BSD

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2020
CVE-2020-7247 RCE flaw in OpenSMTPD library affects many BSD and Linux distros

Security researchers have spotted a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-7247, that affects a core email-related library used by many BSD and Linux distributions. Security experts from Qualys have discovered a flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-7247, in OpenSMTPD. OpenSMTPD is an open-source implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321, it includes also some additional […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2017
Stack Clash vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code as root

Stack Clash is a local privilege escalation flaw in Linux, BSD, Solaris and other open source systems that allows an attacker to execute code as root. Linux, BSD, Solaris and other open source systems are vulnerable to a local privilege escalation vulnerability known as Stack Clash that allows an attacker to execute code as root. Stack Clash is […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2015
Thousands Linux and FreeBSD servers infected with Mumblehard spamming malware

The sophisticated Mumblehard spamming malware infects thousands of Linux and FreeBSD servers going under the radar for at least five years. In the last seven months, several thousand Linux and FreeBSD machines have been infected with a sophisticated malware dubbed Mumblehard. The infected machines were part of a botnet used, in the last five years, to […]