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First in our series addressing the top 10 unanswered questions in security: What's going to replace EDR?

In late October two new buffer overflow vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, were announced in OpenSSL versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.6. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by sending an X.509 certificate with a specially crafted email address, potentially causing a buffer overflow resulting in a crash or

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An update for openssl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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-2022-3602: OpenSSL: X.509 Email Address Buffer Overflow * CVE-2022-3786: OpenSSL: X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow

Ubuntu Security Notice 5708-1 - Soenke Huster discovered that an integer overflow vulnerability existed in the WiFi driver stack in the Linux kernel, leading to a buffer overflow. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Soenke Huster discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the WiFi driver stack in the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

The OpenSSL project has rolled out fixes to contain two high-severity flaws in its widely used cryptography library that could result in a denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The issues, tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, have been described as buffer overrun vulnerabilities that can be triggered during X.509 certificate verification by supplying a specially-crafted email

An update for libksba is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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-2022-3515: libksba: integer overflow may lead to remote code execution

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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-2022-2588: kernel: a use-after-free in cls_route filter implementation may lead to privilege escalation * CVE-2022-21123: hw: cpu: Incomplete cleanup of multi-core shared buffers (aka S...

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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-2022-2588: kernel: a use-after-free in cls_route filter implementation may lead to privilege escalation * CVE-2022-21123: hw: cpu: Incomplete cleanup of multi-core shared buffers (aka SBDR) * CVE-2022-21125: hw: cpu: Incomplete cleanup of microarchitectural fill buffers (aka SBDS) * CVE-2022-21166: hw: cpu: Incomplete c...

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202210-42 - A buffer overflow in zlib might allow an attacker to cause remote code execution. Versions less than 1.2.12-r3 are affected.