Critical wpa_supplicant Vulnerability Addressed

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used wpa_supplicant package, potentially leaving millions of devices at risk. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-5290, poses a significant risk of privilege escalation, potentially ...

Debian 11 “Bullseye” Enters LTS: What You Need to Know

Debian 11, code-named “Bullseye”, has entered the Long-Term Support phase after three years of regular support from the Debian Security and Release teams. As of August 15, 2024, Debian 11 will be ...

BIND Vulnerabilities: Urgent Security Updates Released

Several high-severity vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND, potentially exposing millions of DNS servers to denial-of-service attacks. These issues have prompted urgent security updates from major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and ...

Firefox 126 Released with Various Security Fixes

Firefox 126 was released on May 14, 2024, introducing various new features and improvements. This update also fixed 16 security vulnerabilities that posed risks such as arbitrary code execution and clickjacking. One ...

Thunderbird Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu and Debian

In recent Ubuntu and Debian security updates, several vulnerabilities have been addressed in Thunderbird, the popular open-source mail and newsgroup client. Attackers could use these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service, ...

Several GTKWave Vulnerabilities Fixed in Debian

Recently, the Debian security team fixed several issues in GTKWave, an open-source waveform viewer for VCD (Value Change Dump) files. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could result in the execution of arbitrary code, ...

Debian Security Updates Patch Cacti Vulnerabilities

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Cacti, a widely used web interface for monitoring system graphs. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could lead to severe consequences such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, ...

Chromium Vulnerabilities Addressed in Debian 12 “Bookworm”

Chromium is the open-source browser project that powers popular browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Users of Chromium browsers on Debian 12 “Bookworm” should be aware of recently discovered security vulnerabilities ...

Debian 12.5 Arrived with 42 Security Updates and 68 Bug Fixes

On February 10th, 2024, the Debian Project unveiled Debian 12.5, the fourth ISO update to the ongoing Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” series. This release, which came 2 months after Debian 12.4, is ...

Application Security Check Up