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LinuxSecurity.com: ClamAV could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: Nitin Venkatesh discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in moin, a Python clone of WikiWiki. A remote attacker can conduct cross-site scripting attacks via the GUI editor’s link dialogue. This only affects installations which have set up fckeditor (not enabled by default).

LinuxSecurity.com: Net-SNMP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for tomcat 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 ghostscript 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: Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2916

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918

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LinuxSecurity.com: Frediano Ziglio reported a missing check in the script to generate demarshalling code in the SPICE protocol client and server library. The generated demarshalling code is prone to multiple buffer overflows. An authenticated attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial

LinuxSecurity.com: Net-SNMP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: Requests could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted HTTP header.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Three vulnerabilities were discovered in the Open Ticket Request System which could result in privilege escalation or denial of service. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in

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LinuxSecurity.com: Nextcloud has been updated to 13.0.6 and fixes atleast the following security issue: A missing sanitization of search results for an autocomplete field could lead to a stored XSS requiring user-interaction. The missing sanitization

LinuxSecurity.com: joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that git is prone to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability due to insufficient validation of submodule url and path via a specially crafted .gitmodules file in a project cloned with –recurse-submodules (CVE-2018-17456).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: A vulnerability in register allocation in JavaScript can lead to type confusion, allowing for an arbitrary read and write. This leads to remote code execution inside the sandboxed content process when triggered

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability: A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allowed arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex (CVE-2018-17407).

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LinuxSecurity.com: spamassassin: Certain unclosed tags in crafted emails allow for scan timeouts and result in denial of service (CVE-2017-15705) * spamassassin: Local user code injection in the meta rule syntax (CVE-2018-11781) SL7 x86_64 spamassassin-3.4.0-4.el7_5.x86_64.rpm spamassassin-debuginfo-3.4.0-4.el7_5.x86_64.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes several vulnerabilities in Imagemagick, a graphical software suite. Various memory handling problems or incomplete input sanitising have been found in the coders for BMP, DIB, PICT, DCM, CUT and PSD.

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.

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LinuxSecurity.com: The package wireshark-cli before version 2.6.4-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and denial of service.

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

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

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

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

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Git could be made to run programs as your login if it recursivelyopened a malicious git repository.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for spamassassin 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: Magnus Klaaborg Stubman discovered a NULL pointer dereference bug in net-snmp, a suite of Simple Network Management Protocol applications, allowing a remote, authenticated attacker to crash the snmpd process (causing a denial of service).

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Tex Live.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat Process Automation Manager. 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: dnsruby is a feature-complete DNS(SEC) client for Ruby. It ships the DNS Root Key Signing Key (KSK), used as trust anchor to validate the authenticity of DNS records. This update includes the latest KSK

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Ben Pfaff discovered that the convert_to_decimal function in the GNU Portability Library contains a heap-based buffer overflow because memory is not allocated for a trailing ‘’ character during %f processing.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2884

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel 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: An update for nss is now available 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 gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

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LinuxSecurity.com: The package patch before version 2.7.6-3 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary command execution and denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates for rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore, and rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore are now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 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: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2846

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2898

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2892

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in tinc, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2881

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for qemu-kvm-rhev 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 of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in tinc, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

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

LinuxSecurity.com: 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

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-haproxy18-haproxy 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 firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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: Due to multiple vulnerabilities in various coders used by ImageMagick, Gentoo Linux now installs a policy.xml file which will restrict coder usage by default. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in OpenSSH might allow remote attackers to determine valid usernames.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in SoX, the worst of which may lead to a Denial of Service condition.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves four 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 four 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 20 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that git, a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system, is prone to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability via a specially crafted .gitmodules file in a project cloned with –recurse-submodules.

LinuxSecurity.com: joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that git, a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system, is prone to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability via a specially crafted .gitmodules file in a project cloned with –recurse-submodules.

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-17336

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-16435

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-10897