#vulnerability

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-21 - A vulnerability has been found in KTextEditor where local code can be executed without user interaction. Versions greater than or equal to 5.90.0-r2 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-20 - A vulnerability has been found in QPDF which can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. Versions greater than or equal to 10.1.0 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-19 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Opera, the worst of which can lead to remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 73.0.3856.284 are affected.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6579-2 - USN-6579-1 fixed a vulnerability in Xerces-C++. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 23.10. It was discovered that Xerces-C++ was not properly handling memory management operations when parsing XML data containing external DTDs, which could trigger a use-after-free error. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XML document, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6583-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.7.44 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see the following for more information:

Ubuntu Security Notice 6585-1 - Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, Joerg Schwenk discovered that the SSH protocol was vulnerable to a prefix truncation attack. If a remote attacker was able to intercept SSH communications, extension negotiation messages could be truncated, possibly leading to certain algorithms and features being downgraded. This issue is known as the Terrapin attack. This update adds protocol extensions to mitigate this issue.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6584-1 - Philipp Jeitner and Haya Shulman discovered that Libspf2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that Libspf2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6581-1 - It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing bounds checks in several functions, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled memory management operations in several of its functions, which could lead to excessive memory consumption due to memory leaks. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0256-03 - An update for python3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0255-03 - An update for.NET 6.0 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Issues addressed include bypass, denial of service, and information leakage vulnerabilities.