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For much of this year, IT professionals all over the globe have had their hands full, finding ways to help businesses cope with the fallout of the coronavirus …
Todd Carson discovered some integer overflows in libX11, which could lead to heap corruption when processing crafted messages from an input method.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the webkit2gtk web engine: CVE-2020-9862
An update for grub2, shim, and shim-signed is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Telco Extend…
An update for grub2, shim, shim-signed, and fwupdate is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Te…
In Evolution Data Server a vulnerability was discovered that allowed a malicious server to crash the mail client. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been f…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing, connecting more devices each day. It is projected that by 2025, the world will have an astounding 64 billion I…
In libopenmpt before 0.3.19 and 0.4.x before 0.4.9, ModPlug_InstrumentName and ModPlug_SampleName in libopenmpt_modplug.c do not restrict the lengths of libmod…
rubyzip gem version 1.2.1 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in Zip::File component that can result in write arbitrary files to the files…
Use-after-free in libtransmission/variant.c in Transmission before 3.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitr…
`add_password` in pam_radius_auth.c in pam_radius 1.4.0 does not correctly check the length of the input password, and is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer ov…
Fix insufficient output escaping bug in file attachment names (CVE-2020-13625). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26760
An integer overflow in the getnum function in lua_struct.c CVE-2020-14147 References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26978
Updated dnsmasq package fix insecure default configuration potentially making it an open resolver (CVE-2020-14312). In its default configuration, dnsmasq liste…
Bypass of boundary checks in nio.Buffer via concurrent access. (CVE-2020-14583) Incomplete bounds checks in Affine Transformations. (CVE-2020-14593)
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 …
jp2/opj_decompress.c in OpenJPEG through 2.3.1 has a use-after-free that can be triggered if there is a mix of valid and invalid files in a directory operated …
Several vulnerabilities were fixed in libjpeg-turbo, a widely used library for handling JPEG files. CVE-2018-1152
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in mercurial, an easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system. CVE-2017-17458
Tobias Stoeckmann found an integer overflow issue in JSON-C, a C library to manipulate JSON objects, when reading maliciously crafted large files. The issue co…
It was discovered that there was an issue where kdepim-runtime would default to using unencrypted POP3 communication despite the UI indicating that encryption …
A privilege escalation vulnerability vulnerability was discovered in Net-SNMP, a set of tools for collecting and organising information about devices on comput…
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support, and…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GRUB2 bootloader. CVE-2020-10713