Bash: How to open TCP/UDP sockets

How to open TCP/UDP sockets using a built-in feature in Bash ? Bash shell has a built-in feature that allows to open TCP/UDP sockets using a simple syntax. This is very useful when tools like netcat are not installed or we don’t have the permission to use it. The syntax is $ exec...

FreeBSD : ffmpeg -- multiple vulnerabilities (3d950687-b4c9-4a86-8478-c56743547af8)

NVD reports : The decodeihdrchunk function in libavcodec/pngdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2 does not enforce uniqueness of the IHDR aka image header chunk in a PNG image, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds array access or possibly have unspecified other impact v...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: ipython-2.4.1-8.fc21

IPython provides a replacement for the interactive Python interpreter with extra functionality. Main features: Comprehensive object introspection. Input history, persistent across sessions. Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated references. Readline based name...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: ipython-2.4.1-8.fc22

IPython provides a replacement for the interactive Python interpreter with extra functionality. Main features: Comprehensive object introspection. Input history, persistent across sessions. Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated references. Readline based name...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : OpenSSL vulnerability (K17248)

The Cryptographic Message Syntax CMS implementation in crypto/cms/cmsasn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8o and 1.x before 1.0.0a does not properly handle structures that contain OriginatorInfo, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify invalid memory locations or conduct double-free attacks, a...

MediaWiki SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi and MediaWiki GeSHi Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

MediaWiki is the United States Wikimedia Wikimedia Foundation and MediaWiki volunteers to develop and maintain a set of free and free Web-based Wiki engine , it can be used to deploy internal knowledge management and content management system . SyntaxHighlightGeSHi is one of the extensions to...

MediaWiki GeSHi Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SyntaxHighlightGeSHi for MediaWiki is a component of a set of free and freely available web-based Wiki engines supporting many different programming languages and file formats, developed and maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation and MediaWiki volunteers. A cross-site scripting vulnerability in...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6820

The ffsbrapply function in libavcodec/aacsbr.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2 does not check for a matching AAC frame syntax element before proceeding with Spectral Band Replication calculations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds array access or possibly have...

Scientific Linux Security Update : autofs on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150722)

It was found that program-based automounter maps that used interpreted languages such as Python would use standard environment variables to locate and load modules of those languages. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2014-8169 Note:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: ipython-2.4.1-7.fc21

IPython provides a replacement for the interactive Python interpreter with extra functionality. Main features: Comprehensive object introspection. Input history, persistent across sessions. Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated references. Readline based name...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: ipython-2.4.1-7.fc22

IPython provides a replacement for the interactive Python interpreter with extra functionality. Main features: Comprehensive object introspection. Input history, persistent across sessions. Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated references. Readline based name...

Debian DLA-273-1 : tidy security update

Fernando Muoz discovered a security issue on the HTML syntax checker and reformatter tidy. Tidy did not properly process specific character sequences, and a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a DoS, or probably, execute arbitrary code. Two different CVEs were assigned to this issue...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3309-1] tidy security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3309-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Alessandro Ghedini July 18, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DLA 273-1] tidy security update

Package : tidy Version : 20091223cvs-1+deb6u1 CVE ID : CVE-2015-5522 CVE-2015-5523 Debian Bug : 792571 Fernando Muñoz discovered a security issue on the HTML syntax checker and reformatter tidy. Tidy did not properly process specific character sequences, and a remote attacker could exploit this...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: pcre-8.35-12.fc21

Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are base d on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow...

DSA-3309-1 tidy - security update

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The vulnerability of the Ubuntu operating system allows a perpetrator to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the libtasn1-6 package in the Ubuntu operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious actor who operates remotely, by sending specially crafted ASN.1 data...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20150615)

An invalid free flaw was found in the way OpenSSL handled certain DTLS handshake messages. A malicious DTLS client or server could cause a DTLS server or client using OpenSSL to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-8176 A flaw was found in the way the OpenSSL packages shipped...

CentOS 6 / 7 : openssl (CESA-2015:1115)

Updated openssl 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 Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...