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USN-4652-1: SniffIt vulnerability It was discovered that SniffIt incorrectly handled certain configuration files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Source: USN-4652-1: SniffIt vulnerability

USN-4651-1: MySQL vulnerabilities Tom Reynolds discovered that due to a packaging error, the MySQL X Plugin was listening to all network interfaces by default, contrary to expectations. This update changes the default MySQL configuration to bind the MySQL X Plugin to localhost only. This change may impact environments where the MySQL X Plugin needs to be accessible from the network. The mysqlx-bind-address setting in the /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf file can be modified to allow network access. Source: USN-4651-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

USN-4650-1: QEMU vulnerabilities Alexander Bulekov discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SDHCI device emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2020-17380) Sergej Schumilo, Cornelius Aschermann, and Simon Wrner discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB device emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-25084) Sergej Schumilo, Cornelius Aschermann, and Simon Wrner discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SDHCI device emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-25085) Gaoning Pan, Yongkang Jia, and Yi Ren [ more… ]