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Security fix for CVE-2019-19722: null pointer dereference in push notification driver
Updated varnish packages fix security vulnerability: A bug has been discovered in Varnish Cache where we fail to clear a pointer between the handling of one c…
It was found that certain cryptographic primitives in nss, the Network Security Service libraries, did not check the length of the input text. This could resul…
It hasn't been a while that we heard of a wave of point-of-sale malware attacks across various US stores. HoweverUS Restaurant Chain Landry Discloses POS Malwa…
Landry's, a popular restaurant chain in the United States, has announced a malware attack on its point of sale (POS) systems that allowed cybercriminals to ste…
An issue has been found in igraph, a library for creating and manipulating graphs. A NULL pointer dereference vulneribility was detected in
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Catalog.cc in Xpdf 4.02 has a NULL pointer dereference because Catalog.pageLabels is initialized too late i…
This update is based on upstream 5.4.6 and fixes various potential security issues related to buffer overflows, double frees, NUll pointer dereferences, impro…
Updated libofx packages fix security vulnerability: There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function OFXApplication::startElement in the file lib/ofx_sgml.…
An issue has been found in cups, the Common UNIX Printing System(tm). An incorrect bounds check could lead to a possible out-of-bounds read and
While preparing a fix for CVE-2017-6314 an unknown symbol g_uint_checked_mul() was introduced.
It was discovered that the lmtpd component of the Cyrus IMAP server created mailboxes with administrator privileges if the "fileinto" was used, bypassing ACL c…
Updated htmldoc packages fix security vulnerability: In HTMLDOC, there was a one-byte underflow in htmldoc/ps-pdf.cxx caused by a floating point math differen…
Kernel: KVM: OOB memory access via mmio ring buffer (CVE-2019-14821) Bug Fix(es): * KEYS: prevent creating a different user's keyrings SL-6.10 * BUG: unable to…
Programming has five main steps: the identification and definition of the problem, the planning of the solution for the problem, coding of the program, testing…
Updated libcroco packages fix security vulnerabilities: Heap overflow (input: check end of input before reading a byte) (CVE-2017-7960).
This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 68.3.0. * Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction (CVE-2019-17008) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Fir…
This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 68.3.0. * Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction (CVE-2019-17008) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Fir…
In HTMLDOC, there was a one-byte underflow in htmldoc/ps-pdf.cxx caused by a floating point math difference between GCC and Clang.
389-ds-base: Read permission check bypass via the deref plugin (CVE-2019-14824) SL7 x86_64 389-ds-base-1.3.9.1-12.el7_7.x86_64.rpm 389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.3.9.…
Updated httpie packages fix security vulnerability: HTTPie is vulnerable to Open Redirect that allows an attacker to write an arbitrary file with supplied fil…
Pressure is gathering for a federal privacy law in the US with the introduction of a second bill that would protect consumer data. TheÂConsumer Online Privacy …
There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function OFXApplication::startElement in the file lib/ofx_sgml.cpp, as demonstrated by ofxdump.
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