Security researcher discovered a highly critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-14665) in X.Org Server package that affects major Linux distributions. The Indian security researcher Narendra Shinde has discovered a highly critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-14665) in X.Org Server package that affects major Linux distributions, including OpenBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X project provides an open source implementation of the X Window […]
Google Project Zero disclosed details for a high severity Linux kernel a use-after-free vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-17182. The vulnerability is a use-after-free tracked as CVE-2018-17182, it was discovered by Google Project Zeroâs Jann Horn. The vulnerability was introduced in August 2014 with the release of version 3.16 of the Linux kernel. The issue could be exploited […]
A new integer overflow vulnerability found in Linux Kernel. Dubbed Mutagen Astronomy, it affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions. Security researchers have discovered a new integer overflow vulnerability in Linux Kernel, dubbed Mutagen Astronomy, that affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions. The vulnerability could be exploited by an unprivileged user to gain superuser access to the targeted system. The flaw was […]
Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself, but it is spread via brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. Today I’d like to share a simple analysis based on a fascinating threat that I like to call Sustes (you will see name genesis in a bit). Everybody knows Monero cryptocurrency and probably everybody knows […]
The popular Debian-based distribution Tails âThe Amnesiac Incognito Live Systemâ is out. The Tails 3.9 is available online with the biggest updates this year. A new version of the popular Debian-based distribution Tails âThe Amnesiac Incognito Live Systemâ is out. The Tails version 3.9 is available online, the privacy-oriented operating system gets its biggest update, many […]
Linux kernel maintainers have rolled out security updates for two DoS vulnerabilities tracked as SegmentSmack and FragmentSmack. Linux kernel maintainers have released security patches that address two vulnerabilities, tracked as two bugs are known as SegmentSmack (CVE-2018-5390) and FragmentSmack (CVE-2018-5391). potentially exploitable to trigger a DoS condition. The vulnerabilities reside the Linux kernel’s TCP stack, an attacker can […]
Hackers have poisoned the Arch Linux PDF reader package named “acroread” that was found in a user-provided Arch User Repository (AUR), Hackers have poisoned the Arch Linux PDF reader package, this means that users who have downloaded recently a PDF viewer named “acroread” may have been compromised. ThePDF reader package has been tainted with a malware and Arch […]
The sale of Zero-day exploits is a prolific business, zero-day broker Zerodium offers rewards of up to $500,000 FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days. The sale of Zero-day exploits is a prolific business that most people totally ignore, to better understand its evolution let’s analyze together the offer of the popular exploit broker Zerodium. To have […]
The development team of the Gentoo Linux distribution notifies users that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts and planted a malicious code. Developers of the Gentoo Linux distribution announced that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts used by the organization and planted a malicious code. âToday 28 June at approximately 20:20 UTC unknown […]
Red Hat has announced a critical vulnerability in its DHCP client tracked as CVE-2018-1111 that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on targeted systems. Felix Wilhelm from the Google security team discovered a critical remote command injection vulnerability in the DHCP client implementation of Red Hat Linux, the issue also affects other distros […]