Debian DLA-634-1 : dropbear security update

It was discovered that there were two issues in dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client : - CVE-2016-7406: Potential issues in exit message formatting. - CVE-2016-7407: Overflows when parsing OpenSSH's ASN.1 key format. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in dropbear version...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openvas-libraries-8.0.8-2.fc23

openvas-libraries is the base library for the OpenVAS network security scanner...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: openvas-libraries-8.0.8-2.fc24

openvas-libraries is the base library for the OpenVAS network security scanner...

500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen By State-Sponsored Hackers

Yahoo says it was the victim of state-sponsored hackers who stole information associated with 500 million accounts. Yahoo CISO Bob Lord said the attack happened on the company’s network in late 2014; he did not name the country responsible. “The account information may have included names, email...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: openvas-libraries-8.0.8-2.fc25

openvas-libraries is the base library for the OpenVAS network security scanner...

Fedora 23 : xen (2016-1c3374bcb9)

x86: Disallow L3 recursive pagetable for 32-bit PV guests XSA-185, CVE-2016-7092 1374470 x86: Mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation XSA-186, CVE-2016-7093 1374471 x86 HVM: Overflow of shctxt-segreg XSA-187, CVE-2016-7094 1374473 Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Fedora 23 : wordpress (2016-91bfe9ddb8)

See upstream announcements : - WordPress 4.6 Pepper - WordPress 4.6.1 Security and Maintenance Release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as muc...

Debian DLA-631-1 : unadf security update

It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in unadf, a tool to extract files from an Amiga Disk File dump .adf : - CVE-2016-1243: stack-based buffer overflow caused by blindly trusting on pathname lengths of archived files. Stack allocated buffer sysbuf was filled with sprintf without...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-3082-1)

Chiachih Wu, Yuan-Tsung Lo, and Xuxian Jiang discovered that the legacy ABI for ARM OABI had incomplete access checks for epollwait2 and semtimedop2. A local attacker could use this to possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description bloc...

Fedora 24 : xen (2016-7d2c67d1f5)

x86: Disallow L3 recursive pagetable for 32-bit PV guests XSA-185, CVE-2016-7092 1374470 x86: Mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation XSA-186, CVE-2016-7093 1374471 x86 HVM: Overflow of shctxt-segreg XSA-187, CVE-2016-7094 1374473 Note that Tenable Network Security has...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wpa_supplicant (SUSE-SU-2016:2305-1)

This update for wpasupplicant fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-4141: WPS UPnP vulnerability with HTTP chunked transfer encoding. bnc930077 - CVE-2015-4142: Integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing. bnc930078 - CVE-2015-4143: EAP-pwd missing payload length validation...

Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge CVE-2016-3295 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge are prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed attacks will cause denial of service conditions. Edge and Internet Explorer 10...

Microsoft ASP.NET Core MVC Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Description Microsoft ASP.NET Core MVC is prone to multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Attackers can exploit these issues to gain elevated privileges. Microsoft ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.0 is vulnerable. Technologies Affected Microsoft ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.0 Recommendations Block external...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : openjdk-6 vulnerabilities (USN-3077-1)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-3458 Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability. An attacker...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : libidn (SUSE-SU-2016:2291-1)

This update for libidn fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-6262 and CVE-2015-8948: Out-of-bounds-read when reading one zero byte as input bsc990189 - CVE-2016-6261: Out-of-bounds stack read in idnatoascii4i bsc990190 - CVE-2016-6263: stringpreputf8nfkcnormalize reject invalid UTF-8 bsc990191 ...

Fedora 23 : phpMyAdmin (2016-06e4de8210)

phpMyAdmin 4.6.4 2016-08-16 ============================= This release includes many security fixes of various levels of severity. Upstream recommends all users upgrade to this release immediately. For full information on the vulnerabilities fixed and mitigation factors for users who are unable t...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openssh (SUSE-SU-2016:2280-1)

This update for openssh fixes the following issues : - Prevent user enumeration through the timing of password processing bsc989363, CVE-2016-6210 -preventtiminguserenumeration - Allow lowering the DH groups parameter limit in server as well as when GSSAPI key exchange is used bsc948902 - limit...

Microsoft Office CVE-2016-3363 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability because it fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in deni...

MS16-105: Cumulative Security Update for Microsoft Edge (3183043)

The version of Microsoft Edge installed on the remote Windows host is missing Cumulative Security Update 3183043. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, the majority of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these...

Debian DLA-619-1 : qemu-kvm security update

qemu-kvm built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System 9pfs support, is vulnerable to a directory/path traversal issue. It could occur while creating or accessing files on a shared host directory. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access undue files on t...