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A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s nouveau driver in how a user triggers a memory overflow that causes the nvkm_vma_tail function to fail. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

By Deeba Ahmed Security firm ESET’s cybersecurity researchers have shared their analysis of the world’s first UEFI bootkit being used in… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BlackLotus UEFI bootkit Can Bypass Secure Boot on Windows

By Deeba Ahmed Currently, scammers are using DBatLoader malware loader to distribute Remcos RAT to businesses and institutions across Eastern Europe. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Phishing Attack Uses UAC Bypass to Drop Remcos RAT Malware

Logging Subsystem 5.4.12 - Red Hat OpenShift Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-41717: A flaw was found in the net/http library of the golang package. This flaw allows an attacker to cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests. HTTP/2 server connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the server to alloc...

Researchers warn that polymorphic malware created with ChatGPT and other LLMs will force a reinvention of security automation.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1109-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1151-01 - Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1110-01 - The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1140-01 - The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5935-1 - It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain protocols, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Davide Ornaghi discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle VLAN headers in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.