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Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

LinuxSecurity.com: Quang Nguyen discovered an integer overflow in the Little CMS 2 colour management library, which could in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed IT8 calibration file is processed.

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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: An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.9. 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

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

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

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

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Of ML and malware: What’s in store?

All things labeled Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) are making waves, but talk of them in cybersecurity contexts often muddies the waters. A new ESET white paper sets out to bring some clarity to a subject where confusion often reigns supreme The post Of ML and malware: What’s in store? appeared first on […]

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Excuse me, but your website’s source code appears to be showing

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for collectd is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated samba packages that fix several security issues and provide several bug fixes and an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated samba packages that fix several security issues and provide several bug fixes and an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated glusterfs packages that fix multiple security issues and bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated glusterfs packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and adds various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Cryptominers killing cryptominers to squeeze more out of your CPU
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Risk Level: Very Low.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Hackers selling data of 130 million Chinese hotel clients on Dark Web for 8 BTC
Majority of the world’s top million websites use HTTPS

The adoption of the protocol’s secure variant has continued its growth spurt in recent months, crossing the 50-percent milestone for the first time ever The post Majority of the world’s top million websites use HTTPS appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a string injection vulnerability in the “dojo” Javascript library. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this issue has been fixed in dojo version

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

LinuxSecurity.com: The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: gd_gif_in.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd), as used in PHP before 5.6.33, 7.0.x before 7.0.27, 7.1.x before 7.1.13, and 7.2.x before 7.2.1, has an integer signedness error that leads to an infinite loop via a

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages fixes atleast the following security vulnerability: OpenJDK: insufficient index validation in PatternSyntaxException getMessage() (CVE-2018-2952)

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities: During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a

LinuxSecurity.com: Two security issues have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine. CVE-2018-1336

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

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LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in php5, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. One (CVE-2018-14851) results in a potential denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash)

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LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send specially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or,

Boffins trying to build a open source secure enclave on RISC-V

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated squirrelmail packages fix XSS-security vulnerability: It was discovered that some special tags have not been filtered accordingly which can be used for an XSS-attack.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated libxcursor packages fix security vulnerability _XcursorThemeInherits in library.c in libXcursor before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially code execution via a one-byte heap overflow. (CVE-2015-9262)

LinuxSecurity.com: OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c (CVE-2018-15473).

LinuxSecurity.com: This update provides the virtualbox 5.1.18 maintenance release that fixes atleast the following security issues: Fixed an easily exploitable vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated quazip packages fix security vulnerability: A vulnerability has been found in the way developers have implemented the archive extraction of files. An arbitrary file write vulnerability, that can be achieved using a specially crafted zip archive (affects other

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerabilities: Vulnerability in the MariaDB Server component of MariaDB (subcomponent: MyISAM). Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MariaDB Server.

LinuxSecurity.com: This update provides libraw 0.18.13 fixing atleast the following security issues: LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.12 are vulnerable to an integer overflow in the internal/dcraw_common.cpp:parse_qt() function. An attacker could

LinuxSecurity.com: The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: An out-of-bounds read flaw exists in parse_file_info in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c in libarchive 3.3.2 when extracting a specially crafted iso9660 iso file, related to

LinuxSecurity.com: The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial

LinuxSecurity.com: This update provides mercurial version 4.6.2 and fixes the following security issues: Fix the mpatch_apply function in mpatch.c that incorrectly proceeds in cases where the fragment start is past the end of the original data

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