USN-7264-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that OpenSSL clients incorrectly handled authenticating
servers using RFC7250 Raw Public Keys. In certain cases, the connection
will not abort as expected, possibly causing the communication to be
intercepted. (CVE-2024-12797)

George Pantelakis and Alicja Kario discovered that OpenSSL had a timing
side-channel when performing ECDSA signature computations. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to recover private data.
(CVE-2024-13176)

It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain memory
operations when using low-level GF(2^m) elliptic curve APIs with untrusted
explicit values for the field polynomial. When being used in this uncommon
fashion, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2024-9143)

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The AI Fix #37: DeepSeek is a security dumpster fire, and quicksand for AI

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In episode 37 of “The AI Fix”, Google Gemini gets the munchies, the wettest country in the world can’t find any water, an escalator tries to eat Graham, o3-mini can’t rub two sticks together, and OpenAI invents an AI that can do “a single-digit percentage of all economically valuable tasks in the world” but nobody notices.

Graham wonders why his childhood was full of Triffids and quicksand, and discovers a way to trap overstepping AI crawlers in an endless maze, while Mark investigates the appalling state of DeepSeek security.

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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