It was discovered that libde265 could be made to write out of bounds. If a
user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-43244, CVE-2022-43249,
CVE-2022-43250, CVE-2022-47665, CVE-2023-25221)
It was discovered that libde265 could be made to read out of bounds. If a
user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2022-43245)
It was discovered that libde265 could be made to dereference invalid
memory. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2023-24751, CVE-2023-24752, CVE-2023-24754,
CVE-2023-24755, CVE-2023-24756, CVE-2023-24757, CVE-2023-24758)
Always be wary of opening unsolicited attachments – they might harbour malware.
That’s a message that is being strongly underlined once again, following the discovery of a cybercrime campaign that is sending out poisoned PDF files – pretending they are associated with hotel reservations.
A new White House report has urged software and hardware developers to adopt memory safe programming languages, and eliminate one of the most pervasive classes of bugs
Surprise! The LockBit ransomware group has re-emerged, just days after a high-profile law enforcement operation seized control of its infrastructure and disrupted its operations.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML documents. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libxml2 to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Elias Heftrig, Haya Schulmann, Niklas Vogel, and Michael Waidner discovered
that Dnsmasq icorrectly handled validating DNSSEC messages. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Dnsmasq to consume
resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-50387)
It was discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly handled preparing an NSEC3
closest encloser proof. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Dnsmasq to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-50868)
It was discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly set the maximum EDNS.0 UDP
packet size as required by DNS Flag Day 2020. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-28450)
