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If you can’t upgrade immediately, the most effective ways to reduce your risk are the following:
Define the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES environment variable to contain the parent directory of your user profile (i.e., /Users on macOS,
/home on Linux, and C:\Users on Windows).
ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation
violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.
Even though this is not technically a security fix, it is worth mentioning the new 5.15.35 kernel has a backported patch that improves performance for alder lake processors. There will probably be a kernel security upgrade in the future so this is not that important but still I thought I would post about it.
CVE-2022-0742
Linux Kernel up to 5.15.27/5.16.13/5.17-rc7 ICMPv6 Packet igmp6_event_query/igmp6_event_report resource consumption https://vuldb.com/?id.195443
cifs-utils through 6.14, with verbose logging, can cause an information leak when a file
contains = (equal sign) characters but is not a valid credentials file.
Use after free in append_command in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.
This vulnerability is capable of crashing software, Bypass Protection Mechanism,
Modify Memory, and possible remote execution
xpdf 4.04 allocates excessive memory when presented with crafted input. This can be triggered
by (for example) sending a crafted PDF document to the pdftoppm binary.
It is most easily reproduced with the DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=afl-clang-fast++ option.
GIMP 2.10.30 and 2.99.10 are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow.
Through a crafted XCF file, the program will allocate for a huge amount of memory,
resulting in insufficient memory or program crash.
From Gitlab:
Code:
Jacob Boerema @Wormnest · 2 weeks ago
Should be fixed now in both master and the next stable release.
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