Dozens of Arrests Disrupt €2.5m Vishing Gang

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Police have arrested 54 suspected members of a vishing group who stole the life savings of scores of victims

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USN-6862-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

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Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive
information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-5689,
CVE-2024-5690, CVE-2024-5691, CVE-2024-5693, CVE-2024-5697, CVE-2024-5698,
CVE-2024-5699, CVE-2024-5700, CVE-2024-5701)

Lukas Bernhard discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory
during garbage collection. An attacker could potentially exploit this
issue to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2024-5688)

Lukas Bernhard discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory in
the JavaScript engine. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to
obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2024-5694)

Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Firefox did not properly handle certain
allocations in the probabilistic heap checker. An attacker could
potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-5695)

Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Firefox did not properly handle certain
text fragments in input tags. An attacker could potentially exploit this
issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-5696)

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firmitas-0.1.3-1.fc39

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FEDORA-2024-139cdfb1fc

Packages in this update:

firmitas-0.1.3-1.fc39

Update description:

Cryptography v42 is the new thing.

Please follow the steps provided here https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/blob/main/README.md for testing.

References

https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/security/dependabot/1
https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/security/dependabot/2
https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/security/dependabot/3

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firmitas-0.1.3-1.fc40

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FEDORA-2024-71ef04b872

Packages in this update:

firmitas-0.1.3-1.fc40

Update description:

Cryptography v42 is the new thing.

Please follow the steps provided here https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/blob/main/README.md for testing.

References

https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/security/dependabot/1
https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/security/dependabot/2
https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/security/dependabot/3

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firmitas-0.1.3-1.el9

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FEDORA-EPEL-2024-775b3dac95

Packages in this update:

firmitas-0.1.3-1.el9

Update description:

Cryptography v42 is the new thing.

Please follow the steps provided here https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/blob/main/README.md for testing.

References

https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/security/dependabot/1
https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/security/dependabot/2
https://github.com/fedora-infra/firmitas/security/dependabot/3

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ZDI-24-886: Progress Software WhatsUp Gold SetAdminPassword Improper Access Control Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Progress Software WhatsUp Gold. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system or send an HTTP request from a local machine in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.4. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-5009.

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