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An update for patch 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 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

An update for skydive is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 (Rocky). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Update to 4.1.7

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat 9.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 60.9.0. * Mozilla: Covert Content Attack on S/MIME encryption using a crafted multipart/alternative message (CVE-2019-11739) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, and Firefox ESR 60.9 (CVE-2019-11740) * Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images (CVE-2019-11742) * Mo […]

wpa_supplicant could be made to be disconnected and require reconnection to the network if it received a specially crafted management frame.

Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code, cross-site scripting, information disclosure and a covert content attack on S/MIME encryption using a crafted multipart/alternative message.

wpa_supplicant could be made to be disconnected and require reconnection to the network if it received a specially crafted management frame.

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

– double free due to subsequent call of realloc() (CVE-2019-5481) – fix heap buffer overflow in function tftp_receive_packet() (CVE-2019-5482)

security update

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update for rh-nginx114-nginx 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,

An update for qpid-proton is now available for Satellite Tools 6.5. 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 JBoss Fuse 6.3 and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

USN-4113-1 introduced a regression in Apache.

An update for qpid-proton is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.3 for RHEL 7. 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 qpid-proton is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.4 for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

– Update to 0.12.0b – Clean up SPEC – Remove patches – Use sed for make Phonon default – Use KF5 instead of KDE4 – Renew URLs – CVE-2019-9133

– Update to 0.12.0b – Clean up SPEC – Remove patches – Use sed for make Phonon default – Use KF5 instead of KDE4 – Renew URLs – CVE-2019-9133

An update for qpid-proton is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.5 for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

security update

security update

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

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

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

IBus would allow local users to capture key strokes of other locally logged in users.

An update for thunderbird 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

Exim could be made to run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ansible, a configuration management, deployment, and task execution system.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Wireshark could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic or input files.

rebase to 0.16 (bz #1741605)

Update to latest upstream version.

rebase to 0.16 (bz #1741605)

Update to 8.05 release (CVE-2019-16239)

BIRD 2.0.6 (2019-09-10) * BGP: Optional Adj-RIB-Out * BGP: Extended optional parameters length * Filter: Sets and set expressions in path masks * Several important bugfixes

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability: The Gryphon dissector could go into an infinite loop. For other fixes in this update, see the referenced releasenotes.

Updated webkit2 packages fix security vulnerabilities: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling (CVE-2019-8644).

Updated openldap packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled rootDN delegation. A database administrator could use this issue to request authorization as an identity from another database, contrary to expectations (CVE-2019-13057).

Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities: Potential XSS in jQuery (CVE-2019-11358). An account can be logged out without using a token (CSRF) (CVE-2019-12466).

Updated kconfig packages fix security vulnerability: Dominik Penner discovered that KConfig supported a feature to define shell command execution in .desktop files. If a user is provided with a malformed .desktop file (e.g. if it’s embedded into a downloaded archive and it gets

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in faad2, the Freeware Advanced Audio Coder. These vulnerabilities might allow remote attackers to cause denial-of-service, or potentially execute arbitrary code if crafted MPEG AAC files are processed.

This update provides nodejs v6.17.1 fixing atleast the following security issues: The c-ares function ares_parse_naptr_reply(), which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: The JPXStream::init function in Poppler 0.78.0 and earlier doesn’t check for negative values of stream length, leading to an Integer Overflow, thereby making it possible to allocate a large memory chunk on the heap,

Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities: Covert Content Attack on S/MIME encryption using a crafted multipart/ alternative message (CVE-2019-11739).

Mozilla: Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync (CVE-2019-9812) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, and Firefox ESR 60.9 (CVE-2019-11740) * Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images (CVE-2019-11742) * Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML (CVE-2019-11744) * Mozilla: […]

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 12 vulnerabilities is now available.

Updated flash-player-plugin package fixes security vulnerabilities: Same origin method execution that leads to arbitrary code execution?in the context of the current user. (CVE-2019-8069)

This package ignored the value of the Hash header, which allows an attacker to spoof it. An attacker can not only embed arbitrary Armor Headers, but also prepend arbitrary text to cleartext messages without invalidating the signatures.

A Critical Exim Vulnerability, Lilocked Ransomware on the Rise, but Linux Not to Blame

Samuel R Lovejoy discovered a security vulnerability in dnsmasq. Carefully crafted packets by DNS servers might result in out of bounds read operations, potentially leading to a crash and denial

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Several security issues were fixed in curl.

An update for rh-dotnet21-dotnet and rh-dotnet22-dotnet is now available for .NET Core on 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

An update for dotnet is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 9 fixes is now available.

An update for firefox 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 gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

An update for the pki-deps:10.6 module 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 poppler is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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

An update for libwmf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 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

USN 4115-1 introduced a regression in the Linux kernel.

An update for the openshift and atomic-enterprise-service-catalog packages is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1. 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 jenkins-2-plugins is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

security update

security update

security update

security update

An update that fixes 24 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1. 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 that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Several security issues were fixed in Python.

An update for the go-toolset:rhel8 module 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 polkit 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

It was discovered that the code fixes for LibreOffice to address CVE-2019-9852 were not complete. Additional information can be found at https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/CVE-2019-9854/

An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available.

Memcached could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted UNIX socket.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.