A Comment on "E-PoS: Making PoS Decentralized and Fair"

Proof-of-Stake PoS is a prominent Sybil control mechanism for blockchain-based systems. In "e-PoS: Making PoS Decentralized and Fair," Saad et al. TPDS'21 introduced a new Proof-of-Stake protocol, e-PoS, to enhance PoS applications' decentralization and fairness. In this comment paper, we address...

AiXamine: Simplified LLM Safety and Security

Evaluating Large Language Models LLMs for safety and security remains a complex task, often requiring users to navigate a fragmented landscape of ad hoc benchmarks, datasets, metrics, and reporting formats. To address this challenge, we present aiXamine, a comprehensive black-box evaluation...

Adversary-Augmented Simulation for Fairness Evaluation and Defense in Hyperledger Fabric

This paper presents an adversary model and a simulation framework specifically tailored for analyzing attacks on distributed systems composed of multiple distributed protocols, with a focus on assessing the security of blockchain networks. Our model classifies and constrains adversarial actions...

SUSE CVE-2025-21919

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/fair: Fix potential memory corruption in childcfsrqonlist childcfsrqonlist attempts to convert a 'prev' pointer to a cfsrq. This 'prev' pointer can originate from struct rq's leafcfsrqlist, making the conversion invalid and...

AZL-59966 CVE-2025-21919 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.180.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/fair: Fix potential memory corruption in childcfsrqonlist childcfsrqonlist attempts to convert a 'prev' pointer to a cfsrq. This 'prev' pointer can originate from struct rq's leafcfsrqlist, making the conversion invalid and...

CVE-2025-21919

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/fair: Fix potential memory corruption in childcfsrqonlist childcfsrqonlist attempts to convert a 'prev' pointer to a cfsrq. This 'prev' pointer can originate from struct rq's leafcfsrqlist, making the conversion invalid and...

The vulnerability of the avg_vruntime() function in the kernel/sched/fair.c module of the Linux operating system allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the avgvruntime function in the kernel/sched/fair.c module of the Linux operating system is related to pointer manipulation. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-46828

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: fix bulk flow accounting logic for host fairness In schcake, we keep track o...

SUSE CVE-2024-57996

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netsched: schsfq: don't allow 1 packet limit The current implementation does not work correctly with a limit of 1. iproute2 actually checks for this and this patch adds the check in kernel as well. This fixes the following...

How Blockchain Games Ensure Transparency and Fairness

The advancement of technology has also impacted sectors like gaming. Blockchain technology has surfaced as an asset that…...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: Fixed the logic for accounting bulk flows in order to ensure host fairness. In schcake, we keep track of the number of active bulk flows per host. This is done when running in the dst/src host fairness mode, which...

CVE-2025-21647

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts Even though we fixed a logic error in the commit cited below, syzbot still managed to trigger an underflow of the per-host bulk flow counters, leading to an out ...

SUSE CVE-2025-21647

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts Even though we fixed a logic error in the commit cited below, syzbot still managed to trigger an underflow of the per-host bulk flow counters, leading to an out ...

CVE-2025-21647

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts Even though we fixed a logic error in the commit cited below, syzbot still managed to trigger an underflow of the per-host bulk flow counters, leading to an out ...

CVE-2025-21647 sched: sch_cake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts Even though we fixed a logic error in the commit cited below, syzbot still managed to trigger an underflow of the per-host bulk flow counters, leading to an out ...

CVE-2025-21647

The CVE-2025-21647 vulnerability affects the Linux kernel’s sched: sch_cake path, where an underflow in per-host bulk flow counters could cause out-of-bounds memory access. A fix adds bounds-checking around all accesses to per-host bulk flow counters via helper functions, moving flow mode checks ...

CVE-2025-21647 sched: sch_cake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts Even though we fixed a logic error in the commit cited below, syzbot still managed to trigger an underflow of the per-host bulk flow counters, leading to an out ...

CVE-2025-21647

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts Even though we fixed a logic error in the commit cited below, syzbot still managed to trigger an underflow of the per-host bulk flow counters, leading to an out ...

Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics--but it won't necessarily be for the worse. India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more...

Irish Watchdog Imposes Record €310 Million Fine on LinkedIn for GDPR Violations

The Irish data protection watchdog on Thursday fined LinkedIn €310 million $335 million for violating the privacy of its users by conducting behavioral analyses of personal data for targeted advertising. "The inquiry examined LinkedIn's processing of personal data for the purposes of behavioral...