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Updated freerdp packages fix security vulnerabilities: Multiple memory leaks in libfreerdp/codec/region.c (CVE-2019-17177). Memory leak in HuffmanTree_makeFr…
Updated rsyslog packages fix security vulnerabilities: Heap overflow in the parser for AIX log messages (CVE-2019-17041). Heap overflow in the parser for Cis…
Updated apache-commons-beanutils packages fix security vulnerability: In Apache Commons Beanutils 1.9.2, a special BeanIntrospector class was added which allo…
pdated fence-agents package fixes security vulnerability: Denial of service via guest VM comments (CVE-2019-10153). References:
Besides rewarding ethical hackers from its pocket for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in third-party open-source projects, Google today announced financi…
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: The --export-marks option of git fast-import is exposed also via the in-stream command feature export-marks…
Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities: An information leak which allowed to retrieve the guest hostname under readonly mode (CVE-2019-3886).
Updated libcroco packages fix security vulnerabilities: Heap overflow (input: check end of input before reading a byte) (CVE-2017-7960).
Updated ncurses packages fix security vulnerabilities: Heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function (CVE-2019-17594).
Updated signing-party package fixes security vulnerability: The gpg-key2ps tool in signing-party contained an unsafe shell call enabling shell injection via a…
Version 3.0.7 fixes the following security vulnerability: CMS dissector crash (CVE-2019-19553). This update also brings the Mageia package from version 3.0.4 …
It was found that freeimage, a graphics library, was affected by the following two security issues: CVE-2019-12211
It was found that Squid, a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, has been affected by the following security vulnerabilities.
Several security vulnerabilities were found in Ruby that also affected Debian's JRuby package, a pure-Java implementation of Ruby. Attackers were able to call …
Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities: Stack corruption due to incorrect number of arguments in WebRTC code. (CVE-2019-13722)
Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: Stack corruption due to incorrect number of arguments in WebRTC code. (CVE-2019-13722)
Updated lz4 packages fix security vulnerability: Heap-based buffer overflow in LZ4_write32 (CVE-2019-17543). References:
Updated nss packages fix security vulnerability: Out-of-bounds write when passing an output buffer smaller than the block size to NSC_EncryptUpdate (CVE-2019-…
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Header::readfrom in IlmImf/ImfHeader.cpp in OpenEXR 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of serv…
The OpenSLP package had two open security issues: CVE-2017-17833
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: ImageMagick 7.0.8-35 has a memory leak in coders/dps.c, as demonstrated by XCreateImage. (CVE-2019-16709)
Updated sysstat package fixes security vulnerability: Memory corruption due to an integer overflow (CVE-2019-16167). References:
Updated python-psutil packages fix security vulnerability: Riccardo Schirone discovered that psutil incorrectly handled certain reference counting operations.…
Updated libvpx packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed WebM media files. If an applicat…