The OpenSSL Security Update Story – How Can You Tell What Needs Fixing?
Yesterday, we wrote about the waited-for-with-bated-breath OpenSSL update that attracted many column-kilometres of media attention last week.
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Ubuntu 22.10 Gets First Kernel Security Update to Address Recent Wi-Fi Stack Vulnerabilities
Canonical published today the first Linux kernel security update for its recently released Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) operating system series to address recently discovered Wi-Fi Stack security vulnerabilities.
CISA: Urgent Patching Needed for Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw
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.
Debian and Ubuntu Users Get Kernel Security Updates to Fix Recent Wi-Fi Stack Flaws
Users of the Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux distributions received important kernel security updates that address multiple vulnerabilities discovered by various security researchers.
Linux Fixes 5 Gaping Holes in Wi-Fi
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.
New Ubuntu Linux Kernel Security Updates Fix 16 Vulnerabilities, Patch Now
Canonical has released new Linux kernel security patches for all supported Ubuntu releases to address various security vulnerabilities discovered in the upstream kernel packages.
3 Critical Malicious Code Execution Vulnerabilities In Linux Kernel
A security investigator has discovered three new code execution flaws in the Linux kernel that might be exploited by a local or external adversary to take control of the vulnerable computers and run arbitrary code.
