#linux

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3771-01 - The VDSM service is required by a Virtualization Manager to manage the Linux hosts. VDSM manages and monitors the host's storage, memory and networks as well as virtual machine creation, other host administration tasks, statistics gathering, and log collection. Issues addressed include bypass, denial of service, and null pointer vulnerabilities.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5436-1 - Gregor Kopf of Secfault Security GmbH discovered that HSQLDB, a Java SQL database engine, allowed the execution of spurious scripting commands in .script and .log files. Hsqldb supports a "SCRIPT" keyword which is normally used to record the commands input by the database admin to output such a script. In combination with LibreOffice, an attacker could craft an odb containing a "database/script" file which itself contained a SCRIPT command where the contents of the file could be written to a new file whose location was determined by the attacker.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3741-01 - The c-ares C library defines asynchronous DNS requests and provides name resolving API. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5435-1 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Apache Traffic Server, a reverse and forward proxy server, which could result in information disclosure or denial of service.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3711-01 - The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format files. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, out of bounds read, out of bounds write, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3715-01 - The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. Issues addressed include a memory leak vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3714-01 - PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system.

An update for the python27:2.7 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-24329: A flaw was found in the Python package. An issue in the urllib.parse component could allow attackers to bypass blocklisting methods by supplying a URL that starts with blank...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3725-01 - The "less" utility is a text file browser that resembles "more", but allows users to move backwards in the file as well as forwards. Since "less" does not read the entire input file at startup, it also starts more quickly than ordinary text editors.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3723-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Issues addressed include null pointer, out of bounds access, out of bounds write, privilege escalation, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.