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Two security issues have been discovered in python2.7: CVE-2019-16935

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Upgrade to Ruby 2.7.3.

Upgrade to Ruby 2.7.3.

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An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

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Appled all the changes from the upstream 2.53.7.1 update. Fixed tab opening in background and tab choosing on a tab close. —- Fix updating and support of legacy javascript extensions. —- Update to 2.53.7 Enable support for module scripts. (To turn it off, toggle “dom.moduleScripts.enabled” in about:config). For sending mail, now “Thunderbird” is advertised in […]

Upstream release, security fix for CVE-2021-20307

This is the ninth maintenance release of Python 3.8. [Changelog](https://docs.py thon.org/release/3.8.9/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-8-9). Contains a security fix for CVE-2021-3426.

Upstream release, security fix for CVE-2021-20307

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

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

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An update for libldb 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

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Updated Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.4.2 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

The 5.11.13 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

The 5.11.13 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.4.2 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

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Two security issues have been detected in zeromq3. CVE-2021-20234

Reflections on 2020 security vulnerabilities

The container suse-sles-15-sp2-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse-sles-15-sp2-chost-byos-v20210304-gen2 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container sles-15-sp2-chost-byos-v20210304 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Multiple vulnerabilites were discovered in privoxy, a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities. CVE-2021-20272

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.2-1 – Container 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

Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6.7-1 – RHEL7 Container Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.7.5-1 – RHEL7 Container Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2.2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

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An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has 115 fixes is now available.

An update that fixes 42 vulnerabilities is now available.

The patch to address CVE-2019-5086 and CVE-2019-5087 was not portable and did not work on 32 bit processor architectures. This update fixes the problem. For reference, the original advisory text follows.

An update for the nodejs:14 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,

An update for screen 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

An update for the nodejs:12 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,

Fix for CVE-2020-13977 BZ1849087 Require plugins needed for localhost monitoring (#1932297) Update to 4.4.6

Fix for CVE-2020-13977 BZ1849087 Require plugins needed for localhost monitoring (#1932297) Update to 4.4.6

A buffer overflow issue in caca_resize function in libcaca/caca/canvas.c may lead to local execution of arbitrary code in the user context.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Stability update for hardware accelerated backend (mozbz#1694670). —- New upstream update (86.0). Should also fix some rendering issues in KDE in certain configurations. Depends on and cannot be pushed stable without https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-bdc10e21fc .

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Security update for CVE-2021-26937

Update to latest upstream release 1.4.1 (#1931574)

Multiple security issues were discovered in activemq, a message broker built around Java Message Service. CVE-2017-15709

A vulnerability was discovered in mqtt-client wher unmarshalling corrupt MQTT frame can lead to broker Out of Memory exception making it unresponsive.

This update fixes a buffer-overrun bug related to the MNG LOOP chunk (which gets noticed even in PNG files if the -s option is used). (RHBZ#1908559). It also fixes a buffer overrun for certain invalid MNG PPLT chunk contents.

Infinite loop in SML lexer may lead to DoS. When the SMLLexer gets fed the string “exception” it seems to loop indefinitely (rhbz#1922136). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28319

jp2_decode in jp2/jp2_dec.c in libjasper in JasPer 2.0.24 has a heap-based buffer over-read when there is an invalid relationship between the number of channels and the number of image components (CVE-2021-3272). A flaw was found in jasper. An out of bounds read issue was found in jp2_decode

In Xpdf 4.02, SplashOutputDev::endType3Char(GfxState *state) SplashOutputDev.cc:3079 is trying to use the freed `t3GlyphStack->cache`, which causes an `heap-use-after-free` problem. The codes of a previous fix for nested Type 3 characters wasn’t correctly handling the case where a Type 3 char referred to another char in the same Type 3 font (CVE-2020-25725).

Yi’it Can Y±lmaz discovered that GNOME Autoar could extract files outside of the intended directory. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could create files in arbitrary locations, possibly leading to code execution (CVE-2020-36241).

A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the SPNEGO implementation affecting the GSSAPI security policy negotiation in BIND, which could result in denial of service (daemon crash), or potentially the execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2020-8625).

Felix Weinmann reported a flaw in the handling of combining characters in screen, which can result in denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code via a specially crafted UTF-8 character sequence (CVE-2021-26937).

Paul Kehrer discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain input lengths in EVP functions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2021-23840). Tavis Ormandy discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled parsing issuer

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules 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,

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.11.394 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. 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 container-tools:2.0 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,

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It was discovered that SPIP, a website engine for publishing, would allow a malicious user to perform cross-site scripting attacks, access sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code.

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0671

Red Hat Risk Report: A tour of 2020’s branded security flaws

Security fix for CVE-2021-27803

Update to CVE release 3002.5-1 for Python 3 Fixed on this release: CVE-2021-25283 Fixed in 3002.3: CVE-2020-28243 CVE-2020-28972 CVE-2020-35662 CVE-2021-3148 CVE-2021-3144 CVE-2021-25281 CVE-2021-25282 CVE-2021-25283 CVE-2021-25284 CVE-2021-25284 CVE-2021-3197

Update to CVE release 3001.6-1 for Python 3 Fixed in 3001.5: CVE-2020-28243 CVE-2020-28972 CVE-2020-35662 CVE-2021-3148 CVE-2021-3144 CVE-2021-25281 CVE-2021-25282 CVE-2021-25283 CVE-2021-25284 CVE-2021-3197

* 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

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Update to security and bugfix release 2.9.18.

bind: Buffer overflow in the SPNEGO implementation affecting GSSAPI security policy negotiation (CVE-2020-8625) 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 bind-debuginfo-9.11.4-26.P2.el7_9.4.i686.rpm bind-debuginfo-9.11.4-26.P2.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm bind-export-libs-9 [More…]

Update to security and bugfix release 2.9.18.