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

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 10 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 three vulnerabilities is now available.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Use a more restrictive blacklist in several policy abstractions.

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

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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 that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: dnsmasq, a DNS forwarder and DHCP server, ships the DNS Root Zone Key Signing Key (KSK), used as the DNSSEC trust anchor. ICANN will rollover the KSK in 11 October 2018, and DNS resolvers will need the new key

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: The package python-django before version 2.1.2-1 is vulnerable to information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Apache HTTP Server.

LinuxSecurity.com: Two security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code inside the sandboxed content process.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security vulnerabilities were discovered in ImageMagick, an image manipulation program, that allow remote attackers to cause denial of service (application crash, excessive memory allocation, or other

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK+.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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LinuxSecurity.com: – Update to bind-9.11.4-P2 – Add /dev/urandom to chroot (#1631515) – Fix multilib conflicts of devel package – Add support for OpenSSL provided random data

LinuxSecurity.com: This is an update to Mozilla’s CA certificates list version 2.26, which has been published as part of Mozilla NSS 3.39. For additional details, please refer to the NSS 3.39 release notes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-17294

LinuxSecurity.com: Add few patches from Kurt Roeckx

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 1.8.14, which includes fix for CVE-2018-14645.

LinuxSecurity.com: 4.1.5 GA —- 4.1.4 GA Security Fix for CVE-2018-10904 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10907 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10911 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10913 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10914 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10923 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10926 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10927 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10928 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10929 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10930 —- missing

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

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LinuxSecurity.com: The package lib32-libxml2 before version 2.9.8-4 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package libxml2 before version 2.9.8-5 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package libxml2 before version 2.9.8-5 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package ntp before version 4.2.8.p12-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: 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 Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Firefox 60 is now the only supported version of the ESR series and it brings a completely new browser engine, designed to take full advantage of the processing power in modern devices. Firefox also now exclusively supports extensions built using the WebExtension API.

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Linux Is Getting New Network Libraries From Veteran systemd/BUS1 Developers
Python is a hit with hackers, report finds

LinuxSecurity.com: This is an update to Mozilla’s CA certificates list version 2.26, which has been published as part of Mozilla NSS 3.39. For additional details, please refer to the NSS 3.39 release notes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

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

LinuxSecurity.com: libxkbcommon 0.8.2, CVE-2018-15853 through to 15864. These fix a number of memory handling issues with xkbcommon. Together with the keymap FD handling in various Wayland compositors (keymaps could be mapped rw and clients could thus replace the content) libxkbcommon’s memory issues could serve as attack vector to gain access to another client. The update […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Fixed some small bugs in the previous package: Initial rules now have the correct version, sought channel config is dropped (since it doesn’t exist anymore) and build / runtime deps adjusted. —- Update to 3.4.2. Fixes CVE-2017-15705, CVE-2018-11780 and CVE-2018-11781 along with many other bugfixes and improvements. See https://www.mail-

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

LinuxSecurity.com: **libbson 1.13.0** **Features:** * New functions to save and restore progress of a bson_iter_t: bson_iter_key_len, bson_iter_offset, and son_iter_init_from_data_at_offset Additional functions bson_iter_overwrite_date_time, bson_iter_overwrite_oid, and bson_iter_overwrite_timestamp. All fixed-length BSON values can now be

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that the emergency logging system in 389-ds-base (the 389 Directory Server) is affected by a race condition caused by the invalidation of the concurrently used log file file descriptor without proper locking. This issue might be triggered by remote attackers to

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2731

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2731

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2766

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2757

Mobile password managers vulnerable to phishing apps
Linux firewalls: What you need to know about iptables and firewalld

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2017-7653 As invalid UTF-8 strings are not correctly checked, an attacker could

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

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

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

security update

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues were discovered in Python: ElementTree failed to initialise Expat’s hash salt, two denial of service issues were found in difflib and poplib and a buffer overflow in PyString_DecodeEscape.

LinuxSecurity.com: This release fixes a heap-based buffer over-read when parsing a mallformed BSON document (CVE-2018-16790).

LinuxSecurity.com: Changes since 10.1.8.16: === v 10.1.9.6 handle legacy external message recipients * [XSS] Updated known HTML5 events * Better IPV6 support * UI support for protocol-only entries v 10.1.9.5

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

LinuxSecurity.com: This release fixes a heap-based buffer over-read when parsing a mallformed BSON document (CVE-2018-16790).

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

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

Majority of Orgs Failing to Make Machine Learning Fair, Safe & Balanced
Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Root Access to Attackers
BLK-MQ To Support Runtime Power Management With Linux 4.20~5.0

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

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-14404 Fix of a NULL pointer dereference which might result in a crash and thus in a denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues were discovered in Python: ElementTree failed to initialise Expat’s hash salt, two denial of service issues were found in difflib and poplib and the shutil module was affected by a command injection vulnerability.

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 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 firefox 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 qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike), and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens).

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

LinuxSecurity.com: HylaFAX+ 5.6.1 vulnerabilities (18 Sep 2018)

LinuxSecurity.com: The 4.18.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. —- The 4.18.8 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix for CVE-2018-14630

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-5950.