Introduction to COM usage by Windows threats

Component Object Model COM is a fundamental Windows technology used by legitimate applications for object activation, inter-process communication, automation and language-independent component reuse. Those same qualities make it useful to threat actors. Malware frequently uses COM interfaces for...

CVE-2026-53133

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/umem: Fix truncation for block sizes = 4G When the iommu is used the linearization of the mapping can give a single block that is very large split across multiple SG entries. When rdmablockiternext reassembles the split SG...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-53220

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: revalidate bridge ports ebtredirecttg dereferences brportgetrcu return without a NULL check, causing a kernel panic when the bridge port has been removed between the original hook invocation and an NFQUEUE reinject. A...

CVE-2026-53231 net: phy: don't try to setup PHY-driven SFP cages when using genphy

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: don't try to setup PHY-driven SFP cages when using genphy We don't have support for PHY-driver SFP cages with the genphy code. On top of that, it was found by sashiko that running sfpbusaddupstream for genphy deadlocks,...

Malicious Package

Overview pathfix is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package authorship...

Malicious Package

Overview ts-grok is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package authorship...

Malicious Package

Overview @su-doughnym/loginui is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package...

PT-2026-52247

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description An issue exists in the ACK parser of the rxrpc module. In the rxrpc input soft acks function, the AF RXRPC component incorrectly assumes that calling skb condense will always result in a...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-53002

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - netfilter: conntrack: remove sprintf usage Replace it with scnprintf, the buffer sizes are expected to be large enough to hold the result, no need for...

Tool Use Enables Undetectable Steganography in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Increasingly autonomous agentic AI systems pose novel multi-agent risks, such as secret collusion via covert communication channels. The natural defence to these collusion attempts is to monitor plain-text communication, but the efficacy of monitors has been called into doubt by increasingly...

PT-2026-52573

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions wolfSSL affected versions not specified Description An issue exists where chain intermediate certificates asserting CA:TRUE but lacking the keyCertSign key usage were accepted as signing CAs. This occurs because chain-supplied temporary CAs...

PT-2026-52554

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Podman versions 1.8.1 through 5.8.4 Description A malicious container image can trick Podman into leaking host environment variables into the container. This occurs when an image contains an Env entry consisting of a key without a value...

CVE-2026-53002

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: remove sprintf usage Replace it with scnprintf, the buffer sizes are expected to be large enough to hold the result, no need for snprintf+overflow check. Increase buffer size in manglecontentlen while at it...

CVE-2026-52945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "wireguard: device: enable threaded NAPI" This reverts commit 933466fc50a8e4eb167acbd0d8ec96a078462e9c which is commit db9ae3b6b43c79b1ba87eea849fd65efa05b4b2e upstream. We have had three independent production user report...

CVE-2026-53002

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: remove sprintf usage Replace it with scnprintf, the buffer sizes are expected to be large enough to hold the result, no need for snprintf+overflow check. Increase buffer size in manglecontentlen while at it...

CVE-2026-53126

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-cgroup: fix disk reference leak in blkcgmaybethrottlecurrent Add the missing putdisk on the error path in blkcgmaybethrottlecurrent. When blkcg lookup, blkg lookup, or blkgtryget fails, the function jumps to the out label whi...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: A Subscription Management tool for finding and reporting Red Hat product usage

A Subscription Management tool for finding and reporting Red Hat product usage Red Hat Discovery, also known as Discovery, is an inspection and reporting tool that finds, identifies, and reports environment data, or facts, such as the number of physical and virtual systems on a network, their...

CVE-2026-53002

The CVE-2026-53002 entry documents a vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s netfilter/conntrack code. Root cause: use of sprintf with inadequate buffer handling in mangle_content_len(), leading to a potential stack-out-of-bounds write (KASAN). The fix replaces sprintf with scnprintf and increases th...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in libheif

libheif is a decoder and encoder for HEIF and AVIF file formats. In versions 1.21.2 and earlier, a crafted 800-byte HEIF sequence file could cause an infinite loop in the Boxstts::getsampleduration function. This loop consumed 100% of the CPU resources indefinitely, with no progress being made,...

Malicious Package

Overview ui-core-system is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package...