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An issue was discovered in the rollback feature of Elastic Endpoint Security for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.8 before 15.4.6, all versions starting from 15.5 before 15.5.5, all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.6.1. It was possible to trigger a DoS attack by uploading a malicious nuget package.

Several applications were vulnerable to brute-force attacks; hundreds more could be at risk

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0432-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems. Issues addressed include an out of bounds read vulnerability.

## Impact Several quadratic complexity bugs in commonmarker's underlying [`cmark-gfm`](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm) library may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. The following vulnerabilities were addressed: * [CVE-2023-22483](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-29g3-96g3-jg6c) * [CVE-2023-22484](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-24f7-9frr-5h2r) * [CVE-2023-22485](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-c944-cv5f-hpvr) * [CVE-2023-22486](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-r572-jvj2-3m8p) For more information, consult the release notes for version [`0.23.0.gfm.7`](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/releases/tag/0.29.0.gfm.7). ## Mitigation Users are advised to upgrade to commonmarker version [`0.23.7`](https://rubygems.org/gems/commonmarker/versions/0.23.7).

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-4144: QEMU: QXL: qxl_phys2virt unsafe address translation can lead to out-of-bounds read

### Impact Arbitrary code execution can occur when running `exiftool` against files with hostile metadata payloads ### Patches ExifTool has already been patched in version 12.24. `exiftool_vendored.rb`, which vendors ExifTool, includes this patch in [v12.25.0](https://github.com/exiftool-rb/exiftool_vendored.rb/releases/tag/v12.25.0). ### Workarounds No ### References https://twitter.com/wcbowling/status/1385803927321415687 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22204 ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: Open an issue in [exiftool_vendored.rb](https://github.com/exiftool-rb/exiftool_vendored.rb/issues)

A security problem involving peer certificate verification was found where failed verification silently did nothing, making affected applications vulnerable to attackers. Attackers could lead a client application to believe that a secure connection to a rogue SSL server is legitimate. Attackers could also penetrate client-validated SSL server applications with a dummy certificate.

By Deeba Ahmed These packages were uploaded between the 7th and 12th of January 2023 with the names "colorslib," "httpslib," and "libhttps." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malicious PyPI Packages Drop Malware in New Supply Chain Attack

There is a possible regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-22796. Versions Affected: All Not affected: None Fixed Versions: 6.1.7.1, 7.0.4.1 Impact A specially crafted string passed to the underscore method can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability. This affects String#underscore, ActiveSupport::Inflector.underscore, String#titleize, and any other methods using these. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. Releases The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds There are no feasible workarounds for this issue. Users on Ruby 3.2.0 or greater may be able to reduce the impact by configuring Regexp.timeout. Patches To aid users who aren’t able to upgrade immedi...