LinuxSecurity.com: fix CVE-2016-8741 (rhbz#1409836,1409835)
LinuxSecurity.com: update to 3.2.10.RELEASE, fix CVE-2016-9879
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to the latest upstream release 1.3.2, also with some security fixes (seebug #1193445 from the native flac package).
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-8605
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Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
For years, IoT security seemed like solving a problem that didn’t exist. Not anymore says ESET’s Cameron Camp, who was at this year’s CES. The post CES: IoT security comes of age appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in phpMyAdmin, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.
LinuxSecurity.com: Flex might generate code with a buffer overflow making applications using such scanners vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.
LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been found in Vim and gVim concerning how certain modeline options are treated.
LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in vzctl might allow attackers to gain control over ploop containers.
LinuxSecurity.com: A heap-based buffer overflow in c-ares might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in 7-Zip, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.
LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in BIND might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in phpBB, the worst of which may allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PgBouncer, the worst of which may allow an attacker to bypass authentication.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Botan, the worst of which might allow remote attackers to obtain ECDSA secret keys.
LinuxSecurity.com: Gentoo’s NGINX ebuilds are vulnerable to privilege escalation due to the way log files are handled.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Expat, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
Tips on securing the Alexa service on Amazon Echo devices, notably voice purchasing, a topic brought into focus by the recent “San Diego dollhouse TV story”. The post Amazon Echo and the Alexa dollhouses: Security tips and takeaways appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libTIFF, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.
A senior UK police officer has suggested that offenders of cybercrime should be penalized by being made to wear Wi-Fi jammers rather than being sent to prison. The post Cybercriminals ‘should be punished with Wi-Fi jammers’ appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
A US government probe into claims that certain heart implants are vulnerable to hacking attacks, has resulted in emergency security patches being issued for devices that cardiac patients have in their homes. The post Security scare over hackable heart implants appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Leonard Adleman — the “A” in the very popular public cryptographic algorithm RSA — as part of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 50th anniversary celebration of the Turing Award. In 2002, Adleman himself won the Turing Award, often referred to at the Nobel Prize of the computing […]
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Python, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows LSASS is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
