Updated ghostscript packages fix several security vulnerabilities including: In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files
Updated libx11 packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later
This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.69 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF and Spectre security issues. It also fixes atleast the following security issues: Other fixes in this update:
This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.69 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF and Spectre security issues. It also fixes atleast the following security issues: Memory leak in the irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c and later in
This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.69 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF and Spectre security issues. It also fixes atleast the following security issues: Memory leak in the irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c and later in
Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerability: Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc of NTP version 4.2.8p11 allows an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to higher privileges via a long string as the argument for an IPv4 or IPv6
Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability: Successful exploitation of the currently un-disclosed vulerability could lead to information disclosure (CVE-2018-15967).
Updated libxkbcommon packages fix security vulnerabilities: Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers boolean negation
Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities: Bluetooth Attribute Protocol dissector crash (CVE-2018-16056). Radiotap dissector crash (CVE-2018-16057).
Updated sleuthkit packages fix security vulnerabilities: In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.4.2, opening a crafted ISO 9660 image triggers an out-of-bounds read in iso9660_proc_dir() in tsk/fs/iso9660_dent.c in libtskfs.a, as demonstrated by fls (CVE-2017-13755).
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
Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages fixes atleast the following security vulnerability: OpenJDK: insufficient index validation in PatternSyntaxException getMessage() (CVE-2018-2952)
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
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.
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)
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).
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
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
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.
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
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