FireHOL a simple yet powerful way to configure stateful iptables firewalls. It can be used for almost any purpose, including control of any number of internal/external/virtual interfaces, control of any combination of routed traffic, setting up DMZ routers and servers, and all kinds of NAT. It provides strong protection (flooding, spoofing, etc.), transparent caches, source MAC verification, blacklists, whitelists, and more. Its goal is to be completely abstracted and powerful but also easy to use, audit, and understand.

GnuPG (the GNU Privacy Guard or GPG) is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440. As such, it is meant to be compatible with PGP from NAI, Inc. Because it does not use any patented algorithms, it can be used without any restrictions.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 3428-1 – It was discovered that malicious web applications could use the Expression Language to bypass protections of a Security Manager as expressions were evaluated within a privileged code section.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201512-3 – GRUB’s authentication prompt can be bypassed by entering a sequence of backspace characters. Versions less than 2.02_beta2-r8 are affected.

Ubuntu Security Notice 2852-1 – Jann Horn discovered a ptrace issue with user namespaces in the Linux kernel. The namespace owner could potentially exploit this flaw by ptracing a root owned process entering the user namespace to elevate its privileges and potentially gain access outside of the namespace.

Ubuntu Security Notice 2853-1 – Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash the host) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk discovered the Xen PCI backend driver does not perform sanity checks on the device’s state. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference) on the host. Various other issues were also addressed.

Ubuntu Security Notice 2854-1 – Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash the host) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk discovered the Xen PCI backend driver does not perform sanity checks on the device’s state. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference) on the host. Various other issues were also addressed.

Ubuntu Security Notice 2851-1 – Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash the host) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk discovered the Xen PCI backend driver does not perform sanity checks on the device’s state. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference) on the host. Various other issues were also addressed.

Ubuntu Security Notice 2850-1 – Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash the host) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk discovered the Xen PCI backend driver does not perform sanity checks on the device’s state. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference) on the host. Various other issues were also addressed.