Spyware Maker NSO Group Found Liable for Hacking WhatsApp

A judge has found that NSO Group, maker of the Pegasus spyware, has violated the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by hacking WhatsApp in order to spy on people using it. Jon Penney and I wrote a legal paper on the case...

How Red Teaming Helps Meet DORA Requirements

The Digital Operational Resilience Act DORA sets strict EU rules for financial institutions and IT providers, emphasizing strong…...

kernel: net/usb: kalmia: Don't pass act_len in usb_bulk_msg error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/usb: kalmia: Don't pass actlen in usbbulkmsg error path syzbot reported that actlen in kalmiasendinitpacket is uninitialized when passing it to the first usbbulkmsg error path. Jiri Pirko noted that it's pointless to pass it ...

SEC Charges 4 Companies Over Misleading SolarWinds Cyber Attack Disclosures

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC has charged four current and former public companies for making "materially misleading disclosures" related to the large-scale cyber attack that stemmed from the hack of SolarWinds in 2020. The SEC said the companies – Avaya, Check Point, Mimecast,...

AZL-50682 CVE-2024-47749 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.173.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/cxgb4: Added NULL check for lookupatid The lookupatid function can return NULL if the ATID is invalid or does not exist in the identifier table, which could lead to dereferencing a null pointer without a check in the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-47749

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/cxgb4: Added NULL check for lookupatid The lookupatid function can return NULL if the ATID is invalid or does not exist in the identifier table, which could lead to dereferencing a null pointer without a check in the...

AZL-50673 CVE-2024-47749 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.56.1-5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/cxgb4: Added NULL check for lookupatid The lookupatid function can return NULL if the ATID is invalid or does not exist in the identifier table, which could lead to dereferencing a null pointer without a check in the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47749

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/cxgb4: Added NULL check for lookupatid The lookupatid function can return NULL if the ATID is invalid or does not exist in the identifier table, which could lead to dereferencing a null pointer without a check in the...

The vulnerability of the tcf_ct_act() function in the network scheduling subsystem of the Linux operating system allows a attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the tcfctact function in the net/sched/actct.c module of the net/sched/actct subsystem of the Linux operating system is related to the reutilization of previously freed memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity,...

An Analysis of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act

A good--long, complex--analysis of the EU's new Cyber Resilience Act...

kernel: net/sched: act_mirred: don't override retval if we already lost the skb

A use-after-free flaw was found in net/sched/actmirred.c in the Linux kernel. This may result in a crash...

kernel: net/sched: act_api: fix possible infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc()

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem in the actapi implementation within the tcfidrcheckalloc function, which lead to a possible infinite loop when multiple actions with the same index are added, causing the second request to block indefinitely while holding the...

Talk of election security is good, but we still need more money to solve the problem

Last week, six Secretaries of State testified to U.S. Congress about the current state of election security ahead of November's Presidential election. Some of the same topics came up as usual -- disinformation campaigns, influence from foreign actors, and the physical protection of poll workers o...

net/sched: act_api: fix possible infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc()

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Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which--among other things--gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption. The Assistance and Access Act includes key components that outline investigatory powers between government and industry. These...

SUSE CVE-2024-42272

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: actct: take care of padding in struct zoneshtkey Blamed commit increased lookup key size from 2 bytes to 16 bytes, because zoneshtkey got a struct net pointer. Make sure rhashtablelookup is not using the padding bytes whic...

AZL-49749 CVE-2024-42272 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.167.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: actct: take care of padding in struct zoneshtkey Blamed commit increased lookup key size from 2 bytes to 16 bytes, because zoneshtkey got a struct net pointer. Make sure rhashtablelookup is not using the padding bytes whic...

CVE-2024-7642

A vulnerability has been found in SourceCodester Kortex Lite Advocate Office Management System 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file activateact.php. The manipulation of the argument id leads to sql injection. The attack can be...

CVE-2024-7641

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in SourceCodester Kortex Lite Advocate Office Management System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file deactivateact.php. The manipulation of the argument id leads to sql injection. It is possible to launch the attack remotely...

SourceCodester Kortex Lite Advocate Office Management System SQL注入漏洞

SourceCodester Kortex Lite Advocate Office Management System is an office management system from SourceCodester, Inc. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in version 1.0 of the SourceCodester Kortex Lite Advocate Office Management System, which stems from an SQL injection vulnerability in the id...