Python Import As an Execution Boundary: An Empirical Study of Bugs, Vulnerabilities, and Analysis Gaps

Python import does more than resolve dependencies: it executes code during module and package initialization. This behavior can trigger failures, load dynamic or native code, access resources, or change security-sensitive state before an application calls a package API. Prior work studies package...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-42078

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: nfsd: initialise nfsdinfo.mutex early. nfsdinfo.mutex can be dereferenced by svcpoolstatssta...