#dos

Ubuntu Security Notice 6917-1 - Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. Gui-Dong Han discovered that the software RAID driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to an integer overflow vulnerability. A privileged attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.

In snapd versions prior to 2.62, snapd failed to properly check the file type when extracting a snap. The snap format is a squashfs file-system image and so can contain files that are non-regular files (such as pipes or sockets etc). Various file entries within the snap squashfs image (such as icons etc) are directly read by snapd when it is extracted. An attacker who could convince a user to install a malicious snap which contained non-regular files at these paths could then cause snapd to block indefinitely trying to read from such files and cause a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6915-1 - It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4824-03 - An update for the nodejs:18 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4823-03 - An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include denial of service, double free, and information leakage vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4677-03 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.61 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

Meta Platforms on Wednesday said it took steps to remove around 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria that were found to target people with financial sextortion scams. "These included a smaller coordinated network of around 2,500 accounts that we were able to link to a group of around 20 individuals," the company said. "They targeted primarily adult men in the U.S. and used fake accounts to mask

Although there was a decrease in BEC engagements from last quarter, it was still a major threat for the second quarter in a row.

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could be exploited to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. "A cyber threat actor could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service condition," the U.S. Cybersecurity and

DDoS cyberattack campaign averaged 4.5 million requests per second, putting the bank under attack 70% of the time.