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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.9. 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: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Report: China’s Intelligence Apparatus Linked to Previously Unconnected Threat Groups
Linux Kernel Hardens Sound Drivers Against Spectre V1 Vulnerability

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LinuxSecurity.com: An XML external entity expansion vulnerability was discovered in the DataImportHandler of Solr, a search server based on Lucene, which could result in information disclosure.

Vulnerabilities on the Rise?
A GEORGIA HACKING BILL GETS CYBERSECURITY ALL WRONG

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 2.0.0 release. * Fixes CVE-2017-17528.

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 2.0.0 release. * Fixes CVE-2017-17528.

LinuxSecurity.com: – fix stack-based buffer overflow in utils.c:checkmailpath() (CVE-2018-1100) – fix stack-based buffer overflow in gen_matches_files() (CVE-2018-1083) – fix stack-based buffer overflow in exec.c:hashcmd() (CVE-2018-1071)

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool, which could allow remote attackers to compromise a site via cross-site scripting, bypass restrictions or unsafe redirects. More information can be found in the upstream advisory at

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LinuxSecurity.com: – https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.59 – https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2018-004

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 2.0.0 release. * Fixes CVE-2017-17528.

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 2.0.0 release. * Fixes CVE-2017-17528.

LinuxSecurity.com: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.2 is now available for download from the Customer Portal. 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 found that the Quassel IRC client was vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability due to insufficient checks in the deserializer code.

Security Holes Make Home Routers Vulnerable
Hackers Leverage GDPR to Target Airbnb Customers

LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the changes in tzdata 2018e for the Perl bindings. For the list of changes, see DLA-1371-1. For Debian 7 “Wheezy”, these problems have been fixed in version

LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the changes in tzdata 2018e. Notable changes are: – North Korea switches back to +09 on 2018-05-05.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in MAD, an MPEG audio decoder library, which could result in denial of service if a malformed audio file is processed.

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

What to do after a data breach: 5 steps to minimize risk
UK Phisher Pleads Guilty to Just Eat Scam

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that jackson-databind, a Java library used to parse JSON and other data formats, improperly validated user input prior to deserializing because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525.

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

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

Fedora 28 “Cutting Edge” Linux Distro Released With New Features
A critical security flaw in popular industrial software put power plants at risk

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-php70-php 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 go-toolset-7 and go-toolset-7-golang is now available for Red Hat Developer Tools. 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: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium and Google Chrome, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: A buffer overflow in Python might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability was discovered in hesiod which may allow remote attackers to gain root privileges.

LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities were found in the Quassel IRC client, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. Note that you need to restart the ‘quasselcore’ service after upgrading

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for python-paramiko is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 and Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

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

City of London Police Takes Cybercrime Fight to Businesses
A Quarter of UK CNI Firms Have Suffered Cyber-Attack Outages

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 1.8.8

LinuxSecurity.com: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6.0 Release – Container Images 2. Description: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform (RHMAP) 4.6.0 consists of three main components:

Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018
North Korea Ramps Up ‘Operation GhostSecret’ Cyber Espionage Campaign

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for glusterfs is now available for Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for glusterfs is now available for Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

Cloud Misconceptions Are Pervasive Across Enterprises
Why Hackers Love Healthcare

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openvswitch is now available for Fast Datapath 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: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4. 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 is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5. 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 is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6. 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: Serious vulnerabilities were found in the libvorbis library, commonly used to encode and decode audio in OGG containers. 2017-14633

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated Boost libraries are available that fix compatibility with CUDA 9.x compilers and fix a possible integer overflow in Boost.Regex.

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for [CVE-2018-10194](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10194).

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-1088 (Privilege escalation via gluster_shared_storage when snapshot scheduling is enabled)

LinuxSecurity.com: Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM [XSA-258] (#1571867) x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI [XSA-259] (#1571878)

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 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

Should we open source election software?
Despite Risks, Nearly Half of IT Execs Don’t Rethink Cybersecurity after an Attack

LinuxSecurity.com: This is an update to the latest upstream release, which disables the UDP port by default (CVE-2018-1000115).

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that gunicorn, an event-based HTTP/WSGI server was susceptible to HTTP Response splitting. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in denial of service, sandbox bypass, execution of arbitrary code or bypass of JAR signature validation.

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-7033 An issue that could be used for SQL Injection attacks against SlurmDBD has been fixed.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed image files are opened.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.8. 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

New Phishing Attack Targets 550M Email Users Worldwide
Most federal IT contractors don’t protect emails from fraud

LinuxSecurity.com: It has been discovered that Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system, contains a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash directory authorities with a null-pointer exception (TROVE-2018-001).

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2018-6056

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9. 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

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LinuxSecurity.com: This patch addresses a critical issue with the DIME protocol receiver that may cause the receiver to become unresponsive when a malformed DIME protocol message is received. — https://www.genivia.com/advisory.html

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to newer release of Tika including security fixes for CVE-2016-4434 and CVE-2016-6809.

LinuxSecurity.com: The v4.16.4 update contains fixes across the tree

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for [CVE-2018-10194](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10194).

LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream release – This release fixes CVE-2018-1106 which is a moderate security issue.

LinuxSecurity.com: This patch addresses a critical issue with the DIME protocol receiver that may cause the receiver to become unresponsive when a malformed DIME protocol message is received. — https://www.genivia.com/advisory.html

LinuxSecurity.com: Rebase to qpdf-7.1.1 because of CVEs

LinuxSecurity.com: Rebase to qpdf-7.1.1 because of CVEs

What is tar and why does OpenShift Container Application Platform use it?

LinuxSecurity.com: A remote code execution vulnerability has been found within multiple subsystems of Drupal. This potentially allows attackers to exploit multiple attack vectors on a Drupal site, which could result in the site being compromised.

Two-fifths of UK Firms Suffered Attack or Security Breach in 2017