Microsoft is Shutting Down CodePlex, Asks Devs To Move To GitHub

Microsoft has announced to shut down CodePlex — its website for hosting repositories of open-source software projects — on December 15, 2017.

Launched in 2006, CodePlex was one of the Microsoft’s biggest steps towards the world of open source community — where any programmer, anywhere can share the code for their software or download and tweak the code to their liking.

However, Microsoft

CVE-2017-5923

libyara/grammar.y in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yara_yyparse function.

CVE-2016-10217

The pdf14_open function in base/gdevp14.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted file that is mishandled in the color management module.

CVE-2017-5949

JavaScriptCore in WebKit, as distributed in Safari Technology Preview Release 22, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds write and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers access to red-zone memory locations, related to jit/ThunkGenerators.cpp, llint/LowLevelInterpreter32_64.asm, and llint/LowLevelInterpreter64.asm.

CVE-2016-10219

The intersect function in base/gxfill.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted file.

CVE-2017-5951

The mem_get_bits_rectangle function in base/gdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file.