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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 17 fixes is now available.

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-perl524-perl 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-perl526-perl and rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList 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,

Did you #DeleteFacebook? Shady players can still exploit your data
Vietnam’s New Cyber Law Threatens Free Speech
Hackers Target North Korean Defectors

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple issues were fixed in Qt. CVE-2018-15518 A double-free or corruption during parsing of a specially crafted

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LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the changes in tzdata 2018i for the Perl bindings. For the list of changes, see DLA-1625-1. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version

LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the changes in tzdata 2018i. Notable changes are: – Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan moved from +06 to +05 on 2018-12-21. A new

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix CVEs as described in related RHBZ bug.

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix CVEs as described in related RHBZ bug.

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

IT Security Vulnerability Roundup – December 2018

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in

Hackers Threaten to Dump Insurance Files Related to 9/11 Attacks
My Health Record had 42 data breaches in 2017-18 but no ‘malicious’ attacks: ADHA
The Linux Kernel In 2018 Summed Up: Spectre/Meltdown, CoC, Speck Fears, New Features

LinuxSecurity.com: An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by “j a v a s c r i p t:” in Internet Explorer (CVE-2018-19787).

LinuxSecurity.com: Poppler before 0.70.0 has a NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new when called from poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment. (CVE-2018-19149) References:

LinuxSecurity.com: Graphicsmagick has been updated to fix several bugs and security issues. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23157 – http://www.graphicsmagick.org/NEWS.html#november-17-2018

LinuxSecurity.com: Possible denial of service vulnerability due to a missing check in Lib/wave.py to verify that at least one channel is provided (CVE-2017-18207). Python’s elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat’s hash

LinuxSecurity.com: debian-security-support, the Debian security support coverage checker, has been updated in jessie. The jessie relevant changes are: * Mark jasperreports as end-of-life in Jessie.

Hackers pocketed $878,000 from cryptocurrency bug bounties in 2018
EU offers bounties to help find security flaws in open source tools

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a potential denial of service vulnerability in tar, the GNU version of the tar UNIX archiving utility.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated to 3.3.4. Security fix by upstream: Anti-Phishing protection.. Server-provided text will not appear in user-facing GUI windows anymore. Server error messages are instead parsed and mapped to predefined strings.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in GKSu might allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Rust, the worst which may allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 17 fixes is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: **Archive_Tar version 1.4.4** * Fix Bug #21058: Long symlinks are not supported [mrook] * Fix Bug #23782: Prevent phar:// files from being extracted [mrook] — **PEAR** * drop deprecated option used when running `pear run-tests`

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: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

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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