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XZ Utils backdoor update: Which Linux distros are affected and what can you do?

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XZ Utils backdoor update: Which Linux distros are affected and what can you do? 2024-03-31 at 21:01 By Zeljka Zorz The news that XZ Utils, a compression utility present in most Linux distributions, has been backdoored by a supposedly trusted maintainer has rattled the open-source software community on Friday, mere hours until the beginning of […]

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Beware! Backdoor found in XZ utilities used by many Linux distros (CVE-2024-3094)

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Beware! Backdoor found in XZ utilities used by many Linux distros (CVE-2024-3094) 2024-03-29 at 20:31 By Zeljka Zorz A vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094) in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utilities included in most Linux distributions, may “enable a malicious actor to break sshd authentication and gain unauthorized access to the entire system remotely,” Red Hat warns.

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Curl project squashes high-severity bug in omnipresent libcurl library (CVE-2023-38545)

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Curl project squashes high-severity bug in omnipresent libcurl library (CVE-2023-38545) 11/10/2023 at 13:31 By Zeljka Zorz Curl v8.4.0 is out, and fixes – among other things – a high-severity SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545). Appropriate patches for some older curl versions have been released, too. Preparation for the security updates A little over a

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GNOME users at risk of RCE attack (CVE-2023-43641)

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GNOME users at risk of RCE attack (CVE-2023-43641) 10/10/2023 at 14:32 By Zeljka Zorz If you’re running GNOME on you Linux system(s), you are probably open to remote code execution attacks via a booby-trapped file, thanks to a memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2023-43641) in the libcue library. About CVE-2023-43641 Discovered by GitHub security researcher Kevin Backhouse,

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“Looney Tunables” bug allows root access on Linux distros (CVE-2023-4911)

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“Looney Tunables” bug allows root access on Linux distros (CVE-2023-4911) 05/10/2023 at 16:17 By Zeljka Zorz A vulnerability (CVE-2023-4911) in the GNU C Library (aka “glibc”) can be exploited by attackers to gain root privileges on many popular Linux distributions, according to Qualys researchers. About CVE-2023-4911 Dubbed “Looney Tunables”, CVE-2023-4911 is a buffer overflow vulnerability

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Google “confirms” that exploited Chrome zero-day is actually in libwebp (CVE-2023-5129)

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Google “confirms” that exploited Chrome zero-day is actually in libwebp (CVE-2023-5129) 27/09/2023 at 14:46 By Zeljka Zorz The Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild and patched by Google a few weeks ago has a new ID (CVE-2023-5129) and a description that tells the whole story: the vulnerability is not in Chrome, but the libwebp library,

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Downfall attacks can gather passwords, encryption keys from Intel processors

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Downfall attacks can gather passwords, encryption keys from Intel processors 09/08/2023 at 13:02 By Zeljka Zorz A variety of Intel Core processors and the devices using them are vulnerable to “Downfall”, a new class of attacks made possible by CVE-2022-40982, which enables attackers to access and steal sensitive data such as passwords, encryption keys, and

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