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Terminal character injection in Mintty before 3.6.3 allows code execution via unescaped output to the terminal.

The state-sponsored threat actors (aka APT34, Crambus, Helix Kitten, or OilRig) spent months seemingly taking whatever government data they wished, using never-before-seen tools.

A Path Traversal vulnerability exists in PaperCut NG before 22.1.1 and PaperCut MF before 22.1.1. Under specific conditions, this could potentially allow an attacker to achieve read-only access to the server's filesystem.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202310-13 - A vulnerability has been discovered in Mailutils where escape sequences are processed in a context where this may lead to RCE. Versions greater than or equal to 3.12-r3 are affected.

An updated version of a sophisticated backdoor framework called MATA has been used in attacks aimed at over a dozen Eastern European companies in the oil and gas sector and defense industry as part of a cyber espionage operation that took place between August 2022 and May 2023. "The actors behind the attack used spear-phishing mails to target several victims, some were infected with Windows

Google has announced an update to its Play Protect with support for real-time scanning at the code level to tackle novel malicious apps prior to downloading and installing them on Android devices. "Google Play Protect will now recommend a real-time app scan when installing apps that have never been scanned before to help detect emerging threats," the tech giant said. Google Play Protect is a

The Iran-linked OilRig threat actor targeted an unnamed Middle East government between February and September 2023 as part of an eight-month-long campaign. The attack led to the theft of files and passwords and, in one instance, resulted in the deployment of a PowerShell backdoor called PowerExchange, the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker News

XXL-RPC is a high performance, distributed RPC framework. With it, a TCP server can be set up using the Netty framework and the Hessian serialization mechanism. When such a configuration is used, attackers may be able to connect to the server and provide malicious serialized objects that, once deserialized, force it to execute arbitrary code. This can be abused to take control of the machine the server is running by way of remote code execution. This issue has not been fixed.

Endpoint management based on open source agents, such as osquery, could simplify IT management and security while giving larger firms more customization options.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5796-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, code execution, and denial of service vulnerabilities.