Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0937-01 – The defusedxml package contains several Python-only updates for security vulnerabilities in Python’s XML libraries. Defusedxml functions and classes can be used instead of the originals to protect against entity-expansion and DTD-retrieval issues. PySAML2 is the python implementation of SAML Version 2, containing all the functionality for building a SAML2 service provider or an identity provider, to be used in a WSGI environment. Multiple security issues have been addressed.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0938-01 – The defusedxml package contains several Python-only updates for security vulnerabilities in Python’s XML libraries. Defusedxml functions and classes can be used instead of the originals to protect against entity-expansion and DTD-retrieval issues. PySAML2 is the python implementation of SAML Version 2, containing all the functionality for building a SAML2 service provider or an identity provider, to be used in a WSGI environment. Multiple security issues have been addressed.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0906-01 – The httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server. Security Fix: It was discovered that the mod_session_crypto module of httpd did not use any mechanisms to verify integrity of the encrypted session data stored in the user’s browser. A remote attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify session data using a padding oracle attack. It was discovered that the mod_auth_digest module of httpd did not properly check for memory allocation failures. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause httpd child processes to repeatedly crash if the server used HTTP digest authentication.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0914-01 – LibreOffice is an open source, community-developed office productivity suite. It includes key desktop applications, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager, a formula editor, and a drawing program. LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice and provides a similar but enhanced and extended office suite. Security Fix: It was found that LibreOffice disclosed contents of a file specified in an embedded object’s preview. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to expose details of a system running LibreOffice as an online service via a crafted document.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0934-01 – The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in. This update upgrades Flash Player to version 25.0.0.148. Security Fix: This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin listed in the References section, could allow an attacker to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0920-01 – 389 Directory Server is an LDAP version 3 compliant server. The base packages include the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol server and command-line utilities for server administration. Security Fix: An invalid pointer dereference flaw was found in the way 389-ds-base handled LDAP bind requests. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to make ns-slapd crash via a specially crafted LDAP bind request, resulting in denial of service.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0936-01 – The defusedxml package contains several Python-only updates for security vulnerabilities in Python’s XML libraries. Defusedxml functions and classes can be used instead of the originals to protect against entity-expansion and DTD-retrieval issues. PySAML2 is the python implementation of SAML Version 2, containing all the functionality for building a SAML2 service provider or an identity provider, to be used in a WSGI environment. Multiple security issues have been addressed.