PT-2024-11178 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 5.12.0-rc2+ 45 Description: A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved, which was introduced by a commit that removed the xsk buff pool from the VSI structure. This change broke the Tx side of AF XDP ...

PF_RING - High-Speed Packet Capture, Filtering And Analysis

PFRING™ is a new type of network socket that dramatically improves the packet capture speed, and that’s characterized by the following properties: 1. Available for Linux kernels 2.6.32 and newer. 2. No need to patch the kernel: just load the kernel module. 3. 10 Gbit Hardware Packet Filtering usi...

Facebook Open Sources Fizz — TLS 1.3 Library For Speed and Security

Facebook has open sourced Fizz—a library designed to help developers implement TLS 1.3 protocol with all recommended security and performance related configurations. Since late last month, Google Chrome web browser has started marking all non-HTTPS websites as 'Not Secure' in an effort to make th...

kernel: net: potential information leak when ubuf backed skbs are skb_zerocopy()ied

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nfqnlzcopy function in net/netfilter/nfnetlinkqueuecore.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the absence of a certain orphaning operation. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the...