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GNOME Shell Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu 16.04
Recently, Canonical released security updates addressing two vulnerabilities in GNOME Shell, a popular graphical shell for the GNOME desktop environment. These updates are specifically targeted at Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, an expanded security ...
Critical GNU Emacs Vulnerabilities Fixed: Update Now
Recently, Canonical issued security updates to address several Emacs vulnerabilities in multiple Ubuntu releases. Emacs is one of the popular text editors in Linux operating systems. The identified vulnerabilities primarily revolve around ...
Addressing Git Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04
Canonical has released security updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM to address multiple vulnerabilities in Git, a powerful and widely-used distributed version control system. These vulnerabilities may allow malicious ...
Critical Expat Vulnerabilities Fixed: Urgent Update Required
A recent discovery has highlighted significant security risks within the widely used Expat XML parsing C library. Security researcher Shang-Hung Wan identified three critical Expat vulnerabilities that could potentially lead to denial-of-service ...
Ubuntu Patches Multiple Vim Vulnerabilities
Recently, Canonical has released security updates to address multiple Vim vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Ubuntu 14.04, codenamed “Trusty Tahr,” reached its end-of-life (EOL) on April 30, 2019. After this date, Canonical ...
Ubuntu Fixes Multiple BusyBox Vulnerabilities
BusyBox, often referred to as the “Swiss Army knife of embedded Linux,” is a compact suite of Unix utilities combined into a single executable. It’s widely used in small and embedded systems ...
Multiple Tomcat Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu and Debian
Tomcat, a widely-used servlet and JSP engine, has recently undergone several security updates to address critical vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks or arbitrary code ...
Several Linux Kernel Azure Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu
Recently, Canonical released security updates to address several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. An attacker could possibly use these ...
Exploring Git Vulnerabilities: Latest Fixes and Updates
Multiple security issues were found in Git, a popular distributed version control system. The Ubuntu security team has proactively addressed Git vulnerabilities by releasing updates for various versions of the Ubuntu operating ...
VMware Workstation and Fusion: Critical Security Flaws Fixed
VMware, a leading virtualization technology company, has fixed multiple security vulnerabilities found in VMware Workstation and Fusion products. These flaws, if exploited, could allow attackers to cause a denial of service, obtain ...