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With the increasing popularity of Linux over the years, and the various Linux distributions that are constantly being released, it can be hard to choose the co…
Update to 102.3.0 ; https://www.mozilla.org/en- US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/ ; https://www.thunderbird.net/en- US/thunderbird/102.3.0/releasenotes/
Update to 102.3.0 ; https://www.mozilla.org/en- US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-42/ ; https://www.thunderbird.net/en- US/thunderbird/102.3.0/releasenotes/
Rhodri James discovered a heap use-after-free vulnerability in the doContent function in Expat, an XML parsing C library, which could result in denial of servi…
Sandipan Roy discovered two vulnerabilities in InfoZIP's unzip program, a de-archiver for .zip files, which could result in denial of service or potentially th…
A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine (CVE-2022-31676). Referenc…
Maher Azzouzi discovered that missing input sanitising in the Enlightenment window manager may result in local privilege escalation to root.
BlackArch is a well-known penetration testing distribution based on Arch Linux, but not everyone is aware of the unique features that set it apart.
Linux systems are a popular delivery mechanism for malware. While they're not the most popular '' that distinction goes to HTML and Javascript '' don't think y…
Malicious actors such as Kinsing are taking advantage of both recently disclosed and older security flaws in Oracle WebLogic Server to deliver cryptocurrency-m…
Maher Azzouzi found a local root escalation vulnerability in Enlightenment, an X11 window manager. For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version
Several issues have been discovered in the MariaDB database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MariaDB to the new upstream version 10.3.36.…
An issue has been found in mod-wsgi, a Python WSGI adapter module for Apache. A request from an untrusted proxy does not remove the X-Client-IP header and thus…
Researchers discovered a severe blind SSRF vulnerability in WordPress that could allow DDoS attacks. Notably,…Six-Year-Old Blind SSRF Vulnerability Risks WordP…
Is your favorite Linux desktop Cinnamon, MATE, or Xfce? Or you are hankering for a change to something different and potentially better?
As IT workers continue their daunting job of protecting network users from bad guys, a few new tools might help stem the tide of vulnerabilities that continue …
A checksum is a small-sized block of data that is used to identify faults in files introduced during transmission or storage. Checksums are frequently used to …
Let's take a brief look at what Guillaume Fournier from Datadog presented at Blackhat USA 2022: ''One of the fastest growing subsystems in the Linux Kernel is,…
Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code or spoofing.
Businesses currently utilize online services/technologies for different reasons. Such services are not always secure as…External Attack Surface Management Expl…
Nick Wellnhofer discovered that the xsltApplyTemplates function in libxslt, an XSLT processing runtime library, is prone to a use-after-free flaw, resulting in…
A vulnerability was discovered in open-vm-tools, an open source implementation of VMware Tools, allowing an unprivileged local guest user to escalate their pri…
Cybersecurity is a hot topic for any organization worldwide, as ransomware attacks continue to target…Take part in this 2022 Ransomware Survey & Win a 4K Samsu…
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium and its derivatives, the worst of which could result in remote code execution.