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Updated vim and neovim package fixes security vulnerability: It was discovered that Vim before 8.1.1365 and Neovim before 0.3.6 did not restrict the `:source!…
A few hours after Adobe today released security updates for five of its widely-distributed software, Microsoft also issued its February 2020 Patch Tuesday edit…
Security researchers from Snyk discovered that the fix for CVE-2019-9658 was incomplete. Checkstyle, a development tool to help programmers write Java code tha…
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: In Sudo before 1.8.31, if pwfeedback is enabled in /etc/sudoers, users can trigger a stack-based buffer ove…
Updated qtbase5 packages fix security vulnerabilities: QPluginLoader in Qt versions 5.0.0 through 5.13.2 would search for certain plugins first on the current…
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Nefarious rule configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system commands with sa-compile. (CVE-202…
Updated mgetty package fixes security vulnerability: mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never t…
This update is based on upstream 5.4.17 and fixes atleast the following security vulnerabilities: In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in t…
Two security issues were found in the Qt library, which could result in plugins and libraries being loaded from the current working directory, resulting in pot…
Updated MariaDB packages fix security vulnerabilities: Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple pro…
Updated openjpeg2 packages fix security vulnerability: OpenJPEG through 2.3.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in opj_t1_clbl_decode_processor in libopenjp2.s…
Updated sqlite3 packages fix security vulnerabilities: An out of bounds write flaw (CVE-2019-13734), insufficient data validation flaw (CVE-2019-13750), unini…
Updated gdal packages fix security vulnerability: Double free vulnerability in OGRExpatRealloc (CVE-2019-17545). Also, the gdalinfo command, which had been b…
Updated webkit2 packages fix security vulnerabilities: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-8835, CVE-201…
Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: Two buffer overflows in string and mbstring handling have been found (CVE-2020-7059, CVE-2020-7060).
This update provides the upstream 6.0.16 and fixes the following security vulnerabilities: An easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker…
Updated sysstat package fixes security vulnerability: Double free in check_file_actlst in sa_common.c (CVE-2019-19725). References:
Two security vulnerabilities have been fixed in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine. CVE-2019-12418
Updated sox packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain MP3 files. An attacker could possibly use this issue…
Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerability: BT ATT dissector crash (CVE-2020-7045). References:
This update is based on upstream 5.4.12 and fixes atleast the following security vulnerabilities: Intel GPU Hardware prior to Gen11 does not clear EU state du…
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: A signed integer overflow and subsequent segfault that occurred when attempting to decompress images with m…
Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability: A code execution vulnerability in the directory rehashing functionality (CVE-2019-5188).
Are you aware that Intel has published a total of six advisories for security vulnerabilities impacting its products, including the Intel Processor Graphics on…