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

LinuxSecurity.com: The system could be made to expose sensitive information.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has 41 fixes is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali of Offensive Research discovered that the Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of external DTD references, resulting in dereference of a NULL pointer while processing the path to the DTD. The bug allows for a denial of

LinuxSecurity.com: Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in PHP5 when parsing a malformed HTTP response which can be exploited to cause a denial-of-service.

LinuxSecurity.com: memcached version prior to 1.4.37 contains an Integer Overflow vulnerability that can result in data corruption and deadlocks. This attack is exploitable via network connectivity to the memcached service.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the stack, potentially leading to a denial of service.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-tripleo-common and openstack-tripleo-heat-templates is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike). 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 that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

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

As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered

LinuxSecurity.com: Jasper Mattsson found a remote code execution vulnerability in the Drupal content management system. This potentially allows attackers to exploit multiple attack vectors on a Drupal site, which could result in the site being completely compromised.

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LinuxSecurity.com: A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Drupal, a fully-featured content management framework. For additional information, please refer to the upstream advisory at https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-002

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 19 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes is now available.

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LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the changes in tzdata 2018d. Notable changes are: – Palestine started Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 24, rather than on March 31st.

LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the changes in tzdata 2018d for the Perl bindings. For the list of changes, see DLA-1323-1. For Debian 7 “Wheezy”, these problems have been fixed in version

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for sensu is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 Operational Tools 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. CVE-2017-18219

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LinuxSecurity.com: Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in Firefox, which could be exploited to trigger an application crash or arbitrary code execution.

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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:

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that a use-after-free in the compositor of Firefox can result in the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed

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

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0592

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in PLIB may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was an issue in the irssi IRC client where certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a heap corruption vulnerability in the net-snmp framework which exchanges server management information in a network.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for python-paramiko is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras. 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: The package bchunk before version 1.2.2-4 is vulnerable to denial of service.

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Richard Zhu and Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that an out-of-bounds memory write when playing Vorbis media files could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8088) SL7 noarch slf4j-1.7.4-4.el7_4.noarch.rpm slf4j-javadoc-1.7.4-4.el7_4.noarch.rpm slf4j-manual-1.7.4-4.el7_4.noarch.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

LinuxSecurity.com: Bas van Schaik and Kevin Backhouse discovered a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in librelp, a library providing reliable event logging over the network, triggered while checking x509 certificates from a peer. A remote attacker able to connect to rsyslog can take

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for slf4j 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 package thunderbird before version 52.7.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and access restriction bypass.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-ruby23-ruby 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 for rh-mysql57-mysql 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 for rh-mysql56-mysql 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 for rh-ruby24-ruby 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 for rh-ruby22-ruby 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 for rh-maven35-slf4j 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: Daniel P. Berrange and Peter Krempa of Red Hat discovered a flaw in libvirt, a virtualization API. A lack of restriction for the amount of data read by QEMU Monitor socket can lead to a denial of service by exhaustion of memory resources.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Wojciech Regu?a discovered that Freeplane, a program for working with mind maps, was affected by a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in its mindmap loader that could compromise a user’s machine by opening a specially crafted mind map file.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has 70 fixes is now available.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Sharutils could be made to execute arbitrary code if it opened a specially crafted file.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a server-side request forgery exploit in adminer, a web-based database administration tool. Adminer allowed unauthenticated connections to be initiated to arbitrary

LinuxSecurity.com: Cure53 discovered that in SimpleSAMLphp, in rare circumstances an invalid signature on the SAML 2.0 HTTP Redirect binding could be considered valid.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Charles Duffy discovered that the Commandline class in the utilities for the Plexus framework performs insufficient quoting of double-encoded strings, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

LinuxSecurity.com: Alfred Farrugia and Sandro Gauci discovered an off-by-one heap overflow in the Kamailio SIP server which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ISC DHCP client, relay and server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

LinuxSecurity.com: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that an out-of-bounds memory write in the codebook parsing code of the Libtremor multimedia library could result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Vorbis file is opened.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library, that allowed a remote attacker to either cause a denial-of-service by application crash, or execute arbitrary code.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite. 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 JBoss BRMS. 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 package lib32-libvorbis before version 1.3.6-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in WebKitGTK+, the worst of which may lead to arbitrary code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: Gentoo’s collectd package contains multiple vulnerabilities, the worst of which may allow local attackers to escalate privileges.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Various issues were discovered in exempi, a library to parse XMP metadata that may cause a denial-of-service or may have other unspecified impact via crafted files.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0549

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0549

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for collectd is now available for RHEV 4.X RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-7 and RHEV Engine version 4.1. 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 rh-mariadb101-mariadb and rh-mariadb101-galera 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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Paramiko could be made to run programs if it received speciallycrafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: Paramiko could be made to run programs if it received speciallycrafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.7.2 ESR. * Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) (CVE-2018-5146) SL6 x86_64 firefox-52.7.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.7.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-52.7.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.7.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm i386 firefox-52.7.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.7.2-1.el6 [More…]