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It was discovered that roundcube, a skinnable AJAX based webmail solution for IMAP servers, did not properly sanitize HTML messages. This would allow an attacker to perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

lxml could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted XML or HTML file.

Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript.

Two issues were found in GDAL, a geospatial library, that could lead to denial of service via application crash or possibly the execution of arbitrary code if maliciously crafted data was parsed.

openssl: Read buffer overruns processing ASN.1 strings (CVE-2021-3712) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE SL7 x86_64 openssl-1.0.2k-23.el7_9.x86_64.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-23.el7_9.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-23.el7_9.x86_64.rpm openssl-libs-1.0.2k-23.e [More…]

An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has 13 fixes is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Introduced regression Exiv2.

An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in WordPress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform SQL injection, run unchecked SQL queries, bypass hardening, or perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

Use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944) Heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

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Version 0.102 of ClamAV, an anti-virus toolkit, is end-of-life. ClamAV has been updated to version 0.103 to be able to receive virus signature updates.

The container suse/sles/15.3/virt-operator was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles/15.3/libguestfs-tools was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles/15.3/virt-handler was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles/15.3/virt-controller was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles/15.3/virt-api was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed document files are processed.

It was discovered that roundcube, a skinnable AJAX based webmail solution for IMAP servers, did not properly sanitize HTML messages. This would allow an attacker to perform Cross-Side Scripting (XSS) attacks.

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Security fix for CVE-2021-45463

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.36#MediaWiki_1.36.3

These updated packages fix a buffer overflow in the faces reader.

An update for rh-nodejs14-nodejs and rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

It was discovered that sphinxsearch, a fast standalone full-text SQL search engine, could allow arbitrary files to be read by abusing a configuration option.

Security fix for CVE-2021-4136, CVE-2021-4166, CVE-2021-4173, CVE-2021-4186

Add wayland detection and pass flags to improve experience when wayland is used. —- Update to 96.0.4664.110. You know the drill, lots of security bugs fixed, update if you like security, hit that like and subscribe button. CVE-2021-4052 CVE-2021-4053 CVE-2021-4054 CVE-2021-4055 CVE-2021-4056 CVE-2021-4057 CVE-2021-4058 CVE-2021-4059 CVE-2021-4061 CVE-2021-4062 CVE-2021-4063

Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK.

Several security issues were fixed in Apache HTTP Server.

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

The container bci/openjdk was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/openjdk-devel was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/minimal was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

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The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unb= reakable Linux Network:

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

What You Need to Know About the Predator-OS 20.04 LTS Release>

Several security issues were fixed in Django.

The container sles-15-sp3-chost-byos-v20220103 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse-sles-15-sp3-chost-byos-v20220103-hvm-ssd-x86_64 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse-sles-15-sp3-chost-byos-v20220103-gen2 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Apache HTTP server: CVE-2021-44224

An update for the idm:DL1 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 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

An update for samba is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

An update for telnet is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

xorg-x11-server: SProcRenderCompositeGlyphs out-of-bounds access (CVE-2021-4008) * xorg-x11-server: SProcXFixesCreatePointerBarrier out-of-bounds access (CVE-2021-4009) * xorg-x11-server: SProcScreenSaverSuspend out-of-bounds access (CVE-2021-4010) * xorg-x11-server: SwapCreateRegister out-of-bounds access (CVE-2021-4011) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, [More…]

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, spoofing, information disclosure, downgrade attacks on SMTP STARTTLS connections or misleading display of OpenPGP/MIME signatures.

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An update for xorg-x11-server 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,

An update for grafana is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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

An update for grafana is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Fix missing TLS certificate verification. (CVE-2021-39359) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29834 – https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/HRPPP47WRCAPAEJGRMEKYYJZBQCYXTLQ/

Several wireshark vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the release notes for details. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29832

Fix shell expansion via crafted pathname in the ImageMagick convert fallback References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29829

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, spoofing, information disclosure, downgrade attacks on SMTP STARTTLS connections or misleading display of OpenPGP/MIME signatures.

Security fix for CVE-2021-4008, CVE-2021-4009, CVE-2021-4010, CVE-2021-4011

The 5..15..12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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The 5..15..12 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/2021/12/23/security- update-0.5.15-releases-0.4.27-0.3.36/

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Patch for CVE-2021-39359. —- Update to 5.2.10

xwayland 21.1.4 Security fix for CVE-2021-4008, CVE-2021-4009, CVE-2021-4010, CVE-2021-4011 Store EGLcontext to avoid superfluous eglMakeCurrent() calls Prefer EGLStream with NVIDIA proprietary driver if both GBM and EGLstream are available

stack-based buffer overflow in handle_request() in DHT.c (CVE-2021-44847) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29821 – https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/S7EBS3NIRYJ7V3PTNINP3PJSVUHGZTGA/

HTML Cleaner allows crafted and SVG embedded scripts to pass through (CVE-2021-43818) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29817

e2guardian did not validate TLS hostnames (CVE-2021-44273) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29811 – https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/23/2

ReDoS vulnerability in html_preprocess_rules in ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29803

HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers. The http parser accepts requests with a space (SP) right after the header name before the colon. This can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS). (CVE-2021-22959) HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body. The parse ignores chunk extensions when parsing the body of chunked requests. This leads […]

Authenticate active help requests to the local help web server (CVE-2020-27225) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29048

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Two vulnerabilities were fixed in the reSIProcate SIP stack. CVE-2017-11521

An update that fixes 33 vulnerabilities is now available.

Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code, information disclosure or spoofing.

The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

New wpa_supplicant packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

A couple of vulnerabilites were found in paramiko, an implementation of SSHv2 protocol in Python. CVE-2018-1000805

An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC, a HTML5 VNC client, in which the remote VNC server could inject arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page via the messages propagated to the status field, such as the VNC server name.

A cookie prefix spoofing vulnerability in CGI::Cookie.parse and a regular expression denial of service vulnerability (ReDoS) on date parsing methods were discovered in src:ruby2.1, the Ruby interpreter.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in djvulibre, a library and set of tools to handle documents in the DjVu format. An attacker could crash document viewers and possibly execute arbitrary code through

The python-rdflib-tools package (tools for converting to and from RDF) had wrappers that could load Python modules from the current working directory, allowing code injection.

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

Several security vulnerabilities were found in Apache Log4j2, a Logging Framework for Java, which could lead to a denial of service or information disclosure.

Invalid read for malformed DVI files was fixed in GNU libextractor, a library that extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version

Update log4j to 2.17.0 for CVE-2021-45105 Denial of Service attack

Backport fix for CVE-2021-45078

Update log4j to 2.17.0 for CVE-2021-45105 Denial of Service attack

Backport fix for CVE-2021-45078

The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The 5.15.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.