package poppler before version 21.01.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

The package roundcubemail before version 1.4.10-1 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Singapore changes the rules and will now use COVID-19 contact-tracing app data in criminal cases

The package rsync before version 3.2.3-2 is vulnerable to man-in-the- middle.

The container harbor/harbor-trivy-adapter was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Happy New Year: Jan 1, 2021 security cert expiration causes havoc for some Check Point VPN users
Ransomware Gang Collects Data from Blood Testing Lab
Researcher Breaks reCAPTCHA With Google’s Speech-to-Text API
Leading Game Publishers Hit Hard by Leaked-Credential Epidemic
PayPal users targeted in new SMS phishing campaign

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T-Mobile Faces Yet Another Data Breach
Ticketmaster Coughs Up $10 Million Fine After Hacking Rival Business
New year, new rant: Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for ‘killing’ the ECC industry
Linux Pentesting: What Is It and How Can It Improve Network Security?>
Julian Assange will NOT be extradited to the US over WikiLeaks hacking and spy charges, rules British judge

It was discovered that there was an issue in the gssproxy privilege separation caused by gssproxy not unlocking cond_mutex prior to calling pthread_exit.

It was discovered that csync2, a cluster synchronization tool, did not correctly check for the return value from GnuTLS security routines. It neglected to repeatedly call this function as required by the design of the API.

The vlc package has been updated to version 3.0.12.1, which includes security enhancements in the web interface, as well as other fixes and enhancements. See the upstream NEWS file for details.

There is a floating point exception in dcraw_common.cpp of libRAW. It will lead to remote denial of service attack. This code is embedded in rawtherapee (CVE-2017-13735). References:

Kevin Backhouse discovered that GDM incorrectly launched the initial setup tool when the accountsservice daemon was not reachable. A local attacker able to cause accountsservice to crash or stop responding could trick GDM into launching the initial setup tool and create a privileged user (CVE-2020-16125).

libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier has a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c (CVE-2020-24977). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27300

SolarWinds mess that flared in the holidays: Biz confirms malware targeted crocked Orion product

Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp/audacity-$USER by default. After Audacity creates the temporary directory, it sets its permissions to 755. Any user on the system can read and play the temporary audio .au files located there (CVE-2020-11867).

2021 Cybersecurity Trends: Bigger Budgets, Endpoint Emphasis and Cloud

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ceph 15.2.8 GA Security fix for CVE-2020-27781

Multiple security issues were discovered in the Chromium web browser, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or information disclosure.

It was discovered that incorrect validation of JWT tokens in InfluxDB, a time series, metrics, and analytics database, could result in authentication bypass.

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

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Ticketmaster fined $10 million after hack of business rival
Inbox Attacks: The Miserable Year (2020) That Was

David Cook reported several memory safety issues affecting the RPC protocol in p11-kit, a library providing a way to load and enumerate PKCS#11 modules.

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