A pile of security updates for Thursday

Arch Linux has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), irssi (code execution), and tomcat7 (proxy injection).

CentOS has updated firefox (C5, C6, C7: multiple vulnerabilities).

Debian has updated wireshark (LTS: dissector vulnerabilities), irssi (denial of service), and openssl (multiple vulnerabilities).

Fedora has updated drupal7-google_analytics (F23, F24: cross-site scripting), drupal7-panels (F23, F24: multiple vulnerabilities), jasper (F23: multiple code-execution vulnerabilities), mod_cluster (F24: "remote exploits"), nodejs-string-dot-prototype-dot-repeat (F23: "update for security reasons"), php-horde-Horde-Mime-Viewer (F23, F24: cross-site scripting), php-horde-Horde-Text-Filter (F23, F24: cross-site scripting), and xen (F23: multiple vulnerabilities).

Mageia has updated chromium-browser-stable (29 CVEs), curl (code execution), file-roller (file deletion), flash-player-plugin (26 CVEs), icu (code execution), jsch (path traversal vulnerability), libksba (denial of service), nodejs (remote code execution), slock (lock bypass), and tomcat (traffic redirection).

openSUSE has updated opera (multiple vulnerabilities).

Oracle has updated firefox (OL5, OL6, OL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

Scientific Linux has updated firefox (SL5-7: multiple vulnerabilities).

Slackware has updated irssi (denial of service), pidgin (17 CVE numbers), and firefox (multiple vulnerabilities).

SUSE has updated java-1_7_1-ibm (SLES12: three CVEs described as "Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7u101 and 8u92 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to Deployment"), and java-1_6-0-ibm (SLES11: one unspecified vulnerability).

Ubuntu has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), gdk-pixbuf (code execution), irssi (denial of service), and thunderbird (code execution).

Note that there appear to be differences of opinion as to whether the irssi vulnerability can be exploited for code execution.

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