Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1647-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1647-01 – Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially crafted HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages. They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1648-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1648-01 – The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in. This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities are detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin APSB14-22, listed in the References section. Multiple flaws were found in the way flash-plugin displayed certain SWF content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2384-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 2384-1 – Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes a new upstream MySQL version to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.40. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Firefox / MSIE Memory Disclosure Bugs

Firefox versions prior to 33 leak bits of uninitialized memory when rendering certain types of truncated images onto canvas tags. Secondly, MSRC case #19611cz is a seemingly similar issue with Internet Explorer apparently using bits of uninitialized stack data when handling JPEG files with an oddball DHT.

CVE-2014-6486

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 9.2 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to Talent Acquisition Manager – Security.