Monthly Archives: August 2016

Redhat

RHSA-2016:1573-1: Moderate: squid security update

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.
CVE-2016-5408

Ubuntu

USN-3046-1: LibreOffice vulnerability

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3046-1

4th August, 2016

libreoffice vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

LibreOffice could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted file.

Software description

  • libreoffice
    – Office productivity suite

Details

Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly
handled presentation files. If a user were tricked into opening a
specially crafted presentation file, a remote attacker could cause
LibreOffice to crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libreoffice-core

1:3.5.7-0ubuntu12

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart LibreOffice to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2016-1513

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Cross-Site Scripting in Count per Day WordPress Plugin

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Posted by Summer of Pwnage on Aug 04

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Cross-Site Scripting in Count per Day WordPress Plugin
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Yorick Koster, July 2016

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A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the Count per Day…

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Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Count per Day WordPress Plugin

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Posted by Summer of Pwnage on Aug 04

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Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Count per Day WordPress
Plugin
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Julien Rentrop, July 2016

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A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found…