Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201601-2 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in WebKitGTK+, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition. Versions less than 2.4.9 are affected.

Ubuntu Security Notice 2880-1 – Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, Randell Jesup, Nicolas Pierron, Eric Rescorla, Tyson Smith, and Gabor Krizsanits discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-memory crash when loading GIF images in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201601-3 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Versions less than 11.2.202.559 are affected.

Ubuntu Security Notice 2877-1 – A bad cast was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. An issue was discovered when initializing the UnacceleratedImageBufferSurface class in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0070-01 – OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company’s cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. The following security issues are addressed with this release: An authorization flaw was discovered in Kubernetes; the API server did not properly check user permissions when handling certain requests. An authenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to gain additional access to resources such as RAM and disk space.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 3455-1 – Isaac Boukris discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, reused NTLM-authenticated proxy connections without properly making sure that the connection was authenticated with the same credentials as set for the new transfer. This could lead to HTTP requests being sent over the connection authenticated as a different user.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0072-01 – Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the victim. All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Chromium version 48.0.2564.82, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0073-01 – The Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server ; a resolver library ; and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly. A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain malformed Address Prefix List records. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause named to crash.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0074-01 – The Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server ; a resolver library ; and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly. A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain malformed Address Prefix List records. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause named to crash.