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Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and Git, has his own law in software development, and it goes like this: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." This phrase puts the finger on the very principle of open source: the more, the merrier - if the code is easily available for anyone and everyone to fix bugs, it's pretty safe. But is it? Or is the saying "all bugs are shallow" only true for

An update for openvswitch2.11 is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens). 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-2022-2132: dpdk: DoS when a Vhost header crosses more than two descriptors and exhausts all mbufs

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Temporary File vulnerability in Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor on Linux (Analytics probe component), Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer on Linux (Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer probe component) allows local users to gain sensitive information. This issue affects Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor: from 2.0.0-00 through 4.4.0-00; Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer: from 10.0.0-00 before 10.9.0-00.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Temporary File vulnerability in Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor on Linux (Analytics probe component), Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer on Linux (Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer probe component) allows local users to gain sensitive information.

In affected versions of Octopus Server where access is managed by an external authentication provider, it was possible that the API key/keys of a disabled/deleted user were still valid after the access was revoked.

lesspipe before 2.06 allows attackers to execute code via Perl Storable (pst) files, because of deserialized object destructor execution via a key/value pair in a hash.

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Axiomatic Bento4. Affected by this issue is the function AP4_DataBuffer::SetDataSize of the component Avcinfo. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-212564.

rtf2html v0.2.0 was discovered to contain a heap overflow in the component /rtf2html/./rtf_tools.h.

timg v1.4.4 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the function timg::QueryBackgroundColor() at /timg/src/term-query.cc.

xfig 3.2.7 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow.