CronRAT: A New Linux Malware That's Scheduled to Run on February 31st

Researchers have unearthed a new remote access trojan RAT for Linux that employs a never-before-seen stealth technique that involves masking its malicious actions by scheduling them for execution on February 31st, a non-existent calendar day. Dubbed CronRAT, the sneaky malware "enables server-sid...

CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo (Baron Samedit)

Update Feb 3, 2021: It has been reported that macOS, AIX, and Solaris are also vulnerable to CVE-2021-3156, and that others may also still be vulnerable. Qualys has not independently verified the exploit. Original Post: The Qualys Research Team has discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in sudo...

Security update for zutils (moderate)

This update for zutils to version 1.7 fixes one security issue: - CVE-2018-1000637: buffer overrun in zcat utility boo1103878 Please note that the zutils zcat utility is distinct from the default gzip zcat utility...

The vulnerability of the component supported by Git-style software, the GNU Patch Unix utility for operating systems like Ubuntu and Fedora, allows a hacker to modify any files they desire.

The vulnerability of the Git-style programmatic Unix utility GNU Patch for operating systems like Ubuntu and Fedora is related to deficiencies in pathname restrictions for directories. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to remotely modify arbitrary files with the target user’s...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: exiv2-0.24-4.fc21

A command line utility to access image metadata, allowing one to: print the Exif metadata of Jpeg images as summary info, interpreted value s, or the plain data for each tag print the Iptc metadata of Jpeg images print the Jpeg comment of Jpeg images set, add and delete Exif and Iptc metadata of...

HP-UX 9.x/10.x/11.x cu Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1886/info cu is a unix utility that is used for communication between two hosts usually over phone lines. It is typically isntalled setuid root so that it can access communications hardware when executed by a regular user...

Fetchmail 5.x POP3 Reply Signed Integer Index Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3164/info Fetchmail is a unix utility for downloading email from mail servers via POP3. Fetchmail contains a vulnerability that may allow for remote attackers to gain access to client systems. The vulnerability has to do...