Yearly Archives: 2024

News

TikTok Editorial Analysis

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TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and the methodology looks sound.)

Conclusion: Substantial Differences in Hashtag Ratios Raise
Concerns about TikTok’s Impartiality

Given the research above, we assess a strong possibility that content on TikTok is either amplified or suppressed based on its alignment with the interests of the Chinese Government. Future research should aim towards a more comprehensive analysis to determine the potential influence of TikTok on popular public narratives. This research should determine if and how TikTok might be utilized for furthering national/regional or international objectives of the Chinese Government.

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Advisories

USN-6563-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

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Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an
attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service,
obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cross-site
tracing, or execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2023-6857, CVE-2023-6858,
CVE-2023-6859, CVE-2023-6861, CVE-2023-6862, CVE-2023-6863, CVE-2023-6864)

Marcus Brinkmann discovered that Thunderbird did not properly parse a PGP/MIME
payload that contains digitally signed text. An attacker could potentially
exploit this issue to spoof an email message. (CVE-2023-50762)

Marcus Brinkmann discovered that Thunderbird did not properly compare the
signature creation date with the message date and time when using digitally
signed S/MIME email message. An attacker could potentially exploit this
issue to spoof date and time of an email message. (CVE-2023-50761)

DoHyun Lee discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage memory when
used on systems with the Mesa VM driver. An attacker could potentially
exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-6856)

Andrew Osmond discovered that Thunderbird did not properly validate the
textures produced by remote decoders. An attacker could potentially exploit
this issue to escape the sandbox. (CVE-2023-6860)

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USN-6562-1: 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-2023-6865,
CVE-2023-6857, CVE-2023-6858, CVE-2023-6859, CVE-2023-6866, CVE-2023-6867,
CVE-2023-6861, CVE-2023-6869, CVE-2023-6871, CVE-2023-6872, CVE-2023-6863,
CVE-2023-6864, CVE-2023-6873)

DoHyun Lee discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when used
on systems with the Mesa VM driver. An attacker could potentially exploit
this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-6856)

George Pantela and Hubert Kario discovered that Firefox using multiple NSS
NIST curves which were susceptible to a side-channel attack known as
“Minerva”. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2023-6135)

Andrew Osmond discovered that Firefox did not properly validate the textures
produced by remote decoders. An attacker could potentially exploit this
issue to escape the sandbox. (CVE-2023-6860)

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