Safeguard: Security Controls at the Software Defined Network Layer

Improvements in software defined networking allow for policy to be informed and modified by data-driven applications that can adjust policy to accommodate fluctuating requirements at line speed. However, there is some concern that over-correction can occur and cause unintended consequences...

CVE-2024-58016

CVE-2024-58016 (Linux kernel) fixes a safesetid vulnerability where syzbot could cause a kmalloc warning by writing an oversized buffer to a sysfs entry; the vulnerability arises from insufficient validation of write buffer sizes in handle_policy_update() and policy writes. The fix is to validate...