LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mercurial, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSH, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause Denial of Service.
LinuxSecurity.com: A buffer overflow in PECL HTTP might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL, the worst of which allows attackers to conduct a time based side-channel attack.
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream version 2.50. – Fixes serious DLL hijacking attack:https://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1125/
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]
LinuxSecurity.com: Nghttp2 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
LinuxSecurity.com: Patch is vulnerable to a locally generated Denial of Service condition.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Chromium web browser, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-9296
LinuxSecurity.com: phpMyAdmin 4.6.5.1 (2016-11-26) =============================== A patch-levelrelease fixing two small issues: * an issue affecting a small number of usersusing $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘hide_db’] or $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘only_db’]. * anissue affecting the create table dialog where the partition selection tool wasoverzealous and made it difficult to create a new table. There are also minorimprovements to the Czech language file. phpMyAdmin […]
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 1.10.1
LinuxSecurity.com: Add fix for gstreamer FLIC decoder vulnerability
LinuxSecurity.com: xen : various security flaws (#1397383) x86 null segments not always treated asunusable [XSA-191, CVE-2016-9386] x86 task switch to VM86 mode mis-handled[XSA-192, CVE-2016-9382] x86 segment base write emulation lacking canonicaladdress checks [XSA-193, CVE-2016-9385] guest 32-bit ELF symbol table loadleaking host data [XSA-194, CVE-2016-9384] x86 64-bit bit test instructionemulation broken [XSA-195, CVE-2016-9383] x86 software interrupt […]
LinuxSecurity.com: Libvirt is vulnerable to directory traversal when using Access Control Lists (ACL).
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GD, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in LinuxCIFS utils’ “cifscreds” PAM module might allow remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via unknown vectors.
Go ahead and hack your car, that’s fine now. Go ahead and hack the Department of Defense, that’s okay too under new policies. It wasn’t always this way. The post Hacking is legal again finally (sometimes) appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
We live in a world where internet crime is rampant. Cyber criminals steal hundreds of millions of dollars each year with near impunity. For every 1 that gets caught, 10,000 go free — maybe more. For every 1 successfully prosecuted in a court of law, 100 get off scot-free or with a warning. Why is […]
ESET lifts the lid on Android ransomware – the picture doesn’t look good. It’s on the increase and extremely sophisticated. The post Android ransomware spreads further, with new methods in its toolbox appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
David Harley, talking about child safety and security in (and yet not in) the South Atlantic. The post Child safety: An unexpected radio interview appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in DavFS2 allows local users to gain root privileges.
LinuxSecurity.com: Due to a design flaw, the output of GnuPG’s Random Number Generator (RNG) is predictable.
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-7504, CVE-2016-7505, CVE-2016-7506, CVE-2016-9017,CVE-2016-9108, CVE-2016-9109, CVE-2016-9294
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-7504, CVE-2016-7505, CVE-2016-7506, CVE-2016-9017,CVE-2016-9108, CVE-2016-9109, CVE-2016-9294
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 1.9.9 (bugfix release for CVE-2016-7146, CVE-2016-7148)
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]
LinuxSecurity.com: A security update that fixes Calamares bug CAL-405:https://calamares.io/bugs/browse/CAL-405 When installing with a LUKS-encrypted`/` partition, Calamares was always creating a keyfile to decode `/` and storingit in the initramfs. It did that even with an unencrypted separate `/boot`partition. As a result, the keyfile would be stored in cleartext on the `/boot`partition, and it was possible […]
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 1.9.9 (bugfix release for CVE-2016-7146, CVE-2016-7148)
LinuxSecurity.com: A security update that fixes Calamares bug CAL-405:https://calamares.io/bugs/browse/CAL-405 When installing with a LUKS-encrypted`/` partition, Calamares was always creating a keyfile to decode `/` and storingit in the initramfs. It did that even with an unencrypted separate `/boot`partition. As a result, the keyfile would be stored in cleartext on the `/boot`partition, and it was possible […]
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-9299
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-9299
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 1.9.9 (bugfix release for CVE-2016-7146, CVE-2016-7148)
