MGASA-2018-0355 Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides mercurial version 4.6.2 and fixes the following security issues: Fix the mpatchapply function in mpatch.c that incorrectly proceeds in cases where the fragment start is past the end of the original data CVE-2018-13346. Fix mpatch.c that mishandles integer addition and...

Security update for grub2 (important)

This update for grub2 fixes the following issue: Changes in grub2: - CVE-2015-8370: Fix for overflow in grubpasswordget and grubuserget functions bnc956631...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20131008)

Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in glibc's memory allocator functions pvalloc, valloc, and memalign. If an application used such a function, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of t...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : poppler (MDVSA-2013:143)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in poppler : poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger an invalid memory access in 1 splash/Splash.cc, 2 poppler/Function.cc, and 3...

Slackware 8.1 kernel security update

New kernels are available for Slackware 8.1 containing a backported fix from a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap call which could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. This fix was previously issued for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current SSA:2004-006-01. Sites running...