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An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Alex Birnberg discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Horde Application Framework, more precisely its Text Filter API. An attacker could take control of a user’s mailbox by sending a crafted e-mail.

Fixed a memory leak when decompression fails “unexpectedly”. (CVE-2021-20216) Prevent an assertion from getting triggered by a crafted CGI request. (CVE-2021-20217) References:

IDRIX, Truecrypt Veracrypt, Truecrypt Prior to 1.23-Hotfix-1 (Veracrypt), all versions (Truecrypt) is affected by a Buffer Overflow that can lead to information disclosure of kernel stack through a locally executed code with IOCTL request to driver (CVE-2019-1010208).

When sending a CONNECT request with the XOR-PEER-ADDRESS value of 0.0.0.0, a malicious user would be able to relay packets to the loopback interface. Additionally, when coturn is listening on IPv6, which is default, the loopback interface can also be reached by making use of either [::1] or [::] as the peer address (CVE-2020-26262).

In MediaWiki before 1.31.11, the messages userrights-expiry-current and userrights-expiry-none can contain raw HTML. XSS can happen when a user visits Special:UserRights but does not have rights to change all userrights, and the table on the left side has unchangeable groups in it. The right column with the changeable groups is not affected and is escaped […]

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Multiple security issues were found in PHP, a widely-used open source general purpose scripting language which could result in denial of service, information disclosure, cookie forgery or incorrect encryption.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in QEMU, a fast processor emulator (notably used in KVM and Xen HVM virtualization). An attacker could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS), information leak, and possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the QEMU

An update for xterm 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 that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

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An update is now available for Red Hat Decision Manager. 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

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit. An overflow bug in the x64_64 Montgomery squaring procedure, an integer overflow in CipherUpdate and a NULL pointer dereference flaw X509_issuer_and_serial_hash() were found, which could

An update is now available for Red Hat Process Automation Manager. 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

* Bring back the WebKitPluginProcess that was removed by mistake. (It will disappear again soon.) * Fix RunLoop objects leaked in worker threads. * Use Internet Explorer quirk for Google Docs. (Yes, even this new quirk is broken already.) * Security fixes: CVE-2020-13558

**Release 1.4.11** – Display a nice error informing about no PHP8 support – Elastic: Fix compatibility with Less v3 and v4 (#7813) – Fix bug with managesieve_domains in Settings > Forwarding form (#7849) – Fix errors in MSSQL database update scripts (#7853) – **Security**: Fix cross-site scripting (XSS) via HTML messages with malicious CSS content

New upstream release 2.0.25

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Linux 5.11 is out with AMD and Intel improvements (and Linus Torvalds is happy)>
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An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

An update for the nodejs:12 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 kernel 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 the nodejs:10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Busybox, utility programs for small and embedded systems, was affected by several security vulnerabilities. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues.

Joakim Hindersson discovered that Open vSwitch, a software-based Ethernet virtual switch, allowed a malicious user to cause a denial-of-service by sending a specially crafted packet.

An update for the subversion:1.10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 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 the subversion:1.10 module 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,

The 5.10.15 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. —- The 5.10.14 stable kernel updates contain a number of important fixes across the tree.

The 5.10.15 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

xterm through Patch #365 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Thomas Akesson discovered a remotely triggerable vulnerability in the mod_authz_svn module in Subversion, a version control system. When using in-repository authz rules with the AuthzSVNReposRelativeAccessFile option an unauthenticated remote client can take advantage of this flaw

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Update to Zypper 1.14.42 and libzypp 17.25.6 to remediate CVE-2017-9271

Update to Zypper 1.14.42 and libzypp 17.25.6 to remediate CVE-2017-9271

CVE-2021-3281: Potential directory-traversal via archive.extract()

Several security vulnerabilities have been corrected in unbound, a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver. Support for the unbound DNS server has been resumed, the sources can be found in the unbound1.9 source package.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

The package helm before version 3.5.2-1 is vulnerable to insufficient validation.

The package privoxy before version 3.0.31-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

The package python2-jinja before version 2.11.3-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

An update for openvswitch2.13 is now available for Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.4.1 zip release is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Windows. Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Updated Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.4.1 packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1, for RHEL 7 and Windows. Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

An update for rh-nodejs12-nodejs 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

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An update for .NET 5.0 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 .NET Core 2.1 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,

An update for rh-dotnet50-dotnet is now available for .NET on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 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 rh-dotnet31-dotnet is now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 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 rh-dotnet21-dotnet is now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 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 .NET Core 3.1 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,

Understanding Multipath TCP: High availability for endpoints and the networking highway of the future

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DISA Has Released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 STIG
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Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0411

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.5.31 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. This release also includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.

Various overflow errors were identified and fixed. CVE-2020-27814

The container caasp/v4.5/cilium-operator was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container caasp/v4.5/cilium was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

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The php packages are updated to version 7.3.27 to fix a Null Dereference in SoapClient (SOAP). (CVE-2021-21702). Note also php packages version 7.4.15-1.mga7 are available in backports/updates.

A vulnerability was discovered in how wpa_supplicant processing P2P (Wi-Fi Direct) group information from active group owners. The actual parsing of that information validates field lengths appropriately, but processing of the parsed information misses a length check when storing a copy of the secondary device types. This can result in writing

phppgadmin through 7.12.1 allows sensitive actions to be performed without validating that the request originated from the application. One such area, database.php does not verify the source of an HTTP request. This can be leveraged by a remote attacker to trick a logged-in administrator to visit a malicious page with a CSRF exploit and execute […]

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An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

CVE-2020-0256 In LoadPartitionTable of gpt.cc, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.6.16 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. 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 that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available.

Multiple vulnerabilites were discovered in privoxy, a privacy enhancing HTTP proxy, like memory leaks, dereference of a NULL-pointer, et al.

Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

Security fix for CVE-2020-26418, CVE-2020-26419, CVE-2020-26420, CVE-2020-26421 Update to version 3.4.2 Fix %post script on Silverblue

Update to jasper-2.0.24, see https://github.com/jasper- software/jasper/releases/tag/version-2.0.24 for details. Backport fix for CVE-2021-3272.

security fix for CVE-2021-0326 see also: https://w1.fi/security/2020-2/

Update to 3.10.0a5. Security fix for CVE-2021-3177.

**PHP version 7.4.15** (04 Feb 2021) **Core:** * Fixed bug php#80523 (bogus parse error on >4GB source code). (Nikita) * Fixed bug php#80384 (filter buffers entire read until file closed). (Adam Seitz, cmb) **Curl:** * Fixed bug php#80595 (Resetting POSTFIELDS to empty array breaks request). (cmb) **Date:** * Fixed bug php#80376 (last day of the […]

Security fix for CVE-2021-20197

Backport patches for CVE-2020-14409, CVE-2020-14410.