Update to v5.1.19
Archive for July 25th, 2019

Update to v5.1.19

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

USN-4054-1 caused some minor regressions in Firefox.

Exim could be made to run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted network traffic.

An update for rh-redis32-redis is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Several security issues were fixed in VLC.

libEBML could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Jeremy Harris discovered that Exim, a mail transport agent, does not properly handle the ${sort } expansion. This flaw can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute programs with root privileges in non-default (and unusual) configurations where ${sort } expansion is used for items