Smashing Security podcast #378: Julian Assange, inside a DDoS attack, and deepfake traumas

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Wikileaks’s Julian Assange is a free man, deepfakes cause trouble in the playground, and we hear hot takes about ransomware and tales from inside a devastating denial-of-service attack.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Eleanor Dallaway.

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USN-6566-2: SQLite vulnerability

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USN-6566-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in SQLite. This update provides
the corresponding fix for CVE-2023-7104 for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain memory operations
in the sessions extension. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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rust-blowfish-0.9.1-2.el9 rust-dsa-0.6.3-1.el9 rust-num-bigint-dig-0.8.4-1.el9 rust-rand_isaac-0.3.0-6.el9 rust-rsa-0.9.6-2.el9 rust-sequoia-gpg-agent-0.4.2-1.el9 rust-sequoia-keystore-0.5.1-1.el9 rust-sequoia-openpgp-1.21.1-1.el9 rust-sequoia-sq-0.37.0-3.el9

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FEDORA-EPEL-2024-5292ca934e

Packages in this update:

rust-blowfish-0.9.1-2.el9
rust-dsa-0.6.3-1.el9
rust-num-bigint-dig-0.8.4-1.el9
rust-rand_isaac-0.3.0-6.el9
rust-rsa-0.9.6-2.el9
rust-sequoia-gpg-agent-0.4.2-1.el9
rust-sequoia-keystore-0.5.1-1.el9
rust-sequoia-openpgp-1.21.1-1.el9
rust-sequoia-sq-0.37.0-3.el9

Update description:

Update the sequoia-openpgp crate to version 1.21.1. Addresses RUSTSEC-2024-0345.
Update the sequoia-keystore crate to version 0.5.1.
Update the sequoia-gpg-agent crate to version 0.4.2.

This update also includes rebuilds of all affected applications that are affected by RUSTSEC-2024-0345 and a regression in sequoia-openpgp 1.21.0.

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rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg-0.10.0-3.fc39 rust-sequoia-gpg-agent-0.4.2-1.fc39 rust-sequoia-keystore-0.5.1-1.fc39 rust-sequoia-openpgp-1.21.1-1.fc39 rust-sequoia-sq-0.37.0-3.fc39

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FEDORA-2024-029752e60b

Packages in this update:

rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg-0.10.0-3.fc39
rust-sequoia-gpg-agent-0.4.2-1.fc39
rust-sequoia-keystore-0.5.1-1.fc39
rust-sequoia-openpgp-1.21.1-1.fc39
rust-sequoia-sq-0.37.0-3.fc39

Update description:

Update the sequoia-openpgp crate to version 1.21.1. Addresses RUSTSEC-2024-0345.
Update the sequoia-keystore crate to version 0.5.1.
Update the sequoia-gpg-agent crate to version 0.4.2.

This update also includes rebuilds of all affected applications that are affected by RUSTSEC-2024-0345 and a regression in sequoia-openpgp 1.21.0.

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rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg-0.10.0-3.fc40 rust-sequoia-gpg-agent-0.4.2-1.fc40 rust-sequoia-keystore-0.5.1-1.fc40 rust-sequoia-openpgp-1.21.1-1.fc40 rust-sequoia-sq-0.37.0-3.fc40

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FEDORA-2024-12f0caa904

Packages in this update:

rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg-0.10.0-3.fc40
rust-sequoia-gpg-agent-0.4.2-1.fc40
rust-sequoia-keystore-0.5.1-1.fc40
rust-sequoia-openpgp-1.21.1-1.fc40
rust-sequoia-sq-0.37.0-3.fc40

Update description:

Update the sequoia-openpgp crate to version 1.21.1. Addresses RUSTSEC-2024-0345.
Update the sequoia-keystore crate to version 0.5.1.
Update the sequoia-gpg-agent crate to version 0.4.2.

This update also includes rebuilds of all affected applications that are affected by RUSTSEC-2024-0345 and a regression in sequoia-openpgp 1.21.0.

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