5 Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Popular Apps

The 2019 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors lists improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer as the most critical weakness that leads to a dangerous vulnerability. According to CWE by MITRE: “These weaknesses are of… Continue reading 5 Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Popular Apps

Guess what? You should patch Exim again!

Hot on the heels of a patch for a critical RCE Exim flaw comes another one that fixes a denial of service (DoS) condition (CVE-2019-16928) that could also be exploited by attackers to pull off remote code execution. With no mitigations available at thi… Continue reading Guess what? You should patch Exim again!

Sysadmins Scramble to Secure 5M Exim Email Servers

A simple-to-exploit vulnerability in Exim needs patching on about 5M internet-facing servers. If sysadmins don’t patch—and patch quickly—they can expect their boxes to be quickly owned.
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Critical Exim flaw opens servers to remote code execution, patch now!

The Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) is impacted by a critical vulnerability that may allow local or unauthenticated remote attackers to execute programs with root privileges on the underlying system. About Exim Exim is the most widely used MTA today and… Continue reading Critical Exim flaw opens servers to remote code execution, patch now!