Apple May Start Delivering Security Patches Separately From Other OS Updates

Apple may be changing the way it delivers security patches to its devices running iOS and iPadOS mobile operating systems. According to code spotted in iOS 14.5, the iPhone maker is reportedly working on a method for delivering security fixes independently of other OS updates. The changes were...

Vulnerabilities fixed in sudo

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in sudo. A local malicious party can, by exploiting these vulnerabilities, gain gain root privileges on the vulnerable system. The developers of sudo have released updates to fix the vulnerability marked CVE-2021-3156 in version 1.9.5p2. The vulnerabilities...

CVE-2020-8465

A vulnerability in Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance 6.5 SP2 could allow an attacker to manipulate system updates using a combination of CSRF bypass CVE-2020-8461 and authentication bypass CVE-2020-8464 to execute code as user root...

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The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Security patch levels of 2020-12-05 or later address all of these issues. To learn how to check a device's security patch level, see Check and update your Android version. Android partners are...

Citrix Security Advisory for TCP/IP Reassembly Resource Exhaustion

Description of Problem Several vulnerabilities in TCP/IP reassembly commonly known as SegmentSmack and FragmentSmack have recently been disclosed. SegmentSmack is CVE-2018-5390 for Linux and CVE-2018-6922 for FreeBSD. FragmentSmack is CVE-2018-5391 for Linux and CVE-2018-6923 for FreeBSD. These...

CVE-2019-8854

A user privacy issue was addressed by removing the broadcast MAC address. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15, watchOS 6, iOS 13, tvOS 13. A device may be passively tracked by its Wi-Fi MAC address...

CVE-2019-8709

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15, tvOS 13, macOS Catalina 10.15.1, Security Update 2019-001, and Security Update 2019-006, watchOS 6, iOS 13. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel...

Security Bulletin: Publicly disclosed vulnerability from Qemu affects IBM Netezza Host Management

Summary Open Source Qemu is used by IBM Netezza Host Management. IBM Netezza Host Management has addressed the applicable CVE. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-8608 DESCRIPTION: Libslirp could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a heap-based buffer...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2297-1] firefox-esr security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2297-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Emilio Pozuelo Monfort July 29, 2020 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -...

Security Bulletin: Publicly disclosed vulnerabilities from Kernel affect IBM Netezza Host Management

Summary Kernel is used by IBM Netezza Host Management. IBM Netezza Host Management has addressed the applicable CVEs Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-14821 DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds access issue. By using the mmio ring buffer, ...

End of line: supporting IoT in the home

Trouble is potentially brewing in Internet of Things IoT land, even if the consequences may still be a little way off. System updates and issues surrounding expiring certificates will pose problems for manufacturers and headaches for consumers. System updates for fun and profit One of the first...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2232-1] python-httplib2 security update

Package : python-httplib2 Version : 0.9+dfsg-2+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2020-11078 In httplib2, an attacker controlling unescaped part of uri for httplib2.Http.request could change request headers and body, send additional hidden requests to same server. This vulnerability impacts software that uses...

Continued Exploitation of Pulse Secure VPN Vulnerability

Summary Unpatched Pulse Secure VPN servers continue to be an attractive target for malicious actors. Affected organizations that have not applied the software patch to fix an arbitrary file reading vulnerability, known as CVE-2019-11510, can become compromised in an attack. 1 Although Pulse Secur...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2158-1] ruby2.1 security update

Package : ruby2.1 Version : 2.1.5-2+deb8u9 CVE ID : CVE-2016-2338 An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Psych::Emitter startdocument function of Ruby. In Psych::Emitter startdocument function heap buffer "head" allocation is made based on tags array length. Specially constructe...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2133-1] tomcat7 security update

Package : tomcat7 Version : 7.0.56-3+really7.0.100-1 CVE ID : CVE-2019-17569 CVE-2020-1935 CVE-2020-1938 Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine. CVE-2019-17569 The refactoring in 7.0.98 introduced a regression. The result of the regression was...

CVE-2020-3840

An off by one issue existed in the handling of racoon configuration files. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.3.1 and iPadOS 13.3.1, macOS Catalina 10.15.3, tvOS 13.3.1. Loading a maliciously crafted racoon configuration file may lead to...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2085-1] zlib security update

Package : zlib Version : 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-9840 CVE-2016-9841 CVE-2016-9842 CVE-2016-9843 Several issues have been found in zlib, a compression library. They are basically about improper big-endian CRC calculation, improper left shift of negative integers and improper pointe...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2026-1] htmldoc security update

Package : htmldoc Version : 1.8.27-8+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2019-19630 In HTMLDOC, there was a one-byte underflow in htmldoc/ps-pdf.cxx caused by a floating point math difference between GCC and Clang. For Debian 8 "Jessie", this issue has been fixed in htmldoc version 1.8.27-8+deb8u1. We recommend...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Open Source Libreswan affect IBM Netezza Host Management

Summary Open Source Libreswan is used by IBM Netezza Host Management. IBM Netezza Host Management has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-12312 DESCRIPTION: Libreswan is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the...

Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine CVE-2019-1240 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of an affected system. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems Microsoft Windows 10...