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LinuxSecurity.com: Tobias Schneider discovered that libspring-ldap-java, a Java library for Spring-based applications using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, would under some circumstances allow authentication with a correct username but an arbitrary password.

LinuxSecurity.com: update to 9.6.6 per release notes: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/release-9-6-6.html

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LinuxSecurity.com: Fixes a command injection vulnerability (CVE-2008-7319)

LinuxSecurity.com: Change default COPR URL route from http://copr.fedoraproject.org to https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org

Linus Torvalds: ‘I don’t trust security people to do sane things’
White House Releases New Charter for Using, Disclosing Security Vulnerabilities
Captain Crunch aka John Draper banned from DefCon for sexual misconduct

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: A security update for .NET Core on RHEL is now available. 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

LinuxSecurity.com: A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in XML::LibXML, a Perl interface to the libxml2 library, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild() call.

LinuxSecurity.com: Jakub Wilk reported a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in procmail’s formail utility when processing specially-crafted email headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause formail to crash, resulting in a denial of service or data loss.

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

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Rod Widdowson of Steading System Software LLP discovered a coding error in the OpenSAML library, causing the DynamicMetadataProvider class to fail configuring itself with the filters provided and omitting whatever checks they are intended to perform.

LinuxSecurity.com: Rod Widdowson of Steading System Software LLP discovered a coding error in the “Dynamic” metadata plugin of the Shibboleth Service Provider, causing the plugin to fail configuring itself with the filters provided and omitting whatever checks they are intended to perform.

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Security is from Mars, Developers are from Venus……or ARE they?

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that jackson-databind, a Java library used to parse JSON and other data formats, improperly validated user input prior to deserializing: following DSA-4004-1 for CVE-2017-7525, an additional set of classes was identified as unsafe for deserialization.

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After a year of intensely investigating password theft, here’s what Google found
Homeland Security team remotely hacked a Boeing 757

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-aodh 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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 6.20170925 * https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git- annex-6.20170925/changelog Security fix for CVE-2017-12976.

LinuxSecurity.com: ‘shamger’ and Carlo Cannas discovered that a programming error in Varnish, a state of the art, high-performance web accelerator, may result in disclosure of memory contents or denial of service.

10 best Linux distros for privacy fiends and security buffs in 2017

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

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 php is now available for 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 gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for 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

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Linux 4.14 arrives and Linus says it should have fewer 0-days

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-eclipse46-jackson-databind 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-eclipse47-jackson-databind is now available for Red Hat Developer Tools. 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: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in eGroupWare, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability was discovered in VDE which may allow local users to gain root privileges.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 19 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 19 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 19 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes a rebase from 8.0.46 up to 8.0.47 which resolves a single CVE along with various other bugs/features: rhbz#1497682 CVE-2017-12617 tomcat: Remote Code Execution bypass for CVE-2017-12615

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes several vulnerabilities in imagemagick: Various memory handling problems and cases of missing or incomplete input sanitising may result in denial of service, memory disclosure or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed GIF, TTF, SVG, TIFF, PCX, JPG or SFW files

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Cacti, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Researchers find almost EVERY computer with an Intel Skylake and above CPU can be owned via USB
Vault 8: WikiLeaks Releases Source Code For Hive – CIA’s Malware Control System

LinuxSecurity.com: * Fix ppc64 KVM failure (bz #1501936) * CVE-2017-15038: 9p: information disclosure when reading extended attributes (bz #1499111) * CVE-2017-15268: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC (bz #1496882) —- qemu-pr-helper didn’t work due to a change in the libmultipath/libmpathpersist APIs exposed by device-mapper-multipath-devel. This has been fixed now. Other

LinuxSecurity.com: 1.6, multiple security fixes.

LinuxSecurity.com: – Update to 1.1.26 – CVE-2017-15194 Release notes: https://www.cacti.net/release_notes.php?version=1.1.26

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-12629

LinuxSecurity.com: For changes see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.4.0/releasenotes/

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LinuxSecurity.com: Wen Bin discovered that bchunk, an application that converts a CD image in bin/cue format into a set of iso and cdr/wav tracks files, did not properly check its input. This would allow malicious users to crash the application or potentially execute arbitrary code.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libxml2, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that the pg_ctlcluster, pg_createcluster and pg_upgradecluster commands handled symbolic links insecurely which could result in local denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been found in the PostgreSQL database system: CVE-2017-15098

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerabilitiy has been found in the PostgreSQL database system: Denial of service and potential memory disclosure in the json_populate_recordset() and jsonb_populate_recordset() functions.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Update to ansible 2.4.1.0 with various bugfixes. See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.4/CHANGELOG.md for a full list of changes.

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to ansible 2.4.1.0 with various bugfixes. See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.4/CHANGELOG.md for a full list of changes.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that libpam4j, a Java library wrapper for the integration of PAM did not call pam_acct_mgmt() during authentication. As such a user who has a valid password, but a deactivated or disabled account could still log in.

LinuxSecurity.com: Marcin Noga discovered two vulnerabilities in LibreOffice, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PPT or DOC document is opened.

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Tor patches flaw that could expose MacOS and Linux IP addresses

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium browser. CVE-2017-15398

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Hackers Poison Google Search Results to Deliver Zeus Panda
A draft US law to secure election computers that isn’t braindead. Well, I’m stunned! I gotta lie dow

LinuxSecurity.com: 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.

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