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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 Critical. 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-1.8.0-oracle is now available for 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: An update for java-1.8.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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: An update for java-1.7.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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: An update for java-1.7.0-oracle is now available for 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: 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 Critical. 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 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.6.0-sun is now available for Oracle Java 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.6.0-sun is now available for 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: Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation or information disclosure.

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 two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 25 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

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

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

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2942

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2943

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Tex Live.

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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: Paramiko could allow unintended access to network services.

LinuxSecurity.com: Net-SNMP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: libssh could allow unintended access to network services.

LinuxSecurity.com: Requests could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted HTTP header.

Vendors confirm products affected by libssh bug as PoC code pops up on GitHub
A Twitter employee groomed by the Saudi government prompted 2015 state-sponsored hacking warning

LinuxSecurity.com: Heap-based buffer overflow in tif_packbits.c in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted bmp file (CVE-2016-5319). In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been discovered in exiv2 (CVE-2018-16336), a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata, resulting in remote denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read/overflow) via

LinuxSecurity.com: The package thunderbird before version 60.2.1-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and information disclosure.

Apache Access Vulnerability Could Affect Thousands of Applications
Hackers breach Healthcare.gov system, taking files on 75,000 people
Password and credit card-stealing Azorult malware adds new tricks
North Korean hacker crew steals $571M in cryptocurrency across 5 attacks

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated ghostscript packages fix many bugs and security vulnerabilities: Bypassing executeonly to escape -dSAFER sandbox. (CVE-2018-17961) Saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays. (CVE-2018-18073)

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LinuxSecurity.com: The updated glib2.0 packages fix security vulnerabilities: In GNOME GLib 2.56.1, g_markup_parse_context_end_parse() in gmarkup.c has a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2018-16428).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated rust packages fix security vulnerability The Rust Programming Language Standard Library before version 1.29.1 contains a CWE-680: Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the standard library that can result in buffer overflow. This attack

LinuxSecurity.com: The updated clamav packages fix a security vulnerability: Vulnerability in ClamAV’s MEW unpacking feature that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on an affected device (CVE-2018-15378).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated docker packages fix security vulnerabilities: Lack of content verification in docker allowed a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing (CVE-2017-14992).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated calibre package fixes security vulnerability: gui2/viewer/bookmarkmanager.py in Calibre 3.18 calls cPickle.load on imported bookmark data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pickle file, as demonstrated by Python code that

LinuxSecurity.com: pdated tcpflow package fixes security vulnerability: An issue was discovered in wifipcap/wifipcap.cpp in TCPFLOW through 1.5.0-alpha. There is an integer overflow in the function handle_prism during caplen processing. If the caplen is less than 144, one can cause

LinuxSecurity.com: Smarty 3.1.32 or below is prone to a path traversal vulnerability due to insufficient template code sanitization. This allows attackers controlling the executed template code to bypass the trusted directory security restriction and read arbitrary files (CVE-2018-13982).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated mgetty packages fix security vulnerabilities: The function do_activate() did not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection (CVE-2018-16741).

LinuxSecurity.com: This update provides vlc 3.0.4 and fixes atleast the following security issue: A use-after-free was discovered in the MP4 demuxer of the VLC media player, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated 389-ds-base package fixes security vulnerabilities: a race condition on reference counter leads to DoS using persistent search (CVE-2018-10850)

FBI Investigates Attack on Critical Water Utility
Pentagon Staff Hit by Major Data Breach
European Banks and Police Warn Consumers of Cyber Scams

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities were found in Drupal, a fully-featured content management framework, which could result in arbitrary code execution or an open redirect. For additional information, please refer to the upstream advisory at https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-006

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

NCSC Tackles 10 Attacks on Government Per Week
LibSSH Flaw Allows Hackers to Take Over Servers Without Password

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-nodejs8-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. 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 package chromium before version 70.0.3538.67-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, content spoofing, sandbox escape, information disclosure and denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes. 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 rh-nodejs6-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. 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 OpenShift Application Runtimes. 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 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 four fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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: An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available 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

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat Fuse Integration Services. 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

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2921

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Operations Network. 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: It was discovered that there was a denial-of-service vulnerability in libpdfbox-java, a PDF library for Java. A malicious PDF file could have triggered an extremely long running

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.4 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, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes. 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

UK’s MoD Exposed in 37 Security Breaches: Report
The Biggest Features Of Linux 4.19: Intel/AMD, CoC, 802.11ax, EROFS, GPS & GASKET
Linux’s LoRa Is Ready To Deliver Long-Range, Low-Power Wireless

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 for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 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 vulnerabilities have been discovered in GraphicsMagick, a set of command-line applications to manipulate image files, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed image files are processed.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Asterisk, an open source PBX and telephony toolkit, which may result in denial of service or information disclosure.

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security update

LinuxSecurity.com: ClamAV could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: Nitin Venkatesh discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in moin, a Python clone of WikiWiki. A remote attacker can conduct cross-site scripting attacks via the GUI editor’s link dialogue. This only affects installations which have set up fckeditor (not enabled by default).

LinuxSecurity.com: Net-SNMP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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 ghostscript 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: Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2916