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A flaw was found in systemd, where it mishandles numerical usernames beginning with decimal digits, or "0x" followed by hexadecimal digits. When the usernames …
OpenVPN 2.5.1 and earlier versions allows a remote attackers to bypass authentication and access control channel data on servers configured with deferred authe…
A flaw was found in nginx. An off-by-one error while processing DNS responses allows a network attacker to write a dot character out of bounds in a heap alloca…
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gi…
The XML parsers used by XMLBeans did not set the properties needed to protect the user from malicious XML input. Vulnerabilities include the possibility for XM…
There has been a lot of buzz in the industry about ransomware lately. Almost every other day, it's making headlines. With businesses across the globe holding t…
Two issues have been found in bluez, a package with Bluetooth tools and daemons. One issue is about a man-in-the-middle attack during secure pairing, the other…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical unpatched vulnerability affecting Pling-based free and open-source software (FOSS) marketplaces for Linux p…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new executable image tampering attack dubbed "Process Ghosting" that could be potentially abused by an attacker to c…
An out of bounds read in function QRadialFetchSimd from crafted svg file may lead to information disclosure or other potential consequences. This update includ…
**Redis 6.0.14** - Released Tue June 1 12:00:00 IST 2021 Upgrade urgency: SECURITY, Contains fixes to security issues that affect authenticated client connecti…
rxvt, VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System, allowed (potentially remote) code execution because of improper handling of certain escape sequences (ES…
mrxvt, lightweight multi-tabbed X terminal emulator, allowed (potentially remote) code execution because of improper handling of certain escape sequences (ESC …
eterm, an enlightened terminal emulator, allowed (potentially remote) code execution because of improper handling of certain escape sequences (ESC G Q).
Four security vulnerabilities discovered in the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel and Office online, could be potentially abused by bad actors to deliver…
An update for rh-dotnet50-dotnet is now available for .NET on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security imp…
An update for rh-dotnet31-dotnet is now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a securit…
A flaw was found in polkit. When a requesting process disconnects from dbus-daemon just before the call to polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync starts, the pr…
#### What's new for 1.2.2 The release adds the `_Fork` function from the upcoming edition of POSIX and takes advantage of the interpretation dropping the async…
#### What's new for 1.2.2 The release adds the `_Fork` function from the upcoming edition of POSIX and takes advantage of the interpretation dropping the async…
Another ransomware attack has surfaced online. The latest report comes from the photography giant FUJIFILM…FUJIFILM Shuts Down Operations Following Suspected R…
Hector Martin, a hacker who is porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs through Asahi Linux, has discovered a novel covert channel vulnerability on the M1 chip, cal…
**Version 2.0.13** 2021-04-27 * Security: Fixed command injection vulnerability in HgDriver/HgDownloader and hardened other VCS drivers and downloaders (GHSA-h…
**Version 2.0.13** 2021-04-27 * Security: Fixed command injection vulnerability in HgDriver/HgDownloader and hardened other VCS drivers and downloaders (GHSA-h…