A week in security (January 1 - 8)

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Vulnerabilities fixed in Discourse

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Discourse. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious person to perform attacks that lead to the following categories of damage: Cross-Site Scripting XSS. Manipulation of data Access to system data When the "Mermaid" component is in use, there is also the possibility...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5788-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22622

WordPress through 6.1.1 depends on unpredictable client visits to cause wp-cron.php execution and the resulting security updates, and the source code describes "the scenario where a site may not receive enough visits to execute scheduled tasks in a timely manner," but neither the installation gui...

Design/Logic Flaw

WordPress through 6.1.1 depends on unpredictable client visits to cause wp-cron.php execution and the resulting security updates, and the source code describes "the scenario where a site may not receive enough visits to execute scheduled tasks in a timely manner," but neither the installation gui...

CVE-2023-22622

WordPress through 6.1.1 depends on unpredictable client visits to cause wp-cron.php execution and the resulting security updates, and the source code describes "the scenario where a site may not receive enough visits to execute scheduled tasks in a timely manner," but neither the installation gui...

CVE-2023-22622

WordPress through 6.1.1 depends on unpredictable client visits to cause wp-cron.php execution and the resulting security updates, and the source code describes "the scenario where a site may not receive enough visits to execute scheduled tasks in a timely manner," but neither the installation gui...

CVE-2023-22622

WordPress through 6.1.1 depends on unpredictable client visits to cause wp-cron.php execution and the resulting security updates, and the source code describes "the scenario where a site may not receive enough visits to execute scheduled tasks in a timely manner," but neither the installation gui...

CVE-2023-22622

WordPress through 6.1.1 depends on unpredictable client visits to cause wp-cron.php execution and the resulting security updates, and the source code describes "the scenario where a site may not receive enough visits to execute scheduled tasks in a timely manner," but neither the installation gui...

PT-2023-18593 · WordPress · Wordpress

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress versions through 6.1.1 Description: The issue arises from WordPress's dependence on unpredictable client visits to execute wp-cron.php, which leads to security updates. The source code notes the scenario where a site may not receive...

CVE-2023-22622

WordPress through 6.1.1 depends on unpredictable client visits to cause wp-cron.php execution and the resulting security updates, and the source code describes "the scenario where a site may not receive enough visits to execute scheduled tasks in a timely manner," but neither the installation gui...

Qualcomm Chipsets and Lenovo BIOS Get Security Updates to Fix Multiple Flaws

Qualcomm on Tuesday released patches to address multiple security flaws in its chipsets, some of which could be exploited to cause information disclosure and memory corruption. The five vulnerabilities -- tracked from CVE-2022-40516 through CVE-2022-40520 -- also impact Lenovo ThinkPad X13s...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Google Android and Samsung Mobile

Google has fixed vulnerabilities in Android. Also fixed vulnerabilities in closed-source parts of Android that are developed by third parties, such as Qualcomm, Unisoc, Imagination Technologies and Mediatek. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious party potentially able to launch attacks that lead ...

K51079478: glibc vulnerability CVE-2015-8778

Security Advisory Description Integer overflow in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the hcreater function, which triggers out-of-bounds...

Security Update Guide Improvement – Representing Hotpatch Updates

Today we are updating the way Microsoft Security Update Guide SUG represents the Windows Hotpatch feature to make it easier for users to identify the hotpatch and security updates. Hotpatching was introduced a year ago as a new way to install updates on supported Windows Server Azure Edition...

Vulnerability fixed in Esri ArcGIS Server

A vulnerability has been fixed in Esri ArcGis Server. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated malicious person through path traversal to view system information from the server on which the application is running. Esri has released updates to fix the vulnerability. For more information, see:...

Fedora 36 : firefox (2022-3a000dac3a)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-3a000dac3a advisory. - New upstream version 108.0.1 ---- - New upstream release 108.0 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security...

Fedora 35 : firefox (2022-ec48d2c1b4)

The remote Fedora 35 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-ec48d2c1b4 advisory. - Fixed VA-API playback artifacts mzbz1779186 ---- - New upstream version 107.0 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedor...

Fedora 36 : firefox (2022-2321894a60)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-2321894a60 advisory. - New upstream version 107.0 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not teste...

Fedora 35 : dotnet6.0 (2022-34a610d9bf)

The remote Fedora 35 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-34a610d9bf advisory. This is the monthly .NET 6 update for September 2022. It updates the .NET SDK to 6.0.109 and Runtime to 6.0.9. This includes a fix for CVE-2022-38013 Tenable...