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Two issues have been found in bind9, an Internet Domain Name Server. CVE-2020-8622
In Horde Groupware, there has been an XSS vulnerability that could be exploited via the URL field in a "Calendar New Event" action. For Debian 9 stretch, this …
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 …
In Horde Groupware, there has been an XSS vulnerability in two components via the Color field in a Create Task List action. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem …
In Horde Groupware, there has been an XSS vulnerability in two components via the Color field in a Create Task List action. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem …
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was discovered in MuPDF, a lightweight PDF viewer, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code i…
A maliciously crafted TAR archive containing symlink entries would install files anywhere in the user's home directory upon extraction (CVE-2020-24654). Refere…
Several minor vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvncserver, a server and client implementation of the VNC protocol. CVE-2019-20839
By holding a reference to the eval() function from an about:blank window, a malicious webpage could have gained access to the InstallTrigger object which would…
evolution-data-server (eds) through 3.36.3 has a STARTTLS buffering issue that affects SMTP and POP3. When a server sends a "begin TLS" response, eds reads add…
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in BIND, a DNS server implementation. CVE-2020-8619
The handler for the XkbSetNames request does not validate the request length before accessing its contents (CVE-2020-14345). An integer underflow exists in the…
There is an integer overflow and a double free vulnerability in the way LibX11 handles locales. The integer overflow is a necessary precursor to the double fre…
By holding a reference to the eval() function from an about:blank window, a malicious webpage could have gained access to the InstallTrigger object which would…
The read_xbm_body function in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp has a buffer over-read (CVE-2020-17507). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27173
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Squid, a fully featured web proxy cache, which could result in request splitting, request smuggling (leading to cach…
It was reported that the Lua module for Nginx, a high-performance web and reverse proxy server, is prone to a HTTP request smuggling vulnerability.
It was discovered that there was a use-after-free vulnerability when parsing PHAR files, a method of putting entire PHP applications into a single file.
It was discovered that there was an issue where kmail would default to using unencrypted POP3 communication despite the UI indicating that encryption was in us…
Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via TLS to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks require human i…
Hash collisions in IPv4Interface and IPv6Interface could lead to DOS (CVE-2020-14422). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27056
An issue has been found in luajit, a just in time compiler for Lua. An out-of-bounds read could happen because __gc handler frame traversal is mishandled (CVE-…
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in mongodb, an object/document-oriented database, whereby a user authorized to perform database queries may is…
A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in Icinga Web 2, a web interface for Icinga, which could result in the disclosure of files readable by the p…