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5.04-30 - fix CVE-2014-3538 unrestricted regular expression matching 5.04-29 - fix 1284826 - try to read ELF header to detect corrupted one 5.04-28 - fix 1263987 - fix bugs found by coverity in the patch 5.04-27 - fix CVE-2014-3587 incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 - fix CVE-2014-3710 out-of-bound...

MGASA-2016-0162 Updated jenkins-remoting packages fix CVE-2016-0792

Updated jenkins-remoting packages fix security vulnerability: Jenkins has several API endpoints that allow low-privilege users to POST XML files that then get deserialized by Jenkins. Maliciously crafted XML files sent to these API endpoints could result in arbitrary code execution. SECURITY-247 ...

Updated jenkins-remoting packages fix CVE-2016-0792

Updated jenkins-remoting packages fix security vulnerability: Jenkins has several API endpoints that allow low-privilege users to POST XML files that then get deserialized by Jenkins. Maliciously crafted XML files sent to these API endpoints could result in arbitrary code execution. SECURITY-247 ...

Attackers Dropping Kasidet Bot via Office Macros

It’s well documented that attackers have reignited their love affair with the Office macro, using it as a vector for spreading banking malware and even the BlackEnergy Trojan as of late. According to researchers at the San Jose security company zScaler, the bot Kasidet, also known as Neutrino, ha...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3430-1] libxml2 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3430-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso December 23, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL7.x x86_64 (20151207)

Several denial of service flaws were found in libxml2, a library providing support for reading, modifying, and writing XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause that application to use...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: libxml2-2.9.3-1.fc22

This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either at parse time or later once the document has been modified. The output can be a simple SAX strea...

Tibbo AggreGate SCADA/HMI Server Service uploadDirectory Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Tibbo AggreGate SCADA/HMI. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the Windows service "AggreGate Server Service" agserverservice.exe. Through...

jenkins: external entity injection via XPath (SECURITY-165)

It was found that Jenkins' XPath handling allowed XML External Entity XXE expansion. A remote attacker with read access could use this flaw to read arbitrary XML files on the Jenkins server...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2014-341)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

CentOS 6 : libxml2 (CESA-2015:1419)

Updated libxml2 packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

XSS, Code Execution, DOS, Password Leak, Weak Authentication in GetSimpleCMS 3.3.5

Vulnerability: XSS, Code Execution, DOS, Password Leak, Weak Authentication Affected Software: GetSimpleCMS http://get-simple.info/ Affected Version: 3.3.5 probably also prior versions Patched Version: 3.3.6 partial fix Risk: Medium-High Vendor Contacted: 2015-06-14 Vendor Partial Fix: 2015-07-14...

Netlock Mokka XML Digital Signature Forgery Security Bypass Vulnerability

Netlock Mokka is a suite of free authentication applications that use multiple authentication processes. Netlock Mokka fails to validate the signature of specially crafted XML files, allowing an attacker to bypass XML digital signature validation by performing a man-in-the-middle attack that forg...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: perl-XML-LibXML-2.0119-1.fc21

This module implements a Perl interface to the GNOME libxml2 library which provides interfaces for parsing and manipulating XML files. This module allows Perl programmers to make use of the highly capable validating XML parser and the high performance DOM implementation...

Debian DLA-214-1 : libxml-libxml-perl security update

In some cases, XML::LibXML did not respect the request to disable entities expansion. Applications handling untrusted XML files can then be tricked into disclosing the content of local files. In Debian 6 'Squeeze', this issue has been fixed in libxml-libxml-perl version 1.70.ds-1+deb6u1. NOTE:...

Macro-Enabled Malware Making a Comeback

Malware that uses macros as part of its infection method has been around for more than a decade, and was one of the first major techniques to drive changes at software vendors such as Microsoft. The tactic has been making a comeback of late, and Microsoft is seeing a major spike in the volume of...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDVSA-2015:111)

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities : It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote...

Dridex Campaign Evades Detection with AutoClose Function

Pushers of the Dridex banking malware have gone old-school for some time now, moving the malware through phishing messages executed by macros in Microsoft Office documents. While macros are disabled by default since the release of Office 2007, the malware includes somewhat convincing social...

Dridex Banking Trojan Spreading Via Macros in XML Files

Not long ago, criminals pushing the Dridex banking Trojan were using Microsoft Excel documents spiked with a malicious macro as a phishing lure to entice victims to load the malware onto their machines. Even though macros are disabled by default inside most organizations, the persistent hackers a...

Updated boinc-client packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple stack overflow flaws were found in the way the XML parser of boinc-client, a Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC client for distributed computing, performed processing of certain XML files. A rogue BOINC server could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when...