SUSE CVE-2007-3843

The Linux kernel before 2.6.23-rc1 checks the wrong global variable for the CIFS sec mount option, which might allow remote attackers to spoof CIFS network traffic that the client configured for security signatures, as demonstrated by lack of signing despite sec=ntlmv2i in a SetupAndX request...

Torvalds Downplays SHA-1 Threat to Git

When researchers demonstrated the first practical collision attack for the cryptographic hash function SHA-1 last week, they also identified related vulnerabilities impacted by the now-compromised algorithm. According to the SHAttered research post, co-authored by Google and a host of cryptograph...