diffoscope security vulnerability

diffoscope is diffoscope open source a tool for checking the similarities and differences of files or directories. A security vulnerability exists in versions prior to diffoscope 256 that stems from allowing directory traversal via file names embedded in GPG files...

PT-2025-40180

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description An issue was identified in the Linux kernel related to error handling within the ext4 dirhash function. Specifically, the function may fail when handling encrypted, casefolded file names...

kernel: buffer overflow in eCryptfs

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's eCryptfs implementation decoded encrypted file names. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system...