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Security: Patches, Learning From Home, Debian Fixes and Zoom Security is a Joke

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 10th of April 2020 09:44:51 PM Filed under
Security
  • Security updates for Friday

    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, firefox, haproxy, libssh, and wireshark-cli), Fedora (firefox, glibc, nss, and rubygem-puma), openSUSE (ceph, exim, firefox, and gnuhealth), Oracle (firefox, kernel, and qemu-kvm), and SUSE (djvulibre and firefox).

  • Security 101: Learning From Home

    Outside, there’s a pandemic. We’re being asked to stay indoors, shelter in place, and avoid social contact. Conferences are cancelled, live trainings are out of the question. Some businesses are closing (hopefully temporarily) and there are unfortunate layoffs and furloughs across the board. It’s a tough time.

    Rather than dwell on the negative, focusing on something else can help you get through this mentally. Learning something or growing your skills can both help take away from the anxiety of the situation and also help you come out of this a better person. Whether you’re just getting started in security or looking to advance your career, or just looking to become more security-aware as an individual, there are some great options for learning from home. My lists below are by no means comprehensive – there’s more content than I can shake a stick at. However, these are intended to be good for beginners and have a diverse set of content. If you know of something I should have included, please reach out.

  • Utkarsh Gupta: Debian Activities for March 2020

    CVE Fixes and Announcements:

    Issued DLA 2131-1, fixing CVE-2014-6262, for rrdtool.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.8-1.2+deb8u1.

    Issued DLA 2131-2, fixing regression caused by DLA 2131-1, for rrdtool.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.8-1.2+deb8u2.

    Issued DLA 2135-1, fixing CVE-2020-9546, CVE-2020-9547, and CVE-2020-9548, for jackson-databind.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.2-2+deb8u12.

    Issued DLA 2137-1, fixing CVE-2020-10232, for sleuthkit.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.3-4+deb8u2.

    Issued DLA 2139-1, fixing CVE-2020-5258 and CVE-2020-5259, for dojo.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, these problems have been fixed in version 1.10.2+dfsg-1+deb8u3.

    Issued DLA 2141-1, fixing CVE-2020-10184 and CVE-2020-10185, for yubikey-val.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, these problems have been fixed in version 2.27-1+deb8u1.

    Issued DLA 2146-1, fixing CVE-2019-15690, for libvncserver.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.9+dfsg2-6.1+deb8u7.

    Issued DLA 2147-1, fixing CVE-2019-17546, for gdal.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.1+dfsg-8+deb8u2.

    Issued DLA 2149-1, fixing CVE-2020-5267, for rails.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u6.

    Issued DLA 2153-1, fixing CVE-2020-10672 and CVE-2020-10673, for jackson-databind.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.2-2+deb8u13.

    Issued DLA 2154-1, fixing CVE-2020-10802 and CVE-2020-10803, for phpmyadmin.
    For Debian 8 “Jessie”, these problems have been fixed in version 4:4.2.12-2+deb8u9.

  • Michigan governments take to Zoom. Burps, porn and arrest threats follow.

    A host of pranks and pornographic images during videoconferences nationwide have officials trying to balance productivity and order with free speech and public engagement.

    The Michigan Open Meetings Act requires officials to make decisions in a public setting that citizens can observe, among other things, and transparency advocates fear an overly broad crackdown on Zoom pranksters could deny citizens an active voice in their government.

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