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LinuxSecurity.com: Two security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code and local information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: Joran Herve discovered that the Okular document viewer was susceptible to directory traversal via malformed .okular files (annotated document archives), which could result in the creation of arbitrary files.

Cyber-Attack Inevitable, Businesses Not Prepared
Operator of VirusTotal Like Malware-Scanning Service Jailed for 14 Years

LinuxSecurity.com: New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.

LinuxSecurity.com: Luis Merino, Markus Vervier and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that missing input sanitising in the Hylafax fax software could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code via a malformed fax message.

Woman Pleads Guilty to DC CCTV Ransomware Blitz
SingHealth data breach reveals several ‘inadequate’ security measures

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

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 solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 24 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

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Top 3 benefits of company open source programs
Australian encryption Bill raises bar for outrageous legislation: Comms Alliance
Security Vulnerability in ESS ExpressVote Touchscreen Voting Computer
Equifax faces ?500,000 fine in the UK over massive data breach

LinuxSecurity.com: 3.6.9

LinuxSecurity.com: This is a security update for `CVE-2018-16802`. It also fixes a printing problem discovered in one of the previous CVE fixes. NOTE: *Please, be advised that there’s a separate issue related to printing problems, which is connected to CUPS itself, meaning this update might not completely resolve your printing issues.* —- This is a […]

LinuxSecurity.com: 3.6.9

LinuxSecurity.com: Fixes CVE-2018-16515

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-1000801

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: – New upstream Firefox version (62.0) – More info at https://www.mozilla.org/en- US/firefox/62.0/releasenotes/

LinuxSecurity.com: 8u181 update

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to devscripts-2.18.4, see http://metadata.ftp- master.debian.org/changelogs//main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.18.4_changelog for details.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Little CMS.

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.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike). 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: Bind could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Little CMS.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been discovered in php5, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. The Apache2 component allows XSS via the body of a “Transfer-Encoding: chunked” request because of a defect

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2016-10728 If an ICMPv4 error packet is received as the first packet on a flow in the to_client direction, it can lead to missed TCP/UDP detection

Security Embargos at Red Hat
Employee Personal Info Exposed in State Department Hack
FBI Warns Parents of Edtech Security Risk

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. Kevin Cheung discovered an error in the WebAssembly implementation and evil1m0 discovered a URL spoofing issue.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-neutron is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Linus Torvalds takes a break from Linux

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens). 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

This new phishing attack uses an old trick to steal passwords and credit card details
Bristol Airport Hit by Ransomware Blackout

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

LinuxSecurity.com: USN-3722-1 introduced a regression in ClamAV.

LinuxSecurity.com: USN-3722-1 introduced a regression in ClamAV.

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-1000801

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

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LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-15422

LinuxSecurity.com: Security update for `CVE-2018-16543` and `CVE-2018-16510`, which were recently discovered.

LinuxSecurity.com: USN-3761-1 caused several regressions in Firefox.

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 26 fixes is now available.

Cybersecurity Is Only 1 Part of Election Security
The Linux Kernel Has Grown By 225k Lines of Code So Far This Year From 3.3k Developers

LinuxSecurity.com: curl could be made to run arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted input.

LinuxSecurity.com: curl could be made to run arbitrary code if it received a speciallycrafted input.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Potential Hurricane Florence Phishing Scams
New GandCrab variant attacks Florida School District

LinuxSecurity.com: zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in zcat which happened with some input files when the ‘-v, –show-nonprinting’ option was

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ICO Swamped with GDPR Breach Over-Reporting
DDoS attacks: Students blamed for many university cyber attacks

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2692