Smashing Security podcast #324: .ZIP domains, AI lies, and did social media inflame a riot?

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ChatGPT hallucinations cause turbulence in court, a riot in Wales may have been ignited on social media, and do you think .MOV is a good top-level domain for “a website that moves you”?

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.

Plus don’t miss our featured interview with David Ahn of Centripetal.

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USN-6127-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in
the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests,
leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this
to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2023-32233)

Gwangun Jung discovered that the Quick Fair Queueing scheduler
implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write
vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service
(system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-31436)

Reima Ishii discovered that the nested KVM implementation for Intel x86
processors in the Linux kernel did not properly validate control registers
in certain situations. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a
denial of service (guest crash). (CVE-2023-30456)

It was discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC USB WiFi driver in the Linux
kernel did not properly perform data buffer size validation in some
situations. A physically proximate attacker could use this to craft a
malicious USB device that when inserted, could cause a denial of service
(system crash) or possibly expose sensitive information. (CVE-2023-1380)

Jean-Baptiste Cayrou discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu
Linux kernel contained a race condition when handling inode locking in some
situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service
(kernel deadlock). (CVE-2023-2612)

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CVE-2015-10108

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A vulnerability was found in meitar Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer Plugin up to 0.9.6 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function displayShortcode of the file inline-gdocs-viewer.php. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. The attack may be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.9.6.1 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 2a8057df8ca30adc859cecbe5cad21ac28c5b747. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. VDB-230234 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

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Gigabyte firmware component can be abused as a backdoor

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Researchers warn that the UEFI firmware in many motherboards made by PC hardware manufacturer Gigabyte injects executable code inside the Windows kernel in an unsafe way that can be abused by attackers to compromise systems. Sophisticated APT groups are abusing similar implementations in the wild.

“While our ongoing investigation has not confirmed exploitation by a specific threat actor, an active widespread backdoor that is difficult to remove poses a supply chain risk for organizations with Gigabyte systems,” researchers from security firm Eclypsium said in a report.

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