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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Dovecot, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

A vulnerability in the GNOME desktop library may allow attackers to escape the sandbox.

A vulnerability in Nautilus may allow attackers to escape the sandbox.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libofx, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

The mpg123 package has been updated to version 1.25.12, fixing several issues which could cause it to crash or hang while parsing mp3 files. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25350

Updated webmin package fixes security vulnerability: Webmin before 1.930 allows remote exploits if the option to change expired passwords is enabled (CVE-2019-15107).

Updated ghostscript packages fix security vulnerability: It was found that the .buildfont1 procedure did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. An attacker could abuse this flaw by creating a specially crafted PostScript

Updated pango package fixes security vulnerability: It was discovered that pango was subject to a heap based buffer overflow vulnerability which could be used to get code execution (CVE-2019-1010238).

Updated ansible package fixes security vulnerability: A flaw was discovered in the way Ansible templating was implemented before version 2.7.12, causing the possibility of information disclosure through unexpected variable substitution. By taking advantage of unintended variable

Updated vlc packages fixes security vulnerabilities: Multiple security issues were discovered in the VLC media player, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service if a malformed file/stream is processed (CVE-2019-13602, CVE-2019-13962,

AUpdated memcached packages fix security vulnerability: In memcached before 1.5.14, a NULL pointer dereference was found in the “lru mode” and “lru temp_ttl” commands. This causes a denial of service when parsing crafted lru command messages in process_lru_command in

Updated wavpack packages fixes security vulnerabilities: Rohan Padhye discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain WAV files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2019-1010315, CVE-2019-1010317, CVE-2019-1010318, CVE-2019-1010319).

Updated wavpack packages fixes security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain DFF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2019-11498).

A number of potential side channel attacks were discovered in the SAE implementations used by both hostapd (AP) and wpa_supplicant (infrastructure BSS station/mesh station). SAE (Simultaneous Authentication of Equals) is also known as WPA3-Personal. The discovered side channel attacks may be able to leak information about the used

Hardening Gluster Installations with TLS

* CVE-2019-11500: IMAP protocol parser does not properly handle NUL byte when scanning data in quoted strings, leading to out of bounds heap memory writes

Rebuilt with newer nghttp2 —- This update includes the latest upstream release of `mod_http2`, version **1.15.3**. Upstream changes include: * fixes Timeout vs. KeepAliveTimeout behaviour, see PR 63534. * Fixes stream cleanup when connection throttling is in place. * Counts stream resets by client on streams initiated by client as cause for connection throttling. * […]

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

New version 3.0.3, Security fix for CVE-2019-13619

Update to 2.6.7

security update

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

An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Several security issues were fixed in Apache.

Hongxu Chen found several issues in djvulibre, a library and set of tools to handle images in the DjVu format.

New version 3.0.3, Security fix for CVE-2019-13619

Update to 2.6.7

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Which Linux Distros Are Most Focused On Privacy?

The package libnghttp2 before version 1.39.2-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

The package go-pie before version 2:1.12.8-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and insufficient validation.

The package go before version 2:1.12.8-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and insufficient validation.

The package gettext before version 0.20.1-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

An update for pango 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 that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Ceph could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Ghostscript could be made to access arbitrary files if it opened a specially crafted file.

Two security vulnerabilities were found in the Apache HTTP server. CVE-2019-10092

USN-4110-1 introduced a regression in Dovecot.

An update for jenkins 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 pango 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 is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.3 on 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,

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata 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.

security update

An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Apache HTTPD server. CVE-2019-9517

ghostscript: -dSAFER escape via .buildfont1 (701394) (CVE-2019-10216) SL7 x86_64 ghostscript-9.25-2.el7_7.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-9.25-2.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-cups-9.25-2.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7_7.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm libgs-9.25-2.el7_7.1.i686.rpm libgs-9.25-2.el7_7.1.x86_64.rpm ghostsc [More…]

zziplib: Bus error caused by loading of a misaligned address inzzip/zip.c (CVE-2018-6541) * zziplib: Memory leak triggered in the function __zzip_parse_root_directory in zip.c (CVE-2018-16548) SL7 x86_64 zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.i686.rpm zziplib-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm zziplib-devel-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm zziplib-utils-0.13.62-11.el7.x86_64.rpm zziplib-devel-0.13.62- [More…]

opensc: Buffer overflows handling responses from Muscle Cards in card- muscle.c:muscle_list_files() (CVE-2018-16391) * opensc: Buffer overflows handling responses from TCOS Cards in card- tcos.c:tcos_select_file() (CVE-2018-16392) * opensc: Buffer overflows handling responses from Gemsafe V1 Smartcards in pkcs15-gemsafeV1.c:gemsafe_get_cert_len() (CVE-2018-16393) * opensc: Buffer overflow h [More…]

gvfs: Incorrect authorization in admin backend allows privileged users to read and modify arbitrary files without prompting for password (CVE-2019-3827) SL7 x86_64 gvfs-1.36.2-3.el7.i686.rpm gvfs-smb-1.36.2-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gvfs-afp-1.36.2-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gvfs-mtp-1.36.2-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gvfs-devel-1.36.2-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gvfs-client-1.36.2-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gvfs [More…]

Security fix for CVE-2019-13509

An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

An update for ruby 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

An update for kernel 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

security update

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix a security issue.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in xymon, the network monitoring application. Remote attackers might leverage these vulnerabilities in the CGI parsing code (including buffer overflows and XSS) to cause denial of service, or any other unspecified impact.

Update to v1.15.2 + carry upstream #81330

Even Rouault found an issue in tiff, a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format. Wrong handling off integer overflow checks, that are based on undefined

Addresses CVE-2019-14462 and CVE-2019-14463

Addresses CVE-2019-14462 and CVE-2019-14463

Update to Node.js 10.6.13

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

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

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

It was discovered that there was a remote arbitrary code vulnerability in commons-beanutils, a set of utilities for manipulating JavaBeans code.

The package nginx before version 1.16.1-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

The package nginx-mainline before version 1.17.3-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

The package firefox before version 68.0.2-1 is vulnerable to information disclosure.

The package subversion before version 1.12.2-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

The package libreoffice-still before version 6.2.6-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary command execution and information disclosure.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Three vulnerabilities were discovered in the HTTP/2 code of the H2O HTTP server, which could result in denial of service. For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Squid, a fully featured web proxy cache. The flaws in the HTTP Digest Authentication processing, the HTTP Basic Authentication processing and in the cachemgr.cgi allowed remote attackers to perform denial of service and cross-site scripting

Multiple security issues were discovered in QEMU, a fast processor emulator, which could result in denial of service, the execution of arbitrary code or bypass of ACLs.

security update

2019-08-14 – Fix compile issues – Fix output buffer size for lzo1x_decompress_safe() 2019-08-07 – Fix VerifyExtensionMap #179 2019-08-06 – Fix compile errors 2019-08-05 – Fix nfdump.1 man page. #175 – Fix off by 1 array. #173 – Fix use after free in ModifyCompressFile – Add bound checks in AddExporterStat #174 – Add bound checks in […]

security update

Three vulnerabilities were discovered in the HTTP/2 code of Nginx, a high-performance web and reverse proxy server, which could result in denial of service.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

This update includes the latest release of the Apache HTTP Server, version `2.4.41`, fixing various security issues. Several major enhancements are also included in this update: * `mod_md` is now packaged from upstream *github* releases, adding support for ACMEv2. * `mod_cgid` stderr handling has been improved See http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4.41 for a full list of

This update includes the latest release of the Apache HTTP Server, version `2.4.41`, fixing various security issues. Several major enhancements are also included in this update: * `mod_md` is now packaged from upstream *github* releases, adding support for ACMEv2. * `mod_cgid` stderr handling has been improved See http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4.41 for a full list of

– update to the latest upstream release (fixes CVE-2019-9511 and CVE-2019-9513)

– Security fix for CVE-2019-13636 – Security fix for CVE-2019-13638

The latest security update of openjdk-7 caused a regression when applications relied on elliptic curve algorithms to establish SSL connections. Several duplicate classes were removed from rt.jar by the upstream developers of OpenJDK because they were also present in

Two issues have been found in cups, the Common UNIX Printing System(tm). Basically both CVEs (CVE-2019-8675 and CVE-2019-8696) are about

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.