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Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8545-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.5.0. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

David Bouman discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate passed user register indices. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. David Bouman and Billy Jheng Bing Jhong discovered that a race condition existed in the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a use- after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-4 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL, the worst of which could result in remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 10.22:10 are affected.

ZTE ZXHN-H108NS router with firmware version H108NSV1.0.7u_ZRD_GR2_A68 remote stack buffer overflow exploit that causes a denial of service condition.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5728-2 - Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential data structure reuse. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory address space accounting implementation in the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8547-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.5.0. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5727-2 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle virtual CPUs without APICs in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.

An update for openvswitch2.13 is now available in Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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-2021-36980: Open vSwitch (aka openvswitch) has a use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP (called from ofpact_decode and ofpacts_decode) during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action.

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An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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-2022-45403: Mozilla: Service Workers might have learned size of cross-origin media files * CVE-2022-45404: Mozilla: Fullscreen notification bypass * CVE-2022-45405: Mozilla: Use-after-free in InputStream implementation * CVE-2022-45406: Mozilla: Use-after-free of a JavaScript Realm * CVE-2022-45408: Mozilla: Fullscreen notification bypass via windowName...