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Several issues were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, which could result in session fixation attacks, information disclosure, cross- site scripting, denial of service via resource exhaustion and insecure redirects.

It was discovered that debian-lan-config, a FAI config space for the Debian-LAN system, configured too permissive ACLs for the Kerberos admin server, which allowed password changes for other user principals.

Guido Vranken discovered an overflow bug in the x64_64 Montgomery squaring procedure used in exponentiation with 512-bit moduli. For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed

It was found that freeimage, a graphics library, was affected by the following two security issues: CVE-2019-12211

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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 75 fixes is now available.

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

An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 75 fixes is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

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Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: DirectoryIterator class silently truncates after a null byte (CVE-2019-11045).

he updated packages fix security vulnerabilities and a packaging problem: An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the way 389-ds-base handled certain LDAP search filters, affecting all versions including 1.4.x. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to make

The updated package fixes a security vulnerability: A flaw was found in mod_auth_openidc before version 2.4.0.1. An open redirect issue exists in URLs with trailing slashes similar to CVE-2019-3877 in mod_auth_mellon. (CVE-2019-14857)

Updated libofx packages fix security vulnerability: There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function OFXApplication::startElement in the file lib/ofx_sgml.cpp, as demonstrated by ofxdump (CVE-2019-9656).

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An issue was discovered in libopensc/card-setcos.c in OpenSC, which has an incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute.

Type: Vulnerability. ImageMagick is prone to multiple heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Linux Kernel is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Linux Kernel is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. IBM Cognos Analytics is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability and a cross-site request-forgery vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. FasterXML Jackson-databind is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

This update is based on upstream 5.4.6 and fixes various potential security issues related to buffer overflows, double frees, NUll pointer dereferences, improper / missing input validations and so on. It also adds other bugfixes all over the kernel.

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Type: Vulnerability. Trend Micro Apex Central is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. TYPO3 is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. IBM Spectrum Scale is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Samba is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Linux kernel is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.

Type: Vulnerability. Redis is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Multiple Trend Micro Products are prone to a local security-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Apple iOS/iPadOS/watchOS/macOS are prone to a security vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Wecon PLC Editor is prone to multiple stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities.

Type: Vulnerability. Multiple Moxa Products are prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Broadcom CA Client Automation is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Sudo is prone to multiple security-bypass vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

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Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4107

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4148

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4240

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4326

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4190

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4190

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Type: Vulnerability. RedHat Ceph is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Redis is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Kubernetes API Server is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Apache Log4j is prone to remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Multiple VMware products are prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Kubernetes is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Equinox Control Expert is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability.

Type: Vulnerability. Philips Veradius Unity, Pulsera, and Endura are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller API is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.

Apple Bug bounty: Earn big backs for hacking iPhone & other products

A change introduced in libssh 0.6.3-4+deb8u4 (which got released as DLA 2038-1) has broken x2goclient’s way of scp’ing session setup files from client to server, resulting in an error message shown in a GUI error dialog box during session startup (and session resuming).

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

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An update for fribidi is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 vulnerability

An update for libyang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 vulnerability

An issue has been found in cups, the Common UNIX Printing System(tm). An incorrect bounds check could lead to a possible out-of-bounds read and

An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

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Several vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in TightVNC 1.x, an X11 based VNC server/viewer application for Windows and Unix.

An update that solves 26 vulnerabilities and has 14 fixes is now available.

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