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CISA: Urgent Patching Needed for Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw

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SecurityWeek reports that federal agencies have been ordered by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to remediate within three weeks a Linux kernel bug, tracked as CVE-2021-3493, which has been added to the agency's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog following active exploitation by the new stealthy Linux malware Shikitega.

Linux Fixes 5 Gaping Holes in Wi-Fi

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Linux’s Wi-Fi code has some nasty bugs, which can be exploited simply by being near an attacker. Remote code execution is a possibility—no need to actually connect to a malicious Wi-Fi network.