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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

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Etienne Stalmans discovered that unsquashfs in squashfs-tools, the tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems, does not validate filenames for traversal outside of the destination directory. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw for writing to arbitrary files to the filesystem

Update to 2.0.1 (fix RHBZ#1998578); fix RHBZ#1932066 (unsafe use of strncpy)

Update NTFS-3G to 2021.8.22 to fix multiple CVEs —- New upstream development version 1.45.7. —- Upstream patch to work with qemu 6.1 (RHBZ#1998820)

Update NTFS-3G to 2021.8.22 to fix multiple CVEs —- New upstream development version 1.45.7. —- Upstream patch to work with qemu 6.1 (RHBZ#1998820)

Update NTFS-3G to 2021.8.22 to fix multiple CVEs —- New upstream development version 1.45.7. —- Upstream patch to work with qemu 6.1 (RHBZ#1998820)

Update NTFS-3G to 2021.8.22 to fix multiple CVEs —- New upstream development version 1.45.7. —- Upstream patch to work with qemu 6.1 (RHBZ#1998820)

An XML external entity (XXE) injection in pywps allows an attacker to view files on the application server filesystem by assigning a path to the entity.

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The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles12sp5 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Apple stalls CSAM auto-scan on devices after ‘feedback’ from everyone on Earth
Twitter introduces new feature to automatically block abusive behavior

Dubbed Safety Mode, the feature will temporarily block authors of offensive tweets from being able to contact or follow users. The post Twitter introduces new feature to automatically block abusive behavior appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Brute-Force Attacks Target Inboxes for Gift Card Data

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

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

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Security release for the 0.4 branch: https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/2021/08/22/security- updates-0.5.11-0.4.23-0.3.32/

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An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available.

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An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available.

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The container sles-15-sp3-chost-byos-v20210827 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse-sles-15-sp3-chost-byos-v20210827-hvm-ssd-x86_64 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse-sles-15-sp3-chost-byos-v20210827-gen2 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

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Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3338

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3336

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3325

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1021

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140

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An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has one errata is now available.

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Don’t use single‑factor authentication, warns CISA

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NTFS-3G could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted image file.

Top 3 APIs Vulnerabilities: Why Apps are Owned by Cyberattackers

sssd: shell command injection in sssctl (CVE-2021-3621) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE Bug Fix(es): * Memory leak in the simple access provider * id lookup is failing intermittently * SSSD is NOT able to contact the Global Catalog […]

kernel: out-of-bounds write in xt_compat_target_from_user() in net/netfilter/x_tables.c (CVE-2021-22555) * kernel: race condition for removal of the HCI controller (CVE-2021-32399) * kernel: powerpc: RTAS calls can be used to compromise kernel integrity (CVE-2020-27777) * kernel: Local privilege escalation due to incorrect BPF JIT branch displacement computation (CVE-2021-29154) * kernel: [More…]

bind: Broken inbound incremental zone update (IXFR) can cause named to terminate unexpectedly (CVE-2021-25214) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE — SL7 x86_64 bind-9.11.4-26.P2.el7_9.7.x86_64.rpm bind-chroot-9.11.4-26.P2.el7_9.7.x86_64.rpm bind-debuginfo-9.11.4-26.P2.el7_9.7.i68 [More…]

libsndfile: Heap buffer overflow via crafted WAV file allows arbitrary code execution (CVE-2021-3246) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE — SL7 x86_64 libsndfile-1.0.25-12.el7_9.1.i686.rpm libsndfile-1.0.25-12.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm libsndfile-debuginfo-1.0.25-12.el7_9.1.i686.rpm li [More…]

hivex: stack overflow due to recursive call of _get_children() (CVE-2021-3622) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE — SL7 x86_64 hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64 [More…]

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