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Ubuntu Security Notice 6604-2 - It was discovered that the ASUS HID driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle device removal, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted USB device to cause a denial of service. Jana Hofmann, Emanuele Vannacci, Cedric Fournet, Boris Kopf, and Oleksii Oleksenko discovered that some AMD processors could leak stale data from division operations in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.

This is the fourth part of Vincent Danen’s “Patch management needs a revolution” series.Patch management needs a revolution, part 1: Surveying cybersecurity’s lineagePatch management needs a revolution, part 2: The flood of vulnerabilitiesPatch management needs a revolution, part 3: Vulnerability scores and the concept of trustOne of the biggest concerns with modern patch management is that we haven’t truly challenged our thinking around “patching everything” over the past 40 years. Today, we are still inundated with customer requests to patch everything, despite the available ev

Red Hat Satellite provides webhooks to notify or perform an action when an event occurs. For example, webhooks can inform you of the completion of errata installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) hosts (amongst many other events). The webhook mechanism helps integrate Satellite with applications such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Splunk and ServiceNow, to name a few.What is a webhook?In general, a webhook is an API call (or programmatic procedure/function) using the HTTP protocol. In Satellite, specific events can trigger the running of webhooks. Particular events can include c

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5609-1 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Slurm Workload Manager, a cluster resource management and job scheduling system, which may result in privilege escalation, denial of service, bypass of message hash checks or opening files with an incorrect set of extended groups.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5608-1 - A heap-based buffer overflow during tile list parsing was discovered in the AV1 video codec parser for the GStreamer media framework, which may result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media file is opened.

CSZCMS version 1.3.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability in the admin flows.

Chrome version 121 suffers from a javascript fork malloc vulnerability that indicates memory corruption upon crash.

MiniZinc version 2.7.6 suffers from a null pointer vulnerability.

Cybersecurity researchers have detected in the wild yet another variant of the Phobos ransomware family known as Faust. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which detailed the latest iteration of the ransomware, said it's being propagated by means of an infection that delivers a Microsoft Excel document (.XLAM) containing a VBA script. "The attackers utilized the Gitea service to store several files

Cybersecurity researchers have identified malicious packages on the open-source Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that deliver an information stealing malware called WhiteSnake Stealer on Windows systems. The malware-laced packages are named nigpal, figflix, telerer, seGMM, fbdebug, sGMM, myGens, NewGends, and TestLibs111. They have been uploaded by a threat actor named "WS." "These