youtube-dl vulnerable to file system modification and RCE through improper file-extension sanitization

Description This advisory follows the security advisory GHSA-79w7-vh3h-8g4j published by the yt-dlp/yt-dlp project to aid remediation of the issue in the ytdl-org/youtube-dl project. Vulnerability youtube-dl does not limit the extensions of downloaded files, which could lead to arbitrary filename...

Fedora 41 : crosswords-puzzle-sets-xword-dl (2025-90f88da466)

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-90f88da466 advisory. Update to 0.4.8; Fixes: RHBZ2237964, RHBZ2282129 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that...

Ruby 1.9 dl - Module DL.dlopen Arbitrary Library Access

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30644/info Ruby is prone to multiple vulnerabilities that can be leveraged to bypass security restrictions or cause a denial of service: - Multiple security-bypass vulnerabilities occur because of errors in the 'safe level' restriction implementation...