Category Archives: Advisories

USN-5407-1: Cairo vulnerabilities

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Gustavo Grieco, Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca, Suleman Ali, and others
discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-9082, CVE-2017-9814, CVE-2019-6462)

Stephan Bergmann discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service,
or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-35492)

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Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, May 10, 2022

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

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USN-5179-2: BusyBox vulnerability

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USN-5179-1 fixed vulnerabilities in BusyBox. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that BusyBox incorrectly handled certain malformed gzip
archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a
specially crafted gzip archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to
cause BusyBox to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-28831)

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rubygem-nokogiri-1.11.7-3.fc34

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FEDORA-2022-0e5d64ce65

Packages in this update:

rubygem-nokogiri-1.11.7-3.fc34

Update description:

This rpm backports the patch for the issue for improper handling of unexpected data types, related to untrusted inputs to the SAX parsers, which is assigned as CVE-2022-29181

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rubygem-nokogiri-1.13.1-3.fc35

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FEDORA-2022-e9b2e1c1ac

Packages in this update:

rubygem-nokogiri-1.13.1-3.fc35

Update description:

This rpm backports the patch for the issue for improper handling of unexpected data types, related to untrusted inputs to the SAX parsers, which is assigned as CVE-2022-29181

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rubygem-nokogiri-1.13.6-1.fc36

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FEDORA-2022-0071328464

Packages in this update:

rubygem-nokogiri-1.13.6-1.fc36

Update description:

New version 1.13.6 is released. This rpm addresses the issue for improper handling of unexpected data types, related to untrusted inputs to the SAX parsers, which is assigned as CVE-2022-29181

New version 1.13.5 is released.

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