The AI Fix #21: Virtual Trump, barking mad AI, and a robot dog with a flamethrower

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In episode 21 of “The AI Fix””, Mark and Graham comfort themselves with a limbless AI pet as they learn about a terrifying robot dog with a flamethrower, fission-powered data centres, AI suicide pods, and a multi-limbed robot with a passion for classical music.

Graham finds out what happens if you sellotape an Alexa to a Chihuahua, and Mark asks AI Trump and AI Harris how many Rs there are in “strawberry”.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

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USN-7080-1: Unbound vulnerability

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Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled name
compression for large RRsets, which could lead to excessive CPU usage.
An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service
by sending specially crafted DNS responses.

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NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.24-1.fc39

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FEDORA-2024-d20b38c63f

Packages in this update:

NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.24-1.fc39

Update description:

This is an update to 1.2.24 release of NetworkManager-libreswan, the IPSec VPN plugin for NetworkManager. It fixes a local privilege escalation bug due to improper escaping of Libreswan configuration. (CVE-2024-9050)

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NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.24-1.fc40

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FEDORA-2024-e88cc97dba

Packages in this update:

NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.24-1.fc40

Update description:

This is an update to 1.2.24 release of NetworkManager-libreswan, the IPSec VPN plugin for NetworkManager. It fixes a local privilege escalation bug due to improper escaping of Libreswan configuration. (CVE-2024-9050)

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NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.24-1.fc41

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FEDORA-2024-2e8944621e

Packages in this update:

NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.24-1.fc41

Update description:

This is an update to 1.2.24 release of NetworkManager-libreswan, the IPSec VPN plugin for NetworkManager.
It fixes a local privilege escalation bug due to improper escaping of Libreswan configuration. (CVE-2024-9050)

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USN-7079-1: WebKitGTK vulnerabilities

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Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript
engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote
attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security,
including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and
arbitrary code execution.

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