Daily Archives: November 25, 2024

Advisories

USN-7121-3: Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities

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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:
– ARM64 architecture;
– S390 architecture;
– x86 architecture;
– Block layer subsystem;
– Cryptographic API;
– ATM drivers;
– Device frequency scaling framework;
– GPU drivers;
– Hardware monitoring drivers;
– VMware VMCI Driver;
– Network drivers;
– Device tree and open firmware driver;
– SCSI drivers;
– Greybus lights staging drivers;
– BTRFS file system;
– File systems infrastructure;
– F2FS file system;
– JFS file system;
– NILFS2 file system;
– Netfilter;
– Memory management;
– Ethernet bridge;
– IPv6 networking;
– IUCV driver;
– Logical Link layer;
– MAC80211 subsystem;
– NFC subsystem;
– Network traffic control;
– Unix domain sockets;
(CVE-2023-52614, CVE-2024-26633, CVE-2024-46758, CVE-2024-46723,
CVE-2023-52502, CVE-2024-41059, CVE-2024-44987, CVE-2024-36020,
CVE-2023-52599, CVE-2023-52639, CVE-2024-26668, CVE-2024-42094,
CVE-2022-48938, CVE-2022-48733, CVE-2024-27397, CVE-2023-52578,
CVE-2024-38560, CVE-2024-38538, CVE-2024-42310, CVE-2024-46722,
CVE-2024-46800, CVE-2024-41095, CVE-2024-42104, CVE-2024-35877,
CVE-2022-48943, CVE-2024-46743, CVE-2023-52531, CVE-2024-46757,
CVE-2024-36953, CVE-2024-46756, CVE-2024-38596, CVE-2023-52612,
CVE-2024-38637, CVE-2024-41071, CVE-2024-46759, CVE-2024-43882,
CVE-2024-26675, CVE-2024-43854, CVE-2024-44942, CVE-2024-44998,
CVE-2024-42240, CVE-2024-41089, CVE-2024-26636, CVE-2024-46738,
CVE-2024-42309)

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News

Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol

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Interesting analysis: An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways.

Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in the prototype CAC-vote system. The voting kiosk and protocol transmit votes over the internet and then transmit voter-verifiable paper ballots through the mail. In the MERGE protocol, the votes transmitted over the internet are used to tabulate the results and determine the winners, but audits and recounts use the paper ballots that arrive in time. The enunciated motivation for the protocol is to allow (electronic) votes from overseas military voters to be included in preliminary results before a (paper) ballot is received from the voter. MERGE contains interesting ideas that are not inherently unsound; but to make the system trustworthy—to apply the MERGE protocol—would require major changes to the laws, practices, and technical and logistical abilities of U.S. election jurisdictions. The gap between theory and practice is large and unbridgeable for the foreseeable future. Promoters of this research project at DARPA, the agency that sponsored the research, should acknowledge that MERGE is internet voting (election results rely on votes transmitted over the internet except in the event of a full hand count) and refrain from claiming that it could be a component of trustworthy elections without sweeping changes to election law and election administration throughout the U.S.

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