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LinuxSecurity.com: The package webkit2gtk before version 2.22.4-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package flashplugin before version 31.0.0.153-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package lib32-libtiff before version 4.0.10-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, denial of service and information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities libphp-phpmailer, an email library for the PHP programming language: * CVE-2017-5223: Local file disclosure vulnerability via relative path

LinuxSecurity.com: A critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 31.0.0.148 and earlier versions. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. (CVE-2018-15981) References:

LinuxSecurity.com: In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack. (CVE-2018-16646) An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a reachable abort in

LinuxSecurity.com: The ghostscript 9.26 update is focusing on security issues, including solving several (well publicised) real and potential exploits. For other fixes in this release, see the referenced News.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in denial of service, sandbox bypass, incomplete TLS identity verification, information disclosure or the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: mod_perl could be made to run programs contrary to expectations.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security vulnerabilities were discovered in the JasPer JPEG-2000 library. CVE-2015-5203

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was an XSS vulnerability in the ruby-rack web-server library. A malicious request could impact the HTTP/HTTPS scheme being returned

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Who needs passwords? Microsoft now lets you in with your face or security key

The software giant takes passwords one step closer to obsolescence as it now enables users to log into their Microsoft accounts with more modern forms of authentication The post Who needs passwords? Microsoft now lets you in with your face or security key appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-0735 Samuel Weiser reported a timing vulnerability in the OpenSSL ECDSA signature generation, which might leak information to recover the

LinuxSecurity.com: The update for ceph issued as DSA-4339-1 caused a build regression for the i386 builds. Updated packages are now available to address this issue. For reference, the original advisory text follows.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8. There is a double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c, related to an invalid free in po_gram_parse in po-gram-gen.y, as demonstrated by lt-msgfmt. (CVE-2018-18751)

LinuxSecurity.com: This is a service release to update the stable version 1.3 of Roundcube Webmail. It contains fixes to several bugs backported from the master branch including a security fix for a reported XSS vulnerability (in handling invalid style tag content) plus updates to ensure compatibility with PHP 7.3 and recent versions of Courier-IMAP, Dovecot […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3409

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High Tail Hall data breach exposes over 400,000 furry fans
Hackers target critical WordPress plugin flaw to install backdoors and create admin accounts
Microsoft’s MFA is so strong, it locked out users for 8 hours

Reading Time: ~4 min.As digital natives become more immersed in and dependent upon technology, they are likely to experience “cyber fatigue,” which can be thought of cybersecurity complacency. Paired with the invincible feeling that often accompanies being young, this can be a dangerous combination. It’s easy to mistakenly believe that hacked devices and identity theft […]

Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days before Black Friday, emails world+dog

LinuxSecurity.com: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.7.72 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Fancy Bear hacker crew Putin dirty RATs in Word documents emailed to govt orgs – report
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7 container security tools to lock down Docker and Kubernetes
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Two Brits jailed for TalkTalk hack

The breach exposed the personal data of 160,000 people and cost the telecom company £77 million The post Two Brits jailed for TalkTalk hack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

When selling security awareness training by email, probably a good shout not to hit ‘reply all’

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a remote denial-of-service vulnerability in ruby-i18n, a I18n and localization solution for Ruby. An application crash could be engineering a situation where `:some_key` is

Talk about a cache flow problem: This JavaScript can snoop on other browser tabs to work out what you’re visiting
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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities is now available.

What the #!/%* is that rogue Raspberry Pi doing plugged into my company’s server room, sysadmin despairs

LinuxSecurity.com: A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in liblivemedia, the LIVE555 RTSP server library. This issue might be leveraged by remote attackers to cause code execution, by sending a crafted packet.

LastPass? More like lost pass. Or where the fsck has it gone pass. Five-hour outage drives netizens bonkers

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.

Critical Adobe Flash Bug Impacts Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS

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Did you hear? There’s a critical security hole that lets web pages hijack computers. Of course it’s Adobe Flash’s fault
Gmail Glitch Enables Anonymous Messages in Phishing Attacks
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LinuxSecurity.com: The package grafana before version 5.3.4-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary filesystem access.

Sednit: What’s going on with Zebrocy?

In August 2018, Sednit’s operators deployed two new Zebrocy components, and since then we have seen an uptick in Zebrocy deployments, with targets in Central Asia, as well as countries in Central and Eastern Europe, notably embassies, ministries of foreign affairs, and diplomats. The post Sednit: What’s going on with Zebrocy? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

OceanLotus: New watering hole attack in Southeast Asia

ESET researchers identified 21 distinct websites that had been compromised including some particularly notable government and media sites The post OceanLotus: New watering hole attack in Southeast Asia appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Every day is Black Friday
Patch Skype for Business now or risk DoS via emoji kittens!
Update now! Dangerous AMP for WordPress plugin fixed
Two friends jailed for TalkTalk hack plot

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that mishandled search requests in servers/slapd/search.c:do_search() in 389-ds-base allows for denial of service (CVE-2018-14648). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: mod_authnz_ldap, if configured with AuthLDAPCharsetConfig, uses the Accept-Language header value to lookup the right charset encoding when verifying the user’s credentials. If the header value is not present in the charset conversion table, a fallback mechanism is used to truncate it to a two characters value to allow a quick retry (for example,

LinuxSecurity.com: Assertion failure in BPMDetect class in BPMDetect.cpp (CVE-2018-17096). Out-of-bounds heap write in WavOutFile::write() (CVE-2018-17097). Heap corruption in WavFileBase class in WavFile.cpp (CVE-2018-17098). References:

Texas hospital becomes victim of Dharma ransomware
Russian hacker arrested in Bulgaria for ad fraud of over $7 million
Security warning: UK critical infrastructure still at risk from devastating cyber attack

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in uriparser, an Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) parsing library.

Germany pushes router security rules, OpenWRT and CCC push back
Instagram accidentally reveals plaintext passwords in URLs

LinuxSecurity.com: The package chromium before version 70.0.3538.110-1 is vulnerable to information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in openjpeg2, the open-source JPEG 2000 codec. CVE-2017-17480

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From directory traversal to direct travesty: Crash, hijack, siphon off this TP-Link VPN box via classic exploitable bugs

LinuxSecurity.com: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.9.51 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Linux kernel Spectre V2 defense fingered for massively slowing down unlucky apps on Intel Hyper-Thread CPUs