GHSA-XJ96-63GP-2GMR Pillow: Heap out-of-bounds write in `ImageFilter.RankFilter` via integer overflow in `ImagingExpand`

Summary Pillow's public rank-filter API can trigger a native heap out-of-bounds write when given a very large odd filter size. Minimal public API trigger: python from PIL import Image, ImageFilter im = Image.new"L", 3, 3, 128 im.filterImageFilter.MedianFilter4294967295 ImageFilter.RankFilter.filt...

Pillow: Heap out-of-bounds write in `ImageFilter.RankFilter` via integer overflow in `ImagingExpand`

Summary Pillow's public rank-filter API can trigger a native heap out-of-bounds write when given a very large odd filter size. Minimal public API trigger: python from PIL import Image, ImageFilter im = Image.new"L", 3, 3, 128 im.filterImageFilter.MedianFilter4294967295 ImageFilter.RankFilter.filt...

Mandiant Global Median Dwell Time Deteriorates from 11 to 14 Days

Oh snap. My single most important cybersecurity metric deteriorated again. In the M-Trends report for calendar year 2024, Mandiant’s global median dwell time metric worsened from 10 to 11 days. In the newest report, released today, for calendar year 2025, that metric worsened again, from 11 to 14...

libtiff security update

4.4.0-15.2 - fix CVE-2025-8176: tiffdither and tiffmedian skip first line of input images RHEL-120239 4.4.0-15.1 - fix CVE-2025-9900: buffer underflow crash in TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented RHEL-112545...

libtiff: LibTIFF Use-After-Free Vulnerability

A flaw was found in libtiff. The gethistogram function in file/tiffmedian.c exhibits a use-after-free condition when processing a specially crafted file, allowing a local attacker to trigger memory corruption. This manipulation results in a use-after-free vulnerability, and can lead to a denial o...

libtiff: LibTIFF Use-After-Free Vulnerability

A flaw was found in libtiff. The gethistogram function in file/tiffmedian.c exhibits a use-after-free condition when processing a specially crafted file, allowing a local attacker to trigger memory corruption. This manipulation results in a use-after-free vulnerability, and can lead to a denial o...

Securing IoT Communications Via Anomaly Traffic Detection: Synergy of Genetic Algorithm and Ensemble Method

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things IoT has transformed industries by enabling seamless data exchange among connected devices. However, IoT networks remain vulnerable to security threats such as denial of service DoS attacks, anomalous traffic, and data manipulation due to decentralized...

QuickJS 安全漏洞

QuickJS is a small and embeddable Javascript engine open-sourced by QuickJS. A security vulnerability exists in QuickJS, which stems from an error in the computation of the median in the BigInt string conversion logic, which could lead to out-of-bounds reads and information disclosure...

SUSE-SU-2025:02815-1 Security update for tiff

This update for tiff fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-8176: Fixed heap use-after-free in tools/tiffmedian.c bsc1247108 - CVE-2025-8177: Fixed possible buffer overflow in tools/thumbnail.c:setrow when processing malformed TIFF files bsc1247106...

Security update for tiff

This update for tiff fixes the following issues: CVE-2025-8176: Fixed heap use-after-free in tools/tiffmedian.c bsc1247108 CVE-2025-8177: Fixed possible buffer overflow in tools/thumbnail.c:setrow when processing malformed TIFF files bsc1247106 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use...

Clustering and Median Aggregation Improve Differentially Private Inference

Differentially private DP language model inference is an approach for generating private synthetic text. A sensitive input example is used to prompt an off-the-shelf large language model LLM to produce a similar example. Multiple examples can be aggregated together to formally satisfy the DP...

Secure and Private Federated Learning: Achieving Adversarial Resilience through Robust Aggregation

Federated Learning FL enables collaborative machine learning across decentralized data sources without sharing raw data. It offers a promising approach to privacy-preserving AI. However, FL remains vulnerable to adversarial threats from malicious participants, referred to as Byzantine clients, wh...

Evaluating AI Cyber Capabilities with Crowdsourced Elicitation

As AI systems become increasingly capable, understanding their offensive cyber potential is critical for informed governance and responsible deployment. However, it's hard to accurately bound their capabilities, and some prior evaluations dramatically underestimated them. The art of extracting...

Verifying Differentially Private Median Estimation

Differential Privacy DP is a robust privacy guarantee that is widely employed in private data analysis today, finding broad application in domains such as statistical query release and machine learning. However, DP achieves privacy by introducing noise into data or query answers, which malicious...

Ransomware Extortion Drops to $813.5M in 2024, Down from $1.25B in 2023

Ransomware attacks netted cybercrime groups a total of $813.5 million in 2024, a decline from $1.25 billion in 2023. The total amount extorted during the first half of 2024 stood at $459.8 million, blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis said, adding payment activity slumped after July 2024 by...

The 2024 Ransomware Landscape: Looking back on another painful year

The ransomware landscape in 2024 continued to evolve at a rapid pace, outgrowing many of the trends we saw in 2023. Threat actors remained relentless and innovative, targeting organizations of all sizes and sectors. In this post, we’ll examine the latest data points, discuss notable groups, and...

SUSE CVE-2014-9604

libavcodec/utvideodec.c in FFmpeg before 2.5.2 does not check for a zero value of a slice height, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds array access or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Ut Video data, related to the 1 restoremedian and 2...

NFTFloorOracle trust feeder without any fallback

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In the current design, NFTFloorOracle take the median of valid feeder price as the oracle price. This design can be dangerous if more than half as few as 2 of the feeders decided to collude and publish malicious prices. If they set the price higher, they...

Cybercriminals Selling Access to Compromised Networks: 3 Surprising Research Findings

Cybercriminals are innovative, always finding ways to adapt to new circumstances and opportunities. The proof of this can be seen in the rise of a certain variety of activity on the dark web: the sale of access to compromised networks. This type of dark web activity has existed for decades, but i...

M-Trends 2020: Insights From the Front Lines

Today we release M-Trends 2020, the 11th edition of our popular annual FireEye Mandiant report. This latest M-Trends contains all of the statistics, trends, case studies and hardening recommendations that readers have come to expect through the years—and more. One of the most exciting takeaways...