Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : OpenJDK vulnerabilities (USN-4223-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4223-1 advisory. Jan Jancar, Petr Svenda, and Vladimir Sedlacek discovered that a side- channel vulnerability existed in the ECDSA implementation in OpenJDK. ...

Persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) via DailyMotionRenderer

A number of renderer classes used by the widget macro were previously identified that contained URL validation flaws leading to persistent cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. The modified classes now make use of the isUrlMatch method from the WidgetConnectorUtil class in the implementation ...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ruby on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple integer overflows leading to a heap overflow were discovered in the array- and string-handling code used by Ruby. An attacker could use these flaws to crash a Ruby application or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Ruby application using untrusted inputs in array...