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Monthly Archives: August 2024
Scam Platform Shut Down by UK Authorities After 1.8 Million Fraudulent Calls
UK authorities shut down a scam platform responsible for over 1.3 million calls to 500,000 victims, resulting in millions of pounds in losses
$75 million record-breaking ransom paid to cybercriminals, say researchers
The staggering sum of US $75 million has reportedly been paid to a ransomware gang in what is believed to be the largest known ransom payment made by a cyber attack victim since records began.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
RansomEXX Group Targets Indian Banking With New Tactics
CloudSek said the RansomEXX breach occurred via a misconfigured Jenkins server at Brontoo Technology
USN-6926-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
黄思聪 discovered that the NFC Controller Interface (NCI) implementation in
the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain memory allocation failure
conditions, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local
attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2023-46343)
It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem
in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs.
A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859)
Chenyuan Yang discovered that the Unsorted Block Images (UBI) flash device
volume management subsystem did not properly validate logical eraseblock
sizes in certain situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a
denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-25739)
Supraja Sridhara, Benedict Schlüter, Mark Kuhne, Andrin Bertschi, and
Shweta Shinde discovered that the Confidential Computing framework in the
Linux kernel for x86 platforms did not properly handle 32-bit emulation on
TDX and SEV. An attacker with access to the VMM could use this to cause a
denial of service (guest crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2024-25744)
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
– GPU drivers;
– HID subsystem;
– I2C subsystem;
– MTD block device drivers;
– Network drivers;
– TTY drivers;
– USB subsystem;
– File systems infrastructure;
– F2FS file system;
– SMB network file system;
– BPF subsystem;
– B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;
– Bluetooth subsystem;
– Networking core;
– IPv4 networking;
– IPv6 networking;
– Netfilter;
– Unix domain sockets;
– AppArmor security module;
(CVE-2024-26884, CVE-2024-26882, CVE-2024-26923, CVE-2024-26840,
CVE-2023-52435, CVE-2024-35984, CVE-2024-26886, CVE-2023-52752,
CVE-2023-52436, CVE-2024-36016, CVE-2024-26857, CVE-2024-36902,
CVE-2023-52443, CVE-2024-35997, CVE-2024-35982, CVE-2023-52469,
CVE-2024-27020, CVE-2024-35978, CVE-2024-26934, CVE-2024-27013,
CVE-2023-52449, CVE-2024-26901, CVE-2023-52444, CVE-2023-52620)
USN-6942-1: Gross vulnerability
It was discovered that Gross incorrectly handled memory when composing log
entries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Gross to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
USN-6922-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem
in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs.
A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859)
Chenyuan Yang discovered that the Unsorted Block Images (UBI) flash device
volume management subsystem did not properly validate logical eraseblock
sizes in certain situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a
denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-25739)
httpd-2.4.62-2.fc39
FEDORA-2024-e83af0855e
Packages in this update:
httpd-2.4.62-2.fc39
Update description:
Fix regression introduced by CVE-2024-38474 fix
new version 2.4.62
Fixes CVE-2024-40725
ImageMagick-6.9.13.14-1.el8
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-5efb0dbd99
Packages in this update:
ImageMagick-6.9.13.14-1.el8
Update description:
ImageMagick update to 6.9.13-14
ImageMagick-6.9.13.14-1.el9
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-03b4facc42
Packages in this update:
ImageMagick-6.9.13.14-1.el9
Update description:
ImageMagick update to 6.9.13-14