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Critical Boot Loader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux Distros

By Newsroom — February 7th 2024 at 13:33
The maintainers of shim have released version 15.8 to address six security flaws, including a critical bug that could pave the way for remote code execution under specific circumstances. Tracked as CVE-2023-40547 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability could be exploited to achieve a Secure Boot bypass. Bill Demirkapi of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) has been&
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New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros

By Newsroom — January 31st 2024 at 05:44
Malicious local attackers can obtain full root access on Linux machines by taking advantage of a newly disclosed security flaw in the GNU C library (aka glibc). Tracked as CVE-2023-6246 (CVSS score: 7.8), the heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability is rooted in glibc's __vsyslog_internal() function, which is used by syslog() and vsyslog() for system logging purposes. It's said to have
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Zero-Day Alert: Google Chrome Under Active Attack, Exploiting New Vulnerability

By Newsroom — November 29th 2023 at 04:27
Google has rolled out security updates to fix seven security issues in its Chrome browser, including a zero-day that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-6345, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as an integer overflow bug in Skia, an open source 2D graphics library. Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) have
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Serious Unpatched Vulnerability Uncovered in Popular Belkin Wemo Smart Plugs

By Ravie Lakshmanan — May 17th 2023 at 10:17
The second generation version of Belkin's Wemo Mini Smart Plug has been found to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be weaponized by a threat actor to inject arbitrary commands remotely. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-27217, was discovered and reported to Belkin on January 9, 2023, by Israeli IoT security company Sternum, which reverse-engineered the device and
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Ping of death! FreeBSD fixes crashtastic bug in network tool

By Paul Ducklin — December 5th 2022 at 19:59
It's a venerable program, and this version had a venerable bug in it.

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Critical Ping Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Take Over FreeBSD Systems

By Ravie Lakshmanan — December 5th 2022 at 07:40
The maintainers of the FreeBSD operating system have released updates to remediate a security vulnerability impacting the ping module that could be potentially exploited to crash the program or trigger remote code execution. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-23093, impacts all supported versions of FreeBSD and concerns a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the ping service. "
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OpenSSL Releases Patch for 2 New High-Severity Vulnerabilities

By Ravie Lakshmanan — November 1st 2022 at 16:26
The OpenSSL project has rolled out fixes to contain two high-severity flaws in its widely used cryptography library that could result in a denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The issues, tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, have been described as buffer overrun vulnerabilities that can be triggered during X.509 certificate verification by supplying a specially-crafted email
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Chrome patches 24 security holes, enables “Sanitizer” safety system

By Paul Ducklin — August 31st 2022 at 11:48
24 existing bugs fixed. And, we hope, numerous potential future bugs prevented.

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Power company pays out $3 trillion compensation to astonished customer

By Paul Ducklin — February 14th 2022 at 14:58
More money than the UK's economy produces in a year!

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Home routers with NetUSB support could have critical kernel hole

By Paul Ducklin — January 11th 2022 at 17:42
Got a router that supports USB access across the network? You might need a kernel update...

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