Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerabilities

The mediawiki package has been updated to version 1.23.10, which fixes multiple security issues and other bugs. See the release announcement for more details...

PT-2015-7913

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions php versions prior to 5.5.28 Description The issue concerns several security problems and other bugs in the php package. These issues have been fixed in version 5.5.28. For more details, refer to the upstream ChangeLog. Recommendations For...

PT-2015-7914

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions mediawiki versions prior to 1.23.10 Description The issue concerns multiple security problems and other bugs in the mediawiki package. Recommendations For versions prior to 1.23.10, update to version 1.23.10 to resolve the issue...

PT-2015-7912

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions php versions prior to 5.6.12 Description The issue concerns several security problems and other bugs in the php package. These issues have been fixed in version 5.6.12. For more details, refer to the upstream ChangeLog. Recommendations For...

Attacking ECMAScript Engines with Redefinition

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich = function return n; ECMAScript has a property where almost all functions and variables can be dynamically redefined. This can lead to vulnerabilities in situations where native code assumes a function or variable behaves a certain way when accessed or does not have...

Fedora 22 : wordpress-4.2.4-1.fc22 (2015-12235)

WordPress 4.2.4 Security and Maintenance Release WordPress 4.2.4 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This release addresses six issues, including three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a...

firefox: multiple issues

CVE-2015-4473 Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 38.2 and Firefox 40: Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, and Byron Campen reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 38.1 and Firefox 39. - CVE-2015-4474 Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 40: Tyson Smith, Bobby Holley,...

CVE-2015-3245

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the chfn function in libuser before 0.56.13-8 and 0.60 before 0.60-7, as used in the userhelper program in the usermode package, allows local users to cause a denial of service /etc/passwd corruption via a newline character in the GECOS field...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:40.0 / rv:38.2) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of the...

MGASA-2015-0309 Updated wordpress package fixes security vulnerability

The wordpress package has been updated to version 3.9.8, fixing three cross-site scripting issues CVE-2015-5732, CVE-2015-5733, CVE-2015-5734, a potential timing side-channel attack in Customizer CVe-2015-5730, an issue in Heartbeat where an attacker could lock a post from being edited...

Updated wordpress package fixes security vulnerability

The wordpress package has been updated to version 3.9.8, fixing three cross-site scripting issues CVE-2015-5732, CVE-2015-5733, CVE-2015-5734, a potential timing side-channel attack in Customizer CVe-2015-5730, an issue in Heartbeat where an attacker could lock a post from being edited...

Automate Security Audit: netool.sh

Netool is a toolkit written in bash, python and ruby and provides easy automation for frameworks like Nmap, Driftnet, Sslstrip, Metasploit and Ettercap – mostly MitM attacks. This toolkit makes tasks as SNIFFING tcp/udp traffic, Man-In-The-Middle attacks, SSL-sniff, DNS-spoofing, D0S attacks in...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2015:1534)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1534 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linu...

Scientific Linux Security Update : net-snmp on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150722)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way snmptrapd handled certain SNMP traps when started with the '-OQ' option. If an attacker sent an SNMP trap containing a variable with a NULL type where an integer variable type was expected, it would cause snmptrapd to crash. CVE-2014-3565 This update...

Oracle Linux 6 : freeradius (ELSA-2015-1287)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1287 advisory. 2.2.6-4 - Move OpenSSL init out of version check Resolves: Bug1189394 radiusd segfaults after update - Comment-out ippool-dhcp.conf inclusion Resolves: Bug11893...

CentOS 6 : httpd (CESA-2015:1249)

Updated httpd packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

CentOS 6 : mailman (CESA-2015:1417)

Updated mailman packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

CentOS 6 : ipa (CESA-2015:1462)

Updated ipa packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

httpd, mod_ssl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1249 Updated httpd packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scori...

RHEL 6 : ipa (RHSA-2015:1462)

Updated ipa packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...