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LinuxSecurity.com: Django could be made to expose spoofed information over the network.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in NSS.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Updates for rh-dotnet21-dotnet and rh-dotnet22-dotnet are now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

LinuxSecurity.com: The avidemux package has been updated to version 2.7.1. Avidemux includes a bundled copy of the ffmpeg libraries, which have been updated from version 3.3.3 to version 3.3.9, fixing several security issues and other bugs.

LinuxSecurity.com: The __mkd_trim_line function in mkdio.c in libmarkdown.a in DISCOUNT 2.2.3a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file (CVE-2018-11468). DISCOUNT through version 2.2.3a is vulnerable to a Heap-based

LinuxSecurity.com: Several buffer overflows when handling responses from a Muscle Card in muscle_list_files in libopensc/card-muscle.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact (CVE-2018-16391).

LinuxSecurity.com: Jeffrey Altman reported that the backup tape controller (butc) process does accept incoming RPCs but does not require (or allow for) authentication of those RPCs, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to perform volume operations with administrator credentials (CVE-2018-16947).

LinuxSecurity.com: It was found that when a retry task in ansible run with -vvv fails, it will log the raw return code, stdout and stderr from ssh which could have contained sensitive data (CVE-2018-16876). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: A leaky data conversion exposing a manager oracle (CVE-2018-16869). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24080 – https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-12/msg00120.html

LinuxSecurity.com: A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils through 8.29 in chown-core.c. The functions chown and chgrp do not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX “-R -L” options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition (CVE-2017-18018).

LinuxSecurity.com: Double free in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2018-15518). Denial of Service on malformed BMP file in QBmpHandler (CVE-2018-19873). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that ruby-loofah, a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, performed insufficient sanitising of SVG elements.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that malformed URLs could spoof the content of the default 404 page of Django, a Python web development framework. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in

LinuxSecurity.com: The package elfutils before version 0.175-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

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LinuxSecurity.com: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way dcraw processed images. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash dcraw by tricking it into processing crafted images (CVE-2018-5801). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: A flaw was found in libao. The _tokenize_matrix function in audio_out.c in Xiph.Org libao 1.2.0 can cause a denial of service(memory corruption) via a crafted mp3 file (CVE-2017-11548). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: NULL pointer dereference in the function aubio_source_avcodec_readframe which may lead to DoS when playing a crafted audio file (CVE-2017-17554). A crash in aubio_pitch_set_unit (CVE-2018-14522).

LinuxSecurity.com: This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Update Service (TUS). This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Telco Update Service (TUS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6.

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a content-spoofing vulnerability in the default 404 pages in the Django web development framework. For more information, please see:

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0022

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LinuxSecurity.com: This release (4.3.1) contains bug fixes only: – Fix checkspell detected typos (#531) – Heap overflow packet2tree and get_l2len (#530) This is Tcpreplay suite 4.3.0 This release contains several bug fixes and enhancements: – Fix maxOS TOS checksum failure (#524) – TCP sequence edits seeding (#514) – Fix issues identifed by Codacy (#493) – […]

LinuxSecurity.com: This release (4.3.1) contains bug fixes only: – Fix checkspell detected typos (#531) – Heap overflow packet2tree and get_l2len (#530) This is Tcpreplay suite 4.3.0 This release contains several bug fixes and enhancements: – Fix maxOS TOS checksum failure (#524) – TCP sequence edits seeding (#514) – Fix issues identifed by Codacy (#493) – […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Since version 1.19 Wget stores the URL and in certain cases the ‘Referer’ URL within extended attributes (xattrs) of the file system – by default. This includes username + password and other credentials or private data *if* those have been used within the URLs. Anyone with read access to

LinuxSecurity.com: Florian Stuelpner discovered that Samba is vulnerable to infinite query recursion caused by CNAME loops, resulting in denial of service (CVE-2018-14629). Alex MacCuish discovered that a user with a valid certificate or smart

LinuxSecurity.com: A flaw was found in units. units_cur doesn’t sanitize downloaded data. This allows a maliciously intended server to execute arbitrary code remotely on the client (rhbz#1598913). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability was in found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server. The issue is a memory leak occurring while parsing some malformed records, due to the fact that some memory is allocated parsing a record and is not always properly released if the record is not valid. It allows an authorized user to cause a denial […]

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability was in found in PowerDNS Recursor. The issue is a memory leak occurring while parsing some malformed records, due to the fact that some memory is allocated parsing a record and is not always properly released if the record is not valid. It allows a malicious auth server to cause a denial […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Eyal Itkin discovered FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain stream encodings. A malicious server could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2018-8784, CVE-2018-8785).

LinuxSecurity.com: Potential object injection vulnerability (CVE-2018-19296). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24055 – https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/DAZQPUD7WZXMJ2KIQY5P2I2UI545YPYO/

LinuxSecurity.com: Use-after-free vulnerability in Decoder.cpp in libpgf before 6.15.32 (CVE-2015-6673). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24101

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libextractor which may lead to denial of service or memory disclosure if a malformed OLE file is processed (CVE-2018-20430, CVE-2018-20431). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 17 fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-perl524-perl is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-perl526-perl and rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. 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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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple issues were fixed in Qt. CVE-2018-15518 A double-free or corruption during parsing of a specially crafted

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LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the changes in tzdata 2018i for the Perl bindings. For the list of changes, see DLA-1625-1. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version

LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the changes in tzdata 2018i. Notable changes are: – Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan moved from +06 to +05 on 2018-12-21. A new

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix CVEs as described in related RHBZ bug.

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix CVEs as described in related RHBZ bug.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in

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LinuxSecurity.com: An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by “j a v a s c r i p t:” in Internet Explorer (CVE-2018-19787).

LinuxSecurity.com: Poppler before 0.70.0 has a NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new when called from poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment. (CVE-2018-19149) References:

LinuxSecurity.com: Graphicsmagick has been updated to fix several bugs and security issues. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23157 – http://www.graphicsmagick.org/NEWS.html#november-17-2018

LinuxSecurity.com: Possible denial of service vulnerability due to a missing check in Lib/wave.py to verify that at least one channel is provided (CVE-2017-18207). Python’s elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat’s hash

LinuxSecurity.com: debian-security-support, the Debian security support coverage checker, has been updated in jessie. The jessie relevant changes are: * Mark jasperreports as end-of-life in Jessie.

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a potential denial of service vulnerability in tar, the GNU version of the tar UNIX archiving utility.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated to 3.3.4. Security fix by upstream: Anti-Phishing protection.. Server-provided text will not appear in user-facing GUI windows anymore. Server error messages are instead parsed and mapped to predefined strings.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in GKSu might allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Rust, the worst which may allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 17 fixes is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVE-2018-16646, CVE-2018-19058, CVE-2018-19059, CVE-2018-19060, CVE-2018-19149.

LinuxSecurity.com: **Archive_Tar version 1.4.4** * Fix Bug #21058: Long symlinks are not supported [mrook] * Fix Bug #23782: Prevent phar:// files from being extracted [mrook] — **PEAR** * drop deprecated option used when running `pear run-tests`

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to leptonica-1.77.0, see http://www.leptonica.com/source/version- notes.html for details.

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to leptonica-1.77.0, see http://www.leptonica.com/source/version- notes.html for details.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

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