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Microsoft users once again face threats from a new phishing attack. This time, the attackers have utilized a new strategyMicrosoft Phishing Attack Bypasses Sec…
Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
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…
Updated libvncserver packages fix security vulnerability: LibVNC contained a memory leak in VNC server code, which allowed an attacker to read stack memory an…
Updated tnef package fixes security vulnerability: In tnef, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message …
Several security issues were fixed in libav, a multimedia library for processing audio and video files.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.
The popular platform Magento Marketplace has now emerged as the latest victim of a cyber attack. As revealed recently, MagentoMagento Marketplace Vulnerability…
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: file_copy_fallback in gio/gfile.c in GNOME GLib 2.15.0 through 2.61.1 does not properly restrict file permi…
Updated httpie packages fix security vulnerability: HTTPie is vulnerable to Open Redirect that allows an attacker to write an arbitrary file with supplied fil…
Updated python-sqlalchemy packages fix security vulnerabilities: SQL Injection via the order_by parameter (CVE-2019-7164). SQL Injection via the group_by par…
gnupg2 is updated to 2.2.18 and fix security vulnerability: Web of Trust forgeries using collisions in SHA-1 signatures (CVE-2019-14855) * Note that this chan…
Chromium-browser 78.0.3904.108 fixes security issues: Multiple flaws were found in the way Chromium 78.0.3904.87 processes various types of web content, where…
Are you a security-conscious WordPress user? WPScan is an open source WordPress security scanner. You can use it to scan your WordPress website for known vulne…
Data breaches are expensive. A company that suffers a data breach will spend about $4 million to recover lost informationData Breaches That Occurred in 2019 an…