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LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-0735 Samuel Weiser reported a timing vulnerability in the OpenSSL ECDSA signature generation, which might leak information to recover the

LinuxSecurity.com: The update for ceph issued as DSA-4339-1 caused a build regression for the i386 builds. Updated packages are now available to address this issue. For reference, the original advisory text follows.

LinuxSecurity.com: This is a service release to update the stable version 1.3 of Roundcube Webmail. It contains fixes to several bugs backported from the master branch including a security fix for a reported XSS vulnerability (in handling invalid style tag content) plus updates to ensure compatibility with PHP 7.3 and recent versions of Courier-IMAP, Dovecot […]

LinuxSecurity.com: An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8. There is a double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c, related to an invalid free in po_gram_parse in po-gram-gen.y, as demonstrated by lt-msgfmt. (CVE-2018-18751)

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3409

LinuxSecurity.com: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.7.72 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. 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: It was discovered that there was a remote denial-of-service vulnerability in ruby-i18n, a I18n and localization solution for Ruby. An application crash could be engineering a situation where `:some_key` is

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in liblivemedia, the LIVE555 RTSP server library. This issue might be leveraged by remote attackers to cause code execution, by sending a crafted packet.

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

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

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 one vulnerability is now available.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: The package grafana before version 5.3.4-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary filesystem access.

LinuxSecurity.com: Assertion failure in BPMDetect class in BPMDetect.cpp (CVE-2018-17096). Out-of-bounds heap write in WavOutFile::write() (CVE-2018-17097). Heap corruption in WavFileBase class in WavFile.cpp (CVE-2018-17098). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: mod_authnz_ldap, if configured with AuthLDAPCharsetConfig, uses the Accept-Language header value to lookup the right charset encoding when verifying the user’s credentials. If the header value is not present in the charset conversion table, a fallback mechanism is used to truncate it to a two characters value to allow a quick retry (for example,

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that mishandled search requests in servers/slapd/search.c:do_search() in 389-ds-base allows for denial of service (CVE-2018-14648). References:

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in uriparser, an Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) parsing library.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package chromium before version 70.0.3538.110-1 is vulnerable to information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in openjpeg2, the open-source JPEG 2000 codec. CVE-2017-17480

LinuxSecurity.com: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.9.51 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. 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: systemd was found to suffer from multiple security vulnerabilities ranging from denial of service attacks to possible root privilege escalation.

LinuxSecurity.com: systemd-tmpfiles could be made to change ownership of arbitrary files.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several issues have been discovered in the MariaDB database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MariaDB to the new upstream version 10.1.37. Please see the MariaDB 10.1 Release Notes for further details:

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

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New HealthEquity Data Breach Exposes PII/PHI of Almost 21,000 Customers
Instagram bug inadvertently exposed some user’s passwords

LinuxSecurity.com: An out-of-bounds bounds memory access issue was discovered in chromium’s v8 javascript library by cloudfuzzer. This update also fixes two problems introduced by the previous security

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LinuxSecurity.com: Luis Merino, Markus Vervier and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that missing input sanitising in the Hylafax fax software could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code via a malformed fax message (CVE-2018-17141).

LinuxSecurity.com: Due to incorrect input handling, Squid is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability when generating HTTPS response messages about TLS errors (CVE-2018-19131). Due to a memory leak in SNMP query rejection code, Squid is vulnerable

LinuxSecurity.com: nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive memory consumption (CVE-2018-16843). nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the

LinuxSecurity.com: The ProcessGpsInfo function may have allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact via a malicious JPEG file, because of inconsistency between float and double in a sprintf format string during TAG_GPS_ALT handling (CVE-2018-16554).

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes various security vulnerabilities affecting the SDL2_image library, listed below. The fixes are provided in SDL2_image 2.0.4, which depends on SDL2 2.0.8 or later. As such, the SDL2 and SDL2_mixer libraries are also updated to their current stable releases, providing various bug fixes and features.

LinuxSecurity.com: Hanno B?ck discovered that libmspack incorrectly handled certain CHM files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-14679, CVE-2018-14680). Jakub Wilk discovered that libmspack incorrectly handled certain KWAJ

LinuxSecurity.com: The package patch before version 2.7.6-7 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary command execution and denial of service.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

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 three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves one vulnerability and has 8 fixes is now available.

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that Mutt incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2018-14350, CVE-2018-14352, CVE-2018-14354, CVE-2018-14359, CVE-2018-14358, CVE-2018-14353 ,CVE-2018-14357).

LinuxSecurity.com: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way patch processed patch files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash patch by tricking it into processing crafted patches (CVE-2018-6951). A double-free flaw was found in the way the patch utility processed

LinuxSecurity.com: A flaw was found in the way Postgresql allowed a user to modify the behavior of a query for other users. An attacker with a user account could use this flaw to execute code with the permissions of superuser in the database (CVE-2018-1058).

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that incorrect connection setup in the server for Teeworlds, an online multi-player platform 2D shooter, could result in denial of service via forged connection packets (rendering all game server slots occupied) (CVE-2018-18541). This update fixes it.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated php-pear-CAS packages fix security vulnerabilities: An XSS vulnerabilities has been fixed for proxy mode. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23833

LinuxSecurity.com: An important vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 31.0.0.122 and earlier versions. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure. (CVE-2018-15978) References:

LinuxSecurity.com: There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Rack. Carefully crafted requests can impact the data returned by the `scheme` method on `Rack::Request`.Applications that expect the scheme to be limited to “http” or “https” and do not escape the return value could be vulnerable to an XSS attack (CVE-2018-16471).

LinuxSecurity.com: A flaw was found in gdal up to version 2.3.0. A Heap-buffer-overflow in GTiffOddBitsBand::IReadBlock. A flaw was found in gdal. A Heap-buffer-overflow in NITFRasterBand::Unpack.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were mitigated 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: The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

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

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: PostgreSQL could be made to run SQL statements as the administrator.

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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel 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: Several security issues were fixed in Python.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package powerdns-recursor before version 4.1.5-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package powerdns before version 4.1.5-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for python-cryptography is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens). 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 openstack-cinder is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens). 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: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Ceph, a distributed storage and file system: The cephx authentication protocol was suspectible to replay attacks and calculated signatures incorrectly, “ceph mon” did not validate capabilities for pool operations (resulting in potential

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Spamassassin, which could lead to Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service attacks under certain circumstances.

LinuxSecurity.com: A security update is now available for Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2 from the Customer Portal. 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 Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.5 packages are 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

LinuxSecurity.com: New Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.5 packages are 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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: gettext could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted message.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, informations leaks or privilege escalation.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5.3.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from