Amazon Alexa, Google Home Are On a Collision Course With Regulation

Voice assistants are growing rapidly in popularity — but at the same time, the privacy concerns and security issues with popular home assistant devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home are peaking too. Earlier in July, Amazon came under fire after acknowledging that it retains the voice recording...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.182/: Upgraded. These updates fix various bugs and many minor security issues. Be sure to upgrade your initrd after upgrading the kernel...

openSUSE Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (openSUSE-2019-1766)

This update for webkit2gtk3 to version 2.24.2 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2019-6237, CVE-2019-8571, CVE-2019-8583, CVE-2019-8584, CVE-2019-8586, CVE-2019-8587, CVE-2019-8594, CVE-2019-8595, CVE-2019-8596, CVE-2019-8597, CVE-2019-8601, CVE-2019-8607, CVE-2019-8608,...

MGASA-2019-0209 Updated rdesktop packages fix security issues

This is a security release to address various buffer overflow and overrun issues in the rdesktop protocol handling identified by Kaspersky Lab and National Cyber Security Centre. rdesktop will now detect any attempts to access invalid areas and refuse to continue...

USN-4064-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

A sandbox escape was discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to installing a malicious language pack, an attacker could exploit this to gain additional privileges. CVE-2019-9811 Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially...

SUSE-SU-2019:1859-1 Security update for libgcrypt

This update for libgcrypt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-12904: The C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other processes. The C implementation is used on platforms where an...

SUSE-SU-2019:1850-1 Security update for webkit2gtk3

This update for webkit2gtk3 to version 2.24.2 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-6237, CVE-2019-8571, CVE-2019-8583, CVE-2019-8584, CVE-2019-8586, CVE-2019-8587, CVE-2019-8594, CVE-2019-8595, CVE-2019-8596, CVE-2019-8597, CVE-2019-8601, CVE-2019-8607, CVE-2019-8608,...

WordPress One Click SSL plugin <= 1.4.6 - Multiple Security Issues

Multiple Security Issues found in WordPress One Click SSL plugin versions = 1.4.6. Solution Update the WordPress One Click SSL plugin to the latest available version at least 1.4.7...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4479-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

One Click SSL <= 1.4.6 - Multiple Issues

Lack of CSRF and authorisation checks in the settings page, as well as AJAX methods such as ajaxenablessl, ajaxscan and so on could allow unauthorised settings change as well as call of the AJAX methods by a low privileged user. Additionally, it could also allow arbitrary site options update due ...

SUSE-SU-2019:1398-2 Security update for libpng16

This update for libpng16 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-7317: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability, triggered when pngimagefree was called under pngsafeexecute bsc1124211. - CVE-2018-13785: Fixed a wrong calculation of rowfactor in the pngcheckchunklength function i...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : helm-mirror (SUSE-SU-2019:0048-2)

This update for helm-mirror to version 0.2.1 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-16873: Fixed a remote command execution bsc1118897 CVE-2018-16874: Fixed a directory traversal in 'go get' via curly braces in import path bsc1118898 CVE-2018-16875: Fixed a CPU denial of...

FreeBSD : bzip2 -- multiple issues (4b6cb45d-881e-447a-a4e0-c97a954ea758)

bzip2 developers reports : CVE-2016-3189 - Fix use-after-free in bzip2recover Jakub Martisko CVE-2019-12900 - Detect out-of-range nSelectors in corrupted files Albert Astals Cid. Found through fuzzing karchive. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugi...

Debian DLA-1836-1 : thunderbird security update

Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code if malformed email messages are read. For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1:60.7.2-1deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your thunderbird packages. NOTE: Tenable...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1606-1 Security update for MozillaThunderbird

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-11703: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in icalmemorystrdupanddequote bsc1137595. - CVE-2019-11704: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in parsergetnextchar bsc1137595. - CVE-2019-11705: Fixed a...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1595-1 Security update for MozillaFirefox

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues: - Mozilla Firefox Firefox 60.7.2 MFSA 2019-19 bsc1138872 - CVE-2019-11708: Fix sandbox escape using Prompt:Open. Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes could result in...

SUSE-SU-2019:1674-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 12 SP4)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-956 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-3846: A flaw that allowed an attacker to corrupt memory and possibly escalate privileges was found in the mwifiex kernel module while connecting to a malicious wireless network...

SUSE-SU-2019:1645-1 Security update for netpbm

This update for netpbm fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-8975: The pmmallocarray2 function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted image file bsc1086777. - CVE-2017-2579: Fixed out-of-bounds read in...

MGASA-2019-0196 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerability

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.127 and fixes at least the following security issues: Jonathan Looney discovered that it is possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which will fragment the RACK send map. An attacker may be able to further exploit the fragmented send map t...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerability

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.127 and fixes at least the following security issues: Jonathan Looney discovered that it is possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which will fragment the RACK send map. An attacker may be able to further exploit the fragmented send map t...