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CUPS Vulnerability Allows Unauthenticated RCE on Linux System

Several critical security vulnerabilities have been uncovered in the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS), a widely used open-source printing system fo…

"Dirty Pagedirectory": New Linux Kernel Exploit Bypass Hardening Mitigations

A security researcher published a detailed technical blog post analyzing a new Linux kernel vulnerability in the nf_tables component and demonstratin…

Urgent Alert: Stealthy Backdoor Discovered in XZ Compression Utilities

A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in recent versions of the widely-used xz data compression tool and liblzma libraries. …

New Glibc Library Flaw Grants Root Access to Major Linux Distros

A high severity vulnerability has been uncovered in the GNU C Library (glibc) that could allow local attackers to gain full root privileges on multip…

Critical Vulnerability Disclosed in libcue Library Used by GNOME Desktop

A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the open source libcue library, which could enable remote code execution on Linux systems run…

Looney Tunables Flaw in Linux Allows Root Access

Security researchers at Qualys have disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc) that could allow local attackers to gain roo…

Microsoft Uncovered Critical Flaws in Ncurses Library Impacting Linux and macOS

Microsoft researchers have recently discovered a series of critical memory corruption vulnerabilities in ncurses , an open-source library that enable…

Ubuntu Security Alert: GameOver(lay) Vulnerabilities in the Kernel

Recently, cybersecurity researchers have revealed two critical security flaws in the Ubuntu kernel that could potentially enable local privilege esca…

Dirty Cred : New Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux

A new Linux kernel exploitation called Dirty Cred was revealed at last week’s Black Hat security conference. The flaw which is identified as CVE-202…

The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability Allows Write Access with Root Privileges

Another critical kernel bug " Dirty Pipe " has been discovered that affects all Linux machines running kernel version since 5.8. This vulne…

Linux Kernel cgroups Vulnerability Lets to escalate privileges

Details of a serious vulnerability in the Linux kernel have surfaced which has already been patched and could potentially be used to exit a container…

Super Computer Under Attack with new Kobalos Malware

Researchers at ESET talked about a new malware attacking supercomputers. Experts named it Kobalos after the character of ancient Greek mythology, Ko…

10-year-old Sudo Bug Allows Linux Users to Become Superuser

The support team for the Sudo utility, which allows Linux administrators to delegate limited superuser rights to other users, has released a hotfix f…

Linux Kernel Flaw Puts Millions of Servers at Risk

Linux web servers and millions of Android devices are at risk due to a Linux kernel vulnerability that affects the pseudo-random number generator and…