Article 1VNP9 A pile of security updates for Thursday

A pile of security updates for Thursday

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from LWN.net on (#1VNP9)
Arch Linux has updatedfirefox (multiple vulnerabilities),irssi (code execution), andtomcat7 (proxy injection).

CentOS has updatedfirefox (C5, C6, C7: multiple vulnerabilities).

Debian has updatedwireshark (LTS: dissector vulnerabilities),irssi (denial of service), andopenssl (multiple vulnerabilities).

Fedora has updateddrupal7-google_analytics (F23, F24: cross-site scripting),drupal7-panels (F23, F24: multiple vulnerabilities),jasper (F23: multiple code-executionvulnerabilities),mod_cluster (F24: "remoteexploits"),nodejs-string-dot-prototype-dot-repeat (F23: "update for securityreasons"),php-horde-Horde-Mime-Viewer (F23,F24:cross-site scripting),php-horde-Horde-Text-Filter (F23,F24:cross-site scripting), andxen (F23: multiplevulnerabilities).

Mageia has updatedchromium-browser-stable (29 CVEs),curl (code execution),file-roller (file deletion),flash-player-plugin (26 CVEs),icu (code execution),jsch (path traversal vulnerability),libksba (denial of service),nodejs (remote code execution),slock (lock bypass), andtomcat (traffic redirection).

openSUSE has updatedopera (multiple vulnerabilities).

Oracle has updatedfirefox (OL5, OL6,OL7: multiplevulnerabilities).

Scientific Linux has updatedfirefox (SL5-7: multiple vulnerabilities).

Slackware has updatedirssi (denial of service),pidgin (17 CVE numbers), andfirefox (multiple vulnerabilities).

SUSE has updatedjava-1_7_1-ibm (SLES12: three CVEsdescribed as "Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7u101 and8u92 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, andavailability via vectors related to Deployment"), andjava-1_6-0-ibm (SLES11: oneunspecified vulnerability).

Ubuntu has updatedfirefox (multiple vulnerabilities),gdk-pixbuf (code execution),irssi (denial of service), andthunderbird (code execution).

Note that there appear to be differences of opinion as to whether the irssivulnerability can be exploited for code execution.

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