[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-115.10.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

Driver Disk for Intel ice 1.11.17.1 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 LTSR

Who should install this driver disk? Customers running the Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 LTSR release who use Intel's ice driver and wish to use the latest version of the following: Driver Module| Driver Type| Version ---|---|--- ice| Ethernet/NIC| 1.11.17.1 Issues resolved in this...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in WebSphere® Application Server shipped with IBM® Intelligent Operations Center (CVE-2023-50313)

Summary IBM WebSphere® Application Server is shipped with IBM® Intelligent Operations Center. Information about a security vulnerability affecting IBM WebSphere® Application Server has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details Refer to the security bulletins listed in the...

USN-6664-1: less vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 Description It was discovered that less incorrectly handled certain file names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary commands...

USN-6541-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 Description It was discovered that the GNU C Library was not properly handling certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of...

USN-6544-1: GNU binutils vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 Description It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain COFF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

Important: expat

Issue Overview: libexpat through 2.6.1 allows an XML Entity Expansion attack when there is isolated use of external parsers created via XMLExternalEntityParserCreate. CVE-2024-28757 Affected Packages: expat Issue Correction: Run dnf update expat --releasever 2023.4.20240401 or dnf update --adviso...

Medium: python-pillow

Issue Overview: Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS when using arbitrary strings as text input and the number of characters passed into PIL.ImageFont.ImageFont.getmask is over a certain limit. This can lead to a system crash. Affected versions of this package...

Security Bulletin: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX is vulnerable to denial of service due to nimbus-jose-jwt.

Summary nimbus-jose-jwt is used by IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX in file transfer. IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX is impacted by vulnerability in nimbus-jose-jwt. IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX has upgraded nimbus-jose-jwtto version 9.37.3 to address the issues. Vulnerability...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in cryptography affects IBM Process Mining CVE-2024-26130

Summary There is a vulnerability in cryptography that could allow an remote attacker to cause a denial of service on the system. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2024-26130...

[slackware-security] coreutils

New coreutils packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/coreutils-9.5-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. chmod -R now avoids a race where an attacker may replace a traversed file with a...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.53.18.2-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

From ChatBot To SpyBot: ChatGPT Post Exploitation

In the second installment of our blog post series on ChatGPT, we delve deeper into the security implications that come with the integration of AI into our daily routines. Building on the discoveries shared in our initial post, "XSS Marks the Spot: Digging Up Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT," where we...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM MQ which is shipped with IBM Intelligent Operations Center(CVE-2023-4218, CVE-2023-44487, CVE-2023-39976, CVE-2024-25016)

Summary Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM MQ which shipped with IBM Intelligent Operations Center. Information about security vulnerabilities affecting IBM MQ has been published in a security bulletinCVE-2023-4218, CVE-2023-44487, CVE-2023-39976, CVE-2024-25016...

Medium: fontforge

Issue Overview: Splinefont in FontForge through 20230101 allows command injection via crafted filenames. CVE-2024-25081 Splinefont in FontForge through 20230101 allows command injection via crafted archives or compressed files. CVE-2024-25082 Affected Packages: fontforge Issue Correction: Run dnf...

Important: aws-nitro-enclaves-cli

Issue Overview: RUSTSEC-2024-0006 NOTE: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0006.html NOTE: https://github.com/comex/rust-shlex/security/advisories/GHSA-r7qv-8r2h-pg27 Affected Packages: aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Issue Correction: Run dnf update aws-nitro-enclaves-cli --releasever...

Important: rust

Issue Overview: RUSTSEC-2024-0006 NOTE: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0006.html NOTE: https://github.com/comex/rust-shlex/security/advisories/GHSA-r7qv-8r2h-pg27 Affected Packages: rust Issue Correction: Run dnf update rust --releasever 2023.4.20240319 to update your system. New...

CVE-2023-46841

Recent x86 CPUs offer functionality named Control-flow Enforcement Technology CET. A sub-feature of this are Shadow Stacks CET-SS. CET-SS is a hardware feature designed to protect against Return Oriented Programming attacks. When enabled, traditional stacks holding both data and return addresses...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.3 bug fix and security update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.15.3 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Data Scheduling contains a vulnerable yq package. [CVE-2023-39320, CVE-2023-39321 and CVE-2023-39322]

Summary Yq is used by IBM Cloud Pak for Data Scheduling as part of the Ansible operator used for installation of the Scheduler. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the below vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-39320 DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a remote...