OESA-2024-1317 edk2 security update

EDK II is a modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development environment for the UEFI and PI specifications. Security Fixes: EDK2 is susceptible to a vulnerability in the Tcg2MeasurePeImage function, allowing a user to trigger a heap buffer overflow via a local network. Successful...

Public AI as an Alternative to Corporate AI

This mini-essay was my contribution to a round table on Power and Governance in the Age of AI. Its nothing I havent said here before, but for anyone who hasnt read my longer essays on the topic, its a shorter introduction. The increasingly centralized control of AI is an ominous sign. When tech...

CVE-2024-1503

The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the erasetutordata function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated...

Pie Register <= 3.8.3.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload

Description The Pie Register plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the piesaveregistration function in versions up to, and including, 3.8.3.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affect...

libreoffice security update

1:7.1.8.1-12.0.1 - Replace colors with Oracle colors Orabug: 32120093 - Added the --with-hamcrest option to configure. 1:7.1.8.1-12 - Fix CVE-2023-6185 escape url passed to gstreamer - Fix CVE-2023-6186 check link target protocols...

edk2: Buffer overflow when processing DNS Servers option in a DHCPv6 Advertise message

A security weakness was identified in EDK2, the open-source reference implementation of the UEFI specification, revealing a buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability enables an unauthorized attacker within proximity on the network to transmit a specifically crafted DHCPv6 Advertise messag...

squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing

A flaw was found in Squid, which is susceptible to a Denial of Service DoS due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug, specifically targeting HTTP Request parsing. Exploiting this issue involves a remote client initiating a DoS attack by sending an oversized X-Forwarded-For header when the...

Insecure Variable Substitution

github.com/go-vela/types is vulnerable to Insecure Variable Substitution. The vulnerability arises due to the unexpected behavior of variable substitution combined with insensitive fields like parameters, image, and entrypoint. This allows for bypassing log masking and exposing secrets without...

SUSE CVE-2024-24786

The protojson.Unmarshal function can enter an infinite loop when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON. This condition can occur when unmarshaling into a message which contains a google.protobuf.Any value, or when the UnmarshalOptions.DiscardUnknown option is set...

OESA-2024-1280 edk2 security update

EDK II is a modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development environment for the UEFI and PI specifications. Security Fixes: EDK2's Network Package is susceptible to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when processing the IANA or IATA option in a DHCPv6 Advertise message. This...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Apollo Router is a graph router written in Rust to run a federated supergraph that uses Apollo Federation. Versions 0.9.5 until 1.40.2 are subject to a Denial-of-Service DoS type vulnerability. When receiving compressed HTTP payloads, affected versions of the Router evaluate the...

CLSA-2024-1710436524 Fix CVE(s): CVE-2024-22667

SECURITY UPDATE: stack-buffer-overflow in option callback func - debian/patches/CVE-2024-22667.patch: pass size of errbuf down the call stack, use snprintf instead of sprintf - CVE-2024-22667...

CVE-2024-1894

The Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'bursttotalpageviewscount' custom meta field in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user...

Cross site scripting

The Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'bursttotalpageviewscount' custom meta field in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user...

Burst Statistics < 1.5.7 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via burst_total_pageviews_count

Description The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'bursttotalpageviewscount' custom meta field in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated...

CVE-2023-4628

The LadiApp plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to a missing nonce check on the ladiflowsavehook function in versions up to, and including, 4.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the 'ladiflowhookconfigs' option via a forged request...

CVE-2023-4629

The LadiApp plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to a missing nonce check on the saveconfig function in versions up to, and including, 4.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the 'ladipageconfig' option via a forged request granted they...

BIT-GRAFANA-2023-6152

A user changing their email after signing up and verifying it can change it without verification in profile settings. The configuration option "verifyemailenabled" will only validate email only on sign up...

Fedora 39 : edk2 (2024-a9dead34c5)

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-a9dead34c5 advisory. update to edk2-stable202402 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has n...

How Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy

With the worlds focus turning to misinformation, manipulation, and outright propaganda ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we know that democracy has an AI problem. But were learning that AI has a democracy problem, too. Both challenges must be addressed for the sake of democratic...