Popular Rust Crate liblzma-sys Compromised with XZ Utils Backdoor Files

"Test files" associated with the XZ Utils backdoor have made their way to a Rust crate known as liblzma-sys, new findings from Phylum reveal. liblzma-sys, which has been downloaded over 21,000 times to date, provides Rust developers with bindings to the liblzma implementation, an underlying libra...

XZ Utils Backdoored, A Supply Chain Nightmare

Summary: Multiple Linux distributions face a potential supply chain threat due to the introduction of malicious code into a widely-used library. A backdoor was discovered within the XZ Utils library, inserted roughly a month ago. This compromise allows attackers to manipulate and intercept data...

Tukaani Project XZ Utils Backdoor (Feb/Mar 2024)

The XZ Utils of the Tukaani Project have been backdoored by an unknown threat actor in February and March 2024. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Exploit for Embedded Malicious Code in Tukaani Xz

CVE-2024-3094-Vulnerabity-Checker Verify that your XZ Utils ve...

Reported Supply Chain Compromise Affecting XZ Utils Data Compression Library, CVE-2024-3094

CISA and the open source community are responding to reports of malicious code being embedded in XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. This activity was assigned CVE-2024-3094link is external. XZ Utils is data compression software and may be present in Linux distributions. The malicious code may all...

PT-2024-2451

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 through 5.6.1 Description Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of XZ Utils. Through complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts a prebuilt object file from a disguised test file within the...

CVE-2024-2314

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bcc will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

CVE-2024-2314

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bcc will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

CVE-2024-2313

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bpftrace will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

CVE-2024-2313

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bpftrace will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

Default credentials

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bpftrace will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

Default credentials

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bcc will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

CVE-2024-2314

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bcc will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

CVE-2024-2314

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bcc will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

CVE-2024-2313

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bpftrace will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

Critical Boot Loader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux Distros

The maintainers of shim have released version 15.8 to address six security flaws, including a critical bug that could pave the way for remote code execution under specific circumstances. Tracked as CVE-2023-40547 CVSS score: 9.8, the vulnerability could be exploited to achieve a Secure Boot bypas...

SUSE CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

PT-2023-5614

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions glibc versions 2.32-alt5.p10.2 through 2.38.0.27.750a45a783-alt1 Description This update addresses a buffer overflow vulnerability in the GNU C Library’s dynamic loader ld.so when processing the GLIBC TUNABLES environment variable. A local...

CVE-2015-20109

endpattern called from internalfnmatch in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.22 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash, as demonstrated by use of the fnmatch library function with the ! pattern. NOTE: this is not the same as CVE-2015-8984...

CVE-2015-20109

endpattern called from internalfnmatch in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.22 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash, as demonstrated by use of the fnmatch library function with the ! pattern. NOTE: this is not the same as CVE-2015-8984...