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Severe Vulnerabilities in Cinterion Cellular Modems Pose Risks to Various Industries

By: Newsroom β€” May 13th 2024 at 10:12
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security flaws in Cinterion cellular modems that could be potentially exploited by threat actors to access sensitive information and achieve code execution. "These vulnerabilities include critical flaws that permit remote code execution and unauthorized privilege escalation, posing substantial risks to integral communication networks and IoT
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U.S. Court Orders NSO Group to Hand Over Pegasus Spyware Code to WhatsApp

By: Newsroom β€” March 2nd 2024 at 06:23
A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other remote access trojans to Meta as part of the social media giant's ongoing litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor. The decision marks a major legal victory for Meta, which filed the lawsuit in October 2019 for using its infrastructure to distribute the spyware to
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Critical Boot Loader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux Distros

By: Newsroom β€” 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 β€” 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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Serious Unpatched Vulnerability Uncovered in Popular Belkin Wemo Smart Plugs

By: Ravie Lakshmanan β€” 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 identifierΒ 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 β€” December 5th 2022 at 17:59
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 β€” 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 identifierΒ CVE-2022-23093, impacts all supported versions of FreeBSD and concerns aΒ stack-based buffer overflowΒ vulnerability in theΒ ping service. "
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OpenSSL Releases Patch for 2 New High-Severity Vulnerabilities

By: Ravie Lakshmanan β€” 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 asΒ 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 β€œSanitizer” safety system

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

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Home routers with NetUSB support could have critical kernel hole

By: Paul Ducklin β€” 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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