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- Update to 2.16.4 - CVE-2019-18222 Release notes: https://tls.mbed.org/tech- updates/releases/mbedtls-2.16.4-and-2.7.13-released Security Advisory: https://tl…
A vulnerability was discovered in libgd2, the GD graphics library, whereby an attacker can employ a specific function call sequence to trigger a NULL pointer d…
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the webkit2gtk web engine: CVE-2020-3862
Tom Lane discovered that "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION" sub commands in the PostgreSQL database did not perform authorisation checks. For Debian 8 "Jessie", …
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in evince, a simple multi-page document viewer. CVE-2017-1000159
Tom Lane discovered that "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION" sub commands in the PostgreSQL database did not perform authorisation checks. For the stable distribu…
Tom Lane discovered that "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION" sub commands in the PostgreSQL database did not perform authorisation checks. For the oldstable distr…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime, resulting in denial of service, incorrect implementation of Kerberos GSSAPI and TGS r…
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an out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to an integer overflow was reported in libexif, a library to parse exif files. This flaw might be leveraged by remote …
Multiple flaws were found in the way Chromium 78.0.3904.108 processes various types of web content, where loading a web page containing malicious content could…
A flaw was discovered where the XMLRPC client implementation in Apache XMLRPC, performed deserialization of the server-side exception serialized in the faultCa…
Christopher Ertl found that multiple functions in ipmitool neglect proper checking of the data received from a remote LAN party, which may lead to buffer overf…
Ilja Van Sprundel discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in ppp, the Point-to-Point Protocol daemon. When receiving an EAP Request message in client mode, …
Guillaume Teissier reported that the XMLRPC client in libxmlrpc3-java, an XML-RPC implementation in Java, does perform deserialization of the server-side excep…
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to an integer overflow was reported in libexif, a library to parse EXIF files, which could result in denial of service…
This package allowed ../ directory traversal to access private resources because resource matching did not ensure that pathnames were in a canonical format.
A security update is now available for Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.3 from the Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security…
storeBackup.pl in storeBackup through 3.5 relies on the /tmp/storeBackup.lock pathname, which allows symlink attacks that possibly lead to privilege escalation.
opj_t1_clbl_decode_processor in openjp2/t1.c in OpenJPEG 2.3.1 through 2020-01-28 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the qmfbid==1 case, a different issue tha…
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo, a program designed to provide limited super user privileges to specific users, triggerable when configured…
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in spamassassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis. Malicious rule or configuration files, possibly downloaded f…
Joe Vennix discovered a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo, a program designed to provide limited super user privileges to specific users, trigg…
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the idn2_to_ascii_4i() function in libidn2, the GNU library for Internationalized Domain Names (ID…