Thanks to the researchers 2018

News Thanks to the researchers 2018 Share February 13th, 2018 Every year, researchers offer us their assistance to help enhance the security of our websites. We would like to thank those who discovered and reported security issues in 2018. EDIT: The list of researchers was moved to our new site,t...

USN-3544-2: Firefox regressions

USN-3544-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused a web compatibility regression and a tab crash during printing in some circumstances. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. I...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : freetype2 (SUSE-SU-2018:0414-1)

This update for freetype2 fixes the following security issues : - CVE-2016-10244: Make sure that the parsecharstrings function in type1/t1load.c does ensure that a font contains a glyph name to prevent a DoS through a heap-based buffer over-read or possibly have unspecified other impact via a...

WordPress Update Breaks Automatic Update Feature—Apply Manual Update

WordPress administrators are once again in trouble. WordPress version 4.9.3 was released earlier this week with patches for a total 34 vulnerabilities, but unfortunately, the new version broke the automatic update mechanism for millions of WordPress websites. WordPress team has now issued a new...

openSUSE Security Update : flatpak (openSUSE-2018-139)

This update for flatpak to version 0.8.9 fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2018-6560: sandbox escape in the flatpak dbus proxy boo1078923 - CVE-2017-9780: Malicious apps could have included inappropriate permissions boo1078989 - old-style eavesdroppi...

openSUSE Security Update : mariadb (openSUSE-2018-146)

This update for mariadb to version 10.0.33 fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-10378: Vulnerability in subcomponent: Server: Optimizer. Easily exploitable vulnerability allowed low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1118-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : ImageMagick (SUSE-SU-2018:0350-1)

This update for ImageMagick fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-5685: Prevent infinite loop and application hang in the ReadBMPImage function. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via an image file with a crafted bit-field...

Slackware 14.1 / 14.2 : mariadb (SSA:2018-032-01)

New mariadb packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and 14.2 to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-032-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux, Inc...

[slackware-security] mariadb

New mariadb packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mariadb-10.0.34-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

SUSE-SU-2018:0340-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.82-66 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-17712: The rawsendmsg function had a race condition that lead to uninitialized stack pointer usage. This allowed a local user to execute code and gain privileges bsc1073230. -...

Security update for chromium (important)

This update for chromium to 64.0.3282.119 fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-6031: Use after free in PDFium boo1077571 - CVE-2018-6032: Same origin bypass in Shared Worker boo1077571 - CVE-2018-6033: Race when opening downloaded files boo1077571 - CVE-2018-6034:...

SUSE-SU-2018:0280-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 11 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.74-9232 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-17712: The rawsendmsg function had a race condition that lead to uninitialized stack pointer usage. This allowed a local user to execute code and gain privileges bsc1073230. -...

SUSE-SU-2018:0276-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 13 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.69-606432 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a...

SUSE-SU-2018:0271-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 21 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606460 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a...

SUSE-SU-2018:0270-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 22 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606463 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a...

SUSE-SU-2018:0261-1 Recommended update for apache2

This update for apache2 fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-9789: When under stress closing many connections the HTTP/2 handling code would sometimes access memory after it has been freed, resulting in potentially erratic behaviour bsc1048575. - CVE-2017-7659: A...

USN-3537-2: MySQL vulnerabilities

USN-3537-1 fixed vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.59 in...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3544-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

USN-3537-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.59 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 17.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.21. In addition to security fixes, the updated packag...