BIOS Security Updates for Multiple Issues

Summary: New BIOS updates are available for Intel products. These updates harden the implementation against malicious inputs at various stages of the boot process and runtime. Description: This update addresses issues identified in the process of resuming from a sleep state, processing data store...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : bind (SAT Patch Number 10100)

bind has been updated to version 9.9.6P1, fixing the following security issue : - A flaw in delegation handling could be exploited to put named into an infinite loop. This has been addressed by placing limits on the number of levels of recursion named will allow default 7, and the number of...

Fedora 20 : subversion-1.8.11-1.fc20 (2014-17222)

This update includes the latest stable release of Apache Subversion, version 1.8.11. Two security issues in moddavsvn are addressed in this release CVE-2014-8108, CVE-2014-3580. For more details, see : http://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2014-8108-advisory.txt...

Fedora 21 : subversion-1.8.11-1.fc21 (2014-17118)

This update includes the latest stable release of Apache Subversion, version 1.8.11. Two security issues in moddavsvn are addressed in this release CVE-2014-8108, CVE-2014-3580. For more details, see : http://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2014-8108-advisory.txt...

openSUSE Security Update : subversion (openSUSE-SU-2014:1725-1)

This Apache Subversion update fixes the following security and non security issues. - Apache Subversion 1.8.11 - This release addresses two security issues: boo909935 - CVE-2014-3580: moddavsvn DoS from invalid REPORT requests. - CVE-2014-8108: moddavsvn DoS from use of invalid transaction names....

Slackware 14.1 / current : xorg-server (SSA:2014-356-03)

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2014-356-03. The text itself is copyright C...

RHEL 5 : ntp (RHSA-2014:2025)

Updated ntp packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

DLA-120-1 xorg-server - security update

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openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2014:1669-1)

The openSUSE 12.3 kernel was updated to fix security issues : This will be the final kernel update for openSUSE 13.2 during its lifetime, which ends January 4th 2015. CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x8664 32bit compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by loc...

openSUSE Security Update : Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2014:1678-1)

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to version 3.16.7. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x8664 32bit compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by local attackers to crash the machine or execute code. bnc910251 -...

Security update for clamav (important)

clamav was updated to version 0.98.5 to fix two security issues. These security issues were fixed: - Segmentation fault when processing certain files CVE-2013-6497. - Heap-based buffer overflow when scanning crypted PE files CVE-2014-9050. The following non-security issues were fixed: - Support f...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x8664 32bit compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by local attackers to crash the machine or execute code. CVE-2014-9090: The...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for ntp (openSUSE-SU-2014:1670-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

openSUSE Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2014:1655-1)

seamonkey was updated to version 2.31 to fix 20 security issues. These security issues were fixed : - Miscellaneous memory safety hazards CVE-2014-1587, CVE-2014-1588. - XBL bindings accessible via improper CSS declarations CVE-2014-1589. - XMLHttpRequest crashes with some input streams...

Blackhat – Upcoming Cyber Thriller Movie

"Hacking" is not just popular among cyber security experts and criminals, but also is a great interest for movies industries as well. Hollywood movies such as 1995 released Hackers and 2001 released Swordfish are examples of it, and now Chris Hemsworth's new flick Blackhat. Blackhat – An upcoming...

CentOS 6 / 7 : xorg-x11-server (CESA-2014:1983)

Updated xorg-x11-server packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2014:1971)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

openSUSE Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2014:1626-1)

chromium was updated to version 39.0.2171.65 to fix 13 security issues. These security issues were fixed : - Use-after-free in pepper plugins CVE-2014-7906. - Buffer overflow in OpenJPEG before r2911 in PDFium, as used in Google Chromebefore 39.0.2171.65, al... CVE-2014-7903. - Uninitialized memo...

Security update for chromium (important)

chromium was updated to version 39.0.2171.65 to fix 13 security issues. These security issues were fixed: - Use-after-free in pepper plugins CVE-2014-7906. - Buffer overflow in OpenJPEG before r2911 in PDFium, as used in Google Chromebefore 39.0.2171.65, al... CVE-2014-7903. - Uninitialized memor...

[USN-2436-1] X.Org X server vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2436-1 December 09, 2014 xorg-server, xorg-server-lts-trusty vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of...