ghostscript security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:3834 An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

RHEL 6 : firefox (RHSA-2018:3831)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3831 advisory. Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox...

zsh security and bug fix update

5.0.2-31 - fix defects detected by Coverity related to CVE-2017-18206 and CVE-2018-1083 5.0.2-30 - fix stack-based buffer overflow in utils.c:checkmailpath CVE-2018-1100 - fix stack-based buffer overflow in genmatchesfiles CVE-2018-1083 - fix stack-based buffer overflow in exec.c:hashcmd...

Talos Vulnerability Discovery Year in Review - 2018

Introduction Cisco Talos' Vulnerability Discovery Team investigates software and operating system vulnerabilities in order to discover them before malicious threat actors. We provide this information to vendors so that they can create patches and protect their customers as soon as possible. We...

SUSE-SU-2018:1566-2 Security update for git

This update for git fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-11233: Path sanity-checks on NTFS allowed attackers to read arbitrary memory bsc1095218 - CVE-2018-11235: Arbitrary code execution when recursively cloning a malicious repository bsc1095219...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect DataPower Gateways

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Versions 7 and 8 used by IBM DataPower Gateways. IBM DataPower Gateways has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-2952 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE...

Nokogiri gem, via libxml2, is affected by multiple vulnerabilities

Nokogiri 1.8.5 has been released. This is a security and bugfix release. It addresses two CVEs in upstream libxml2 rated as "medium" by Red Hat, for which details are below. If you're using your distro's system libraries, rather than Nokogiri's vendored libraries, there's no security need to...

Microsoft Guidance to mitigate L1TF variant

Executive Summary On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates for a new class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown. Microsoft is aware of a new speculative execution side channel vulnerability known as ...

openSUSE Security Update : cups (openSUSE-2018-822)

This update for cups fixes the following issues : The following security vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2017-18248: Handle invalid characters properly in printing jobs. This fixes a problem that was causing the DBUS library to abort the calling process. bsc1061066 bsc1087018 - Fixed a local...

MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.4.x < 3.4.8 / 4.0.x < 4.0.5 / 8.0.x < 8.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2018 CPU)

According to its self-reported version, the MySQL Enterprise Monitor application running on the remote host is 3.4.x prior to 3.4.8, or 4.0.x prior to 4.0.5, or 8.0.x prior to 8.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as noted in the July 2018 Critical Patch Update advisory...

Security update for xen (moderate)

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: Fix Lazy FP Save/Restore issue XSA-267 bsc1095242. - CVE-2018-12891: Fix possible Denial of Service DoS via certain PV MMU operations that affect the entire host XSA-264 bsc1097521. - CVE-2018-12892: Fix libxl...

ZombieBoy cryptomining malware exploits CVEs to evade detection

By Waqas ZombieBoy malware makes $1,000 Monero on a monthly basis. An independent security expert James Quinn has discovered a new family of cryptominers that has been dubbed as ZombieBoy. According to Quinn’s analysis, the newly discovered cryptomining worm clocked in at 43 KH/s which means as p...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect Rational Asset Analyzer

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 8.0.4.2 and earlier used by Rational Asset Analyzer. Rational Asset Analyzer has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-9840 DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of servic...

thunderbird security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:2251 An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 16, 2018

One night this week, I came across one of my favorite movies Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The world had gone crazy after the reclusive Willy Wonka announces that he has hidden five golden tickets in chocolate Wonka Bars that promised a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.22.1 - dm: fix race between dmgetfromkobject and dmdestroy Hou Tao CVE-2017-18203 - drm: udl: Properly check framebuffer mmap offsets Greg Kroah-Hartman Orabug: 27986407 CVE-2018-8781 - kernel/exit.c: avoid undefined behaviour when calling wait4 wait4-2147483648, 0x20, 0,...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-124.17.1 - block: update integrity interval after queue limits change Ritika Srivastava Orabug: 27586756 - dccp: check sk for closed state in dccpsendmsg Alexey Kodanev Orabug: 28001529 CVE-2017-8824 CVE-2018-1130 - net/rds: Implement ARP flushing correctly Hakon Bugge Orabug: 28219857 -...

Fedora 27 : 3:mariadb (2018-86026275ea)

MariaDB 10.2.15 Release notes : https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-10215-release-notes/ CVEs fixed : CVE-2018-2755 CVE-2018-2761 CVE-2018-2766 CVE-2018-2771 CVE-2018-2781 CVE-2018-2782 CVE-2018-2784 CVE-2018-2787 CVE-2018-2813 CVE-2018-2817 CVE-2018-2819 CVE-2018-2786 CVE-2018-2759...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Kerberos (krb5) vulnerabilities affect PowerKVM (Multiple CVEs)

Summary PowerKVM is affected by several vulnerabilities in Kerberos krb5. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2014-5352 DESCRIPTION: MIT krb5 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system,, caused by a double-free error in gssprocesscontexttoken. An attacker cou...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus (Multiple CVEs)

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Technology Edition, Versions 6 and 7 that are used by Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus. These were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in October 2017 and January 2018. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-2579...