SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : python3 (SUSE-SU-2019:1352-1)

This update for python3 to version 3.6.8 fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2019-9947: Fixed an issue in urllib2 which allowed CRLF injection if the attacker controls a url parameter bsc1130840. Non-security issue fixed: Fixed broken debuginfo packages by switching off LTO an...

openSUSE Security Update : systemd (openSUSE-2019-1450)

This update for systemd fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-6954: Fixed a vulnerability in the symlink handling of systemd-tmpfiles which allowed a local user to obtain ownership of arbitrary files bsc1080919. - CVE-2019-3842: Fixed a vulnerability in pamsystemd which...

CVE-2019-5791

Inappropriate optimization in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page...

macOS < 10.14.5 / iOS < 12.3 JavaScriptCore - AIR Optimization Incorrectly Removes Assignment

macOS 10.14.5 / iOS 12.3 JavaScriptCore - AIR Optimization Incorrectly Removes Assignment to Register While fuzzing JavaScriptCore, I encountered the following JavaScript program which crashes jsc from current HEAD git commit 3c46422e45fef2de6ff13b66cd45705d63859555 in debug and release builds...

Apple macOS 10.14.5 iOS 12.3 JavaScriptCore - AIR Optimization Incorrectly Removes Assignment to Register

Apple macOS 10.14.5 iOS 12.3 JavaScriptCore - AIR Optimization Incorrectly Removes Assignment to Register While fuzzing JavaScriptCore, I encountered the following JavaScript program which crashes jsc from current HEAD git commit 3c46422e45fef2de6ff13b66cd45705d63859555 in debug and release build...

Apple macOS < 10.14.5 / iOS < 12.3 JavaScriptCore - AIR Optimization Incorrectly Removes Assignment to Register

While fuzzing JavaScriptCore, I encountered the following JavaScript program which crashes jsc from current HEAD git commit 3c46422e45fef2de6ff13b66cd45705d63859555 in debug and release builds ./Tools/Scripts/build-jsc --jsc-only --debug or --release: // Run with --useConcurrentJIT=false...

Another Intel Chip Flaw

Remember the Spectre and Meltdown attacks from last year? They were a new class of attacks against complex CPUs, finding subliminal channels in optimization techniques that allow hackers to steal information. Since their discovery, researchers have found additional similar vulnerabilities. A whol...

Fedora 30 : php-pecl-imagick (2019-488d0f9a4b)

Version 3.4.4 - The 3.4.4 release is intended to be the last release other than small bug fixes that will support either PHP 5.x, or ImageMagick 6.x. The next planned release will be PHP 7.0 and ImageMagick 7.0 at least, if not higher. - Added: - function Imagick::optimizeImageTransparency -...

Fedora 28 : php-pecl-imagick (2019-9448fa46f3)

Version 3.4.4 - The 3.4.4 release is intended to be the last release other than small bug fixes that will support either PHP 5.x, or ImageMagick 6.x. The next planned release will be PHP 7.0 and ImageMagick 7.0 at least, if not higher. - Added: - function Imagick::optimizeImageTransparency -...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 Rocky. 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...

hardware: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS)

Modern Intel microprocessors implement hardware-level micro-optimizations to improve the performance of writing data back to CPU caches. The write operation is split into STA STore Address and STD STore Data sub-operations. These sub-operations allow the processor to hand-off address generation...

Codec H.265 not working in HDX session

H.265 not getting utilized in the HDX session with the below settings: Followed the link: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/receiver/windows/current-release/improve/h-265-video-encoding.html Studio Policy set: 1. Graphic Status indicator - Disabled 2. Moving Image Compression - Disabled 3. Optimize...

RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2019:1181)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1181 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide th...

Trashing the Flow of Data

Posted by Stephen Röttger In this blog post I want to present crbug.com/944062, a vulnerability in Chrome’s JavaScript compiler TurboFan that was discovered independently by Samuel saelo@ via fuzzing with fuzzilli, and by myself via manual code auditing. The bug was found in beta and was fixed...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the Linux kernel's implementation of vectored pipe read and write functionality did not take into account the I/O vectors that were already processed when retrying after a failed atomic acce...

How Credit Unions Can Optimize & Secure the Mobile App Experience

A small army of digital natives are about to become the largest generation globally. Gen Z, those born after 1996, will account for 32% of the world's population 7.7 billion in 2019 and outnumber millennials for the first time, according to World Economic Forum. This year, it will be critical for...

Google Chrome Code Execution

The vulnerability of Google Chrome is related to an incorrect optimization assumption in the V8 module. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in a isolated software environment, using a specially created HTML page...

chromium-browser: Type confusion in V8

Inappropriate optimization in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page...

Who has the fastest website in F1?

I was trying to make my predictions for the new Formula One season by studying the aerodynamics of the cars, their cornering speeds, their ability to run with different amounts of fuel. Then it hit me: I have no idea what I'm doing. So, I'm going to make my predictions the only way I know how: By...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: advancecomp-2.1-9.fc29

AdvanceCOMP is a set of recompression utilities for .PNG, .MNG and .ZIP fil es. The main features are : Recompress ZIP, PNG and MNG files using the Deflate 7-Zip implementation. Recompress MNG files using Delta and Move optimization. This package contains: advzip - Recompression and test utility...