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An issue in caribou, that was exposed by a CVE fix in X.org server, permits a screensaver-lock bypass. It is possible to crash the screensaver and unlock the desktop via the virtual keyboard. References:

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path. (CVE-2021-23239).

Multiple integer overflows have been discovered in the array allocations in the p11-kit library and the p11-kit list command, where overflow checks are missing before calling realloc or calloc (CVE-2020-29361). A heap-based buffer over-read has been discovered in the RPC protocol used by

In Synergy before version 1.12.0, a Synergy server can be crashed by receiving a kMsgHelloBack packet with a client name length set to 0xffffffff (4294967295) if the servers memory is less than 4 GB. It was verified that this issue does not cause a crash through the exception handler if the available memory of the […]

A flaw was found in Resteasy, where an improper input validation results in returning an illegal header that integrates into the server’s response. This flaw may result in an injection, which leads to unexpected behavior when the HTTP response is constructed (CVE-2020-1695).

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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

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

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

Using OpenSCAP to help achieve HIPAA compliance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3

In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions, no HTML escaping was being performed when

Multiple vulnerabilites in wavpack were found, like OOB read (which could potentially lead to a DOS attack), unexpected control flow, crashes, integer overflow, and segfaults.

An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Release of OpenShift Serverless 1.12.0 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

LibreOffice slideshow aborts with stack smashing in cairo’s composite_boxes (CVE-2020-35492). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28084

Use-after-free write when handling a malicious COOKIE-ECHO SCTP chunk. (CVE-2020-16044) See upstream releasenotes for other changes. References:

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) IOCTL in which user-mode clients can access legacy privileged APIs, which may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, and information disclosure (CVE”2021”1052).

FILTER_VALIDATE_URL accepts URLs with invalid userinfo (CVE-2020-7071). stream_get_contents() fails with maxlength=-1 or default. See upstream releasenotes for other changes.

It was discovered that Awstats was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage that to perform arbitrary code execution. The previous fix did not fully address the issue when the default /etc/awstats/awstats.conf is not present (CVE-2020-29600).

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.4.32 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. This release also includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.

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

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

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,

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 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,

OpenShift Serverless 1.9.0 release and security update is now available. 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

Several security vulnerabilities were found in ImageMagick, a suite of image manipulation programs. An attacker could cause denial of service and execution of arbitrary code when a crafted image file is processed.

An update is now available for Red Hat build of Quarkus. 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. For

An update is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.2. 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 is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.2. 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 kernel 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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available.

This update upgrades Firefox to version 78.6.1 ESR. * Mozilla: Use-after-free write when handling a malicious COOKIE-ECHO SCTP chunk (CVE-2020-16044) SL7 x86_64 firefox-78.6.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-78.6.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-78.6.1-1.el7_9.i686.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has 58 fixes is now available.

A flaw was discovered in coturn, a TURN and STUN server for VoIP. By default coturn does not allow peers on the loopback addresses (127.x.x.x and ::1). A remote attacker can bypass the protection via a specially crafted request using a peer address of ‘0.0.0.0’ and trick

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

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An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium and Google Chrome, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

A use-after-free in Mozilla Firefox’s SCTP handling may allow remote code execution.

A buffer overflow in ipmitool might allow remote attacker(s) to execute arbitrary code.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Firejail, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

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New Firefox version (84.0.2) which fixes security / stability issues.

A malicious peer could have modified a COOKIE-ECHO chunk in a SCTP packet in a way that potentially resulted in a use-after-free. We presume that with enough effort it could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-16044).

It was discovered that mingw-binutils and binutils suffered from two vulnerabilites which might lead to DoS. Null Pointer Dereference in debug_get_real_type could result in DoS (CVE-2020-16598).

XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element ().

Busybox contains a Missing SSL certificate validation vulnerability in The “busybox wget” applet that can result in arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Simply download any file over HTTPS using “busybox wget https://compromised-domain.com/important-file”. ().

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

It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled certain imap hibernation commands. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to access other users’ email (CVE-2020-24386). Innokentii Sennovskiy discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled MIME

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An update is now available for Red Hat support for Spring Boot. 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

There was an integer overflow vulnerability concerning the length of websocket frames received via a websocket connection. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack on an HTTP Server allowing websocket connections.

Security fix for CVE-2020-13482

Backport patches for CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495, CVE-2020-35496.

Security fix for CVE-2020-13482.

Several security vulnerabilities were addressed in pacemaker, a cluster resource manager. CVE-2018-16877

The update for minidlna released as DSA 4806-1 introduced a regression when purging the package. Updated minidlna packages are now available to correct this issue.

ImageMagick: Shell injection via PDF password could result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-29599) SL7 x86_64 ImageMagick-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.i686.rpm ImageMagick-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-c++-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.i686.rpm ImageMagick-c++-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.i686.rpm ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.9.10.68-5.el7 [More…]

An update for openvswitch2.11, ovn2.11, redhat-release-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host 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

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LibreOffice slideshow aborts with stack smashing in cairo’s composite_boxes. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version

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.

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:

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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

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).

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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.

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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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Several security vulnerabilities were discovered in XStream, a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. CVE-2020-26258

It was discovered that minidlna does not forbid the acceptance of a subscription request with a delivery URL on a different network segment than the fully qualified event-subscription URL, aka the CallStranger issue (CVE-2020-12695).

Due to use of a dangling pointer, libcurl 7.29.0 through 7.71.1 can use the wrong connection when sending data. (CVE-2020-8231). A malicious server can use the FTP PASV response to trick curl 7.73.0 and earlier into connecting back to a given IP address and port, and this way