A seller of pre-built Linux laptops and desktop PCs has announced its closure. The company was early pioneer of devices sold with Ubuntu preinstalled. This post, Well-Known Linux Laptop Seller Forced to Close is from OMG! Ubuntu!. Do not reproduce else… Continue Reading — Well-Known...

Security fix for CVE-2020-8037 Continue Reading — Fedora 32: tcpdump 2020-c5e78886d6>

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Continue Reading — openSUSE: 2020:2169-1 important: python-pip>

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. Continue Reading — openSUSE: 2020:2170-1 important: java-1_8_0-openjdk>

When reading SMTP server status codes, Thunderbird writes an integer value to a position on the stack that is intended to contain just one byte. Depending on processor architecture and stack layout, this leads to stack corruption that may be exploitabl… Continue Reading — Mageia...

In PDFResurrect before 0.20, lack of header validation checks causes a heap-buffer-overflow in pdf_get_version() (CVE-2020-20740). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27704 Continue Reading — Mageia 2020-0449: pdfresurrect security update>

Mutt before 2.0.2 did not ensure that $ssl_force_tls was processed if an IMAP server’s initial server response was invalid. The connection was not properly closed, and the code could continue attempting to authenticate. This could result in authenticat… Continue Reading — Mageia 2020-0448: mutt security...

Privoxy has been updated to version 3.0.29 to fix 8 security issues. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27678 – https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/29/1 Continue Reading — Mageia 2020-0447: privoxy security update>

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The package musl before version 1.2.1-2 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. Continue Reading — ArchLinux: 202011-29: musl: arbitrary code execution>