Smashing Security podcast #383: The Godfather club, and AirTags to the rescue

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There’s a whole new dating scam that could mean you end up out of pocket (or beaten up) after a first date with a glamorous admirer, and a woman in Los Alamos uses an Air Tag to entrap a thief.

Plus – don’t miss our featured interview with Maya Irvine of Sysdig.

All this, and a very bad Cockney accent, in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by industry veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

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USN-6990-1: znc vulnerability

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Johannes Kuhn (DasBrain) discovered that znc incorrectly handled
user input under certain operations. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to execute arbitrary code on a user’s system if
the user was tricked into joining a malicious server.

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python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.fc40

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FEDORA-2024-865828665c

Packages in this update:

python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.fc40

Update description:

urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via very large inputs with a specific sequence of characters.

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python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.fc41

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FEDORA-2024-b08735561c

Packages in this update:

python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.fc41

Update description:

urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via very large inputs with a specific sequence of characters.

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python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.fc39

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FEDORA-2024-28892f7c8f

Packages in this update:

python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.fc39

Update description:

urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via very large inputs with a specific sequence of characters.

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python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.el9

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FEDORA-EPEL-2024-92f7377188

Packages in this update:

python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.el9

Update description:

urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via very large inputs with a specific sequence of characters.

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USN-6989-1: OpenStack vulnerability

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Dan Smith, Julia Kreger and Jay Faulkner discovered that in
image processing for Ironic, a specially crafted image
could be used by an authenticated user to exploit undesired behaviors
in qemu-img, including possible unauthorized access to potentially
sensitive data.

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