Cybersecurity researchers and the U.S. Cyber Command are warning users about “Baron Samedit” - a decade-old buffer overflow bug in sudo impacting all versions of Linux that can grant root access to malicious users with low level access to systems. Users should update their systems immeditately to protect against this flaw.
A dangerous (but now-fixed) Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Linux systems without requiring authentication.
Security researchers have discovered a set of seven vulnerabilities in dnsmasq - a utility used in many Linux-based systems, especially routers and other IoT devices, to provide DNS services - which allow attackers to redirect users or execute malicious code. This dangerous set of flaws has been named DNSpooq. Patch dnsmasq now!
