Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections

A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative execution was a way to speed up CPUs, and removing those enhancements resulted in significant performance drops. Now, people are...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50177

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcutorture: Fix ksoftirqd boosting timing and iteration The RCU priority boosting can fail in two situations: 1 If nrcpus= maxcpus=, which means if the total number of CPUs is higher than those brought online at boot, then...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50177

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcutorture: Fix ksoftirqd boosting timing and iteration The RCU priority boosting can fail in two situations: 1 If nrcpus= maxcpus=, which means if the total number of CPUs is higher than those brought online at boot, then...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38038

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: amd-pstate: Remove unnecessary driverlock in setboost setboost is a per-policy function call, hence a driver wide lock is unnecessary. Also this mutexacquire can collide with the mutexacquire from the mode-switch path in...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38038

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: amd-pstate: Remove unnecessary driverlock in setboost setboost is a per-policy function call, hence a driver wide lock is unnecessary. Also this mutexacquire can collide with the mutexacquire from the mode-switch path in...

Malicious code in boost-chii (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware ac33b7f9bd3634fd513bc6cdf809460ef22919a7841d779fe3cfca4c733874c8 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

MAL-2025-4993 Malicious code in boost-chii (npm)

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Malicious code in boost-static-assert (npm)

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MAL-2025-4817 Malicious code in boost-static-assert (npm)

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MAL-2025-4816 Malicious code in boost-iterator (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 9c267aa9b1817904f849e9905ed0a7609d16f046da58d1954f222330503778c4 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in boost-iterator (npm)

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CVE-2023-25033

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in Sumo Social Share Boost plugin = 4.5 versions...

CVE-2023-23688

Auth. contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Sumo Social Share Boost plugin = 4.4 versions...

Gaming Tool Preferences in Agentic LLMs

Large language models LLMs can now access a wide range of external tools, thanks to the Model Context Protocol MCP. This greatly expands their abilities as various agents. However, LLMs rely entirely on the text descriptions of tools to decide which ones to use--a process that is surprisingly...

CVE-2020-13616

The boost ASIO wrapper in net/asio.cpp in Pichi before 1.3.0 lacks TLS hostname verification...

CVE-2019-0164

Improper permissions in the installer for IntelR Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 driver version 1.0.0.1035 and before may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...

WordPress Jetpack plugin < 3.4.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS vulnerability

Contributor+ Stored XSS vulnerability discovered by Marc Montpas in WordPress Plugin Jetpack Boost versions 3.4.8...

CVE-2024-6584 Jetpack Boost < 3.4.7 - Admin+ SSRF

The 'wpajaxboostproxyig' action allows administrators to make GET requests to arbitrary URLs...

CVE-2024-6584 Jetpack Boost < 3.4.7 - Admin+ SSRF

The 'wpajaxboostproxyig' action allows administrators to make GET requests to arbitrary URLs...

CVE-2024-10076 Jetpack < 13.8, Boost < 3.4.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

The Jetpack WordPress plugin before 13.8, Jetpack Boost WordPress plugin before 3.4.8 use regexes in the Site Accelerator features when switching image URLs to their CDN counterpart. Unfortunately, some of them may match patterns it shouldn’t, ultimately making it possible for contributor and abo...