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A malicious peer could have modified a COOKIE-ECHO chunk in a SCTP packet in a way that potentially resulted in a use-after-free. We presume that with enough effort it could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-16044).

It was discovered that mingw-binutils and binutils suffered from two vulnerabilites which might lead to DoS. Null Pointer Dereference in debug_get_real_type could result in DoS (CVE-2020-16598).

XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element ().

Busybox contains a Missing SSL certificate validation vulnerability in The “busybox wget” applet that can result in arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Simply download any file over HTTPS using “busybox wget https://compromised-domain.com/important-file”. ().

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

It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled certain imap hibernation commands. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to access other users’ email (CVE-2020-24386). Innokentii Sennovskiy discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled MIME

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An update is now available for Red Hat support for Spring Boot. 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

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There was an integer overflow vulnerability concerning the length of websocket frames received via a websocket connection. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack on an HTTP Server allowing websocket connections.

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Security fix for CVE-2020-13482

Backport patches for CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495, CVE-2020-35496.

Security fix for CVE-2020-13482.

Several security vulnerabilities were addressed in pacemaker, a cluster resource manager. CVE-2018-16877

The update for minidlna released as DSA 4806-1 introduced a regression when purging the package. Updated minidlna packages are now available to correct this issue.

ImageMagick: Shell injection via PDF password could result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-29599) SL7 x86_64 ImageMagick-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.i686.rpm ImageMagick-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-c++-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.i686.rpm ImageMagick-c++-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.9.10.68-5.el7_9.i686.rpm ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.9.10.68-5.el7 [More…]

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An update for openvswitch2.11, ovn2.11, redhat-release-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

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Stolen employee credentials put leading gaming firms at risk

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An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

The package dovecot before version 2.3.13-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including information disclosure and denial of service.

The package poppler before version 21.01.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

The package roundcubemail before version 1.4.10-1 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Singapore changes the rules and will now use COVID-19 contact-tracing app data in criminal cases

The package rsync before version 3.2.3-2 is vulnerable to man-in-the- middle.

The container harbor/harbor-trivy-adapter was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

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PayPal users targeted in new SMS phishing campaign

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It was discovered that there was an issue in the gssproxy privilege separation caused by gssproxy not unlocking cond_mutex prior to calling pthread_exit.

It was discovered that csync2, a cluster synchronization tool, did not correctly check for the return value from GnuTLS security routines. It neglected to repeatedly call this function as required by the design of the API.

The vlc package has been updated to version 3.0.12.1, which includes security enhancements in the web interface, as well as other fixes and enhancements. See the upstream NEWS file for details.

There is a floating point exception in dcraw_common.cpp of libRAW. It will lead to remote denial of service attack. This code is embedded in rawtherapee (CVE-2017-13735). References:

Kevin Backhouse discovered that GDM incorrectly launched the initial setup tool when the accountsservice daemon was not reachable. A local attacker able to cause accountsservice to crash or stop responding could trick GDM into launching the initial setup tool and create a privileged user (CVE-2020-16125).

libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier has a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c (CVE-2020-24977). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27300

SolarWinds mess that flared in the holidays: Biz confirms malware targeted crocked Orion product

Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp/audacity-$USER by default. After Audacity creates the temporary directory, it sets its permissions to 755. Any user on the system can read and play the temporary audio .au files located there (CVE-2020-11867).

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ceph 15.2.8 GA Security fix for CVE-2020-27781

Multiple security issues were discovered in the Chromium web browser, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or information disclosure.

It was discovered that incorrect validation of JWT tokens in InfluxDB, a time series, metrics, and analytics database, could result in authentication bypass.

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

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David Cook reported several memory safety issues affecting the RPC protocol in p11-kit, a library providing a way to load and enumerate PKCS#11 modules.

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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.