Weekly Patch and Update Summary for Week of February 26, 2016
By Taylor Sakuda on February 26, 2016
For all patches and updates listed below please use the appropriate updating methods for your system. It is advised that you patch and update your system as soon and possible.
Apple released a security update 7.2.1 for the Apple TV to address multiple vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities may be allow a remote attacker to take control of the device. For more information please see Apple TV 7.2.1
Drupal released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities may allow remote attackers to take control of an affect website. For more information please see SA-CORE-2016-001
Below is a list of patches:
- Drupal core 6.38 for 6.x users
- Drupal core 7.43 for 7.x users
- Drupal core 8.0.4 for 8.0.x users
Canonical also released many security patches for their operating system Ubuntu. For more information please see Ubuntu security notices.
Below is a list of patches:
- USN-2908-4: Linux kernel regression
- USN-2913-3: OpenSSL update
- USN-2913-2: glib-networking update
- USN-2913-4: GnuTLS update
- USN-2913-1: ca-certificates update
- USN-2903-2: NSS regression
- USN-2912-1: libssh vulnerabilities
- USN-2905-1: Oxide vulnerability
- USN-2911-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability
- USN-2911-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
- USN-2910-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities
- USN-2909-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities
- USN-2908-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- USN-2908-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities
- USN-2908-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities
- USN-2907-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
- USN-2907-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- USN-2906-1: GNU cpio vulnerabilities
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