Collaborate Disseminate
Following the public disclosure of a critical zero-day vulnerability in Webmin last week, the project’s maintainers today revealed that the flaw was not actually the result of a coding mistake made by the programmers.
Instead, it was secretly planted … Continue reading Hackers Planted Backdoor in Webmin, Popular Utility for Linux/Unix Servers
If you are using LibreOffice, you need to update it once again.
LibreOffice has released the latest version 6.2.6/6.3.0 of its open-source office software to address three new vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to bypass patches for two previo… Continue reading Patches for 2 Severe LibreOffice Flaws Bypassed — Update to Patch Again
If you are running a KDE desktop environment on your Linux operating system, you need to be extra careful and avoid downloading any “.desktop” or “.directory” file for a while.
A cybersecurity researcher has disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerabili… Continue reading KDE Linux Desktops Could Get Hacked Without Even Opening Malicious Files
Linux users, beware!
If you haven’t recently updated your Linux operating system, especially the command-line text editor utility, do not even try to view the content of a file using Vim or Neovim.
Security researcher Armin Razmjou recently discovere… Continue reading Your Linux Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a File in Vim or Neovim Editor
Libssh2, a popular open source client-side C library implementing the SSHv2 protocol, has released the latest version of its software to patch a total of nine security vulnerabilities.
The Libssh2 library is available for all major distributors of the… Continue reading Libssh Releases Update to Patch 9 New Security Vulnerabilities
Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating systems, that could allow unprivileged local attackers or malicious programs to gain root access on the targeted s… Continue reading New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions
Via Dan Goodin, Security Editor at Ars Technica, comes news of OpenBSD, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux flaws – in existence for an estimated 23-months (and just discovered).
‘An advisory X.org developers published Thursday disclosed the 23… Continue reading Join The Club
Linux and BSD systems face a critical risk as a Xorg vulnerability has been found. This is the main display server which is used to provide the graphics engine. The issue is tracked in the CVE-2018-14665 advisory and is related…Read more
The post CVE… Continue reading CVE-2018-14665: Xorg Vulnerability Affects Both Linux and BSD Systems
A four-year-old severe vulnerability has been discovered in the Secure Shell (SSH) implementation library known as Libssh that could allow anyone to completely bypass authentication and gain unfettered administrative control over a vulnerable server wi… Continue reading LibSSH Flaw Allows Hackers to Take Over Servers Without Password
A new Linux kernel vulnerability identified as CVE-2018-14619 has been discovered by Red Hat Engineering researchers Florian Weimer and Ondrej Mosnacek. More particularly, the flaw was found in the crypto subsystem of the Linux kernel. CVE-2018-14619 T… Continue reading CVE-2018-14619: New Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability