Fedora 31 : mingw-libxml2 (2020-7dd29dacad)

Add fix for CVE-2020-24977 RHBZ1877788, RHBZ1877789. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issue...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : TNEF vulnerabilities (USN-4524-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4524-1 advisory. Paul Dreik discovered that TNEF incorrectly handled filenames. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted email attachment, an attacker could possibl...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : pam_tacplus vulnerability (USN-4521-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4521-1 advisory. It was discovered that pamtacplus did not properly manage shared secrets if DEBUG loglevel and journald are used. A remote attacker could...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : noVNC vulnerability (USN-4522-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4522-1 advisory. It was discovered that noVNC did not properly manage certain messages, resulting in the remote VNC server injecting arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page. An...

Fedora 31 : seamonkey (2020-3813e1317b)

Update to 2.53.4 Lightning, Chatzilla and DOM Inspector are now provided in the same way as for themes and language packs ie. as 'application global' addons. Previously, they were copied into the user profile on each update, which led to some issues. The old copies of those addons are automatical...

Google Chrome < 85.0.4183.121 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 85.0.4183.121. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 202009stable-channel-update-for-desktop21 advisory. - Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 85.0.4183.121 allowed a...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : PulseAudio vulnerability (USN-4519-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4519-1 advisory. Ratchanan Srirattanamet discovered that an Ubuntu-specific patch caused PulseAudio to incorrectly handle memory under certain error conditions in the Bluez 5...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Exim SpamAssassin vulnerability (USN-4520-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4520-1 advisory. It was discovered that Exim SpamAssassin does not properly handle configuration strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

Fedora 31 : kernel (2020-5920a7a0b2)

The 5.8.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : websocket-extensions vulnerability (USN-4502-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4502-1 advisory. It was discovered that websocket-extensions does not properly parse special headers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause regex...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : PHPMailer vulnerability (USN-4505-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4505-1 advisory. Elar Lang discovered that PHPMailer did not properly escape double quote characters in filenames. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this with a crafted...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : StoreBackup vulnerability (USN-4508-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4508-1 advisory. It was discovered that StoreBackup did not properly manage lock files. A local attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service ...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Perl DBI module vulnerability (USN-4503-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4503-1 advisory. It was discovered that Perl DBI module incorrectly handled certain calls. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Tenable...

Fedora 32 : dotnet3.1 (2020-e2deb72e0f)

This update updates .NET Core 3.1 to SDK 3.1.108 and Runtime 3.1.8. This update includes a fix for CVE-2020-1045 Release Notes: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/3.1/3.1.8/3.1 .8.md Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly fr...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : util-linux vulnerability (USN-4512-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4512-1 advisory. It was discovered that the umount bash completion script shipped in util-linux incorrectly handled certain mountpoints. If a local attacker were able to create...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : xawtv vulnerability (USN-4518-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4518-1 advisory. Matthias Gerstner discovered that xawtv incorrectly handled opening files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to open and write to arbitrary files and...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : MCabber vulnerability (USN-4506-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4506-1 advisory. It was discovered that MCabber does not properly manage roster pushes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to remotely perform machine-in-the-middle attacks...

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Security Open to RCE

IBM has issued fixes for vulnerabilities in Spectrum Protect Plus, Big Blue’s security tool found under the umbrella of its Spectrum data storage software branding. The flaws can be exploited by remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data-protection...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Apache XML-RPC vulnerability (USN-4496-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4496-1 advisory. It was discovered that Apache XML-RPC aka ws-xmlrpc does not properly deserialize untrusted data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : GUPnP vulnerability (USN-4494-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4494-1 advisory. It was discovered that GUPnP incorrectly handled certain subscription requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to exfiltrate data or use GUPnP to...