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Daniel Mandragona discovered that invalid DSA public keys can cause a panic in dsa.Verify(), resulting in denial of service. For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in

A buffer overflow was found in file, a file type classification tool, which may result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed CDF (Composite Document File) file is processed.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes 10 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 12 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes 28 vulnerabilities is now available.

Backport security fixes from [PR#145](https://github.com/libming/libming/pull/145) Fixes: CVE-2018-7866, CVE-2018-7873, CVE-2018-7876, CVE-2018-9009, CVE-2018-9132

Emil Lerner, beched and d90pwn found a buffer underflow in php5-fpm, a Fast Process Manager for the PHP language, which can lead to remote code execution.

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An Open-Source Success Story: Apache SpamAssassin Celebrates 18 Years of Effectively Combating Spam Email

An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

The 5.3.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. The update also includes a fix for the [CVE-2019-17666](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17666) security vulnerability regarding a buffer overflow in a Realtek wireless driver.

The 5.3.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. The update also includes a fix for the [CVE-2019-17666](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17666) security vulnerability regarding a buffer overflow in a Realtek wireless driver.

sudo: Privilege escalation via ‘Runas’ specification with ‘ALL’ keyword (CVE-2019-14287) SL7 x86_64 sudo-1.8.23-4.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.23-4.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.23-4.el7_7.1.i686.rpm sudo-devel-1.8.23-4.el7_7.1.i686.rpm sudo-devel-1.8.23-4.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

An update is now available for Ansible Engine 2. 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 sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 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 sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 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 is now available for Ansible Engine 2.8. 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 is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7. 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

An update is now available for Ansible Engine 2.6. 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 solves 16 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

The package pacman before version 5.2.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution.

The package go before version 2:1.13.3-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

The package go-pie before version 2:1.13.3-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

The package xpdf before version 4.02-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

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

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3157

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3127

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3128

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An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that solves 40 vulnerabilities and has 225 fixes is now available.

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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

An update that solves one vulnerability and has 21 fixes is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of nested jar: URLs in Jar URL handler (Networking, 8223892) (CVE-2019-2978) * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of HTTP proxy responses in HttpURLConnection (Networking, 8225298) (CVE-2019-2989) * OpenJDK: Missing restrictions on use of custom SocketImpl (Networking, 8218573) (CVE-2019-2945) * OpenJDK: NULL pointer dereferen [More…]

An update is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.6 for RHEL 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

OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of nested jar: URLs in Jar URL handler (Networking, 8223892) (CVE-2019-2978) * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of HTTP proxy responses in HttpURLConnection (Networking, 8225298) (CVE-2019-2989) * OpenJDK: Missing restrictions on use of custom SocketImpl (Networking, 8218573) (CVE-2019-2945) * OpenJDK: NULL pointer dereference in DrawGlyphList (2D, 8222690) (CVE-2019- [More…]

An update for python is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. 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

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It was discovered that Aspell, the GNU spell checker, incorrectly handled certain inputs which leads to a stack-based buffer over-read. An attacker could potentially access sensitive information.

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

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

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An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update for logging-elasticsearch5-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

It was discovered that the Special:Redirect functionality of MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work, could expose suppressed user names, resulting in an information leak.

New build after fixing BuildRequires —- – Rebase to upstream version 3.9.0 – fix CVE-2019-14745

In the nfs-utils package, providing support files for Network File System (NFS) including the rpc.statd daemon, the directory /var/lib/nfs is owned by statd:nogroup. This directory contains files

* Rebase to 1.8.28 * Fixed CVE-2019-14287

The fix for CVE-2019-10871 broke xpdf. This change has been reverted until a better fix can be developed.

The 5.3.6 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

The 5.3.6 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

The 5.3.6 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

== Security fixes == * (T230402, CVE-2019-16738) SECURITY: Add permission check for suppressed account to Special:Redirect. == Links to all mentioned tasks == * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230402 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227662

kernel: Use-after-free in __blk_drain_queue() function in block/blk-core.c (CVE-2018-20856) * kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie function in marvell/mwifiex/scan.c (CVE-2019-3846) * hardware: bluetooth: BR/EDR encryption key negotiation attacks (KNOB) (CVE-2019-9506) * kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ [More…]

Two buffer allocation issues were identified in poppler. CVE-2019-9959

An update for jenkins is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11. 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 atomic-openshift is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11. 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 mediawiki is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Several cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities were discovered in WordPress, a popular content management framework. An attacker can use these flaws to send malicious scripts to an unsuspecting user.

In sudo, a program that provides limited super user privileges to specific users, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can

OpenJDK: Improper handling of Kerberos proxy credentials (Kerberos, 8220302) (CVE-2019-2949) * OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during regular expression processing in Nashorn (Scripting, 8223518) (CVE-2019-2975) * OpenJDK: Out of bounds access in optimized String indexof implementation (Hotspot, 8224062) (CVE-2019-2977) * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of nested jar: URLs in Jar URL handl [More…]

OpenJDK: Improper handling of Kerberos proxy credentials (Kerberos, 8220302) (CVE-2019-2949) * OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during regular expression processing in Nashorn (Scripting, 8223518) (CVE-2019-2975) * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of nested jar: URLs in Jar URL handler (Networking, 8223892) (CVE-2019-2978) * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of HTTP proxy responses in HttpURLConne [More…]

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization. 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 java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Several security issues were fixed in LibTIFF.

The update of libsdl2 released as DLA 1714-1 led to several regressions, as reported by Avital Ostromich. These regressions are caused by libsdl1.2 patches for CVE-2019-7637, CVE-2019-7635, CVE-2019-7638 and CVE-2019-7636 being applied to libsdl2 without adaptations.

The update of libsdl1.2 released as DLA 1713-1 led to a regression, caused by an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-7637. This issue was known upstream and resulted, among others, in windows versions from libsdl1.2 failing to set video mode.

An update for java-11-openjdk 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 java-1.8.0-openjdk 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,

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions. (CVE-2019-14287) References:

The package sudo before version 1.8.28-1 is vulnerable to privilege escalation.

An update for openshift-enterprise-builder-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

JSS: OCSP policy “Leaf and Chain” implicitly trusts the root certificate (CVE-2019-14823) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. SL7 x86_64 jss-4.4.6-3.el7_7.x86_64.rpm jss-debuginfo-4.4.6-3.el7_7.x86_64.rpm jss-javadoc-4.4.6-3.el [More…]

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1. 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 openshift is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Several security issues were fixed in SDL.

An update for java-11-openjdk 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 java-1.8.0-openjdk 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 that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update for kernel-rt 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

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