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LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-5645

LinuxSecurity.com: * fixed CVE-2017-6508 CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c * fixed use of .netrc

LinuxSecurity.com: This release fixes a possible setting arbitrary mode on an arbitrary file in rmtree() and remove_tree() calls known as CVE-2017-6512.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available.

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LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVEs 2017-7511 and 2017-9083.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upgrade FreeRADIUS to upstream v3.0.14 release. The release includes fixes for various issues, including security issues, one of which is CVE-2017-9148.

LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVEs 2017-7511 and 2017-9083.

LinuxSecurity.com: Agostino Sarubbo and AromalUllas discovered that ettercap, a network security tool for traffic interception, contains vulnerabilities that allowed an attacker able to provide maliciously crafted filters to cause a denial-of-service via application crash.

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LinuxSecurity.com: FreeRADIUS would allow unintended access over the network.

LinuxSecurity.com: USN-3253-1 introduced a regression in Nagios.

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LinuxSecurity.com: New irssi packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

LinuxSecurity.com: – update to 1.8.20p2 – added sudo package to dnf/yum protected packages —- – update to 1.8.20p1 – fixes CVE-2017-1000367

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An out-of-bounds data access in minicom might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Wireshark, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in PCRE library allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in Pidgin might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in WebKitGTK+, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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 run programs as an administrator.

LinuxSecurity.com: The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

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

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 security issues were fixed in Puppet.

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LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in a bundled copy of PuTTY in FileZilla might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MuPDF, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition or have other unspecified impact. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been found in Libtirpc and RPCBind which may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ImageWorsener, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition or have other unspecified impact. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities in D-Bus might allow an attacker to overwrite files with a fixed filename in arbitrary directories or conduct a symlink attack. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in Git might allow remote attackers to bypass security restrictions.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QEMU, the worst of which may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service or gain elevated privileges from a guest VM. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Shadow, the worst of which might allow privilege escalation.

LinuxSecurity.com: Gentoo’s MUNGE ebuilds are vulnerable to privilege escalation due to improper permissions.

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2017-7511 poppler: Null pointer dereference in pdfunite via crafted documents

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 4.12 (#1456190)

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-7494

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to latest stable release, include fixes for gnutls and gtk-vnc compatibility.

LinuxSecurity.com: – update to 1.8.20p2 – added sudo package to dnf/yum protected packages —- – update to 1.8.20p1 – fixes CVE-2017-1000367

LinuxSecurity.com: Fixed CVE-2017-6508: CRLF injection in the url_parse function in url.c

LinuxSecurity.com: fix insufficient escaping of user-supplied data (CVE-2017-7692)

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to chromium 58. Move chrome-remote-desktop to user systemd service. Security fixes for CVE-2017-5068, CVE-2017-5057, CVE-2017-5058, CVE-2017-5059, CVE-2017-5060, CVE-2017-5061, CVE-2017-5062, CVE-2017-5063, CVE-2017-5064, CVE-2017-5065, CVE-2017-5066, CVE-2017-5067, CVE-2017-5069 —- Security fix for CVE-2017-5055, CVE-2017-5054, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5056, CVE-2017-5053

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to chromium 58. Move chrome-remote-desktop to user systemd service. Security fixes for CVE-2017-5068, CVE-2017-5057, CVE-2017-5058, CVE-2017-5059, CVE-2017-5060, CVE-2017-5061, CVE-2017-5062, CVE-2017-5063, CVE-2017-5064, CVE-2017-5065, CVE-2017-5066, CVE-2017-5067, CVE-2017-5069 —- Security fix for CVE-2017-5055, CVE-2017-5054, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5056, CVE-2017-5053

LinuxSecurity.com: fix insufficient escaping of user-supplied data (CVE-2017-7692)

LinuxSecurity.com: The cPanel Security Team reported a time of check to time of use (TOCTTOU) race condition flaw in File::Path, a core module from Perl to create or remove directory trees. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to set the mode on an attacker-chosen file to a attacker-chosen

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LinuxSecurity.com: Security fixes for CVE-2017-9078 CVE-2017-9079

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fixes for CVE-2017-9078 CVE-2017-9079

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LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in NSS, a set of cryptographic libraries, which may result in denial of service or information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that Zookeeper, a service for maintaining configuration information, didn’t restrict access to the computationally expensive wchp/wchc commands which could result in denial of service by elevated CPU consumption.

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: OpenLDAP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes is now available. is now available.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool. They would allow remote attackers to force password resets, and perform various cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks.

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LinuxSecurity.com: A potential security flaw is found on LXDE products, which create socket under /tmp with some predictable names, which may leads to DOS. The security flow on lxterminal is now assigned as CVE-2016-10369. Some other components also had similar issues. These new rpms should fix these issues. At least relogin is required to make […]

LinuxSecurity.com: A potential security flaw is found on LXDE products, which create socket under /tmp with some predictable names, which may leads to DOS. The security flow on lxterminal is now assigned as CVE-2016-10369. Some other components also had similar issues. These new rpms should fix these issues. At least relogin is required to make […]

LinuxSecurity.com: A potential security flaw is found on LXDE products, which create socket under /tmp with some predictable names, which may leads to DOS. The security flow on lxterminal is now assigned as CVE-2016-10369. Some other components also had similar issues. These new rpms should fix these issues. At least relogin is required to make […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Karsten Heymann discovered that the OpenLDAP directory server can be crashed by performing a paged search with a page size of 0, resulting in denial of service. This vulnerability is limited to the MDB storage backend.

LinuxSecurity.com: New sudo packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue.

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Sudo could be made to overwrite files as the administrator.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle 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: An update for sudo 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel is 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 gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that pattern-based ACLs in the Mosquitto MQTT broker could be bypassed. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in