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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities and has 60 fixes is now available.

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has 41 fixes is now available.

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

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

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Indian Bank Loses $13.5m in Global Attack
UK Identity Fraud Falls but Online Scams Rise
Nigerian National Convicted for Phishing US Universities

LinuxSecurity.com: Fariskhi Vidyan and Thomas Jarosch discovered several vulnerabilities in php-horde-image, the image processing library for the Horde groupware suite. They would allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service or execute arbitrary code.

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LinuxSecurity.com: mysql: Client programs unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2017) (CVE-2017-3636) * mysql: Server: DML unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2017) (CVE-2017-3641) * mysql: Client mysqldump unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2017) (CVE-2017-3651) * mysql: Server: Replication unspecified vulnerability (CPU Oct 2017) (CVE-2017-10268) * mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Oct 20 [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow while reassembling fragmented datagrams (CVE-2018-11806) * QEMU: i386: multiboot OOB access while loading kernel image (CVE-2018-7550) Bug Fix(es): * Previously, live migrating a Windows guest in some cases caused the guest to become unresponsive. This update ensures that Real-time Clock (RTC) interrupts are not missed, which prevents the problem […]

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

Hackers Target Instagram, Users Blame Russia
Washington Man Sentenced in Ransomware Conspiracy
Election Websites, Backend Systems Most at Risk of Cyberattack in Midterms

LinuxSecurity.com: fix for CVE-2018-14526

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NHS Patient Data at Risk from Historic Breach: Report

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

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 solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

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

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#DEFCON Vote Hacking Village Refute NASS ‘Unfair’ Claims
Butlin’s Customers Face Anxious Holiday After Breach Alert

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:

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

LinuxSecurity.com: The package thunderbird before version 60.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: Chris Coulson discovered a use-after-free flaw in the GNOME Display Manager, triggerable by an unprivileged user via a specially crafted sequence of D-Bus method calls, leading to denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in various parsers of Blender, a 3D modeller/ renderer. Malformed .blend model files and malformed multimedia files (AVI, BMP, HDR, CIN, IRIS, PNG, TIFF) may result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves one vulnerability and has 9 fixes is now available.

PGA of America Struck By Ransomware
#DEFCON DHS Says Collaboration Needed for Secure Infrastructure and Elections
#DEFCON Government Attacks and Surveillance Continue to Increase
The Enigma of AI & Cybersecurity
NSA Brings Nation-State Details to DEF CON
#DEFCON L0pht Reunite to Find Security Unimproved

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LinuxSecurity.com: – update to 2.56.x

LinuxSecurity.com: – update to 2.56.x

LinuxSecurity.com: rebase to 8.37.0 ———————- – few fixes and enhancements handling journal input – now requires librelp at least 1.2.16, adding support for setting address to bind – various other rsyslog core bugfixes and stability fixes

LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream version 0.7alpha. Fixes CVE-2018-14679 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM PMGI/PMGL chunk number validity checks

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities have been found in the PostgreSQL database system: CVE-2018-10915

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that the PatternSyntaxException class in the Concurrency component of OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform could result in denial of service via excessive memory consumption.

LinuxSecurity.com: Various vulnerabilities leading to denial of service or possible unspecified other impacts were discovered in sam2p, an utility to convert raster images to EPS, PDF, and other formats.

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

Over 20 Flaws Discovered in Popular Healthcare Software
#BHUSA: Politics and Cyber-Defense Are Colliding

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 8 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 four vulnerabilities is now available.

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Java applications could be made to use excessive memory.

LinuxSecurity.com: Java applications could be made to use excessive memory.

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How SELinux helps mitigate risk while facilitating compliance

LinuxSecurity.com: The following vulnerability was discovered in wpa_supplicant. CVE-2018-14526: | An issue was discovered in rsn_supp/wpa.c in wpa_supplicant 2.0

IT Leaders Believe AI is a ‘Silver Bullet’ for Threats
Healthcare Firm Exposes Data on 2m+ Mexicans

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: The package linux-hardened before version 4.17.11.a-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package linux-zen before version 4.17.11-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package linux before version 4.17.11-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package linux-lts before version 4.14.59-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: Henning Westerholt discovered a flaw related to the To header processing in kamailio, a very fast, dynamic and configurable SIP server. Missing input validation in the build_res_buf_from_sip_req function could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream version 0.7alpha. Fixes CVE-2018-14679 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM PMGI/PMGL chunk number validity checks

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9. 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: The security update for slurm-llnl introduced a regression in the fix for CVE-2018-10995 which broke accounting. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version

SingHealth Attack Potentially State-Linked
Linux kernel bug: TCP flaw lets remote attackers stall devices with tiny DoS attack

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

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

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

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Chipmaker TSMC Hit by Virus Outbreak
Privacy International Takes Police Phone ‘Hacking’ Case to IPC

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there were several vulnerabilities in libsmpack, a library used to handle Microsoft compression formats. A remote attacker could craft malicious .CAB, .CHM or .KWAJ files

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that the Apache XML Security for C++ library performed insufficient validation of KeyInfo hints, which could result in denial of service via NULL pointer dereferences when processing malformed XML data.