FBI face recognition trawl finds Capitol rioter via his girlfriend’s Instagram

Facial recognition tech is in the news again after the FBI discovered the identify of one of the Capitol rioters by using facial recognition software on his girlfriends Instagram posts. It may sound scary and invasive, but in truth, what’s happening isn’t particularly new. In this case, we have...

Oracle Linux 8 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ELSA-2021-1301)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-1301 advisory. 1:1.8.0.292.b10-0 - Update to aarch64-shenandoah-jdk8u292-b10 GA - Update release notes for 8u292-b10. - Update tarball generation script to use PR3822 which...

RHEL 8 : java-11-openjdk (RHSA-2021:1307)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1307 advisory. The java-11-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 11 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 11 Java Software Development Kit. Security Fixes: OpenJD...

Oracle Linux 7 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ELSA-2021-1298)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-1298 advisory. 1:1.8.0.292.b10-1 - Add CVE numbers. - Require tzdata 2021a due to JDK-8260356 - Resolves: rhbz1938201 1:1.8.0.292.b10-0 - Update to...

Oracle Linux 8 : java-11-openjdk (ELSA-2021-1307)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-1307 advisory. 1:11.0.11.0.9-0 - Update to jdk-11.0.11.0+9 - Update release notes to 11.0.11.0+9 - Require tzdata 2020f to match upstream change JDK-8259048 - Require tzdata...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-11-openjdk security update

An update for java-11-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of JAR signing disabled algorithms (Libraries, 8249906)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Libraries. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u291, 8u281, 11.0.10, 16; Java SE Embedded: 8u281; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 19.3.5, 20.3.1.2 and 21.0.0.2...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-11-openjdk security update

An update for java-11-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of JAR signing disabled algorithms (Libraries, 8249906)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Libraries. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u291, 8u281, 11.0.10, 16; Java SE Embedded: 8u281; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 19.3.5, 20.3.1.2 and 21.0.0.2...

Fedora 33 : webkit2gtk3 (2021-864dc37032)

The remote Fedora 33 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-864dc37032 advisory. - A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, watchOS 7.1, iOS 14.2 and iPadO...

Fedora 32 : webkit2gtk3 (2021-619711d709)

The remote Fedora 32 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-619711d709 advisory. - A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, watchOS 7.1, iOS 14.2 and iPadO...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:2953-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (f3d86439-9def-11eb-97a0-e09467587c17)

Chrome Releases reports : This release contains 37 security fixes, including : - 1025683 High CVE-2021-21201: Use after free in permissions. Reported by Gengming Liu, Jianyu Chen at Tencent Keen Security Lab on 2019-11-18 - 1188889 High CVE-2021-21202: Use after free in extensions. Reported by...

Chromium: CVE-2021-21205 Insufficient policy enforcement in navigation

This CVE was assigned by Chrome. Microsoft Edge Chromium-based ingests Chromium, which addresses this vulnerability. Please see Google Chrome Releases for more information...

FBI shuts down malware on hundreds of Exchange servers, opens Pandora’s box

A rather remarkable story has emerged, setting the scene for lively debates about permissible system access. A press release from the US Department of Justice Judge has revealed that the FBI were granted permission to perform some tech support backdoor removal. Bizarrely, they did this without...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases reports: This release contains 37 security fixes, including: 1025683 High CVE-2021-21201: Use after free in permissions. Reported by Gengming Liu, Jianyu Chen at Tencent Keen Security Lab on 2019-11-18 1188889 High CVE-2021-21202: Use after free in extensions. Reported by David...

Incorrect permission enforcement in UmbracoCms

Editors/LogViewerController.cs in Umbraco through 8.9.1 allows a user to visit a logviewer endpoint even if they lack Applications.Settings access...

GHSA-4VP3-VFWW-8648 Incorrect permission enforcement in UmbracoCms

Editors/LogViewerController.cs in Umbraco through 8.9.1 allows a user to visit a logviewer endpoint even if they lack Applications.Settings access...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4886-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

OESA-2021-1116 nss security update

Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security...