SUSE SLES15 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2020:3552-1)

This update for binutils fixes the following issues : binutils was updated to version 2.35.1 jscECO-2373 Additional branch fixes applied on top of 2.35.1 : Fixes PR26520, aka bsc1179036, a problem in addr2line with certain DWARF variable descriptions. Also fixes PR26711, PR26656, PR26655, PR26929...

Microsoft Wraps Up a Lighter Patch Tuesday for the Holidays

Microsoft has addressed 58 CVEs nine of them critical for its December 2020 Patch Tuesday update. This brings the computing giant’s patch tally to 1,250 for the year – well beyond 2019’s 840. This month’s security bugs affect Microsoft Windows, Edge EdgeHTML-based, ChakraCore, Microsoft Office an...

Adobe Warns Windows, macOS Users of Critical-Severity Flaws

Adobe Systems has stomped out critical-severity flaws across its Adobe Prelude, Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Lightroom applications. If exploited, the serious vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution. Overall, Adobe issued patches for flaws tied to one important-rated and thre...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2020-2187)

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues : TODO - Mozilla Thunderbird 78.5.0 - new: OpenPGP: Added option to disable attaching the public key to a signed message bmo1654950 - new: MailExtensions: 'composeattachments' context added to Menus API bmo1670822 - new: MailExtensions...

SUSE-SU-2020:3360-1 Security update for tcpdump

This update for tcpdump fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-8037: Fixed an issue where PPP decapsulator did not allocate the right buffer size bsc1178466. The previous update of tcpdump already fixed variuous Buffer overflow/overread vulnerabilities bsc1153098, bsc1153332 - CVE-2017-16808 AoE ...

microcode_ctl security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2:2.1-73.2.0.1 - for Intel, do not trigger load if on-disk microcode is not an update Orabug: 30634727 - set earlymicrocode='no' in virtualized guests to avoid early load bugs Orabug: 30618736 - ensure late loading fixes are present on 4.1.12- and 4.14.35- - enable early and late load for 5.4.17-...

Patch Tuesday - November 2020

Jumping right back to a triple digit volume of vulnerabilities resolved, Microsoft covers 112 CVEs this November affecting products ranging from our standard Windows Operating Systems and Microsoft Office products to some new entries such as Azure Sphere. Microsoft CVE-2020-17087: Windows Kernel...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1893-1 Security update for java-1_8_0-openj9

This update for java-180-openj9 fixes the following issues: -OpenJDK was updated to 8u2732 build 10 with OpenJ9 0.23.0 virtual machine -includes Oracle July 2020 bsc1174157 and October 2020 CPU bsc1177943 - CVE-2020-14556, CVE-2020-14577, CVE-2020-14578, CVE-2020-14579, CVE-2020-14581,...

libxml2 security update

2.9.7-8.0.1 - Update doc/redhat.gif in tarball - Add libxml2-oracle-enterprise.patch and update logos in tarball 2.9.7-8 - Fix CVE-2019-19956 1793001 - Fix CVE-2020-7595 1799786 - Fix CVE-2019-20388 1810058...

SDL security update

1.2.15-38 - fix CVEs - Resolves: rhbz1716209, rhbz1716210, rhbz1716211, rhbz1716212, rhbz1716213, rhbz1716214, rhbz1716215, rhbz1716216, rhbz1716217, rhbz1716218, rhbz1716219...

tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update

14:4.9.3-1 - Resolves: 1804063 - Rebase tcpdump to 4.9.3 to fix multiple CVEs...

Cisco Zero-Day in AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Remains Unpatched

Cisco has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability – for which there is not yet a patch – in the Windows, macOS and Linux versions of its AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Software. While Cisco said it is not aware of any exploits in the wild for the vulnerability, it said Proof-of-Concept PoC exploit...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: bind security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for bind 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 from the C...

Moderate: pki-core:10.6 and pki-deps:10.6 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The Public Key Infrastructure PKI Core contains fundamental packages required by AlmaLinux Certificate System. Security Fixes: jquery: Cross-site scripting via cross-domain ajax requests CVE-2015-9251 bootstrap: XSS in the data-target attribute CVE-2016-10735 bootstrap: Cross-site Scripting XSS i...

NVIDIA Patches Critical Bug in High-Performance Servers

NVIDIA released a patch for a critical bug in its high-performance line of DGX servers that could open the door for a remote attacker to take control of and access sensitive data on systems typically operated by governments and Fortune-100 companies. In all, NVIDIA issued nine patches, each fixin...

NVIDIA Patches Critical Bug in High-Performance Servers

NVIDIA released a patch for a critical bug in its high-performance line of DGX servers that could open the door for a remote attacker to take control of and access sensitive data on systems typically operated by governments and Fortune-100 companies. In all, NVIDIA issued nine patches, each fixin...

openSUSE Security Update : bind (openSUSE-2020-1701)

This update for bind fixes the following issues : BIND was upgraded to version 9.16.6 : Note : - bind is now more strict in regards to DNSSEC. If queries are not working, check for DNSSEC issues. For instance, if bind is used in a namserver forwarder chain, the forwarding DNS servers must support...

NSA Releases Advisory on Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Exploiting Publicly Known Vulnerabilities

The National Security Agency NSA has released a cybersecurity advisory on Chinese state-sponsored malicious cyber activity. This advisory provides 25 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs known to be recently leveraged, or scanned-for, by Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors to enable...

MySQL -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Oracle reports: This Critical Patch Update contains 48 new security patches for Oracle MySQL. The highest CVSS v3.1 Base Score of vulnerabilities affecting Oracle MySQL is 8. NOTE: MariaDB only contains CVE-2020-14812 CVE-2020-14765 CVE-2020-14776 and CVE-2020-14789...

Fedora 32 : kernel (2020-e288acda9a)

This update contains patches for the BleedingTooth CVEs. ---- The 5.8.15 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempte...