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Depressing lessons 2018’s endless data breaches taught us
Hackers steal personal info of 1,000 North Korean defectors

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVE-2018-18088 and CVE-2018-6616

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVE-2017-18267, CVE-2018-13988, CVE-2018-16646, CVE-2018-19058, CVE-2018-19059, CVE-2018-19060, CVE-2018-19149

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: This update fixes CVE-2018-18088 and CVE-2018-6616

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-16869

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for fts3/4 corrupt database exploit

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files, which may lead to denial of service or memory disclosure if a malformed OLE file is processed.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: A XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability was discovered in c3p0, a library for JDBC connection pooling, that may be used to resolve information outside of the intended sphere of control.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues were found in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library: Processing malformed RAR archives could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code and malformed WARC, LHarc, ISO, Xar or CAB archives could result in denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Some vulnerabilities were discovered in ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.

LinuxSecurity.com: Fixed a stack-based buffer over-read in the print_prefix function (CVE-2018-19519). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24077

LinuxSecurity.com: A flaw was found in the i18n gem before 0.8.0 for Ruby. The Hash#slice in lib/i18n/core_ext/hash.rb allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a call in a situation where :some_key is present in keep_keys but not present in the hash (CVE-2014-10077).

FTC issues warning about a Netflix phishing scam
The most interesting and important hacks of 2018
GDPR’s impact was too soft in 2018, but next year will be different

LinuxSecurity.com: A possible regression was found in the recent security update for libphp-phpmailer, announced as DLA 1591-1. During backporting a new variable have accidentally introduced to a conditional statement from

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to new upstream version 1.5.5 (rhbz#1660413, rhbz#1660414)

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-16737, CVE-2018-16738, CVE-2018-16758

LinuxSecurity.com: The Shopify Application Security Team discovered that ruby-sanitize, a whitelist-based HTML sanitizer, is prone to a HTML injection vulnerability. A specially crafted HTML fragment can cause to allow non- whitelisted attributes to be used on a whitelisted HTML element.

Over 19,000 Orange modems are leaking WiFi credentials
Two-factor authentication can save you from hackers

LinuxSecurity.com: Kaspersky Lab discovered several vulnerabilities in libvncserver, a C library to implement VNC server/client functionalities.

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-16737, CVE-2018-16738, CVE-2018-16758

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to new upstream version 1.5.5 (rhbz#1660413, rhbz#1660414)

LinuxSecurity.com: A security issue fixed upstream in sqlite3 has been announced: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/12/21/1 The issue is fixed in 3.25.3. References:

LinuxSecurity.com: There is a use-after-free in monit that shows up if you run it for a while on an active system with address sanitizer enabled. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24049

LinuxSecurity.com: The updated packages fix several bugs and some security issues. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24041 – https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.4.0/releasenotes/

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Congress approves act that opens US government data to the public
Hacker steals ten years worth of data from San Diego school district

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libsndfile, the library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound. CVE-2017-8361

Over 500K School Staff and Students Hit by Breach
Facebook let Netflix, Spotify read your private messages
What is ransomware? How these attacks work and how to recover from them

LinuxSecurity.com: – Fix double-free in CEmuopl::~CEmuopl() (#1635881, CVE-2018-17825)

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5783, CVE-2018-11254, CVE-2018-11255, CVE-2018-11256, CVE-2018-12982, CVE-2018-14320, CVE-2018-19532

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5783, CVE-2018-11254, CVE-2018-11255, CVE-2018-11256, CVE-2018-12982, CVE-2018-14320, CVE-2018-19532

LinuxSecurity.com: – Fix double-free in CEmuopl::~CEmuopl() (#1635881, CVE-2018-17825)

LinuxSecurity.com: Several issues were corrected in nagios3, a monitoring and management system for hosts, services and networks. CVE-2018-18245

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3833

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3831

India authorizes 10 agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ data
Facebook suspends accounts for pushing false info in Alabama election

LinuxSecurity.com: Version update + Security fix for CVE-2018-19131 and CVE-2018-19132

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVE-2018-18088 and CVE-2018-6616

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVE-2018-18088 and CVE-2018-6616

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix low-severity CVE-2018-20217 (an authenticated user who can obtain a TGT using an older encryption type (DES, DES3, or RC4) can cause an assertion failure in the KDC by sending an S4U2Self request.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: **MariaDB C / C++ connector** Release notes: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-connector-c-307-release-notes/ Maintainer notes: Marking as a security update, beacuse of fixed resource leaks. Moving libmariadb pkgconfig file to this package from mariadb- devel. Test with MariaDB-3:10.2.19-2

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Go, the worst which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Anonymous social network Blind left user data exposed
Researcher publishes proof-of-concept code for creating Facebook worm
China hacked the US Navy and stole personal info on at least 100K sailors
Iranian APT Group Pegged for Shamoon Disk Wiping Attacks
Caribou Coffee Card Breach Hits 265 Stores

LinuxSecurity.com: New netatalk packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue.

LinuxSecurity.com: **MariaDB 10.3.11** Release notes: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10311-release-notes/ CVEs fixed: CVE-2018-3282 CVE-2016-9843 CVE-2018-3174 CVE-2018-3143 CVE-2018-3156 CVE-2018-3251 CVE-2018-3185 CVE-2018-3277 CVE-2018-3162 CVE-2018-3173 CVE-2018-3200 CVE-2018-3284

LinuxSecurity.com: Security experts at Tencent’s Blade security team have discovered a critical vulnerability in SQLite database software (nicknamed “Magellan”).

LinuxSecurity.com: Daniel Axtens discovered a double-free and use-after-free vulnerability in libarchive’s RAR decoder that can result in a denial-of-service (application crash) or may have other unspecified impact when a malformed RAR archive is processed.

LinuxSecurity.com: This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.89 and fixes atleast the following security issues: Cross-hyperthread Spectre v2 mitigation is now provided by the Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP) support. Note that STIBP also

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LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for fts3/4 corrupt database exploit sqlite rebased to version 3.26.0 per: https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_26_0.html spatialite-tools rebuilt for latest sqlite version

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for fts3/4 corrupt database exploit sqlite rebased to version 3.26.0 per: https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_26_0.html spatialite-tools rebuilt for latest sqlite version

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 4.2.5

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream announcement: The phpMyAdmin team is pleased to announce the release of **phpMyAdmin version 4.8.4**. Among other bug fixes, this contains several important security fixes. The security fixes involve: * Local file inclusion (https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-6/), * XSRF/CSRF vulnerabilities allowing a specially-crafted URL to perform harmful operations

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: Description: This update for netatalk fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed:

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available. Description: Description: This update for keepalived to version 2.0.10 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed (bsc#1015141): – CVE-2018-19044: Fixed a check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats – CVE-2018-19045: Fixed mode when […]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available. Description: Description: This update for keepalived to version 2.0.10 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed (bsc#1015141): – CVE-2018-19044: Fixed a check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats – CVE-2018-19045: Fixed mode when […]

Celebrating 20 Years of OpenSSL
The 18 biggest data breaches of the 21st century

LinuxSecurity.com: Two more security issues have been corrected in the libav multimedia library. This is a follow-up announcement for DLA-1611-1. CVE-2015-6823

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ntp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ntp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Facebook defends giving tech giants access to extensive user data
Mayday! NASA Warns Employees of Personal Information Breach

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LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3854

LinuxSecurity.com: Several local side channel attacks and a denial of service via large Diffie-Hellman parameters were discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 11 fixes is now available. Description: Description: This update for salt fixes the following issues: – Crontab module fix: file attributes option missing (boo#1114824) – Fix git_pillar merging across multiple __env__ repositories (boo#1112874) – Bugfix: unable to detect os arch when RPM is not installed (boo#1114197) […]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. Description: Description: This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52_111 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed:

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: Description: This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52_141 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed:

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available. Description: Description: This update for ovmf fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: