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Monthly Archives: November 2016
Google discloses Critical Windows Zero-Day that makes all Windows Users Vulnerable
Google has once again publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in current versions of Windows operating system before Microsoft has a patch ready.
Yes, the critical zero-day is unpatched and is being used by attackers in the wild.
Google made the public disclosure of the vulnerability just 10 days after privately reporting the issue to Microsoft, giving the chocolate factory little time
Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 3691-2] ghostscript regression update
[SECURITY] [DSA 3691-2] ghostscript regression update
Bugtraq: October 2016 – Crowd – Critical Security Advisory
October 2016 – Crowd – Critical Security Advisory
RHSA-2016:2131-1: Important: mariadb55-mariadb security update
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for mariadb55-mariadb is now available for Red Hat Software
Collections.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. 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-2016-3492, CVE-2016-5612, CVE-2016-5616, CVE-2016-5624, CVE-2016-5626, CVE-2016-5629, CVE-2016-6662, CVE-2016-6663, CVE-2016-8283
RHSA-2016:2130-1: Important: mysql55-mysql security update
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for mysql55-mysql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. 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-2016-3492, CVE-2016-5612, CVE-2016-5616, CVE-2016-5617, CVE-2016-5624, CVE-2016-5626, CVE-2016-5629, CVE-2016-6662, CVE-2016-8283
RHSA-2016:2128-1: Important: kernel security and enhancement update
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Extended
Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. 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-2016-4470, CVE-2016-5195
RHSA-2016:2127-1: Important: kernel security update
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Long
Life.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. 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-2016-5195
RHSA-2016:2126-1: Important: kernel security update
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long
Life.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. 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-2016-5195
RHEA-2016:2129-1: openvswitch enhancement and bug fix update
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated openvswitch packages that bring in numerous enhancements and bug fixes
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Fast Datapath.