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LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 2, 2012
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Recent vulnerabilities
The following vulnerabilities have recently seen updates or alerts.
ID Update Package(s )
Description 479334 February 3, 2012
ghostscript
ghostscript: PostScript code execution 479333 February 3, 2012
php5
php: remote code execution 478703 February 3, 2012
thunderbird firefox seamonkey
Mozilla products: multiple vulnerabilities 474223 February 3, 2012
ghostscript
ghostscript: denial of service 475010 February 2, 2012
openssl
openssl: multiple vulnerabilities
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Recent LWN.net security pages
Here are the most recent LWN.net security pages, with a comprehensive roundup of
a week's worth security-related information.
Date Contents
Feb 01, 2012 Format string vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in chromium, curl, ktsuss, sudo, ...
Jan 25, 2012 Security processes and the X.org flaw; New vulnerabilities in bugzilla, emacs, kernel, xkeyboard-config, ...
Jan 18, 2012 SOPA and PIPA; New vulnerabilities in kernel, libxml2, openssl, wordpress, ...
Jan 11, 2012 Denial of service via hash collisions; New vulnerabilities in apache, chromium, kernel, openssl, ...
Jan 04, 2012 A hole in telnetd; New vulnerabilities in ffmpeg, ghostscript, kernel, mozilla products, ...
Dec 21, 2011 GNUnet 0.9.0; New vulnerabilities in bzip2, lighttpd, mediawiki, tor, ...
Dec 14, 2011 Comparative browser security white paper; New vulnerabilities in dovecot, icu, ykclient, zabbix, ...
Dec 07, 2011 Loading signed kernel modules; New vulnerabilities in colord, glibc, nginx, qemu-kvm, ...
Nov 30, 2011 Printer vulnerabilities; New vulnerabilities in glibc, kernel, ReviewBoard, update-manager, ...
Nov 23, 2011 Sovereign Keys; New vulnerabilities in bind, chromium, freetype, squid, ...
Nov 16, 2011 Distribution security response; New vulnerabilities in lightdm, Mozilla products, proftpd, wireshark, ...
Nov 09, 2011 Password managers; New vulnerabilities in Firefox/Seamonkey, kernel, Perl, Xen, ...
Nov 02, 2011 Calibre and setuid; New vulnerabilities in chromium, kernel, phpldapadmin, radvd, ...
Oct 26, 2011 STEED: End-to-end email encryption; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, dbus, freetype2, java, ...
Oct 19, 2011 Convergence; New vulnerabilities in awstats, java, libreoffice, php, ...
Oct 12, 2011 Enforcing password strength; New vulnerabilities in apache, cyrus-imapd, kernel, xorg-x11-server, ...
Oct 05, 2011 An odd vulnerability report for LibreOffice; New vulnerabilities in Mozilla products, OpenSSL, Puppet, RPM, ...
Sep 28, 2011 System Security Services Daemon; UEFI; TLS; New vulnerabilities in flash, foomatic, pango, ...
Sep 21, 2011 The kernel hardening roundtable; UEFI secure boot; New vulnerabilities in django, httpd, php, zabbix, ...
Sep 14, 2011 Linux Security Summit LSM roundtable; New vulnerabilities in chromium, cyrus-imapd, kernel, openssl, ...
