The second Tuesday of the month brings another fresh batch of fixes for security vulnerabilities in various Microsoft products The post Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes 17 critical flaws, Windows zero‑day appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Sharing is caring – except when it isn’t. Here’s why you shouldn’t share your password for online media services with other people. The post Why you should keep your Netflix password to yourself appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
An update that solves 53 vulnerabilities, contains 14 features and has 5 fixes is now available.
libmaxminddb could be made to crash if it received specially crafted data.
USN-4171-1 introduced a regression in Apport.
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
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
An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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
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Several security issues were fixed in Intel Microcode.
raptor2 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.
An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
An update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities is now available.
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The ppp de-capsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory. The buffer should be big enough to hold the captured data, but it
It was discovered that ZeroMQ, a lightweight messaging kernel library does not properly handle connecting peers before a handshake is completed. A remote, unauthenticated client connecting to an application using the libzmq library, running with a socket
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
Fabian Vogt discovered a flaw in sddm before 0.19.0. A local attacker can take advantage of a race condition when creating the Xauthority file to escalate privileges (CVE-2020-28049). References:
Lout 3.40 has a buffer overflow in the StringQuotedWord() function in z39.c. (CVE-2019-19917) Lout 3.40 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the srcnext() function in z02.c. (CVE-2019-19918)
ACL restrictions bypass. (CVE-2020-25654) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27472 – https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/27/1
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An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
It was discovered that Docker could be made to expose sensitive information when processing URLs in container image manifests. A remote attacker could use this to trick the user and obtain the user’s registry credentials (CVE-2020-15157).
An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 35 fixes is now available.
SFD_GetFontMetaData() insufficient CVE-2020-5395 backport. (CVE-2020-25690) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27563 – https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4844
The latest release of mariadb fixes some undisclosed easily exploitable vulnerabilities. (CVE-2020-14765, CVE-2020-14776, CVE-2020-14789 and CVE-2020-14812). Additionally some bugs are fixed:
It was discovered that junit contained a local information disclosure vulnerability. On Unix like systems, the system’s temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. Because of this, when files and directories are written into this directory they are, by default, readable by other users on that same system. This vulnerability does not […]
Vaisha Bernard discovered that blueman did not properly sanitize input on the D-Bus interface to blueman-mechanism. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-15238).
The suricata package has been updated to version 4.1.9, which fixes security issues and other bugs. See the upstream announcements for details. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27475
An XSS Vulnerability exists in Webmin 1.941 and earlier affecting the Cluster Shell Commands Endpoint. A user may enter any XSS Payload into the Command field and execute it. Then, after revisiting the Cluster Shell Commands Menu, the XSS Payload will be rendered and executed. (CVE-2020-8820)
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In libexif/exif-entry.c, through libexif 0.6.21-2+deb9u4, compiler optimization could remove a buffer overflow check, making a buffer overflow possible with some EXIF tags.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available.
It was discovered that raptor2, an RDF parser library, is prone to heap-based buffer overflow flaws, which could result in denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code, if a specially crafted file is processed.
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