How to Hack a Poker Game

This week on Uncanny Valley, we break down how one of the most common card shufflers could be altered to cheat, and why that matters—even for those who don’t frequent the poker table...

SUSE CVE-2023-49344

Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Window Shuffler applet could potentially be viewed or manipulated. The data is stored in a location that is accessible to any user who has local access to the system. Attackers may pre-create and control this file to present...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : Budgie Extras vulnerabilities (USN-6556-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6556-1 advisory. It was discovered that Budgie Extras incorrectly handled certain temporary file paths. An attacker could possibly use this issue to injec...

CVE-2023-49344

Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Window Shuffler applet could potentially be viewed or manipulated. The data is stored in a location that is accessible to any user who has local access to the system. Attackers may pre-create and control this file to present...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-49344

Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Window Shuffler applet could potentially be viewed or manipulated. The data is stored in a location that is accessible to any user who has local access to the system. Attackers may pre-create and control this file to present...

CVE-2023-49344

CVE-2023-49344 affects the Budgie Extras Window Shuffler applet. The issue arises from temporary data passed between components being stored in a location accessible to any locally logged-in user, enabling a local attacker to pre-create/control the file to present false information or deny access...

CVE-2023-49344

Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Window Shuffler applet could potentially be viewed or manipulated. The data is stored in a location that is accessible to any user who has local access to the system. Attackers may pre-create and control this file to present...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-49344

Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Window Shuffler applet could potentially be viewed or manipulated. The data is stored in a location that is accessible to any user who has local access to the system. Attackers may pre-create and control this file to present...

PT-2023-31175 · Unknown +3 · Budgie Extras +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Budgie Extras affected versions not specified Description: Temporary data passed between application components by the Budgie Extras Window Shuffler applet could potentially be viewed or manipulated. The data is stored in a location that is...

CVE-2023-49344

Temporary data passed between application components by Budgie Extras Window Shuffler applet could potentially be viewed or manipulated. The data is stored in a location that is accessible to any user who has local access to the system. Attackers may pre-create and control this file to present...

Recapping the top stories from Black Hat and DEF CON

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I had a significant amount of FOMO last week seeing everyone out in Vegas. I was happy to not get conference crud sickness, but it seems like I missed a great time otherwise. But, as anyone who works with me could guess, I was followi...

Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating

Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table...

On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers

Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it--I remember that we didnt even try very hard--but this article shows that we probably would have found non-random properties: …the executives had...