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LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. In addition, this message serves as an annoucment that security support for chromium in the oldstable release (jessie), Debian 8, is now discontinued.

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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 image files are processed.

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Unencrypted USB stick with 2.5GB of data detailing airport security found in street

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal based IRC client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for liblouis 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 samba is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: New mariadb packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available. is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in impersonation of Kerberos services, denial of service, sandbox bypass or HTTP header injection.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ. 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 is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2.1.2 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2.1.2 for RHEL 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 is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2.1.2. 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 that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes is now available. is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 36 vulnerabilities and has 22 fixes An update that solves 36 vulnerabilities and has 22 fixes An update that solves 36 vulnerabilities and has 22 fixes is now available. is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: updated to aarch64-jdk8u151-b12 (from aarch64-port/jdk8u)

LinuxSecurity.com: 3.10.6 bz #1504256

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

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 oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed

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

SSHGuard 2.1 Released

LinuxSecurity.com: This is the final notification for the End Of Life (EOL) of Red Hat ‘Stand-Alone’ Proxy. Red Hat Proxy ‘Stand-Alone’ (Proxy server directly connecting to the Red Hat Network): Systems registered as clients to RHN via a Red Hat Satellite

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LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library. A full list of the changes is available at https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v11.11

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that the bgpd daemon in the Quagga routing suite does not properly calculate the length of multi-segment AS_PATH UPDATE messages, causing bgpd to drop a session and potentially resulting in loss of network connectivity.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 30 vulnerabilities and has 38 fixes An update that solves 30 vulnerabilities and has 38 fixes An update that solves 30 vulnerabilities and has 38 fixes is now available. is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in Jython may lead to arbitrary code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that git-annex, a tool to manage files with git without checking their contents in, did not correctly handle maliciously constructed ssh:// URLs. This allowed an attacker to run an arbitrary shell command.

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 tomcat6 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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Apache, the worst of which may result in the loss of secrets.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle’s JDK and JRE software suites, the worst of which can be remotely exploited without authentication. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Niklas Abel discovered that insufficient input sanitising in the the ss-manager component of shadowsocks-libev, a lightweight socks5 proxy, could result in arbitrary shell command execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 32 An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 32 An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 32 fixes is now available. fixes is now available.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in X.Org Server the worst of which could allow a local attacker to replace shared memory segments.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Asterisk, the worst of which allows remote execution of arbitrary shell commands.

LinuxSecurity.com: Antti Levomaeki, Christian Jalio, Joonas Pihlaja and Juhani Eronen discovered two buffer overflows in the HTTP protocol handler of the Wget download tool, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code when connecting to a malicious HTTP server.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 21 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 21 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 21 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for [CVE-2017-12173]

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 14 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 14 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 14 vulnerabilities is now available.

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.

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.

LinuxSecurity.com: Brian Carpenter, Geeknik Labs and 0xd34db347 discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, incorrectly parsed an IMAP FETCH response with size 0, leading to an out-of-bounds read.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

LinuxSecurity.com: New wget packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available.

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.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available. is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for wget 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

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available. is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix CVE-2017-2888

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MuPDF, a PDF file viewer, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2017-14685, CVE-2017-14686, and CVE-2017-14687

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.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: This update adds support for the IBM858 codepage (RHBZ#1416405). It moves the `nss_compat` NSS service module to the main glibc package (RHBZ#1400538). As a security hardening measure, stdio streams are no longer flushed on process abort/assertion failure (RHBZ#1498880). `/var/db/Makefile` is now included in the `nss_db` package (RHBZ#1498900). Fixes installation related failures for IBM

LinuxSecurity.com: Fix CVE-2017-2888

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for [CVE-2017-12173]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.6.0-sun is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Oracle Java 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-1.7.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Oracle Java 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 httpd24, httpd24-curl, httpd24-httpd, httpd24-mod_auth_kerb, and httpd24-nghttp2 is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. 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: New curl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-nodejs4, rh-nodejs4-node-gyp, and rh-nodejs4-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. 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 java-1.8.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Oracle Java 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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the PCRE Library, the worst of which may allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. [More…]