6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week

At GitHub Security Lab, we spend a lot of our week talking to maintainers. Some find the settings page dense and the docs sprawl. Most maintainers we talk to weren't hired to be security engineers. While this is true, ignoring a project's security settings completely will lead into leaving a lot ...

X.Org X server and Xfont library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description regenrecht reported multiple vulnerabilities in various X server extension via iDefense: The XFree86-Misc extension does not properly sanitize a parameter within a PassMessage request,...