Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2019
Hackers are targeting millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions, threat actors leverage the CVE-2019-10149 flaw. Millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions are under attack, threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2019-10149 flaw to take over them. A critical vulnerability affects versions 4.87 to 4.91 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2019
Bad news for Linux users, a flaw tracked as CVE-2019-12735 allows to hack their systems by tricking them into opening a specially crafted file in Vim or Neovim Editor. Security expert Armin Razmjou has recently found a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2019-12735) in Vim and Neovim command-line text editing applications. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-12735, is classified as an arbitrary OS command […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2019
The Russian army seems to be in the process of replacing the Windows system with the Debian-based Linux distribution Astra Linux. Cyber security seems to subvert the globalization concept, governments are working to develop their own technology fearing possible espionage and sabotage activities of foreign states. The Russian military is in the process of replacing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2019
A race condition flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to read and write any file on the host system affects any versions of Docker. Experts found a race condition vulnerability in any versions of Docker, the vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to read and write any file on the host system. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-11815 could lead to privilege escalation, it received a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Security experts from Chronicle, the Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have discovered a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. It is the first time that researchers found a Linux version of the backdoor user by China-linked APT groups tacked as Winnti. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Security experts have found a race condition vulnerability (CVE-2019-11815) in Linux Kernel Prior to 5.0.8 that expose systems to remote code execution. Linux systems based on kernel versions prior to 5.0.8 are affected by a race condition vulnerability leading to a use after free that could be exploited by hackers to get remote code execution. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2019
Since December 2015, Alpine Linux Docker images have been shipped with hardcoded credentials, a NULL password for the root user. Security researchers from Cisco revealed that Alpine Linux Docker images distributed via the official Docker Hub portal since December 2015 have been using a NULL password for the root account, The NULL password for the root […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2019
The Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a recently discovered vulnerability in runc tracked as CVE-2019-5736 is now publicly available. Last week, Aleksa Sarai, a senior software engineer at SUSE Linux GmbH, disclosed a serious vulnerability tracked CVE-2019-5736 affecting runc, the default container runtime for Docker, containerd, Podman, and CRI-O. The vulnerability was discovered by the security researchers Adam Iwaniuk and Borys […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2019
Security experts found a serious flaw tracked CVE-2019-5736 affecting runc, the default container runtime for Docker, containerd, Podman, and CRI-O. Aleksa Sarai, a senior software engineer at SUSE Linux GmbH, has disclosed a serious vulnerability tracked CVE-2019-5736 affecting runc, the default container runtime for Docker, containerd, Podman, and CRI-O. The vulnerability was discovered by the security researchers […]
