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LinuxSecurity.com: Fabian Henneke discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the password change form of GOsa, a web-based LDAP administration program. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilites have been discovered in Exiv2, a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed file is parsed.

LinuxSecurity.com: libsoup could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted input.

LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities affecting the cups printing server were found which can lead to arbitrary IPP command execution and denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2001

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1979

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1997

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1965

HMRC: 29% Increase in Malicious Site Deactivations
Two-Fifths of UK CEOs See Cyber-Attacks as Inevitable

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 the Linux kernel.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: glibc: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670) * glibc: Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator (CVE-2017-15804) SL6 x86_64 glibc-2.12-1.212.el6.i686.rpm glibc-2.12-1.212.el6.x86_64.rpm glibc-common-2.12-1.212.el6.x86_64.rpm glibc-debuginfo-2.12-1.212.el6.i686.rpm glibc-debuginfo-2.12-1.212.el6.x86_64.rpm glibc-debuginfo- [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: libvirt: Resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead() method (CVE-2018-5748) * libvirt: Incomplete fix for CVE-2018-5748 triggered by QEMU guest agent (CVE-2018-1064) SL6 x86_64 libvirt-0.10.2-64.el6.x86_64.rpm libvirt-client-0.10.2-64.el6.i686.rpm libvirt-client-0.10.2-64.el6.x86_64.rpm libvirt-debuginfo-0.10.2-64.el6.i686.rpm libvirt-debuginfo-0.10.2-64.el6.x86_64.rpm [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: samba: Null pointer indirection in printer server process (CVE-2018-1050) SL6 x86_64 libsmbclient-3.6.23-51.el6.i686.rpm libsmbclient-3.6.23-51.el6.x86_64.rpm samba-client-3.6.23-51.el6.x86_64.rpm samba-common-3.6.23-51.el6.i686.rpm samba-common-3.6.23-51.el6.x86_64.rpm samba-debuginfo-3.6.23-51.el6.i686.rpm samba-debuginfo-3.6.23-51.el6.x86_64.rpm samba-winb [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: zsh: Stack-based buffer overflow in gen_matches_files() at compctl.c (CVE-2018-1083) * zsh: buffer overflow when scanning very long directory paths for symbolic links (CVE-2014-10072) * zsh: buffer overrun in symlinks (CVE-2017-18206) * zsh: buffer overflow in utils.c:checkmailpath() can lead to local arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-1100) SL6 x86_64 zsh-4.3.11-8.el6.x86_64.rpm [More…]

Phishing Cited by SMBs as Top Attack Threat
Natural Language Processing Fights Social Engineers

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Adidas US Website Hit by Data Breach
The 6 Worst Insider Attacks of 2018 – So Far

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

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

Ticketmaster Breach Discovered in April, Says Bank
Cyber-Attacks Caused 18 Days of NHS Downtime

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2017-7651 fix to avoid extraordinary memory consumption by crafted CONNECT packet from unauthenticated client

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2017-12872 / CVE-2017-12868 The (1) Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and (2)

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

Hundreds of Hotels Hit in FastBooking Breach
Cyber Risk at All-Time High for UK Financial Sector

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LinuxSecurity.com: – fix out-of-bounds read via a crafted ELF file (CVE-2018-10360)

LinuxSecurity.com: The 4.17.2 kernel rebase contains new drivers, new features, and a number of important fixes across the tree. —- The v4.16.17 update includes important fixes across the tree

NSA Leaker Winner Pleads Guilty
IEEE Calls for Strong Encryption

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in exiv2, a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata, resulting in denial of service, heap-based buffer over-read/overflow, memory exhaustion, and

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton) for RHEL 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

LinuxSecurity.com: Various security issues were discovered in Graphicsmagick, a collection of image processing tools. Heap-based buffer overflows or overreads may lead to a denial of service or disclosure of in-memory information or other unspecified impact by processing a malformed image file.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor: CVE-2018-12891

LinuxSecurity.com: Two flaws were discovered in ruby-passenger for Ruby Rails and Rack support that allowed attackers to spoof HTTP headers or exploit a race condition which made privilege escalation under certain conditions possible.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service, cross-site request forgery or information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 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,

Midsized Organizations More Secure Than Large Ones
Black Hat Survey: Enterprise Tech, US Government Unprepared for Cyberattacks

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated redhat-virtualization-host packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available. 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 org.ovirt.engine-root is now available for Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2. 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 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: An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.8. 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 java-1.7.1-ibm is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.6 and Red Hat Satellite 5.7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Bill Could Give Californians Unprecedented Control Over Data
Hundreds Report WannaCry Phishing Campaign

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

China Escalates Hacks Against the US as Trade Tensions Rise
Tesla Employee Steals, Sabotages Company Data

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7380, CVE-2017-7381, CVE-2017-7382, CVE-2017-7383, CVE-2017-5852, CVE-2017-5853, CVE-2017-6844, CVE-2017-5854, CVE-2017-5855, CVE-2017-5886, CVE-2018-8000, CVE-2017-6840, CVE-2017-6842, CVE-2017-6843, CVE-2017-6845, CVE-2017-6847, CVE-2017-6848, CVE-2017-7378, CVE-2017-7379, CVE-2017-7994, CVE-2017-8054,

LinuxSecurity.com: Backport security fixes for: CVE-2017-7380, CVE-2017-7381, CVE-2017-7382, CVE-2017-7383, CVE-2017-5852, CVE-2017-5853, CVE-2017-6844, CVE-2017-5854, CVE-2017-5855, CVE-2017-5886, CVE-2018-8000, CVE-2017-6840, CVE-2017-6842, CVE-2017-6843, CVE-2017-6845, CVE-2017-6847, CVE-2017-6848, CVE-2017-7378, CVE-2017-7379, CVE-2017-7994, CVE-2017-8054, CVE-2017-8378, CVE-2017-8787,

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7380, CVE-2017-7381, CVE-2017-7382, CVE-2017-7383, CVE-2017-5852, CVE-2017-5853, CVE-2017-6844, CVE-2017-5854, CVE-2017-5855, CVE-2017-5886, CVE-2018-8000, CVE-2017-6840, CVE-2017-6842, CVE-2017-6843, CVE-2017-6845, CVE-2017-6847, CVE-2017-6848, CVE-2017-7378, CVE-2017-7379, CVE-2017-7994, CVE-2017-8054,

LinuxSecurity.com: Backport security fixes for: CVE-2017-7380, CVE-2017-7381, CVE-2017-7382, CVE-2017-7383, CVE-2017-5852, CVE-2017-5853, CVE-2017-6844, CVE-2017-5854, CVE-2017-5855, CVE-2017-5886, CVE-2018-8000, CVE-2017-6840, CVE-2017-6842, CVE-2017-6843, CVE-2017-6845, CVE-2017-6847, CVE-2017-6848, CVE-2017-7378, CVE-2017-7379, CVE-2017-7994, CVE-2017-8054, CVE-2017-8378, CVE-2017-8787,

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 2.5.5 bugfix/security release See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.5/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.5.rst for full changes. Fixes CVE-2018-10855 —- Update to 2.5.3 with bugfixes. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.5/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.5.rst

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LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in PNP4Nagios which may allow local attackers to gain root privileges.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in file could lead to a Denial of Service condition.

LinuxSecurity.com: The 4.17.2 kernel rebase contains new drivers, new features, and a number of important fixes across the tree.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1957

Hackers Steal $31m+ From South Korean Crypto-Exchange
Destructive Nation-State Cyber Attacks Will Rise, Say European Infosec Pros

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 12 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities were discovered in LAVA, a continuous integration system for deploying operating systems for running tests, which could result in information disclosure of files readable by the lavaserver system user or the execution of arbitrary code via a XMLRPC call.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that the low-level interface to the RSA key pair generator of Bouncy Castle (a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms) could perform less Miller-Rabin primality tests than expected.

LinuxSecurity.com: git: arbitrary code execution when recursively cloning a malicious repository (CVE-2018-11235) SL7 x86_64 git-1.8.3.1-14.el7_5.x86_64.rpm git-daemon-1.8.3.1-14.el7_5.x86_64.rpm git-debuginfo-1.8.3.1-14.el7_5.x86_64.rpm git-svn-1.8.3.1-14.el7_5.x86_64.rpm noarch emacs-git-1.8.3.1-14.el7_5.noarch.rpm emacs-git-el-1.8.3.1-14.el7_5.noarch.rpm git-all-1.8.3.1-14.el7 [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there were two remote code execution vulnerabilities in php-horde-image, the image processing library for the Horde groupware tool:

Olympic Destroyer Malware is Back to Wreak Havoc
‘Hidden Tunnels’ Help Hackers Launch Financial Services Attacks

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7.

LinuxSecurity.com: – Security fix for [CVE-2017-11546, CVE-2017-11547] – Fix the .desktop files so that opening a .mid file from a GUI filemanager works

LinuxSecurity.com: http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/v4.0.9.html

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 2.8.3 – Fix security issue

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

Most Websites and Web Apps No Match for Attack Barrage
Mylobot Malware Brings New Sophistication to Botnets

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for git 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: The system could be made to expose sensitive information.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 2.8.3 – Fix security issue

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to Chromium 67. Security fix for CVE-2018-6123 CVE-2018-6124 CVE-2018-6125 CVE-2018-6126 CVE-2018-6127 CVE-2018-6128 CVE-2018-6129 CVE-2018-6130 CVE-2018-6131 CVE-2018-6132 CVE-2018-6133 CVE-2018-6134 CVE-2018-6135 CVE-2018-6136 CVE-2018-6137 CVE-2018-6148

LinuxSecurity.com: Secunia Advisory SA83507, credits Kasper Leigh Haabb, Secunia Research at Flexera parse_qt: possible integer overflow reject broken/crafted NOKIARAW files Backported 0.19-patch to recover read position if TIFF/EXIF tag is too long

LinuxSecurity.com: – Security fix for [CVE-2017-11546, CVE-2017-11547] – Fix the .desktop files so that opening a .mid file from a GUI filemanager works