USN-6600-1: MariaDB vulnerabilities

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Several security issues were discovered in MariaDB and this update
includes new upstream MariaDB versions to fix these issues.

MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.39 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 10.6.16
in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 10.11.6 in Ubuntu 23.10.

CVE-2022-47015 only affected the MariaDB packages in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes,
new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

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AI is already being used by ransomware gangs, warns NCSC

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In a newly published report, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned that malicious attackers are already taking advantage of artificial intelligence and that the volume and impact of threats – including ransomware – will increase in the next two years.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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USN-6599-1: Jinja2 vulnerabilities

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Yeting Li discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled certain regex.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-28493)

It was discovered that Jinja incorrectly handled certain HTML passed with
xmlatter filter. An attacker could inject arbitrary HTML attributes
keys and values potentially leading to XSS. (CVE-2024-22195)

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USN-6598-1: Paramiko vulnerability

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Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, Jörg Schwenk discovered that the SSH
protocol was vulnerable to a prefix truncation attack. If a remote attacker
was able to intercept SSH communications, extension negotiation messages
could be truncated, possibly leading to certain algorithms and features
being downgraded. This issue is known as the Terrapin attack. This update
adds protocol extensions to mitigate this issue.

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Quantum Computing Skeptics

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Interesting article. I am also skeptical that we are going to see useful quantum computers anytime soon. Since at least 2019, I have been saying that this is hard. And that we don’t know if it’s “land a person on the surface of the moon” hard, or “land a person on the surface of the sun” hard. They’re both hard, but very different.

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