Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-256 – Apache mod_fcgid before version 2.3.9 fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input. This may allow a remote attacker to cause a heap-based buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code…….

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2780-1 – This DSA updates the MySQL database to 5.1.72. This fixes multiple unspecified security problems in the Optimizer component…….

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-255 – A security flaw was found in the way Clutter, an open source software library for creating rich graphical user interfaces, used to manage translation of hierarchy events in certain circumstances. Physically proximate attackers could use this flaw for example to obtain unauthorized access to gnome-shell session right after system…

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-252 – A non-privileged user who was able to run jobs or login to a node which ran pbs_server or pbs_mom, could submit arbitrary jobs to a pbs_mom daemon to queue and run the job, which would run as root…….

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-254 – Remotely exploitable buffer overflow in ospf_api.c and ospfclient.c when processing LSA messages in quagga before 0.99.22.2. Note: We have worked around this vulnerability by disabling the ospf_api and ospfclient features, which did not provide useful functionality…….

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-251 – A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Aircrack-ng. A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted dump file using Aircrack-ng, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition…….

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-253 – Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way libtar handled certain archives. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially-crafted archive, it could cause the libtar executable or an application using libtar to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code…….

jfruh writes “Privacy blogger Dan Tynan couldn’t help but notice the ads targeting his web browsing for a plus-sized women’s clothing store, not least because he’s neither a woman nor plus-sized. But trying to figure out why those ads kept popping up in his browser led to some disturbing discoveries. He had opted out of…

Even Facebook is still running the 12-year-old OS, but the clock is ticking……

The AquaChef Clarity is an affordable home sous-vide cooker. The countertop appliance features a clear polycarbonate housing…….