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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 memory leak was discovered in Mat_VarCalloc in mat.c in matio 1.5.17 because SafeMulDims does not consider the rank==0 case (CVE-2019-20052). References: - h…
It seems like every new day brings with it a new ransomware news item ' new attacks, methods, horror stories, and data being leaked.Ransomware attacks are on t…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, denial of service, or …
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, denial of service, or …
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service or information leaks. For the stable distribution …
Viktor Szakats reported that libcurl, an URL transfer library, does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer HTTP …
A remote information leak vulnerability and a remote buffer overflow vulnerability were discovered in ConnMan, which could result in denial of service or the e…
libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and th…
Let's first take a look back at 2020!Adding to the list of difficulties that surfaced last year, 2020 was also grim for personal data protection, as it has mar…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, denial of service or i…
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, guest-to-host privilege escalation or information…
Over the next couple of weeks and months, LinuxSecurity editors and contributors will be writing a series on Linux Web Server Security. This week, we're summar…
PuTTY 0.68 through 0.73 has an Observable Discrepancy leading to an information leak in the algorithm negotiation. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to t…
Several issues have been found in xorg-server, the X server from xorg. Basically all issues are out-of-bounds access or integer underflows in different request…
In Horde Groupware, there has been an XSS via the Name field during creation of a new Resource. This could have been leveraged for remote code execution after …
Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via TLS to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks require human i…
Chrony's method of opening its PID file could allow a compromised chrony user account to overwrite files in certain parts of the filesystem with chrony's PID, …
Several memory leaks were discovered in proftpd-dfsg, a versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon, when mod_facl or mod_sftp is used which could lead to memory exh…
Allocation for pixmap data in AllocatePixmap() does not initialize the memory in xserver, it leads to leak uninitialize heap memory to clients. When the X serv…
The CBC padding operations were not constant time and as a result would leak the length of the plaintext values which were being padded to an attacker running …
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, guest-to-host privilege escalation or information…
Several issues have been fixed in zziplib, a library providing read access on ZIP-archives. They are basically all related to invalid memory access and resulti…
Researchers reported on Monday that hackers are now exploiting Google's Analytics service to stealthily pilfer credit card information from infected e-commerce…