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LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in Pango could result in a Denial of Service condition.

LinuxSecurity.com: Okular is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in Icecast might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PHProjekt due to embedded Zend Framework, the worst of which could allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary commands. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

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

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

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the nginx web/proxy server. As there was no validation for the size of a 64-bit atom in an MP4 file,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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: An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

LinuxSecurity.com: 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for thunderbird 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, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

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LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in OpenSSL might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: A buffer overflow in Python might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in X.Org X11 library, the worst of which could allow for remote code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: Three vulnerabilities were discovered in Nginx, a high-performance web and reverse proxy server, which could in denial of service in processing HTTP/2 (via excessive memory/CPU usage) or server memory disclosure in the ngx_http_mp4_module module (used for server-side MP4 streaming).

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3403

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3406

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

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for spice-server 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, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: The previous update of libdatetime-timezone-perl to tzdata version 2018g was incomplete due to a newly introduced rule type that this version of libdatetime-timezone-perl could not parse.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation or information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 86 fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several issues have been discovered in the MariaDB database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MariaDB to the new upstream version 10.0.37. Please see the MariaDB 10.0 Release Notes for further details:

LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the changes in tzdata 2018g for the Perl bindings. For the list of changes, see DLA-1363-1. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version

LinuxSecurity.com: 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 Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

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

LinuxSecurity.com: ppp could be made to crash or bypass authentication if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for xerces-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for xerces-c 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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Advisory 2. Description: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3.1 is now available and contains the following bug fixes:

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for 389-ds-base 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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.3.1. 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

LinuxSecurity.com: The package ghostscript before version 9.25-4 is vulnerable to sandbox escape.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library. CVE-2016-7141

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

LinuxSecurity.com: Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream version 5.5.62, which includes additional changes. Please see the MySQL

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-18718 – CWE-415: Double Free The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

LinuxSecurity.com: NetworkManager could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: systemd-networkd could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openvswitch is now available for Fast Datapath 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for imgbased, redhat-release-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.9. 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

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in GlusterFS, a clustered file system. Buffer overflows and path traversal issues may lead to information disclosure, denial-of-service or the execution of arbitrary code.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7. 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 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 gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.5. 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.6. 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

LinuxSecurity.com: 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in MuPDF, a PDF, XPS, and e-book viewer which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed documents are opened.

LinuxSecurity.com: Nick Rolfe discovered multiple buffer overflows in the Icecast multimedia streaming server which could result in the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in

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LinuxSecurity.com: Updated cimg and gmic packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue was discovered in CImg v.220. DoS occurs when loading a crafted bmp image that triggers an allocation failure in load_bmp in CImg.h (CVE-2018-7587).

LinuxSecurity.com: The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was found that the GnuTLS implementation of HMAC-SHA-256 and HMAC-SHA-384 was vulnerable to a Lucky thirteen style attack. Remote attackers could use this flaw to conduct distinguishing attacks and

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities: Incorrect handling of unsigned attributes in singed Jar manifests (Security, 8194534) (CVE-2018-3136).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated dnsmasq packages fix a security issue Upstream dnsmasq run as nobody user which could lead to security issue if multiple services run as this same user.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated lighttpd package fixes security vulnerabilities: Potential path traversal with specific configs or in some use cases in mod_alias.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated axis packages fix security vulnerability: Apache Axis 1.x up to and including 1.4 is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack in the default servlet/services (CVE-2018-8032).

LinuxSecurity.com: The python-cryptography and python-cryptography-vectors packages have been updated to version 2.3.1 and fixes the following security issue: The finalize_with_tag API did not enforce a minimum tag length. If a user did not validate the input length prior to passing it to

LinuxSecurity.com: Dancer2 0.206000 addresses several potential security issues. There is a potential RCE with regards to Storable. Dancer2 adds session ID validation to the session engine so that session backends based on Storable can reject malformed session IDs that may lead to exploitation of the RCE. Parsing requests now uses HTTP::Entity::Parser which reduces the amount […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated mbedtls package fixes security vulnerabilities: Fixed a vulnerability in the TLS ciphersuites based on use of CBC and SHA-384 in DTLS/TLS 1.0 to 1.2, that allowed an active network attacker to partially recover the plaintext of messages under certains conditions

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated gitolite package fixes security vulnerability: Gitolite before 3.6.9 does not (in certain configurations involving @all or a regex) properly restrict access to a Git repository that is in the process of being migrated until the full set of migration steps has been

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities: ‘$wgRateLimits’ entry for ‘user’ overrides ‘newbie’ (CVE-2018-0503). When a log event is (partially) hidden Special:Redirect/logid can link

LinuxSecurity.com: This update provides virtualbox 5.2.20 and fixes the following security vulnerabilities: During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This

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LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the Ruby language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

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

LinuxSecurity.com: tzdata upstream released version 2018g. Notables changes since 2018e (previous version available in jessie)

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2018-5179

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LinuxSecurity.com: The package linux-lts before version 4.14.75-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.