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This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Dr. Jean Twenge about smartphones, social media, and a teen mental health crisis.

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target's traffic off of the protection provided by their VPN without triggering any alerts to the user.

The debugger in affected versions of Werkzeug can allow an attacker to execute code on a developer's machine under some circumstances. This requires the attacker to get the developer to interact with a domain and subdomain they control, and enter the debugger PIN, but if they are successful it allows access to the debugger even if it is only running on localhost. This also requires the attacker to guess a URL in the developer's application that will trigger the debugger.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202405-16 - A vulnerability has been discovered in Apache Commons BCEL, which can lead to remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 6.6.0 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202405-15 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox, the worst of which can lead to remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 115.8.0:esr are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202405-14 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QtWebEngine, the worst of which could lead to remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 5.15.13_p20240322 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202405-13 - A vulnerability has been discovered in borgmatic, which can lead to shell injection. Versions greater than or equal to 1.8.8 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202405-12 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pillow, the worst of which can lead to arbitrary code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 10.2.0 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202405-11 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MIT krb5, the worst of which could lead to remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 1.21.2 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202405-10 - A vulnerability has been discovered in Setuptools, which can lead to denial of service. Versions greater than or equal to 65.5.1 are affected.