LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
LinuxSecurity.com: Several issues in wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, have been found. Dissectors of – ISAKMP, a Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
Reading Time: ~4 min. This is the first of a three-part report on the state of three malware categories: miners, ransomware and information stealers. In Webroot’s 2018 mid-term threat report, we outlined how cryptomining, and particularly cryptojacking, had become popular criminal tactics over the first six months of last year. This relatively novel method of cybercrime […]
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
Among the increased number of malicious JavaScript email attachments observed in January 2019, ESET researchers have spotted a large wave of ransomware-spreading spam targeting Russian users The post Russia hit by new wave of ransomware spam appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Eight months after the landmark rules came into effect, data released by the European Commission provides a glimpse into the law’s application The post Suspected GDPR violations prompt over 95,000 complaints appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
LinuxSecurity.com: Several issues were discovered in qtbase-opensource-src, a cross-platform C++ application framework, which could lead to denial-of-service via application crash. Additionally, this update fixes a problem affecting vlc, where it would start without a GUI.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in coTURN, a TURN and STUN server for VoIP. CVE-2018-4056
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LinuxSecurity.com: Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Postscript file is processed (despite the -dSAFER sandbox being enabled).
LinuxSecurity.com: The package nasm before version 2.14.02-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.
LinuxSecurity.com: The package haproxy before version 1.9.0-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.
LinuxSecurity.com: The package apache before version 2.4.38-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and insufficient validation.
LinuxSecurity.com: The package powerdns-recursor before version 4.1.9-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including insufficient validation and access restriction bypass.
LinuxSecurity.com: The package matrix-synapse before version 0.34.1.1-1 is vulnerable to private key recovery.
LinuxSecurity.com: The package go before version 2:1.11.5-1 is vulnerable to private key recovery.
LinuxSecurity.com: The package go before version 2:1.11.5-1 is vulnerable to private key recovery.
LinuxSecurity.com: New version 2.6.6. Security fix for CVE-2019-5716, CVE-2019-5717, CVE-2019-5718, CVE-2019-5719
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LinuxSecurity.com: krb5, a MIT Kerberos implementation, had several flaws in LDAP DN checking, which could be used to circumvent a DN containership check by supplying special parameters to some calls.
Reading Time: ~2 min. Anatova Ransomware Reaches Global Market A new ransomware family, dubbed Anatova by researchers, has been infecting machines across the globe. During encryption, Anatova appears to focus on small files to speed up overall encryption times, but doesn’t append the encrypted files with a new extension. Unexpectedly, this variant demands DASH crypto […]
LinuxSecurity.com: The PostgreSQL project has release a new minor release of the 9.4 branch. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this has been uploaded as version
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LinuxSecurity.com: Ghostscript could be made to crash, access files, or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.
LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.
LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in the HTML_QuickForm package has been found which potentially allows remote code execution. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24185
LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that libcaca incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-20544). It was discovered that libcaca incorrectly handled certain images. An
LinuxSecurity.com: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor where Lua hooks are not properly applied to queries received over TCP in some specific combination of settings, possibly bypassing security policies enforced using Lua (CVE-2019-3806).
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
Everybody loves quizzes. So why not take this one and hone your phish-spotting prowess? The post Can you spot the phish? Take Google’s test appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-20551, CVE-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20650 and CVE-2018-18897.
LinuxSecurity.com: – xattr: strip credentials from any URL that is stored (CVE-2018-20483)
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2019-5010 in Python. Anaconda is joined because an unrelated fix was done there that allowed to remove a workaround in Python.
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
