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The average cost of a data breach, according to the latest research by IBM, now stands atÂUSD 4.24 million, the highest reported. The leading cause? Compromise…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
Due to a data race in the crossbeam-deque in the crossbeam crate, one or more tasks in the worker queue could have been be popped twice instead of other tasks …
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
Thorsten Glaser and Axel Beckert reported that lynx, a non-graphical (text-mode) web browser, does not properly handle the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, whic…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
Miroslav Lichvar reported that the ptp4l program in linuxptp, an implementation of the Precision Time Protocol (PTP), does not validate the messageLength field…
An issue was discovered in GUPnP before 1.0.7 and 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.5. It allows DNS rebinding. A remote web server can exploit this vulnerability to …
A common misconception among startup founders is that cybercriminals won't waste time on them, because they're not big or well known enough yet.But just becaus…
OpenVPN 2.5.1 and earlier versions allows a remote attackers to bypass authentication and access control channel data on servers configured with deferred authe…
A memory leak was discovered in Mat_VarCalloc in mat.c in matio 1.5.17 because SafeMulDims does not consider the rank==0 case (CVE-2019-20052). References: - h…
It seems like every new day brings with it a new ransomware news item ' new attacks, methods, horror stories, and data being leaked.Ransomware attacks are on t…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, denial of service, or …
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, denial of service, or …
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service or information leaks. For the stable distribution …
Viktor Szakats reported that libcurl, an URL transfer library, does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer HTTP …
A remote information leak vulnerability and a remote buffer overflow vulnerability were discovered in ConnMan, which could result in denial of service or the e…
libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and th…
Let's first take a look back at 2020!Adding to the list of difficulties that surfaced last year, 2020 was also grim for personal data protection, as it has mar…
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, denial of service or i…
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, guest-to-host privilege escalation or information…
Over the next couple of weeks and months, LinuxSecurity editors and contributors will be writing a series on Linux Web Server Security. This week, we're summar…