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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]

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Google slides DNS privacy into ‘Droid developer stream
The Little Black Box That Took Over Piracy

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.

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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.

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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.

DDoS Attack Takes Czech Election Sites Offline

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.

Google: This surge in Chrome HTTPS traffic shows how much safer you now are online
Hackers target security researchers with malware-laden document

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…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium and Google Chrome, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Go, the worst of which may result in the execution of arbitrary commands.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Two unspecified vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenJFX, a rich client application platform for Java. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in

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.

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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: Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream version 5.5.58, which includes additional changes, such as performance improvements, bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible

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 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 for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 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 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: Liao Xinxi discovered that jackson-databind, a Java library used to parse JSON and other data formats, did not properly validate user input before attemtping deserialization. This allowed an attacker to perform code execution by providing maliciously crafted input.

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: 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 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 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: Fix CVE-2017-2887

LinuxSecurity.com: Daniel P. Berrange reported that Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library, does not properly handle the default_tls_x509_verify (and related) parameters in qemu.conf when setting up TLS clients and servers in QEMU, resulting in TLS clients for character devices and disk devices

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 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 fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that YADIFA, an authoritative DNS server, did not sufficiently check its input. This allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service by forcing the daemon to enter an infinite loop.

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.

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: New libXres packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue.

Abuse of RESTEasy Default Providers in JBoss EAP
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Linus Torvalds says targeted fuzzing is improving Linux security

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libarchive, the worst of which could lead to a Denial of Service condition.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, the worst of which may allow local attackers to escalate privileges.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the X.Org X server. An attacker who’s able to connect to an X server could cause a denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.